[Text ID (added paragraph breaks): “Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church who calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation—none of these lands are yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
Who will say it? Will America say We have stolen it, or will France step down? Will Russia confess, or will Poland say, We have sinned? All bloated on their scraps of destiny, all swaggering in the immunity of superstition.
Ishmael, who was saved in the wilderness, and given shade in the desert, and a deadly treasure under you: has Mercy made you wise? Will Ishmael declare, We are in debt forever? Therefore the lands belong to none of you, the borders do not hold, the Law will never serve the lawless.
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself. The Covenant is broken, the condition is dishonored, have you not noticed that the world has been taken away? You have no place, you will wander through yourselves from generation to generation without a thread.
Therefore you rule over chaos, you hoist your flags with no authority, and the heart that is still alive hates you, and the remnant of Mercy is ashamed to look at you.
You decompose behind your flimsy armor, your stench alarms you, your panic strikes at love.
The land is not yours, the land has been taken back, your shrines fall through empty air, your tablets are quickly revised, and you bow down to hell beside your hired torturers, and still you count your battalions and crank out your marching songs.
Your righteous enemy is listening. He hears your anthems full of blood and vanity, and your children singing to themselves. He has overturned the vehicle of nationhood, he has spilled the precious cargo, and every nation he has taken back.
Because you are swollen with your little time. Because you do not wrestle with your angel. Because you dare to live without God. Because your cowardice has led you to believe that the victor does not limp.”]
“Israel is spiritually, emotionally, and culturally small despite the large guns they point at us, or perhaps precisely because of them.
It is their own detriment that they cannot accept our presence in our homeland. Because our humanity remains intact, and our art is beautiful and life-affirming. And we aren’t going anywhere but home.” - Susan Abulhawa.
all these years later and i still cannot comprehend this scene like it’s so ludicrously over the top. gus inviting walt to his fake little house to eat with him and deliberately making a blatant display of vulnerability knowing walt is too scared of him to take advantage of it. making him wear his lil sunday best only to arrive and see him wearing a casual sweater. Like how thoroughly gus just owns the shit out of him for no fucking reason. Also it’s homoerotic
there was a tiktok I made a while ago basically saying “your abusive ex boyfriend is more likely a misogynist than a narcissist” and while most people agreed some said I was victim blaming(?) and that I couldn’t know what their ex is like, and while obviously I don’t, every fucking person describing their narcissistic ex is describing a typical misogynist. ask yourself, is this behavior you associate with narcissism directed at women or does he treat his male friends the same way? is his general functioning in life impaired?
many people don’t seem to know this, but a mental disorder is NOT based on symptoms alone, it’s based on how much the symptoms actually impair you in daily life. most people could look at a list of mental disorder symptoms and identify either themselves or someone else with them. as far as a narcissistic personality, we all know people who appear more self absorbed than others, but this is typically subclinical narcissism (presence of narcissistic traits without significant impairment of functioning) which is not a disorder. there is also a misunderstanding of what npd is. a narcissist is not a supervillain invincible to emotion. npd is a defensive reaction to trauma that lead to deep insecurity and fear of being seen as weak or vulnerable. so narcissists aren’t actually “in love with themselves” at all and often are diagnosed when seeking help for other issues such as substance abuse resulting from their struggles.
this focus a lot of abused women in online pop psychology have on narcissism is particularly concerning because it completely glosses over misogyny which is literally a huge factor in violence against women. people really only know misogyny as a surface level thing. they don’t know it can lead to family annihilation, for example, and is one reason most family annihilations are committed by the husband. it’s always “this man is a sociopath” “this man is a narcissist” when the man’s behavior is driven by ideology. I am so fucking tired of everything being tied to mental illness and left at that. you know what this leads to? courts “fixing” abusive men by…giving them anger management therapy. guess what? it doesn’t fucking do anything because the problem isn’t mental instability leading to anger, it’s targeted, purposeful abuse. we are getting nowhere
i hate when i get so sleepy at the end of hanging out like hey sorry gang unfortunately they tolt me its time for me to put on my nightgown and light my candle now
