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I know this has always been the way of things in this country but the complete disinterest in learning anything about the Middle East, and the overt determination to remain completely ignorant of the people who live there is so deeply evil. If you have the nerve to call for a violent regime change in another country, you should be able to correctly pronounce the name of that country and you should be able to locate it on a fucking map. You should be able to answer basic questions about their population, political factions, and the country’s history. Ignorant American doesn’t go far enough as an insult. It should be acknowledged this ignorance is entirely on purpose. They don’t know and they don’t care to know.

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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The collection of antique portraits continues in the Library. Bookshelves display a friendly intermingling of books, salt-glaze stoneware and other objects both pleasing and unusual. Augmenting the bibliophilic atmosphere are an oak desk chair and an antique oak rolling ladder.

Contemporary Apartments (The Worlds of Architectural Digest), 1982

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

EDIT: let's use this post for something good. if you are considering being annoying in my notes, please instead consider donating to gaza soup kitchen. thanks!

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At night I dream of public transportation networks so efficient they make cars obsolete

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Amy Winehouse photographed by David LaChapelle (2007)

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i've never been to the southern us i get all my information from tennessee williams plays

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I'm sorry, I don't believe that anyone who has read regularly since childhood would still count Harry Potter as the best book they've ever read.

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Irving Penn, Summer Sleep, New York, 1949

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Postcard from the National Reno Gay Rodeo, 1981

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kate winslet as ophelia in "tbt: hamlet" (1996) .

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the thrift store knows when you are not approaching it with the right spirit and will close you off from the cosmos

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you’re laughing. jd vance is losing his two daddies and you’re laughing