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Just learned that Raymond Gureme's family was targeted by French policemen in a racist attack two weeks ago.

For context, Raymond Gureme was a survivor of the Romani genocide. He was detained in several Romani internment camps in France starting from the age of 15yo with his family, escaped twice, was deported to a labor camp in Germany, escaped again and joined the French resistance at the mere age of 17yo. He was a very active member of the Resistance, killing Nazis and marching alongside De Gaulle on the day Paris was liberated.

Like most survivors of the Romani genocide and many Romani resistance fighters, Raymond never received any medals of honour for his involvement with the resistance. He and his family never received any form of financial compensation nor was it ever acknowledged that they had been targeted for genocide. 10 years ago, Raymond, in his 80s, was beaten up by French policemen in his own trailer for no other reason than his being Romani.

Two weeks ago his family was held at gunpoint by French policemen who broke into their trailers, destroyed valuables and property and called in several police cars and police helicopters to arrest one single person. This level of violence was completely uncalled for and is clearly an act of intimidation on the part of French cops.

Raymond Gureme is the most emblematic figure of the Romani resistance during World War II and one of the most important figures of the Romani rights movement in postwar western Europe. His family is passing around a petition to meet the region's prefect and ask for justice

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It's OK if you’re not OK right now. I’m certainly not. Mothman isn’t. We’re devastated. There’s a hollow crater in my chest where my heart ought to be. I’m sick with worry. But I can’t let it consume me. So we’re going to allow ourselves to grieve and then find actionable ways to counter what lies ahead.

That will look different for everyone, but one thing that will be universally required in the days and years ahead is compassion and an unshakable commitment to kindness.

We will help each other through this. We will find ways to help other people. We will protect the people we love and even those we don’t to the best of our abilities. Because that’s the only option we have.

We will do it angry, we will do it sad, we will do it terrified. But we will do it.

Please be gentle with yourself. Please don’t do anything to harm yourself. The world needs your light. It needs your anger and your hope. It needs you.

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Climate change is real, even if your government denies it. You know that the summers and winters of your childhood are gone, even if your leaders say otherwise. Keep fighting even when things seem hopeless.

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everyone shut the fuck up i’m trying to focus on my diabolical homosexual thoughts

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Well....fuck.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

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"cost of living crisis" give me a FUCKING break it's called "unprecedented corporate greed and income inequality" fucking cost of living crisis like it's just a natural or unexplainable phenomenon Christ

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never forgiving the west for spreading the "war on terror" and acting as if they're the main victim of it when in reality it's people from africa and asia most affected by terrorist organizations which were funded by the usa in the first place. the most people killed by ISIS are not yanks&co.

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ngl i wpuld be a lot nicer to libs if they didn't treat supporting a genocide like a minor character flaw

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U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

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the bar for the nyt is so fucking low at this point but somehow they keep burrowing beneath it. "although she moved to the US as a toddler" "no american officials attended" NO AMERICAN OFFICIALS HAVE CONTACTED HER FAMILY. they've been asking for some acknowledgment a fucking phone call for a WEEK since she was killed and somehow the fact that biden and harris and the american government have deemed her life and her death to have no value to them, that gets propped up by The Paper Of Record as evidence that she was in fact not really an american and thus it's a self-proving tautology that it must be true

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I’m going to save up for a new motorcycle by running a scam where I bet straight dudes at bars twenty bucks that I can get a girl’s number in under five minutes and then politely walk up her and say, “I just bet that asshole twenty bucks that I could get your number. I’ll split it with you if you pretend to laugh like I just said a good pick up line and then write a fake number on my hand.”

Like, I never understood those kind of bets in those shitty teen movies. Everybody loves being part of a scheme, man. Use your head.

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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talked to real people who think a ceasefire should be conditional on removing hamas* from power. ceasefire is a term used for the cessation of violence between two parties involved in a conflict. completely stripping one of those parties of power is requiring its surrender.

*hamas is an elected authority, so this becomes regime change and whichever authority gets installed makes this even more of an occupation than it was.

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Donald Trump fanfic on Ao3 has amazing tags. I'm dying.

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Posting is going to be touch and go for a little while. Life is hitting me sideways right now. One of my chickens is sick and needs round the clock care. It's wearing me down but she's worth it. Thanks for understanding!