#aryan hospital

[deliciouskeys]

Only hope now is a big thick dick up his lilly white ass because that's the most oppositest thing to a mommy ;))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[nudityandnerdery]

Today is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when German Nazis coordinated a nationwide attack on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues. The attack was inspired by the murder of a German diplomat by a Jew in Paris. When Hitler heard the news, he got the idea to stage a mass uprising in response. He and Joseph Goebbels contacted storm troopers around the country and told them to attack Jewish buildings, but to make the attacks look like spontaneous demonstrations. The police were told not to interfere with the demonstrators, but instead to arrest the Jewish victims. Firefighters were told only to put out fires in any adjacent Aryan properties. Everyone cooperated. In all, more than 1,000 synagogues were burned or destroyed. Rioters looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. Many of the attackers were neighbors of the victims. The Nazis confiscated any compensation claims that insurance companies paid to Jews. They also imposed a huge collective fine on the Jewish community for having supposedly incited the violence. The event was used to justify barring Jews from schools and most public places, and forcing them to adhere to new curfews. In the days following, thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps. The event was called Kristallnacht, which means, "Night of Broken Glass." It's generally considered the official beginning of the Holocaust. Before that night, the Nazis had killed people secretly and individually. After Kristallnacht, the Nazis felt free to persecute the Jews openly, because they knew no one would stop them.

[whencyclopedia]

Inventions & Innovations of Ancient Persia

Ancient Persian culture contributed many of the aspects of the modern world which people take for granted as having always existed. The designation “Persia” comes from the Greeks – primarily from the historian Herodotus – but the people of Persis (Pars, modern-day Fars) referred to themselves as Iranians, from Aryan, meaning “noble” or “free” and having nothing to do with race.

While that is understood, any reference to ancient Iranian culture – in the West at least – continues to be called “Persian” as that is the legacy left by the Greek writers.

The Persians established an empire which stretched from modern-day Turkey to India, up through Syria and down through Egypt and, further, invented and maintained amenities, policies, practices, institutions, and aspects of religion which are well-known – but not often properly attributed – in the present day. Among these are:

First Declaration of Human Rights

Irrigation and Refrigeration

Landscaped Gardens and the Word 'Paradise'

Birthday Celebrations, Animation, the Guitar, and Dessert

Monotheism

Elite Military Units and Uniforms

Windmills and Air Conditioning

Postal System and the Highway

The Teaching Hospital

Heavily Armored Cavalry

While these contributions may be understood as commonplace in the present day, they were entirely novel in their time. Although there were gardens in other cultures, and monotheism had been suggested by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE)) centuries before, the Persians were the first to develop these concepts fully.

First Declaration of Human Rights

The Cyrus Cylinder is a clay canister-shaped artifact inscribed with cuneiform script issued by Cyrus II (the Great, r. c. 550-530 BCE) c. 539 BCE. It is an official document that tells of Cyrus the Great's conquest of the various regions which made up the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) and how they had embraced his rule. He then speaks of how he elevated the lives of the people through the rights and liberties granted them. This document has long been (and continues to be) understood as royal propaganda establishing a monarch's grandeur but, since 1971 CE, it has been increasingly recognized as the first declaration of human rights in the world. The Achaemenid Empire granted its citizens freedom of religious thought and practice as well as many other liberties denied those of other cultures, including almost equal rights for women.

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[otherbrains]

It's very possible Luigi Mangione isn't the assassin. The eyebrows, fingerprints despite wearing gloves, and suddenly recovered backpack raise suspicion.

The idolization of him is weird. Other than a manifesto, we don't know what he's done to help others, let alone in a class consciousness way. He's just a guy.

For that matter, the killing isn't a cause for celebration since Thompson (who I have no sympathy for) still had kids, CEOs can be easily replaced and can be worse, and shareholders are a less glamorous but more dangerous threat.

The best thing to come out of this is the conversation over insurance companies and income inequality but even that's slipping away. We need community and interconnectedness to create and maintain long term change.

I hate the hero worship over Mangione (and of the actual killer) but as of now he has been unfairly labeled as a villain and terrorist (which I wouldn't be surprised if it's a smoke show to distract from Adams and the NYPD being corrupt) where there's no legal justification. I don't see law enforcement going after the Klan and Aryan Brotherhood with this much fervor.

It reminds me of how the momentum behind George Floyd dissipated in following months and even earlier with Occupy Wall Street. We have to keep pressuring for trust busts, single payer insurance, progressive taxes and marginal rates (preferably 90% like we had in the past), and making travel like public transportation and high speed rail accessible for lower income and isolated people who risk having health and hospital issues.

[uncanny-tranny]

could you elaborate / give links on the transphobia = antisemitism thing? ive never heard of this before and cant find much on it on google except for one kinda surface level article :(

Some tropes of antisemitic transphobia:

Jews are funding trans surgery or surgeons/Jewish hospitals are specifically targeting people (especially those seen as girls) to manipulate into getting hormones surgery

Jewish people are influencing media in order to be "leftist" or "woke." Acceptance of transnes in media, in their eyes, will manipulate people to identify as trans

Jewish people are in "upper echelons" of congress, the senate, and so forth. They will lobby for pro-trans laws to pass for their own interests

Jewish people are "degenerate", believe in "deneracy," and as such, promote transness because it is also "degenerate."

If you want a direct, historical fact, remember Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish-German physician and sexologist whose work was done in the rise of Nazism, who founded Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. He was an advocate for sexual minorities including trans people, and was gay himself. His research included sexuality and transgender topics, and the institute even preformed SRS and conducted research on trans topics, which was almost unheard of, officially. His institute was raided by the nazi party, and his citizenship was revoked. His Jewishness was capitalized upon by the nazi party in order to spread conspiracy that the jew was a "social degenerate" who preyed upon the innocent aryan youth and society.

Here is an article outlining a bit of what I've already laid out here.

Here is a video about antisemitism and antisemitic tropes, which you might recognize in modern times applied to other groups

Here is an article from Atlantia, Georgia about antisemitic, transphobic flyers delivered to Atlantic residence, which play in antisemitic tropes

I am begging gentile trans people to learn about antisemitism. I will minority correct you, anon, because I didn't say all transphobia has to be, in turn, antisemitic but that conspiracy about transgenderism is almost always based in antisemitic beliefs about Jews. When you learn more about antisemitism, you can spot it when an antisemite uses it for their transphobic agenda. Learn your history. Trans history has not been separated completely from Jewish history.

[wawamouse]

Oz Rewatch 3: S6E07: Junkyard Dawgs

Storylines

The Homeboys are frozen out of the tits trade; Stanley Bukowski crime flashback; Stanley starts dealing weed brownies out of the cafeteria; Stanley its steamed to death in the boiler room; the Homeboys go back into telemarketing to steal credit card numbers

Stella gets her lumpectomy; Pablo shanks an Aryan and gets send to the Hole; all is well with Stella; the TV crowd makes fun of Busmalis; Norma is late to the wedding but shows up in the end;

Idzik is impatient for Omar to kill him; McManus doesn’t believe Omar; Idzik describes his existential crisis; Idzik kills Omar when he refuses to kill Idzik;

Robson has HIV;

Ryan is in denial about Cyril not being in the clear yet; Gloria ???; Ryan wants to work at the hospital; Seamus O’Reily crime flashback;

Schillinger auditions for the play; Beecher gets MacDuff; Beecher confronts Schillinger and Keller in the library; Keller tells Schillinger he’ll kill Beecher; Keller tells Beecher he’s playing Schillinger;

McManus asks Ruiz to see Miguel; Miguel visits with Cathy Jo again; Schillinger pressures Miguel about signing the papers

Alonzo Torquemada crime flashback; he arrives at Oz with plans to take things over;

Yood warns Glynn to drop the Loewen investigation; Eleanor and Glynn romance is discovered by Tim;

Correctional Officer’s association; McManus goes to retrieve Glynn who is nowhere to be found; Glynn has already been stabbed, dying in the gym;

Sister: You think no one’s going to notice? …You think no one’s going to notice? …You think no one’s going to notice? …You think no one’s going to notice?

Me: Why is he still here?! Sister: What do they stay so late for?

Sister: When has [Omar] ever schemed? Why would he be scheming right now? No, he does things spur of the moment.

Sister: Does he have some kind of life insurance policy out where he can’t kill himself and needs someone else to do it? Me: I have a new theory that his family died or his wife left him and took the kids or something, because he said he had a family. Which means something must have happened to them. Sister: Yeah, and he wants to leave them the life insurance money to make up for being a loser.

Sister: How he treats his special projects, haha.

Sister: They’re still doing this damn play? What, is the season finale gonna be the doing this play? And someone gets shot?

Sister: She came alone? Me: Yeah, you’d expect her to show up with guards. Sister: Yeah, especially because there was the whole realization with McManus. It seemed like they were all going to come running, but it's just her.

Sister: Why are they still introducing new characters?! Aren’t they supposed to be ending the show?

Sister: …Why would Miguel be the man to know? He’s not even in the drug trade. Me: I ask this myself.

Sister: He has a backdoor? In his bathroom?

Sister: The turn out for this party is not great.

Stray Thoughts

Bukowski getting arrested while shoveling weed brownies in his mouth is so fucking funny

What was McManus’s 40th bday party that they (according to Murphy) were wearing tuxedos?

Torquemada in the background of the episode before he's even arrived:

They must've filmed his bits first because Bukowski's still alive in the background of his arrival, too.

Sister’s Final Thoughts

“Why did they have a back door into the bathroom of the warden’s office?”

“They didn’t need to add the weed guy. They could’ve just foiled them a different way.”

Sister thought Miguel looking around the visiting room and hearing the baby crying was supposed to be spooky and signaled that he would back away from Cathy Jo

New Predictions by Sister

Someone will die during the play

O’Reily’s dad will either die or get incapacitated

Stella will come back next episode to finish her story with Bob

They’re not going to find Leo’s killer (the investigators will be as incompetent as he is)

Nobody else is getting out of prison

Something will happen to Cathy Jo, depending on how much the writers want him to go with Chico… (Me: The writers don’t want that… That’s just me). Oh, okay, then she’ll live and the baby crying wasn’t an evil omen but an angelic chord of inspiration. So Miguel will get with that lady and become the new leader of the Aryan Brotherhood. And that will be how the Latinos win. (Me: Be serious…)

Maybe the new gay guy will take over Em City like he wanted to and that’s how the Gays will end up winning.

Do they have a spinoff show? Because if they do, they're going to introduce like five more characters.

[gryficowa]

Every time I hear about a ceasefire between Israel and any country/state, I know that Israel will do everything to break the ceasefire and then blame those who attacked, making up excuses like secret tunnels under hospitals and other shit

You know what actually worked? If Israel ceased to exist, then 99% of the problems in the Middle East would disappear

Israel mocks the law and principles, and uses naive and corrupt politicians from other countries to survive (In addition, the ideology of Zionism serves them as creating anti-Semitism and blaming those who fight for Palestine, so when they see a Jew who is not susceptible to this shit, harass him and wish him like liberals did after Harris' loss to every marginalized group)

Israel is the Third Reich of its time, and Zionism is Nazism under a different name, don't deny it, compare it to the actions of the Nazis and it wasn't "Disagreeing with the Jews" it was many years of dehumanization and genocide, that's what Israel is doing now to the Palestinians ( And even worse, I would never say that it could be worse than the Holocaust, but it literally has a greater toll than World War II and all the victims of the Holocaust who were murdered by the Third Reich because they destroyed the patriachia and the "Vision of the Aryan race")

Agreeing to the crimes that Israel commits is no different from what the world did during the Third Reich… France, the USA (Again), all other countries agreed to it… The USA only reacted AFTER THREE YEARS OF THE THIRD REICH'S ATTACK ON POLAND BECAUSE THE USA DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE HOLOCAUST, they could have saved so many victims over the years, but they chose inaction… Now the US is making an even worse choice, additional complicity (Because yes, silence is complicity, but that's a different dimension) by supplying weapons to a country that is committing genocide

The USA, as usual, is on the wrong side of history, and you know what will suck? Knowing life, the USA will get away with it and they will defend it, and then we will go back to romanticizing the USA as a hero and other shit…

This is always the case, the USA will show itself as a paradise, when in practice it has millions of corpses in the closet, and how do you criticize the USA? The nationalists want to burn you at the stake, especially if you are not an American (Then you have no right to voice, because freedom only works when the nationalists speak…)

So yes, the Middle East will be free when Israel disappears, but that will probably require World War III…

[fuckin-pistol-whipped]

finally gettn 2 see th Aryan ass mothrfuckr from th hospital . all i bn wantn 2 do is smoke w this fuckn coke head

[amielbjacobs]

Shield and Sword Liveblog

Still kind of shocked that this plot point was allowed. A chekist having someone shot under false accusations? I guess the Party line allowed for the idea that Stalin was fucked up in the 60s. But now, somehow, if you say that then Putin and his guys are like "What, you can't even torture several hundred thousand innocent people to death in a mass moral panic? Political correctness has gone too far."

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I love how Johann's entire approach to spying is just that

whenever anyone doesn't want to do some menial task, Johann is like I CAN DO THAT

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The British translator seems to struggle with the translation of the word "chekist" - in some places he turns it into "intelligence officer" or "secret service" or "NKVD" - but then later on there's a weird bit where he just starts saying "the Cheka." (Even though he's still talking about the 1940s.) Which like, if you were going to start saying "The Cheka" with no explanation to the Western reader wtf that means, why not just say "chekist" from the beginning? You can put a footnote and then you won't have to worry about it ever again. This translation is so sloppy.

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Johann is in a German military hospital now cozying up to the Gestapo informants and doing their report-writing for them

and a Prussian corporal just came in who, it's implied, shot himself in the foot to get out of the military

anyway, he's being a jackass and bossing everyone around and hitting on all the women

and one of the Gestapo informants tried to come up to him and ask more questions about how he got shot

and he just

started feeling the Gestapo man's face up and asked him "How did you get past the racial board with ears and a nose like that?'

and the Gestapo man just slunk off

This character is going to turn out to be another Russian spy undercover as a German. Seems like Nazi Germany was 50% Russians by population!

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Everyone is admiring how he is "the perfect Aryan" and he has taken to pointing out that Johann is also the perfect Aryan

(both are Slavs)

How come no one's ever Jewish in these books

The backstory of our second Russian-pretending-to-be-a-German

I love him but also

this is a guy who is 100% getting sent to the gulag after the war is over

he got trapped behind enemy lines and just stole a uniform and papers and started acting as a German, then started like

serial killing German officers basically

and recruited a whole communist cell to support him in that

and then they all got killed and only he survived

and now he's in the hospital as a German officer

and somehow, miraculously, wound up in the same hospital as the other fake German

"I'm a solo act, no chorus" is such a badass line.

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There's a really detailed explanation here, breaking from Johann's point of view, about how Beria/the NKVD command received all these reports from Soviet agents about how Nazi Germany was going to invade, and instead of listening they persecuted the agents for being the bearers of bad news. In this book, Johann almost got purged himself, and was only saved by the protection of his patron.

I'm really surprised all of this was allowed.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them, but

but also u kinda do, I like it when it's big Fuck Stalin hours

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when the censors were going over this book . . .

I absolutely thought Lansdorf was going to be the canon gay character in this book. The way Johann does all of these physically intimate services for this able-bodied older man, who then rewards him with promotions and, in the TV show, constantly calls him "dear" - it does really seem as if Lansdorf is gay and Johann is seducing him in order to further his goals.

Original russian, via google translate:

In the morning, Landsdorf asked to massage his sore leg. And Weiss did it with amazing skill. He had solid theoretical and practical training in the field of massage. Trainers claimed that massage was not only a universal remedy for all diseases, but also a healing balm for the nervous system. Weiss had once attended lectures by a massage therapist, and after training at the Dynamo stadium, athletes often massaged each other. So Johann had sufficient experience.

Johann is the best at everything. I bet he gives great blowjobs too

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This is the point in the show where I realized the Nazis were trying to recruit Soviet POWs out of the concentration camps, which as it turns out is most of the plot of this story. I've sort of gotten used to it over the course of re-experiencing this story three times, but it's still kind of a wild plot point. These are people who are barely alive.

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This is much grimier than Seventeen Moments Stierlitz never went to a death camp, even tho he is literally SS I mean, there are pictures of dead bodies in the Holocaust in Seventeen Moments, on screen but that's always sort of seperate from the actual plot

Johann is visiting a death camp and chatting with a low-level SS man who is dumb as bricks

SS man is bored of the death camp and wants to go out on a date with Johann

his dad was a missionary in Africa who shot at black people "if they didn't behave themselves"

and wanted him to be a priest too

There's a lot of anti-religious stuff in this book

which is a sharp contrast to Seventeen Moments of Spring where we only ever see the Nazis as oppressors of Christianity

which is one of the things that made me wonder if the Nazi regime in Seventeen Moments of Spring is a metaphor for the USSR rather than being the literal Nazi regime

Johann has been assigned to select Russian POWs from the death camps to do Abwehr work and he's looking for people he can use to secretly work against the Nazi regime for him

but this is also such a horrifying task, because like, anyone he doesn't choose will be gassed, right?

I have doubts about the tastefulness of allowing this thriller novel to go to a death camp.

But I won't lie and say that fake torture isn't my favorite trope

👀

In the full scene in Russian Johann says he can't bear to hit the prisoner and the prisoner calls him a pussy

which is also 👀

“I can’t,” Johann repeated. "A weakling," the miner said contemptuously. He thought for a moment and added, "A neurasthenic."

Von Dietrichs manners are queer coded so Johann adopting them is funny

the Nazis have an informant among the Soviet POWs

and Johann questioned him in his guise as abwehr, and then told the Nazi guards to slap him across the face before they release him back into the prison population "to make it look more natural"

which is funny, but I also find it kind of disturbing. Like, I do agree that you shouldn't inform on your fellow prisoners to the SS, but I also don't really feel comfortable judging the decisions of a guy who's starving to death in a death camp, you know? I feel like I, as a guy who has never starved to death in a death camp, don't have the right to judge those people. And it feels especially icky for Johann to judge them when he is currently enjoying the privileges of a Nazi officer. You know? Like, I think we're supposed to think he's sticking it to those traitors by having the informant beaten. But functionally he is a guy using the power accorded by the Nazi state to have a concentration camp prisoner beaten, and he's still our hero and this isn't depicted as a moment of moral failing for him. It's really uncomfortable.

I think I would be more likely to give this scene a pass if it didn't take place in a propaganda story. Like, it's okay for characters in difficult situations to do bad things and for the narrative not to have to spell out for us "this is bad." But the fact is that this is Soviet propaganda; the rules of this book are that bad things will be delineated for the reader. The fact that it's not delineated here is because the creators didn't think about it.

The story is going to explore the moral complexities of Johann's relationship to the concentration camp prisoners more later on, but even at its most ambiguous, it still sits in a place where it's saying that some people starving to death in a Nazi death camp deserve it because they didn't try harder to resist the Nazis.

But I mean. I guess I knew what I expected when I picked up the authoritarian propaganda novel. Did I mention this is Putin's favorite TV show? He credits it with getting him to join the KGB. So that's another crime we can lay at this show's feet, apparently.

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I was beginning to wonder if the subtitles on the show were really as bad as I remembered, or if it was just the cuts from cramming a thousand pages of long-winded literature into a TV show, but in my liveblog I found this:

And you know what? That still doesn't make any fucking sense to me.

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Johann (as an abwehr officer talking to a bunch of Soviet POWs they're trying to evaluate for use as penetration agents): You must give a political evaluation of the Soviet system. Prisoner (sounding depressed): What for? Johann: If you try to go back to the USSR after we parachute you in, the Soviets'll hang you from the first lamppost [for writing this denunciation of the system.] Prisoner: (hollowly) They will anyway.

This is so dark. I feel like this story is not as willing to admit to the mistreatment of Soviet POWs postwar as it is to call out Beria, but it's definitely not ignoring it entirely either. But it makes me wish that we could see Johann try to grapple with the fact that these prisoners are being trapped into an inhuman situation not only by the Nazis but also by the USSR, and that Johann is simultaneously a representative of both of those evils. He is playing both sides of the board, and both sides of the board are ruining these people's lives.

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Another scene from the show:

Nazi officer, about a Soviet POW: "An interesting young man, smart, from a family of intellectuals. He may be useful for long-term work, if we can thoroughly install our values in him."

HOW IS THAT GOING TO WORK. Your values are that he is subhuman and needs to be killed! I mean, is he not a Slav?

I think it was actually Dietrichs who said that, but when I was watching the TV show I wasn't really aware of Dietrichs as a distinct character.

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Johann, who as you'll recall is a chekist posting as Abwehr, is coaching the prisoners on how to survive a chekist interrogation so the prisoners are split into pairs, one interrogator and one interrogatee, and they're mock-interrogating each other

and the protagonist is lecturing them on what a real chekist would say

lmao

this plot has so many people pretending to be other people that it makes following with subs pretty hard

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[ravennaortiz]

Right Thing?

Chapter 8 of Countdown. Jax starts to question his decisions

As always this is an 18+ only story. This story is AU based and not your typical Sons of Anarchy story. Some readers may find some plot lines and changes to some characters to be problematic please read at your discretion. This story also time jumps heavily so keep this in mind as you read!

Warnings: General themes of the show such as violence, drugs, swearing etc, minor age gap, minor smut in later chapters.

Tag List @fleureeee

Jax sat smoking in his backyard barely acknowledging Chibs as he sat in a chair next to him. Jax had so much on his mind and was drowning trying to keep everyone safe and happy. So far he seemed to be doing the safe thing but was helplessly failing at keeping everyone happy.

"You hear to tell me I suck too and you hate my guts?" inquired Jax as he finally looked over at Chibs. "No one hates you or thinks you suck. Things are rough right now and everyone's emotions are heightened." stated Chibs firmly. "You had no idea that Juice was going to get hurt like that" he added as he thought back on the incident a couple days prior where the kid had been jumped by members of the Aryan Brotherhood and left for dead on the side of the road. Thankfully they had gotten to him in time.

"Clay unpatched him and green lit him. I gotta get him out of here. Rocky would never forgive me if I don't....not that it matters since I'm still getting radio silence from her as it is." stated Jax as he tossed his cigarette butt before rubbing his face. "Jesus" muttered Chibs as he sat back in the chair. he knew Clay had called Jax earlier but hadn't expected this.

"Am I making any of the right choices? Like should I have sent her away? Should I be trying to take back the club? Should I have prospected Juice? Like is it really so bad for Rocky to be married off against her will?" Jax rambled on as he stood up pacing . "Laddie" stated Chibs as he watched Jax. "Nonsense is wat I call that. Ye know you have done the right thing. Don't beat yerself up" continued Chibs.

"Lets focus on one thing at a time. First thing is getting Juice out of Charming" stated Chibs as he caught Jax's arm stopping his wild pacing. Jax simply nodded as he collapsed back in his chair. "Maybe I can make two people a bit happier" he mumbled as he took his phone out and scrolled to Bishops name.

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"Where are we going?" asked Juice as Jax turned the van out onto the highway instead of towards home after picking him up from the hospital. "I'm getting you somewhere safe for a bit" replied Jax.

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[oddlysweet]

meaning are you Iranian or Afghan because your bio has farsi

Afghanistan makes as much sense as Israel or Pakistan as far as cohesive nations go. All national identities are pretty silly imho. But if we’re splitting hairs, I come from the children of Aryans and Scythians, Mughals & Safavids, Tajiks & Pashtuns, Uzbeks & Turkmen, Pamiris & Hazaras. Sunnis, Shiites, Ishmaelites & Wahabists. Iksander, Mohammad (pbuh) and every people who chanced upon the most vibrant melting pot to grace the realm of hospitality & poetic practice. Qataghan, Khorasan & Aryana are what I would claim, but they’re being erased with each day. I prefer to think of the حزب as انارستان, though, “my birth certificate says Oakland.” My mother’s father was Mohammadzai but he never spoke Pashto with his children so Dari is all I know.

[troybeecham]

Today the Church remembers St. Edith Stein, Martyr.

Ora pro nobis.

St. Edith (12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was 14. Even so, she became so captivated by reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila that she began a spiritual journey that led to her baptism in 1922. Twelve years later she imitated Saint Teresa by becoming a Carmelite, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.

Born into a prominent, religious Jewish family in Breslau, Germany—now Wrocław, Poland—Edith abandoned Judaism in her teens. Moved by the tragedies of World War I, in 1915, she took lessons to become a nursing assistant and worked in an infectious diseases hospital. As a student at the University of Freiburg, she became fascinated by phenomenology–an approach to philosophy. Excelling as a protégé of Edmund Husserl, one of the leading phenomenologists, Edith earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1916. She continued as a university teacher until 1922, when she moved to a Dominican school in Speyer; her appointment as lecturer at the Educational Institute of Munich ended under pressure from the Nazis.

She was baptized on 1 January 1922 in the Roman Catholic Church. At that point, she wanted to become a Discalced Carmelite nun but was dissuaded by her spiritual mentor, the abbot of Beuron Archabbey. She then taught at a Catholic school of education in Speyer. As a result of the requirement of an "Aryan certificate" for civil servants promulgated by the Nazi government in April 1933 as part of its Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, she had to quit her teaching position.

She was finally admitted as a postulant to the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Cologne on 14 October, on the first vespers of the feast of Saint Teresa of Ávila, and received the religious habit as a novice in April 1934, taking the religious name Teresia Benedicta a Cruce (Teresia in remembrance of Teresa of Ávila, Benedicta in honour of Benedict of Nursia). She made her temporary vows on 21 April 1935, and her perpetual vows on 21 April 1938.

The same year, Teresa Benedicta a Cruce and her biological sister Rosa, by then also a convert and an extern (tertiary of the Order, who would handle the community's needs outside the monastery), were sent to the Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands, for their safety. Ultimately, she would not be safe in the Netherlands. The Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all churches across the nation on 20 July 1942 condemning the genocidal racism of National Socialism. In a retaliatory response, on 26 July 1942, the Reichskommissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts who had previously been spared. Along with two hundred and forty-two baptized Jews living in the Netherlands, Stein and her sister Tosa were arrested by the SS on 2 August 1942. Stein and her sister Rosa were imprisoned at the concentration camps of Amersfoort and Westerbork before being moved to Auschwitz. A Dutch official at Westerbork was so impressed by her sense of faith and calm that he offered her an escape plan. Stein vehemently refused his assistance, stating: "If somebody intervened at this point and took away my chance to share in the fate of my brothers and sisters, that would be utter annihilation."

On 7 August 1942, early in the morning, 987 Jews were moved to the Auschwitz concentration camp. They, along with Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa, were murdered by the National Socialists in a gas chamber in Auschwitz on 9 August 1942.

Pope St. John Paul II beatified Teresa Benedicta of the Cross in 1987 and canonized her 12 years later, and named her one of the six patron saints of Europe.

The miracle that was the basis for her canonization is the cure of Benedicta McCarthy, a little girl who had swallowed a large amount of paracetamol (acetaminophen), which causes hepatic necrosis. The young girl's father, Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, a priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, immediately called together relatives and prayed for Teresa's intercession. Shortly thereafter, the nurses in the intensive care unit saw her sit up, completely healthy. Ronald Kleinman, a pediatric specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who treated the girl, testified about her recovery to church tribunals, stating: "I was willing to say that it was miraculous." McCarthy would later attend Sr. Teresa Benedicta's canonization.

The writings of Edith Stein fill 17 volumes, many of which have been translated into English. A woman of integrity, she followed the truth wherever it led her. One of the more profound things that she wrote was,

“Do not accept anything as truth that lacks Love. Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth. One without the other is a destructive lie.”

Almighty God, by whose grace and power your holy martyr Edith triumphed over suffering and was faithful even to death: Grant us, who now remember her in thanksgiving, to be so faithful in our witness to you in this world, that we may receive with her the crown of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Amen.

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YRKKH 3rd April 2025 Written Update: Shattering News

YRKKH 3rd April 2025 Written Update: Shattering News. Today in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai written update, Vidya, deep in thought, wonders if she can erase the tragedy that has shattered Shivani’s life. Meanwhile, Madhav crumbles under the weight of grief, and Abhira steps in to console Vidya, who is drowning in guilt and self-blame. Aryan, once again proving he has no filter, blurts out his worst fears—that Shivani is gone, and soon, Armaan and Rohit might follow. Abhira, already on edge, snaps at him, but it takes her about five seconds to realize she was too harsh. She quickly apologizes and reassures him that Armaan and Rohit will be fine because, you know, positive thinking fixes everything. Determined to take matters into her own hands, she meets Shivani. At the hospital, the doctors deliver more bad news—Armaan and Rohit are still in critical condition. Instead of letting the medical professionals do their jobs, Vidya, in full “I know better” mode, decides the best course of action is to transfer them to another hospital. She’s convinced that these doctors failed Shivani, so naturally, they’re about to fail Armaan and Rohit too. Because blaming professionals who are actually trying to help is the best way to handle grief, right? Overcome with guilt for not being able to save Shivani, she becomes obsessed with saving Armaan and Rohit, while Abhira attempts the impossible—reasoning with someone who has already made up their mind. Elsewhere, Abhir, who is surprisingly the voice of reason, tries to comfort Charu, assuring her that Armaan and Rohit are fighters. Meanwhile, Kaveri, who has a habit of making everything even more dramatic, tells Manish that tragedy follows him like a shadow. She ominously asks if he can sense the impending doom. Manish, trying his best to be the wise elder, tells her to be strong and act as the family’s pillar. But let’s be real—Kaveri is way too caught up in her emotions to take that advice, and she spirals into more distress. Abhira, still processing everything, finally meets Shivani and completely breaks down. She demands to know why Shivani left them and questions how she can even face Armaan after this. Ruhi, ever the expert at accidentally overhearing major revelations, catches Abhira’s cries and finds out about Shivani’s death. The grief is too much for both of them, and they collapse into a dramatic sob-fest. Manisha, seeing the emotional mess unfolding, wisely stops Swarna from adding more fuel to the fire. But Ruhi and Abhira are not ones to be kept in the dark for long. They confront Swarna, practically demanding answers. The revelation that Armaan and Rohit are fighting for their lives hits Ruhi like a truck. Swarna, not one to sugarcoat, tells them they should go see their husbands now before it’s too late. Abhira, however, insists on waiting until they recover, because that somehow makes sense in her head. Swarna, visibly frustrated, warns them that they may not get another chance. Manisha, acting like the only sane one, advises them to take care of themselves. With emotions running high, Abhira and Ruhi continue to worry about Armaan and Rohit. Kajal urges Vidya to visit her sons, but Vidya, still in her “I will only see them if they survive” mindset, flat-out refuses. Because apparently, avoiding your unconscious children is a great strategy for ensuring their recovery. Finally, the nurse gives the long-awaited update—Abhira and Ruhi can now see their husbands. But just as they’re about to go, Manisha notices that both women are visibly shaking and questions how they will handle the emotional weight of this moment. She also reminds everyone that Ruhi is pregnant, which only makes things harder. As if the situation wasn’t already intense enough, Kaveri barges in and demands that everyone stop talking about the baby. Because why not add more tension? Kaveri then goes full savage mode, looking Abhira and Ruhi dead in the eyes and dropping the worst-case scenario bomb. She bluntly asks what they will do if Armaan and Rohit don’t survive. She questions how Abhira will raise her baby alone if something happens to Armaan. Turning to Ruhi, she asks how she plans to manage if Rohit is gone. And just like that, both women are left speechless, as if someone just knocked the air out of them. Not stopping there, Kaveri urges them to face reality and reconsider bringing their babies into the world. Because, you know, nothing comforts two already devastated women more than telling them their worst fears might come true. YRKKH 3rd April 2025 Written Update Precap: Armaan and Abhira thank Ruhi for bringing their child into the world. In a heartbreaking turn, Rohit breathes his last, entrusting Armaan with the responsibility of taking care of Ruhi and Daksh. Armaan and Abhira are left in complete shock, staring at the reality they never wanted to face. Read the full article

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Oz Rewatch 3: S5E04: Next Stop Valhalla

Storylines

Jaime tries to kill Guerra and is killed instead; Miguel feels guilty; Alicia Hinden comes to Oz with the dog training program; Augustus, Penders, and Miguel are selected

Miss Sally’s Schoolyard to become Sallycise; Brass confirms to Rebadow he bought the lottery ticket; Martinez hits Brass with a shit cocktail; Gloria tries to get Martinez put in the hospital and then beats him up when he keeps touching her face

Beecher and Schillinger fight during an interaction session; Schillinger antagonises Schibetta;

Peter Marie visits Keller; McClain visits Keller

Winthrop and Guenzel arrive at Oz; Guenzel is taken under Beecher’s wing while Winthrop becomes a prag for the Aryans in Unit B

Frank Urbano arrives at Oz; Beecher asks Pancamo for the Italians help in protecting Guenzel; the Aryans and Italians get into a fight

Gloria tells Ryan he has to tell his mother about his crimes; Ryan breakdances instead; Shupe tells O’Reily that Li going to rape his mom; Ryan and Cyril kill Li

Augustus continues to grieve his mother and ends up breaking his sobriety

Omar annoys Emerald City and Said with his singing, McManus gives him a supply closet to practice in; Redding demands Omar use it to sell drugs; Lalar and Arif complain to Said that he’s neglecting his role as leader; Robson tortures and kills Lalar

Sister: That’s why they gotta stop announcing everything they do in this show, like...

Sister: I feel like [Norma’s] just dead at this point.

Sister: I feel like they’re leading up to him being like a mass shooter or something. Me: You think he’s gonna snap? Sister: He seems like the type...

Sister: …I think being free would making him happy. I mean, [Toby] had that whole vision about being free that did not include [Chris], so I think he’ll be fine.

Sister: You can just tell them anything and they’ll let you through…

Sister: What’s wrong with this guy? What’s he in for? Me: Hate crimes… Murder, officially, I think. Sister: Hate crime? What’s he sniffing people for? Me: He's just a perv...

Sister: …That’s so gross… In my sickened state*, I can’t even summon a bleugh. Me: [Retching noise] Sister: Thanks. (*We got some booster shots yesterday and Sister always gets sick afterward lol)

Sister: When are they going to address that guy whose wife also died? Me: Never. Sister: So why did they introduce her?! To spout off some facts and get shushed by the priest?? Me: Maybe there was originally supposed to be more of a story to it and it go cut. Sister: No, they just wanted to do their little after school special moment and then not deal with it. You know, if any of the Muslims should be having the issues in these episodes, it should be the other guy (Arif), not Mr. Said... Me: They could have issues together. Sister: Yeah. Kill the Nazi helper dude. The one who's egging everything on. Schillinger doesn't even really do stuff on his own anymore. Before, he didn't want to fight and wanted to become a Jesus freak and it was always that guy whispering in his ear. And now look.

Sister: How we know he’s not gonna build a bomb in there? … Oh, I guess they took away all the cleaning supplies…

Stray Thoughts

Sister says Jia Kenmin and Li Chen’s plan to provoke Ryan so they could kill him in self defense was really not thought-out

Sister is convinced that someone is going to die for one of the dogs

Sister believes that killing Robson would get rid of most of the Aryans’ bite since she views him as being the worst out of all the Aryans

Final thoughts

The scene where Robson and what’s his face torture Lalar is the toughest scene to watch in the entire show, imo. And it pisses me off (like, I’m actually getting mad thinking about it right now, lol) that Robson gets more expansion in terms of character as the show progresses, too, because whooooooooo gives a shit about a Nazi?! They still haven’t followed up on Arif’s wife LMAO. Also Urbano gets introduced this episode and they don’t end up doing shit with him, really, either. But let’s learn about this asshole!!

Sister: I feel like they’ve run out of storylines with the Muslims and are just repeating past ones. Wasn’t it [Arif] who was the one complaining about Said’s leadership the last time? And then he couldn’t handle it which caused the whole thing… and now he’s doing it again? Me: I think they just don’t like when Said helps other people. They complained when Said was spending time on Beecher, too… Sister: Yeah, [Arif] is so needy… He’s like “you’re spending too much time with your roommate who you have to stay in a cell with” and also every time he is around, [Said] just wants [Omar] to be quiet anyway…