#Government Commitment

[nando161mando]

"If the Israeli assault stopped today, and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the last eight months, it would take us 100 years to honor them all."

The Palestinian speaker at the UN Security Council highlights the devastating toll of casualties among Palestinians resulting from the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

[phantomrose96]

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

[hargo-news]

Enhancing Indonesian Football, Police and PSSI Commit to Eradicate Match-fixing

#IndonesianFootball #Match-fixingEradication Enhancing Indonesian Football, Police and PSSI Commit to Eradicate Match-fixing

Hargo.co.id, JAKARTA – The government’s commitment to ensure and create a better football climate in Indonesia continues. This commitment was solidified by President Jokowi’s agreement with FIFA’s president for the implementation of football matches that adhere to international standards. FIFA’s president himself acknowledged Indonesia’s potential to advance world football, not only in Southeast…

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

[captain-casual]

Next up: Biden continues to be a crusty piece of shit who ignores his voters

Story here

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Repost from @codepinkalert

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🚨 A new investigative report by ProPublica exposed that in May of this year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress to keep weapons flowing to Israel.

According to U.S. law, if any country blocks the delivery of U.S. aid, the U.S. government is legally required to stop arms sales to that country.

Despite multiple U.S. agencies communicating to Blinken that Israel in fact had been blocking U.S. aid, he told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid.

Blinken lying is nothing new, but that does not change the fact that Blinken’s deliberate lie is a criminal act that killed Palestinians through starvation and prohibiting access to medical care.

We demand Blinken's resignation.

Tell Congress: codepink.org/blinkenmustresign (link in bio)

[cbs-scorpion-coffee-shop]

The People of Israel Live, "Finish Them"

A popular sticker calling for a genocide spotted all over occupied Palestine.

Israeli civilians are not innocent

[octisticsopinions]

"If you're queer why don't you support the war (genocide) on Gaza? Palestine is homophobic!!!" I don't know, maybe because people shouldn't be murdered on mass for living in a homophobic country? Maybe because a government being homophobic doesn't justify ethnic cleansing? Maybe because queers in Palestine aren't going to feel "liberated" by the IDF murdering their children? Maybe because I'm not a fucking racist???

Be serious, there are so many homophobic countries. Would you condone murdering polish civilians for living in a homophobic country? Would you cheer at people in Florida having to carry their children in plastic bags? Would that be for the greater cause of queer liberation? Or is it only justified when it's brown people and Muslims?

How dare you expect queers to be "grateful" to the Israeli government for committing literal fucking genocide.

[keferon]

On my way of tracing every tiniest appearance of Senator Shockwave👍

Which…there wasn’t a lot. But there was more than I remembered and expected

[nando161mando]

Everybody's a Republican now

[loonybun]

magical girls as living weapons magical girls and living weapons magical girls as living weapo

[insanostyle1231]

hi im playing pokemon scarlet :)

[cachekay]

sabo and koalaaaa u will always be famous to me

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

"There is no difference between hezbollah and Lebanon"

"Lebanon will be annihilated"

" I am correcting myself, it will not be annihilated, Lebanon as we know it will not exist"

[misscalming]

Robespierre: you know, in another universe I would of liked to of grown old and done taxes with you

Saint-Just: I committed tax fraud once

Robespierre: excuse me?