"But there was nothing about the little, low-rambling, more or less identical homes of Northumberland Estates to interest or to haunt, no chance of loot that would be any more than the ordinary, waking-world kind the cops hauled you in for taking; no small immunities, no possibilities for hidden life or otherworldly presence; no trees, secret routes, shortcuts, culverts, thickets that could be made hollow in the middle – everything in the place was right out in the open, everything could be seen at a glance; and behind it, under it, around the corners of its houses and down the safe, gentle curves of its streets, you came back, you kept coming back, to nothing; nothing but the cheerless earth."
Thomas Pynchon, "The Secret Integration"
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as well as allthe ways that it’s just running rhetorical cover for the genocidal murder of the people of gaza, the liberal obsession with “condemming hamas” is so fucking indicative of Mind Palace Politics. like okay all us pro-palestine protestors will Condemn Hamas. we’ll go blockade all of those famous hamas arms factories in our countries, protest our politicians who go on TV saying hamas has the unconditional right to kill as many israelis as it wants, boycott all the multinational companies that work with hamas to help them kill israelis. oh wait whats that? none of those things fucking exist? only israel has those things? well then it seems like ‘condemming hamas’ is pretty fucking pointless innit!
Palestine TV correspondent Salman Al-Bashir throws his press vest and helmet to the ground live on air moments after his colleague Mohammad Abu Hatab was martyred in an IOF airstrike on his home in Khan Younis.
“These are simply symbolic items we wear. They don’t protect any journalist. None of this does. We are simply victims live on air, sacrificing our souls one after the other. We go as martyrs only. It is only a matter of time.
Our colleague Mohammed Abu Hattab was here just half an hour ago before he was martyred with many of his family members.”
Cool and all but I don’t think Raytheon cares there’s blood on their hands. That’s like the whole point of the company.
activists and protesters are not trying to appeal to the [total lack of] morality of corporations like Raytheon; the point of these demonstrations is to draw attention to their cause & disrupt “business as usual”.
i believe in accessibility so ive been trying to keep the tone of my posts entry-level and relatively civil. i can afford this much because im not palestinian so i have some degree of removal. but if you guys saw the state of my inbox, you would understand why refusing to justify, explain or clarify anything might be more dignified. there are almost ten thousand people dead right now. i feel like a lot of people are just not understanding the weight of this. more children have been killed in gaza in the past three weeks than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years. this is so far beyond crime, so far beyond mass murder, that sometimes i think entertaining questions about it at all is complicity in and of itself. in a normal world, the entire global apparatus, every international body, would be falling over itself to stop this. the prospect of so many civilians—and most significantly children—dead is actually the worst-case scenario. it is what international law was created to prevent. i say children specifically not because adult palestinians are not equally valuable, but because this is a war on children. gaza’s population is 50% children. these airstrikes are most lethal on the smallest and most vulnerable bodies. entire buildings are crumbling on kids. they are being murdered in their homes, by their homes.
deliberately. by people with the most advanced military and surveillance technology in the world. by people who know exactly where every single civilian in gaza is. by people who have their phone numbers and send them threatening texts. by people who have drones observing their every movement. by people who are watching them starve, bombing their bakeries, barricading their water. they bring down buildings on children on purpose.
