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astraystayyh · 6 months

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I am unsure how to speak about Palestine. People keep telling me they fired first and my google searches are very bad

Hey, glad you sent in this ask! People who claim that Palestine initiated the firing view October 7th as an isolated event, when we cannot treat it as such. Oct 7 comes as a response to a 75 year colonization. Just like Hamas was founded in 1987 during the First Intifada- a series of civilian protests, where Palestinians threw stones at soldiers, and were met by a disproportionate and liberal use of force as described by a Humans Rights Watch report.

How could Palestine fire first when Hamas was created in direct response to the displacement and colonization that Palestinians faced? Hamas wouldn't have existed if Israel didn't murder, unlawfully imprison, torture and displace Palestinians. Oct 7 wasn't an isolate incident, every action implicates a reaction and every occupation leads to a resistance.

The west claims that Israel has a right to defend itself, leading in two months alone to the mass and brutal murder of 16.000+ civilians. But Palestine cannot defend itself against its colonizers (Just like Ukraine has done for example against Russia, a resistance backed by the American and European powers alike?)

I urge you to read about all the massacres Israel committed against Palestinians prior to Oct 7, so you'd understand better that Palestine did not fire first. Israel did not even exist prior to 1948 for Palestine to attack it.

And, let's be honest for a second. If someone comes into your home, forces you out of it, destroys it, murders everyone you know, denies you of your most basic rights, unlawfully imprisons you, tortures you physically and psychologically, destroys your land and hinders your agriculture and destroys your libraries and erases your culture, would you not resist? Would you stay silent? Of course not, and Palestinians shouldn't be dehumanized and killed for it.

Now for your second point, I'm glad you brought that up because western media is very very biased. To give you some examples, here is a Washington Post headline about four premature babies that died, decomposing on their hospital beds in Al-Nasr Hospital, in northern Gaza. They were left in the prenatal care after Israel threatened doctors to bomb the hospital if they didn't evacuate it.

"Four fragiles lives found ended"

Who ended them? Why were they in that situation to begin with? Who was behind their tragic murder? The journalist behind this post deliberately chose this title to avoid pointing the blame to Israel. In fact, the entire article doesn't directly nor clearly state the reason behind this slow and torturous death. When those four babies would not have died IF Israel didn't threaten to bomb their hospital, forcing everyone to evacuate.

We as journalists learn that the 5Ws are the essential key elements that form the basis of any article : who? where? when? what? how/why? Israel should be clearly denounced as the one responsible of those deaths, especially considering that it's a war crime underneath the Geneva convention.

Let's take another example. Pay attention to elusive langage and the way media skirts around words, using euphemisms to redirect the blame. Palestinians "die"- as if passing away due to natural causes, as if there wasn't a clear intent to murder them. Whereas Israelis are "killed"- deliberately targeted. This double standard already shows you that the media you're reading from is heavily biased.

We journalists also learn that headlines are very very important, especially on social media where most people get their information strictly by reading the headlines and sharing it, without bothering to check the entirety of the article. Now, here's an example of a misleading headline by BBC.

At first read this looks like confirmed accounts of rape. Anyone who reads it would think that it has been proven irrevocably, but let's look more into the article :

None of the rape accusations were verified, neither by the police or the journalists of BBC. All of these are alleged claims that have no tangible backing, and yet they were presented as factual in the headline, the most important part of any article that catches the attention of readers. By formulating the headline as such, BBC pre-establishes the premise that Hamas did rape women and that it has been proven. This is the information that most people would retain as they wouldn't bother reading the article. This is how propaganda starts and how false news are shared widely (remember the story of the 40 beheaded babies debunked by the IDF itself?)

Always look out for the langage and terminology the media uses. It is not coincidental, it is deliberate and it serves the interests/editorial line of the media. And you can speak up about Palestine by denouncing the genocide they're facing. If you can read about 16.000+ deaths, most of which are children, if you can see images of hospitals, refugee camps, schools, ambulances, houses, "safe routes" bombed by Israel and still be unsure of your stance, then i don't know what to tell you.

#free palestine #free gaza

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insipid-drivel · 1 month

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Hi, hey, hello! I just wanted to say I saw your Basic Horse Info post and it made me SO happy. I've been riding since I was 2 (English, competitive hunter/jumper) and spent three years working alongside an equine vet. I always get so bothered when people handle horses incorrectly in media. I just wanted to shoot you a message and say thanks for taking the time to do that, and that it's super hella rad that you have barrel racing experience! I have ridden western a tiny bit myself, but nothing close to the skill it takes to run barrels. I'd love to get back into riding on my own terms someday (money pending) and dig more into that discipline. The agility on the flat is super cool to me! I am always down to talk shop about horses and riding and all that, so if you ever want a horsey chat pal, I'd love to be that person! Anyway have a wonderful day!

Thanks for reaching out! I seriously envy your ability to handle English riding rofl, I would always end up slipping off the saddle or just freaking out in general because I didn't feel like there was enough under my butt to keep me stable with English tack! Plus, I just... suck at dressage. I tried a little dressage, and my riding instructor would literally bow her head and pinch between her eyes at how terrible my posture was, how bad I was at remembering where to turn my head, etc.

I choose to blame learning to ride in my early teens rather than a very young age. Or just being a big baby, which is just as likely. My mom, who's worked with horses since she was a child, wanted to raise me in the saddle, but our finances never really worked out to where we could pull that off.

The funny thing is that I only got into barrel racing because it was the sport that my instructing horse practiced before his owner retired him from competing and trained him as a teaching horse. Once my ass was sitting on Western style tack, things kinda just clicked for me, and after a few months my teacher was running out of stuff for me to learn from the "general riding" category and busted out her old set of barrels one day just to give me something more to do! She didn't actually mean to get me hooked on it, but I don't think she should've ever blamed herself. I blame my horse, Chip, for getting me into barrel racing.

He was a sour old grump (he was about 14 when I started learning; your classic chestnut and white painted Quarterhorse), healthy, but had to retire from racing after he'd badly strained one of the tendons in his back legs and the vet warned he'd probably tear it if he had to keep competing seriously. He could still run the barrels from time to time for fun, but continuing to professionally compete would've lamed him permanently. He generally had the demeanor of a bitter athlete forced to retire before his career could really take off, and kind of... forgot he was supposed to be going easy on me when he saw the barrels. I had only just barely begun learning the rhythm for galloping and was still very, very nervous about it (I wasn't even that good at switching leads yet), but Chip did NOT care, took off at the barrels, and I suddenly found myself at a full gallop on his back, wide-eyed, and flying around those barrels.

After that? I couldn't stop barrel racing. My instructor started making the barrels a regular part of my riding instructions. That feeling of flying around those breakneck turns - the freedom and feeling of the gods of Life and Death flipping a coin on your odds of survival at the same time - woke something up in me, and I was racing casually with him and getting ready to try competition riding on a new horse when I started developing problems with my gallbladder that took me out of the saddle for good :( That's when I discovered a love for working as a stable hand, since it kept me with the horses and at the barn.

However, about 6 years ago, I had my gallbladder removed, my health has been getting better, and I now live in an area rife with horse ranches. The closest store to my house is literally a tack and garden supply shop. My doctor has been nudging me to get more exercise, and I'm really beginning to miss the smell of alfalfa flakes...

Feel free to visit my DMs/askbox again! I love reading the tags on that post and seeing other horse stories in the comments and tags, so it's awesome to hear from people directly about them :)

#asks

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struggle-but-its-all-ocean-floor · 7 months

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Hey there! I'd love to get your thoughts on something. I saw a promo this morning on NBC for Jungkook’s upcoming Today show performance, and the language has been on my mind all day. He was described as: “The breakout star of BTS!”

When he appeared on Good Morning America and the Global Citizens Festival just a few months ago, they called him, “BTS’s Jungkook” or “From BTS, Jungkook.” I feel like there’s a lot of mileage between these designations and hyping him as “the breakout star of BTS.”

Why? Because American culture glorifies individual success. Whether it’s in business or sports or entertainment or politics, we give lip service to the notion of teamwork, but real adulation is for the people we can label mavericks, trailblazers, or…breakout stars. Within this mindset, there’s very little room left over to admire group achievement. The pinnacle of superstardom is reserved for those who are exceptional enough to stand out *from* the group, not be part of it.

So, I’m rewinding to a few months ago to imagine what my all-American Muggle-mind would have made of a promotion for “the breakout star of BTS.” To be honest, I would’ve assumed that one of BTS’s members had left the group because he had surpassed them. There are potentially millions of non-ARMY American customers, like that Muggle-me, to whom Jungkook could be marketed as *the* star---singular---who broke out of that boy-band.

Now, I’m in no way suggesting that Jungkook himself believes this. I have a lot of faith in him, in the dedication he has to the members and their work as a group, and in the sheer power of BTS when they are all together. I'm sure their comeback in 2025 will be astonishing (to quote Suga on Suchwita, “we’ll devour the world.”).

But that’s two years away, and I can feel this narrative building (in the U.S., at least) that Jungkook is the *real* star, and BTS? Well, that’s just part of his past. I hope I’m wrong about that, because as much as I think Jungkook deserves his own success, I don't really want to see BTS getting demoted in the popular imagination to "the band that launched Jungkook."

What do you think? Am I cynically jumping the gun? Overreacting? Talking out of my ass?

--A Muggle

Hi! So nice to hear from you again!!

Americans are so consistent. "The next BTS", "The breakout star in BTS" blah blah. Of course, from their perspective, Jungkook is clearly the breakout star. But that's because he's targeting their market and making pop music. They don't get that the other members are interested in exploring other genres or even other markets. The most famous member in the US is the "breakout" member, nevermind that the others are successful in their respective fields as well. In their mind there has to be a breakout star, and I can't blame them entirely because that is how we all think. We assume that lesser famous artists are unsuccessful, when they might actually be successful in a different market. And in the case of some groups that disband, some members simply don't want fame anymore, yet the member who goes down the pop route and is successful is seen as the only successful one, like the others failed to make it.

And you're right that after Seven there could be a small shift from "the famous maknae from BTS" to "the member that is outdoing BTS" - though that's not true. What you said about America is true. Solo pop stars are much more marketable and respected. Jungkook being a boy group member actually doesn't do him any favors in the sense that, to someone who doesn't know BTS, the boy group label isn't an appealing one.

I agree that people who aren't aware of how massive BTS are might consider him somehow above BTS, because being a breakout star does imply, well, breaking out of the group, but Western media do know BTS. They know the group is huge, that the fans are insanely powerful and those fans are very vocal about loving the other members too. So far Jungkook's success seems to be taken as an extension of BTS's, as proof of BTS's strength, which it is. There isn't a single interview, including the recent one with Jimmy Fallon, in which BTS aren't mentioned, because BTS is bigger and mentioning BTS makes Armys happy and creates engagement. In fact, sometimes they mention BTS too much, but now that Jungkook is sort of standing on his own two feet, there is less of a focus on the group.

Anyway, Jungkook will enlist soon so I don't think there will even be enough time for him to establish himself and build that kind of reputation to separate him from BTS. Jungkook introduces himself as Jungkook of BTS and his fans are Army - as in, BTS's Army - so, in my opinion, what you're saying won't happen. You might see an article or two about it, but people know Jungkook's power and fandom are also BTS's power and fandom. I can't even imagine a scenario in which BTS and just "that band Jungkook is from". At least in kpop it didn't happen with Big Bang, Girls Generation, SHINee, 2EN1, or other groups with famous soloists, and the US might be different, but The Beatles are still The fucking Beatles and not that band that launched John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and One Direction, despite Harry Styles's success and being kind of disbanded, still has a strong group fandom.

So, yeah, BTS are solid imo. Jungkook would need a real solo career, with multiple comebacks and bigger promotion, to be any kind of "threat" to BTS's image. But I can't promise you won't see a few tasteless articles about it.

I'm not great at predicting popular opinion and what the media will do, though, so my opinion may not amount to much.

Thanks for the ask!! Stay in touch, ok?

#ask #bts #jungkook #text #thanks for the ask!

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epickiya722 · 8 months

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What that person said abt the jjk fandom being misaimed is what basically most western (to my knowledge) shonen fandoms are like.

They don't want to put any effort into actually understanding the themes or tone of the story bc hey, it's shonen, why would they, right?

And then when they can't predict or put their expectations so high up that when the manga doesn't reach it, then it must be someone else's failure.

Yep. I mentioned it before when I talked about BNHA and Western viewers, but as a Westerner, that's something that irritates me from time to time.

I don't know about anybody else, but if I don't understand a theme or tone or anything from a media that comes somewhere else, I don't blame it on the creator. Different cultures here! I try to read up on what I can to understand, you know?

I like learning and even if I still don't get it, I'm not gonna act as if it's ruining my life.

At the end of the day, JJK like anything else I watch and read is just entertainment to me. It's a story I can enjoy whenever I have the time to.

Is anyone being forced to understand the themes? No and I think that's what some people don't get.

You don't have to immediately go into reading up on another's culture if you don't want to to understand an anime. No one is forcing you.

It's acting as if you're entitled as if everything has to be catered to just your tastes where it's just too much.

Example, I like horror. But not every horror is going to appeal to me. It's not the worse thing in the world though because there is horror that does appeal to me. If I don't like something, I skip it and call it a day. I don't mope and whine and blame the creator every day in and day out on some thread.

I have better things to do. I rather not get stuck on something I hate.

I'm just so over those who think every single anime, manga, movie, show, and other media should cater to them. 🙄

#kiya answers #jjk #jujutsu kaisen

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nataliesnews · 8 months

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Fwd: Saturday morning .....our 9/11 8.10.2023

For those who are not on whatsapp this is what I wrote yesterday during the day. Today my head feels like a bunch of fluff and I have not written again. Maybe tomorrow. Even after the other wars I never felt like this. We were even less prepared than before the Yom Kippur war. See the article at the end which says everything I want to say. Except that I would like to see Netanahu and his blonde bitch end up like Mussoliin.

Saturday morning........or was it somewhere in the far past.

And thank you to those of my family and friends who took the trouble to lift a phone and speak to me,South Africa, America, Australia, England.

I slept late as I have been so tired lately. I _ got up later than usual thinking to write and then to go for a walk. I put on the radio and thought that it was a replay of part when suddenly the sirens started. I don't know what time it happened. I thought I would go and walk before sitting down when the sirens went off. I thought I heard booming and neighbours have said it is so. We are told not to go to the shelter which is in any case only enough for a few people. To open windows. I would phone Irene although we have not spoken in years but it is shabbat. I am still trying to decide what is happening. The government says we are in a state of war

" A report: picture of the very difficult situation is becoming clearer, and the media still haven't published what is happening on the ground. I can say with certainty that the current government is guilty of the biggest failure in the history of the State of Israel. Yes, bigger than the Yom Kippur War.

The government chose to neglect everything that was done in the country and to concern itself only with itself, its base and transferring budgets to the ultra-Orthodox and the settlements.

It is impossible to understand it at all, and I wrote about it here before, that 65% of the IDF's special forces are in the territories!!

This means that the IDF can never really prepare for a war plan, because it is busy with policing and protecting settlers and settlements.

Only in the last few days 5 battalions secured prayers and rioting settlers. About two weeks ago, three battalions secured a mass night prayer at Rachel's Tomb. Because that's what matters.

Three more battalions on the border with Gaza and this whole horrific event would not have happened at all.

There will be real and very painful disillusionment here after the 7/10 default. The situation will have to look different. What I wrote:

They blamed Golda for Yom Kippur. This is worse. Hey Netanyahu and Gallant where were you. Why has our unesteemed pm not spoken. And now my eyes are wet. A woman who is alone with her children and terrorists are trying to get into her house and she is begging for help in a whisper and crying. Where is this wonderful government. Where is the army. It should be the settlements which are under attack. They have brought us to this. People have been kidnapped. Many wounded. A woman from a kibbutz crying saying that her husband is outside fighting. The children are crying. Where are all the brave settlers who yesterday sat in the middle of Hawara holding a Torah lesson and protected by the soldiers. I wonder if Netanyahu’s sons will come back to help fight. And I wonder if he and his blond bitch are in the country or on holiday somewhere. Suddenly Ben gvir has disappeared and his fascists

Another siren. I spoke to Devora. Irene’s daughter. Beit Shemesh is under rocket attack. Now western jerusalem. The largest bang now Much neater

Netanyahu speaks but not directly. A recorded speech. Boom after boom

-A woman in tears from beeri who says she saw her father being taken to Gaza as hostage. Her father wrote he was being taken. That ths terrorists were in the house. She has not heard from her mother and grandmother-

500 wounded. 22 dead. News says many more. People say that they have seen friends and relations captive in Gaza. No politician is talking. Not a word about this from Netanyahu and his cabinet. We are not being told the truth. On the tv we are told that we are not being shown pictures of what is happening as they are too terrible. People are seeing their children captive in Gaza . The closest we come to the truth is the television

Hadassah has never known a situation as this even in the wars. Private cars are bringing in the wounded. Our soldiers have hardly any training in dealing with this. When they should have been trained they were too busy helping and guarding settlers. Horrible watching Al Jazeera. I opened for the first time and saw an Israeli captive. Probably the TV here does not want to show us

40 dead. Why are we not told the truth? Why do we not see the pictures from CNN on out tv. Is the government so stupid we do not see on foreign media?

It is so awful to see the posts of people who are looking for missing families. My heart trembles when I think of the young women who have been captured . May this government go down in history as those responsible for the tragedy we are experiencing. I loathe those who can dance with joy because of a holiday which has become a tragedy. This is a time for shiva for many families. Now they say 40 and 700 wounded. Because we saw this on foreign networks. And today when we finish sitting in the succah think of those Palestinians who no longer have a home. Why is the South suffering and not the settlers

Mashgav: Haaretz: Long hours into the October 2023 attack, the Israelis continued to ask: Where is the IDF? The answer: in the West Bank, or at home. Almost all regular force battalions are invested in policing and maintaining the occupation and settlement enterprise. One of them was directly employed in securing a prayer and a Torah lesson on Hawara's main street. The enemy In his wisdom, he again chose to surprise on a holiday and Shabbat, and found himself invading an unprotected and unmanned space, with kibbutzim, moshavim and development towns on the standard of the bastion line of '73. With two or three other infantry battalions on combat alert in the Gaza Strip at the place of Yosef's tomb and Rachel's tomb, Everything would look different. The opening blow caught Israel, its army and its intelligence organizations unprepared and dysfunctional. The blood price is horribly high, the psychological effect is dramatic. The feeling that many Israelis have had in recent months, according to which the country is simply being destroyed and collapsing before their eyes, has received a sharp and tangible expression like no other. The historical timing of course resonates, and was carefully chosen. This is the greatest humiliation inflicted on Israel by its enemies since the Yom Kippur War, and to a large extent it is even more painful. Fifty years ago, the regular armies of Egypt and Syria, armed and trained by a world power, prohibited war on it; In October 2023, terrorists with jeans, guns and phones rushed into its breached border. In doing so, they inflicted on their unfortunate people in Gaza a heavy disaster, the dimensions of which will become clear only in the coming days and weeks, but it can already be stated that they succeeded in fundamentally undermining the divided and exhausted Israeli society. The occupation and its maintenance diverted the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Border Guard from their original mission. The right-wing governments led by Netanyahu have steadily weakened Israel and its systems, while investing huge resources in ultra-Orthodox and settlers who do not contribute to the security of the state and often even harm it. The writing was already on the wall in a one-off incident of systemic failure such as the Miron disaster, for which Prime Minister Netanyahu and Police Minister Ohana, along with their ultra-Orthodox accomplices, of course escaped responsibility. It is not known at this stage how the current tragedy will end, but one thing has already been made clear: the concept of burying the Palestinian elephant in Gaza and the West Bank ("managing the conflict", "a piece in the butt") in favor of normalization arrangements with the oil principalities of the Gulf went bankrupt with a huge noise.

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