向き合う覚悟　Готовий до зустрічі
汝、目を背ける事無かれ。
Ти не відводитимеш погляду.

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Muki-au-Kakugo-1224431239

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A memorial to poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, social reformer Yosano Akiko (late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa eras) in Zenrin-ji temple garden in Kyoto. One of her poems, "Cowardice", is below, including an English translation.

卑怯

その路をずつと行くと
死の海に落ち込むと教へられ、
中途で引返した私、
卑怯な利口者であつた私、
それ以来、私の前には
岐路と
迂路とばかりが続いてゐる。

Cowardice

If I followed that road to the end,
I would come to the sea of death, they told me,
and so from halfway along, I turned back,
being me, weak and rational.
Since then all the paths I have roamed
were entangled, and crooked, and forsaken.

#poetry #Japan #Kyoto #cowardice #temple #Buddhism

America is starting wars around the world because the guy in the White House has dementia, no self control and no ability to think rationally.

The people around the demented tangerine are letting it all happen as if looking the other way somehow excuses their own betrayal of the Constitution and country. It doesn’t.

#republicans #cowardice #MAGA #iran #EpsteinFiles #war #middleeast #trump #america #news #worldnews

"You can quietly choose not to be an asshole. But pointing out the assholes make YOU the biggest asshole."

The mental gymnastics people go through to defend assholes.

#cowardice #pacifist #activism

向き合う覚悟　Готовий до зустрічі
汝、目を背ける事無かれ。
Ти не відводитимеш погляду.

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#courage #strength #strength #heartfelt #arrogant #away #cowardice #face #challenge #love #collapse #live #machine #hope #only #suffer #death #certainly #precious #value #taken #clear #modern #society #resolve #accept #urgency

Pete Hegseth was blathering on about how reporting on the deaths of American soldiers in the Middle East makes Trump look bad.

Beg your pardon?

If you don’t want to ‘look bad’ because you’re getting people killed due to your illegal wars you either have to find your balls and take responsibility for your actions or stop creating illegal wars.

#cowardice #Hegseth #trump
#military #news #media #pentagon #MAGA #iran #middleeast #congress

向き合う覚悟　Готовий до зустрічі
汝、目を背ける事無かれ。
Ти не відводитимеш погляду.

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#courage #strength #strength #heartfelt #arrogant #away #cowardice #face #challenge #love #collapse #live #machine #hope #only #suffer #death #certainly #precious #value #taken #clear #modern #society #resolve #accept #urgency