#yes nukes

[heritageposts]

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret. The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.

. . . continues at the guardian (24th of may, 2010)

here's also a research paper published in 2004, which, looking at declassified south african documents, lays out apartheid south africa's rational for acquiring nuclear weapons (bombing, or 'deterring,' black liberation groups):

#palestine #israel #gaza #south africa #just thought i'd bring this back up with the ICJ hearings #the relationship between israel and apartheid south african was interesting to say the least #and yes israel has nukes; this is an open secret that the western world has collectively decided to turn a blind eye to

[deep-space-lines]

VIRMIRE POD CRAB I LOVE YOU VIRMIRE POD CRAB

❤️🦀 like to appreciate the pod crab. reblog to tell the world you love the pod crab 🦀❤️

#yes they canonically killed at least one guy no this does not affect my love for crab #my art #mass effect #mass effect fanart #mass effect art #artists on tumblr #i know they get nuked no matter what. but i WILL restart the virmire mission if i accidentally hit one

[urostakako]

in sync

[Image ID: A five panel comic of Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri from Jujutsu Kaisen. In the first panel, half of Suguru's face is in shadow and faces the screen. Satoru is lying on his bed playing on a DS and Shoko sits on the bed next to him. Suguru asks, "Hey, Satoru, where's my phone?" Satoru says, "Over there." Shoko comments dryly, "You didn't even look up..."

In the second panel, Suguru is on the other side of the room, holding up his phone triumphantly in his right hand. Shoko whips her head toward him in confusion and disbelief as Suguru says, "Found it!! Thanks, Satoru :3" and Satoru responds, "Ur welcome"

In the third panel, Shoko wears an expression of disgust against a background of swirling radial lines, saying, "What the hell... That's so creepy..."

In the fourth panel, Satoru is leaning up on his elbows on the bed and Suguru is sitting next to him, sagely nodding his head as Satoru says, "You're just bitter cuz you're short." Shoko, irritated, says, "What does that even mean..."

In the fifth panel, Shoko holds her chin and contemplates, "Does the Six Eyes include telepathy...?" Behind her, Satoru is sitting on the bed with his fingers to his temples and his mouth open in concentration, levitating a slice of pizza. Suguru sits on his knees next to him, cheering him on.

Next to the first four panels is a drawing of the three of them. Suguru and Satoru have their arms slung around Shoko's shoulders, who smiles around a cigarette in her mouth and whose hands are in her pockets. Suguru, on Shoko's right, makes a three-fingered peace sign with his right hand and leans slightly down. Satoru has his legs crossed and his left arm up in a fist, mouth open in a smile. In hiragana written above them is Sashisu! (さしす). ]

#yeah sorry about the tiny text i kind of realized i hate drawing comics. tis whatever #but anyway!! the sillies <333 im going through a phase rn please excuse me #and yes i know its satoru's thing to do the three finger peace sign whatever #also the watermark changed cuz i nuked my old insta account now its the same name as this one so </3 yea #sashisu #satosugu #gojo satoru #geto suguru #shoko ieiri #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #hanancouldyounot #hanancouldyoudraw

[wormboyfriendcentralstation]

heathcliff: i killed cathy...... im a horrible person in every timeline. my revenge killed her. my remorse literally broke through timelines.

catherine who got back at heathcliff by stealing a house to remodel into the Magic Cocaine Labyrinth after draining the financial assets of england's least tragically ill victorian man, making carmen contact her copyright lawyers by sealing her ambiguously dead body into a glass tank while her brain powers a building, and potentially hiring the Mueseumafia of Modern Art because if she pays them with cash she doesnt have to report her Green-Energy-Human-Tank Powered Hydrogen Bomb Basement Factory's earnings to the IRS or whatever the city uses: 'tis what you get for trying to boyfail without your girlboss, methinks 😇😇😇😇😇

#limbus company #limbus company spoilers #posted to the wrong blog lololol #anyways she's a science fiction villain who everyone treats like jesus. #''catherine is MISERABLE ALWAYS'' she was certainly going through it! #she was also literally coping through making terrors and horrors in her basement lab like dexter #and is this a result of heathcliff's self worth being like. bulldozed from every direction as he grew up? #yes. #they're both very fascinating characters but someone get that man away from that woman's blast radius #him: i'll get a good job. i'll internalize all of my abuse. i'll be Good Enough For Her #her: gonna grow some psychic damage nukes in my lab like rutabagas to harvest for the growing season. then i'll turn into a house!

[g1deonthefirst]

i mean the tlt fandom is constantly doing the push and pull between "john is an evil mastermind" and "john is just a normal guy with normal flaws" and i think the truth is somewhere in between. john is a fascist who's destroyed countless planets and murdered countless people, but he's a complex three-dimensional fascist because tazmuir writes complex characters and because real-life fascists are complex and three-dimensional human beings. and i do think it's important when analyzing his character not to lose sight of the fact that john is a complex person who isn't at all omniscient, but it's equally important to remember that he did choose to nuke the earth and become the god of a fascist space empire and conquer planets. he didnt just stumble his way into it!

#tlt #john #once i'm back at my apartment where my books are #maybe i'll make a proper post abt this with sources cited #but the whole 'any of us could have been john' really gets to me because. well. yes and no #any of us could be john in that john was a perfectly ordinary person. not a particularly bad person even #but no in that we are not all neoliberals with john's specific biases and massive ego #like even setting aside nuking the earth. which. idk. #i don't truly believe that We All would have recreated christian imperialism

[ssseriema]

and i know you didnt come back for me, but i wish you did

vitalasubzam week day 4: sword/shield

#itzsubz #princezam #vitalasy #lifesteal smp #vsz week 2024 #lsshipping #maybe #lssmp #seri art #wormhole be upon ye #vitalasy is holding a nuke egg #not the happiest w this but its whatevs

[nuke-expo]

scar and grian: *interacting on hermitcraft/the life series*

hermitshippers:

#this is so stupid i was sat there at my computer giggling drawing this in ms paint #im so sleep deprived its stupid #hermitshipping #scarian #desert duo #NOT SERIOUS this is the opposite of serious im just so bored #i’m literally a hermitshipper the call is coming from inside the house #by hermitshipper i mean characters not people ofc #but yes #nuke draws

[ilynpilled]

“jaime did it mostly for self preservation” “he did it bc he was ordered to kill his father” are not only blatantly incorrect and borderline illiterate reads of what is in the text but idk why people find it unfathomable that someone like jaime would want to prevent thousands of people from violently burning alive. like it is not actually a difficult moral equation which is why it is at the center of jaime’s arc and his relationship to his society because he realizes that the ethical constructs of westeros seem to be in opposition to this very obvious moral choice as seen by how the situation could even escalate to the point that it does through the enablement of the tyrant by the respected institution of the kingsguard and the uncritical upholding of the honor system over an actual coherent moral code. same with the scorn he receives for killing what everybody acknowledges as an objectively horrid tyrant who harmed innocents and violated law that knights are also sworn to protect and uphold and actually contradict by not acting against.

#like u guys r so blinded by agenda posting that it gets mind numbing #seeing ppl that otherwise r not illiterate repeat these points actually kills me #i should be studying but here i am pissing and crying again #and the whole ‘oh he only did it when it was convenient’ that is not the point the point is that he kept upholding what the kg represented #until he was pushed far enough to break and throw it all away #we see that he keeps challenging it and keeps being shut down until it reaches a breaking point #it isnt framed as ‘oh jaime now knows that he can do this bc tywins here haha’ #its just he finally reaches the obvious breaking point #bc someone out there has to stop a nuke #and it all becomes clear #jaime doesnt have to be the paragon of virtue to do this but yes he has the awareness and the moral code to do the right thing #how contrarian brained do u have to be to take this away

[nicollekidman]

me three days ago: do you think. do you think when they make out her nose would go inside of his nose hole

the official amazon prime fallout twitter account for some reason:

#here’s how we can make finger consumption and radiative reproductive system nuking happen #fallout #megan: yes #amazon prime: yeah

[jayrockin]

does Runaway to the Stars have italian people In Modern Era bc....... 😳😳😳

(this is a joke about how The Whop is a homophone for a derogatory turn of phrase for north american italian immigrants)

I was originally gonna spell it like that but then i googled it to make sure that didn't already mean something and was like oh. So i gave it a h because that version's mostly associated with onomatopoeia for smacking something and the adjective "whopping" meaning "exceptionally large." Moral of the story google stuff before you give it a silly nonsense word name

#this has happened to me before. can humanity stop attaching all the fun 3-4 letter syllables to slurs please #jaytext #also yes italian people still exist?? europe is still around it didnt get nuked in ww3 or anything

[david-talks-sw]

I can’t remember which post it was off the top of my head but you’ve mentioned how George was explicit that nothing in The Clone Wars directly influences Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, what about indirectly? There’s the obvious one: Anakin finds it easier to give into his anger as the war goes on. But I was also thinking the events of Hardeen and Wrong Jedi arcs weaken Anakin’s trust in the Order that then plays into the circumstances in which his fall to the Dark Side took place. Like that weakened trust meant Anakin distanced himself which gives context for why he refused to go to Obi-Wan when the visions started.

It also fits with his character because one of Anakin’s flaws is that he takes things way to personally, e.g. he was not the only person the Council lied to about Obi-Wan’s fake death. Then when Ahsoka was leaving the Order after the Council let her down, which they did let her down, she had to remind Anakin that it was about her not him.

Of course weakened trust is nowhere near enough to cause someone to commit genocide and Anakin didn’t seem to make any effort to mend those fences either. And of course none of this would have happened without Palpatine manipulating things. Hence my question of how you think The Clone Wars indirectly influenced his journey to the Dark Side even as none of really tied to why Anakin ultimately fell.

I think you summed it up perfectly, actually.

If you're using Lucas' word as the "be-all, end-all", then The Clone Wars is indeed just an asterisk/addendum to the story of the films.

Its purpose? Providing context for the minor changes between Episode II and Episode III, changes that aren't exactly relevant to the story of Anakin's downfall.

"Anakin seems more mature and less whiny, in Episode III, what happened to change that?" He got a Padawan of his own during the Clone War and when you're put in charge of someone, you grow up real quick.

"He and Obi-Wan were constantly bickering in Episode II, now they're best buds, why?" In Episode II, Anakin was in Obi-Wan's care but felt he needed to leave the nest, whereas Obi-Wan was being a helicopter parent. In The Clone Wars, we see that once Anakin gets knighted, their relationship smooths over, now becoming a more brotherly bond than a parent/child one. Obi-Wan will sometimes worry that Anakin will fly off the handle, but he's also able to recognize his former Padawan is now his own man, whereas Anakin takes responsibility more frequently, now, due to now having a Padawan of his own.

"What's the relationship between Anakin and the other Jedi we saw in the background of the movies?" Find out by tuning in to The Clone Wars!

"The clones have names, now? And they're the Jedi's friends, when did all that happen!" You can find out by seeing them fight side-by-side with the Jedi and slowly becoming independent thinkers, only in The Clone Wars.

"The Jedi are more scheming and political in Episode III, they and Anakin are at odds... why the shift in attitudes?" They were drafted into a war, and forced to make compromise after compromise to a point where their values have been rendered pointless and they've become begrudging hypocrites. They're playing politics (and sucking at it) because they've been dragged onto a political chessboard and are trying to keep up with a far more skilled opponent. These terrible decisions impact all of them, even Anakin.

Stuff like that.

But none of that is relevant to Anakin's story, which is more personal, in nature. It's a story about how his own greed turned him into the very thing he swore to destroy, which parallels how the Republic became the Empire for those same reasons.

The films show us this, and The Clone Wars *reinforces* this narrative by giving us further examples of it.

While Anakin is aware of what's right and wrong... the more the war rages on, the more frequently he takes the "easy" path and gives in to his anger and selfish desires, enabled by Palpatine.

Sometimes Anakin does manage to get a grip, he does manage to take responsibility, he does learn to let go... but then something happens (often orchestrated by Palpatine) and he goes right back to square one... then square zero... then square minus one, etc.

He never takes that final step to being a more enlightened person.

The Clone Wars challenges the Jedi at times, questions their actions... but ultimately, the responsibility falls on Anakin's shoulders. The series will show you moments where they fail Anakin, but there's as many moments of him failing them.

Could the Jedi have done more? Yes. But if you think them doing more would've solved the problem, you're missing the point of the story of the Prequels.

Functionally, all that is achieved from the Council/Anakin conflict (again, orchestrated by Palpatine), in Episode III, is creating more pressure for Anakin to cave under. That's it.

They're not a meaningful factor in his turn to the Dark Side.

Padmé is.

When he's hesitating between saving Mace or saving Palpatine...

... he's not thinking "one of them was nice to me, but the other one was mean to me and kicked out Ahsoka, so I'll chop his hand off".

And he's not thinking "this isn't by the book, Mace you hypocrite!"

Lucas tells us what's going through his head, in that moment.

It's about Padmé living. And we've already established that what that's really about is "Anakin not wanting to live without her". So, really, it's about Anakin.

Mace and Anakin butting heads isn't even considered. If Mace had been laughing with Anakin and hugging him on the daily, Anakin still would've ended up chopping off his hand. It wasn't about Mace, it was about Anakin.

If Ahsoka had stayed with the Jedi Order, he still would've joined the Dark Side. Because it was never about Ahsoka, it was about Anakin.

If Qui-Gon had lived, Anakin would've still turned. It was never about Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon being the teachers, it was about Anakin.

Because the message of the story is basically that:

"Ultimately, it's up to you to take personal responsibility and be compassionate. If you avoid responsibility and give in to your darker impulses for selfish purposes, bad shit happens. The only meaningful change can come from within."

And in Anakin's case it didn't. He zigged instead of zagging at almost every turn.

Now, you can agree or disagree with that message. But that's what it is. Even some of the current Star Wars authors acknowledge this.

The story of Anakin Skywalker is told in the movies.

The Clone Wars is there as an addendum to:

Shine a spotlight/provide context on minor changes between Episode II and Episode III.

Humanize Anakin, to further drive the point that what happened to him can happen to anyone.

ADDENDUM:

#yes this IS the post I had written last night then lost by *gasp* pressing Ctrl+Z ???? AKA the tumblr nuke button! #george lucas #jedi order #anakin skywalker #QnA #obi-wan kenobi #star wars #long post #meta #collection of quotes #lucas quotes #attachment #pro jedi

[fucktrain]

scrolling trying to find all the details of the predesterone ban has got me feeling like beniot blanc finding layer upon layer of shitty behavior but knowing the dickwad ceo was at fault from the very beginning

#glass onion #seriously i hope someone is compiling things because a) it is a confusing situation when you decipher from brief post out if chronological #order and b) if he's willing to nuke her blog why wouldn't he just nuke all the blacklash too #knives out #benoit blanc #yes i referenced one of the top blorbos so news could spread

[corpsoir]

saw a picture of a marble statue and thought calamari would look nice like that

#one thing about him is hes so pretty. but also so silly. and i think that combo is funny #transgender penis on your dash be upon ye #jjba oc #jojo oc #<- still so funny that my ocs are that but theyre just loosely connected to canon only when i think its funny #calamari pavone #corps.oc #corps.art #nudity #i guess . if tumblr nukes this post for there being a drawing of a tdick im deleting my blog

[shadebloopnik]

Still not over the idea that John wanted to use The perfect Family Harmony against the bergens. Like, that sht shatters diamonds, what would it do to flesh-

#the perfect family harmony is a bazooka and you can pry that idea from my cold dead fingers #OR A NUKE #YES A NUKE FITS #John was planning bergen genocide i swear i was there i was tge cage- #perfect family harmony #brozone #trolls #john dlry #john dory trolls #trolls john dory #trolls dreamworks #trolls band together

[seagullcharmer]

my mind keeps running around her

#my art #rusty lake #cube escape #robert hill #laura vanderboom #again not really a specific game. some insp from the white door and paradox though. #seagull scribbles #yes every cube on her dress was drawn by hand. i tried to account for wrinkles in the dress but that was. a lot of effort. #tumblr stop nuking the quality of my art challenge (impossible) 😭😭

[nbrights]

lucas time

#mother 3 #art #yes this is a reupload. old blog got nuked by tumby <3