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 Palestinian people are in desperate need of aid and donations.I realise people have become weary of donating to go found mes as they are afraid of getting scammed which is unfortunately a real risk.If you are one of these people that have decided to take advantage of the slaughter of thousands of innocent men,women and children by setting up fake accounts and pretending to be a palestinian person in need of aid and assistance in helping them and or their family escape into Egypt PLEASE STOP Palestinian genocide is not something that you should be trying to profit from.Palestinians are really people in need of as much help as they can possibly get.If you set up fake go found mes you are taking away aid from real Palestinians who are more often than not children.By setting up fake account and go found mes you are aiding in the torture,humiliation and murder of countless innocent people.So if you are one of these people please take down your accounts and go fund mes and donate any money you have made off of these scams to real Palestinians.It is not to late to regain some of your humanity.
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The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Two prominent pro-Israel lobby groups are holding private briefings in New York City to coach elected officials and well-known figures on how to influence public opinion in favor of the Israeli military’s rampage in Gaza, The Grayzone can reveal. These PR sessions, convened by the UJA-Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council, rely on data collected by Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican pollster and pundit. [...] The Luntz-tested presentations on the war in Gaza urge politicians to avoid trumpeting America’s supposedly shared democratic values with Israel, and focus instead on deploying “The Language of War with Hamas.” According to this framing, they must deploy incendiary language painting Hamas as a “brutal and savage…organization of hate” which has “raped women,” while insisting Israel is engaged in “a war for humanity.” [...] Luntz’s Gaza war presentation puts his poll-tested tactics back in the Israel lobby’s hands, urging pro-Israel public figures to stay on the attack with incendiary language and shocking allegations against their enemies. In one focus group, Luntz asked participants to state which alleged act by Hamas on October 7 “bothers you more.” After being presented with a laundry list of alleged atrocities, a majority declared that they were most upset by the claim that Hamas “raped civilians” – 19 percent more than those who expressed outrage that Hamas supposedly “exterminated civilians.” Data like this apparently influenced the Israeli government to launch an obsessive but still unsuccessful campaign to prove that Hamas carried out sexual assault on a systematic basis on October 7. Initiated at Israel’s United Nations mission in December 2023 with speeches by neoliberal tech oligarch Sheryl Sandberg and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and speaking fees from Israel lobby organizations, Tel Aviv’s propaganda blitz has yet to produce a single self-identified victim of sexual assault by Hamas. A March 5 report by UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten did not contain one direct testimony of sexual assault on October 7. What’s more, Patten’s team said they found “no digital evidence specifically depicting acts of sexual violence.”
They also advice to use different language for Democrat and Republican voters, which inadvertently provides one of the most succinct explanation of the difference between the two genocidal parties that I've ever come across:
To make their arguments stick, Luntz recommends pro-Israel forces avoid the exterminationist language favored by Israeli officials who have called, for example, to “erase” the population of Gaza, and to instead advocate for “an efficient, effective approach” to eliminating Hamas. At the same time, veteran pollster acknowledges that Republican voters prefer phrases which imply maximalist violence, like “eradicate” and “obliterate,” while sanitized terms like “neutralize” appeal more to Democrats. Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump have showcased similar focus-grouped rhetoric with their calls to “finish them” and “finish the problem” in Gaza.
One of the slides, illustrating what language to use:
There are several more slides in the article. I recommend reading the whole thing, start to finish. One more thing I'd like to highlight though:
Luntz acknowledges Israel’s mounting PR problems in a slide identifying the most powerful tactics employed by Palestine solidarity activists. “Israelis attacking Israel is the second most potent weapon against Israel,” the visual display reads beside a photo of a protest by Jewish Voices for Peace, a US-based Jewish organization dedicated to ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine. “The most potent” tactic in mobilizing opposition to Israel’s assault on Gaza, according to Luntz, “is the visual destruction of Gaza and the human toll.” The slide inadvertently acknowledges the cruelty of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, displaying a bombed out apartment building with clearly anguished women and children fleeing in the foreground. But Luntz assures his audience, “It ‘looks like a genocide’ even though the damage has nothing to do with the definition.” According to this logic, the American public can become more tolerant of copiously documented crimes against humanity if they are simply told not to believe their lying eyes.
. . . full article on GZ (6 Mar 2024)
in light of israel's looming invasion on rafah, south africa implored the icj to call for the protection of palestinians with new preliminary orders. the icj denied this request, insisting that its january orders would be sufficient enough in ensuring the safety of people residing in rafah.
we have all seen how israel responded to the icj verdict earlier this month. they have all but intensified their attacks on palestinians, their favorite of whom seem to be children. this will end in a bloodbath. palestinians, already malnourished and living in literal tents, will be bombarded, they will be shot, they will be slaughtered. and when i say palestinians, a lot of them are actual toddlers. the videos coming out of this are proof enough.
at this point, it has been made amply clear that palestinians will never experience safety in their own homeland. a lot of the families in gaza are trying to raise funds to get out of it, because there's nowhere left to go.
there is nowhere left to go. if these people don't get the funds necessary to escape, they will die.
it's vital that you go to operation olive branch's spreadsheet, choose a family that resonates with you, and donate as much as you can to their gofundme. every last dollar counts. one dollar could be the difference between life and death for a family. please don't fall victim to the bystander effect. your contribution counts, however little it may be. and whether you're able to donate or not, spread this to as many people as you can. each second we stay silent is a second an entire family is brutally massacred.
It was never about retrieving the hostages or protecting anyone. After more than 105 days of Genocide, this should've been clear.
Link:
Israel has bombed—and completely demolished—the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is the second oldest mosque in Palestine. There was no purpose to bombing it. There was no advantage to targeting it. Israel simply destroyed it to make a statement: that Palestinian religion and culture not only mean nothing to them, but are something they’re actively working on wiping out. This was one of Palestine’s most sacred cultural sites. Now it’ll forever serve as proof of the horrifying death and destruction the world has allowed to befall Palestine.
if you still think what’s going in Palestine is a war after seeing whats been going on for the past 106 days and the past 75 YEARS you can seriously fuck off. This Is a GENOCIDE. An incredibly well documented genocide that people are still refusing to acknowledge. I have seen countless videos off children crying because they lost their entire family, there are so many videos of children begging the world to do something. 30,000. That’s how many Palestinians have been lost. And that doesn’t even account for the amount that have been severely injured or the amount affected by that loss. This is not normal, stop turning a blind eye, wake up and call for a ceasefire. Bisan is calling for a global strike week from the 21st to the 28th. Stay home from work or school stop giving money to any corporations and make as much noise as you can for Palestine. If you absolutely cannot stay home from work or school do not stop talking about Palestine. Share every post about the ongoing genocide that you can. Stop posting any other forms of content, inform any one who may not know. Your silence makes you complicit. May the Palestinians live to see the end of this horror.
On this year women's day, all we could think about are Palestinian women in Gaza.
Nearly 9,000 women have been killed in Israeli attacks in five months. Another 2,100 are missing and presumed dead, while 23,000 have been wounded and over half a million are displaced.
“Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, are exposed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe,” Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said on Thursday.
Dozens of women and girls have also been detained and face harsh conditions in Israeli custody, including sexual abuse.
Women in Gaza also struggle to find menstruation products and access the necessary pregnancy and post-natal care. The consequences on reproductive health, including a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, have increased significantly.
Women in labour are undergoing caesarean procedures without anaesthetics, and a shortage of post-operative care such as medication, antibiotics and pain relief further exacerbates the situation.
According to the health ministry, 5,000 women give birth monthly in Gaza under “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy” conditions caused by Israeli bombing and displacement.
There are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from “malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medical care.
There have also been repeated cases of Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian women by posting videos and pictures of themselves rummaging through personal belongings in Gaza homes, making derogatory comments and posing with women’s underwear.
‼️THE ALQUTATI FAMILY NEEDS HELP TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY‼️
PLEASE REBLOG!
Moatasem (5) and Obida (2), brothers living in the cold tents of Rafah with the rest of their family, and area under threat of invasion.
THE ALQUTATI FAMILY NEEDS HELP NOW TO EVACUATE. With the ground invasion of Rafah, this could be their only chance to escape death in the ongoing GENOCIDE! With our help, they can evacuate to safety and live a safe life like EVERYONE deserves.
Every single person in this family has dreams and passions. Every single person is someone’s everything. Please, do what you can to protect them.
PLEASE REBLOG, and donate if you can! ANY HELP COUNTS— SHARING GOES A LONG WAY!
Hello ! I am a Palestinian academic educator from Gaza, seeking your urgent support in time of bad need. I am trying to reach out to generous donors or contributors to help get my family out of the hell of the war to safety and peace. The war turned our life up side down and turned us from having everything to having nothing. Our house and livelihood business have been lost due to the war and my whole family became homeless and displaced in a very small tent under the sunny hot weather. No place to shelter my family and no income to live on. Life has become unbelievably harsh and tough. That is why I am asking your kind support. Please don't leave us alone in such tragic and catastrophic circumstances. My family is in bad need to your contribution, either through directly donating whatever you can or through sharing my link. Your assistance is highly appreciated and welcome.
i heavily apologize but i don’t have any money to donate to gaza ☹️but i will share this so it reaches someone who is able to donate. stay safe, loves ❤️
You fuck ass Israeli Colonizers are going to die anyway, Nazis in America don't fuckin like you lmao 😂
If anyone sees this just fyi that if you see this guy comment under any Palestine posts he compares people who DONT want genocide to Palestinians to Nazis. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
For everyone who keeps saying “wHaT aBoUt ThE hOsTaGeS?!?! ReLeAsE tHe HoStAgEs!!1!”
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When frogs hibernate its misaka destinyyyy
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Liking breasts remained my personality trait throughout my life?
I’ve really gotta change things.
I’m gonna be more mature.
Azur Lane schizo discuss.
I don't particularly goon or do anything like that, but eye candy waifus have always been curse, I HATE IT. I love it.
FUCK!
Waifus can be very sexy but gacha really pushed themselves to add as plently as possible in short process.
But quite from the majority, I prefer Azur Lane. To me, it is the better waifu game. I am just used to already have decided that it is better. Sorry!
Oh my muscles.... sorry I need to go get prtoein asap... holy shit
Ranking them, what makes the hottest waifus? Let's qualify it in different characteristics.
I think even with all other shit added, physical appearance plays major role in her "waifuness" aka sex appeal and it is what is true for gacha as well. Basically, no matter where you look waifus often are the ones who are sexually appealing characters and psychologically positive, these two together create a great waifu for the gacha game.
So, wide hips then big boobs, then skeleton - the jaw has to be round and short, its important that it is lower than 30% in idle position, collarbones are inversed and slight posture. A lot of times manga artists fail some of these parts and make female characters unattractive, anyway..
If you did it, you already have proper female character. (idk if anyone, but muscular women do look a bit like men outside of pelvis and jaw snca)
The next factor is the character background, it plays major role and divided into some simialr traits that give it waifuness. the character must be cute and be positive and friendly towards the "master" or something, she has to be feminine in personality aka helping cooking or gifting presents. In other words things like being capable mother and showing nurturing personality, and she has to have quirks that give her meaning as character, for example having allergies, being NEET nihilist ass hol or something like that or hating omelets or being good swimmer, or prankster or always sweating for no reason, well there are many traits you can add to them.
Note if she doesnt love children and is self centered, anti-waifu than it'd be practically improbable to turn her into one ever at all even in fan art.
Now comes out major important decision - how do characters interact and build sexual tension? If they don't, then they can just stay as eye candies. Otherwise, they can build tension through baiting, that forces male character to act or think lewdly, in other words it is sort of like how else you have villains who come back at the last second or how they get defeated at last second, when things get turned around - a plot twist, so in erotic way you can add a twist of... You know what, it's so long to explain that. Basically, there needs to be danger and chance of failure, I'll explain it that way.
Make it so that the sexual plot twist is shocking, or that the male character needs to be in conflict, something like exterior elements of the story, it's not always conflict but it is a form of something that is shameful but also shock.
Anyway, now that we resolved general path to waifu body - cute traits - feminity - character personality - sexual shock baits
we can look at different gacha and compare them.
Starting with Azur Lane, we have ambigious very cool concept of characters based on ships with random quirks, that already puts it pretty high, to add to that costumes are abstract which means they can be anything you desire including fantasy. That means there is no limit to how waifus can be transformed in doujin environment or anywhere else. I can take one of the characters and change the setting and the character will still remain the same personality, anyway. That gives a lot of hard potential. But Fate and Sennen Aigis have established characters with some storylines, which means youi cannot just imagine them differently plus the story tends to be clusterfuck and way too developed, again it devours ability of creative freedom. That said both excel at fantasy and specific designs, which means for example characters can wield weird weapons like magic swords or historical artifacts, something that they are innately attached to. That said, in sennen aigis it shows more dramatically. As there are plently of classes of different types of characters who all have very different design. That means that if the game has both mages, maids and nurses as class three cannot be truly mixed. Fantasy cannot exist if someone already made it for you and I think its big fault with fantasy titles, especially sennen aigis and taimanin which basically has written the characters half assedly in non-interesting manner.
Because there is so much of the lore that sucks and does not bring any satisfaction, it takes away both the creative freedom and interesting plot, instead pictures - is all you really get, and a little bit of text although it might be possible to make a doujin of sennen aigis and fate they might be difficult due to already existing story.
It makes me feel like there is no story because there is no genuine focus and therefore no interesting waifus but very boring outside of design.
Another thing to note is the clothes characters are wearing, it makes major part of the character that makes you think "oh yeah they have to wear this" unfortunately this is very common in fantasy worlds where the outfits symbolize major character theme implying limitation on character himself, i mean what else will they wear if not ninja clothing or knight armor?!.. Would you really make character change clothes are you put so much effort in making them for him? This is another thing that in my opinion Azur Lane is better at and has more fan-freedom in doujin.
if I were to write doujin for sennen, I would probably stay as inaccurate to it because there's no way to write it with these simple plots, I wonder if it'd be cool to add something to churro where people can roleplay and have their own dnd thing... It'd be pretty fun and I was thinking too about that stuff. Too bad its hard to force myself to do anything that is not short term entertainment or benefit.
I don't know why but one of the worst things that I experience daily is food apathy, more precisely I'd call it food hatred or food phobia. When I just do things on its own without much work, I am okay. But oh man, when I need to eat my brain gets really messed up. If you tell me I need to eat next week or 3 hours, to me that is being delivered a letter with execution date. It hurts me mentally when I got to eat, my brain slows down and I look like infected in Shikki. I have no clue why it hurts so much, maybe my brain cant handle the idea of slowing down to get extra fuel, but for me it is indeed awful.
I am de artist.