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Everybody look at Kohei Higuchi and his cat Momo who he adopted after shooting the first love hero movie. Crying
This is frickin' adorable.
Below are some screenshots to put some context to this for Donbrothers fans who missed the First Love Hero movie, Higuchi Kouhei fans who haven't seen Donbrothers, or, you know, just for those of us who want to relive that scene knowing that Higuchi took his scene partner home.
The kitten scene happens within the story of an extremely hackneyed high school romance TV series that Haruka and Tarou are acting in (very badly). Tarou's hero character makes a bad impression on Haruka's heroine character at first but she changes her mind about him when she sees him rescuing an abandoned kitten in the rain.
If the material that made it into the movie is any indication, Momo must have been a bit ornery during filming. Apparently that didn't deter Higuchi at all. She sure looks content now.
Now I've received a few comments about the mass migration of Mizrahi Jews to Israel during the mid 20th century, specifically about Israel's lack of culpability towards it. And there's a few things I've said in response to this that I'd like to reiterate
For one, a number of commenters have attributed the time period of these migrations to the "30s and 40s" which I don't understand. Even Zionists usually consider the "Mizrahi Exodus" to date from the 50s onwards; a big part of how the process is portrayed by pro-Zionist sources is the framing as Israel as this land of opportunity and safety for Jews fleeing the violence and intolerance of the Arab world, something that couldn't exactly happen until Israel was actually established as a state in 1948.
Secondly as I've already stated multiple times the displacement, marginalisation and violent attack on Palestinians by Zionist European Settlers was already underway in Mandatory Palestine by the 1920s, as embodied by the existence of groups like Haganah and Irgun. So like even if we for whatever reason backdate the supposed mass exile of the Mizrahi to the "30s and 40s" it's still very easy to see the correlation between violence perpetrated by European settlers in the name of "Jewishness" and the development of conflict between previously peacefully co-existing communities of Jews and Gentiles in North Africa and West Asia.
And finally, the idea that the mass migration of Mizrahi Jews to Palestine was the result of intolerance from Muslim neighbors is essentially a Zionist distortion of a much more complicated situation. Soon after the establishment of Israel, the new government actively encouraged Jews from the surrounding region to migrate and worked with many of the surrounding governments (usually the European colonial governments that still controlled extensive tracts of the region) to facilitate this. Some Jews (such as those of Yemen or Morocco) were even essentially deported against their will by the wishes of the Israeli government. While there was an increase in inter-communal conflict between Jewish and Gentile populations in the region, this was both due to the general aftermath of Israeli's brutal establishment and in response to specific actions such as the Mossad terrorist attacks in Egypt in 1954 with some actions even being specifically undertaken in order to cause conflict (or even just the appearance of conflict) and induce migration such as Mossad's activities in Iraq through the 1950s. And while there was certainly a significant level of violence and maltreatment (both legal and extra-legal) directed towards Jewish people in various West Asian and North African countries in response to Israeli's invasion, the sheer degree that direct violence and persecution played in such migrations has also been greatly exaggerated by Zionists in order to justify their continued aggression against the people of Palestine and their Allies. The idea that you can draw any real equivalence between the population movements of the Mizrahi Aliyah and that of the Palestinian Nakba is a ghoulish distortion of history that only serves to justify Zionist atrocities both past and present. One was a more or less voluntary* migration that was only partially induced by fears (both hypothetical and actually realised) of conflict while the other was an incidence of direct and unambiguous ethnic cleansing. The factors that led to the Mizrahi migration has plenty of "pull" in addition to "push" and a great deal of said "push" was deliberately engineered by the Israeli government rather than being purely the result of some natural Islamic cruelty or antagonism
*while not an entirely fair thing to say, and its accuracy will vary a lot on a case by case basis, the Mizrahi migrants on the whole had a lot more freedom than the Palestinians in both the decision to leave and their choice of destination (as several of those linked articles mentioned, some Mizrahi migrated to Europe or the Americas rather than Israel)
Like I'm so fucking sick of the "Israeli was just founded by poor little meow meows escaping the violent and cruel arabs" narrative you keep seeing Zionist trot out. Like it's an awful justification for Israel's intense atrocities even if it was true but like it doesn't even have truth going for it. And like it's got this nasty element of projection and victim-blaming to it: "you've seen what those muslims do to Jews when they're in charge. So really the Palestinians deserve it when you thinkin about it". Absolutely hate it
Diplomats warn backing for Israeli assault on Gaza has poisoned efforts to build consensus against Russia’s war
Western support for Israel’s assault on Gaza has poisoned efforts to build consensus with significant developing countries on condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine, officials and diplomats have warned.[...]
In the flurry of emergency diplomatic visits, video conferences and calls, western officials have been accused of failing to defend the interests of 2.3mn Palestinians in their rush to condemn the Hamas attack and support Israel. In the first days after Hamas’s assault, some western diplomats worried that the US was giving carte blanche to Israel to attack Gaza with full force. That had eroded efforts since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to build consensus with leading states in the so-called Global South — such as India, Brazil and South Africa — on the need to uphold a global rules-based order, said more than a dozen western officials.[...] “We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”
Many developing countries have traditionally supported the Palestinian cause, seeing it through the prism of self-determination and a push against the global dominance of the US, Israel’s most important backer.[...] Some American diplomats are privately concerned that the Biden administration’s response has failed to acknowledge how its broad support of Israel can alienate much of the Global South.[...] Russia and its ally China have cultivated warm ties with the Palestinians. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. “What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”[...]
Just four weeks before the Hamas assault on Israel, leaders from the US, EU and western allies attended the G20 summit in New Delhi and asked developing nations to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians in order to uphold respect for the UN charter and international law. Since last Sunday, many of those officials told the Financial Times they have had the same argument read back at them in demands for condemnation of Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza, and of its decision to restrict water, electricity and gas supplies there.
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“The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”[...]
Do friendly countries make contingency plans for landing Marines in the big cities of other friendly countries? Even if it’s only to be done
Leaked chat logs show that Brazilian prosecutors evaded treaties to help the U.S. Justice Department investigate Brazilian corporations.
His foreign policy legacy includes an alliance with a racist government
A trove of recently released documents confirms that Washington’s role in the country’s 1965 massacre was part of a bigger Cold War strategy
Yeah, why should we believe you?
the thing about the Zionist accusations of Palestinian baby-beheadings and wartime rapes is that even if they were true (which they aren't), there is no ethically consistent way to denounce Hamas for those actions while still supporting Israel. if you accept the axiom that "any group that kills children/civilians or rapes women from a specific demographic is irredeemably barbaric and so is the cause they're fighting for and everyone in the same demographic as them and anyone who supports them", you would have stopped supporting Israel as soon as you learned how to use Google, because they have been killing and raping Palestinians for decades. you cannot claim to be taking a principled stand against rape and civilian killings by supporting the settler colony that proudly wields both of those things as tools in their ongoing genocide against the people you are mad at. Israel loves killing civilians as an act of ethnic cleansing so much that they sent weapons to Azerbaijan LAST MONTH to help them do exactly that in Nagorno-Karabakh. Israel is the schoolyard bully who never gets in trouble because they're the principal's kid but any of their victims who hit back with a fraction of the force are instantly expelled, except instead of giving out swirlies and purple nurples they're running the largest concentration camp on earth and violating human rights like it's going out of style
Israelis of any gender (yes including women) have been raping and torturing Palestinians of any gender—as well as anyone else who crosses their path in solidarity with Palestine—for the entirety of the Zionist state's existence. e.g. see here:
(WARNING: graphic text descriptions of rape and torture)
Abstract Israeli denials and classification of documents, alongside scholarly work (; ), have all contributed to the perception that aside f
or just see selected excerpts here (SAME WARNING) to get the idea
one baseless rumor Zionists are pushing of supposed Brutality by Palestinians was shamelessly lifted from statements by the survivors of the 1982 Shatila and Sabra massacre, describing what Israeli settlers did to them
meanwhile, western media is reporting as fact every single unsubstantiated rumor of supposed Palestinian brutality, including the one about “beheading babies”
Zionists don't care about rape, or about the murder, abuse, and imprisonment of children (CW: child abuse, csa, torture). if they did, they wouldn't be Zionists
even if Palestinians genuinely wanted to (they don't) or were trying to (they're not), they still could not inflict even a fraction of a percent of the gleeful colonial terror, torture, rape, starvation, caging, dehumanization, apartheid, and genocide that Zionist colonizers have continuously inflicted on Palestinians for 75 fucking years going back to the Nakba. but again, that is not what they are doing. they are fighting for their liberation
the other thing that makes this a moot point is like... okay, say Hamas is committing war crimes. what can actually be done about that? you can't exactly ask them to continue with the decolonization but maybe ease up on the murders (what phone number would you even call?), so if you want to stop them, your options are limited to Israel either negotiating some sort of ceasefire by capitulating to Hamas's demands or killing them with overwhelming military force. one of these is unthinkable and the other was always going to happen regardless of how "barbaric" Hamas actually was. two guesses which is which.
it has never mattered whether the accusations were true or what your stance on them was. they just needed to exist to flood the US news cycle as pretext for Israel to do what it was always going to do next (genocide Gaza). Zionists and other useful idiots buying into that narrative and using it to silence support for Palestine and criticism of Israel was just a side benefit; that support was never going to stop the bombs, and the criticism was falling on deaf ears anyway.
my grandfather's entire (surviving) family fled from germany to brazil fleeing the holocaust. Why do you think I'd support ANOTHER ethnic cleansing under a genocidal fascist government just because it's the jewish people doing the ethnic cleansing this time?
Every gringo that spreads the "south america was a safe haven for Nazis post WW2" myth deserves a slow death.
The US owes its space program to Nazi scientists. West Germany was filled to the brim with Nazis in the army and government. NATO rehabilitated several Nazi and fascist officers to fight communism. The US has statues dedicated to Nazis. Canada has Nazi memorials and applauded an actual OG Nazi soldier at parliament. The West has no moral high ground to speak about South America when your whole political stance for the last 8 decades has been "Nazis are good when they work for us, actually".
Also, the wildest thing about "Nazis fleeing the Allies by going to Brazil" accusation...
BRAZIL WAS A FUCKING ALLY TOO, YOU DIPSHIT IMBECILE.
There are several memorials and statues dedicated to the "Smoking Snakes", the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces, all over Italy.
When Wernher von Braun "fled" to the US, he became a chief engineer at NASA and a hero.
When Josef Mengele fled to Argentina (and later to Brazil), he had to work as a carpenter under several fake names and couchsurf with the few nazi sympathizers he could find before dying alone, shunned and hated by everyone around him.
This guy is really going to regret sitting down with Jon
he literally could not care less about what's being said here. this has always been a waste of time. just kill these people
They do not care about hypocrisy, about consistency, about facts, about truth.
They care about power.
They will say anything, believe anything, and do anything that gains more power for themselves or takes it away from others. Doing “gotcha” questions and logic-dunking on them doesn’t work, because they don’t care about being right, they care about having power. They engage in hypocrisy on purpose, as an act of domination over the fools who believe in things like truth and principles and integrity. Their willingness to override reality gives them power over people who believe reality matters. Trying to debate them is pointless. The only winning move is not to play. Shut them down and shut them out at every opportunity.
-satre
What went wrong at the New York Times? | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: The paper of record is under fire for its transphobic coverage. How did it get this bad, and who is calling the shots?
The anti-trans pivot at the Times is sharp. It’s notable. It has been protested in open letters from GLAAD and over 4,000 current and former Times contributors (including me). And—as Kahn reminded colleagues, in a sharply worded memo addressing those open letters—the Times has absolutely no interest in changing course. Nor are staffers allowed to comment on this coverage in social media, interviews or, indeed, any “public forum.” Staffers who signed the open letter have reportedly been subject to “investigation” and disciplinary action; the crackdown has been so harsh that the NewsGuild of New York has stepped in, noting that under its auspices, protest “is concerted activity protected by the National Labor Relations Board.”
The response to both the letters from two weeks ago included a sentence stating that current policy prevents “journalists from aligning with advocacy groups”, in an effort to misconstrue the two as being part of the same campaign and to portray NYTimes journalists’ concerns as being motivated by activism rather than discrimination.
Meanwhile, yesterday (Feb 28) the NYT published an Op-Ed by Adam Hoffman, described only as a “Princeton Senior”, about how extreme acceptance of the rights of LGBTQ students, Native and Black Americans, and other minorities has driven himself and other students to identify themselves as politically right wing. Hoffman is a member of pro-Republican advocacy group Campus Reform, a subsidiary of Morton Blackwell’s “The Leadership Institute” which receives over $10 million a year from right wing donors like the Uihleins,Kochs, Bradley Foundation, and others.
But like the linked article says, this is keeping in complete consistency with the NYT’s prior stances:
As the AIDS epidemic began to emerge, the silence of the media in general, and of The New York Times in particular, contributed to the magnitude of the unfolding tragedy. Although the death toll mounted in the early 1980s, the Times maintained a disdainful distance. As gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile put it, “Rosenthal, who attacks anti-Semitism in the media, never realized that the way he was treating the AIDS epidemic wasn’t much different from the way that news organizations treated the Holocaust early on.”
@NintendoAmerica: As of late March 2023, it will no longer be possible to make Nintendo eShop purchases for the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
Hack your 3DS. Hack your Wii U. It's easy and fun, and you will gain access to so much shit, you will not lose access to one of the largest generational game libraries, you can access even older games.
It is always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games. Fuck them.
A complete guide to 3DS custom firmware, from stock to boot9strap.
this guide is a good way to hack your 3ds!
one of the easiest methods to hack your 3ds requires a free game that you download from the eshop so do it before the eshop shuts down!
there are other methods as well but just so you know!
I promise you it's easier to do than you think, too! and there are many people (myself included) that would love to help and answer questions, no matter how basic.
I hacked my wii u so it now has every game from every retro console/arcade machine + any wii, GameCube, and wii u games I want. my 3ds has every DS and 3DS title ever released. no regrets.
A guide to hacking the Nintendo Wii U.
This dude is very right wing, very transphobic, and contributes to a white supremacist paper. like his whole twitter is just about how homeless people are evil, all addicts need to be in jail, and trans people are brainwashing children.
i think the best case of that “baki is like what if we had to reinvent masculinity” post is during a fight where baki starts sweating a lot and then starts crying and then pisses himself and then this piss+tears+sweat mixture is being splashed all over the audience including baki’s girlfriend and the narrator treats the situation as if it’s the single most noble act to piss yourself due to the excitement of combat and then also to be willing to be splashed with piss because you respect the fight so much
Putting this here because apparently Tesla wants it taken down and the og post was already deleted.
I saw a news story about how Teslas were slowing down early for a junction and it turned out the STOP signs were about 50% bigger than regular, and the car brain which has no LIDAR or other depth sensing tech other than smooshing several camera inputs together was just assuming the signs were closer and so needed to be stopped sooner.
lol, lmao etc but someone in the comments posited 'Hey maybe a TESLA just sees a child as an adult who is further away and thus there's no need to brake just yet' *THUD*
It's just Muskbrained enough to be the truth.
oh my god IT’S TRUE
also much as i hate to mention the solo movie when chewie introduced han to the wookie they found in the mines his first reaction was to pat hans head like you would when you meet a new dog
To further the analogy of Han is the Dog, According to various canon sources, a Standard Human in the Star Wars universe has a life expectancy of roughly 100-120 years. A Wookie has a life expectancy of around 400 years. So, caring for Han for Han’s whole life is a commitment of less than a quarter of Chewie’s life. It’s like having a dog that lives to 20-22. A long term companion, but one you know you’re probably going to outlive.
When they kill your dog
oh my god
well then
Photos of the 9 palestinians killed by Israeli ccupation forces on a raid in Jenin today
Majida Obaid, 61
Abdullah al-Ghoul, 18
Mutassem Abu al-Hassan, 40
Waseem al-Ja's, 22
Mohammad Soboh, 30
Saeb Zreiqi, 24
Izz al-din Salahat, 22
Brothers Nour al-Din Ghneim, 25 & Mohammad Ghneim, 28 THESE TWO ARE BROTHERS
A tweet from Mohammed el Kurd's Twitter account that says: Horrific scenes from Jenin this morning. Israeli lawmakers and the public alike are celebrating this massacre and asking for more blood. Zionism is genocidal-Yet no matter it's crime, the "international community" would still fund and defend this indefensible death cult.
Tweet from @zenatahhan that says: Palestinian health ministry [reports that]: "All the injuries that reached hospitals from #Jenin camp were in the head and chest, meaning that the shots were intended to kill."
People will say literally anything about one piece
In ome piece theres an island with really long horses that are called hooooorses
I wasnt joking about this
YOU’RE FUCKING KIDDING ME