#fuck yall colonizers

[burst-of-iridescent]

antis will hate on zutara for being a colonizer/colonized ship and then turn around and ship zuko with mai — the girl who was at best indifferent to her country’s imperialism while enjoying the privileges of being a high-ranking member of the colonizing state, and at worst actively complicit in said colonization, without ever undergoing any growth or showing any signs of disagreement with the ruling regime, even till the very end — and expect people to take them seriously lmfaooo

[mueritos]

i hope we continue to see more protests within the US military. i see a lot of leftists and folks who are anti-military who have such an open disdain for the people who are in the military, yet neglect to considering the conditions this country makes to produce ideology, poverty, and the illusion of choice to make all kinds of people choose to enlist in the military. You ever see those videos of ROTC kids recording each other asking why they joined the military and everyone's like, "healthcare", "it helped me go to college", "I was bored" or "free ptsd lol". I hate to remind everyone but folks who are in the military are people, too, and they are the same victims and perpetrators of violence as the rest of you, we have all been shallowly conditioned to view each other as enemies just because one person is wearing army greens and the other is not.

some of the biggest anti-war advocates are those who engaged in war. Veterans who genuinely believed they were protecting the US against "terrorism" come back with blood on their hands, and they choose to realize that it was US imperialism that forced them to carry out violence, instead of doubling down and shielding themselves from the fact that they too are capable of atrocities... This is a class of people who are intentionally conditioned to be as poor and as ideologically aligned to US imperialism so that the military has a never-ending pool to send their youth to destroy other country's youth. The only people I have ever heard say "do not join the military" are those who ARE military.

This is in no way to ever excuse or explain away any of the atrocious war crimes and violence this industry and its people have committed against others. What I am saying is that we absolutely cannot cast aside the individuals who have been victimized within US imperialism, even if they are wearing army greens. I was speaking with my Palestinian classmate last week and another classmate--a member of the US air force-- walked up to me and struck up a conversation. My military classmate showed me her new bird, bid both of us goodbye, and left. My Palestinian classmate asked me if I was close with her, and I said we talked quite often, and she said, "I never met a person who's in the military. I still hate the military, but I never knew that they did, too. I didn't realize that they were also victims."

If my Palestinian classmate--one who is actively watching her own community die--can understand that it is not individuals who are the problem but it is in fact systems, US imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism...why can't we all? And she has EVERY reason to hate any individual military member. A lot of online activism just creates more barriers. if your optics look bad, complicated, or contradictory, you are cast aside. Everyone has got the be the perfect activist, you can never make a mistake or share a half-baked thought, you should always believe every word from a marginalized persons mouth (because being marginalized doesn't mean you're not entrenched in white supremacy too!) and you should never question what you see...Do you know what you sound like? The very imperialists who are convincing poor whites to vote against themselves. Perfectionism is white supremacy. Black & white thinking is white supremacy.

I'd rather have a military member who genuinely believed in the US imperialism machine but was disillusioned after being deployed as my comrade than some leftist who cherishes the performance of "being a good person". I don't want "good people" in our movements. I want humans who care. I want humans who make mistakes and who learn from them. I want humans who accept the messiness of a person. I want humans who hold others accountable and allow themselves to take responsibility for their actions. I want people who change for themselves and others.

fight systems, not individual people. we can change each other, but if we're too preoccupied looking like the World's Perfect Activists, we will only consume each other alive. Connect to your fellow humans, forever and always.

[redpandavvstuffs]

"We need more clomplex female characters!!!"

Yall mfs couldn't even handle her 💀

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Sorry to be polluting this fandom even further with my bullshit but seeing Dasein stand up for himself to those world heads was hot as fuck bro...

[gh0st1nth3wa11s]

WHICH EVER ONE OF YOU TALEBLR PEOPLE - whichever one of you talked about Spooker feeling that pie/ ghost hates him real bad, talking to Toast about it/thinking that Toast also hates him. (I don't remember which bc I can't FIND IT.) Hi, thank u for the inspiration, and I will post a retirement arc!Toast and Spooker fic where they talk bc Toast is either drunk or hungover. they deserve closure. and massive angst.

[nando161mando]

Happy 4th yall!🇺🇸🔥

[plenaurum]

i did nawt know that christian de clare had haters like that! lol!

[ace-hell]

WHAT THE FUCK??? PALESTINIAN RIGHT FOR SELF DETERMINATION??? I CAN'T FUFKING BELIEVE IT THEY STOLE ZIONISM???!!!!?!?!!! WHAAAATT

Imagine if there will be a vote "the right of white and black american for self determination in their native land- america" and EVERYONE would support it besides the native americans

[te-de-mandarina]

i hate all USAmericans, even the ones that hate their own country. Because they only hate it for what their government does to THEM and not what it does to the rest of the world.

[tshifty]

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[statementlou]

tbh as an israeli, i was so embarrassed that they put the flags there and i wish they didn’t do that. I don’t support that at all.

❤ and that's why YOU are my people, not those flag wavers- it's definitely my identity as a Jew that makes me extra outspoken about this issue in particular because like you say I feel personally embarrassed on behalf of my kin, and a responsibility by association to speak out against the israeli state's genocide. And it's made so much worse by the way people think israel= all jewish culture, or that to be anti-Israel is anti-semitism which, as @captainrayzizuniverse pointed out in tags (YES! well said and thank you!! you are also my people❤), is a tactic of zionist propaganda used to shut down criticism of the Israeli state. I think anon meant well and wants to keep an eye out for anti-semitism during this terrible time of its rise everywhere and I appreciate that! But that's why it's important to talk loudly and constantly about the fact that taking a stand against anti-semitism does not have to include defending the Israeli state- and indeed to be broadly anti-racist, one must call out Israel's colonization and genocide in Palestine

[andragoras-in-vanity]

im convinced that people who actually want to live in cities and dont see the environmental and emotional trauma their inflicting on themselves by enabling those places to continue to grow have just the most severe brain damage

[jesterguy]

I have so many posts in drafts about Palestine and I still just don't even know what to say or where to start

[captainimprobable]

might as well put this here as well as insta: if you support hamas, and see them as a resistance group, block me immediately. If you read this post and instantly get offended and assume this means I don't support palestinians, feel free to block me as well. Hamas is a terrorist group who have SAID MANY MANY TIMES that they exist to murder jews. Palestinians are an innocent group of people who deserve good lives. Hope this helps <3

[practicingbushiho]

PROBLEMATIC

Local 24 y/o King makes political misplays and almost gives in to impulsive decision making after Having Emotions, an unforgivable war crime-- because as we all know, 24-year-olds who aren't socialized and have had their cultures robbed from them are 100% capable of rational thought and making perfect choices. always.

His reputation is now blemished, his personage seen with vitriol from those in Eorzea who possess no experience in leadership nor influence, for the rest of his days.

He doesn't seem all that put out by it, strangely.

[snekdood]

yeah, free palestine, but that doesnt mean just "get rid of" (left intentionally vague by ppl who say it) israeli citizens??? its always blame the governments not the people over here idk what yall are on.