#Moderate Rebels

[sonicziggy]

"Reject All" by Moderate Rebels https://ift.tt/VECg9Gp

#IFTTT #Spotify #Moderate Rebels

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I realized that Farah’s group in MW2019 are basically the moderate rebels. Especially when compared to Al Qatala.

#moderate rebels #farah #modern warfare 2019 #cod #al qatala #urzikstan #lol

[muzzleroars]

danse macabre

#ultrakill #gabriel #v1 #gabv1el #doodle tag #rise and fall au #fallen gabriel #love thinking about gabriel losing his mind for a minute after becoming a full fallen angel #where he just really indulges in his anger and pent up violence all for himself #he rebels against everything he ever was and how stifled he has been his entire achingly long existence #no more rules. no more grace. he's goring demons and tearing machines apart limb from limb #needless to say. v1 is NO moderating force lol #it loves running around like this with him far more reckless than it could afford to be before #and finding a love that engages in its cruelty with it to its full extent makes it just as bad #he does eventually come back to himself as this just isn't him #but i love them having a full villain era where they become actively avoided #(but hell won't let their prey get away...sad!)

[womenofswzine]

⭐ Meet the team! ⭐ Introducing Treescape @treescape our Writing and Editing Moderator!

#rebel rebel zine #moderator introduction #womenofswzine #mod team

[strzygiiupiory]

Rebel moon be like

#rebel moon #rebel moon the scargiver #zack snyder #that admiral is like if amon goeth and bald guy from dune had a child #and the red dudes are like red pretorian guard but kind of moder talzin x cato neimodians that are sith #star wars #and they're quite literally talking through holocrons #and then there's the “chłopi” vibes #peasants 2023

[dandyshucks]

why do i keep getting energy and mood crashes these past few days auugghh 😭😭 (<-, they ask, knowing full well they have not given themself a day of rest in two weeks and continuously push themself to do more cleaning than they have energy for)

#i just want things to be clean dhdjfkd im so tired of the mess everywhere #i think i am also rebelling against the fatigue bc im so frustrated w how little i can do in a day 😭 #theres so much stress fjfkdl but i keep doing too many things and ending up exhausted and near tears so thats. probably not good fjfkdl #I need to rest but theres so much that Needs to be done along w everything i Want to do fjfkdl #dragging my hands down my face and grumbling dnfkdl this is . urgghh. alas! what can u do i guess djfkdl #fighting w myself bc on one hand. get everything done in a fit of self destructive tendencies. but things will be done. #on the other hand. do the potentially better thing and get stuff done in moderation with rest. but I'll always be behind on cleaning. hmph #idk fhfjdls pros and cons i suppose! i will stop yelling and grumbling abt it publicly now though djdkdl #vent //

[jewishcissiekj]

I love submitting corrections to League of Comic Geeks because of the wording of it (corrections)

Oh you didn't notice Sabine Wren was in Star Wars: Rebels magazine #27? FUCK YOU. I DID. I AM CORRECT. Everyone in this place is so lazy. Only I go through 39 issues of the Rebels magazine at 2 AM to give the Ghost crew their appearances. How else will a Rebels compilationist that uses your site as a source will know Hera Syndulla is a supporting character in Star Wars: Rebels Magazine #19. How. That's what I thought.

#sw #star wars #star wars comics #comics #league of comic geeks #anyway i'm a rank 1 contributor with 107 points look at meeee #for real tho as a self proclaimed character compilationist #(whatever that is) #logc is good for tracking comic reading but really bad at character stats for that sometimes #lots of info missing #so yeah today i wrote jun sato's name many more times than I thought I would have #sabine wren #hera syndulla #star wars rebels #oh and so sorry for the moderator that had to approve my corrections #logc sucks but not you buddy #thanks

[theculturedmarxist]

In 2013 the CIA was handing out TOW anti-tank missiles to 'moderate rebel' groups who were fighting the government in Syria. These groups were allegedly 'vetted' before they receive money and weapons. Unfortunately 'vetting' was something the CIA had never been good at.

One of the groups that received such support was the Hamza Division:

Hamza Division (Forqat al-Hamza – فرقة الحمزة): An FSA-banner group composed of six substituent brigades that operate mostly in the environs of Inkhil, Daraa. The Hamza Division has received TOW ATGMs and it works under the supervision of the Daraa Military Council. They receives foreign support from Western and Arab state backers and are a member of the Southern Front coalition. The Southern Front has stated their commitment to a civil state, and have released a comprehensive political program in support of democratic reform. The Division came together with the Syria Revolutionaries Front and the 1st Artillery Regiment to create the 1st Army, which later disbanded. The Hamza Division continues using the 1st Army imagery alongside its own while the other former substituents do not. Social Media: YouTube; YouTube (older channel)

Hamza was later also supported by the Pentagon. Without such support the group would never have become a viable entity. Things got a bit complicated when militias armed by the Pentagon started to fight those armed by the CIA.

Later Hamza was sponsored by the Turkish state. This again made things a bit complicated:

Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai - 17:39 · Oct 16, 2019 Do you remember when the #US spent $500 million to train/arm Al-Hamza Division? Well the US-trained "Moderate rebels" are fighting - under a NATO flagged country (#Turkey) - the US-trained Kurdish YPG in the area occupied by the #US. I'll make it even easier: A few minutes ago, #US Prsdt @realDonaldTrump said the "PKK is far more dangerous than #ISIS (The Islamic State)". The US trained & armed Syrian Kurds proxies, the YPG, are the Syrian branch of the PKK that Trump considers far more dangerous than ISIS.

Ten years after being 'vetted' the Hamza division is again receiving U.S. attention. This time from the Department of the Treasuries:

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating two Syria-based armed militias and three members of the groups’ leadership structures in connection with serious human rights abuses against those residing in the Afrin region of northern Syria. An auto sales company owned by the leader of one of the armed groups is also being designated. ... The Hamza Division, another armed opposition group operating in northern Syria, has been involved in abductions, theft of property, and torture. The division also operates detention facilities in which it houses those it has abducted for extended periods of time. During their imprisonment, victims are held for ransom, often suffering sexual abuse at the hands of Hamza Division fighters. The Suleiman Shah Brigade and the Hamza Division are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13894 for being responsible for or complicit in, or for having directly or indirectly engaged in, the commission of serious human rights abuses against the Syrian people. ... Sayf Boulad Abu Bakr is the leader of the Hamza Division and its public face, appearing in numerous propaganda videos produced by the Hamza Division. While Abu Bakr has been commander, the Hamza Division has been accused of brutal repression of the local population, including kidnapping Kurdish women and severely abusing prisoners, at times leading to their death. Sayf Boulad Abu Bakr is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13894 for acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Hamza Division.

The AP report about the new sanctions does not mention any Pentagon or CIA support the groups had previously received.

One wonders how long it will take until the U.S. will sanction the fascists militia it has and is now arming and sponsoring in Ukraine.

#syria #us imperialism #“moderate rebels” #pentagon #cia

[tamamita]

how is isis different from hamas?

Gonna make it easy and comprehensible:

ISIS or DA'ISH is a transnational terror organization consisting of Iraqi Baathists, former Syrian rebels or moderates, recruited fighters from all over the world, former US captives in Iraq, and oppressed and disenfranchised Sunnis. Wahhabi in nature, ISIS subscribes to the literalist tradition of Islam, based on a strict adherence to Tawhid (Islamic monotheism), rejecting the concept of intercession and saint venerations, seeing them as an act of idolatry. Their religious verdicts are based on the literal interpretation of the Qur'an and Sunnah, rejecting metaphorical exegesis. They aim to establish a global caliphate, seeking to eliminate anyone who opposses it regardless of religious or ideological differences. They see their cause as a hastening of various Islamic end time prophecies in their interpretation of Islamic eschatology. Like many Salafis, they reject Taqlid, which is to conform to one of the four schools of thought in Sunni Islam. On top of that, they reject religious innovations (Bid'ah), which is the idea that anything introduced to the religion without any religious basis is heresy. Whether it be practical or theological, they deem any Muslim who engage in Bid'ah to be an apostate or heretic. They are notorious for their intolerance of non-Muslims and application of Takfirism (excommunication) on Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi'a. Christians had to pay the Jizya (poll tax) in their territories, while in other cases, they were murdered, expelled and had their churches destroyed or converted. They have no tolerance for Shi'a Muslims and will kill them on the spot (see: Speicher Massacre), and have often targeted them with IEDs or suicide bombers. Non-Muslims, like the Ezidis or Ahlul Haqq, were often subjected to execution whereas their women and children were either married away, converted or used as sex slaves. DAESH is not interested in national liberation, seeing it as a blasphemous innovation. DAESH does not consider Hamas to be Muslims due to struggle for national liberation which is supported by Iran and various Shi'i proxies.

Hamas is a political and military resistance group that consists of Palestinians. After the failures of the Oslo accord, Hamas broke away from PLO and formed their own political party. They either subscribe to the Shafi'i school of thought or some form of Ikhwani Salafism (Salafism as envisioned by the Muslim Brotherhood). They're a semi-governmental power in Gaza and are responsible for upholding the social and civil institutions, such as hospitals, schools and etc. Hamas' specific aim is localized and seeks to destroy the Zionist entity in order to form a one-state solution under an Islamic emirate or Islamic democracy. Their only enemy is Israel and any of its allies. As of the Hamas charter of 2017, they do not have an intolerance for non-Muslims or people of different religious and ideological comportments, as seen by them holding ties with both Shi'a and Socialist militias, such as Hezbollah and the PFLP/DFLP. Hamas is concerned with the national liberation of Palestine and the Palestinians. Being an entirely localized resistance group, they do not engage in global jihadism like ISIS nor do they carry out attacks internationally.

[ddejavvu]

omg can you write a smutty and fluffy fic about reader discovering that aaron has tattoos under that suit of his and also could he drive a motorcycle 🤭 like imagine aaron having a helmet for her and teasing her on it and her grabbing his hips

Perhaps you're crossing an invisible line when you begin thumbing through the pages of a photo album that had been tucked away beneath Aaron's coffee table, but you're a nosy drunk, and he'd invited you to sit on his couch. It's his fault, really.

Emily peers disinterestedly over your shoulder, only paying attention because it's more entertaining than listening to Spencer talk Star Trek. You find baby pictures of Aaron, grainy photographs of a moderately chubby baby, and your giggle is heavily laden with booze.

After the fifth nondescript baby portrait Emily turns away, and only a few pages later, he's graduating high school. Something is unsettling about the way that his memories had so quickly switched from infant to adult, but his smile is dazzling under the weight of his cap and gown, so you let the uneasy feeling wash away in exchange for some belated pride.

"You're a snoop," Aaron observes, when he comes back from the bathroom to find you transfixed by his photo album. He smiles, his own demeanor loosened by liquor, "That was my graduation day."

"I know,' You gush, "I'm not that drunk."

He rolls his eyes at you, but a grin is firm in place over his lips.

Then you turn the page, and it's not Aaron anymore.

Oh, fuck, it is Aaron. Aaron with tattoos littering his toned torso, jeans hanging low on his hips, a cigarette in his hand and his legs straddling a motorcycle. He's polishing the body, pinning it between his knees to do so.

You hadn't realized your jaw dropped, but it did.

"Those were my teenage dirtbag years," Aaron recalls, with a snort that's a mixture of fondness and ridicule, "I thought I was some rebellious-" His brain falters, failing to provide him with the proper connection, and he falls short, "-Uh, rebel."

"Woah," Is all you can muster, tracing your fingers over the page wistfully. He laughs, and you blink up at him blearily, "Do you still have those?"

He quirks a teasing brow at you, "My tattoos? Well, they're kind of permanent. I thought you said you weren't that drunk?"

"You could have gotten them removed," You grouse, "So... do you?"

"Still have them?" He verifies, and when you nod, he bites back most of the force of his smile, "I do."

"Lemme see." You demand, before you can process that you're asking your boss to take his shirt off. His eyebrows raise, nearly merging with his hairline, and you stammer, "Not- like, I'm just curious, they're so... unlike you."

"I've changed a lot," He lets your slip of the tongue slide and you're grateful for it, "I'll show you one."

You watch with wide eyes - you're not aware that you're gawking at your boss, but you are - as he peels away the hem of his shirt from his skin, exposing black ink that you've never seen before tracking up his torso. It's on the left side of his stomach, near his groin: a pair of handcuffs.

"I was into some weird shit," He muses, tongue loose from the drinks he's had. You don't bother gaping at his unprofessionalism, you're stuck staring at the handcuffs.

"Twenty-year old me thought I was gonna be the one in handcuffs, not the one locking them on people," He laughs, and drops his shirt, covering the tattoo. "So, you have any wild teenage tattoos of your own?"

You're a changed woman. Twenty years ago your boss had been whorishly draped over a motorcycle, handcuffs tattooed above his pelvis. You finish the night out in a trance of absent-minded conversation, but it's less from the liquor and more from the stun of seeing Aaron's past self.

If your boss suddenly notices your eyes roving over the spot where his tattoo lies beneath his button-up from then on, he doesn't say a word.

#aaron hotchner x reader #aaron hotchner imagine #aaron hotchner scenario #aaron hotchner oneshot #aaron hotchner one-shot #aaron hotchner one shot #aaron hotchner headcanons #aaron hotchner headcanon #aaron hotchner hc #aaron hotchner hcs #aaron hotchner fanfiction #aaron hotchner fanfic #aaron hotchner fic #aaron hotchner blurb #aaron hotchner drabble #aaron hotchner dialogue #aaron hotchner fluff #aaron hotchner x reader fanfiction

[secretmellowblog]

Time for some extremely funny news that feels fake but isn’t! In case you missed it:

Today on the almost-anniversary of the rebellion featured in Les Mis, the official Les Mis musical twitter account decided to celebrate by…….tweeting an enthusiastic endorsement of the Queen. This is despite the fact that the primary goal of the rebellion in Les Mis was to eliminate monarchy. Despite the fact that all the rebels in Les mis despise monarchy as an institution and consider it inherently evil/useless/tyrannical.

It feels like satire! The fact that they used an illustration of a poor starving child who in the novel symbolizes the Suffering of the French People under tyrants and tried to turn it into a piece of unironic pro-monarchy art is just? (???)

There’s something to say here about how everything political in Les Mis gets stripped away when it becomes a product for mass consumption, including the now relatively popular political belief that monarchy is a Bad form of government. Like the original novel DOES have issues with being overly middle-class/moderate at points— but there many aspects of the book that are radical and anti-authoritarian, and those aspects are always the first things to get sanded away. (See also: the way Les mis adaptations often portray police as Good Heroes fighting for Justice, which is the exact opposite of the ACAB point the book was going for )

But even putting aside all the political stuff—— the reason this fails is also because it’s Bad Branding? XD. If we’re gonna treat Les mis as a brand (ugh), then that brand is not about licking the monarchy’s boots. Les Mis’s brand is about the exact opposite of that. The kind of Jubilee joke I’d expect from a big corporate Les mis twitter account that understood its brand would be something like “Looks as if we haven’t got around to overthrowing that monarchy yet! But there’s still time!. ^_^ come see our next performance in {touring location}”. You know— a lighthearted toothless Revolution joke.

But we don’t even gET lighthearted toothless corporate Revolution jokes!

Instead we get this bafflingly sincere “I want to buy a queen plate with a picture of a starving child suffering under a tyrannical government on it.”

But YEAH my favorite thing about this tweet is the way everyone unanimously mocked it:

#Les mis #barricade day #it’s that ‘seriously ? right in front of my salad?’ meme #but it’s me talking to the Les mis twitter account like #‘seriously ? right in front of my Barricade Day?’’

[mhanderszine]

REBEL HEARTS: AN M!HANDERS ZINE OFFICIAL ZINE RELEASE

On behalf of all contributors and moderators, we are proud to present the official release of Rebel Hearts: An m!Handers Zine!

This zine is the culmination of 33 fans’ love for Anders and m!Hawke, with over sixty pages of amazing art and fic for you to enjoy, entirely for free!

Though we will not be accepting money directly, we have designated Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International as our suggested charities if you are feeling generous.

To download Rebel Hearts: An m!Handers Zine’s full package, complete with print-ready files and custom Handers emotes, please go to our official Google Drive. Please note that this zine contains works of all ratings, from general audiences to explicit.

We hope you enjoy the zine!

Cover art done by the wonderful @violaviolets

#mhanders #m!handers #handers #dragon age 2 #dragon age ii #dragon age #bioware #dragon age zine #rebel hearts zine #mhanders zine #m!handers zine #anders #anders* #da fanart #zine #fanzine

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Emiliano Zapata! (August 8, 1879)

A celebrated rebel and freedom fighter of the Mexican Revolution, Emiliano Zapata was born in a rural community in the state of Morelos. Though his family was fairly well-off, Zapata came to identify strongly with Mexico's peasant class and was a figure in the movement against the landlords and Mexican President Porfirio Diaz from early on before taking up arms. Zapata's army, mainly peasants, became known as the Zapatistas, and helped to depose Diaz, only to come into further conflict with the moderate revolutionary government of Francisco I. Madero. Zapata attempted to institute land reform under the Plan of Ayala in the territory his forces controlled in Morelos, which led Madero to attack the Zapatistas. Zapata was able to rout the federal forces out of Morelos, and supported the northern forces led by Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, and Álvaro Obregón in overthrowing the federal government. Zapata later broke with Carranza and once again went to war with federal forces. This time, however, Zapata was killed in an ambush. Afterward, Zapatistas under Obregon drove Carranza from power. Zapata remains influential and beloved among the rural population of Mexico, inspiring the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas.

“If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.”

#birthdays #emiliano zapata

[glamnessaaumisc]

FNAF/Banban Shitpost

Based on something @aarcade said when they were streaming Garten Banban IV in a Discord VC.

Update: They played Garten of Banban VI when it came out as well. I will hide a long-ass (and VERY cringe) text post regarding my opinions about the game (re: 95% about Bittergiggle) underneath a read-more link.

In my opinion, the game was pretty much what I expected from a Banban game. However, Bittergiggle is such an unexpectedly amazing and complex character coming from a game that only a four-year-old could enjoy. Not only does his voice actor stand above the rest of Banban's voice cast, but he has a really great motivation behind his actions, and you can understand why he does everything he does, both good and bad.

In Garten of Banban IV, Bittergiggle is established as a character whose raison d'etre is his comedy career. He was, quite literally, born to be funny. However, the world he was thrust into prohibits him from making any jokes whatsoever lest it literally be destroyed. This is so because Queen Bouncelia, the de-facto ruler of some LARP-kingdom underneath the kindergarten, holds the "Naughty Ones" at bay within her pouch and may accidentally let them loose, should she ever laugh. (Did I mention Banban's story is stupid af?) Thus, Bittergiggle is ostracized from the Kingdom by Sheriff Toadster, forced to take his comedy career even more underground than it already is. Due to this ostracization, he begins to question the notion that the Queen's laughter could lay waste to the Kingdom and even rebels against Toadster's self-assigned and often overreaching authority. (Note: Toadster is technically in the right by preventing Bittergiggle from getting to the Queen, but he also arrested most of the original cast of Garten of Banban for seemingly no reason at all. He's kind of like a Discord/Reddit moderator who flexes his authority by being a tyrannical prick.)

But eventually, Bittergiggle finally does it, the madman! He makes the Queen laugh...but that end-of-the-world conspiracy he denied so vehemently is proven to be true! The Naughty Ones escape and lay waste to the land he called home. When you next meet Bittergiggle in Garten of Banban VI, he apologizes profusely for his lack of foresight and pledges to help you out with fixing the problem he created. His life starts turning around. He gets together with some other characters - Banban, Nabnab, and Kittysaurus (I am losing brain cells) to name a few - and goes on a quest to find the Queen's scepter, which IIRC is a weapon that can combat the Naughty Ones or something like that. He even gets an audience to listen to his jokes! That's right, in one part of the game, Bittergiggle admits to you that he sometimes says his jokes aloud and the Naughty Ones laugh at them from the darkness. It makes him really happy, and he feels as if he is finally fulfilling his life's purpose. In fact, his newfound audience makes him so happy that at the end of the game when you're escaping the leader of the Naughty Ones, he stays behind because he wants to keep his audience and continue to fulfill his purpose.

The next (and last at the time of writing) time you see Bittergiggle is in the ending cutscene of Garten of Banban VI. The Naughty Ones' laughter was but a ruse, and when he embraced his "audience" they corrupted him and turned him into their thrall. Truly, Bittergiggle is the most tragic and well-written character in the content-farm-friendly clusterfuck that is Garten of Banban.

My IQ dropped into the single digits when I was writing this, and I hope yours does the same as you read my incoherent rambling about the worst mascot horror series.

#glamrock freddy #freddy fazbear #sheriff toadster #five nights at freddys #five nights at freddy's #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb fanart #fnaf fanart #garten of banban #garten of peakpeak #bittergiggle

[halflifegifs]

Somewhere right now on a Half-Life: 2 role-playing server in gmod

DarthBart03 (OOC): Can we get a moderator to come to the sewers? There's a new player trying to roleplay sucking us all off.

[Moderator] Walter White Guy (OOC): is it that guy whose character's physical description matches christian bale's character from equilibrium?

*John Preston gives up on offering the 3 rebels tornado blowjobs and springs into action. He sees before him a web of all possible attack vectors his assailants could use against him and jumps through the air in an arc that avoids them all, his white trenchcoat billowing dramatically as he does a 720° somersault and lands perfectly, transitioning into a sweeping leg maneuver that knocks the other men to the ground and then he grabs their guns out of the air.

GEORGEBUSH7-11 (OOC): Yeah, now he's trying to roleplay using gun kata to disarm and probably kill us all, ban this fucking troll please.

[Moderator] Walter White Guy (LOOC): John Preston we've already given you a warning about this, change your character's description and cut the shit or you're getting IP banned.

[OWNER] StormBreak (Global): I've stolen all the money everyone donated to keep the servers and forum running, everything goes offline for good in 3 hours, peace.

#half life

[makingspiritualityreal]

Saturn - The Power of Privacy

The order of the planets according to the Nakshatra system teaches us that Saturn is an inevitable consequence of Jupiter and all the negativity associated with it is misunderstood because people misunderstand both planets.

If you really want to understand Jupiter's nature, think of two things - your family circle, and the myths of Zeus in Greek mythology. Zeus is known for having many affairs with both godesses and mortals, and is particularly known for using his divine powers to peek on beautiful human women in private situations and then seduce them. The reason for such behaviour is that Jupiter is an active, mobile planet and it likes surrounding and "enveloping" things. He likes to see everything and take any opportunity to expand so that he can be everywhere, just like Zeus is not picky in the quality of his lovers and has no problem consorting with mortals. In moderation, being surrounded is protection. In excess, that's suffocating.

That feeling extends to how people feel about families. In moderation, family protection is healthy, gives us support and allows us to move forward with our goals. In excess, it makes us feel smothered, suffocated and leads to rebellion.

That is why Saturn, that follows Jupiter is a rebel but also a planet of shadows. In his spiritual sensitivity, Saturn can sense Jupiter's ever present prying eyes. He finds such constant scrutiny and influence invasive and not only seeks dark places to find relief in solitude, but purposefully chooses an unassuming or even deliberately repelling disguise in order to carve independent space for himself.

It shows us an interesting perspective of our psychology and shines light on the idea of Saturnian suffering, that while Jupiter is such an abundant planet it can feel overwhelming in the sense of our creativity and achievement, as the intensity takes away our ability to focus and perfect our craft. A lot of pain and shame we are subjected to in Saturnian areas comes from feeling like people meddled with us in this department in such a way that we feel like we couldn't be ourselves and do what we wanted, so we hid our authentic self to prevent it from being spied on and influenced by unwanted forces.

In a way it can feel like Zeus himself takes over our identity whenever he approaches us and we lose ourselves to him. So in order to feel more like our true innermost selves again we need Saturn's darkness to inspire an authentic creative process. As a result, in this area we become truly original and a genuine, non invasive influence to others.

#astrology #jupiter #saturn #astro notes #astro observations