LibsEatPoop

Sharing this video and the Hexbear link along with my comment on the post about it:

This, in my opinion, needs to be pinned (and spread/shared, and kept in a sidebar of resources of Palestine etc etc).

It's a full document of everything to do with the genocide in its first 100 days. It's from Oct 7 and goes day by day, with pictures and videos by news agencies and on the ground by Gazans (this is where the dead Palestinians come in). It shows the hypocrisy of the Western leaders side by side with what is happening at the exact moment. It shows the difference between Western journalists and Arab journalists. It shows Palestinian doctors and medics breaking down and crying, but also their incredible, incredible bravery. It shows Israeli politicians talking of using the nuclear bomb, and of starving the Palestinians. It shows the IDF bombing not just residential buildings every day but the people the bombings kill, the people who mourn, the people who try to rescue the survivors. It shows the hospitals, the mosques, the refugee camps. All while providing proper context needed per international law for war crimes, genocide, and what international leaders are doing/not doing. And, of course, what Israeli politicians are doing.

Again, the video is NSFW. The creator has not censored the videos. There are dead people. It is genuinely heartbreaking in a way I cannot communicate. It is not every day of the conflict - a lot of the times it is just buildings being destroyed but those buildings have people in them, and often enough in the following days you will see dead people, including children.

I wouldn't have shared it if I felt it was just atrocity propaganda. But I've followed the creator for a while. They always make good videos. And, as I stated above, in this one too, they don't just show video after video, but put in effort to show how and why Israel lies, commits war crimes, US enables it etc.

Sometimes.

I have this saved

I’m waiting for my avocado oil to finish, then I’m just getting sunflower oil. I got it for “health”.

Heres my theory:

1. She endorsed Biden in 2020.

2. Biden funds the Palestinian genocide.

3. Taylor Swift is seen talking to her friends, the Hadids, who are Palestinian.

4. She has not endorsed Biden yet for 2024.

My opinion: She’s talked to Biden’s reps already and said she’ll only endorse him after he stops funding the genocide.

Bias: I am a Swiftie and don’t want to think mother is bad.

Within literary criticism from the Soviet era, Hohol’s Ukrainian origins are mentioned only in the context of a clear ideological message: he is characterised as a symbol of the friendship between the “two brotherly peoples, Russian and Ukrainian”.

How horrible.

Also, I only searched his Wikipedia, but it seems he’s only ever gone by Nikolai Gogol. A lot of times people have pen-names and stuff, but Wikipedia always mentions the real name. That was not the case here.

And even in his “Early Life” section, it doesn’t say he was born “Mykola Hohol” and changed his name - he was always Nikolai Gogol. His father was Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky. It was a paternal ancestor who was called Ostap Hohol.

His mother called him Nikola, a mix of Nikolai (Russian) and Mykola (Ukrainian).

It seems the author just took the Ukrainian parts of his heritage and put them together, ignoring anything else. You could also claim he was Polish, given that ancestor was given nobility by a Polish king, their last name “Janowski” was Polish, and they were trilingual - Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. In fact, if there was any oppression, it was against his Polish ancestry!

Initially, Gogol used the surname Gogol-Ianovskii, but it soon became inconvenient. At first he tried to shorten it to the Russian-sounding "Ianov", but in the second half of 1830 he abandoned the Polish part of his surname altogether. He even admonished his mother in a letter to address him only as "Gogol", as Poles had become "suspect" in St. Peteresburg. Tsarist authorities encouraged the Ukrainian intellectuals to sever ties with the Poles, promoting a limited, folkloric Ukrainian particularism as part of the heritage of the Russian empire.

Gogol spent the winter of 1836–37 in Paris, among Russian expatriates and Polish exiles, frequently meeting the Polish poets Adam Mickiewicz and Bohdan Zaleski.

I’ll end with this. Gogol was “an adherent of the Slavophile movement” and “saw his work as a critique that would change Russia for the better.“

If there’s anything I’ve learnt from reading the article and then skimming the Wiki, it’s that modern Ukrainians are probably trying to create a divide where none existed (or at least not in the way it does today). It’s clear to me from the Wiki that Ukraine during Gogol’s time was not being oppressed. That was done to the Polish.

There’s probably more to this that I don’t know. But seriously. Don’t try to project current-day politics into history. It will never result in an accurate understanding.

Thank you. I started writing it when this post had 2 comments and by the time I finished, it had over 20. Hopefully, OP manages to see this and doesn’t just dismiss nuTrek.

It’s fucking awful. I hate universal. And they claim it was “for the artist” just fuck off.

To counter the popular opinion (nuTrek is garbage), Jessie Gender often posts about how newer Star Trek shows are pretty good and worthy sequels (and often exceed some older ones too). I don’t always agree with her, but I respect her Star Trek knowledge and opinions.

Here are some videos on specific shows. I opted for the most recent video I could find, unless it covered only a specific latter season:

Star Trek Discovery is Exactly What the Franchise Needed

Star Trek Prodigy Season 1 Review - Trek's Best First Season?

Star Trek Lower Decks is a Must Watch (Even For Non-Trekkies)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 - An Unhinged Critique

A trip of slightly older videos that are broader in scope -

A Critique of Modern Star Trek - By A Fan

Why Modern Star Trek Is Actually Great

A Message To Modern Star Trek Haters

And some general Star Trek videos by her that are great:

A Complete (& Unhinged) Guide to Watching Star Trek

Star Trek Explained (As Simply As Possible)

Fox News Doesn't Understand Star Trek

When Did Star Trek Get Woke?

Sex in Star Trek: Exploring Gene Roddenberry's Sexual Frontier

Why Spock’s Sexuality is so Dang Controversial (SEX IN STAR TREK BONUS)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Sexual Retrospective

Star Trek Doesn't Understand Eugenics

And some interviews she’s had with people making Star Trek:

Talking With Star Trek Picard USS Enterprise-F Starship Designer

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producer on Ursula K. LeGuin, Radical Empathy & Writing

Chatting With Jack Quaid - The Boys, Star Trek Lower Decks

I Interviewed "Star Trek: Lower Decks" Creator Mike McMahan!

Making Star Trek Music with Lower Decks Composer Chris Westlake

A Chat with Star Trek's First Nonbinary Writer Alex White

Fucking lmao.

I'm gonna guess she's mad about Biden's Middle East hawkishness. I have no idea if she's pro-Palestine or not, but I'll accept the anti-war libs in the coalition.

Elitism, I'm gonna guess. That, and believing in meritocracy because they got successful and can't handle thinking it was due to luck.