Roland Barthes
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1 hour ago, sotos8 said:
you are so full of yourself ,it's frightening and how exactly are you fighting the white supremacists ?
You're frightened ? I actually work as a political journalist, i've been threatened by the french far right, doxxed, etc... i don't talk about a political matter before being sure of what i'm saying and it's what is happening right now that should frighten you. Not my opinions. Not me. And i really engage you all to start reading more closely. The far right is taking over. What is happening in Gaza is not Israel, it's not jews, it's Netanyahu's far right and ultra religious government. after more than 110 days the israeli army haas not liberated one hostage. The ones they saw, they shot them. They are already considered dead and martyrs to a cause they don't even believe in. I urge you all to read Haaretz, the center left israeli journal. What do you make of Michael lucas the american porn star signing missiles to bombard Gaza with ? Mike Pence did it too, the missile he signed are supposed to have bombarded Lebanon. It's totally cray what is REALLY happening there right now. I can tell you as a journalist that there is stuff we are not allowed to talk about or urged to balance. The paranoïa and suspicion towards editors are like i've never witnessed before. Everybody is afraid to speak up. I've come to terms that democrats are no better than Trumpists, they just look better. There's no democracy left, ploutocracy has a firm grip on the world. I saw footage, from veteran war journalists of the israeli army beating up an orthodox rabbi because he was protesting against the genocide. They don't even let the families of hostages speak. They have no contact with them. There are daily protests in Israel against the genocide. Most of the pro war are american and french zionist jews. It's like 80 years of history has been erased.
I'm not asking you to believe me, to like what i say or even like me, i'm just asking you all to really check what is really happening. It's the same as in Ukraine except we're the bad guys here. I'm just asking you to wake up, to quote Madonna, to look through the gaslighting, not for me, not for Gaza, but for yourself, to avoid, in the future, asking yourself "how have i been blind to this ?" (answer, it's meant that way). I don't come here to "disturb the peace" like James Baldwin said, i'd rather talk about the tour and fluffy stuff, but times are really bad and it gets me mad because i don't think you are all prepared for what is coming. I have been dealing with it daily and not just the Gaza genocide which is just a piece in the whole trap the far right is making the world fall into. And it's not in our interest, not us little people.
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21 hours ago, karbatal said:
Oh by the way after reading some comments in the NY concert thread I think many members in this forum are complete CUNTS who don’t care about what is happening to Palestine people. Bunch of supremacist racists. I’m completely fed up.
A Bunch of stupid people. I work in news and politics, i laugh hard when i read their two cents on the situation because that's really what it's worth. They are gonna get the president they deserve and best represents them. The orange clown. The west IS dead especially the usa. Me Being read by people who did not even know whom James Baldwin was before Madonna used his imagery and aura to be Seen as an activist. It's like someone wearing a Anne Frank t shirt while going to a neonazi ball in Austria. At least in the 30's people did not have the Access to news we have today, there's no excuse. If they think they intimidante me, think AG ain, they are just nobods on a Madonna forum while i've been fighting Real white supremacists IRL for weeks because they are so braindead they dont see they are the ones siding with qanons since this IS white supremacist colonial War with american and european money. People should stop asking themself what they would have done during wwII because they are doing now exactly what they would have done then. And Madonna IS the one who opened this conversation by bringing that pig on stage, it's a deliberate choice. Thank you @karbatal for not being afraid to speak UP.
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This genocide completly changed my belief system and what i was raised to believe. It changed my views on the United States most of all but on the west globally. We are the bad guys. That's what i finally realized.
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Mossad must have a huge file on Hunter Biden.
God knows i loathe the politicians in my country (even more after working with them) but i would be desperate if i were american and had to chose between two evils. Democracy is a joke.
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Apparently it's being antisemitic to not want a genocide and having people being blindly slaughtered. Israel has lost its soul the day they elected Netanyahu and re-elected him with the far right. Months before Rabin was assassinated by a far right israeli nationalist, Netanyahu was asking for his death and a week before it happened he was making a fake burial of Rabin. His killer is from the same far right movement that is ruling the country now, he's an icon to them and they want him to be set free saying he's innocent (he killed Rabin with a gun at close range). Supporting Israel is supporting a far right government. There are no good side here, politically, there re just, on both sides, people being taking hostages by extremists. Being blind to the genocide in Gaza makes you as bad as those being blind to the slaughter of israelis on october 7th. I don't see jews, i don't see muslims, i see people being slaughtered because of greed and interest of evil people, wether it's Hamas or the far right at the Knesset.
People dehumanize other people to justify their murder just because they identify physically and culturally with a side. If they don't look or act like us they must be killed, erased. Jews only care about jews, arabs only care about arabs. I care about both, i'm neither one or the other, i just look beyond and recognize myself in their humanity and my humanity, our humanity, dies a little bit more every day until the hostages will be back and a ceasefire happens.
Netanyahu and his far right monsters are just using this as an excuse to take over Gaza and parts of Cisjordania and Lebanon. It's morally corrupt and illegal. But that's who Netanyahu is and people supporting him are. They don't care about hostages, that's what their families are saying. Israel may kill thousands of people everyday but what they are now on is a suicide mission, not only of its soul but they will never ever be at peace from now on, no matter how strong their international lobby is, they have shown their true face and trying to shut everybody up, weaponizing the Shoah and denaturing antisemitism, is already and will continue to work against Israel and they will lose the support they once had when the truth will finally prevail, because it always does, sooner or later.
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I remember reading that the promotion for Celebration only in the UK had a million pounds budget.
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Me coming into this thread.
Me going out of this thread 2 seconds later
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56 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Seems to be happening worldwide which is so frightening. Notice the same things here. Ultra conservatives are getting a real foot hold in society.
Thing is, here they are not even ultra conservatives, some even present themselves as leftists which adds to the whole political confusion we are living in here, we still don't know where our president leans toward even though he is pretty much in with ultra capitalism which means right but he's also liberal on social matters (like gay rights, women rights, racism etc...) which means left.
You know as much as i was disgusted by Lagerfeld's comments, that day i was so frightened to see 60 000 polish nazis demanding an arab holocaust in Warsaw that i almost missed it.
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46 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
What has been the public reaction to this ? The tv show sounds dreadful. Lagerfield has made some awful comments in the past but this takes the cake.
The public reaction is always the same because we have people saying the same bs almost every week on tv if not twice a week so it goes along the whole climate. these tv shows are just going after the buzz,we have all these fake "specialists" on tv 24/7, the kind you only see on Fox tv in the us but on every channel here, radio stations and in magazines. It's always the same thing, blame the muslims especially the ones living in the suburbs, you also find the same "specialists" taking side against feminists and the whole #metoo thing, fake new feminists who are from the right.....And this being France they hide their racism and classism behind secularism.
I just don't watch tv anymore because their neurosis take all the place in national debates.
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The TV show he made this comments in is a fucking disgrace. I truly hate thierry ardisson, he's a royalist and a hater. But what's more alarming is that most of the french tv shows that mixes entertainment and politics are very, very anti muslims.
Regarding Lagerfeld, i know from people close to him that he's in pretty bad shape, he had a stroke late last year (something he did not say publicly) and some people worried he could be the next "celebrity" to go...i don't know if he's doing better but his latest interviews are pretty awful with the things he said in them so maybe he still struggle with oxygen going to his brain.
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Spanish politics are very complicated and separatists are a bit crazy. I used to spend week ends in Catalunya because i grew up 4 hours away by car so week ends in Barcelona in the spring were not unusual. In fact that's where i bought the first album when i was a kid hence why i have the spanish edition lol. I remember people refusing to talk to us in spanish. When i was 17 i remember spending the weekend in Roses where a friend from school had a flat and an old lady running after us in the street screaming at us in catalan because we told her we did not understand what she was saying and if she could speak spanish.
(i had the same experience the next year in Quebec when i wanted to buy cigarettes and asked for Lucky Strikes, they had then (i don't know if it has changed) only cigarettes from Quebec and Canada. The guy screamed at me and my friend in french "We have the 101 law here, we're not gonna be invaded by Disney like you". I swear, we waited to cross the frontier by car (we drove there from NY) and stopped at the first gas station to buy cigarettes. we spent 3 days without smoking not because they did not have the cigarettes we wanted but because the guy really scared us so much he screamed and yelled.
Separatists are totally crazy.
@karbatalIn fact i don't know if i'm 1/3 catalano or from Aragon. My father's mother family was from the other side of the Pyrenees but i could never figure out exactly where, my great aunt in Fort Lauderdale once told me we originated from Hecho but i'm not sure. My father used to say he was basque and he spoke it.
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The independists won the image war. This was handled so badly by the spanish government that people are now pro separatists because we don't understand a damn thing about spanish politics but we see images of the police beating elderly women covered in blood.
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2 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:
@Roland Barthes. It is awful what your sister and nephew have been through.
Seeing Trump bring so uncaring plus commenting about owing money etc during these times is unforgivable.
1 hour ago, Pedro said:@Roland Barthes a big hug from Mexico.
Thank you both. I just had my sis on the phone, we got cut 3 times but they are doing fine. At least in the bvi's, she too is having a hard time managing to get in touch with her son in Porto Rico. It's total devastation there, at least they are already rebuilding in the BVI's because as much as the british government are dicks they at least care. What Trump is doing about Porto Rico is outrageous. And realy thank god porto ricans don't have power because at least they don't have to hear the stupid things this asshole is saying about them.
Virgin Billionnaire Richard Branson is setting up help funds for the BVI's, what are the american billionnaires doing for the US Virgin Islands and Porto Rico ? Jlo gave $1 million, what are others waiting for ? Did Rihanna say something ?
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I'm sorry but please can somebody put a bullet in his head ? Thank you.
It's been 5 days since i last had news from my sister i know whe survived Maria after Irma but it destroyed what was left after the 1st one hit them. My elder nephew had found shelter in Porto Rico after Irma destroyed his island and was there during Maria. I have not heard from him directly though i know is fine but that's just physically. Communications are still sparse and i wonder how they are doing morally now. Airports are still not open for commercial flights.
And this fucking clown in the White house is saying bs per usual. It must be a good day for him since he's now able to double his bullshit on Twitter with 280 characters while portoricans are struggling.
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Since we're talking politics in spain, i want to say that i have a major crush on Ramon Espinar.
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1 hour ago, Hector said:
I feel sick to my stomach seeing him speak as our president today on the 9/11 anniversary!
He is not the president, nothing about him is presidential. He's at best the CEO of the United States.
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Watching this it felt like there had been an alien invasion and Trump was having a press conference with their ambassador. She looks like Diana from V
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7 hours ago, Hector said:
Yikes
A sky-rise view of downtown Miami shows water overtaking the sea wall as the city braces for the impacts of Hurricane Irma http://cnn.it/2vY2uId
It looks like something from a movie !
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What fucking mad times we are living. When i was a kid i was vacationing in Miami and we had to evacuate because Hugo was coming, these images of exodus remind me of that.
We are not safe anywhere anymore. Some member i PM with know that a year ago my mother's house just 6 miles outside of Paris was drowned in 5.5 ft of water from one of the biggest floods Paris had seen.
My sister just survived Irma in Tortola but i don't know what the situation is there right now, is it safe for them to stay ? My youngest nephew is traumatized. I just want to hop on a plane and bring them back by force.
I cross my fingers ( i don't pray) everything will be OK in Florida (except Mar a Lago. I want it destroyed, sorry). I hope everything is fine in cuba too and all the places that have been hit by this Whore (Irma la douce my ass). I was so focused on finding my family that i did not even learnt about the awful huge earthquake in south Mexico before yesterday. My heart goes out to all mexicans. Too many shits going on at the same time (we almost forgot N. Korea wants to nuke the planet).
I have not slept in days and even though i'm relieved my family is ok, i still worry for my friends in St Martin and in Florida (who were very helpful these last few days helping locating people in Tortola, not just my family but friends also) and it keeps me awake.
I hope mybestfriendingrid is safe in her nuclear shelter with all her Madonna memorabilia :) (let's try comic relief to cheer up).
Please let everybody be safe.
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18 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:
So sorry to read that. Worrying beyond words when family and friends are in another place where a weather disaster has hit. Always hard to get contact due to lines of communication being down. Hope you hear from your sister soon and all are safe.
Just got my sister on the phone. They are all safe.
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1 hour ago, Jazzy Jan said:
So sorry to read that. Worrying beyond words when family and friends are in another place where a weather disaster has hit. Always hard to get contact due to lines of communication being down. Hope you hear from your sister soon and all are safe.
I managed to get in touch with a neighbour, he's trying to check on everybody but since it's a community on a hill and there are rockslides and it's getting dark now. I told him to check back tomorrow because it's not safe for him. At least no casualties were repertoried in the area. I hold on to that. I learnt from one of my nephew's friend who is abroad on boarding school that they lost their roof.
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21 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:
So frightening. Hope your relatives and friends will be OK.
I still don't have any news on the whereabouts of my sister, her husband and my nephews. I'm trying everything and everywhere but so far nothing. I have not slept in 2 days and i'm starting to fall apart but i can say it here not on FB and not to my family and friends otherwise they will flip out too. So thanks Madonnation for sheltering my worries i can't express anywhere else.
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My sister and nephews live in the British Virgin Islands, Irma is heading straight to them. She was cool on skype a few minutes ago but i'm shitting my pants and can't sleep. I monitor the Hurricane progression on Windy.com and to make things worst there's another one following it (Jose) that is gaining strenght. Fuck that shit.
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I urge you to really open your eyes. It is not important what you think of me. It's what you'll think of yourself in a few years that matters.