#the children are watching us

[thedisabledfemme]

The kids are all right

Yesterday, my community service club was doing outside litter pickup, when I overheard one of my students talking about Israel killing kids.

“Yeah, Israel is killing Palestinian kids. Israel is killing children like us.”

“What!?”

*pulls out phone to show a video of babies in distress after the Israeli air strikes.”

“Huhh! Omg look at her!”

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I keep thinking what he meant by “us.” Children their age, racially minoritized people, or was it something else?

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The children are listening.

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[nauchtyweasel]

How barbaric can they be? How can anyone defend them after MOST of their public speakers/politicians/common people say that women and children are targets???

“You ask me what I would do, and the answer is simply leveling the ground and to kill the largest number possible. Because the woman there is an enemy, the baby there is an enemy, and the first grader is an enemy, and the Hamas militant is an enemy, and the pregnant woman is an enemy,” says Eliyahu Yossian, Israeli analyst and veteran of Unit 8200, a high-tech spy branch of the Israeli military.

Via The Electronic Intifada

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French-Israeli considers nuclear option for Gaza.The mother of a French-Israeli soldier who died in combat in Gaza says ‘No one should live in this land except the Jewish people.’

In an interview on the Israeli i24NEWS, the woman said Israel is a country with nuclear weapons, and the war on Gaza is about Israel’s survival.

Israel has killed over 20,000 civilians in Gaza since 7 October, predominantly women and children. Nearly two million people are displaced and face starvation, water contamination and lack of shelter or medical supplies.

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Israeli journalist calls for the total destruction and demolition of Gaza

Israeli journalist Boaz Golan says Israel should have killed 150,000 people in Gaza on the first day of the war.

In an interview on the Israeli Channel 14, he dismissed talks between US President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as futile. Golan says Israel must ‘finish off’ and destroy Gaza and demolish all the houses there.

Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of its assault on 7 October. Nearly half of those are children. Nearly two million people have been displaced.

Via Middle East Monitor

[randomrichards]

THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US:

A boy bears witness

Passed around by relatives

But can find no love

[clumsypuppy]

act 4 :(

@chipper-smol and i came to a realization

[quiddling]

wife!!!

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

[zvahlne]

i'm just saying we might as well go all the way. really commit to the bit

based on my tags on my last post because i made myself laugh way too much

[nyankoizumi]

Honestly this is why I keep calling their ship redsuits in my head because I want a distinction between normal present day spamtenna and big shot spamtenna because they feel so uniquely tasty. Do you guys understand

[mansnooziesmoosmutzel]

[philsmeatylegss]

I will never fear undocumented immigrants anywhere near as much as I fear Republican law makers. And that is something that will never change.

[tategaminu]

Rayla??🤨

[zombieplaguedoc]

Imagine wrapping up in a pile of soft fur blankets, by a fire, with your f/o. It's snowing outside and you can hear the wind howling but you feel safe and warm together.

ANTIS DNI, THIS POST IS NOT FOR YOU

[seatail-mc]

/j

You know what would actually unite yellow and green? bring Leonarda to the realm! Life system and all!

(Dapper/Pomme probably wouldn't work as well cause Foolish wouldn't commit all his time to protecting them like Bad would for literally any egg that showed up)

[pharawee]

M.Flow just posted the pilot trailer for their new office BL My Stubborn with Yoon Phusanu (Unforgotten Night), Boat Yongyut (My Secret Love), Punn Chirathanaphat, and Oat Pasakorn... and it's off to a very spicy start.

[theprinceandthewitch]

Miraculous Ladybug is really banking on this new generation of kids to give a damn about the Identity Reveal, huh?

Cuz the kids who watched this show when season one came out have aged out of the intended demographic for ML. Most of them have stopped giving a shit because now they're grown ass adults with obligations that need tending to. They're not going to make time for a show they used to watch when they were a kid.

It's actually so crazy that they're still using the identity reveal as the shows main hook... It's been almost 10 years - this hook has long overstayed it's welcome.

But why would ML ever dare to try something new, when it can just use the same formula it's had since the beginning? This is Zagtoons' golden calf after all. They will draaaaag it out until someone decides to give it the axe.

[corellianhounds]

I know we (rightfully) give Attack of the Clones a lot of grief for Obi-Wan just being able to show up unannounced and for him to just be given the literal biggest state secrets possibly of the entire war, in addition to how this cloning operation has been going on for like a decade without anyone knowing anything or any documentation crossing Mace Windu’s desk, but considering Sifo Dyas or Dooku or whoever was able to somehow erase an entire planet from (allegedly) every known bit of data collection or documentation, it could be argued that maybe Dyas and Dooku were just master forgers and had fake correspondence and reports going between them and the Kaminoans for over a decade now.

It’s not that far of a leap to say they got their hands on some heavily encrypted software on some very expensive computers and were able to imitate different speech patterns and documents and handwriting and official stamps or even holograms and holocalls. As far as the Kaminoans know, all of their contacts are fully aware and in the know about this clone army (because as far as they know, Sifo Dyas is alive and had to have been in communication recently)— When Obi-Wan shows up, it just happened to be at the exact time Dooku was the one supposed to be there in person himself that day. The Kaminoans did greet him as Master Jedi and said he was expected.

Obviously that could have only worked in the movie if Dooku had shown up and we saw him having to keep his cool/sneak around when some other Kaminoans tell him his “assistant” has already arrived, would you like us to escort you to him?

Internally Dooku’s thinking “WHOMST??” but externally he’s keeping his chill while searching the Force for whoever else might be— is that OBI-WAN KENOBI??

It’s soooooo tasty for Qui-Gon’s master and Qui-Gon’s apprentice to meet under these circumstances. Both of them know the other shouldn’t be there right now. They’re both having to play it cool in front of the Kaminoans, and this is even besides the fact Kenobi was there to find the bounty hunter assassin in the first place.

“I didn’t think you… were still as active in the Order,” Obi-Wan says slowly and diplomatically, knowing for a FACT that Dooku left the Order a long time ago.

“I… retired from active service,” Dooku says, equally diplomatically. “I act as a… consultant from time to time.”

“It’s soooo funny how I’ve never heard anything about that or this clone army the Jedi ordered,” Obi-Wan says, making direct eye contact with Dooku and probably trying to read his mind (to no avail). “The one they ordered ten years ago before there was ever any thought of the Jedi being actively involved on the frontlines of what isn’t a declared war. What would the Jedi want with a military in the first place?”

“How old are you, young one?” Dooku deflects in that fake kindly condescending grandfatherly voice. “How long have you been on the Council— Oh you’re just a Kniiiiight, that’s right, okay I see. How interesting. How much information are you actually privilege to, Obi-Wan?”

And this is all happening even before Obi-Wan Nancy Drew’d his way to Jango Fett’s private quarters!

Obi-Wan KNOWS he can’t go rogue right now when he’s that far from his ship on a city surrounded by an ocean and a literal army of clones soldiers (of that one super efficient bounty hunter, whenever it is he finds that out) all apparently under the command (?) of someone who definitely definitely super should not be speaking or doing or ordering anything under the name of the Jedi Order.

Count Dooku (who he doesn’t even know is a Sith yet) could very easily accuse him of being an impostor and have him detained or attacked or killed on sight. Zam Wessel was already established to be a shapeshifter in this movie, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility for Obi-Wan to not be who he says he is (which is kinda true?? since he WASN’T the Jedi ambassador for the Temple there to pick up his to-go order of a quarter-million identical men, with a million more on the way??). The Kaminoans might not even know much else about Jedi and Sith aesthetics besides “Wears robes” so if Dooku pulled a red lightsaber it might not even faze them, since he’d be able to provide more information and correspondence proving he’s the ‘actual’ Jedi anyway

Like can you imagine a fight breaking out not just between Kenobi and Jango, but a team-up of Jango and Dooku against Kenobi? That would have jumpstarted some of this clone army business a lot earlier in the movie and actually addressed what should have been the biggest conspiracy, coverup, and militaristic move of the MILLENNIUM