#Escalating Conflict

[thoughtlessarse]

Thousands of Lebanese citizens have led from southern parts of the country, with highways and roads out of the port city of Sidon jammed with cars. Residents evacuated and headed towards the capital of Beirut in the biggest exodus since 2006. Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed more than 490 people including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities have said, in the deadliest barrage since the Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah. Thousands of Lebanese fled the south, and the main highway out of the southern port city of Sidon was jammed with cars heading toward Beirut in the biggest exodus since 2006.

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Well, I'm glad they managed to keep the conflict from escalating.

“Why are all these foreigners coming to my country?”

Well, Europeans* send arms to Israel and Israelis* uses them to commit genocide and make more refugees. That will be on top of those created by climate change, the economic policies, and other conflicts created by those same Europeans.

*white people

[fukiana]

BALDUR'S GATE 3 (2023) dev. Larian Studios

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Just a quick update on the war in Ukraine. North Korea now officially takes part in russia-Ukraine war by sending its troops in order to kill Ukrainians. So Ukraine now must defeat 2 nuclear totalitarian states: russia and north korea. While West is just being deeply concerned.

[jacksjoke]

[hiding-under-the-willow]

“Careless with power you couldn’t have understood, too cowardly to take the blame for what it brought,”

There is a version of him living rent free in my head and by 'living rent free in my head' I mean living rent free in a fic I've been writing and anyways he's really fucking angry

[harbingersecho]

you will accept chaos, by choice or by force!

[wilcze-kudly]

The funniest part of the Lin/Suyin beef is that I firmly believe that if any other police officer were the one to arrest Su, we would not have nearly as much drama as we did.

One of the most inopportune moments to inject sibling rivalry into

[alex-the-nonsensologist]

Magnifico stans: He was right, in the end! The ungrateful people of Rosas DID end up revolting against him! Asha: *Magnifico cruelly destroys her mother’s wish in front of her, AND has her face plastered on Wanted posters, AND has false accusations made against her* Asha’s friends: *other than Dahlia, have literally been useless and done nothing of significance, but still get outed as aiding the “traitorous” Asha* Queen Amaya: *literally gets threatened just for telling her husband to calm down* The people of Rosas: *literally get bound and restrained, while Magnifico laughs in their face about it* Everyone: *gets fed up and does not put up with this bullcrap* King Magnifico: How could this happen to meeeeee?

[sydneyscarm]

s3 renewal which means there’s more hope that sydney will slap carmen across the face <33 and that she’ll tear him apart in a big argument <33 and that he’ll spend all of s3 proving himself to her <33 that he can be better that he wants to be better not just for her, not just for the restaurant, but for himself too <33

[shay-does-art-things]

C'mon girls, we're killing Kagha

[sadlynotthevoid]

So, you know how when an author is writing og!Cale and they want to give him a power, sometimes they give him fantasy spirit stuff? Well, I want elementals to have the usual 'spirit king per attribute' that you usually find in fantasy mangas, but make the water spirit king an axolotl and let og!Cale befriend them.

And when I say Axolotl Water Spirit King I mean 'non-parlant little flying axolotl' that can turn into a 'giantic, water-looking-like, could swallow a pirate ship, still non-parlant axolotl' a la Ponyo.

Just, Imagine og!Cale who was just minding his business and finds a little dorky amphibian that got trapped in a net. And the little dorky one smiles at him. He has no choice but to help it.

The little one likes him. They become friends :D!!

So, turns out his animal friend can fly. Cool.

His new friend decided to follow him— Wait, where is he going?

...Oh.

So, his little friend is not so little anymore.

Ey, don't— spit it out! Spit the bad woman out!

And he doesn't like his relatives.

[61below]

I really gd love how Cang Lan Jue digs into the way enmity just perpetuates enmity (unchecked) like, not only does Yunzhong immediately go ‘if she isn’t a fairy and she isn’t human, then she MUST be Yuezu’ but like the whole thing just escalated (so quickly) from what was just a genuine question that should have had an easy answer: what is XLH? And the thing is, we know that her true form can be read, that was like, the third thing DFQC did after meeting her. Including his instinctive reaction to kill all fairies on sight

So why couldn’t the high immortal, Sansheng, do it?

I think that the protection DFQC conferred upon her also protected her from any kind of magical intrusion or interference, too. Not just physical attacks, but magical ones. But like an anaphylaxis response to allergens, it’s not that good at telling the difference between an actual attack and just someone trying to … what, scan her meridians? Idfk how it works, but I’mna run with the idea that to sample something you gotta take a piece of it, so to ‘read’ her form, one has to dip into her qi. But the bone orchid registers that as HEY YOU DON’T BELONG HERE!!! and does the meridian-level equivalent of throwing up a wall of hellfire around her. Which is why what Sansheng projects ends up looking like flames. She can’t read XLH’s true form bc all she ‘sees’ is the firewall.

(… and ok now I’m actually interested in whether or not the Yuezu doctors were able to do any magical diagnostics on her. Like, did it not register as an ‘attack’ to the bone orchid bc it’s Yuezu cultivation? Did she refuse to let these nosy strangers even do a check? I am CURIOUS.)

But my POINT is that it’s really interesting that the story takes ‘here is someone just trying to defend what’s theirs, but the State of Hostilities is so Hot that even the very act of defense is seen as a Threat’ and gives ‘the INSTANT response to any Perceived Threat is with Aggression. Up to DEATH.’

… and where do you even begin to start conflict resolution from there? It’s no wonder things escalated as far as they did.

[glamfellens]

bashed together harriet's two main outfits..hehe

[shannonsketches]

so we're all making contributions

[zvaigzdelasas]

Do you think it’s the beginning of the end for Israel or will they recover from what’s happening?

I think at this point this largely depends on the reaction from other regional actors (particularly Iran, Hezbu'llah, Syria, Houthis/Ansarallah, and PMUs & other Iraqi militants). I would be rather surprised if they came out of this with a comparable form of statehood as currently exists, and with comparable international legitimacy