Concrete holds the weight.
Together, they become structure.
Not just walls — but intention made solid.
Rebar is the skeleton.
It resists tension,
bends, but never breaks.
Concrete is the muscle.
It bears the load,
ages in silence,
and hardens like truth.
A bunker isn't just built.
It's cast — like a spell.
Layer by layer.
Bond by bond.
And if you listen closely…
you’ll hear it curing.
Pauline von Hellermann
in reply to Bilal Barakat 🍉 • • •@yousefmunayyer
Of course, not just in America. Just the same in Europe. You see it everywhere. I remember an exchange here with a lovely environmentalist who was a good Mastodon friend before, who was so suspicious of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitah (the rector of Glasgow university) when he was denied entry into France that she tried to prove that he was lying on twitter and was a Hamas sympathesiser. She unfollowed me when I tried explain that her “sources” were known Zionist propaganda.
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Bilal Barakat 🍉
in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •@pvonhellermannn
With the caveat that to some extent it's not even about impugning suspected ulterior motives. There have been examples of Israel-apologists complaining that a literal and sincere call for “equal rights for all” is somehow offensive. Not because of being a supposed front for malicious intentions, but because the actual concept of equal rights per se is objectionable to them.