"The tragic and heartrending incident of the martyrdom of a group of our dear people in Ahvaz at the hands of the mercenary terrorists has once again exposed the atrocity and viciousness of the enemies of the Iranian nation."
#Khamenei "These hardhearted mercenaries who open fire on innocent women, children and men are the dependents of the same bogus & duplicitous advocates of human rights. Their spiteful hearts cannot bear to see the manifestation of national sovereignty during Armed Forces parade."
#Khamenei: "Their crime is a continuation of the conspiracies by the US-backed regimes in the region which have aimed at creating insecurity in our dear country.
However, to their dismay, the Iranian nation will persist on the noble and prideful path they have taken and will—"
#Khamenei: "like before—overcome all animosities. The intelligence sectors must swiftly and meticulously track and prosecute the purveyors of these criminals and hand them in to the powerful judiciary."
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Somewhere far off in the distance, I know the blood leaches of humanity are destroyed. I recount my father’s stories to you there, without footnotes. There are no appendices, because in this world I don’t have to explain to you how I am still surviving, while the others did not.
That some of us lived our entire lives with our mouths sewn shut—How can I tell you this? How can I show you how the well of abjection bubbles for an entire human life? How can I show you how it closes in the end as a garbled sigh? How can I show you this?
That some of us lived with our faces in the sun
That some of us gave 30 years and got none
I am feeling bad abt that boundaries post. A trans person made it. But regardless I understand it is helpful & personal, prob shd not be posted online to be torn apart. There’s an understanding that certain ppl hv less resilience for personal boundaries due to social oppressions
but also how sexuality/gender/race alter our capacity for bodily&mental boundaries & direct communication from trauma also bc of how others react to us. The atomist self-care model is just not sufficient! 4liberation from this mental prison. We need community & a better language.
It is not a good framework, we need to break free from it
Thats not what a boundary is. Boundaries are recognizing your own human limitations based on your priorities & vocalizing to ppl around you, in mutual adjustment&honesty, understanding their boundaries—Not imagining others are imposing on you &reacting to ppl based on projections
What is described in point form is mostly accepting that you exist+accepting you exist in relation to others, which is the precondition to engagement: that you will identify your own human feelings & take responsibility of your behaviours, in earnest abt your intentions w others
These point forms can’t function as blanket statements because in general we can’t predict how anybody will act & vice versa until we have developed an understanding. In order to anticipate someone’s needs, we need a context+history. We need to choose how to act for one another.
My coworker and I were chatting today abt international politics, like we usually do. Talking bout Turkey, this new thing and that. At one point he said "And Israel. I dont understand why US & Israel must be so interdependent," I offhand said "Well. Israel is not a real country."
He's like "What? You can't just say that." I felt some emotions boil. I paused. Explained myself: "Israel is an outpost, so we cannot consider it has real independent economic or political interests and power. Like, in military language, a certain grouping of troops in a remote
location acts as an outpost for the main group. So it is more correct to say Israel is carrying out US interests in the region, not that they are interdependent or at odds." Then he is like "Oh ok right. Yes" We continued the convo normal. But after I was reflecting how automatic