We’ve come a long way from where we began, oh I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again
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We’ve come a long way from where we began, oh I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again
in the age of repression and purity culture, getting more perverted is the only morally correct course of action
I'll come back to you and we'll be together again
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TLOU style posterrrrrrrr
Love them so much
westley in the princess bride was so funny for being like ‘talk about this dead guy you loved lol’ and getting the tea about himself
oh he was ur true love? you thought he was hot n strong? rate him 1-10 and why
Violet Panna Cotta with Sugared Violets
The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021
not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool
ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
did a sketch for Aerith; i really loved the way she moved, like dancing~
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you confuse me. i've see you answering various asks about israel-palestine and the west bank and gaza, and i can't figure out what it is you think should be done?
so... what do you think israel should do now? because besides wait and hope that somehow, someone helps deradicalize the palestinian people i haven't seen a viable course of action that you'd support, and as an israely i can tell you that our patients on that is running out
I confuse you?
The Israelis I know are sick and tired of Westerners telling them what Israel should do, and that includes even liberal American Jews who are steadfast zionists.
I don't think it's my place to tell Israelis what to do. I barely have sufficient knowledge to sorta'-follow Israeli politics, I can't properly read news in Hebrew or Arabic without machine translation, and I have never lived in Israel. Who the @#$% am I to tell Israelis what to do? I think that if I was an Israeli and encountered Americans who wanted to tell Israelis what to do, I'd say "שקט בבקשה" if I was feeling generous and "STFU" the rest of the time. There are brilliant Israelis offering suggestions in English. Haviv Rettig Gur and Dan Schueftan both come immediately to mind.
So...no, I'm not going to tell Israelis what they should do. That's not a song I want to sing nor a choir I want to join.
My goals are more modest and hopefully less bothersome to Israelis.
I want to push back against disinformation/misinformation and provide verifiable, intellectually honest explanations which make complex issues a little more accessible to a handful of people who actually want to expand their understanding or engage in constructive disagreement. Netanyahu has utterly failed to fight the information war, so I'm doing what I can to help there.
If you insist I give Israelis advice, though:
I suggest Israelis should tell comparatively ignorant, liberal, American Jews with the audacity to lecture Israelis on how to run their country...to fuck right off with their ignorant arrogance - but engage with all the generosity they can muster when approached with good faith and good questions.
I hope Israelis will demand their government start fighting the information war Netanyahu hasn't even tried to fight.
I recommend Israelis continue to push for haredim to behave like citizens.
I hope Israelis will demand that their government treat all terrorists like terrorists, including the Jewish ones.
I hope Israelis will continue to plan for a future without US support, because it is eroding at a speed which was unimaginable 20 years ago.
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If you want to know what I think the future of Gaza and the West Bank might look like, see this three-part post, then come back here.
___ Unhappily, I think Agha, Malley, and Schueftan are all probably right.
Although I cringe when I listen to it, knowing full well how it sounds to clueless Westerners, I think Schueftan's position is based:
Schueftan's "violent maintenance" is likely the only option available to Israel until Palestinians (and their longtime abusers/enablers of the Arab League) decide to try something other than a maximalist, eliminationist, genocidal set of policies. When they're ready to accept the reality and permanence of a Jewish state, a path to peace will appear. Until then, you can't negotiate with someone who will only be satisfied by slitting your throat themselves, even at the cost of the the lives of their children.
You can only keep their knife far from your throat by whatever means are available to you. ___ I have never admonished Israelis to 'have patience', to 'hope for deradicalization', or to take any shit from people spout this useless, unhelpful nonsense as though it is anything other than noise.
So...you confuse me, Anon.
Confused Anon sends a follow-up Ask, my responses are in blue. i'm not asking you to tell israelis what to do, i'm just trying to figure out what you think about all this.
...because I've been shy about sharing my opinions...and it is somehow a mystery what I think...? We're both confused.
Schueftan's "violent maintenance" is likely the only option available to Israel until Palestinians (and their longtime abusers/enablers of the Arab League) decide to try something other than a maximalist, eliminationist, genocidal set of policies. When they're ready to accept the reality and permanence of a Jewish state, a path to peace will appear.
this paragraph from your answer is a good example of my frustration here. you begin by acknowledging the most likely solution for the short term, but then immediately let me down (so to speak) by saying that this is "until Palestinians decide to try something other than ..."
What if they never do?
What if we keep at it for five, ten, twenty years and their attitudes don't change?
Did you watch the videos? Did you read the linked posts? Schueftan anticipates violent maintenance continuing for generations.
Do we just live with this status quo indefinitely?
That's what we're loosing patience for. For this state of things. Because as far as I've seen in your other post this "violent maintenance" seems to be the endgame from your point of view, but that just doesn't compute to me, because that is just not a permanent solution.
Ah. Now we're getting to the point with phrasing like "endgame," and "permanent solution."
And believe me, given enough time with this situation not changing for the better a permanent solution will be implemented, for terrible or for worse.
Anon, I'd like to suggest, as gently as I can, that you're not confused by me at all.
I think you have heard me very clearly and understand exactly what I'm saying - it doesn't confuse you at all.
You just don't like it, because you don't want to face the reality that a permanent solution in your lifetime is unlikely.
Schueftan describes violent maintenance continuing for generations because Israel, despite its ample supply of talent, hard work, and ingenuity, cannot produce cultural change among Palestinians.
This means that no permanent solution is likely to become available in my lifetime or yours.
Some estimates suggest at least a third of Israelis have PTSD. Of course you want a permanent solution.
Malley and Agha explain how the two-state solution was never tenable, and I'd argue that there's never been leadership among the PA or Hamas which has ever sought peace, or planned in good faith for a future which includes the existence of a Jewish state in any borders.
(obligatory: I did not watch the videos you linked yet, but if they answer my question here then I do apologise)
I think they do.
Please consider reading this three-part post which leads up to Schueftan's analysis.
I'm sorry it's not what you'd prefer to hear, but you're not confused by me - you're confused by your belief, despite all evidence to the contrary, that a permanent solution is plausible in your lifetime.
I'm not faulting your feelings, your desires, or your hopes because they make sense and are valid -- but I think your confusion isn't about me or anything I've written.
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Watched this amazing interview with Dara Horn and Haviv Rettig Gur on antisemitism, and at the end (1:01:34) she drops her definition of antisemitism. It's been rewiring my brain and now I want to interject in all sorts of conversations with it.
We do not teach it as this is a social prejudice/bigotry... we teach it as a lie that people use to gain or maintain power. And the lie is always the same. The lie is: Jews are the obstacle to what you value most. And the only thing that changes in different historical settings is what you value most.
The whole conversation is recommendable, but if you only watch ~5 minutes, watch from 56:58 onward, IMO.
Crowley and Aziraphale through the years.
Literally the most enduring love of all time