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As we approach the end of 2024 and welcome a new year, 2025, and with the arrival of Christmas, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a joyful Christmas Eve filled with love and peace. May your holidays be beautiful, warm, and full of happiness.

I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who has supported and contributed to me and my family during this time. Thanks to your generosity, we have been able to raise €64,263, and this achievement is all thanks to you, my dear friends. However, we still have some way to go to reach our goal; we still need €35.737 to achieve it.

I kindly ask you to take a moment and consider donating again to support a Palestinian family in need. Let us work together to reach €70,000 before the end of the year. Remember, every donation, no matter how small, makes a significant impact and holds great value in helping us improve our lives during these challenging times.

Thank you for everything you have done, and happy holidays to you all!

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“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

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There's a phenomenon in left-wing circles where initially reasonable statements and concepts get repeated ad nauseum until they not only lose their meaning but transform into deeply bigoted ideas.

The idea "there is no single white culture," is true because white is a concept created to describe the powerful position in Western societies. There are many different cultures, who's members are often white. But this idea became "white people have no culture" which is just not true, deeply dehumanizing, and harmful, especially to people who look white but experience marginalization because of their culture.

Another example might be cultural appropriation, which perhaps should be understood as a misrepresentation or exploitation of the cultural practices of another, especially where the person exploiting does so for personal gain, without acknowledgment. But now, people have basically transformed this into "when somebody does something from a culture they weren't raised in" or "when a particular race or ethnicity behaves in a way that's different from how they normally do" which promotes racial and cultural stereotypes and attempts to control the behaviors of people based on their race, ethnicity, and culture.

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Request for aid:

I'm making this post on behalf of Ahmad from Gaza, who has been trying to raise money to feed his family of 20 people, maintain his parents' regular treatment for their chronic illnesses, and seek evacuation and treatment for two injured children and their adult caretakers (more info on fundraiser math here). More information is available at his blog as well.

Their fundraiser is currently extremely low, and they need help urgently. If you are able to donate, please do so; any amount will help! And regardless of your own personal ability to donate, please share this widely and see if your friends and family are able to help.

Gofundme / Gazavetters verification (#37) / Blog: @ahmednaserfamily

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Little girl teaching her cats how to draw a flower 

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the wording on this Jack russell vid beamed a permanent mark onto my brain

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bullies who realized its not cool any more to mock people directly for being fat and trans and autistic when they discover furries and polyamorous people

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accidentally ran into the literal coolest person on this earth

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Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!

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I like this witch cat finding game, very cute. However I think it would be improved if it was instead about a detective with a severe substance addiction who is supposed to somehow solve a murder

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