nagam 🇱🇧

they tried to bury us but didn’t know we were seeds / Hands off Lebanon : Hands off Palestine 🇱🇧🇵🇸

[nagam 🇱🇧 @hbbnags]

Two years later & not one person has been held responsible for the murders (because that’s exactly what they were) that took place during the Beirut blast on 8/4/2020. We will never forgive and we will never forget. Hang them all.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

He faked a dive to get Paredes a second yellow card, knowing he was already on a yellow.

Embolo should only blame himself for that stupid dive.

The referee gave Embolo a second yellow card for simulation, and he was sent off.

[Álex @LxoMessismoFCB]

En el USA - Paraguay ya le sacaron una amarilla por simular a Almirón, es exactamente la misma que hoy a Embolo pero solo hoy se montará un escándalo porque es Argentina https://t.co/ZBRqqEz8Br

[DJ Bien-Aime | NASM CPT @Djbienaime]

#Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair on getting fined for wearing “stop the genocide” on his eye black last week against the Steelers: “It’s bigger than me,” and “it makes people uncomfortable..”

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

The dog, sensing that his owner is about to have a seizure, first makes his owner sit on the floor, then gets water from the cupboard, finds her medicine and gives it to her, then makes his owner lie on the floor.

[John Frascella (Football) @NFLFrascella]

I promise you.

In your lifetime, you will see this Caleb Williams play FIVE THOUSAND times

This is Michael Jordan personified

Kid just keeps delivering all-time plays in the clutch

[Jonathan Slater @slater57649]

These are the people that should get Six figure bonuses

[nagam 🇱🇧 @hbbnags]

BENCH GABRIEL ENOUGHHHHHHHH

[Coop (The Real Justin Cooper) @JJCoop25]

#Browns Rookie RB Quinshon Judkins has certainly made his mark here in Cleveland and Cleveland has made a mark on him.

“I wanna die playing football here in Cleveland and give em everything I got”

[Chad The Dumb Browns Fan @DumbBrownsFann]

Please leave Stefanski in New England…..

#DawgPound

[Global Utopia Sports @GL8BAL_SPORTS]

Myles Garret breaks a 30-plus-year standing record for most sacks before the age of 30 with this sack.
#DawgPound   

[J.J. by the Bay 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @flagg_colonel]

Cleveland needs to call time of death on Joe Flacco and put Gabriel in.

[Mariam Mourad @MariamMourad2]

The terrorist state just bombed the heritage listed Tyre City, The city is recognized by UNESCO for its historical value, making it a critical site for understanding the region's past.
https://t.co/1gyvstBJtR
#IsraelTerroristState #Beirut #لبنان_مقبرةً_للغزاة #الجنوب_الصلب

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David.

It was never going to look how we were expecting. It wasn’t going to show up in its old familiar costume with the bent cross and the tiny mustache, blaming all the problems on the Jews.

It had to look different. If it didn’t look different, we never would have let it in the door.

And that’s still what’s throwing a lot of people off: it looks different. It doesn’t look like what all all the World War II movies and Holocaust novels conditioned us to watch out for. In fact, it looks so different that the victims in the last story have the same religion as the antagonists in the new one.

That old aphorism “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” is true because people don’t tend to make the exact same mistake in the same way twice, but the conditioning which led them to make the first mistake will often lead them to make a second similar one. We’ve all been made far too familiar with the Nazi extermination program to ever consent to Jews being rounded up and loaded onto trains again, but we also didn’t purge from our civilization all the murderousness, hatred and tyranny which made it possible. That’s why this new Holocaust has been allowed to happen.

We’ve all been conditioned to watch out for the next Hitler, but there’s never going to be another Hitler. We’ve been so focused on looking out for the Hitler who never comes that many of us missed when we started singing verses that rhyme with the ones we were hearing in Germany eight decades ago.

People assume what’s happening in Gaza can’t be an actual genocide, because the news media keep assuring everyone that’s not what we’re looking at, and so do the politicians in both parties.

“This can’t possibly be what it looks like,” people say. “If it was, we would have heard about it in the news.”

The villains in this new story don’t look like the villains in the old story, and, if you are a properly indoctrinated westerner, they might not look like villains at all. They might just look like Jews defending themselves from terrorists and western governments rightly defending their dear ally — which is exactly what they should do if they want to prevent another Holocaust!

But it’s that very misperception which is making today’s Holocaust possible. This mass atrocity is being tolerated by huge parts of the population exactly because we see it as intolerable for large numbers of Jews to be killed by those who hate them, not understanding that the people who were killed on October 7 were killed not because of their religion, but because they were part of a settler-colonialist project which is premised on the perpetual abuse of a preexisting indigenous population.

People defend Israel’s actions on the grounds that Israel has reasons for doing things the way it’s doing them. They have to bomb Gaza — they suffered an unprovoked attack from a bunch of evil terrorists. They have to bomb all the hospitals and schools and mosques — that’s where Hamas are hiding. They have to bomb areas that are packed full of children — Hamas are using those children as human shields.

But those who commit mass atrocities always justify their actions. They always have reasons for doing them. They always frame it as a necessary act of self-preservation.

That was always what the next Holocaust was going to look like. It was never going to feature new bad guys who cackle and twist their mustaches saying “Haha, we are evil! Let’s kill a bunch of people because we are evil!” They were always going to frame themselves as the heroes and victims, and the other side as the villains and victimizers. They were always going to offer a bunch of reasons why what they’re doing is actually good and righteous, even though it looks evil on its face.

If we are to prevent genocidal atrocities, we need to be able to recognize what’s happening in real time, and we can’t do that if we’re expecting them to show up in familiar and instantly recognizable packaging. We need to be able to see through the manipulations and justifications in the here and now so we can stop it in its tracks instead of waiting for history to judge it in our rearview mirror after it’s already happened.

This is important to recognize when it comes to saving Gaza, and it’s important to recognize when it comes to preventing the Holocausts of the future as well. They will never look identical to the Holocausts of the past. Their form will be unprecedented, and they will have different justifications for their orchestration. But they will rhyme. And we need to be able to pick up on that as it happens.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

CNN says an IDF soldier has suffered trauma
because he had to run over too many Palestinians
with his D9 armored bulldozer.
Says he can’t eat meat anymore
because he had to drive over so much human meat
(he actually called it “meat”)
and it reminds him of all the blood and guts
and bones and tissue that would come squirting out
when he ran over them.

Poor IDF soldier,
can’t even enjoy a Big Mac anymore,
can’t even bite into a big juicy McGenocide burger,
can’t even masticate a mouthful of gore
without being haunted by visions
of human torsos and skulls spurting guts and brains
as he plowed over them “dead and alive”
in the killing fields of Gaza.
Can’t even enjoy his Children McNuggets
without remembering all the kids he killed,
all the tiny bodies,
shredded bodies,
bulldozed bodies,
body parts packed into the treads of the bulldozer,
getting caught in the works,
having to pull them out by hand because by golly
we need to use it some more tomorrow.

And the CNN man says
So sad! So sad!
A man’s got to have his meat.
Got to bite into it,
feel it dribbling down his chin,
hear it screaming and begging for help,
hear it crying out for its mother one last time
and then nothing but snapping and crunching
and chewing and swallowing
and washing it down with hard liquor
to kill off the feelings in his chest,
the feelings that won’t ever go away,
that pound like mortar fire when he awakens from red dreams
about screaming and spurting and crunching and popping,
and remembers that he used to be an innocent young child
like the tiny red ghosts who haunt his nights.

And we live the McGenocide too, don’t we?
We live it right alongside him here in this crazy country
where we laugh and joke and eat buckets of meat slop
while our government turns humans into bulldozer mince in Gaza.
Grinning Black Hole Sun grins with meat dribbling down our chins
while the sky turns red and the birds turn into Reaper drones,
giggling at our podcasts and getting mad at the Uber Eats driver
for being five minutes late with our next plate full of carnage.

And we have the nightmares too, don’t we?
Waking trembling with terror at what we’ve allowed,
what we’ve helped make possible,
what we tacitly consent to while we distract ourselves
with smartphones and streaming services and porn and gossip
and the ridiculous fake election for America’s next fake president
and plate after plate of bleeding red meat.

Our teeth grow sharper and our hearts grow harder,
and the smoke stacks fill the air with a horrifying stench.
In this genocide town,
this ghost town,
this meat town,
it’s essential to learn how to drown out the feelings
and bark and bray at the blood red moon until dawn
because it beats the hell out of sleeping
and dreaming
and remembering,
remembering what we have done,
and where we are going,
and what we have become,
and what we are still becoming.

[𝒮𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒽 (𝒯𝒶𝓎𝓁𝑜𝓇’𝓈 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃) ❤️‍🔥 @giftedswifted]

People aren’t mourning who Liam Payne became- they’re mourning the boy who was part of their youth, the music that defined a generation, and the memories tied to someone who once meant everything to so many (and that doesn’t take away that he was horrible in the end)

[sharon @tommobehappy]

Sending all my love and prayers to Liam Payne’s family and friends but specially to his mom, Karen. She was always so sweet and proud of him… I can’t imagine how hard this time can be for her. This is devastating. 😞💔

[how did laure get here ໑̣ saw zayn! @zquadrry28x]

the fact that liam payne last social media post is a one direction post, im sobbing 💔

[Jeffrey Kaye @jeff_kaye]

"As Israel escalates in Lebanon, U.S. influence is limited"

Assuming one accepts this (which I don't), then should the U.S. be giving billions in advanced arms to a government or military that the U.S. admits it can't really control? This is madness! https://t.co/se0OtuDDB5