Sick of the woke, non conventionally attractive male video game protagonists.
Take Joel from The Last of Us. I’ve used filters to remove his aging skin, DEI chin, woke wrinkles, and greying hair. Now he looks strong, masculine, and attractive.
Me siento raro publicando esto, pero allá va xD
He creado un Ko-fi para aliviar la carga económica de mis proyectos, estilo el setup LAN de Mario Kart Double Dash
Procuraré llevar mis setups a diferentos eventos donde tenga la oportunidad 🫡
https://t.co/39hxomjQTl
In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.
As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.
For example:
1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.
2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.
3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".
4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?
5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.
6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.
7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.
It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.
I'm an Israeli, like those two ('nice') individuals; all three of us grew up with a narrative that paints Gaza—just a few dozen kilometers from our home—not as a place of and for people but as a land of terror, tunnels & extremism, something hopeless to be caged and controlled 🧵
This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.
From “we didn’t b0mb a hospital,” to bragging about murdëring 400 people while destroying a hospital.
We’re seeing in real-time how dehumanisation, the normalisation of war crimes, and genøcides happen.
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
Me acabo de leer el documento entero y es un golpe durísimo para los organizadores de torneos.
Habrá que ver a la hora de la verdad como de ferreos son con todo esto, si lo van a perseguir mucho o qué, pero de entrada da mucho miedo.
Ayer, hoy y siempre, #FuckNintendo.
@osa1_pilardela No es que importe lo que pasara allí hace 3000 años, pero las palabras Palestinos y Filisteos tienen la misma raíz etimológica. Así llamaban aún algunos colonos británicos a los habitantes de la región en el siglo XIX: "Philistines" . Así que, curiosamente, sí hay rastro.
We just uploaded the video for the song "The One who Feasts on Life", from "End of the Road" ("Monster Roadtrip"): https://t.co/VMfCIAWuPO
Of course, we advice avoiding it if you haven't checked "End of the Road" yet!
@Drasleon No havia llegit aquest.
Des de que existeix Vox hi ha més agressions homòfobes i racistes. Com més forta està l'extrema dreta més agressions desfermen. Això és així aquí i en tots els països on ha pujat.
D'això parlo, i no de penes de delictes.
@Drasleon No sé que sols publicar en el teu perfil. No acostumo a entrar twitter. Tampoc intento crear discòrdia. He vist el missatge i he contestat pq frenar el feixisme i la homofòbia és un tema important per mi.
Simplement estava fent campanya electoral.
Fins a les properes eleccions.