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Borders: What are they good for?
White text reading “Borders: What are they good for?” superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune. Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang. What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza?…
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#asylum seekers#border abolition#border violence#borders#colonialism#customs#Europe#Frontex#Gaza#global apartheid#immigration#immigration policy#Iron Wall#Israel#jina chung#Lucy Kang#Making Contact#maps#Mexico#migrants#migration#Military#Palestine#racism#radio project#refugees#surveillance#US
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3rd years HNKGTKYM sketch 🏐🐦⬛
#haikyuu!!#haikyuu#hinata shouyou#kageyama tobio#yamaguchi tadashi#tsukishima kei#karasuno#your honour they are best boys#in captain yams + vice cpn tobi + decoy ace shouyou + iron wall tsukki we trust#kwad draws
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The 90's had the Iron Giant
The 2000's had WALL.E
The 2010's had Baymax
The 2020's will have...
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kakashi and bull 🥺🤲
#realized that i don't actually know how to draw dogs so i wanted to practice. and who's better for that than mr dog lover kashi#(and yes i know my persona is a dog and i can't draw dogs. ironic isn't it)#i wanna make a small series of drawings of kashi and all his ninken but this is the only one i have so far. we'll see how it goes#naruto#kakashi hatake#my art#sketch#also if anyone writes 'oh haha i thought it was etho' under this -#i will find you. and i will display each of your vertebra on my wall like they do with butterflies.
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Happy autumn everyone! Seriously though fall is one of my favorite aesthetics in animation.
#over the garden wall#Disney#disneytva#wolfwalkers#Cartoon Saloon#Cartoon Network#Frozen 2#Elsa#Anna#the owl house#steven universe#the iron giant#winnie the pooh#scooby doo#scooby doo and the witch's ghost#hex girls#bambi#its the great pumpkin charlie brown#charlie brown#peanuts
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Someone on Reddit made the mistake of saying, "Teach me how this conflict came about" where I could see it.
Let me teach you too.
The common perception is that Jews came out of nowhere, stole Palestinian homes and kicked Palestinians out of them, and then bombed them for 75 years, until they finally rebelled in the form of Hamas invading Israel and massacring 22 towns in one day.
The historical reality is that Jews have lived there continuously for at least 3500 years.
There are areas, like Meggido iirc, with archeological evidence of continuous habitation for 7,000 years, but Jewish culture as we recognize it today didn't develop until probably halfway through that.
Ethnic Jews are the indigenous people of this area.
Indigeneity means a group was originally there, before any colonization happened, and that it has retained a cultural connection to the land. History plus culture.
That's what Jews have: even when the diaspora became larger than the number of Jews in Israel, the yearning to return to that homeland was a daily part of Jewish prayer and ritual.
The Jewish community in Israel was crushed pretty violently by the Roman Empire in 135 CE, but it was still substantial, sometimes even the majority population there, for almost a thousand years.
The 600s CE brought the advent of Islam and the Arab Empire, expanding out from Saudi Arabia into Israel and beyond. It was largely a region where Jews were second-class citizens. But it was still WAY better than the way Christian Europe treated Jews.
From the 700s-900s, the area saw repeated civil wars, plagues, and earthquakes.
Then the Crusades came, with waves of Christians making "pilgrimages to the Holy Land" and trying to conquer it from Muslims and Jews, who they slaughtered and enslaved.
Israel became pretty well depopulated after all that. It was a very rough time to live there. (And for the curious, I'm calling it Israel because that's what it had been for centuries, until the Romans erased the name and the country.)
By the 1800s, the TOTAL population of what's now Israel and Palestine had varied from 150,000 - 275,000 for centuries. It was very rural, very sparsely populated, on top of being mostly desert.
In the 1880s, Jews started buying land and moving back to their indigenous homeland. As tends to happen, immigration brought new projects and opportunities, which led to more immigration - not only from Jews, but from the Arab world as well.
Unfortunately, there was an antisemitic minority spearheaded by Amin al-Husseini. Who was very well-connected, rich, and from a politically powerful family.
Al-Husseini had enthusiastically participated in the Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman Empire. Then the Empire fell in World War One, and the League of Nations had to figure out what to do with its land.
Mostly, if an area was essentially operating as a country (e.g. Turkey), the League of Nations let it be one. In areas that weren't ready for self-rule, it appointed France or Britain to help them get there.
In recognition of the increased Jewish population in their traditional, indigenous homeland, it declared that that homeland would again become Israel.
As in, the region was casually called Palestine because that was the lay term for "the Holy Land." It had not been a country since Israel was stamped out; only a region of a series of different empires. And the Mandate For Palestine said it was establishing "a national home of the Jewish people" there, in recognition of "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country."
Britain was appointed to help the Arab and Jewish communities there develop systems of self-government, and then to work together to govern the region overall.
At least, that was the plan.
Al-Husseini, who was deeply antisemitic, did not like this plan.
And, extra-unfortunately, the British response to al-Husseini inciting violent anti-Jewish riots was to put him in a leadership role over Arab Palestine.
They thought it would calm him down and perhaps satisfy him.
They were very wrong.
He went on to become a huge Hitler fanboy, and then a Nazi war criminal. He co-created the Muslim Brotherhood - which Hamas is part of - with fellow fascist fanboy Hassan al-Banna.
He got Nazi Party funding for armed Muslim Brotherhood militias to attack Jews and the Brits in the late 30s, convincing Britain to agree to limit Jewish immigration at the time when it was most desperately needed.
He started using the militias again in 1947, when the United Nations voted to divide the mandated land into a Jewish homeland and a Palestinian one.
Al-Husseini wouldn't stand for a two-state solution. He was determined to tolerate no more than the subdued, small Jewish minority of second-class citizens that he remembered from his childhood.
As armed militias increasingly ran riot, the Arab middle and upper classes increasingly left. About 100,000 left the country before May 1948, when Britain was to pull out, leaving Israel and Palestine to declare their independence.
The surrounding nations didn't want war. They largely accepted the two-state solution.
But al-Husseini lobbied HARD. And by mobilizing the Muslim Brotherhood to provide "destabilizing mass demonstrations and a murderous campaign of intimidation," he got the Arab League nations to agree to invade, en masse, as soon as Britain left.
About 600,000 Arabs fled to those countries during the ensuing war.
Jews couldn't seek refuge there; in fact, most of those countries either exiled their Jews directly, confiscating their property first, or else made Jewish life unlivable and exploited them for underpaid or slave labor for years first.
By the time the smoke cleared and a peace treaty was signed, most of the Arab Palestinian community had fled; there was no Arab Palestinian leadership; many of the refugees' homes and businesses had left had been destroyed in the war; and Israel had been flooded with nearly a million refugees from the Arab League countries and the Holocaust - even more people than had fled the war.
That was the Nakba. The one that gets portrayed as "750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled!" in the hope that you'll assume they were expelled en masse, their beautiful intact homes all stolen.
Egypt had taken what's now the Gaza Strip in that war, and Jordan took what's now the West Bank - expelling or killing all the Jews in it first.
(Ironically, Jordan was originally supposed to be part of Israel. Britain, inexplicably, cut off what would have been 75% of its land to create Jordan.
Even more inexplicably, nobody ever talks about it. I've never seen anyone complain that Jordan was stolen from Palestinians. Possibly because Jordan is also the only country that gave Palestinian refugees full citizenship, and it's about half Palestinian now.
Israel is nearly 25% Arab Palestinians with full citizenship and equal rights, so it's not all that different -- but the fundamental difference of living in a country where the majority is Jewish, not Muslim, probably runs pretty deep.)
Anyway: that's why Palestine is Gaza and the West Bank, rather than being some contiguous chunk of land. Or being the land set aside by the U.N. in 1947.
Because Arab countries took that land in 1948, and treated them as essentially separate for 20 years.
Israel got them back, along with the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula, in the next war: 1967, when Egypt committed an act of war by taking control of the waterways and barring Israel from them. It gave the Sinai back to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace accords between Egypt and Israel.
Israel tried to give back the Gaza Strip at the same time. Egypt refused.
Palestine finally declared independence in 1988.
But Hamas formed at about the same time. Probably in response, in fact. Hamas is fundamentally opposed to peace negotiations with Israel.
Again: Hamas is part of a group founded by Nazis.
Hamas has its own charter. It explains that Jews are "the enemy," because they control the drug trade, have been behind every major war, control the media, control the United Nations, etc. Basic Nazi rhetoric.
It has gotten adept at masking that rhetoric for the West. But to friendlier audiences, its leaders have consistently said things like, "People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it there, and just cut off [their heads]. It costs just five shekels."
(Palestinians were outraged by this speech. Palestinians, by and large, absolutely loathe Hamas.
It's just that it's not the same to say that to locals, as it is to say it where major global powers who oppose this crap can hear you.)
Hamas has stated from the beginning that its mission is to violently destroy Israel and take over the land.
It has received $100M in military funding annually, from Iran, for several years. Because Iran has been building a network of fascist, antisemitic groups across the Middle East, in a blatant attempt to control more and more of it: Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Houthis in Yemen.
Iran has been run by a very far-right, deeply antisemitic dictatorship for decades now, which pretty openly wants to take down both Israel and the U.S.
Last year, Iran increased Hamas's funding to $350M.
The "proof of concept" invasion of Israel that Hamas pulled off on October 7th more than justifies a much bigger investment.
Hamas has publicly stated its intention to attack "again and again and again," until Israel has been violently destroyed.
That is how this conflict came about.
A Nazi group seized power in Gaza in 2007 by violently kicking the Palestinian government out, and began running it as a dictatorship, using it to build money and power in preparations for exactly this.
And people find it shockingly easy to believe its own hype about being "the Palestinian resistance."
As well as its propaganda that Israel is not actually targeting Hamas: it's just using a literal Nazi invasion and massacre as an excuse to randomly commit genocide of the fraction of Palestine it physically left 20 years ago.
Despite the fact that Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting HAMAS throughout the war.
#free palestine#free gaza from hamas#free everyone from hamas it's awful#we want to live movement#free gazans group#center the people directly affected#Ironically it's almost exclusively zionists who know about and support the actual activists in Palestine#because Zionism is a real Jewish term for self-determination not something you can redefine to demonize us#and the pro-hamas movement is inherently both antisemitic and anti-Palestinian#wall of words#jumblr#jewish history#palestinian history
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#flcl#canti#ghibli#castle in the sky#takua#bionicle#made in abyss#reg#wall-e#wall e#pixar#the iron giant#anime#toxic masculinity#shitposting#robots#kind robots
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In the Not So Big House, even the space under the stairs can provide storage - in this instance, for shoes.
The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998
#vintage#vintage interior#1990s#90s#interior design#home decor#staircase#ironwork#balustrade#salon wall#artwork#oriental rug#storage#iron#chandelier#traditional#modern#style#home#architecture
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Scott and company building in Chicago by John roe Luna and Louis Sullivan 1899-1903
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wall of Barrels - Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris, France, 1962
#art#design#urban space#installation#public art#readymade#Christo#Christo and Jeanne-Claude#Jeanne-Claude#Wall of Barrels#Iron Curtain#Rue Visconti#Paris#France#Wall of Barrels - Iron Curtain
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I love robots 🤖
#robots#robots 2005#the iron giant#the wild robot#Astro bot#Walle#rozzum unit 7134#Who else loves robots?#astro boy#Late night post for me lol#baymax#big hero 6
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Do we have any indication in the text than mance is secrety someone from the rebellion that's supposed to be dead and not just some guy?
So Mance is a lot LIKE Rhaegar. People talk about him like Rhaegar, in that he’s like very very romanticized by allies and enemies alike. He steps into the role of Jon’s father figure as a songwriter-turned-king who wears a black and red cloak and tells him they’re related through Bael the Bard, a bard who sang a song so beautiful it stole away a Stark daughter whose child was then raised hidden at winterfell unaware of their own heritage. It’s not subtle. Unfortunately this was too subtle for like the thematically illiterate masses of Reddit who read the text for content and do not consider meaning at all who interpreted all of these parallels to mean that they are literally the same person instead of two characters who stand in clear parallel to each other relative to Jon’s arc.
#asoiaf#I also think it’s a signal of which group of people Jon is going to be king of. he’s not touching the iron throne he’s king beyond the wall
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my holy trinity of sci-fi animated movies
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Tony: Open the door!
Peter: It’s stuck. Well, guess we have to spend some quality time together!
Tony: HELP!!!
#source: over the garden wall#tony stark#tony stark incorrect quotes#iron man#peter parker#peter parker incorrect quotes#spider man#marvel incorrect quotes#marvel#avengers#avengers incorrect quotes
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The Golden Age of Animated Robot Film Classics is upon us
#animated films#animated classics#the iron giant#warner bros animation#the wild robot#dreamworks animation#transformers one#paramount animation#wall e#pixar#long live the iron giant#long live transformers one#long live the wild robot#long live wall e
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