Respect

Awww look at that adorable cutesie-wootsie kittycat and look how stabby it is and how threat-makey it is. I always love that combination of violent threat and cuddly diddums.

https://twitter.com/filthyfeminist/status/1743440884090175635

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19 responses to “Respect”

  1. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    We may have noted this here before, but was and were are not pronouns.

  2. Barbrykost Avatar
    Barbrykost

    Iknklast: and men aren’t women, but why quibble about facts?

  3. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Also, note the combo of Palestinian flag and paraglider. Nothing like tacit support for one terrorist attack while advocating more violence.

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Ewwww! I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

  5. axxyaan Avatar
    axxyaan

    @Rob #3.

    Please don’t automatically assume support for palestine, is support for terrorism. One can condemn the attack of Hamas and still think that what happens to the Palestianians is grossly unfair.

  6. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Combine a Palestinian flag and a paraglider and that’s a direct reference to the Hamas attacks. It’s also perfectly in keeping with tweet in question. Weirdly, there has been a huge amount of support, nominally for Palestine as opposed to Hamas, from the alphabet soup crowd and greens and leftists. Funny really because a good chunk of the population would summarily murder them for who and what they are while most of the rest looked on. I’m also sick of seeing westerners posting photos of Asad’s Atrocities in Syria while claiming it’s the result of Israeli strikes in Gaza. Google image search, how does it work… There is a near endless cycle of atrocity in the region going back longer than any of us have been alive, so I don’t perceive either side as being right and there are clearly innocent victims and murders on both sides.

  7. Athel Cornish-Bowden Avatar
    Athel Cornish-Bowden

    Yes, axxyaan is right.

  8. Papito Avatar
    Papito

    The juxtaposition of murder kitten with “The assumed criminality of trans people is getting out of hand and is completely irrational.” is striking.

    As is the similarity between modern leftie rhetoric about Israel with Soviet propaganda.

    https://quillette.com/2024/01/11/the-language-of-soviet-propaganda/

  9. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    iknklast,

    But you see “was” and “were” are copulas. Which comes from the same root as “copulate”. And trans folks are free to copulate with whomever they wish. So when you deny them the right to use “was” and “were” as pronouns, you’re denying them the right to have sex with their preferred partners, which is tantamount to genocide.

  10. John the Drunkard Avatar
    John the Drunkard

    Um…what paraglider, what flag?

  11. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    @John,

    To the right of the Twit’s name (Leilani).

  12. Axxyaan Avatar
    Axxyaan

    I don’t see a paraglider. I see a recently new flag were you still see the folds from when is was packaged.

  13. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    The juxtaposition of murder kitten….

    Yes, but murder kitten has hearts on it, so he/she/they will kill us lovingly, for our own good.

    Or, murder kitten will love doing it.

    Now I’m not sure which message it’s supposed to be. Oh dear.

  14. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Axxyaan, it’s a red parachute with pink stripes, and with six strings terminating ina little person in a yellow jumpsuit. It,’s right there, next to the two flags.

  15. Rev David Brindley Avatar
    Rev David Brindley

    papito, the USSR, France, USA, and UK were the progenitors of the Israeli invasion of Palestine. Stalin believed/hoped that the Kibutzniks would create a Communist state and give the USSR a toe hold in the ME. Not consulted were the Palestinians who were soon to lose their homes and lives.

    Israel was founded on genocidal ethnic cleansing as can clearly be understood by anyone who has read Plan Dalet and watched its implementation.

    Mounting operations against enemy population centers located inside or near our defensive system in order to prevent them from being used as bases by an active armed force. These operations can be divided into the following categories:

    Destruction of villages (setting fire to, blowing up, and planting mines in the debris), especially those population centers which are difficult to control continuously

    Mounting search and control operations according to the following guidelines: encirclement of the village and conducting a search inside it. In the event of resistance, the armed force must be destroyed and the population must be expelled outside the borders of the state.

    – From Plan Dalet

    And who, you may ask, were the “enemy”? Not people launching an assault or war against you, merely the people who happened to currently occupy the land you wanted to steal. By 1949, at least 750,000 Palestinians had been made refugees, losing their land, homes and other belongings in what became known as the “Nakba” (“catastrophe”). And one of the major sites of Palestinian dispossession just happened to be Huj, a place from which over 400 Palestinian farmers were “relocated” to Gaza so the Israeli settlement, Sderot, could be built.

  16. Sackbut Avatar
    Sackbut

    is indeed a parachute. I copied the character and looked it up in Emojipedia. The reference is not definitive, because people use characters to mean whatever they think it means, but the character in question is officially listed in Unicode 12.0 as “parachute”.

    https://emojipedia.org/parachute

  17. Sackbut Avatar
    Sackbut

    I see WordPress doesn’t render that particular emoji (or perhaps any of them). #16 was supposed to begin with the parachute character.

  18. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Huh. It won’t let me add it either, not even in code.

  19. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    Leilani is also incredibly thick, as demonstrated by the pinned tweets:

    I think we should be able to sue our birthing people for assigning a gender on our birth certificates without consent.

    This is quite literally a form of rape, since a person who is beneath a certain age is incapable of valid consent.

    Dumb.

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    #6 Rob

    I’m also sick of seeing westerners posting photos of Asad’s Atrocities in Syria while claiming it’s the result of Israeli strikes in Gaza.

    Agreed, but this cuts both ways – there have been many instances of footaged used to support claims made about Hamas’ actions, which have turned out to be based on other footage. In war, the first casualty is truth – on both sides, seemingly.

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    #10, #12 John and Axxyaan

    The paraglider comments refer to the little flags at the top of the tweet next to the name Leilani. The emoji is specifically named ‘parachute’ when you mouse over it, but I think it reasonable to extend that to the paragliders used by some Hamas attackers. So I think it reasonable to surmise Leilani supports the Hamas attack itself, not just Palestinians or Gazans broadly.

    As a supporter myself of Palestinians and Gazans broadly, I do not agree with her on that point.