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If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

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I have a new video on the first 100... scratch that... first 50 days of Trumps Foreign policy. Trumps First 50 days of Foreign Policy - YouTube

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Be so fucking for real rn, the reason this ceasefire ended isn't that hamas didn't return the hostages, the hostages were supposed to return in the second stage. The reason why the second stage didn't happen is that Bibi refuses to end the war because the second the war ends his illegal attempts to fire members of government would be stopped and his trial would resume in earnest, leading to him going to prison. I cannot believe y'all are this stupid

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It is also notable that when comparing to many Western European countries, it's not even that the US has that many more convictions per capita. It's that the US puts people in prison for so long relative to those other Western countries and arrests way more people who can't meet bail and thus are in jail awaiting trial.

it really is insane how little you hear about "america has the world's highest prison population by such a significant margin that it would be seen as excessively over-the-top if it was used in fiction"

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i found a baby picture of my cat please please look at him i'm begging you

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Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

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"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

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Small joys on Tumblr:

When your notes make a perfect cat

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Genocide isn't a matter of death toll. It's a matter of policy and motivation. In world war 2 the deaths of Japanese, Germans, British and Americans aren't genocide not because the relative percentage of numbers are smaller but because of the government and personal polices in those deaths. The Allies were not as a matter of policy attempting to exterminate Japanese, Germans and Italians. The Axis as a matter of policy were not attempting to exterminate British and Americans.

Genocide is about the intention, not the death toll (or percentage lost). The genocides we are most aware of typically have either very high death tolls or high percentages of people killed. But this doesn't have to be the case. The Bosnian Genocide had a death toll of about 30,000 (1.5% of Bosnians). The ongoing Rohingya Genocide has a high-end death toll of 43,000 (2% of Rohingya). But in both cases the deaths were a matter of official or unofficial policy to "clear the land" of these groups (which in the case of the Rohingya has led to a majority of their population being expelled from their homelands).

Also, Raphael Lemkin wasn't just talking about the Holocaust when he was conceptualizing genocide. The Armenian genocide and mass killings of other ethnic groups by Nazi Germany were also informative of his initial definition. Even European killings of indigenous peoples as part of their colonizing projects fell under his concept of "Kin Killing". He didn't want the Holocaust to be the benchmark of when a genocide has taken place. It was what genocide looks like when the world does nothing.

For the record, I do not believe the military deaths in Gaza on their own constitute genocide. War is brutal. Urban warfare even more so. If one wants to make a prescription Israel is engaging in genocide, they are going to have to point to government policy and action that indicates they are attempting to eliminate a people "in whole or in part."

I'm taking the word "genocide" away from Leftists and the "pro-Palestine" movement, because clearly y'all have never opened a single dictionary EVER and lack basic critical thinking.

The word "genocide" was coined by Polish Jew Raphael Lemkin to describe the horrifying systematic mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, where 63% of all the Jews in Europe and 39% of all the Jews IN THE ENTIRE WORLD were murdered.

THAT is what genocide is.

Now let's take a look at a couple death toll estimates via the percent of the population during World War 2, since that's a pretty recent war that I'm sure everyone knows about:

Do you want to know the percent of the Japanese population that was killed during that war? 3.5%.

Now, guess the population percentage how many Germans were killed. Any guesses? 6%.

The US lost about .2% of our population, the French lost .5%, and then the British lost .55%.

Now that you have those statistics, what do you think the population percentage of Palestinians that have died during the Israel/Hamas war is? Any guesses?

It's 62,614 casualties, which we'll round up to 63,000 for simplicity, out of the total population of Palestine which is above 5 million (but we'll keep it at just 5 million for simplicity), and that gives us...

...1.26%.

I want all of you to take those numbers and think on that.

Think on whether or not you've ever tried to argue that Germans or the Japanese were being genocided in WW2, since they lost a bigger percentage of their population during that war than Palestine has.

Think on whether or not you've said that the US, UK, or any of the other Allied Powers should be nuked off the face of the earth, or that everyone---including civilians who've done nothing---should be murdered/raped/mutilated/etc. because of what their governments did during that war.

Think on whether or not you've harassed people from the US, UK, or other Allied countries for what went on during WW2 or excused harassment of them behind a tagline of "we're just protesting."

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And then think on why you find it acceptable to treat Jews and Israelis like complete and utter SHIT, harass them, justify the murder and rape of their people, and say that the ONLY country that has ever actually been SAFE for them to live* should be wiped off of the face of the earth along with everyone living there (which is 50% of all the Jews in the entire world, mind you, which would be WORSE than what happened during the Holocaust...just so y'all know what you're advocating for)---for the "crime" of fighting in a war that was started by a terrorist organization dedicated to wiping Jews off the face of the earth, and having a total death toll percent less than what other countries had in WW2.

I want all of you to think real hard on that and then try to tell me that you're on "the right side of history" because you think being bigoted in a rainbow t-shirt makes you any better than the ones wearing swastikas.

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Gandalf in The Hobbit: You are Took and that makes you absolutely suited for adventure!

Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring: Who the FUCK let the Took come on this adventure?

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ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

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Today I told my wife that I had a post go viral on tumblr and she said, "Did all twelve people on tumblr like it?"