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I started reading a novel for the first time in years and at first it was like the words were not reaching my brain (it's in Spanish)... I feel I'm getting more stupid with age

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Charlie Hunnam and Michiel Huisman Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) dir. Zack Snyder

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I never wished for you to die in my place. What I want is...

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i've said this before but i suppose it bears repeating and clarification. it is arabs and palestinians who have suffered the most under islamist rule. we (middle easterners, revolutionaries, religious minorities, gender and sexual minorities) as people, understand what hamas represents better than israelis do, better than anyone does. we understand what the entire spectrum from political islam to outright jihadist extremism does. we understand dictatorship. we understand theocracy. we understand fascism.

the repression israel has created is so absolute, has destroyed civil, diplomatic, intellectual and peaceful avenues so absolutely, that it leaves no avenues for anyone to condemn hamas anymore. even the representative of hamas's ideological and political opponents, the PLO (which oversees the West Bank), is openly frustrated at the request to condemn hamas. and it's not because he sympathizes with them. he has absolutely no political, personal, ideological or economic reason to.

israel has bombed gaza in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021, each and every time with the declared intention of targeting hamas and instead murdering civilians en masse. everyone familiar with israel understands that 'hamas' is meaningless, that israel has no real interest in defeating them (and that defeating militant resistance to an occupation with military force is not possible), that they went so far as to fund them as their choice of preferred enemy. when palestinians hear 'hamas' they correctly understand that israel intends to kill everyone. it is, to use the lingua franca of this period, a dogwhistle. on october 7th, israelis were horrified to see this dogwhistle suddenly become an actual whistle, but nothing else changed except for the intensity and savagery of their attacks on gaza. instead, the more they say hamas, the more they murder civilians en masse, just as they always have. everyone in gaza has said "this is not new, just worse." they have always understood that they are the target. no amount of condemning hamas, being a good palestinian, a good civilian, or even a newborn will change that.

this includes all of hamas's ideological opponents and so-called victims as well. peace activists, intellectuals, palestinian christians, and queer palestinians alike are not condemning hamas right now. they can't because they are busy fighting for their lives and homes against the israeli occupation. if you understood the personal toll this takes on them, if you understood how deeply their trauma runs, you would understand just how evil the israeli narrative on hamas is for all palestinians.

if you want a plurality of palestinian opinion, get rid of the israeli apartheid state. if you want tolerance, get rid of the israeli apartheid state. if you want israelis to be safe in their homes from the threat of hamas militants, get rid of the israeli apartheid state.

the truth is, there is a base and deeply evil racism at the core of asking to condemn hamas, especially by those who would never condemn israel or the violence it requires to maintain itself. it presumes that they have the right to ask for a condemnation of child murder, without ever giving an apology for child murder or the promise to stop murdering children. ghassan kanafani once called this "a conversation between the sword and the neck."

it is absurdity in full display, a macabre delight in impunity disguised as moral superiority. more than treating every palestinian as a terrorist in interrogation, more than its dehumanization and islamophobia, it is at its core asking "do you agree our children are more important than yours?"

and lest you forget, Israel's current minister of national security has already said it directly. as he famously once told arab-israeli reporter mohammad magadli, “Sorry Mohammad, my right to life precedes yours, that is the reality.”

in many ways, that's far more honest than asking "do you condemn hamas?"

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The Escape of the Seven: War for Survival 7인의 탈출 (2023) dir. Joo Dong Min

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You did it. You finally got your face on a wanted poster. Nezumi's last act of revenge... It's the highest bounty in the East Blue.

One Piece 1.08 "Worst in the East"

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Zoro & Nami in ONE PIECE, 1.03 "Tell No Tales"

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Need for Speed (2014, dir. Scott Waugh)

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Finished this too (minus the last 40ish minutes) and it did not improve for me... It's like it wanted to be a penthouse but didn't fully commit to the ridiculousness of it and the characters just felt like mannequins with 1 personality trait who said things to move the plot forward.

I waited for little women to be released here on netflix for so long, avoiding spoilers and everything and not even reading reactions only to not feel it al all 😭🥴

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My younger cousin really wanted me to watch this so I finished it now that I'm feeling better. It was a fine show to pass the time once I knew what to expect tho some people are right in that it feels like something from nickelodeon. The switch of some of the characters also didn't make much sense to me, like they didn't do enough with the arcs character wise and they didn't dive enough into it for my liking so it felt arbitrary, but I understand since it's aimed at kids/a much younger audience.

The first ep of W/ednes/day was another 0/10 for me 😐

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How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

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I hope this time next year you’ll have thousands of new happy memories

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The first ep of W/ednes/day was another 0/10 for me 😐

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I waited for little women to be released here on netflix for so long, avoiding spoilers and everything and not even reading reactions only to not feel it al all 😭🥴

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#IT’S ABOUT THE HANDS

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seen a lot of these with your favorites, but reblog with the CURRENT book you are reading, show you are streaming, the last movie you watched, and any game/puzzle/crafts you’re working on 

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i can’t look directly at these