half-savage and hardy and free

lana

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this was the best show i ever went to in my life, i'm so shocked to find such a high quality video from that night. spotted myself circa 5 years ago around the 25 minute mark lol. had a terrible night but felt free in the pit

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Leila (1996) dir. Dariush Mehrjui

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RIP Dariush Mehrjui 🤍

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the first decision i make every morning

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طعم گيلاس… / Taste of Cherry (1997) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

US One-sheet poster

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men are camp

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i cant ever find her…..but she always seems to find me

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joe "if israel didn't exist the usa would have to invent an israel to protect its interests in the region" biden. yes he actually said that.

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Biden on the floor of the Senate, 1986:

"If we look at the middle east, I think it's about time we stop—those of us who support (as most of us do) Israel in this body—for apologizing for our support for Israel. There is no apology to be made! None! It is the best three billion dollar investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region. The United States would have to go out and invent an Israel."

Biden in a speech at J Street's 2013 National Conference:

"So I say here... what I would say anywhere and do say everywhere: that America's support for Israel's security is unshakable, period. [Applause.] Period, period. [Applause.] And I want to make clear:—and those of you who have been around awhile have heard me say this before over the years—it's not based merely on our moral commitment to Israel, but on our mutual national security interests. [Applause.] Ladies and gentlemen, if there were not an Israel we would have to invent one to make sure our interests were secured."

Biden in a speech at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., for the 67th Annual Israeli Independence Day Celebration, 2015:

"The modern State of Israel was born... defiant in the face of overwhelming military numbers massed on its borders.... You [Israel] were blessed with one of the greatest generations of founding fathers and mothers of any nation in the history of the world — Ben-Gurion, Meir, Begin, Sharon, Rabin, Peres. They all fashioned Israel into a vibrant, vibrant democracy.... As many of you heard me say before, were there no Israel, America would have to invent one.  We’d have to invent one because... you protect our interests like we protect yours. [Applause.]"

And just so we know exactly what Joe really means here, these are a few quotes by some of those "greatest... founding fathers and mothers of any nation in the history of the world," as he puts it:

Yitzhak Rabin in the leaked censored version of the Rabin memoirs:

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, 'What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said, 'Drive them out.'"

Ben-Gurion in a diary entry for July 18, 1948:

"We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return... The old will die and the young will forget."

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can’t stop thinking about jim saying we should all be cherishing and thanking the cia every day

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Faye Wong in Hong Kong TV magazine, 1993.

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And through the downcast lashes

I see the dull flame of desire

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2021 year of the Cow <3

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cancel culture strikes again 😞

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on twitter, looking at footage of the riot cops belatedly coming in and kicking the maga stragglers out of the capitol building for good, i was struck by the way so many putative centre-left/leftists were cheering for the cops in the responses (”that’s more like it” and “it’s about time”). you could chalk this up to the libidinal joy of seeing the other tribe eat crow in a time where there’s a distinct lack of any political organization that allows people a real voice in their society, as well as the vast array of corporations who make money off of helping people treat politics as sports/entertainment. but i also want to take the time to remind people that the real threat of political repression comes from the cop side and not the maga side, which may share many affinities but also are far from a 1:1 overlap. in this case, the former was using the latter to provide a specific spectacle for the cameras, which is why they ended the day brutalizing them in the same way they do many leftist protests.

while storming parliaments is a fairly rare event in the history of any country, it’s a pretty common sight in a global context. it happened in november in armenia as well as in guatemala, and happened in hong kong last year. mostly, these events have few casualties, but lots of property damage that looks prominent on camera. cops mostly get out of the way, allow things to happen, then start to form up in force again to scare the crowd away, and after waiting a bit, clean up the stragglers. for the most part, large scale casualties aren’t acceptable anymore as a response to short-term urban occupations except in a few countries like iraq and sudan where the local government apparatus has more of a tenuous grip on power. so why are these events so common? when the hong kong legislature was stormed by protestors, a new york times journalist wrote:

Also notable about the LegCo break-in was the police’s absence from the scene. This was a relief, given the violence of its crackdown on a protest on June 12. But it is ominous as well. What kind of police force doesn’t act to prevent the legislature from being stormed? A police force that no longer sees its purpose as maintaining public order and is, instead, carrying out the government’s political agenda.

The Hong Kong police should have intervened to prevent the break-in into LegCo, and it could have. It didn’t stop the protesters because the government didn’t want it to.

on the one hand, it seems absurd to describe a lack of police brutality as ominous, tinging the article with the stain of so many other pieces of american propaganda where foreign enemies are always perfidious no matter their actions. the question posed, however, is a rational one, and it is considered carefully in this context. no such questions are asked in the times’ coverage of the past day’s events in america. in some articles, the police are mentioned only once or twice in passing, to add to the imagery. in others, the police and their billions of dollars of weapons are portrayed as fighting a valiant defense of american democracy against the maga hordes. yet just as in the hong kong situation, it was the police who were in control the entire time, defining the situation as they saw fit, pulling out to create the spectacle and then moving in once its time had past. of course, the new york times benefits from portraying the maga crowd as a greater threat to its mostly democratic readers, while its owners are the ones who benefit most from the police repression that goes on daily across the country. it makes sense that no such question would be asked in its coverage. that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be asking those questions though, and recognizing where the real threat lies. as in armenia, guatemala, and hong kong, the occupations of parliament achieved nothing of note while the ruling regimes have been somewhat strengthened. what does this say about the american regime and what it hoped to accomplish today?

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this is the death rattle of creativity and innovation

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literally this

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applying for jobs like a simp