#but few are frozen

[garudabluffs]

“The crowding in Castiglione became something unspeakable,” Dunant wrote in A Memory of Solferino, his account of the battle and its aftermath that was published in 1863. He continued:

The town was completely transformed into a vast improvised hospital for French and Austrians. The hospital of Castiglione, the churches… were all filled with wounded men, piled on one another and with nothing but straw to lie on. Straw had also been spread in the streets, courtyards and squares, and here and there wooden shelters had been thrown up or pieces of cloth stretched, so that the wounded pouring in from all directions might have a little shelter from the sun.

Dunant left Castiglione deeply affected by the horrors that he had seen, particularly as civilians and soldiers alike struggled to care for the wounded and dead. A Memory of Solferino inspired him to propose the formation of a permanent society of trained volunteers who would help care for wounded combatants during war. This eventually led to the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross."

The Rules of War Oct 14, 2023

They are being broken profoundly and openly right now. But they still offer a reminder that, despite being capable of horrific violence, human beings are not helpless in its path.

"In 1863, the Red Cross organized a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, which was attended by delegates from all the major nations or kingdoms of Europe, as well as several international representatives. The First Geneva Convention, as it came to be known, set a precedent for international cooperation and debate as to, for lack of a better term, the rules of war."

"As we all know, though, that fine print has created a morass of loopholes and half-ratifications and signatories with reservations that have rendered the actual legal power of the various conventions in Geneva basically moot. War, as a concept, defies the existence of any rules or control. It is about the power to kill, and we have devised so many more ways to do so than could ever be governed by some nice words on a piece of presumably very expensive paper in Switzerland."

"When the Israeli Air Force bombs a building, it often performs what it calls a “soft knock” strike first, hitting the building’s roof with a small explosive charge as a form of a warning shot that is purportedly intended to notify civilians to evacuate. A few seconds or minutes later, it will usually flatten the building.

What we are seeing now is a soft knock on over 2,000,000 people living in one of the most densely packed areas on the planet. The larger bomb is likely already on its way. 

What form that genocide—for there is no other appropriate word for it in the English language—will take is yet to be seen."

"On Friday morning, the Palestine Red Crescent Society—the local branch of the organization Jean Dunant’s work inspired—published a sparse, desperate appeal to humanity. 

“We do not have the means to evacuate the sick and the wounded in our hospitals, or the elderly and the disabled,” it read. “There are no safe areas in the whole of the Gaza Strip. Humanity is on the line. The world must intervene to stop this catastrophe [from unfolding] in the next few hours. War is not the answer. Killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure is not the answer. All parties must abide by the laws of war and protect the civilian population.”

I do not know what will happen beyond this. Nobody does; I doubt the generals of the IDF or Israel’s fractured political leadership have a clear idea of the method and extent of atrocities they are about to commit. 

Which brings me back to the “rules” of war.All of this, as should be clear to any rational observer, is against those rules. The IDF’s actions since Hamas’s attack alone have broken the Geneva Conventions more times than I can even begin to count. In context, as well, Israel’s entire relationship with the Gaza Strip has been defined by collective punishment and wanton disregard for human life for some 70 years; its current actions are only relevant because they appear to indicate that the country is seeking a final and decisive escalation of a slow genocide carried out over generations."

"Israel’s stated goal in its current offensive is to eradicate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, a mission which, though it is both completely open-ended and practically unfeasible, provides cover for Israel to break any rule and end any life they desire until external or internal pressures demand that they stop. And right now, that pressure does not exist."

"What the rules give us—citizens of America or Israel or any party aligned with them— is the means to demand that the acts being committed in our names are recognized for what they are: evil."

READ MORE https://www.discourseblog.com/p/the-rules-of-war

12 Comments "So I leave you with two questions

1.) do you believe Israel has a right to exist?

2.) if so, how do you think they should’ve handled the aftermath of the attack?

PCOct 14·edited Oct 14

"You might as well ask Nat Turner if the USA had a right to exist. The issue is not the right of a slave or apartheid society to exist - the issue is when are you going to end slavery or apartheid."

Fight, Flight, Freeze

[cyhaino]

James Acaster as Lars Pinfield

[figuring-it-all-out]

Is it gay to temporarily remove your soul from your body to make out with be on the same dimensional plane as a ghost?

[whilomm]

oh okay heres one:

"sleepaway camp"= you go there for at least a few days, a week, sometimes several weeks, and sleep there, as opposed to a """camp""" where you go for the day and your parents or whoever picks you up afterward (those arent really camps, but like. idk when i went to "space camp" it was a weeklong but not sleepaway). in the U.S. at least, the typical image of a sleepaway camp involves staying in cabins, dunno how common it is/what it looks like in other countries.

for the first few i just mean like. not necessarily a stealth church camp, just like. idk, a camp where theres also an Assumption Of Christianity and just general vibes without being actually church camp. So, there might not be daily services and jesusy dedicatwd activities, but maybe theres still a prayer said over meals and shit. Which i assume might exist...

(oh and @reblogforsamplesize if u wanna)

[royalarchivist]

Etoiles: And yeah, I think it's important. I think it's important to talk about [Palestine]. I think that the mods put it... did they put the link to just click? And if you don't agree when people are dying, go fuck yourself. If you are mad, go fuck yourself. And uh, and if you are racist, you have been watching an Algerian for 3 years. [Laughs] Well. It's- yeah. Other- other- yeah.

Etoiles: "He's not an Arab like the others!" [Laughs] "He's not an Arab like the others, he watches Question pour un Champion (French quiz show)" go fuck yourself.

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Thread of charities and institutions that Etoiles (and may of the other QSMP streamers) shared: Original thread || Thread if you don't have Twitter

Translations provided by @EtoilesUpdate || Nitter link if you don't have Twitter. Their thread includes more of what he said on this topic + translations.

[frozen-seagrass]

The WALL-E au no one asked for

[tovaicas]

↳ ꜱɴᴏᴡ + ᴄᴏᴇʀᴛʜᴀꜱ ᴡᴇꜱᴛᴇʀɴ ʜɪɢʜʟᴀɴᴅꜱ

ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ꜱɴᴏᴡꜱ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜʟᴀɴᴅꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏᴇʀᴛʜᴀꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀᴋᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʟᴀᴍɪᴛʏ ʟᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴛɪɴᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴘʟᴀɴᴛꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀɴɪᴍᴀʟꜱ. ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇɴ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴇʀᴛɪʟᴇ ʙᴀɴᴋꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴡᴏ ʀɪᴠᴇʀꜱ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ꜰʟᴏᴡ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴇꜱᴛᴇʀɴ ʜɪɢʜʟᴀɴᴅꜱ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴏɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴇᴇᴍɪɴɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟɪꜰᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴜʀʀᴏᴜɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴘᴀꜱᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇxᴄᴇʟʟᴇɴᴛ ɢʀᴀᴢɪɴɢ. ᴀʟᴀꜱ, ᴀꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴀᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ ᴅʀᴏᴘᴘᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪᴠᴇʀꜱ ꜰʀᴏᴢᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇɢᴇᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴡɪᴛʜᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴅɪᴇᴅ, ᴀꜱ ᴅɪᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇʟɪʜᴏᴏᴅꜱ ᴏꜰ ɪꜱʜɢᴀʀᴅ'ꜱ ꜰᴀʀᴍᴇʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱʜᴇᴘʜᴇʀᴅꜱ.

[fizpup]

oh to be a little pony with sick eyeshadow and a duck

[eggsploded]

BIG movement in the blonde big boys anime community lately

[mattzerella-sticks]

Wolverine from X-Men: Evolution was a gay man, or at the very least queer. My evidence is as follows:

No defining/memorable romantic relationships with women AT ALL during the show's run. Jean was a teenager, he was an adult, and - unlike the Ultimate X-Men comics which served as inspiration for this series - these two did not have a romantic relationship nor did they have any romantic tension, the relationship between them instead mirroring a brother/sister one. The same can be said about Logan's other high-profile comics romantic interest, Storm, where their relationship was more like siblings as well rather than anything with romantic undertones.

This scene with Captain America -

[kinaesthetiqueer]

"Spread across the comforter are their film strips from the photo corner at the dance... A full size picture of the four of them signing their team letter to the camera with huge smiles on their faces."

On the Run from Tomorrow, ch. 17

Last chap's up. I am getting so horribly emotional trying to write a note here, so just...

JNPR 💛🧡❤️💚 Forever

[softpine]

i can’t get it right since i met you when will this loneliness be over?

[transcript]

[steakout-05]

apologies to my followers who don't watch Star Trek but i still cannot get over the way Data enters the bridge in episode 2 of TNG after having just boinked Tasha. look at him. the style. the lean. the confidence.

this is the fruitiest android i have ever seen!

[etapereine]

Oh my god, tour the Pologne has been so chaotic and funny this year.

Visma with limited radios, no Grischa, no NVH and management mostly occupied by the Vuelta.

Jonas for some reason: what if I was just a domestique!

Organizers: fine, but you still have to win, so we can dress you up with hats and weapons.

this is what happens when you leave jonas basically unsupervised, he says "domestique role for me? 🥺👉👈" and there's no one to tell him no

real talk though i'm just happy to see him very relaxed and having fun racing - he was incredible at the tour, especially considering everything, but it was also clearly stressful as hell both physically and mentally, so i think this relatively low-stakes week will have done him a world of good. now he can go home and live his house husband and stay-at-home dad dreams until next season, good for him.

[symphfia]

Elsa’s got so many options 😍

[sparebutton]

Snow sisters❄️💕