#government is the biggest offender

[secattention]

DOUBLE SPEAK

#KILLUMINATI13420 #on bitchute #awareness #Double Speak #Sugar Free = Added Sugar #Dietetics = Zero Added Sugar #government is the biggest offender #followed by big business #food industry loves the double speak

[dykealloy]

spoilers up to the end of dressrosa arc here but. I can't stop thinking about how Law takes on Rosinante's will. Corasan freed him from Doflamingo and the marines and the world government and everyone that ever could have touched him at the time, but has Law really felt free? “Everything I do until I die represents what Corasan achieved” is sweet until you recognise that Law is willing (and planned) to go to the grave for that belief. Until Doflamingo dies there is always a part of him stuck in that treasure chest, constrained by what Law felt happened to Corasan due to him that day.

It's crazy how textbook survivors guilt victim Law is (I’m new here so I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t the first time this has been brought up), but let’s just quickly go over some symptoms:

Obsessive thoughts about the traumatic event ✅ (will go over this in greater detail below)

A sense of disconnection or detachment/need to isolate oneself from others ✅ (Law doesn't fully isolate himself but he definitely has his walls up at all times, though there are often subtle hints of him enjoying the company of the people he chooses to surround himself with. He is notably more reserved, emotionally unavailable, cold and distant than others around him, and watching closely you'll notice that even physically he has a tendency to situate himself three steps behind the group)

Insomnia, nightmares, flashbacks of the traumatic event ✅ (if we can assume some of his backstory expressed in Dressrosa are flashbacks, and also assuming that the perpetual eyeliner he wears are covering some pretty heavy eyebags. Also mention that the only time we see him resting is against Sunny's mast on the way to Dressrosa - and that was 1. a filler episode, and 2. if he was sleeping, it was very quickly interrupted by an attack by petplay guy - a nightmare in of itself)

Irritability and anger ✅ (though elements of this could just be attributed to Law's personality or a natural response to the straw hat's shenanigans, as well as Luffy's total inability to stick to a reasonable plan)

Feelings of despair and thoughts of suicide ✅ (that's Law's Dressrosa arc babe)

Now, there's many reasons why Law is unable to move past this guilt (an apparent lack of therapists in one piece being one of them) - but his inability to believe in unconditional love is likely the biggest offender.

Law may have started off (initially) with one of the most fortunate, stable beginnings, with a loving family and a big house in a rich country (wealth of which was built off the back of lies and corruption and the murder of innocent future generations - we'll get there). But he had a mother and a father who loved and nurtured Law (and were both highly respected doctors in their own right who citizens trusted and relied on). Law's happy beginnings really juxtapose the unfathomable horror that had been lying in wait in Flevance.

Even when shit started to hit the fan, at a very young age (<10 yrs old), Law was already stepping up and showing love for his little sister (lying to her when she was on her deathbed, knowing full well he would likely face the same fate after reading his charts, putting on a brave face for her so she wouldn't be afraid when the screams began to reach their front door, hiding her away when soldiers sieged their home and rushing to check on his parents). Given everything that happened in Flevance, it's completely understandable that, while Law will likely never forget the love his family gave him, remembering it became twisted in the lasting memories of his home — parents riddled with bullet holes. a closet holding a sick little sister waiting for him in a house engulfed by flames. stumbling through a town of friends, neighbours, just... people he used to pass by on the street, now all dead.

Seeing hell, knowing why and how it transpired, who were responsible (spoilers, the World Government; the same body that most citizens believe exist to protect them — yeah, sister "a merciful hand of salvation waiting to help" were perhaps the worst possible combination of words you could have left Law with here. Likely instrumental in having him lose his faith "I don't believe in anything anymore."), knowing he is the only survivor, and fated to die anyway due to the terminal illness that is slowly killing him because some figureheads years back were greedy and the governing powers above the figureheads were willing to cover up everything if it meant garnering a portion of wealth and maintaining influence and control. It's beyond grief, beyond rage. And there's absolutely nowhere Law can put it. No one he can retaliate against. Who could come out of hell knowing this and not want to see the world burn?

So, smart little Law escapes under a pile of bodies and goes to the one person infamously revered for being in the business of that kind of thing. And boy oh boy I can only begin to imagine how a young and impressionable Law - fresh from a genocide, with a hole in his heart and a hatred for everything still alive - had his concept of love warped whilst surviving those two years around Doflamingo and his family. A family where members are only welcome so far as they are useful to Doflamingo and his aspirations. Of course Law's going to pick up some fucked up ideas about how love works outside this little white fence he grew up and watched burn down.

Then. Enter Corazon.

Their relationship may begin on shaky legs (near-juvenicide via defenestration in a failed attempt to ward Law away from sticking around) but Corazon quickly becomes the one person in the world Law can trust and rely on again. And Rosinante can only do so much in terms of healing and guiding this broken kid (yes, his position both as Doffy's brother and as a double agent made things difficult, but need I mention he was only 26! 26 when he died!) but he showed Law kindness and compassion when he was at his lowest. He had faith in the existence of a cure that Law was long past believing. Was determined to help him, even against Law's wishes, even if it meant having Law relive his trauma over and over again. Corasan becomes incredibly important to Law, giving him a reason to live beyond just destruction and revenge.

After the rest of the world had long turned his back on him, when he had been nothing but a dying puddle of rage and self-destructive nihilism, Corasan saved Law. He told Law "Aishiteru" - a very rare way of saying "I love you", never used casually due to the depth of its meaning and the massive connotations behind it - in essence translating to "I love you so much I cannot possibly imagine life without you". There's a high likelihood that at his age, Law had never heard these words before, and probably didn't quite understand the weight of Rosinante saying it at the time.

Corasan frees Law, then he dies at the hand of Doflamingo, Rosinante's own brother.

All Rosinante wanted was for this poor kid to go on and live his life unburdened by his more than turbulent history and his connection to Doffy, but I think for all his planning, Rosinante's one critical error was well and truly underestimating how much him loving Law, and loving Law to the extent he did, would mean to that kid. Law really went from that ten year old hollow void sentiment of "why does anyone or anything at all get to exist when everything that was important to me is dead, burned to ashes and wiped off the map" to "I should have died at age thirteen and every second I've lived since then, I've only lived as a result of Corasan's efforts and as a personal affront to Doflamingo." This time, Law has a tangible, heinous 10 foot monster of a target to direct 1. his grief and anger and 2. justice for Cora towards, and this time he has the power and will to follow through. More than that, he believes Corasan sacrificed himself for him because he's a D. (someone destined to rain down destruction on the gods - Doflamingo, in this case). Corazon becomes a saint that Law dedicates the rest of his life to. Which is something that Law is not vocal about to just anyone he comes across, but is so unbelievably obvious once you know what you're looking at — his tattoos, his jolly roger, his crew, his ship, his ambitions, his beliefs, his fucking. custom-made Corazon jacket. all of it for this man that showed Law - at a time when he hated the world and everything in it - love. For all of six months. max.

And his whole life and personality and behaviour CONTINUES to be guided by this trauma — the way he's reckless with himself, his borderline self-destructive actions, the way he keeps telling himself that none of it would've been worth it unless Corasan's last wishes are fulfilled, the way he surrounds himself with bright people and soft things, the way it doesn't register that his crew genuinely loves and cares about him, the way he's terrified of losing anyone important to him again (and I would say this is one of his biggest downfalls as a Captain compared to someone like Luffy - who is just as reckless as Law is but trusts his crew, doesn't try to send them away, isn't afraid to let them grow and risk their lives for him like Law is with the heart crew), his inability to take a damn compliment. The way he doesn't understand Luffy AT ALL.

Doesn't understand that this alliance that he's brokered means nothing to Luffy because he sees him as FRIEND. No transactions or mutually beneficial pacts necessary. Doesn't get that he's the one that inadvertently asked Luffy to be his friend, thus breaking a long chain of people (mostly parental figures and siblings) abandoning or leaving Luffy behind/no one taking the first initiative to ask to be around him. Law is complete and utterly in the dark as to why someone would ever bat for him when the stakes are this high for no other reason than because they like them and care about them as a person.

Luffy, with his playground rules where he loves unconditionally and will take on the world for a friend he made five minutes ago, perplexes Law with his sheer simplicity.

When Sengoku tells Law, "Don't try to find a reason for someone's love", I do NOT think he takes it well. Because there must be a reason. There has to be. Between the two options of Corasan saving Law's life and freeing him because he believed in the will of D., or Rosinante saving him for no other reason than because Law was a kid that was loveable, and because he loved him unconditionally... everything we've learned about how Law functions up until this point suggests the former will always make more sense to him, and after everything he's been through, is most likely less painful for him to accept.

#LONG POST #in this essay i will... oh no. this was a spiral i was not ready to go down. #I'm not doing okay btw #one piece meta #these were originally 2am tags but upon reflection i thought it should probably be its own post #CJ's op watch-through #one piece #op #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law #corazon #corasan #donquixote rosinante #monkey d. luffy #lawlu #dressrosa spoilers #op meta #op analysis

[carionto]

Ignition

Once the Galactic Coalition had (without other realistic options) given Humanity an equal position among the governing bodies, despite the fact they were a single planet race, the initial dread of what they would do eased. A little. When they showed how they powered their impossibly massive vessels, the fears of our ancestors who deemed the Responsibility Barrier a necessity reemerged a thousandfold.

The Humans, with a slight grin, said "Solar power, of course."

They took a delegation within the bowels of one of their smaller, civilian research craft, which was still bulkier, better armored, and more worryingly - better armed than most flagships of the other predator-races. Were we not able to see with our own eyes their actual, what they aptly call, Dreadnoughts, from distances you would normally need a telescope, we would have assumed this was their mightiest warship. Yet it was just one of hundreds.

As we passed through the ludicrously thick and seemingly excessive number of bulkheads and shielded and compartmentalized hallways, the ever present hum of raw power beneath our feet gradually became nerve-wracking. What is that? It reminded us of stories told by those who traveled near Black Holes - of the sheer vastness and infinite apathy they felt from the all consuming entities.

A dozen or so biometric gates later, we were greeted by a gigantic sphere, easily a hundred and fifty meters in diameter, an abomination of reinforced panels, wiring, heat pumps, and countless tubes, hanging from numerous power conduits in the middle of an even more massive chamber from behind our observation platform. A true, pure fusion reactor. And there were Humans, in full protective suits at least, working directly next to it within the ominous chamber.

"We wanted to give you a demonstration of our advances in the past millennia, so please observe as we turn on this one."

This one? As in... the power we were feeling was not from this monstrosity? We had to ask.

"Oh, of course not, this ship has three such reactors, we recently performed a full maintenance on this and decided to delay reactivating it for you to see."

The delegates' mouths (or equivalents) were agape. Sure, nuclear fusion is known far and wide, but due to it's high potential for cataclysmic failure, or worse, deliberate destruction, the vast majority of such reactors were mostly found in deep space stations where solar radiation was scarce. Background radiation converters, while efficient at what they do, were nowhere sufficient enough for anything more than as passive emergency battery chargers. And no civilization kept fusion reactors anywhere near populated or colonizeable planets.

Yet here they were, looking at one nearly five times larger than any other known or attempted. And there were three on this ship alone. They counted hundreds of similar size, a few dozen of their Dreadnoughts, thousands of smaller vessels ferrying between the stations, the surface, and other larger ships. Countless world ending bombs-in-waiting right around the Humans' only home.

"Yeah, us science ships get the biggest ones, kinda need the extra oomph for our projects. The military kids like their redundancies, so theirs are smaller."

A slight relief.

"I think their newest capital ship, the UGSF Caliban of York, has fifteen, each about half ours."

A few delegates passed out. Their attendants rushed to salvage some dignity, but Captain Knoslark of this vessel, The Radiant Dusk at Everest, didn't seem surprised or offended and simply waited for the delegation to regain composure before continuing.

"This is my favorite part."

He said quietly with a glint in his eyes, then his tone changed to a more formal and authoritative one.

"Chief Engineer Ira Tameki, status of Reactor 2."

"All green, Captain. She's ready to purr to life at your command."

"Good. Then," his tone shifted once again, to a far more theatrical one as he took a pose, half turning his body and extending his right hand towards the reactor, index finger pointing dramatically. As he pronounced every syllable of the next word, there was a silent resigned sigh from his crew:

"ignition!"

Outwardly, nothing of significance changed. The engineers clicked at their consoles, bars slowly rose and everyone was deliberately doing their best to make it clear they were ignoring the fact that the captain was still in the same pose.

There was a muffled thump from the chamber, then the hum beneath their feet became a rumble for a few moments before steadying back to a now slightly more intense almost-buzz. Physically, nothing all that noteworthy. Mentally, everyone in the delegation was in true shock as they fully understood what they had just witnessed done all too casually:

The birth of a star.

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #humans are space orcs #humanity fuck yeah #carionto

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA if I send in screen shots to someone that made a callout post about a former friend?

Please read this entire thing before your decision. I understand the "blurb" may make me seem like a backstabber and someone you wouldn't trust, but I have my reasons I'll detail why this person is a former friend.

I'm a former friend of someone we'll call Marie. Marie, idk how to explain it, but she kind of didn't care about anyone but herself. Anytime someone would talk about something she'd make it about herself and it was very annoying. Marie also would make a lot of us uncomfortable at times. She said some racial slurs to us various times and claimed it wasn't racist. One was towards me and I asked her not to, basically I told her she can't call me a slur because she's white and made me feel uncomfortable. The other was some Irish thing I had to google because our friend who is Irish was uncomfortable and I'm still horrified with what I saw.

Marie would reblog my vent posts on tumblr a lot. None was ever to console me. One was where she reblogged and said "this would be a good ice breaker for a date." I did go off on her since at the time I had such a nasty break up and my vent had absolutely nothing to do with that. Now here's the issue, besides reblogging my vent posts, someone archived her reblog of my vent posts on the wayback. Multiple ones. I contacted wayback, but they said they only delete archives if the blog owner makes a statement on their blog. For reference, i have had multiple chronic stalkers and Marie was very well aware of it. So I already had wayback not allow archives of my blog because one stalker was using it to archive everything on me online. So a stalker found a loophole in the form of Marie. Now, this was before Tumblr had allowed us to disable reblogs. So no jumping to the comments saying it's my fault when this was years ago before that function was available. So, Marie refused and told me its whatever and if anything they were probably archiving her edits despite all of the archives on her blog had my vents she reblogged, like every single time she reblogged it got archived.

Now lastly, Marie was one of those people who would never celebrate anyone's victories. It was so weird, someone could say "oh, I got a new camera for my photography" and she'd say something like "in 3rd grade someone shat on my camera, so I never got a new camera". It would make stuff so awkward and make us not want to talk in our discord. I got a scholarship one year she decided to go to school (she was 12 years out of highschool) and she lost her financial aid in one semester because she didn't do any of her school work! Yet somehow "the government picks favorites and doesn't want to pay people that deserve it". Her words, I was very offended since she knew I worked full time, was a POC, and was not eligible for financial aid. Let me have the scholarship win without making it about you!

So one day I just blocked her everywhere after I deleted the friend discord we had. It wasn't right after, I waited over a year and became more and more distant. She did contact me again, but surprise surprise, she wanted me to help build her a website for her "oni-sona". I declined and we haven't spoken since.

Now the callout part. She has a callout under her new alias and it has her previous too. In this callout it's talking a lot about how she treats people like shit and uses them for her own gain. It details as well to not support her or any of her projects because she steals (idk about that, I've personally never witnessed it, but I'm believing OP because everything else is true.)

Now, would I be the AH if I submit stuff to add to the callout? I was just going to send in how she reblogged my vents and someone archived them on wayback and she refused to contact way back to delete them despite knowing I had stalkers. Maybe I'll submit more stuff, but not caring I had stalkers is my biggest gripe and something I think should be added since she allowed my stalkers to do that.

#aita #am i the asshole

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about India, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#india #Bhārat #भारत #asia #country polls #polls

[mariacallous]

‘I don’t like it when a comedian just spouts his own political views and relies on the audience agreeing with him to get a round of applause,’ announces Ricky Gervais in his new Netflix Special Armageddon. For 60-minutes Gervais, clad in his usual black t-shirt and jeans get-up, tells jokes about dwarfs, gay people, ‘disabled creatures’, African babies with AIDs, Chinese people eating dogs, people pretending to be asylum seekers, people pretending to have ADHD, students taking micky mouse degrees, Greta Thunberg, homeless people (‘fucking horrible’) and the fragile and narcissistic ‘woke’ youth. Which is to say that Gervais just spouts his own political views and relies on the audience agreeing with him to get a round of applause.

Gervais’s portrayal of David Brent in mockumentary The Office (2002) was a work of comic genius. Brent, a hapless white-collar middle manager who desperately wants to be popular, cuts a pathetic but ultimately sympathetic figure. The viewer didn’t so much hate Brent as feel sorry for him; he was an uncalibrated fool but a well meaning one, hence the happy ending written for him in the Christmas Specials that brought the curtain down on the story in 2003. Gervais foolishly resurrected Brent in 2016 for a feature length spin-off, Life on the Road (2016), this time without the grounding influence of his original co-writer on The Office Stephen Merchant. All of a sudden the charm had gone out of the franchise and Brent had morphed into something genuinely tragic and repulsive, trucking in boring jokes about gays and fat people.

Expressing any form of reservation or note of disapproval about anti-woke comedy nowadays is to get oneself marked down as an invertebrate. For those of us who possess a strong enough constitution to sit through jokes that poke fun at the shibboleths of political correctness - provided they are actually funny - retorts like this don’t hold much water. But I’ve come to realise that such humour is increasingly sustained by a section of the audience being reliably ‘offended’ by it and kicking off. How else to keep the lucrative conceit going which says that rich middle aged white men telling rollicking jokes about asylum seekers are heroic truth-tellers saying the unsayable? These days Gervais’s adoring fanbase seem more enthusiastic at the prospect of upsetting their political opponents than about the material itself. And who could blame them: most of the jokes in Armageddon are hackneyed and stale - ‘Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I’m a pair of curtains’; ‘You are then’. Heady stuff that is indeed guaranteed to ‘annoy all the right people’.

Netflix describes Armageddon as ‘controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity’. Yet those on the receiving end of Gervais’s barbs are hardly considered off limits by the wider culture: illegal immigrants, the homeless and transgender people are all regularly subjected to invective from government politicians and Britain’s overwhelmingly right-wing media. By all means make an off-colour joke about those groups if you wish: I’m a big boy and I know how to use the remote control. But you won’t convince me that publicly flogging these tabloid bête noires makes one a gutsy truth teller. It’s true that a disability charity condemned Armageddon before it was released on Christmas Day for a joke Gervais makes about terminally ill children. But it’s also true that Gervais is still on Netflix telling the joke, which perhaps gives a good indication of just how risqué this style of humour really is.

One of the biggest cheers from the audience during Gervais’s performance in Armageddon erupts in response to a fatuous joke about mobs pulling down statues originally put up to honour slave traders - another example of woke hypocrisy apparently. ‘He was a slave trader, pull down the fucking statue.’ ‘He built the hospital, should we pull that down too?’ ‘No, leave the hospital’. It’s certainly true that wealthy people have historically (and not just historically) tried to launder their reputations through philanthropy (and on this note Gervais enjoys boasting about how wealthy he is and how much money he donates to animals, who he prefers to humans). But you needn’t take a course in critical race theory to recognise that those who became uncontrollably rich from the slave trade might have set aside some of their tainted money for similar ends. ‘Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,’ wrote the Dutch physician Bernard de Mandeville in The Fable of the Bees, his eighteenth century polemic against philanthropic hypocrisy.

It isn’t for me to tell a comedian who the ‘correct’ target of his humour ought to be - comedy is subjective after all. But then Gervais’s current shtick is of a piece with right-wing populism more generally, characterised as it is by a servility to the very power it ostensibly rails against. I’m no more required to accept Gervais’s assessment of himself as a brave heretic saying the unsayable than I am obliged to join in with the hysterical blue pencil-wielding critics who really do want to see him cancelled. As to who is currently coming out on top, Armageddon is apparently the highest grossing single stand-up performance ever, bringing in £1,410,000 for a recent show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Cancel culture indeed.

At one time conservatives and reactionaries would doggedly stand athwart history yelling Stop. Nowadays they need constant reassurance that they are still the plucky countercultural underdogs they imagined themselves to be in the halcyon days of their youth. Which is understandable I suppose. Nobody wants to be the angry young man whose waistband has inexorably expanded along with his list of blimpish grievances. ‘I think I am woke, but I think that word has changed,’ says Gervais. In other words it’s not him, it’s us. ‘No-one likes a white middle aged man anymore,’ laments Gervais at another point in the show. I’ve heard that one before too.

I used to enjoy Ricky Gervais but when I think of him today I always imagine some braying face demanding to know how ‘triggered’ I am by something puerile he’s said. This ‘type’ is seemingly ubiquitous at the moment: everything is geared toward getting a rise out of the libs and sticking it to the man in a way that doesn’t threaten one’s status as a servant of power (am I still allowed to say “man”? hehe - you get the gist).

The role of humour according to Gervais is ‘to laugh at bad shit to get us through it’. Which isn’t a terrible definition, though I suppose it depends on what one considers the ‘bad shit’ to be. I found much of the material in Armageddon indistinguishable from the endless bleating we hear in some quarters about the country going to the dawgs because of foreigners and queers and the young with their trendy ailments and political correctness et cetera. I can’t say I feel hysterical or offended by jokes about that stuff - soporific is more the word that springs to mind. Perhaps I should just be grateful that Gervais didn’t make an ‘Orange man bad’ joke. Maybe he’s saving those gags for his next Netflix Special when Donald Trump is President of the United States again. Important to laugh at the truly bad shit first though right.

[dresden-syndrome]

Political offender classification: Class 2

“Class 2 offense is a societally harmful act which undermines the authority of the East European Socialist Union government and its social and political order.”

“Class 2 offenders are potentially dangerous elements committing stated crimes with a possible deliberate anti-socialist intent.”

Rules: 

Can be applied to minors aged 16 and older

Used for most class 1 offenses during martial law 

Used for class 1 repeat offenders 

May be used for class 3 offenses when the state/region is in a great need of agricultural labor

Mostly used in peacetime

Offenses: 

Non-reporting on class 4 crimes

Contribution to class 3 crimes

Illegal country border crossing to an ally state*

Verbal anti-government propaganda in peacetime 

Personal acts of economical sabotage 

Unapproved foreign (Western) media possession

Showing support to enemy states or regimes 

Unregistered media broadcasting device possession**

Unregistered foreign property possession 

Leaking or disclosure of confidential information 

Penalties: 

Limitations on certain jobs, ranks and positions

Demotion from Party member to Party candidate

Termination from the Party (in more severe cases)

Forced resettlement to remote areas with corrective labor for up to a few years 

Deportation to labor communes for up to 10 years 

Protection status: 

All remaining constitutional rights legally and actually protected (may experience discrimination)

Further restrictions: 

Not allowed to get certain jobs or ranks 

Not allowed to be registered within EESU capital, region capitals and biggest cities (usually from 3 to 20 years after release)

Political literacy courses after resettlement or release from the commune

Life prospects: 

Back to freedom after detention or release from the commune

Back to life in a remote town/settlement after serving penalty 

Job, movement and travel prospects reduced

More often become political crime suspects later in life; may be arrested as class 3-4 while in labor commune or resettlement 

Rehabilitation possibility: 

Rehabilitated with a political criminal record after finishing courses

May be fully rehabilitated with charges dropped and rights restored for labor or political achievements

Party membership can be restored (usually a difficult process) 

Class promotion/demotion possibility: 

Promotion to class 1 for labor achievements and political loyalty 

Demotion to class 3 if aggravating circumstances are found during investigation/detention 

Demotion to class 3 if escaped from the labor commune

Prisoner use methods: 

Cheap unskilled labor within their commune or resettlement place 

Cheap labor in the offender’s skill field within their commune or resettlement place 

May be used as voluntary unofficial informers 

May be used in SSR*** for important projects 

Legal documentation: 

ID card stamped with a political criminal record mark

*Ally states (by 1960): USSR, Yugoslavia, China, North Korea. Yugoslavia is the most common EESU escape route aside from West Germany.

**TVs and radios, including DIY radio stations. Must be analyzed and approved by the government before purchase.

***Strategic Scientific Reserve (Science Division).

Picture: Ştefana Rusu and Ana-Maria Antonescu on the field work in a small labor commune. PUR Romania, 1965.

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Lore dump tag: @sweet-lost-husbands @whumpingandsmilinglikeanidiot

#not really whump again #whump #whump community #whumpblr #historical whump #totalitarian whump #whump art #whumpee #whump ideas #whump stuff

[eretzyisrael]

Many major Western newspapers, magazines and broadcast media never hesitate to malign Israel on big issues—like how Israel is “mishandling” a war against terrorists in Gaza, how it is “illegally” building communities in Judea and Samaria, or how it is “threatening democracy” by reforming its broken judicial system. But equally harmful is the daily drumbeat of less obvious lies and innuendo embedded in the majority of reporting on Israel in such media as the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and the Associated Press (AP).

The biggest reason for falsehoods is “anti-Israel newsroom culture.” Some media, like the Times and AP are serial offenders. They publish falsehoods and biased analysis reflexively, while their management does nothing to stop it. Other media are guilty of errors through ignorance: Reporters offer “facts” they believe are true without checking them, and fact-checkers in busy, under-funded newsrooms are often non-existent.

In either case—politicized bias or outright ignorance—such a steady flood of anti-Israel reporting and analysis at major media amounts, at best, to journalistic malfeasance and at worst, to antisemitic hate speech.

Certain media outlets are just blatantly biased against Israel, period. A study conducted by noted Israeli journalist Lilac Sigan, for example, revealed that over the course of the last year and a half, the Times’ coverage of Israel was largely negative. For instance, out of the 148 articles the Times published about Israel in the first quarter of 2023, 67% were negative, while only 4.7% were positive. The remaining 28.3% were neutral.

Matti Friedman, a former AP writer, outlined his former employer’s anti-Israel culture in a 2014 essay. He wrote that when he and another reporter proposed to do a story on Palestinian corruption, his bureau chief told him this was “not the story,” even though AP covered Israeli corruption at length. Friedman also compiled 27 articles on the “moral failings of Israeli society” between Nov. 8 and Dec. 16, 2011, and noted that this seven-week tally of articles was higher than all stories significantly critical of Palestinian government and society published by his bureau in the preceding three years.

During the fighting in Gaza in 2008 and 2009, Friedman was forced to erase a significant detail from AP’s coverage—the fact Hamas fighters dressed as civilians were counted as part of the civilian death toll. He did this because of a threat to AP’s reporter in Gaza. He also noted that it was AP’s policy “ not to inform readers that the story is censored unless the censorship is Israeli.”

#media bias #israel

[anarchotahdigism]

"

Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew late Sunday in an effort to regain control of the streets after a huge popular uprising over the weekend saw armed fighters storm the country’s two biggest prisons.

The 72-hour state of emergency took effect immediately. The government said it would set out to find the escapees from prison. “The police were ordered to use all legal means at their disposal to enforce the curfew and apprehend all offenders,” said a statement from Finance Minister Patrick Boivert, acting prime minister.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry traveled abroad last week to try to salvage international bourgeois support for bringing in a US-backed security force to pacify the country in its conflict with increasingly militant organizations countrywide." ... "But the siege Saturday night of the National Penitentiary came as a shock even to Haitians accustomed to living under the constant pressure due to colonial misrule. Almost all of the estimated 4,000 inmates fled in the jailbreak, leaving the usually criminally overcrowded facility empty Sunday with no prison guards in sight and plastic sandals, clothing and furniture strewn across the concrete patio. Three bodies with gunshot wounds lay at the prison entrance." ... "Among the few dozen who chose to stay in the prison are 18 former Colombian soldiers accused of working as mercenaries in the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Amid the clashes Saturday night, several of the Colombians shared a video pleading for their lives.

'Please, please help us,” one of the men, Francisco Uribe, said in the message widely shared on social media. “They are massacring people indiscriminately inside the cells.' " .... "A second Port-au-Prince prison containing about 1,400 inmates was also overrun. Gunmen also occupied the nation’s top soccer stadium in a highly symbolic display of defiance Internet service for many residents was down as Haiti’s top mobile network said a fiber-optic cable connection was slashed during the rebellion." .. "The rebellion is significant since the president, who is US-backed and unelected, has been organizing an international occupation force to impose its will on the country. There has been no notable progress on social issues, economic issues, or reparations for US and French destruction of the country.

The violence must be understood in this context."

#ftp #fire to the prisons #fuck the poilce #acab #free them all #prison abolition #anticapitalism #anarchism #antifascism #haiti #free haiti

[beardedmrbean]

Armed gangs have tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites.

An explosion of violence has taken place in the country, including a mass escape from the country’s prisons.

The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site.

It is the biggest attack on the airport in Haiti’s history.

Last week, the airport was struck briefly by bullets amid ongoing gang attacks, but gangs did not enter the airport nor seize control of it.

The attack occurred just hours after authorities in Haiti ordered a night-time curfew following violence in which armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend.

A 72-hour state of emergency began on Sunday night. The government said it would try to track down the escaped inmates, including from a penitentiary were the vast majority were in pre-trial detention, with some accused of killings, kidnappings and other crimes.

“The police were ordered to use all legal means at their disposal to enforce the curfew and apprehend all offenders,” said a statement from finance minister Patrick Boivert, the acting prime minister.

Gangs already were estimated to control up to 80% of the capital Port-au-Prince. They are increasingly co-ordinating their actions and choosing once unthinkable targets such as the Central Bank.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry travelled abroad last week to try to salvage support for a United Nations-backed security force to help stabilise Haiti in its conflict with the increasingly powerful crime groups.

Haiti’s National Police has roughly 9,000 officers to provide security for more than 11 million people, according to the UN. They are routinely overwhelmed and outgunned.

The deadly weekend marked a new low in Haiti’s downwards spiral of violence. At least nine people had been killed since Thursday - four of them police officers - as gangs stepped up co-ordinated attacks on state institutions in Port-au-Prince, including the national football stadium.

But the attack on the National Penitentiary late Saturday shocked Haitians who are accustomed to living under the constant threat of violence.

Almost all of the estimated 4,000 inmates escaped. Three bodies with gunshot wounds lay at the prison entrance on Sunday.

Among the few dozen people who chose to stay in prison are 18 former Colombian soldiers accused of working as mercenaries in the July 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise.

“Please, please help us,” one of the men, Francisco Uribe, said in a message widely shared on social media. “They are massacring people indiscriminately inside the cells.”

Colombia’s foreign ministry has called on Haiti to provide “special protection” for the men.

A second Port-au-Prince prison containing around 1,400 inmates was also overrun.

Gunfire was reported in several neighbourhoods in the capital. Internet service for many residents was down as Haiti’s top mobile network said a cable connection was slashed during the rampage.

After gangs opened fire at Haiti’s international airport last week, the US embassy said it was halting all official travel to the country. On Sunday night, it urged all American citizens to depart as soon as possible.

The Biden administration, which has refused to commit troops to any multinational force for Haiti while offering money and logistical support, said it was monitoring the rapidly deteriorating security situation with grave concern.

The surge in attacks follows violent protests that turned deadlier in recent days as the prime minister went to Kenya seeking to move ahead on the proposed UN-backed security mission to be led by that East African country.

Jimmy Cherizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue who now runs a gang federation, has claimed responsibility for the surge in attacks. He said the goal is to capture Haiti’s police chief and government ministers and prevent Mr Henry’s return.

The prime minister, a neurosurgeon, has shrugged off calls for him to resign and did not comment when asked if he felt it was safe to come home.

Why is there violence in Haiti?

Some of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders say their goal is bringing down Henry.

The country has failed to hold parliamentary and general elections in recent years and there are no elected officials. Henry was sworn in as prime minister with the backing of the international community after the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The latest round of attacks began in February after Henry pledged to hold long-awaited general elections by mid-2025.

A map of Port-au-Prince in Haiti

Henry’s whereabouts were not public Monday. When asked in Kenya if it was safe for him to return to Haiti, Henry shrugged.

Who is responsible for the violence?

Jimmy Chirizier, a former elite police officer known as “Barbecue” who is considered one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders, announced as gunmen began to attack infrastructure that he would try and capture the country’s police chief and government ministers.

Four police officers were killed when their stations came under siege.

Cherizier said last summer that he would fight any international armed force if they committed abuses, and he urged Haitians to mobilize against the government.

Other gang leaders also appear to be involved in recent attacks.

Johnson Andrï best known as “Izo” and leader of the 5 Seconds gang, appears in a video posted on TikTok wielding a heavy mallet in his right hand as he pretends to punch his face with his left hand.

Izo’s gang is considered an ally of G-Pep, archenemy of Barbecue’s gang federation, but alliances have been shifting in recent days.

A report released last month by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime found that “for the gangs, the development of alliances is a fluid phenomenon.”

It also noted how “only the most powerful gangs — such as Izo’s or Chïrizier’s — are usually able to operate or profiteer outside their fiefdoms.”

Barbecue is leader of a gang federation known as G9 Family and Allies, and he has previously launched powerful attacks that have crippled the country. In late 2022, he seized control of an area surrounding a key fuel terminal in the capital of Port-au-Prince for almost two months.

Why have the gangs become so powerful?

An estimated 200 gangs exist in Haiti, with 23 main ones believed to be operating in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.

Up until recent years, they controlled some 60% of the capital, a number that has since grown to 80%, according to U.N. officials.

Smuggled firearms and ransom payments to kidnappers have allowed gangs to become more financially independent. That has increased their power as the state has weakened, and an underfunded and under-resourced police department has been unable to contain them.

“Present-day gangs enjoy a much higher degree of military capacity than those a decade ago,” according to the Global Initiative report. “This has largely been driven by the gangs’ ability to acquire high-caliber weapons.”

A 2023 U.N. report stated that recovered weapons destined for Haitian ports include “.50 caliber sniper rifles, .308 rifles, and even belt-fed machine guns.”

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[mr-clow]

Ensemble 1: Humanity conveys. Part 2:

Two months passed since I had killed an entire envoy sent from earth. It pained me deeply, as many of them had been my mentors in the past. After that, I took the time to make a public ceremony where I knighted Duarte and broadcasted the videos of the meeting with the envoys and the videos of the Spec-Ops that tried to infiltrate the station. Earth tried to block these transmissions, but different media corporations found it more juicy to transmit them openly. One week later, earth was in a civil war against the government and it was still going. I had no intentions to meddle in that, only sending them broadcast and morals support assured me the victory, as no government could go against its own planet.

In the meantime, the activities in the moon station had gone haywire. Humans started to flock to this station, leaving everything behind just to see me and to accept my command unconditionally. Initially this station was made for thirty million souls but with all the refugees, when I arrived it was already housing ten million more. When ships started to jump near only to offer themselves to me, the forty million jumped to a hundred million in a week and this was a logistic nightmare. Over that, delegates from the Sanari and KalHal wanted to meet me in two weeks and people could barely fit inside the station, let alone a whole political envoy.

Carlos was doing an amazingly good job with his team, not only doing the propaganda for my cause but distribution information inside the station. While Duarte had expanded the forces under his command by a tenth fold and even like that they were totally saturated keeping the people safe from themselves. Amidst all this chaos, while trying to set up and organize the forces that were filling my ranks, a small female KalHal, that came with the crew of a military juggernaut and my biggest military asset till the moment. She presented herself through her captain and blatantly told me she had the solution for all my logistics and overpopulation problems.

Boudica – Captain Schäffer, I don’t want to offend you or your crew, but I barely have time to hear a soldier from an exchange program, barely of age, saying things like this right now.

Schäffer - No offence taken your majesty, you would only disappoint us and the hundred million that depend on your decisions right now.

Boudica – I will let that comment slide, you are free to leave.

Mouriette – Give me two weeks or take my life. I won’t be useful on the field, but my strongest point is solving the issue that is consuming you, blood imperatrix.

I hadn’t heard anything else than human common for years. Suddenly hearing my translation unit spring to life to translate that phrase, coming from the only specie that were able to fully speak human language, made my brain stop in its tracks.

Boudica – Schäffer, guards, every one out. You stay here, Mouriette.

The others slowly remove themselves from the room, and Mouriette tightened her tail around the chair nervously. KalHals torso were small compared to humans, but this one in front of me could have passed for a 10-year-old girl if it weren’t for the two-meter tail she had. I didn’t like watching her, it hurt. As soon as the door closed, I threw my desk to the other side of the room, walked to her and place my face in front of hers until I smelled the sea breeze from her breath. She was scared to death, her eyes closed and her thin arms bracing herself, but she did not turn her head even there.

Mouriette - Two weeks, in two weeks this place will be the most functional station left n the system. No over population, no food shortages, all of us will walk without stepping on each other. If you plan to kill me, what do you have to lose, only two weeks my blood imperatrix.

Boudica – I could kill you right now just for how you are addressing me, why should I wait two more weeks, girl.

Mouriette – You could not solve this issue until now, and in two weeks you will have the first formal contact with other delegates while earth is boiling in trouble. You should be handling military affairs, alliances, strategies, not food rations. And I don’t mean to disrespect you, for me the term blood imperatrix holds an honorific value as in KalHal history only once with had an imperatrix that conquered the world.

Boudica – Two weeks or your head. Done.

I took a data pad from the floor, wrote a draft for the two-week contract and made her signed. She did not relax at any moment and after signing I dismissed her and she ran away from the office. I sent her a copy and informed all the officials, captains, and merchants that had started working for me since I took the power.

The Sanarin and KalHal envoys arrived together, there wasn’t too much fanfare for them, but I wait for them in the docks, with a selected few and heavy armed forces. The Sanarin delegate looked magnificent, a white fur covered her body and she used robes that made me recall Ancient Egypt stories. Her feline features made her look surrounded by a coat of mystery, but I knew it was the effect of the astounding agility her species had. We met eye to eye, which was strange given that Sanarin usually were around a meter and a half tall. She quickly dismissed the rest of the formal envoy and greeted me with a reverence, which I returned as it was their customs.  On the other dock, the KalHal envoy with two companions dragged over they long tails until we were standing in front of each other. Their clothes resembled some kind of divers suit, with the sides of their rib cage open to the air to allow them to breathe more easily. Their heads had something similar to braided hair, but it really were long strands of skin they used to feel the water currents. We shared hand shakes and changed names, then we proceed to walk over to the throne room.

As we walked, I commented how the first days of my rise to power had been, I praised the KalHals as I explained that a girl from their species had solved several logistic and over population issues within days. As the delegates from the KalHals were speaking about their education system, I heard footsteps running toward us. The guards lifted their weapons, but it was Carlos who turned the corner and he stopped right before reaching me and grabbed my hands. I was ready to hit him into obedience when he started speaking.

Carlos – The earth, the earth, your majesty!

Boudica – The earth, what? Think before you speak!

Carlos – The earth is yours, the revolt ended, and the provisional government is waiting for your command. You won Boudica!

I could not show any reaction for a few seconds, I couldn’t believe it. Then I correct myself and turned around to face the delegates.

Boudica – I’m sorry to interrupt our meeting, but something that I cannot ignore has come up. Would you be so gracious to wait for me until I can reschedule our meeting?

#humans are deathworlders #humans are weird #earth is a deathworld #humans are space orcs #humans are space aussies #The bloody imperatrix

[dressedupforcarnival]

Monster : the jeffrey dahmer story

Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer, cannibal, pedophile and sex offender. he killed 17 people, including underage boys. he ate them. most of his victims were black. Back then, there weren't as many cameras, there weren't people's stories online to quickly check, and again, the biggest problem was 'racism' in abundance. If u ask me, he specifically chose black people, because he knew the attitude of the police and the government towards them. Jeffrey grew up in an unstable, chaotic family, where his parents fought 24 hours a day. He received no love, no attention, no care. In my opinion, the parents contributed greatly to making him so inhuman. In the series, everything is described very well and in detail, moreover, the cast is chosen precisely. Evan Peters completely nailed this role and i must say that, he’s already a professional and established actor. he should have a lot of awards because deserves it. hope Evan isn’t mentally damaged, after that. i’d like to mention here, that Ryan Murphy was involved in this series, who once again proved to us that he’s a professional. he knows exactly what Evan is capable of, having watched him for many years in American Horror Story. i also want to mention Niecy Nash, who does a great job in her role. Jeffrey Dahmer was a real monster, a heartless and inanimate monster.

NO EVIL, NO SICK, HE WAS MONSTER!

#evan peters #dahmer netflix #monster the jeffrey dahmer story #jeffreydahmer

[k-s-morgan]

hello katrin, i really love you and your blog and my biggest wish is that you are safe. I really don't understand why the world is removing it from the agenda after a while, even though the war continues. They are doing the same in East Turkestan. I'm from Turkiye, but even Turkiye ignores this problem and I can't really understand it. What kind of place is the world and what kind of justice system does it have? I'm really sorry if I upset or disturbed you. if we ignore the bad stuff. I must say I am in love with your new tomarry fiction. and if it's safe and available, any chance you could share a little snippet with us? I don't want to force or disturb you. take care and stay safe

Hello! Thank you so much for your frustration and your care, it means a lot to me! An emotional and human part of me agrees with every word you said: it's horrific that the whole world can watch a genocide happen online and do practically nothing. Sure, support and weapons are good, but the thing is, they could stop it. The world could stop what is happening in a few days - they could stop the meaningless death and the torture, the destruction and the despair of millions. But they don't.

A more cynical part of me tells me to suck it up, though. Because the world has always been cruel and unfair. So many wars happened, and the governments, people with power didn't react. They benefited from it. When the US or even the same Russia invaded other countries, I can't say I cared very much. It was just some stories I occasionally heard, shook my head at angrily, and then forgot as I continued with my life. I can't blame people for doing the same.

Still, it is upsetting, and it breaks my heart and my sanity sometimes.

Thank you again for being so lovely. And sure, here's a snippet! It might be a bit rough, I didn't edit it. Also, here are the other snippets - not sure if you saw them: 1 and 2.

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Riddle didn’t try to attack him again, but his stare was deadly. His magic formed dangerous circles around him, vibrating with the barely suppressed need to lash out. He was the embodiment of fury, and it was so hypocritical that Harry shook his head in amazement.

“Are you completely unable to look at the situation in reverse?” he wondered. His throat still hurt, so he rubbed it carefully. “What if I tried to kill you? Something’s telling me that you would have retaliated much more drastically. So why does me fighting back offend you?”

It seemed so simple and clear to Harry. Riddle was terrified of death — his obsessive collection of war-related clippings confirmed it. However, he eagerly brought death to others, not stopping for a moment to think that maybe they didn’t want to die, too.

He craved respect but he didn’t respect anyone. He thrived on the system of humiliation he had built in Slytherin. How could this be? How could someone fear something and then inflict the thing that scared them on others with no qualms? Worse, with satisfaction?

“I’m unable to look at the situation in reverse because I could have never been in your position,” Riddle hissed. He sounded livid — and was it English or Parseltongue? “I’m not stupid enough to let someone lure me into an impenetrable room and approach me from behind. I’m not stupid enough to let someone catch me off guard and attack me.”

Disbelief stirred inside. Harry shook his head again as even more confusion flooded him. How could Riddle miss the point so completely?

“It’s not about the specific details,” he snapped, impatient. “It’s about emotions. I tried to help you; I trusted your invitation to talk, and you used it against me. You nearly killed me. Now you’re angry that I pushed back? You’re unbelievable!”

#my fics #personal #tomarry #ukraine #russia is a terrorist state

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Mongolia, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#mongolia #asia #country polls #polls

[indigostudies]

23, 34, 49

23: Favorite blog in your target language(s)?

i really like @liu-anhuaming and @zhuzhudushu 's blogs! there's tons of other great blogs though, these are just the ones i can think of at the moment :)

34: How has learning languages impacted your life?

yeah! my uni studies are directly due to my interest in languages! in the past, i thought i'd go to uni for business, since i thought that would be the most financially sensible thing to do (you can get high paying jobs fairly early on), but then i realised that a lot of the languages i speak or want to study are considered critical languages by the government, which means there's a number of fairly sizeable scholarships for them—which is great for me, because it means i can basically entirely focus on the things i'm actually passionate about! studying chinese in particular has really impacted my life because i used to feel really depressed about the fact that i could feel myself losing proficiency even thought i grew up speaking it as a native language, so being able not to only halt that, but actually improve in my reading and writing beyond what i was able to learn as a kid has been really personally empowering and affirming for me. also, it's opened up a lot of opportunities for me! i'm part of a federal programme that means i get personal tutoring and will spend my final year of undergrad studying and living in china, like i've wanted to for years, and my improving chinese has allowed me to read a bunch of webnovels that i'm really enjoying that i couldn't before due to a lack of translations (the lack of translations for chinese gl novels is absolutely criminal, especially when there's so many fascinating concepts! i get that they're not as profitable as chinese bl, but still.....)

49: Do you have any language pet peeves?

i typed up a whole paragraph here before i realised i don't want discourse on this blog lol. the tl;dr is my biggest pet peeve is (usually english native) monolinguals getting offended about people making the "wrong" suggestions for language learning because it's not how they, personally, are learning a language. also, more specific to chinese, when i was growing up my teachers would tell me to stop using erhua because it was uncultured (i picked it up from my friend's grandmother, who's a northerner). since i've grown up, i've made the conscious decision to start using erhua when i speak more regularly, though it does cause unintentional confusion for people sometimes because i otherwise have a shanghainese accent.

#thanks for the ask! #inbox #games #indigo ink

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Oh man, when will left leaning states stop trying to be European countries? Let's open with some simple comparisons: Norway's population is about is about 5.4 million while California's population is 39.24 million. Norway's prison population is about 2,923 (53 per 100,000 people), this includes pretrial confinement and remanded prisoners. California's prison population is about 97,327 (549 per 100,000), that is only prisoners held under the jurisdiction of the State of California correctional authorities. Add to that 83,460 held in the states 114 jails, and 183,334 supervised under the states California community correction system and another 110,349 actively on parole and the number looks more like 474,470, or 20k more people than the population of Long Beach CA. So when CA officials go to Norway looking for answers they are actually going on a state funded vacation because nothing they find in Norway will ever translate into reality in CA or anyplace else in the US. First and foremost, we do not have a European mentality here, having lived all over Europe one of the biggest difference is how we approach issues. In Norway's case (I did not live there) they have a small population, most of the population has bought into the idea of rehabilitation and they support it. The prisoners have bought in to rehabilitation also and embrace it. This makes Norway's recidivism rate very low and those who reform reenter their communities and become productive members, this dynamic is not shared in California or just about anyplace else in the US. Quite the contrary is happening in California. California is one of several states that doesn't release annual recidivism rates. Those numbers have not been produced since the 2017/2018 years. This is done despite numerous records requests by media outlets in the State. California's own population is not sold on prison inmates being reformed so CA government is forcing it on the population making them more resistant to the idea, that is in direct contrast to how Norway did it. California thinks its better to let offenders back on the streets as fast as possible (Pro 47) to reoffend with impunity rather than keeping them off the streets until trial, protecting the communities from further attacks. Right now CA spends about 100k per year per prisoner, now imagine how receptive the tax payers of CA would be if that bill were increased by 300% to cover the Norway style? I doubt they would be as excited at the states government tax collectors would be. Unless California can get there 39 million people to buy into the Norway plan, unless CA is willing to build hundreds, maybe thousands of small 5 STAR, quite lavish small prisons, and unless CA can soak the CA tax payer for another 300% in the taxes just for the prison system, AND get all the criminal offenders to take and use rehabilitation and not re-enter the prison system, the Norway plan is just a money sponge just like the 2008 9 billion dollar High Speed Rail System that has, today spent 9,8 billion and is estimated to cost up to 128 billion to finish and no track has been laid.

#prison #everyone has to buy in #it cant be forced