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Iranian Jewish Rabbi standing on top of the ruins of a bombed synagogue in Tehran by ‘Israel’

As a radical, let me clear: The Democratic party will lose all legitimacy if they do not clearly reject participation in genocide.

This was the second year Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio has observed Holy Week by tending to trans sex workers. them.us/story/colombia…

Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990.

「赠汪伦」 李白乘舟将欲行，忽闻岸上踏歌声。 桃花潭水深千尺，不及汪伦送我情！ 李白

@typeclonghouse bullshit

I was just thinking about this recently, but "having friends" (non familial) is a very modern and urban concept. The most traditional ppl I know have their extended family as their primary social circle and frankly it makes sense. Friends are a poor substitute for blood relation

My friends! @mollycrabapple's book about the Bund is coming out tomorrow!!!! If you listen to the Revolutions Podcast you will love this book it's that simple. It's so good

@aybrowatchyrjet @TheAdamTuttle @BuckPanic tbf even the City of Phoenix showed their lack of enthusiasm for expansion by cancelling the Capitol Extension supposedly bc of vague threats by the AZLeg, in spite of the fact that the Hobbs admin promised their backing.

@TheAdamTuttle @BuckPanic the problem w trying to extend light rail is that so many people kick up a fuss over it. for example, chandler has some interest in rail but in order to get there they would have to convince south tempe to accept it. it makes creating a network unnecessarily hard 😭

EVERYBODY GET MORE RAILPILLED NOW

@JakeRoninLane @Eivor_Koy Europeans didn't use perspective either until circa 1450, when it became common among Florentine artists during the Renaissance

@Eivor_Koy what's interesting is how 2D east asians paint. they can't see 3D. maybe because chinese have 2D faces.

Ever wondered how ancient China pictured Westerners back when they thought the whole world was paying tribute to their Emperor? I stumbled on this wild ancient Chinese picture book from around 1769 called "皇清职贡图". It's basically an ethnological guide to all the "tributary" states and foreigners who supposedly bowed to the Qing Empire—including some very confused takes on Western nations. The book is packed with hilarious factual mix-ups. It claims Sweden and England were vassals of Holland, and that Portugal and France were pretty much the same country. The title itself sounds gloriously arrogant today: "Collections of Portraits of Subordinate People of the Qing Dynasty." Before the Opium Wars, many Chinese elites truly believed the "Middle Kingdom" was the center of civilization and had zero need to learn from outsiders. Westerners were often described as "monster-like people" just because they looked and dressed so differently. And the Chinese paid a steep price for that bubble of superiority. Less than 70 years after the book came out, the First Opium War kicked off. China was gradually turned into a semi-colony of the West, kicking off what we now call the "Century of Humiliation." Arrogance breeds misunderstanding of other cultures. Ignorance breeds disastrous miscalculations. The Chinese learned that lesson the hard way. Looking at the modern Western world sometimes feels eerily familiar—like staring at a mirror image of pre-Opium War China. Both were (or are) the major economic and cultural powers of their era. Both show the same cracks: elites who can come across as arrogant and self-absorbed, and populations with surprisingly little real exposure to how the rest of the world actually thinks and lives. Here are three gems from the book that perfectly capture that mix of fascination, confusion, and pure imagination: Picture 1: The Polish man He’s shown rocking a fierce mustache, holding a leashed bear (because apparently bear-taming was the national hobby in the Qing imagination of Poland), and looking every bit the exotic warrior from the distant northwest. Picture 2: The Russian woman Elegant yet imposing, dressed in layers that scream cold-climate nobility, with a caption that treats Russia like some far-northern tributary rather than a massive empire in its own right. Picture 3: The Swedish woman She gets the full "exotic Western lady" treatment—flowing clothes, a confident pose, and descriptions that lump her in with the Dutch as if Sweden were just a quirky outpost of Holland. No matter how wildly off-base these depictions are, they’re still endlessly entertaining. They’re a time capsule of what happens when a superpower looks outward through a very narrow, self-centered lens. History has a funny way of repeating those patterns.

To you, it's a problem. To me, it's a solution.

@Deshpacito661 "I skipped easter mass bc it was crowded" lmfao

So much of NYC culture is just strivers from middle America trying to pretend to be old money based on what they see on TV

Look at this. Look at it and wonder why you don't have it. Ask your local politician why you don't have it. Ask them why the busses are always late and the highways are all congested to fuck.

@BuckPanic we could have been beautiful...

@SuperStableNews @amazingatheist White people already did that to Black people for hundreds of years, you're not even done paying off your debt.

@amazingatheist Nah let's bring back black face but go really hard this time, chain gangs and all really really dial up that heat and see if they like what actual racism feels like. Bring back colored fountains but only hire janitors for the white one, let's be as racist as black people for once

Conservatives, I know you guys are going to want to just knee-jerk support this, but let's see the bigger picture here: together, we can actually get rid of this fucking shitweasel. All we have to do is pretend to be legitimately offended by this and he's gone. Okay? We all clear on the plan?

@pulsotac @Bejarano_Hyde It's not up to you to judge others, that belongs to God. Matthew 6:14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

@bjthoi @Bejarano_Hyde Pero que le lave los pies al ex-ateo, a la ex-feminista y al ex-judío entonces.

SÍ, BOBO HIJUEPUTA. ESE ES EL PUNTO.

@pulsotac @Bejarano_Hyde in Matthew 18:15 it says "just between the two of you." Matthew 6:5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

@Bejarano_Hyde @bjthoi Dios salva y también condena. Y lo otro, Mateo 18:15

@MelanieLatest The idea that Israel is tolerant of Christianity is a bald faced lie, disproven by the barest amount of research. churchinneed.org/attacks-on-chr…

Just a hunch, but perhaps the Church might acknowledge that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians have always been totally free to practise their faith; might stop regurgitating its own patented blood libels about Jewish “atrocities” committed by others; and might state that since Jesus was a Jew from Judea, it’s a malicious lie to claim that the indigenous Jews are now in “illegal occupation” of their own historic homeland.

@soncharm There's also the factor of the fence creating a situation where slow running power hitters are more effective. In an infinite field situation, there is urgency to run the bases as quickly as possible no matter where the ball lands, meaning fewer big guys hitting dingers.

Baseball wedge issue. Is the fence there to mark where a ‘home run’ is, and the point of baseball is to cultivate/generate ‘home runs’ as much as possible? Or is the fence a necessary-evil because an infinite spatial quadrant (the platonic form of a baseball field) can’t be built in practice? And the point of baseball is for the batter to hit ‘em where they ain’t? And if a fielder *can* get there (fence or not) then the batter didn’t do that? A: It’s the latter.

If an army was going door to door warning people that giving sanctuary to their Jewish neighbors would result in their houses being bombed, there'd be no question what was going on here.

Palestinians certainly accept that a state called Israel exists, because it's hard to deny the existence of someone who murdered your family.