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[juana-the-iguana]

They gave all of that extra rage to Bumi.

I just want to say that when I spoke about how adaptations in general (but specifically ATLA) strip rage away from the characters, I was, of course, talking about Katara and Zuko, but I was also talking about Aang. His guilt and shame about running away is wrapped up in the pain and despair at being the literal last airbender,

which can trigger destructive anger

and in relation to how the monks handled the news a hundred years earlier

which is also wrapped up in his struggle with the avatar state, which also acts as a mirror to Zuko's turmoil, which also --

#atla #atla live action #bumi #katara #aang #zuko

[juana-the-iguana]

For all of the holes in the Netflix series, at least they tried to come up with an explanation for how the Fire Nation killed every air nomad on the same exact day, and why they only found human remains at one of the temples.

The funniest part of the atla fandom right now is people complaining about the Netflix show having plot holes like the original nickelodeon version didn't have 654386 arbitrary rules about the avatar state, no explanation why no one in the air nomads knows their parents, and no consistency on how the hell waterbending healing works.

#atla #atla live action

[juana-the-iguana]

If I had to guess, they're trying to downplay Aang and Katara's romantic relationship because, well, look at the actors. Personal feelings about the ship aside, the age difference shows.

There were other messages in the episode that are also important: thematically the tale of Oma and Shu itself is a message about people overcoming conflict, coming together and finding peace. And then there's the introduction of the badgermoles as the original earth bending teachers, which is an important call-forward to Toph, who learned how to bend from them.

Wait, so not only is Netflix Avatar trying to condense all of Book One into eight episodes, for some reason it's also squeezing in a Book Two episode (The Cave of Two Lovers) that isn't even about the very thing that episode was originally about (Aang and Katara).

#atla #not really anti kat-aang #but to be safe #anti-kataang #atla live action

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The amount of leftists saying that the stop antisemitic hate ad is zionist propaganda proves that regardless of saying "zionism isn't judaism", they 100% view the two as the same.

They have literally just told on themselves that they don't believe what they preach.

It's never been about hating zionism. It's always been about having an excuse to be able to hate jews in a socially acceptable way.

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The vast majority of Jews are Pro-Palestinian. The vast majority of Jews want to see Palestinians live in dignity and to have their own state, so long as it's under circumstances that don't wipe out the Israel or lead to another ethnic cleansing of Jews.

Zionism isn't contradictory to this point because Zionism only means that Jews have a right to self-determination in their indigenous land (Theodore Herzl, who is considered the father of modern Zionism, wrote an essay called Utopia that imagined Jews and Arabs living together in peace).

It's not a lie to point out that only a hyper minority of Jews are anti-Zionist (less than 10% of Jews in the United States, the UK and Canada are anti-Zionist, and anti-Zionist Jews are virtually nonexistent outside of those countries, because Jews in the rest of the world don't have the privilege to pretend that they one day won't need to flee to Israel). People like to fixate on that minority to avoid taking responsibility for credible accusations of antisemitism associated with a large parts of anti-Israel activism.

The two groups highlighted above (Jewish Voices for Peace in the top four photos and the Nueteri Karta in the bottom photo) are radical groups that represent a small minority of Jews.

The Nueteri Karta aren't even anti-Zionists, they just believe that the state of Israel shouldn't exist at this moment, because the Messiah needs to be the one to form it (they also believe that when that happens all non-Jews will be exiled from the Kingdom of Israel, so maybe they're not as "pro-Palestinian" as you think).

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#jumblr #israel #palestine #zionism #love how OP could only find two groups

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Any scifi At:LA fic recs?

#at:la #atla #fanfiction #fanfic #avatar

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Here’s the thing, I don’t think antis actually think Zutara is a colonizer/colonzied ship. You want to know why I think that? Because they have nothing to say about people shipping Zuko with Jin or Sokka. I think they just want to moralize their hatred rather than just say it’s not for them.

#zutara

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I don't know how closely you followed the ICJ hearing, but here is what I took away from it:

The argument that South Africa made is simple: a devastating amount of Palestinians have died since Oct. 7, there is no safe place in Gaza, and the reason for that is because Israel wants to commit genocide. They use claims made by Israeli officials, primarily those who are not involved in the war effort (which they admit) to support the genocidal intent claim and they also sprinkled in some blatantly false statements, like the IDF is attacking evacuation routes.

The Israeli defense is that they have done everything they can to minimize civilian casualties and the reason that nowhere is safe in Gaza is because Hamas is attacking from everywhere. Israel only attacks the designated safe zones after there were hundreds of rockets fired from them.

The Israeli team also raised an interesting and important argument: there were other avenues that South Africa could have, and should have, taken before going to the ICJ.

ICJ trials take years. If they were really concerned about an ongoing genocide, there were quicker things they could have done, but they instead opted for a highly publicized, but largely inconsequential course of action.

The reason I say there is no genocide is because I believe the Israeli argument: this is a hideous war, but Hamas said they will do Oct. 7 again and again and again, and refuses to negotiate with Israel on any reasonable terms, so it needs to be fought. The IDF is trying to minimize civilian casualties (and are doing more to try to minimize civilian casualties than anyone in the history of modern warfare).

I know you're not conflating Israelis with their government or the IDF, which I appreciate. Not enough people separate populations from militaries or governments.

I'm not saying Palestinians are collectively responsible for the wrongdoings of Hamas. However, I've never seen anything suggest that Hamas has lost popularity. I'm curious about the places where you've seen that. The links I included in my first post are specifically about polls taken post-Oct. 7. But again, even if these actions are popular, people who are not involved with Hamas are still innocent.

The largest backlashes against Hamas have been Gazans protesting the war, but that is only recent and it is hard to tell how popular that sentiment is. I hope there's something I'm missing.

I'd just like to thank you for showing how hamas is also horrible and not to be combined with the palastinian people. Yes, what Israel is doing is horrible, genocide is horrible. But we shouldn't let hamas continue raping the palastinian women and killing them as well. #freepalastine #israel's government doesn't represent the jewish people

If any of this is off base please let me know

I've been debating whether or not to respond to this comment. I think you mean well, and I hope you can see that I have good intentions too. I appreciate your comment and want you to know that most Jews and Israelis know the difference between Hamas and the Palestinian people as a whole. There is more support for Palestinians in Israel (specifically among Jewish Israelis) than I think most people realize.

Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. The Israeli government does not represent the Jewish people, or the Israeli people at this point in time (one-fifth of which are Palestinians).

But we should be honest: while we should not hold the actions of Hamas against the collective Palestinian people, there is mainstream support for Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank. Similarly, while the majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to retire, he was elected at one point in time (even though strong criticism predates Oct. 7).

You can't have peace without acknowledging these facts.

What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is tragic and devastating, but it is not genocide. Palestinians have been, and continue to be oppressed in Israel, in the Palestinian Territories (including areas occupied by Israel, and Gaza and parts of the West Bank ruled by the Palestinian Authority), and outside of Israel and Palestine, but it is not genocide. Genocide is a specific crime with a specific definition and not all war is genocide.

Countries that commit genocide don't warn civilians where they will drop bombs in the future. They don't take any steps to preserving life or alleviating the impact of their actions in war, because their goal is to kill as many people as possible. And, I say this with the knowledge that this is of no comfort to the people in Gaza and their families, this has one of the "best" civilian to combatant fatality ratios in modern warfare ("best" in quotation marks because any civilian death is tragic).

I know the point of your message was to highlight that Hamas is mistreating the Palestinian people. I don't want to detract from that statement. Hamas has terrorized Israelis for decades, but no one has suffered more under them than Palestinians. A prime example is the Oct. 7 attack. Not only is it obvious that offensive would start a war that would devastate Palestinians, Hamas wants to have its own people to be killed, because martyrs further their cause (that's also why they have been torturing and murdering civilians in Gaza, preventing evacuations and positioned their weapons to cause as many casualties as possible).

The fact that Hamas still has a lot of support amongst the Palestinian people is itself an indication of both ideology, but also how bad conditions were for Palestinians lived under prior to this war (although support in Gaza is dropping).

The reason I feel the need to correct the "genocide" remark is that, presently, Israel is the only country on Earth fighting Hamas. Hamas took control over Gaza through force and will only be removed through force. And Israel is not disappearing, so if Hamas is to be defeated and eradicated, Israel is going to, inevitably, be involved.

The claims of genocide are not only factually inaccurate, but it is used as a justification to stop this war, which would only help Hamas and prolong this horrible conflict.

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I can't believe I have to fucking say this but DO NOT TELL PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES. Don't do it in general, not in person, not online, and not in the comments or reblog of my posts.

If I see this, I will report you. I don't care who you are or what your argument is. If you tell someone to kill themselves, or wish upon them violence of any kind, you are getting reported.

It's fucking tumblr, get over yourselves.

I don't check my comment sections or reblogs regularly (or even that closely), so if anyone sees this happens with my posts, please let me know.

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"What is hateful to you, do not do to others, the rest is commentary, go and study"

Hillel the Elder

"Then when G-d asks [Cain], ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ he arrogantly responds, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?' In essence, the entire Bible is written as an affirmative response to this question."

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

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If I keep seeing people (largely Americans and Canadians, let’s be real) 1:1 compare the Israel-Palestine conflict to the colonialisation of Canada and America I might actually explode. As a First Nations woman with multiple history degrees and a law degree I can tell you with certainty that from every angle it is an utterly asinine and disingenuous comparison that doesn’t work, at all. The fact that people often cast Palestinians in the role of “poor oppressed colonised people” and Israel/Jews as a whole in the role “evil oppressive white coloniser” just makes it even worse, especially since Jews have lived in and occupied Israel before both Islam and Christianity even existed. So if you really want to play the “who was there first game” and boil everything down to that, I promise you, Jewish people will win that game, as they were there for thousands of years before the idea of Islam was even a glimmer in Muhammed’s eye.

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God forbid women have hobbies

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what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

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I'd just like to thank you for showing how hamas is also horrible and not to be combined with the palastinian people. Yes, what Israel is doing is horrible, genocide is horrible. But we shouldn't let hamas continue raping the palastinian women and killing them as well. #freepalastine #israel's government doesn't represent the jewish people

If any of this is off base please let me know

I've been debating whether or not to respond to this comment. I think you mean well, and I hope you can see that I have good intentions too. I appreciate your comment and want you to know that most Jews and Israelis know the difference between Hamas and the Palestinian people as a whole. There is more support for Palestinians in Israel (specifically among Jewish Israelis) than I think most people realize.

Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. The Israeli government does not represent the Jewish people, or the Israeli people at this point in time (one-fifth of which are Palestinians).

But we should be honest: while we should not hold the actions of Hamas against the collective Palestinian people, there is mainstream support for Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank. Similarly, while the majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to retire, he was elected at one point in time (even though strong criticism predates Oct. 7).

You can't have peace without acknowledging these facts.

What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is tragic and devastating, but it is not genocide. Palestinians have been, and continue to be oppressed in Israel, in the Palestinian Territories (including areas occupied by Israel, and Gaza and parts of the West Bank ruled by the Palestinian Authority), and outside of Israel and Palestine, but it is not genocide. Genocide is a specific crime with a specific definition and not all war is genocide.

Countries that commit genocide don't warn civilians where they will drop bombs in the future. They don't take any steps to preserving life or alleviating the impact of their actions in war, because their goal is to kill as many people as possible. And, I say this with the knowledge that this is of no comfort to the people in Gaza and their families, this has one of the "best" civilian to combatant fatality ratios in modern warfare ("best" in quotation marks because any civilian death is tragic).

I know the point of your message was to highlight that Hamas is mistreating the Palestinian people. I don't want to detract from that statement. Hamas has terrorized Israelis for decades, but no one has suffered more under them than Palestinians. A prime example is the Oct. 7 attack. Not only is it obvious that offensive would start a war that would devastate Palestinians, Hamas wants to have its own people to be killed, because martyrs further their cause (that's also why they have been torturing and murdering civilians in Gaza, preventing evacuations and positioned their weapons to cause as many casualties as possible).

The fact that Hamas still has a lot of support amongst the Palestinian people is itself an indication of both ideology, but also how bad conditions were for Palestinians lived under prior to this war (although support in Gaza is dropping).

The reason I feel the need to correct the "genocide" remark is that, presently, Israel is the only country on Earth fighting Hamas. Hamas took control over Gaza through force and will only be removed through force. And Israel is not disappearing, so if Hamas is to be defeated and eradicated, Israel is going to, inevitably, be involved.

The claims of genocide are not only factually inaccurate, but it is used as a justification to stop this war, which would only help Hamas and prolong this horrible conflict.

#israel #palestine #i/p #hamas is isis

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sure, some people are saying antizionism is antisemitism to shut conversations or criticism of israel, but the vast majority of us are saying this because we literally experience your "antizionism" on a daily basis and literally know what you're doing is not criticizing israel but just harassing jews and israelis. we say this so anti zionists would start actually thinking about what they're saying before they spout out the most antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories in the name of "revolution".

u guys can't yell "by any means necessary" and then say you are not antisemitic. you guys can't disrespect the victims of oct 7 (not even speaking of outright denying it) and then say you are not antisemitic. you guys absolutely can't message random israelis here with hateful shit or even just being annoying or calling us baby killers in our ask box and then claim to not be antisemitic.

you guys are being called antisemitic because you are being antisemitic. trust that I'll be to the first the commend you for only being an "antizionist".

#israel #zionism #antizionism is antisemitism #antisemitism #jumblr

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If it seems like I've been posting a lot about antisemitism, it's because I've seen massive amounts of it coming from every possible angle and no one seems to give a fuck except Jewish people, who are called traitors and blood-thirsty Zionists for saying anything while "allies" look the other way.

I have seen so much antisemitism on my dashboard from people I previously trusted and respected as leftists and activists. I have seen seen indigenous bloggers, including many former mutuals, say the cruelest and most vile things and act like it's totally fine.

I refuse to be complacent in this hate and violence and cruelty and I highly suggest you all also think long and hard about why antisemitism is becoming so prevalent and explicit in leftist circles and how we're all contributing to it.

This is not a matter of "yeah!! Not all Jews are Zionists!!" You CANNOT categorize people as "good Jews" vs "bad Jews" and if you feel like you need to justify antisemitism against certain groups of Jews, then you are part of the problem.

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She and most of the Road to Recovery volunteers have continued to drive Palestinians from the West Bank to hospitals in Israel for cancer treatment, organ transplants and kidney dialysis. As soon as she can, she says she'll go and collect patients from Gaza again.

"I really don't know what will happen in the future. But I know that both of us will still live here, so we must find a solution."