#GVTs

[slvtgvts]

My only friend

[oldpotatoe]

as many of you know, gaza has now gone dark.

targeted israeli strikes have wiped out the telecommunications infrastructure. phone lines and internet services are gone. gazans cannot call their loved ones to check if they are still alive. they cannot call for ambulances for aid. if they survive the increased bombardment tonight and the following nights, they will bleed out alone with no aid.

now i will tell you what will happen in the next few days/weeks, and i pray it to be untrue. unfortunately the apartheid state, also known as israel, has been quite obvious and transparent with their plans.

the stated goal of many politicians over the years from israel, including netanyahu, has been to have the entire strip of land of gaza as israel, with no separate region for palestinians. i am not going to provide links, google is free and i am fucking tired.

what they had done before tonight, in the last two weeks, was destroy over 50% of buildings in gaza city as well as neighbouring areas, so gazans have nowhere to return to. gazans have been forced south, and israel will use this opportunity to have troops in north gaza (currently referred to as the ground invasion) advancing south while bombing "h*mas sites" in the south. israel will do this knowing there are plenty more civilians there that will die, causing terror and panic and having palestinians want to flee to anywhere, anywhere that is safe.

israel is doing this in the hopes that this panic and terror will convince egypt to open the border (well, the border israel isn't currently bombing) so that palestinians can escape to the sinai desert in egypt.

once survivors leave, the area that is currently the gaza strip will 1) be reduced in size if a lot of palestinians stay, should they not be bombed out of existence, or 2) be entirely absorbed into israel if very few palestinians stay, which is the ultimate aim of israel. those remaining palestinians will be moved to the west bank, or the remainder of gaza will be converted to west bank conditions where they'd go through the same problems palestinians in the west bank go through (reduced access to water, checkpoints to go from any place to any place within their own land, getting dispossessed, or randomly killed by racist extremist settlers).

now, egypt has been adamant not to displace the palestinians. in online discourse, people have been dehumanising palestinians by talking about past disruptions in other refugee areas and saying that is why egypt does not want to take them. while there may be slight truth to this from egypt's perspective, the major reason egypt is refusing is that no palestinian refugee abroad has even been given the right to return to their own land. and this will be the fate of gazans if they are made to leave in a mass exodus to egypt/other neighbouring countries such as jordan, which these leaflets from army-backed israeli are threatening palestinians with (photo from salfit in the occupied west bank):

therefore, what i likely see happening is the above bombardment (in increased numbers now that gaza has gone dark) -> mass panic in gaza, more so now that gazans are cornered in the south -> a reluctant egypt, but with the US will promise a large amount of "aid" money to egypt to facilitate the mass exodus of palestinians, the borders will open.

palestinians will be forced out. israelis are already planning on hoovering up the prime real estate there, for amusements park no less!

this is nabka 2.0. this is genocide.

btw, as we speak: israel's leading newspaper is already making claims that h*mas's main operation base is under shifa hospital. the hospital currently housing 50,000 displaced palestinians. the idf is claiming h*mas is using the hospital as a human shield, which is their new favourite phrase to justify killing civilians. so you already know what to expect in the news.

[22ndnervousbreakdown]

I'm sorry, The Naval Treaty and The Second Stain are meant to take place DURING THE SAME MONTH???? They had 2 separate cases where they needed to find an ultra important international document IN THE SPAN OF ONE MONTH????

Oh my god I just know they laughed soooo hard and judged those government guys soooooo bad

[mosstrades]

im having an absolute unadulterated blast with the Ethersea prologue for many many reasons, it's beautiful and exceeds all my expectations.. but also. there's many moments here that genuinely make me go "oh god damn, these people are Americans." the Quiet Year system is a profoundly fascinating and revealing game - nothing tells you quite as much about how somebody sees the world than asking them to imagine a new one.

[katewalker]

What if you're the French Minister of Labour and your pension reform is so bad and unpopular that you decide to make your coming out only for political purposes in one of the country's biggest gay magazines to justify it, because pinkwashing is apparently the last desperate communication trick left up the sleeve of your idiot advisers.

Haha just kidding, unless...

[sometimes-gloriousstudent]

FRONT POPULAIRE, WE DID IT JOE

[l1veleak]

Kévin Estre is posting goofy selfies on ig stories again. nature is healing

[identitty-dickruption]

SORRY the right for a queer cop to celebrate “all parts of their identity” is not more important than the right for queer people to feel safe at pride

[strhwaberries]

just in case you're interested in french politics but nearly 2 weeks after the left coalition won the elections, the government still hasn't resigned and have even voted for the president of the parliament yesterday, which is a breach to the constitution, and now it's like the elections were for nothing bc we still don't have a leftist prime minister but the presidence of the assembly is still the same and macron is sending a big fuck you to all french people just before his olympic games so i beg of you, if you do care about us do not watch, do not even talk about the olympics, he has to understand that we want him out

[liesmyth]

that one post I rb'd earlier about France and laicité and Macron celebrating Chanukah is still making me made just thinking about it. That came in the same week as Masha Gessen being almost stripped of the Hannah Arendt prize because they wrote an essay about Gaza (incidentally, Gessen is Jewish). I'm just really, massively tired of the current climate in Western Europe where political and civil authorities pay lip service to diversity and pluralism but actually actively suppress diverse voices. Case in point, lots of framing Judaism = Israel while actively making life harder for their Jewish communities.

I'm not eloquent enough to word this properly, but it's infuriating to witness. It's not a new attitude by any means, but it's rooted in racism and xenophobia and I hate that it's getting so much fresh mileage lately. I wish more people (& local press) called it out for what it is.

[runespoor7]

LR "qui découvre" que Ciotti est du RN...

Ben oui les gars faut regarder ce qu'il a foutu dans le sud, de temps en temps... Genre jsp mais quand Reconquête décide de pas opposer un candidat à quelqu'un (législatives 2022) ça peut être un signe de politique extrêmement extrême-droite-compatible

Bon point de la journée: Attal qui se réveille et qui décide qu'en fait il a pas envie de vivre en extrême-droitie. (On notera, après que les candidates aient posé ou non leur candidature hein) Est-ce que ça va tenir jusqu'à dimanche? Je suppose qu'il calcule avec un gvt de coalition où il compte demander un portefeuille.

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the Baldwin 10-12-D!

[natandacat]

I have to accept that its been more than a week and I cannot count on homecare to help me out. I need to find a way out of this situation alone. Sigh. I just wanna be able to go out again. I hate being trapped in my home. Why did I have to live in a flat with stairs.

[jixyo]

drew da beef nd co

[katewalker]

So far the only thing that sucks at the new job is being paid a few days later than what I was used to in Paris... meaning that past the 25th my balance is always in the red for a few days (from one day to one week)

[feralthembo]

WE HAVE THE INTERWEB