#PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE PROTESTING

[royalberryriku]

As the US election closes in and the final states take to the polls, I want to remind people to turn out and protest.

Yep, protest. Strike, disrupt, be out there on the street regardless of who you voted for or who wins. I expect to see you all out there demanding; access to abortion nation wide, protections against discrimination, free universal healthcare, a free Palestine, anti war, prison abolition, to increase the minimum wage, and for a US free of the electoral college and that counts votes as votes.

Yes, you can say "you should vote for Harris" and do so as much as you like, but do not forget the power you have through your own everyday actions away from the polls and that of protesting. Do not use the excuse that your right to vote means it's somehow more foundational or important than the right to protest. You have the ability to create direct action and that is so so important, please don't just expect a rich representative to stick to their promises every time you vote; you have power too, never forget that.

This system will not change until we, the people, make it. There is NO representative that can ever change the system that allowed them in, and likewise; this system will never allow a candidate that would stop it from continuing and/or ensuring its designated purpose of oppression and subjugation. Resist, regardless of the results.

Long live the resistance.

[bunnihearted]

it is so fucking insane that palestine is suffering extreme, like beyond insane, violence done to them by ppl worse than nazis, and the world just sits idly by and allows it

[leonardcohenofficial]

studying the long sixties as an artistic and sociopolitical era for dissertation research and seeing the exact same tactics used by institutions—especially the "liberal universities"—over and over and over again to surpress organizing and protest while personally still trying to find ways to make tangible and meaningful change is at minimum incredibly fucking haunting

[post-futurism]

I will say it's laughable to claim that it's 'not a coincidence that Israel's attacks coincide with high profile events' (i.e. the met gala). That's the most US centric thing I've ever heard. Do you really think war officials are designing their onslaught based around a fashion party in the US? Like they're criminal masterminds using the influence of the global cultural powerhouse that is the US to distract the people of... Checks notes... The entire world so that they can bomb Palestine unsuspectingly?

Youse sound like conspiracy theorists.

No one actually gives a fuck about the Met Gala. For those who like it, it's just about the fashion photography that comes out a day later. For most it's an event detached from place and from time and it's occurrence actually has nothing to do with the recent attack. But it's the idea that 'high profile events' like the Met Gala are deliberately being used to distract people from ongoing genocide that assumes that the event itself is iconic enough to be distracting, and that the distractable people are only North Americans thereby omitting the nuance of the rest of the world's populace in life extracted from the US hegemony.

[ruthlesslistener]

If ace and arophobes really are coming back to tumblr then I'm not apologizing for how nasty I'll be to them btw. I've got no plans to seek them or their rhetoric out but if it happens organically then I'mma tear them bitches a new one and I don't care if it leads to them hatebombing me with death and rape threats again like they did when I was 14 and 17 <3 theres 10 million problems out there in the world that need solving but theoretical cishet men 'infiltrating' the queer community ain't one of them

[magic-owl]

they just killed countless millions of people over gas prices

my children are never going to see a snowfall or a monarch butterfly over gas prices

people were this self-centered and inconsiderate and just plain evil and cruel over gas prices

[acewithobsessions]

I want to tell everyone I love them

Oh loves, there were so many

So many goodbyes today

So many tragedies and so little time

[penwrythe]

Learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is important. I'm genuinely not okay when I hear, see, and research more about the genocide happening in Gaza, the history of Israel's founding, and its terroristic actions. It is important for me to know.

Taking short breaks (usually a couple of hours or so) does help when things get too much. Then, I return and continue engaging with reblogs on Palestine.

I really don't know what else to say, but this genocide must end. All genocides must end and must never happen again. Keep talking about Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and Sudan! Keep protesting! Keep fighting!

What is important now is to be as loud as you can be! Raise ruckus! Make your voice unavoidable! Be as annoying as possible! Do not let your representatives ignore this!

[hypermascbishounen]

why do so many Christians specifically anthropomorphize animals so much? Like, not in actual just for biblical metaphors way, that makes sense. I always see them specifically dropping bible verses in their comments on animal videos while talking about what they assume is going on, and it's always *wildly* incorrect lol

[pirates-and-ninja-lover]

fuck politics btw <3

[echoed-evenings]

I don’t know which is worse, the fact that thousands of people are about to be and currently being murdered or the fact that I can’t do anything about it

[badolmen]

Hm sorry I just don’t think *checks notes* ‘homophobia [extra bad because they’re muslim]’ gives anyone the right to bomb civilian hospitals, homes, ambulances, and children.

[illogicalghost]

anyone else learn about the nuclear arms race and mutually assured destruction at an impressionable young age, had an existential crisis about how we almost ended all life on the planet in thermonuclear hellfire and made it uninhabitable for thousands of years multiple times because of political differences, and we still have enough warheads on earth to destroy it a hundred times over sitting in the hands of insane megalomaniac politicians who could just end it all with a press of a button and never fully recovered since?

[mariautistic]

Saw the dumbest fucking post the other day that said something to the effect it's actually good the UK and the US aren't protesting for better working rights because any progress they get affects the third world so actually it's more progressive to not get any progress on that at all unlike ze french who are so selfish that they protest for better work conditions and that it's pointless anyways bc advances are too small . What fucking self respected commie is like actually not getting any rights for workers is good 👍 can't you just admit that the working movement isn't as organized/willing to defy the status quo enough and you're jealous instead of trying to turn it around

[aroseyetbloomedwrites]

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[cigarette-room]

On the current topics at hand I want to express that I do not feel any singular sense of community with western queers, on any account, on any reason, by any means. This community in the west has proven to be entirely fucking useless in empathizing with human beings in the Middle East and global South. You have proven yourselves to be stinking sacks of shit entrenched in rainbow capitalism, incapable of fighting for freedom, incapable of standing up for basic human rights, incapable of seeing or hearing anything except corporations pandering to you with shitty little merch and vague blanket statements while they finance brutal killings of innocent people. You have proven yourselves incapable of even the mildest, most pathetic forms of resistance and solidarity with marginalized people of the rest of the world and have wholeheartedly embraced your own chains, which you will defend and praise until you pathetically die like you pathetically lived