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every city is walkable if you're willing to walk lonely and precarious

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Isn't it fucking insane that so many people think that IQs are real. Like people genuinely believe you are born with one set level of intelligence that can be measured on a scale from 1 to ~200. As if intelligence wasn't extremely nuanced and completely subjective. And the fact that the majority of scientists that have advocated for IQ tests in the past have been eugenicists doesn't seem to concern anyone either

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millions of american soldiers die every year trying to rocket jump. thankfully their lives are worthless

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making heavy use of a technique i like to call "bothering my cat" which consists largely of bothering my cat

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Via twaniimals

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just relapsed on seeking knowledge

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To a certain extent I understand the point being made, but I think posts emphasising the supposedly ramshackle and improvised nature of Palestinian resistance feed into exactly the sentiment being criticised - of supporting liberation only when it's losing, only when it's the underdog.

What, precisely, does it matter if the Palestinian fighters have 'formal' training or not? What does it matter if their rockets are captured or purpose-built? If they were the ones fighting with advanced, modern equipment, and the IOF were the ones with improvised munitions, their cause would be equally as correct.

Some day soon it will come to pass that Palestinians will be in charge of their home again, and the zionist forces won't simply disappear - they'll be weak, largely overpowered, but they'll continue to fight, continue to be supported by their western allies, and *they* will be 'underdog' insurgents. Palestinians will be as justified in suppressing those would-be reinstaters of genocide as they are fighting the current IOF. They will be in power, and they will fight to maintain that power. At that moment, the fetishism of defeat would lead, inexorably, to the age-old trope - that they'd have become 'just as bad as the oppressors'.

Our analysis can't be based on aesthetics, can't be based on who appears the most ultra-revolutionary - it must be based on a systemic, factual view of who stands to gain. Don't settle for heuristics.

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Nakba Day march, Mexico City

jay-watts.com

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the self is a guy you made up to get mad at

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"A police report and an interview with a former Zionist operative form the basis of Avi Shlaim's claim that he has uncovered "undeniable proof" of Israeli involvement in bombings which drove Jews out of Iraq in the early 1950s, the British-Israeli historian told Middle East Eye.

Shlaim's autobiography Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, published earlier this month, details his childhood as an Iraqi Jew and subsequent exile to Israel.

It also includes research about a number of bombings in Iraq which prompted a mass exodus of Jews from the country between 1950 and 1951, most of whom, like he and his family, ended up in Israel.

On Sunday, Shlaim told Middle East Eye that he had uncovered "incontrovertible evidence of Zionist underground involvement in the bombs". 

As part of the evidence, the historian cited an extensive interview he carried out with Yaakov Karkoukli, a former member of the Zionist underground in Baghdad in the 1950s. "

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Martin Margiela, i-D April 1998

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i love this website i just feel at home here you know