#Complicity

[contemplatingoutlander]

"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."

Attributed to* Albert Einstein * Einstein's actual quote from "Ideas and Opinions" (1954, p. 35):

"The only thing I did was this: in long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity." [emphasis added]

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[pensierisparsiblogastrid]

Te lo dissi piano in un sussurro

Spogliati piano dei tuoi perché

Lascia scivolare a terra ogni

Acerbo pensiero.

Abbandona la tua mente, lascia

Alla mia il potere di percorrerla

Cercando calde emozioni in te.

Lascia che sia lo sguardo

Nei tuoi occhi a raccontarti

Fame e sete di te…

Abbandonati lascia che percorra

Dei tuoi pensieri i desideri.

Che ti spogli lentamente

Che siano gli occhi a spogliarti

A percorrere le linee del tuo corpo

Le Line dolci del tuo viso…

Resta così per un attimo

O per la vita il piacere di avere

Di te la mente prima del tuo corpo.

L’alchimia che ci scorre sotto pelle,

Un veleno dolce in circolo

Il mio amarti, il tuo vivermi

Mille ed infiniti attimi di noi…

Lascia che io sia un peccato

Nel tuo oltre ed altrove

E tra le tue mani, le dita che un

Piano saprà sempre suonare…

Così nell’amore la perdizione… ⛓️🖤

• Cit •

[kropotkindersurprise]

April 11, 2025 - Activists in London dyed the water installation outside the United States embassy red yesterday in protest against US arms sales to Israel. [video]

[cavalierzee]

Keir Starmer: Israel Has The Right To Kill

These so-called leaders keep giving Israel the green light to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

They supply that Rogue state with weapons to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Then they consistently validate that pariah's genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[inter-st]

[wordswithloveee]

[cumaeansibyl]

The Substance

short version: five out of five stars, I had so much fun, for God's sake read the CWs. there are so many needles in this.

further thoughts: I think the viciousness of this movie rests on Elisabeth (Demi Moore) having built her career on promoting the very same unattainable beauty standards that she finds herself in conflict with. It's no coincidence that she's not just an actress, she's a celebrity fitness instructor. Going on TV every morning to tell us all that our bodies aren't good enough. She threw her lot in whole-heartedly with the beauty merchants, she preened and profited, and then she was shocked -- shocked! -- when they inevitably, predictably turned on her.

It's also telling that once she's injected the titular Substance and generated a new, young, beautiful version of herself, what does she do? She goes right back to the same business as before. Being sexier, fitter, more desirable than anyone else. Telling everyone their bodies still aren't good enough. Well, why not? Even her own body wasn't good enough for her anymore.

Coralie Fargeat has zero fucking sympathy for her and I feel the same. Oh, is it hard now? Is it alienating and dehumanizing and humiliating? Did you never bother developing yourself as a person because you were too busy peddling feminine oppression for Dennis Quaid, of all people? Fuck you! Suffer harder! You are complicit!

I would love to know how this lands for conventionally attractive women -- I never put in a sustained effort of this kind because it was made quite clear to me from a young age that the "right" kind of beauty would not be available to me. That comes with its own pain and its own fantasies about a "perfect" version of myself, but I suspect it's a different set.

I also wonder what trans women think of it, because while it's a very cis woman story (in that Elisabeth has always been a conventionally attractive girl and woman) it's also like... about transforming into a more desirable version of yourself, which, come on.

Finally, I feel like there's some disability commentary to be had in here, though that's not a subject I'm well versed in. I did find myself thinking, from time to time, that to many people it would be very tempting to have a body with no pain, a body that always moved easily and performed all its functions with no trouble. Even if only sometimes.

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[missmoissy]

[nando161mando]

MAERSK truck vandalized at Pride Parade in Warsaw for their complicity in genocide

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 12, 2025 - The UK is hosting and training soldiers from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) despite the fact that the Israeli military is engaged in genocide in Palestine, the Labour Government has admitted.

The news came in response to a written question at Westminster, put in by Labour MP for York Central Rachael Maskell.

Maskell asked “when the last time was that a member of the Israel Defense Forces was trained by the UK armed forces”.

In a response published on Wednesday, Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard admitted that the UK was “currently” training IDF soldiers in the UK. [article]

[licaonia]

♠️_E qualcuno, prima o poi,ti trova..

E ti ritrova.

Ti reinventa.

Ti conquista.

Ti ricomincia.

🖤🌹

©️Licaonia Lupe

[myonlyangel13]

DYING

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