I’ve been thinking about Legend of Korra while rewatching Avatar for the umpteenth time, and the conclusion I keep coming to is that I don’t hate Korra the character, I just think she deserved a better show.
Season 1 remains my favorite season of LOK because it had all the setup for a really interesting series. You’ve got a naturally hot-headed main character who’s been trained as a soldier all her life, except there’s no war for her to fight, and fighting would in fact only make things worse. That is an amazing personal journey for Korra to go on; navigating tense social situations and learning how to be a negotiator, having to talk through problems instead of just punching them. The Equalist plotline was the perfect antagonist for a character like Korra, and I was genuinely disappointed when that storyline ended with the first season; it really should’ve been the main conflict of the whole show.
They mention in Season 2 how raising Korra in the compound and bringing teachers to her actually did her a disservice, but the rest of the show never really expands on that, which is a shame, because it could’ve been such an amazing arc to explore.
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i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way
Hi, I saw a post on here the other day implying that Russia is pushing/making pro-Palestine propaganda (something along the lines of its surprisingly easy for Tumblr users to fall for Russian propaganda using the pro-Palestine movement as an example). I feel like I've heard this before but nothing concrete, and I'm genuinely curious if you know whether this is happening and to what extent?
These images illustrate how the Soviet Union visually equated Zionism with Nazism and colonialism throughout the 1960s and 70s.
You’ll notice striking similarities between these graphics and the infographics commonly seen on social media today.
This is not coincidence.
Most of the slogans and frameworks used in the "Free Palestine" movement today weren't created by Gen Z activists. They were engineered by the KGB and Soviet Agitprop (Agitation and Propaganda) departments over 50 years ago.
The Great Pivot
In 1948, the USSR actually supported Israel. But when Israel aligned with the West, the Soviets needed a way to turn the "Global South" against them. They launched a massive ideological campaign to rebrand Zionism (the movement for Jewish self-determination) as a form of "white supremacist colonialism."
They created a state-sponsored "science" called Zionology. The goal was simple: make Zionism synonymous with the world’s greatest evils (Nazism, Racism, and Imperialism) so that opposing Israel became a "progressive" moral requirement.
The crowning achievement of this era was the 1975 UN Resolution declaring "Zionism is a form of racism." This wasn't a grassroots human rights initiative; it was a Soviet-led diplomatic hit job.
Though the UN revoked it in 1991, the damage was permanent. It gave activists a "scholarly" and "international" license to treat the Jewish state as uniquely illegitimate. When you see modern infographics using these exact terms, you are seeing the tail-end of a 50-year-old Soviet PR campaign.
And yes, Russia is doing this again (along with Iran and Qatar).
Why Russia is doing it again
A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation — and they’re spoofing reputable new
The research for this study was supported by The B.L. Manger Foundation, Inc. Executive Summary Since April 2023, Russia has been running an
For at least two years, Russia has been running a global disinformation campaign that has targeted Ukrainian, French, German, and Israeli au
Today, Russia (and its modern disinformation machine) uses the Israel-Palestine conflict in the West as a wedge issue. They don't have to invent new lies. They just amplify existing tensions. By flooding platforms like Tumblr or Twitter with high-emotion content, they force Westerners to pick sides and fight each other.
If Russia can make young Americans believe their government is funding a genocide, it weakens domestic support for all Western foreign policy, including support for Ukraine.
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It is surprisingly easy to fall for it because this propaganda is designed to look like social justice. It uses the language of liberation to hide its origins in Cold War geopolitics.
When you see a post that frames a 3,000-year-old indigenous connection as settler-colonialism, or equates the Star of David with a Swastika, you're seeing a Soviet turd that's been polished for 21st century "progressives."
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The Essential Guide to Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and Jew-Hatred by American Historian Gil Troy
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight
Anti-zionism is perhaps the most sophisticated form of anti-Jewish bigotry precisely because it was designed to masquerade as political crit
Going to add another source that covers specifically Academic "Antizionism" and how that derives from Zombie Soviet bullshit. Feel free to remove/ask me to delete if you don't feel it serves your point.
Shaul Kelner Fall/Winter 2025
See also from 1999:
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 37) concerning anti-Semitic statements made by
and 2011 (Links are good)
Various state department pages that are still un-fucked with as of yet (Links are good)
everyone go ahead and pre-order or request that your library buy a copy of Dara Horn’s upcoming book The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, publishing September 1. She goes into so much detail about this stuff and how far it’s gotten into lefty environments, especially Ivy League and higher education
You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more.
JAMES STEWART in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
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I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.
This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.
If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.
We really want to see how Katara handles soloing a brutal situation for this episode, so we're going to come up with excuses to nerf everyone else. Aang is having a mental breakdown, that's easy. Toph can't see shit and has bonus point depression. Sokka is tripping balls. And ... go!
When Sokka would’ve figured out the “love is brightest in the dark” riddle in like two seconds, so they stuck him in a completely different part of the cave with the basically useless musician nomads and wild animals.
You don’t have to make your smart characters dumber to make a problem challenging, you just gotta put them in a situation.
You know it's kinda wild that Zuko is seen as such a concrete part of the Gaang when he's actually only with them for five episodes before Sozin's Comet. It just goes to show how strong the writing is for all these characters that it feels like he's been on their side the whole time (cause in a way in he has)
Even if he wasn’t technically with the Gaang for most of the show, he was given just as much screen-time and development as Aang, Sokka, and Katara.
In The Storm, we cut from a flashback about Aang’s life with the Air Nomads to Zuko’s life in the Fire Nation. We get an entire episode just about him in Zuko Alone. We watch him steal food for refugees with Jet in The Serpent’s Pass while the Gaang escort more refugees through the titular pass. He learns how to redirect lightning while Toph teaches Aang earthbending in Bitter Work. He and Aang learn about their predecessors’ shared past together in the perfectly named episode The Avatar and The Fire Lord. During The Day of Black Sun, we jump between Aang reach the beginning of the end of his journey and Zuko beginning on his newly chosen path as the Avatar’s ally.
Every step of Zuko’s journey is in tandem with Aang’s, right from the first episode. He’s learning and growing right there alongside the Gaang, even when they’re miles apart. Him and Aang doing the Dancing Dragon in The Firebending Masters is the culmination of three seasons worth of buildup. Two young men who were once enemies become allies, as Zuko restores firebending’s true spirit and Aang overcomes the last thing holding him back from his full potential.
It was the failings of the Avatar and the Fire Lord that started the war, and it’s the successes of the new Avatar and the new Fire Lord that ends it.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over how much the Fire Nation loves theater and performance. It would’ve been so easy to just make the antagonistic fire people nothing more than evil raiders who like to burn things, but the showrunners made them lovers of the arts instead.
Dance, fire juggling, plays, the circus, masks and costumes…fire as something that brings people together, rather than something that destroys; as campfire stories and stage lights and shadow puppets and fireworks, instead of burning buildings and forest fires.
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waaaay back when I was a cashier in retail we would talk about dumb shit while unloading the truck, and we got to the "what would you do in a zombie apocalypse" me and another worker were like yeah we would just die. End it all, we can't fight or run or shit. I refuse to put that much effort into survival.
And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!
Anyway, random shout out to that guy. You were too kind for retail management, Devin.
also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.
That’s exactly why I don’t like most zombie apocalypse stories (or most other post apocalypse stories). They always fall into the trap of Everyone Being Awful.
The idea that societal collapse exposes mankind’s true nature ignores one thing: society IS mankind. We make it, just by being around each other. Social mores and customs aren’t arbitrary rules inflicted on us by some unseen force, they’re our own behaviors and views. We say please and thank you because we want to be kind. We establish charities because we want to help others. We set up garbage cans because we want to be clean. We’re the ones setting the standards and frowning at the people who don’t rise to meet them. We’re the ones who are appalled by the cruelties in our history.
Yes, we’re capable of truly awful things, but we’re also capable of remarkable kindness. We’re capable of more goodness than we give ourselves credit for.
