[sowhatifiliveinkyushu]

Milla Jovovich (1998) by Bruce Weber

[theleoisallinthemind]

source: unknown

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Heavenly Bodies, 1920s

my gifs

[heateron]

hearts of darkness (1991) dir. eleanor coppola, george hickenlooper, fax bahr

[greggturkington]

they should make a weed strain called get up bitch clean your apart ment

[daughter-of-sapph0]

miniminuteman on youtube

[tanyushenka]

Photography: Palestinian school girls smile to the camera as they come back home in their school bus on September 22, 2016 in Gaza City. Photographer: Mohammed Abed 

[07242024-deactivated20240725]

[federer7]

Charlotte Rampling. Paris, 1987

Photo: Peter Lindbergh

[steveyockey]

In the absence of a clear and obvious angle to attack Bushnell’s protest, most likely due to his status as a serviceman that would make outright insulting him or suppressing the news itself scandalous, discussions on Western shores have now taken on the familiar framing of mental illness. In Time Magazine’s write-up of Bushnell’s death, the article finishes with a link to the suicide hotline, and asks readers to contact mental health providers if they are experiencing a “crisis.” Mark Joseph Stern, a writer at Slate, seemingly unasked, also wrote on Twitter/X:

“I strongly oppose valorizing any form of suicide as a noble, principled, or legitimate form of political protest. People suffering mental illness deserve empathy and respect, but it is wildly irresponsible to praise them for using a political justification to take their own life.”

Conviction does not exist to the American. To be willing to die in a selfless act for what they believe in only exists for those outside America's sphere of influence. Many will recall reporting on those who self-immolated in protest in Iran and in Russia for instance where this sort of approach, unwilling to engage with the root of its cause, would not even be entertained, let alone written and published with sincerity. The Arab Spring began with a self-immolation. The self-immolation of Buddhist monks in protest of South Vietnam’s persecution became defining images of the war and its corruption. Within America’s walls however, there is a belief, unspoken and ingrained from birth, that democracy allows for everyone’s voices to be heard and that its representatives are inherently inclined to respond to the people and their widespread wishes.

Desperation at inaction or complicity in terror and atrocity need not apply. Everyone incensed by their government to such an extent must simply have something wrong with them. To be able to go about one’s day knowing that children are screaming from the hunger that is eating their insides and that pregnant women are eating bread made from animal feed, and that the United States is supporting Israel’s creation of this famine, is apparently the real sign of well-adjustment.

Seamus Malekafzali, “The Words Burned Through His Throat: The Sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell,” February 26, 2024.

[saywasp]

adark.lana

[aaaangel444]

[psikonauti]

[stuckinapril]

"dont they stone women over there" says person from the very same country that just had a trans child who was beat to death in a school bathroom . The fucking racism hoops u gotta jump thru to assume all violence takes places outside the usa. Smh

SAY THAT!!

[02vin]

02-27-2023, 9 PM

[lainenoirdemouton]

[soracities]

thinking over and over and over of that clip from a maya angelou talk about the importance of knowing one another's history. no matter how brutal no matter how bleak no matter how despairing no matter anything because the only way through it is to go all the way through it. and the only way to build anything with one another is by having gone all the way through it because otherwise there is no connection. whats a connection worth that's built on ignorance? sustained by ignorance? "only equals can make friends" she says. only equals.

[soracities]

clip here. full talk here.