This is entirely indistinguishable from Biden’s State Dept press briefings on Gaza, btw.
The logic of domestic abuse—“I beat my wife because she deserves it”—extrapolated to the sphere of geopolitics and genocide.
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This is entirely indistinguishable from Biden’s State Dept press briefings on Gaza, btw.
The logic of domestic abuse—“I beat my wife because she deserves it”—extrapolated to the sphere of geopolitics and genocide.

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every single discussion about the fucking signal groupchat makes me feel so insane. "what a display of incompetence! what a failure! let's all make accidental groupchat mistake jokes now" what the fuck are you talking about. it worked. the fact that THIS is the conversation now is literally the point. jeffrey goldberg literally did it again. selling the bombing of the middle east to the public is the entire purpose of his career as a "journalist"
former iof prison guard who spent the past year fully deepthroating the genocidal boot and famously sold the invasion of iraq as something that "will be remembered as an act of profound morality"? "journalist" who literally built his career on manufacturing consent for bombing arabs "accidentally" invited to a top secret group chat about bombing arabs oh no how could this happen? what are you TALKING about. fork found in kitchen! likely place for him to be! my god
As someone who launders pro-Israel, pro-US government talking points for a living, Goldberg being on Trump officials’ speed dial makes perfe
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, has been at the center of a national story after he was “inadvertently” included in a group Signal chat with administration officials as they planned a deadly bombing in Yemen. Much of the coverage has focused on the mishandling of military secrets, rather than the impact of the bombings themselves, targeting the poorest country in the Middle East, which the United States has helped bomb and blockade for over a decade. Goldberg is not just an observer: He is contributing to this disregard for Yemeni lives, and his dismissiveness sheds light on why he was an administration media contact to begin with.
In an interview that aired on March 26, Deepa Fernandes, one of the hosts of NPR's “Here and Now,” interviewed Goldberg about the “group chat heard 'round the world” that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance. During one portion of the interview, Fernandes did something few other journalists are doing. She asked Goldberg about the Yemeni people who were killed in the bombing, which took place on March 15.
Deepa Fernandes: There's little talk of the fact that this attack killed 53 people, as we mentioned, including women and children. The civilian toll of these American strikes. Are we burying the lede here?
Jeffrey Goldberg: Well, those, unfortunately, those aren't confirmed numbers. Those are provided by the Houthis and the Houthi health ministry, I guess. So we don't know that for sure. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're, well, I don't know if we're burying the lede, because obviously huge breaches in national security and safety of information, that's a very, very important story, obviously. And one of the reasons, you know, it's a very important story is that the Republicans themselves consider that to be an important story, when it's Hillary Clinton doing the deed, right? So that's obviously hugely important.
But yeah, I think that covering what's going on in Yemen, the Arab and Iran backed terrorist organization, the Houthis, that are that are firing missiles at Israel and disrupting global shipping and occupy half of Yemen, and all kinds of other things in the US, you know, and the Trump administration criticizing the Biden's response and Europe wants Trump to do more. I mean, yeah, there's, there's a huge story in Yemen. But Yemen is, as you know, is one of the more inaccessible places for Western journalists. So maybe this becomes like a substitute for a discussion of Yemen. I don't know.
Goldberg not only seems unconcerned about the death toll and eager to cast doubt on its veracity, but he also appears unprepared for the question. It’s as though it didn’t occur to him that the substance of the Signal exchange itself—the bombing—might be a legitimate topic of conversation, and he seems eager to move on.
This is despite the fact that there is evidence in the exchange itself that the United States hit a civilian site in the bombing. Waltz wrote in the Signal chat that the US military had bombed a residential building. “The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz wrote in the chat, to which JD Vance replied: “Excellent.”
Yet, as Nick Turse noted for The Intercept, “So far, however, there has been little focus on the specifics of the attack, much less discussion of the fact that one of the targets of the March 15 strike was a civilian residence.”
The story of US belligerence in Yemen should be a huge one. Since 2015, the US-Saudi coalition has used American manufactured bombs to hit wedding parties, factories, a school bus, and a center for the blind. It’s difficult to know the exact death toll, but around three years ago, the death toll from direct and indirect consequence of war surpassed 377,000. Direct bombings by both the Biden and Trump administrations threaten a wider war, and have occurred in lockstep with US support for Israel as it has ruthlessly bombed and attacked Gaza since October 7.
Goldberg, of course, was included in that group chat because he was a contact of someone on the administration’s thread, and his history of laundering the US military’s mass atrocities is a good indicator of why. In the lead-up to the US-led war on Iraq, Goldberg was central to peddling the disproven conspiracy theory that Iraq had ties to al-Qaeda, a key lie of the George W. Bush administration, used to justify the invasion. One month before the US started the war, he went on NPR to discuss “Possible Links Between Iraq and al Qaeda and Evidence That the Iraqis May be Trying to Evade Weapons Inspectors.”
Goldberg has a long career of uplifting the media narratives of the United States and its allies, including a big piece in 2010 where he floated justifications for a possible Israeli war on Iran. Like many of the Iraq War pushers, Goldberg’s lies about Iraq did not harm his career, but marked its ascent. Under his tenure, the Atlantic has shut out Palestinian voices and stories, as the US has helped Israel wage genocide in Gaza.
Goldberg’s dismissal of Yemeni deaths is not a small detail of this blockbuster story, but a central component. One way to get on the speed dials of high-level officials is to have a proven career of doing their bidding.
As we see wall-to-wall coverage of the Signal leaks on supposed liberal networks like MSNBC, it’s important to remember that the primary scandal is the bombing of Yemen, a reality that the network has long obscured. As The Column’s Adam Johnson noted in July 2018, at that point it had been a year since MSNBC had mentioned the US backed destruction of Yemen. Yet during that same period, MSNBC had done 455 segments on the Trump-Stormy Daniels affair. As media reports and House Intelligence Committee hearings ignore the human toll of US military attacks, we continue to see the ascent of those who have built their careers on directing public attention away from the people the United States kills.

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crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis
even setting aside the fact that gendered bodytype averages aren't universals, and plenty of individual (cis) women and (cis) men could easily go to toe to toe. have we considered that the fact that all the most prominent and well-paid sports are ones that require things like Being Tall and Having Muscle Mass, as opposed to, ex, gymnastics...is itself an artifact of sexism
Also consider the existence of sports where women would have an advantage, and yet, somehow, the most famous and well paid ones are not women.
I'm thinking of jockeys. Jockeys get an advantage from being smaller and lighter, and while obviously you need sufficient strength to stay on the horse, a well-trained horse does enough of the work that you don't need upper body strength to do the job. Given this and that the majority of children obsessed with horses are female, you'd think most jockeys would be women. Yet somehow they are not.
NASCAR at one point threatened to handicap Danica Patrick by putting extra weight in her car to compensate for the fact that she is smaller and lighter than other racecar drivers. If she gets an advantage as a driver, why is she like practically the only female racecar driver, or at least the only one anyone knows about?
Women, apparently, have an advantage in long distance swimming. Higher body fat percentage and higher endurance means that women can go greater distances in the water. Is long distance swimming even a competitive sport?
Women have actually been excluded from competitive Olympic skiing on the grounds that the jumps required could damage their uterus. The people who actually have unsupported reproductive organs hanging outside their body are considered to have better support than the people whose reproductive organs are nestled in alongside unisex organs like the small intestine and stomach. How does this make any goddamn sense at all? If a uterus could dislodge from the force of a skiing jump, so could intestines and the sport wouldn't be safe for anyone.
Theoretically, any sport where you get an advantage from low center of gravity, better balance, higher flexibility, or being closer to the ground, women should have an advantage. This should include soccer (football in non-US places), and might include hockey if the hockey players hadn't introduced unnecessary viciousness to the sport.
So in any sport where women would excel over men, they're either excluded, unfairly penalized, the sport doesn't exist, or the sport is considered unimportant and no one makes money on it. Hmm. I am thinking the problems here are not actually what the TERFs and transphobes make them out to be.
For those of you wondering "Why did OP say the 70's?" It's because that's when Title IX was passed in the US, prohibiting gender-based discrimination in federally funded education, e.g. public schools & universities. So anti-feminists couldn't just straight up say "no girls allowed" but instead resorted to what's been described above.
It's as if intolerance can't be magically be solved with pieces of paper alone.
Okay so like weird pet peeve about fantasy RPG worldbuilding of mine is writers who treat "Runes" as, like, a special class of writing systems instead of. Basically a variant of an alphabet. I'm reading Halls of Arden Vul (bought it) and it is very good and expansive but reading about the languages and writing systems of the world I'm just struck by the fact that the author seems to be implying that the various "runic" writing systems are logographic or ideographic and I'm just. No. Runes were just an alphabet.
Like the notes about the Sylvan Runic and Sylvan scripts all but confirm this: Sylvan Runic apparently had 275 "runes," until the elven lords commissioned the creation of a "true alphabet" of 31 letters and like this is literally just the evolution of an alphabet out of a logographic or ideographic system, you didn't need to invoke "runes" at any point, what are you even talking about
We absolutely need more philologists and linguists involved in writing RPG settings because how the hell am I supposed to run a campaign with worldbuilding this sloppy smdh
Runes were and are a real thing before tolkien. From this article, it seems to say that each Rune in the alphabet was also attributed certain concepts as well sort pulling double duty. For example, the M equivalent also stands for man specifically mean "a rune to represent friends, self, and mankind. It can also denote social order, intellect, mind, and memory." As the article states.
So Rune is both an alphabet and a special writing class system.
Norse runes are a writing system first developed by the Germanic people of Scandinavia. Learn about the history and symbolism of runes.
This is nothing new to me. I am in fact aware of runes in the real world. The point is that the way fantasy writers often utilize runic scripts as some mystical ideographic or logographic systems with huge inventories of runes is completely divorced from what runes were historically in the real world.
Like, yeah, runes often had symbolic meanings attached, that is not the issue, the issue is that the futhark didn't have hundreds of symbols, each representing a different idea or concept, like this book I'm talking about seems to be attributing to runes universally. That describes a logographic or ideographic system, which runes were not.
Mostly just. Attaching a lot of unnecessary mysticism to runes, while also being unaware of how they were actually used? A lot of fantasy writers treat them as innately mystical and while they were in fact used for writing cool spells and blessings and shit... so has every other writing system?
There are instances of them being used ideographically yeah. That one I was a bit too quick to dismiss. But the small inventory of runes means that the system itself isn't a logographic or ideographic script. It is, primarily, an alphabet.
And that's the biggest issue I have here: invoking "runes" (a word that means a specific class of writing systems in the real world) and then using it to signify a system that very much is not that (a system with a huge inventory of symbols, representing nouns, concepts, and ideas).
As someone that both feels what you're saying (Germanic philology was one of my favorite classes) and sometimes has used "arcane runes" and other such fantasy nonsense, one thing in favor of runes-as-ideographs is that the word rune itself has connotations of magic (the etymology is literally "secret, mystery") and they have a whole mythology surrounding their use in rituals (the whole of the Eddas).
Like, yes, they are an alphabet, but someone who's just saying a certain people writes differently would simply call it an alphabet. If you're calling them runes in fantasy, it's likely there's a connotation of "this is magical". And ideographic runes are just an easier logical leap if you're saying they have some Secret Power.
So like, yeah, on the one hand they were mostly Just Letters. On the other hand, if you're drawing on their mythic connotations, you're going to think of runes-as-ideographs rather than runes-as-alphabet. Even though historically runes-as-alphabet were indeed used for spells (she says, twirling her replica of a runic ring that's supposed to be a spell of protections but historians have yet been unable to make sense of).
Yeah, there's this association of the word runes itself as being somehow "more magical," I guess, which I can sort of understand where it's coming from, but also. Hieroglyphs and Chinese characters also have fairly attested associations with mysticism (hieroglyphs seen as divine to an extent, Chinese characters used in divination).
So yeah I can kind of understand the "these thangs hold magic" thing and where it comes from. But I also feel bad for my friends the futhark and futhorc when writers who should know better basically treat them like white people kanji.
A lot of the mysticism surrounding runes during the period of time they were in use was because writing in general was surrounded by mysticism. In a setting with a low literacy rate*, it kind of makes sense for whatever writing system is in use to seem vaguely magical. There are medieval texts where we see people ascribe a sort of mysticism to the Latin alphabet as well. So you know. If you want the “runes are magic” vibe in your setting you may as well go all the way and make literacy rare.
(Also, “white people kanji” is a succinct & accurate way to describe how many people think of runes today; kudos there.)
*There is of course no way to know exactly what the literacy rate was at the time, but “lower than it is now” is a pretty safe bet.
EDIT: also I think at least some of the ideographic interpretations of the futhark started as just a mnemonic to remember what symbol made what sound, “a is for apple”-style.
The use of Runes as somehow being ideographic and functioning in this magical way in Fantasy literature, especially D&D derived fantasy, can't be disassociated from the use of Runes within occult and new age circles, where they are both magical and ideographic. This is the same reason why many neo-Nazi organisations use the Algiz as their symbol ('rune of life' as it is supposedly), also derived from some SS organisations and the Thule Society. This is in turn derived from Germanic neopaganism, especially Odalism and Gothicism, where occultists in the late 19th century started incorporating runes in their practice to show an authentic Germanic root to divining practices of the sort practiced by Roma and Sinti. It is, as always with this sort of thing, deeply encoded with nationalism, germanicism, and anti-Semitism, and it is difficult to disentangle from that knot of meaning. It is still White People Kanji, the whole point is to show that very racist Germanics can partake in these "oriental" "mystical practices" to use the language of the time without being sullied, because they of course originate with Ancient White People.
And also, since he's being mentioned, obviously Tolkien used his runes, whether the ones that were just historical (Anglo-Saxon runes as used by the dwarves) or the ones he made up, ie his elf-runes Cirth, they're used as what they are, an alphabet, neither more or less magical than anything else.
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i mean, tumblr users over 23 are 98% pmc or studying to be pmc or etsy brained aspirational petite bourgoise. theyre exactly the people who would have bought tesla stock in 2018 on some ethical capitalism/effective altruism shit
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not to be all i told you so about ancestry tests but 23 and me went bankrupt and can now legally sell human genetic information to the highest bidder, as per their privacy policy which was signed by approx. 15 million test takers
im still mind blown that people really readily submitted their dna so they could be classed by ethnicity on paper permanently. like yeah theres no way this could go badly huh

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Remember when AOC said this. The elitism is so explicit with identifying political conviction and academia too
Everybody is shocked that US journalist was invited to a top secret chat discussing military strikes and then just left (honestly that's the funniest thing) while refusing to reveal sensitive information but that's about what I expected. You can read on his article, he doesn't care about the fact that the US military is striking one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact, he probably even supports it.
What he is outraged about is how dare Trump be so incompetent, how dare him compromise the effectiveness of the US military, which is doing its job to 'protect this country'. You will see this in media from other countries, there's little to no mention about WHERE the airstrikes were directed to, WHY and WHO they killed. It's all "oh Trump let a random journalist on his chat, how embarrassing!" If it had been Obama or Biden or whoever, the journalist probably wouldn't even had published anything, because after all I imagine (ha!) that they talk about bombing third world countries with propriety and decorum, not unlike these guys who are so, so cringe.
this is why I tell you that the US has a level of military worship seldom seen and completely naturalized
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I've never seen anemic people have issue with people calling scant and unsatisfactory things "anemic" as a description of its state. Like I guess the low-iron people are there like "yeah mood, I am also low-energy, watered-down, lacking in substance, and not truly living up to the potential that I could have had if provided with the right tools and resources. Just like this newest Warhammer release."
ceasefire today, accountability from tomorrow until the end of time. all my love to the steadfast people and martyrs of gaza
in common israeli behavior, as phase I of the ceasefire expires today israel attempts to sabotage the ceasefire again to avoid accountability.
they have violated the conditions for phase I and are refusing to move to phase II by announcing a war crime instead: resuming the starvation siege and preventing international aid from entering gaza during ramadan. this is all par for the course. israel has never met an agreement it wouldn't break, nor missed an opportunity to inflict more suffering. accountability will come regardless, but now is the time to be alert, especially as western media tries to obfuscate the reasons for the ceasefire violations.
tonight at 3 am israel unilaterally ended the ceasefire and resumed the genocide in gaza, killing at least 45 people so far including dozens of children. for two weeks it had already been starving gazans in ramadan and preventing aid, food and fuel from getting in. accountability is a very long game. the more violent they get, the longer they put it off, the more the world will continue to pay.
i've been saying this for two years, but it doesn't hurt to say it again: the short term of this is ugly. there's no short-term solution. things are going to get more violent. but the long-term is already lost to them. all we have to do is stay the course, and don't let them intimidate you into silence or exhaust you with the sheer scale of the violence. these are the tactics of a bully nation led by a bully sponsor, and the world has seen all of them fall before

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re how americans and tbh most people in fortress schengen don't know how difficult it is to acquire visas, greencards or citizenship, how expensive and fraught those pathways are, how there's children who can grow up and live their entire lives in these countries and still be deported. that kind of ignorance, in the last decade of immigration hysteria is indistinguishable from weaponised incompetence. it is barely one step away from complicity to me.
The Governor of California, Gaving Nesome has started a podcast and has about 3 episodes so far. And in each and every episode he has a different guest come on and advocate for the stripping of the rights of trans people, explicitly trans women. And every time Newsome has offered no push back.
He is the Democratic Party's favorite for 2028 and he is building his foundation by advising the party will gain ground throwing trans people (again explicitly stating Trans Women) to the wolves.
Don't be surprised if in the next four years the Democrats position becomes one that supports the outlawing of medical and social transition.