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ill always find it amusing when american fiction wants to be moralistic about not killing the bad guy but the author doesnt actually have a more humane way of resolving the conflict so they instead take the infinitely more progressive solution of "indefinite imprisonment"

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We are approaching 2 years into the genocide that is taking place in Sudan. The SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces, the military backed by Sudan's High Council) has regained control over Khartoum from the RSF (a paramilitary backed by the UAE). Families gradually return to their homes. They are in dire need of basic necessities!

And a ceasefire has not been declared as of yet! ! !

We need to make noise. Boycott, donate, and protest! How about you also help out my friend, Randa, @rnd8, as well! She lives in Rwanda, and she is in the process of evacuating her family. Thankfully, her elderly father and 3 sisters have evacuated and reunited with her, but her 2 brothers are left behind in Southern Khartoum!

Their lives are at high risk, so we need to raise the final stretch of the goal ASAP! Plus, GFM has given an extension, but it has passed, and the fundraiser can close at any given time! Please donate and share. You can match me. I have given €10, but you're more than welcome to give any amount! ! !

Verification: Shared by Sara (@/BSonBlast on BlueSky, IG, Twitter, and TikTok), Jin (@/jinforjustice on IG), and @/northgazaupdates!

€33,053 / €35,000

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all tomorrows if it was animorphs style childrens media

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gonna just put all these memey raiden drawings in one post.

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I talk frequently about how ignorant most Global North citizens are about the immigration policies of their own and other countries. When my husband and I (Global North citizens of different countries) got married, we had conversation after conversation with people who assumed that by producing our marriage certificate we could simply become residents of each other’s countries— and that we could not be refused residence in each other’s countries, as separating a husband and wife could surely not be allowed. 

More interestingly, a lot of people seem to refuse knowledge about immigration, perhaps because it can’t be integrated into some deep and important picture of the world that they have. My parents can’t make themselves believe that my British husband would get in trouble if he overstayed his visa “just a couple of days” in the US, or that I (an American) would ever get deported from the UK, no matter what the circumstances. This is not only because they believe that British and American citizens, as Global North citizens, are specially exempt from the systems that are “meant” to regulate other kinds of people, but also because fundamentally they believe that government and its processes are rational and just. They must believe that government and its processes are rational and just, because otherwise their whole picture of the world— the means by which they understand it— would collapse.

This is all fairly simple and obvious. What is not so simple and obvious is the way that their privileged ignorance, the hothouse resilience of their fantasy world, is part of a mechanism through which the “work of knowing” in our society is outsourced to the underprivileged. (The privileged do not have to know in a way that disrupts their fantasy, because not-knowing has no consequences for them.) This is an interesting dynamic, because many postcolonial theorists (Sara Ahmed, Dipesh Chakrabarty, etc) have explored how the Global South is typically portrayed as that-which-is-known-by-the-Global-North, and therefore as not capable of knowing. So what does it mean that the tools of regulation remain in the hands of the Global North, but that the knowledge of regulation is a burden borne by the Global South? There is an element here of knowing as knowing-your-place, for sure— learning to be interpellated as the illegal and the undesirable. The knowing that is happening also constitutes the production of the illusive “just and rational” world that sustains the Global North. I’m interested in the way that the dehumanization of the Global South therefore serves to sustain the rational and just Human and humaneness of the Global North. There’s an abjectification that is necessary for this— as anyone who has experienced universal healthcare knows, more just and equitable care/distribution of resources often means that more privileged people get less-nice things than they have been led to expect, so if they want to continue to enjoy the same standard of living allowed them by unjust and non-equitable care, they must rationalize this somehow. And how does one rationalize having been, by chance, born in the right geographic area? One can’t. One must, instead, believe that this is not how privilege is allotted, which required not-knowing that this is how privilege is allotted. 

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As always, disabled people bear the brunt of the injustice during crises.

This is why I'm begging you to spare anything you can for @noor-yashour who is fundraising for her disabled son, Muhammad, 4 years of age. He was receiving physical therapy in order to be able to walk but with his treatment on hold during the genocide, his condition is rapidly deteriorating.

LOW ON FUNDS.

VETTED HERE BY 90-GHOST

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anti-survival horror where you're desperately trying to die but everyone is keeping you alive

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sorry yeah, you're actually not allowed in the grocery store anymore. yeah, everyone thought it was super weird when you were rummaging in your wallet for your debit card and it was making everyone super uncomfortable and taking a long time. sorry

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💯 but its 000 for when something's fuckall

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PRO TIP FOR WOMEN IN STRAIGHT RELATIONSHIPS: tell your boyfriend you think that if he and his male best friend were a couple, he would be the bottom. If he reacts negatively this means he thinks being penetrated is degrading. Then you know to dump him. This is a WIN. DO IT NOW!

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i do think that a lot of people mistaking moral ocd for having a moral compass is understandable but also a bit funny. why does your moral compass involve fearing the invisible watchful specter who may be judging your every move lest you make your intentions clear at every turn and over explain your actions. you dont have to answer this question

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congratulations to the twin gnomes, Wrath and Lust, who have once again won the mayoral throne of Chicago

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we're doing sporcle rn and i was doing the times table one and i was like "i actually still do my times tables in chinese" and alena was like "neil every single abc in the bay area learned their times tables in chinese." and i was like "ok well when i told kade they were really impressed."

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hi guys. woke up to this on my phone today. zero fucking recollection of writing this down