• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    She mentions the small talk in the dog park since October 7. One day, the women there were friendly to her, and then one asked, “In what way would it be better wipe out Gaza – starvation or a nuclear bomb?”

    What the fuck

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    She mentions the small talk in the dog park since October 7. One day, the women there were friendly to her, and then one asked, “In what way would it be better wipe out Gaza – starvation or a nuclear bomb?”

    Shira asks: “How can it be that this is a normal conversation in the street, and I’m considered strange?”

    It’ll never stop shocking me that the average israeli unironically just acts like this casually and its not even some sort of parody

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    Antisemitism doesn’t scare her; “they make more out of it than it is,” she says. And for her, life is scarier here; after all, she lives in a house with no safe room. “During the sirens I worried that a wall might fall on me, and for months after October 7, I had nightmares about terrorists,” she says.

    What she’s saying here is that if more civilian areas were hit then she’d leave.

  • “Israel needs to exist as a safe place for Jews.”

    “So… you’re going to create a colonial apartheid state?”

    “Yes.”

    “You do realize that will inspire violent resistance and likely make the nation a pariah state that almost everyone besides the US views as hostile right?”

    “Yes, but it will be safer for Jews!”

    “Safer than Brooklyn?”

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    40% of Israelis [sic] Say They Consider returning the land they stole and fucking off in disgrace Leaving the Country

    Good, how about we get that up to 100%.

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    Ritualistic displays of psychopathy like this, are absolutely a sign of complete social and cultural collapse

    If you twist your brain to think this shit about other people, you’ll eventually apply the same logic to your in-group, generating witch-hunts, more scapegoats and more victims to justify the initial descent into barbarism, an ideology centered on death has no equilibrium

    The single saving grace of fascism is the fact it is inherently self-destructive, fascists after a certain amount of time do not want to be around other fascists unless they themselves are in positions of power (in which case paranoia takes over) leading to similar results either way

    These people destroyed themselves mentally and socially a long time ago, and unfortunately it’s been the outside influence of US imperial power that has kept this abomination alive well past its due date

    Tho American elites are playing a dangerous game by continuing to imbibe the corpse of a dead society, the poisonous ideology will make it’s way back to the US and start generating the same self-destructive tendencies pulling the collapse date of the US closer to the present

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    Case studies in cognitive dissonance. Riky Cohen’s interesting, let’s see what her poetry is like:

    The Chinese neighbor invaded
    The country of conquered dreams
    At five in the morning
    Muffled shouting in the parking lot
    The slamming door of a diplomatic vehicle
    And sleep is vanquished
    Her foreign tongue mumbled me throughout the day
    not softly
    not softly
    I am a nation of ambivalent feelings
    And my mother tongue is disorder

    dead-dove-3

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        There’s a delightful little undergrad lecture in how to not write poetry buried in here. The rhythm (yes, you can have rhythm in free verse! It’s okay! Strict adherence to meter isn’t necessary but that doesn’t mean one should simply chuck words in a blender!) is nonexistent; why are the dreams being invaded if they’d already been conquered; why the passive voice of “sleep is vanquished.” Why the gerund “the slamming” when you could make it a straight onomatopoeia, why “the vehicle” when you could go simpler or more specific, either ‘the car’ or something about its make and model that signals that it’s diplomatic? The diplomatic towncar’s door slam // vanquishes sleep could probably do with some additional revision (by which I mean the whole poem should be tossed in the bin, but assuming we commit to trying to salvage it) but it’s an improvement. There’s some mystery in how the narrator would know it’s a diplomatic vehicle given that she presumably is not fast asleep in the parking lot, but we can chalk that up to inference from another language being spoken or license.

        How does one mumble not softly? “A nation of ambivalent feelings” is like an antimetaphor, it takes an idea and makes it less immediate and relatable. “My mother tongue is disorder” doesn’t really seem to relate to the rest of the poem, which suggests that the disorder is being imposed by someone from outside your cultural context (Chinese/foreign tongue), so why is that your conclusion?

        The more I look at it the more annoyed I get. You don’t have to be a good person to write good poetry, but you do have to be an interesting person, or at absolute minimum a person who takes a keen interest and, if you aren’t or don’t, you get this drab and stilted style.