I just wanted to wish you the best moving forward and hope you’re able to find the inner calm and space to breathe and reset that you need. There was a time once in my life I feared myself, I don’t feel that way anymore, people can heal. We can come back from dark places and I sincerely wish this for you. Best of luck.
2027, It’ll be done by 2027. Everyone is confused about what is happening now— but Hamas knows if they release all of the hostages and Israel goes right back to their BS the whole world is now watching. The West is shifting heavily and the Arab nations too. Israel thinks it can bandage its reputation through manufacturing more and more consent by buying up airtime like CBS and The Times. But they can’t. And their arrogance repeatedly betrays them.
Their supremacist ideals will be their downfall. They’re flailing already and willing to throw punches any which way that suits their current tantrums. As they escalate, the world will become steadily more intolerant of their mess.
Also, on a religious note, many Gazans know the end of Gaza marks the beginning of the fall of Israel. If you’re meant to survive you will, if you’re meant to be martyred then that is from Allah SWT. This doesn’t mean they aren’t outraged many days at Hamas and what is happening period but most regular people have little control and accept that this has to happen. That it’s already written and that their faith, and Israelis lack of faith, will determine the ultimate outcome. (I’m not saying anyone wants to die or wants this to happen, they just find solace in their faith in the acceptance of they and their loved ones fates.)
There is no future where Israel does not expose themselves— where even the Rocks and Trees bear witness against them. And when Israel full on marches on Damascus, it’s game over, and they’ve already been toying with the idea. So I’d keep a close eye on Syria as well. But Israel must grow in order to fall, at least that’s the theory held by many. And a toppled giant will indeed shake the world.
WWIII started the day Israel rolled her tanks back into Gaza. It was the lighting of the fuse. We can’t stop the unraveling now, it’s too late.
All of this from a steel plant’s smoke stack radioactive plume, from the melting down of medical equipment? …I’m still suspicious of the containers themselves. But, that’s just me.
This won’t end until someone puts Israel in their place permanently. They’ve proven over and over they’re not just a regional threat but a global threat. See: Samson Option target list. Their nuclear program must be put under the same microscope as other nuclear nations and their program dismantled as well as their military reduced and their apartheid practices ended.
Theodora convincing her husband not to flee the Nika Riots of 532 AD. She successfully rewrote Christianity and global history forever (for better or for worse.)
I don’t know the specific battle per se, but the conquering of the Iberian peninsula and founding of Al-Andaluz and the resulting age of enlightened that pulled Europe from the Dark Ages. Ie. When Islam saved Europe from herself.
Also, Fredrick II “failed crusade” and his friendship and mutual love of falconry with Al-Kamil. Not a battle but just a specific historical nerd who loved falcons and diplomacy who probably saved countless lives in his time because “birds”.
These are my Eurocentric answers, not specific battles per se but definitely pivots in history imo that rewrote Europe and its ability to be a future global player.
I mean you’re not wrong. It’d be great to live in a perfect world. This method has worked great for leftists and liberals alike in winning friends.
Perhaps because I’ve walked the line between workers rights and blue collar backgrounds I have a little more empathy for meeting people where they’re at then demanding they adhere to academic standard. I’ve never found arrogance, perceived or real, to be a very helpful tool in organizing or building community. Flies and honey and all that jazz.
There are plenty of well educated trans and homo phobes out there. Making it about education level sounds classist/elitist and alienating to the many well meaning intelligent people who didn’t have the opportunity to reach levels of higher education.
There are plenty of racist, misogynistic, and bigoted “educated” people.
You don’t need a university classroom to teach you about gender or sex or being a decent human being. All of this information is readily available to the public, in fact, if it takes a Masters or PhD to understand what is yes- in fact basic biology and gender theory, then you’re doing something wrong. And by basic I mean, human biological sex can also be complex and gender is a social construct. It’s an afternoon course not six plus fucking years of schooling.
Yes, oversimplification is weaponized but framing like this can come off as insulting and makes it sound more complex than it needs to be.
I feel like the Mississippi adjacent states shouldn’t be considered landlocked (and probably the Missouri River ones too). Also Idaho, Montana, North Dakota etc need to go. As well as NM and AZ.
No, because other people hold many of those memories for you. And while memories and conditioning play a role in personality they aren’t the end all on who we are. We are still us, even if a bit “different” from before.
If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still “your relative/friend”?
Absafuckinglootly, because I carry that friendship and _I _ owe that loyalty. Just because they can’t remember us, I don’t get to abandon them. Loyalty. People need to learn it.
What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?
Memory to me is often jarring and annoying. I suffer from unrequested flashbacks frequently.
But, memory is kind of amazing because you can have a shared memory with someone and it be completely different from their experience. Memory is so malleable, and often a coping mechanism, both natural and taught, for dealing with traumas is literally rewriting your memory to something you can live with. Shaving off the pieces you can’t or making them more “dull”.
I had night terrors after a bad accident until my brain literally rewrote the visuals of some of it and while I could verbalize it to you, I couldn’t “relive” that piece anymore which was a huge physical and emotional relief when it finally happened. And I didn’t do it, my brain did it on its own. Memory is weird.
Memory is often deceitful anyway, so relying on it as heavily as we do is actually kind of odd. Our perceived memory is stronger than the real event. We catalog all kinds of other information on top of what is actually the “present”. Think about when you wake up and commit a dream to memory. The retelling of the dream to yourself is actually stronger than the dream itself. Our “story” is the memory not the “present”.
Neat question. I could ramble on this topic for a long time…
I just wanted to wish you the best moving forward and hope you’re able to find the inner calm and space to breathe and reset that you need. There was a time once in my life I feared myself, I don’t feel that way anymore, people can heal. We can come back from dark places and I sincerely wish this for you. Best of luck.