@testeria
Philosopher by training, poet by talent, programmer analyst by profession. Father. I used to make TTRPG and board games. These days, I mainly fight MDD. I do not belong to any political tribe. I designed a few games including Thorgal CCG.
Hamas attacked civilians on 10/7, true. Killed 400 of them. But in the previous 20 years, Israel murdered 40,000 Palestinian civilians both in Gaza and on the West Bank.
And formally, it was Israel that started the war in 2008 with a maritime blockade of Gaza, which is an act of war.
Israel "created" Hamas and Hizballah. Hizballah is a direct response to the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon in 1982 and the atrocities that followed. It's a self-defense force of Shia people that is the only reason that today we don't see 500,000 settlers on their land like in the West Bank.
Oh, you are right. Israelis are also racist. They are not paying the price for their genocide yet, but they will.
Poor Israel, it had to fund colonies wherever their bullets were attacked by civilians. There would be 500,000 Israeli settlers in Southern Lebanon today, just like in the West Bank.
Hizballah is a self-defense force, like the IRA in 1920. The British Empire called them "terrorists" just the same.
Exactly. Hizballah was created as a self-defense force after the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon in 1982. It is the only force that protects those lands from being incorporated into Israel, like the Golan Heights, the West Bank, Gaza or parts of Syria last year.
Hizballah is not "hiding behind civilians"; it is fighting on the first line while the regular army runs away.
Israel is frustrated that it cannot grab some land like it did last year in Syria, so it is murdering random civilians in Beirut to "put pressure".
Hizballah are locals and the only force that can protect Shia people in the South. They moved away from the border, and when Israel attacked, the regular Lebanese army just ran away, and Hizballah had to return. Syria has no Hizballah and Israel just grabbed its territory for the settlers last year.
A digital illustration of a pair of figures facing each other. One sits above the other, her long and curly hair drapes down her back, parted by large and thin bone-like spines that protrude from her back. Decorative stones and gems dangle from ropes tied to these spines. The other figure is knelt down before the other. Her face draped with a cloth that is held by the first figure. This one has horns and strange meaty wings. Her mouth is agape in either ecstasy or shock, or perhaps both. At the feet of the first figure, a mass of flesh coalesces into grasping hands, which climb up their robes. Behind them, a decorative structure ornamented with elaborate eyes watches over the scene as it unfolds.
Whatever She Wants...
#2026sketches Day 9
#art #illustration #darkart
Took me a while to finish this, mostly due to a lack of spoons. But I managed to wrap it up today, and I think I'm happy with it.
I remember her attacking Trump for being too soft on Iran and telling that he will abandon Israel in case of war. 🤷♂️
The truth is, they just want to bomb and destroy whatever they want with impunity, as they have done in other countries in the region, to control oil. They didn't attack because they were afraid of Iran. They attacked because Iran was not afraid of them.
I'm Polish, so please do not teach me about Russian imperialism 🤷♂️ Iran tried for 50 years to create a republic, and the West destroyed their hopes every single time. So they turned to religion and got Americans and Brits out - and they are harassed in every possible way since.
I've heard it's no longer called 'assassination' but 'excursion.'
Landscape digital painting of an old train station surrounded by nature. An old rusty railway leads there from the foreground.
Old Station (2025)
They never wanted nuclear weapons; Hamenei even wrote a fatwa about that, and they are religious fanatics; they are serious about these things.
They were happy with the JCPOA. They sent a lot of uranium to Russia. But this is not about nuclear weapons, it is about imperialism.
Hizballah is not a terrorist organization; it is a guerrilla insurgency formed as a Shia self-defense after the 1982 Israeli occupation of South Lebanon and the atrocities it brought. Mossad and IDF are murderous terrorists that are killing civilians for sport, especially in Gaza, but also elsewhere
Did I hear that assassinations are back in fashion?
Israelis? Not now. They will restart bombing Palestinians after Iran. And those are just ruins, not bunkers.
It's nearly impossible to protect a strait like this. Most probably, the US would only lose more ships.
How would you approach a war against the USA, Israel, and the Gulf states as Iran?
Today, when I see this comic, I wonder if G.I.Joe is bombing Iran... So sad for me.
There is enough hate in your nation to bomb schools and hospitals in Iran.
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Those charts are misleading. Poland donated 318 tanks, 10 MiG-29s, 10 attack helicopters, and 136 artillery systems — delivered early, when it mattered most. Counting aid by dollar value ignores that cheap Soviet-era tanks work just as well on this battlefield.
"Porn is art" means all porn is art. I disagree. But I specifically said, "porn may have artistic value".
I got some of those at school after Chornobyl.
In this relief, the king is shown receiving the ring of kingship from a female figure, often identified as the divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita. However, the king is not depicted in a pose typical of a divinity, and it is therefore likely that the woman is a relative, perhaps Queen Shapurdukhtak of Sakastan.
#ReliefWednesday - Sassanid relief in Naqsh-e Rostam, near Persepolis (Iran), depicting the investiture of Narseh, the seventh king of the Sassanid Empire (c. AD 293–303). Narseh, Shapur I's youngest son, had ruled the eastern provinces and was called “Great King of Armenia” before becoming shah.
They already said they will not stop without reparations. Probably nobody told them they are losing.
A skeletal death, in a black, hooded robe, sits, hand under chin, scythe on the ground, surrounded by flocks of ravens. The painting "Tired or The Weary Death", Pavel Karlovich, Wenig
The Weary Death / Tired, Pavel Karlovich Wenig, 1915
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #AlfredHitchcockDay
I'm not making any assumptions. We are just talking about what is art. Someone said: "porn is art". I said "No, not all porn is art". I don't even know why people are arguing with me, it mostly looks like they are upset. Why is it important for all porn to be called art?
