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Ugh the paradox of how the US needs to perpetuate violence in order to play the savior or claim their violent “preemptive” strike was called for when rly we’re the terrorists

“And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one’s opponent has descended while simultaneously digging one’s own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.”

Sobbed when her lioness died😭😭

It’s actually like 220 pages but Goodreads says 200, so officially I’m at 202 rn😭

Idk why I put off reading this for so long, I missed a good Greek mythology book ugh

“… the power you have will never be enough compared to the power you’ll always lack.”

And that my friends is the simple root of the issue, there’s never enough power.

Update: Cried.

“As always, the dead will be made to pay the moral debt born of their killing.”

Do you remember how hard the west fought to convince us in the beginning (2023 beginning not og beginning) that Palestinians were terrorists, less than human, disgusting, live in squalor and don’t deserve more (this is rooted in Israeli propaganda that’s lasted over a century)? All this to justify mass murder.

OLIVIE PLZ she kills off a character out of no where (lowkey she killing them all off ahhhh she’s hardcore) and then I turn the page and it says “end scenario 1, begin scenario 2” and she proceeded to do this like 30 times over the next 20 pages, I CANT (reflecting tho- middle school me would have loved this, endless endings)

“In the modern, well-dressed definition, adhered to in one form or another at almost every major newspaper, the journalist cannot be an activist, must remain allegiant to a self-erasing neutrality. Yet journalism at its core is one of the most activist endeavors there is. A reporter is supposed to agitate against power, against privilege. … A reporter is supposed to agitate against silence.” (This my thing!)