#atrocities

[directactionforhope]

Genocide is not a verb, btw. Please stop saying "genocided," this isn't a useful neologism or shortened new version - this is softening the language we use to describe crimes of atrocity

It's commit genocide, so that we can never, ever talk about someone committing genocide without making it clear that every time a group or government chooses commits genocide, it's because people chose that, and they kept choosing that, and all of these nightmares could end in a second if the people doing the killing just fucking stopped

[bowlby4]

[burningvelvet]

jacob elordi and margot robbie starring in yet another whitewashed wuthering heights adaptation which is going to further destroy the public perception of this classic literary work by misleading people into interpreting it as a common bodice ripper bc no one cares about nuance or meaning and all anyone cares about is profit... crying shaking throwing up!!!

it's also really ironic to imagine what heathcliff himself would think about how he's portrayed in media. he hates everyone and would hate more than anyone the fans who romanticize him, just as he canonically hates isabella for adoring him and wanting to believe that he's better than he is — that he is the romantic hero she's made him out to be. how ironic is it that most fans of the work embody isabella? and on that note, how much do you want to bet that isabella will be written out of the story along with most of the other characters plotlines, like how the colonial rhetoric is written out by the fact of elordi's mere presence?

heathcliff is such a wonderfully written character and one of the most iconic in all literary history. he doesn't deserve this chronic mistreatment and neither do any of the other characters. least deserving of all is emily brontë herself who would be continuously disappointed if she were misfortunate enough to have to bear witness to these adaptations. she's actively rolling in her grave as we speak and the producers are parodying heathcliff digging her up so that she can share in the torment they insist upon...

[canisalbus]

Additionally Vasco confess increasingly outlandish sins just to pass the hour with Machete:

... And then I went to kitchen to get something to snack on even when it wasn't lunchtime (!!!) And I took an apple and turned to wash it in water basin but it slipped from my grasp and splashed water everywhere. There I just stood looking the poor, slowly drowning, apple in wet kitchen.

Machete: Again, not a sin. Not even weird.

... And when I was writing letters I drew seven small ponies on the parchment. They were so crudely made. Just a blob with six sticks as legs... Oh god! Ponies only have four legs! Father please, can God forgive such atrocities? What a monster have I become drawing such abominations!

Outside of the booth you can hear giggling.

Vasco's ponies. Ponies by Vasco.

[eopederson]

Stones and coins at the base of the monument marking the site of the Mormon Meadows Massacre (now usually sanitized of religious associations and called Mountain Meadows Massacre), Washington County, Utah, 2020.

"The Mountain Meadows Massacre, occurring in September 1857, was a tragic event where Mormon settlers killed at least 120 members of a wagon train traveling through Utah, amidst rising tensions between the Mormons and the U.S. government."

[belongstolove]

@codepinkalert "YOU HAVE THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE AND IRAN AND LEBANON ON YOUR HANDS!"

Two activists disrupted the Lockheed Martin-Politico "Security" Summit in D.C. this morning in protest of the arms manufacturer's complicity in the genocide in Gaza and the wars of aggression against Iran and Lebanon.

[alivewithclive]

“Russia has not achieved a single strategic objective of its aggression. Instead, it has suffered enormous losses, with more than 1.2 million killed and wounded, along with massive losses in military equipment.” ~ @mfa_ukraine 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦

#Repost @mfa_ukraine with @use.repost_ . . . “Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has now lasted longer than the 1941–1945 war between the Nazi Third Reich and the USSR – 1418 days.

During this war, Russia has committed atrocities on Ukrainian soil on a scale and brutality unprecedented since WWII. Yet it has failed to break Ukraine or the spirit of our people.

Over this period, Russia has not achieved a single strategic objective of its aggression. Instead, it has suffered enormous losses, with more than 1.2 million killed and wounded, along with massive losses in military equipment.

As Russia escalates its terror in the midst of winter in another attempt to undermine Ukraine’s resistance and international unity, now is precisely the right moment to increase pressure on Moscow through additional tough sanctions and to provide enhanced support for Ukraine.

Ukraine stays strong and remains firmly committed to working closely with the United States and our European allies to bring closer a lasting peace and ensure long-term security in Europe”, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated.

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