When Obama became the president, he didn’t make my land safer, he turned it into a graveyard with remnants of his drones scattered all over the land. My beloved land is in ruins and I will never be able to return there. Obama was no different than Bush, he was in fact worse. Cursing Obama has become a household routine. Whether Trump, Biden or any other leader takes the mantle of imperialism, we will suffer greatly, not you. We do not care about the outcome in your country. You will go to the polling stations, cast your vote, you will ask for change, but refuse to stand up and organize, you will repeat the same defeatist rhetoric and go back to your old routine every four year, hoping for some kind of change in your land all the while we continue to be exploited.
Basic rules for analysing fiction, an incomprehensive list jotted down in a hurry:
The protagonist isn’t always right
The protagonist isn’t always good
The protagonist isn’t always written to be relatable or likeable
The narrator isn’t always right
The narrator isn’t always good
The narrator isn’t always telling the truth
The narrator isn’t always the author
The protagonist’s moral compass, the narrator’s moral compass and the author’s moral compass are three entirely different things that only occasionally overlap
Pay attention to what characters do and not just what they say
Pay special attention when what the characters do is at odds with what they say
A lot of the time the curtains are blue for a reason. If they aren’t, you should read better books
One more:
12. The antagonist isn’t always telling the truth
So many times I have seen people apparently just … forget that it’s possible for fictional characters to be (a) mistaken or (b) lying, and say things like “we know this to be true because [character] said so here” (or, worse, “this fact is canon because [character] said it”).
The antagonist isn’t always telling the truth, the protagonist isn’t always telling the truth, the secondary and minor characters aren’t always telling the truth, the narrator may be telling the truth but if the narrator is also a character in the story then don’t count on it.
it’s looking like the iof have officially breached rafah. every palestinian i follow, most of whom have now been displaced to rafah, are posting that there’s non-stop bombing and sounds of clashes between the resistance and the israeli army (x, x, x). the rnn telegram is also reporting that armed clashes are taking place in northwest of the city and israeli bombing is concentrated around al-kuwaiti hospital (x, x). many martyrs already (x, x, x). in palestine, the time is currently just past 2am on 12th february 2024.
over 1.5 MILLION displaced palestinians are in Rafah right now, with no shelter, no clean water, and very little food. the israeli army will not be satisfied until every palestinian they see is dead, because in their eyes, every palestinian they see is a threat to their occupation. it was NEVER about “minimizing civilian casualties” and it was NEVER about retrieving hostages.
i love dropping my pen putting my glasses on my desk and rubbing my face like an exhausted divorced academic in the 1980s who is greying and sexily tousled and has been up for hours digging through the yellowed pages of old obscure treatises about etruscan pots
