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blodwyrm

snapshot from one of Oscar’s memorial paintings i did last year!

hargita1920

lookingbackatfashionhistory

• Dress.

Date: 1955

Designer/Maker: Galitzine

Place of origin: Italy

Medium: Nylon net with satin bow, zip fastening.

a-state-of-bliss

Michelle Buswell @ Versace Atelier Spr/Sum 2004

pastlivesfinery

‘Journal des Dames et des Modes’, 1803

costumeloverz71

Georges Hobeika Fall Winter 2026-27

existing-caregiver

Dior by John Galliano F/W 1997

nonbinaryjudean

there is something so deeply dystopian about students at Columbia, an ivy league university (meaning it is expensive and exclusive, in fact the average yearly tuition is about $85k, and most students come from extremely privileged backgrounds), deciding to harass, threaten, trap, and assault two janitors (actual working-class people) because they had to clean up nazi symbols, all in the pursuit of "SOCIAL JUSTICE". and then for the university to do nothing to protect its employees and Jewish students from literal mobs.

NO. under NO circumstances are you the resistance in a stupid 2013 YA novel.

nonbinaryjudean

“we are fighting oppression and the class war!” - trust fund college kid while punching a blue collar worker

velvetcloak

givenchy | fall/winter 2026

oldpaintings

In his hand are the deep places of the Earth by Ernest Albert Waterlow (English, 1850-1919)

unsolicited-opinions

What are your thoughts on the West Bank settlements?

I think the current situation in Area C (where Israel has full civil and security control) has to change. It is morally wrong that Arabs who are not Israeli citizens in Area C have no part in a government which decides so much about their lives.

Area C, though, has only 5% of Arabs in the West Bank.

About 55% of West Bank Arabs are in Area A (with PA civil and security control) and another ~40% are in Area B (with PA civil control and Israeli security control).

The PA was offered ~94% of the West Bank and ~6% of Israel proper in exchange for peace. The PA walked away from that sort of offer twice.

I think Israel's security forces (controlled by Itamar Ben-Gvir) are failing to treat Jewish violent terrorists in the West Bank the way all terrorists should be treated. Ben-Gvir helps legitimize Palestinian violence in the eyes of the international community, and I'd be grateful if some Israelis would teach me the appropriate Hebrew vocabulary for cursing him.

I think Israel doesn't really have a path available to leave the West Bank. Think about it. Imagine Israel decides to pull out of the West Bank unilaterally, like they did in Gaza in 2005. What would happen? There'd be an immediate security vacuum, which would generate an armed contest for control. The PA wouldn't win all those contests, so there'd be at least a burst of violence between West Bank Arab factions. Then the land would be used, as Gaza was as a staging ground from which to launch attacks on Israel.

Even if the PA decided for the first time that they'd be willing to offer security guarantees, they would be utterly incapable of delivering on them - because they're corrupt, incompetent, and incapable.

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A way out would start with leaders who want peace, have a stake in peace, and who want a state more than they want to destroy Israel.

Such leadership would gain enormous amounts of international support (political and material) to build up the infrastructure to faciliate actual governance of the West Bank, making it possible for them to offer meaningful security gaurantees.

For more on what would have to happen for peace to become possible, see this (very long) series of posts

unsolicited-opinions

Every member state of the UN has a vote, regardless of its record on governance or human rights.

More than two-thirds of UN members are not liberal democracies. Many are authoritarian states, single-party systems, or governments with deep corruption. Those governments vote to protect their own power and to shield allies from scrutiny.

Portraying the UN is a source of moral authority requires profound ignorance about what the UN is and how it works.

kettem7

100%

Most people don't even like their govenment, so I really don't get why so many people expect a system made of representatives chosen by those unwanted governments to magically work well.

unsolicited-opinions

More to the point, most of those governments aren't elected and don't represent those they rule.

prismatic-bell

They're also very selectively choosy in who they allow to have seats.

Here's an example. There are two "observer states," which means they get to be part of everything except voting.

Those two observer states are the Vatican and Palestine.

BUT WAIT:

Countries that are administered by other countries can't have seats at all (unless they're Palestine, I guess). So China gets to abuse the shit out of Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the voices of both those countries are silenced. Do you have any idea how many countries are administered by other countries? Quite a few. Bermuda, Puerto Rico, the Faroe Islands, Guam, Gibraltar...and those are only the names you probably know.

The UN is bullshit.