I struggle to comprehend those of you who say Israel is prolonging this war because they "want" to. Because they want to hurt other people, or because they want to conquer the middle east, all the reasons are equally stupid.
Do any of you really think any of us WANT to be doing this? Do the parents WANT to be crying over the graves of their children? Do the soldiers WANT to be fighting for their lives and possibly losing them in the heat and the fire and the dust? Do the refugees from the endangered areas WANT to be crammed in hotel rooms with thousands of strangers? Do the loved ones of the hostages WANT to be outside in all kinds of weather, screaming for their return?
Do the kids WANT to be drawing the soldiers pictures so they'll have something to smile at amid the death and destruction? Do the teenagers WANT to spend hours on their feet packaging food and supplies?
Does every single citizen in this country WANT to dread every knock on the door and every telephone call?
I don't think the word "want" is in the vocabulary of this war. I know that the distance between the average leftist overseas and the average Israeli is pretty unbridgeable right now, but surely this can't be that difficult to understand. We are currently thinking in terms of survival. There is no "want" and "don't want" involved in this war anymore. There is "need", "must" and "fuck, I guess we have to do this, don't we?".
That's about it.
Hope that cleared something up.
עד שאומת חזירי הבר החליטו לתקוף. רק רשות הטבע והגנים הייתה יכולה לעצור אותם, אבל כשהעולם היה זקוק לה יותר מאי פעם, היא נעלמה (אני בירושלים ועכשיו יש כאן המון חזירי בר ואף אחד לא עושה כלום)
חזירי בר בגליל, גמלים בנגב, דורבנים בירושלים וכלבי ים במישור החוף. ארבעת האלמנטים לארבעת האומות שחיות בהרמוניה.
y’all know rory as “the boy who dies” but you are WRONG
Rory deaths:
Turned to dust in Amy’s Choice
tardis crashes into the cold sun in Amy’s choice
Erased from existence in Cold Blood
Drowns in Curse of the Black Spot
Jumps off a building in Angels Take Manhattan
Dies of old age in Angels Take Manhattan
Amy deaths:
Drives a car into a house in Amy’s Choice
tardis crashes into the cold sun in Amy’s Choice
Killed by auton Rory in The Pandorica Opens
Killed by those weird dolls in Night Terrors
Old Amy is erased from existence in The Girl Who Waited
Jumps off a building in Angels Take Manhattan
Dies of old age in Angels Take Manhattan
that’s 6 deaths to Rory and 7 to Amy. furthermore. y’all know amy as “the girl who waited” because she waited for fourteen years, but rory waited for two thousand years and you just ignore it ???
switch. the. labels. amy is the boy who died, rory is the girl who waited, there ya go.
In Israel, both men and women need to do military service, but the men's service is longer. If you change your gender legally, you serve more/less, have to dress like your gender (there are different hair and clothes requirements for men and women)
Finland has mandatory military service for all able-bodied men. The summons come to every man on the year they turn 18, and your service status is visible on your government records - whether you've done your service, are yet to be summoned, or deemed excempt from service and for what reasons. Even if you're blind, deaf, in a wheelchair and cognitively impaired, you still need to show up for the evaluation, though ideally you'll already have a doctor's note for the occasion that basically just says "I mean just fucking look at this guy", and the military doctor will look at you and go "yeah" and sign you off as unfit for service for the time being.
And if you get your legal gender changed, your military status updates accordingly. When I got my gender marker changed to male in my late 20s, I automatically showed up in the government systems as an adult male who has not done military service yet, and I got summons the same year. However, back then being transgender was a diagnosis that you need a doctor's evaluation on, and being trans was one of those medical conditions that give you the option to opt out of service - in the "you can go if you think you can handle it" way, but you have no obligation to volunteer. So I didn't.
I met a friend recently who mentioned that he's going to wait a few years yet before getting his gender legally changed, so he can age out of the conscription system and avoid summons altogether. I said that I was released from service due to trans diagnosis, and asked if he can't do so as well. He said no - the law has been changed since I transitioned, and now that you no longer require a medical diagnosis to be trans, it is also not a diagnosis that'd make you excempt from the military.
So the finnish government basically just said "if you're a grown man with nothing wrong with you, then you're a grown man with nothing wrong with you. Now grab this fucking gun and do your duty for fatherland."
Okay but whats another term for this position of power? Prime Minister. And who was a prime minister? Harold Saxon, better known as the master
Mrs Flood called herself the governor. What’s a governor? The head of a governmental body of a particular region. What’s another term for this same position of power? A president. And who do we know who’s been the president of gallifrey? Romana.
This is what happened to me!!! And my friends now think I have no taste in TV and refuse to listen to my opinions about it
this is how i imagine showing doctor who to any of my friends:
*trash can eats a person and burps*
friend: i thought that this show is beautiful and changed you fundamentally as a person?
me: bro i swear it gets better
*skin pancake plays toxic*
וואו קיבלתי את כוח 12 באירוע לבני ובנות מצווה בעבודה של אבא שלי והייתי כזה: מה אתם מנסים להכריח אותי להיות דתיה?
אז תרמתי את הספר ושכחתי מקיומו עד לרגע הזה עכשיו
ספר ישראלי אהוב?
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מה??? אני הולכת בירושלים, חיה את החיים, ופתאום נופל עליי חול מצינור שיורד מאחד הבניינים. אבל רגע. זה לא חול. אולי נסורת? לא. זה קמח מצה. ועכשיו יש לי קמח מצה בעיניים. הצילו
I remember meeting my best online friend in the fucking woods. The stupidest thing I ever did. Luckily she was (and is) my age, not creepy, and a great person overall. But what the FUCK were we thinking? We met in a public bus station and them immediately went to the woods. Like wtf??? It was not an actual wood so people were there every like 30 minutes but what??? I just thought my parents would kill me if they knew so we secretly met IN THE WOODS. What the fuck 12 years old me. What the fuck.
ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.