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The rate of extraction from the global south is truly enormous

Bananas grow by the millions of pounds, farmed by people paid cents on the hour, transported on trucks whose drivers are paid the same, loaded onto boats whose crews are paid in dollars per day, unloaded at an american port and driven by a rent-to-own trucker to a distribution center where a minimum wage worker labels and ships them to a store where another minimum wage worker stocks them for a dollar a pound. This is imperialism at work on a scale you can visibly see at every produce section at every grocery store in the usa

If you add up all the costs, the highest is first world labor. The labor of the toiling masses which happen before reaching american shores are nearly imperceptible compared to the wages paid to the american warehouse worker or grocery store worker. And yet, even those wages are nothing compared to the total profit extracted from this trade.

This same pattern repeats itself over and over again in every industry. These commodities end up in the first world to prop up their highly constructed and built by genocide and blood political-economy.

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Being taught that your parents always know what's best for you is infinitely more tangibly harmful to a kid than stumbling upon porn or something.

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“I’ve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can’t sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians don’t talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.”

— Mohammed al-Khoudry a Palestinian farmer in Gaza. (via champagnefather)

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The child is not even two pounds, he is in the intensive neonatal care unit. He is blind, may be unable to walk and he may not survive at all. Adriana Smith's mother, April Newkirk has affirmed that the decision to stop life support should have been the family's. The baby's name is Chance. Fuck Brian Kemp, I hope he gets sepsis.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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My thoughts on the 'Dubai Chocolate' food trend

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i could blog better than this but i won't

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The occupation is misleading the media, claiming that aid is entering all areas of the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, it has limited its entry to the southern Gaza Strip only, with the aim of encouraging residents of the north, including my family, to migrate south again. Furthermore, aid is not reaching a quarter of the Gaza Strip's population due to the months-long closure of the crossing. The Gaza Strip needs large quantities of food supplies.

Please donate to my family in northern Gaza. They are in great need of help. They cannot find bread to eat or any other type of food. The prices are very high. Donate here please

I haven't received any donations for two days except for my friend.

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More of you need to actually internalize the fact that trans women are not treated like or seen as cis men, they're treated as trans women. When transphobes tell trans women "you're a man!" It's not because they ACTUALLY believe she is a man. It's because they know she is a trans woman and are trying to hurt her. Transphobes do not antagonize people they genuinely see as men this way. They just don't. Even in the minds of the most vitriolic transmisogynist, a cis man and a trans woman are entirely different things.

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men lose their masculinity (the social reward for correctly performed manhood) through advocating for, sympathizing with, or doing labor that is allocated to women.

(and I'm not talking about some innate, spiritual, or psychological masculinity. I mean social masculinity--being regarded by higher ranking men as masculine.)

you genuinely do lose your current standing if you meaningfully and consistently object to the economic, legal, and interpersonal status of women, especially in ways that implicate men around you.

many men believe that if they are willing to do this, occasionally, then they are owed a recuperation of their masculinity through some other means.

if they are sacrificing masculinity through advocating for women politically, then they expect to bolster their masculinity through receiving expressions of gratitude and adoration by women ("feminist men are so hot" "consent is sexy" "pro-choice men get laid more" etc.) or they expect to bolster their masculinity through emasculating other men by asserting the standards of masculinity they adhere to are the "real" masculinity ("real men support women" "sexists are immature boys, I'm a man" "I'm secure in my masculinity and they're insecure" etc.)

to dismantle patriarchy, you need to be able to advocate for women even when it means losing gendered status. other men mostly will not respect you, and many misogynist women will not respect you either. it might not get you laid or praised or validated. in fact, it will probably subject you to increased scrutiny and criticism (because feminized subjects are always subject to such, and if you lose social masculinity, you too will experience this to some degree).

will you still advocate for women even if there is no social benefit and only social cost? do you have principles, or do you just want the fantasy of being a benevolent ruler?

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Israel just bombed a hospital again. Will it ever be news again? Was it ever?

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The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.

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white supremacists one day decided to frame woke as a bad thing and use it as a perjorative and y’all just immediately went along with it posing absolutely no resistance now i gotta hear ppl say “it’s not woke to be antiracist”

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Many friends, Aya among them, confirmed that Israeli artillery units deliberately play piano music after bombing raids. It’s not random. It’s psychological warfare. A calculated effort to stitch music; something that should mean safety, softness, life; into the memory of genocide. Imagine growing up where that universal language of tenderness, is forever fused with the sound of falling buildings and screaming kin. Where the soft notes of a piano don’t soothe, but haunt; because they came right after the explosion that took your neighbor, your brother, your leg. How do you hear a piano again without flinching? How do you separate melody from murder when both arrived in the same moment, dressed in smoke and debris?

It’s not just about killing bodies; it’s about colonizing memory, too.

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So do you think anybody is going acknowledge that Hind Rajab should have been celebrating her 7th birthday today with her family? Do you think anybody is going to acknowledge that?