Another Misadventure?

here are some resources to educate yourself:

- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé

- The Question of Palestine, Edward Said

- Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, Norman Finkelstein

- Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick

- The Hundreds Years’ War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi

- Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Noura Erakat

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

- Journal of an Ordinary Grief, Mahmoud Darwish

what’s happening is wrong. it is unjust. and we are not powerless. this goes triple for usamericans. it is our weapons, our military aid, and our country’s unconditional support to the apartheid state of israel that is making this genocide a reality.

actually reblogging again just to make sure people know how to leave feedback.

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to be fair, neither could Rasputin. Alexei very much continued to have haemophilia.

Based on the available historical evidence, the most likely sequence of events is as follows:

The conspirators attempt to kill Rasputin with poison-laced cakes, but fail; it’s unknown whether this is because de Lazovert fucked up the poison, because Rasputin – who had a well-known dislike of sweets – didn’t go in on the cakes as heavily as they expected, or just because a poisoned cake is a really stupid idea.  

Seeing that the poison has failed, Yusupov gets Rasputin alone for a moment and shoots him once in the chest, causing him to fall senseless to the floor. Because he’s a useless nerd who thinks he knows how murder works because he read a book, Yusupov is unaware that a single handgun shot is very unlikely to be immediately fatal, and neglects to finish Rasputin off, instead leaving the room to confer with his fellow conspirators.  

When the conspirators return to retrieve Rasputin’s body, he recovers from the shock of the initial gunshot and attacks them. Following some general panic, a third conspirator, Vladimir Purishkevich, opens up guns blazing; Purishkevich manages to miss several times in spite of being at point-blank range, but eventually strikes Rasputin in the head, killing him instantly.  

The conspirators beat the shit out of Rasputin’s body just to be sure, then proceed to make a complete clownshow out of disposing of the corpse; the remainder of Rasputin’s injuries are sustained postmortem.

Pretty much everything else about Rasputin’s miraculous invincibility is invented whole cloth, much of it by Yusupov himself in order to build himself up in his own published memoirs.