I finally know what to put here

I stand with Israel against the depravity and moral abyss of Hamas and their supporters and I do so proudly.

Hate me, abuse me, think whatever the fuck you like of me. Your boos mean nothing. I have seen what makes you cheer.

fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun

i meant road. road to success

Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun

Honestly I can tell you finding out art was made by AI really does immediately, legitimately sour it for me, like people will trot this out as a Gotcha for anti-AI people but it's just making it clear they don't consider art to be the conversation that it is lol. It's similar to the way Harry Potter immediately soured for me because engaging with it while knowing the kind of heart Rowling is writing from changes the way the work feels; there isn't any moralizing or whatever that I have to do, it's easy to drop it because it's rotted in my hands.

"Oh but you LIKED this song before, nothing changed!" The conversational partner did. A very large portion of what is interesting to me about art is thinking of why the creator chose that instrumentation, or what made them want to make the thing in the first place. Finding out I've been talking to a wall completely removes an entire third of the force that art is to me, and I can't argue that anything about art or its consumption is Objectively Correct but I can argue it's fucking boring lmao

It’s been crazy to me that people haven’t figured out that ceasefire and the return of the hostages are very connected events. It’s why Israelis are protesting Bibi, they want the ceasefire to stay to get the hostages back. It’s been pretty clear from most of the polling in Israel that the majority of the people want to stop fighting if they can get all their people back. So seeing all these people yelling ceasefire now while demonizing those who are advocating for the hostages, ripping down posters and genuinely making disgusting remarks on them really makes me question if they want a ceasefire.

They don't. I'm seeing some of them mocking Gazans who are protesting Hamas. Talk about blood boiling. Those Gazans have more courage in their little toes than these leftists will have in their entire bodies in their whole lives.

OP, there is a third Arabic variant of the phrase which more or less translates to "From river to the sea Palestine will be free" and your omission of it here doesn't look great given that finding this information is effortless.

min an-nahr ʾilā l-baḥr / Filasṭīn sa-tataḥarrar

من النهر إلى البحر / فلسطين ستتحرر

Like, it is extremely easy for you to claim that there are only two Arabic variations of the phrase but it is also effortless to demonstrate that this is in fact not the case and there in fact is a third variant. Pretending that only two bad genocidal variants of the phrase exist in Arabic very much has the appearance of trying to weaponize anti-Arab sentiment and islamophobia.

I'm aware that that version exists. And I didn't claim that those two versions are the only ones, but pointing out that the third version isn't the only one. And knowing that they exist put that third version into a rather distinct context, don't you think?

And spare me on the "weaponize anti-Arab sentiment and Islamophobia". I am pointing explicitly at Hamas, and their supporters and useful idiots, who like to chant that slogan along with "Globalize the Intifada!" which rather gives the lie to it being a peaceful freedom? Or should we take a look at what the Intifada looked like?

And "Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahud! Jaish Muhammad soufa yaʿoud!" خيبر خيبر يا يهود جيش محمد سوف يعود; lit. 'Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!' which references the battle of Khaybar in 628 CE, where Muhammad conquered a Jewish community.

So yeah, when "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!" is chanted alongside other slogans that call for terrorism, Jewish subjugation, and ethnic cleansing, yeah, I somehow doubt that the one slogan that isn't explicitly textually genocidal is the exception when it comes to intent, and showing the context it comes from is important. I apologize for not writing out a whole dissertation so that you could accuse me of being a bigot on threadbare evidence.

Just an addition to this post that occurred to me the other day.

In essence, yes, you can say that "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!" is not a call to genocide, and that "Intifada" simply means "Shaking Off" (looking at you, Medhi Hasan)...

But by that same metric, then "Eugenics" just means "Good Genes", and Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just a "special military operation", and people who claim to be concerned about "States Rights" are actually only concerned with overreach by the US federal government.

And in the same way, Mein Kampf "just means" My Struggle.

Sure, Jan.

And I'm sure the Islamist terrorists and their supporters who have made Mein Kampf a best seller in Arabic are just thinking about Hitler's "struggle", and not about his actual WORDS when he laid out his plan to slaughter all the Jews.

Don't piss on my foot and tell me it's raining.

Not to mention this, but you can plainly see it in Arabic articles on Wikipedia where Holocaust denialism is clear, which means that for anyone who doesn't speak English, the most comprehensive data on the Holocaust that they're liable to even glance at, is nothing more than antisemitic canard.

The word Holocaust is mentioned a grand total of 9 times. The rest of the article focuses on Hitler's family, lmao. There is not even a "Holocaust" section in this article, while there is very clearly one in English.

So yea, you can claim "it just means Palestine will be free," the same way you can claim there's no historical revisionism in major Arabic sources about WW2, even though the word "genocide" is used a grand total of twice and not even in the first paragraph blurb. Compared to the English article, where it's used 7 times, however during each of those times it is then followed by a very clear and comprehensive explanation into what was actually being done (the mass organized murder of 6 million Jews and who was responsible for it) - again, not present in the Arabic version.

Consider when packaged together by people claiming Israel ought to be eradicated and regurgitating literal al-Husseini rhetoric about Arabizing Israel during his Best Friend meetings with Adolf Hitler, and considering the quote exists in two other forms with the pan-Arab sentiments clearly in tact, don't turn around and bitch that nobody trusts you.

Especially when you fuckers are out there calling for globalized intifada. Instead of being a shill for Husseini, why don't you ever spend any time educating people on the multiple pan-Arab versions of this quote (and those who freely and proudly spew them) and condemning that? Could it be that you actually don't give a shit, mayhaps?

Color me shocked and stunned. By the way, Hamas was doing the same shit in Haifa that you idiots blame Israel for doing despite clear evidence of white phosphorous shells from Hamas, too. None of you fuckers give a shit about civilian casualties, you are just mask-off antisemites.

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Tumblr user, look at me. Your problems with organized religion are not solved by harassing random religious people on the internet.

you know what all the "B-B-BUT ISRAEL BIG AND HAMAS IS AN ICKLE WIDDLE BABY" arguments remind me of?

That one "toxic boy mom" from tiktok who made a video about how her youngest is a little boy and it's just SoOo different

and she says as an example "He punches his sisters, he kicks them, and I think 'well maybe he's having a hard day'"

"Oh poow baby Hamas only violently took power after a single election and refused to hold any elections afterwards and use women and children as human shields and deliberately try to maximize civilian casualties...but maybe they're just having a hard day 🥺"

Just because he's having a hard day doesn't make it OKAY for him to punch and kick his older sisters. Those girls are being abused, and their mother is enabling it by encouraging her "last little boy" to be violent without consequence.

This is what the "But Hamas is too poor and primitive to have color printers! Those poor ickle babies aren't a REAL government, so they should be able to slaughter as many Jewish infants with their bare hands as they feel like. Antisemitism is bad but what about Hamas' feefees????" sound like.

"You mean you believe that the high ranking Hamas officials who explicitly, openly state over and over that their goal is the extermination of the Jewish people, by any means necessary, and that they consider the blood shed by their own refusal to protect their women and children to be a wonderful thing because it accelerates their explicitly, repeatedly, openly stated goal to exterminate the Jews from the planet are violent antisemites who don't care about their own civilians? Sounds to me like you're an Islamophobe; only an anti-arab racist would believe adult humans mean the words they repeatedly say in public, over and over, as loudly and often as possible"

(I actually think it's much more Islamophobic to treat Hamas like incompetent children who couldn't possibly do any real damage. It's also a sickening insult to the memory of every single Palestinian who has lost their life due to Hamas' overt, relentless, sadistic cruelty, but we all know hamasniks don't actually give a shit about the loss of Palestinian life due to senseless and horrific acts of militarized violence, they're just thrilled they can say "zios" in public now.)

Yiddish curse:

May all your teeth fall except for one, so that it can hurt

idk how to explain this but every time i hear a Yiddish curse it sounds like a middle-eastern curse that was raised in europe.

which i suppose is kinda what it is

thats literally exactly what it is

Being unhinged feels good but being able to look back and still see yourself as a good person feels better

Remember, don't leave your books open and unattended or the shaedim will learn secrets best kept from them

If you're up to it, would you be willing to explain what shaedim are? From what I can see from Google, they're like spirits maybe demons, but not in the Christian sense of always being evil.

In a way, it kind of makes me think of fae folk with the ambiguousness of morality. Or kami.

Demon is probably the closest translation. Definitely associated with misfortune but not necessarily malevolent, though some named shaed like Lilith or Baal are definitely malevolent.

I can't say I'm familiar with any positive associations shaedim have.

But as you say not demons in the Christian sense of being enemies of the divine. They're just sort of one of many perils in the world to be cautious of.

I love you spore space stage voices

The scent of "would you still love me if I was a worm."

Yes, this. A stunning number of people will default to "because it's illegal." Teaching an intro-level bioethics course will demonstrate real fucking fast that a lot of the population just lets legality stand in for morality.