There Is No Greater Mystery Than What Was That Deleted Video In My Youtube Playlist

there is no greater mystery than What Was That Deleted Video In My Youtube Playlist

Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

Concept: in a setting where vampires exist and can only be harmed by symbols of faith (crucifixes, etc.), a James Randi-style skeptic/supernatural debunker witnesses his family murdered by vampires, and dedicated his life to hunting down what he believes are a cabal of ordinary serial killers with a blood fetish and some cheap plastic fangs. They die when he shoots them with an ordinary gun, granted holy status by the sheer force of his belief that they are actually just ordinary humans who will die when shot.

so there’s this story that my grandmother loves telling (well, in recent years. for the first seventy years of her life she did not talk about her childhood at all.)

the story is that a family friend of theirs was Austria’s finance minister*, and Jewish, and after the anschluss he realized he was in trouble, but like many of Austria’s Jews he seriously underestimated how much trouble. by the time he realized it was too late to get out safely. He was also old and in failing health, so dramatics weren’t ideal.

so he asked a family member to drive him to the mountains on the Italian-Austrian border, and he’d cross there. It was easy enough to avoid the Austrian authorities going out, but you didn’t have a chance of avoiding the Italian ones, and they stopped him. 

“Oh,” he said to them, “Benito knows me. Tell him I’m here and he’ll call me a car.” And indeed, they called Mussolini and he called him a car. My reaction the first time I heard this story - and the reaction of everyone I’ve told it to - has been “so Mussolini opposed the Holocaust? He was helping smuggle Jews out of Austria?” And, no, he didn’t and wasn’t. But he knew this guy, they were old friends, the guy was in town, so Benito called him a car. Which is more characteristic of humans than the version where Mussolini was secretly a decent person, really. A million is a statistic, but this guy? I know this guy. He’s a great guy. There’s the phrase ‘the banality of evil’, and I think it applies, but the word that’s always come to my mind is the myopia of evil, the tendency to treat People well but just not look out at the world and see billions of People, not believe that the principles you apply to the ones you know apply to all of them everywhere.

Home Alone meets DS9 fic where everybody abandons the station but they leave Garak behind. Dukat tries to break in, but Garak defends the station through a series of questionably violent booby traps.

The War in Ukraine didn’t “magically go away”

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Here’s your daily reminder that the war in Ukraine is STILL GOING ON, and hasn’t stopped. And that people are being KILLED. Our own family lost family friends on the frontlines.

russia has been trying to exterminate Ukrainians for centuries. All the Czar’s suppression, the Soviets making a man-made famine that killed MILLIONS - Holodomor, the start of the war in 2014..

But now on the cusp of life and death of a nation, culture, and people, everyone is ignoring us because Israel is throwing a tantrum with the United States to back it. America just forgot about Ukraine as soon as their poor poor Israel needed some help smashing 'the worthless arabs' to make more room for 'the good christians/jews'.

The Palestine situation is very bad but can we not ignore the bloody conflict in my home country that has been going on since 2014, with full our war for over two years? I’ve met some people who didn’t know it was still going on, and it really broke me.

Just a few weeks ago my mom got a call that one of her oldest colleagues, a surgeon working on the front lines, had been killed by the russians. She was crying so hard. And then I meet people who don’t know the war is still going on and I want to scream.

Please don’t let this die. Please don’t forget us. We need your support.

Слава Україні, Героїв слава. (Slava Ukrayini, Heroyim slava)

Glory to Ukraine, glory to the Heroes.