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#ok ok ok this one is a certified classic#dick simmons#rvb simmons#red vs blue#it made me laugh so i brought it back#someone free my man#i need to rewatch rvb that show is PEAK#i memory holed everything past the mercs idk what happened#i saw like 90% of the psa videos are gone from youtube. where are they? anyone knows?#i couldnt find half the eps either. it makes me sad#aweeeeee anyhow#richard simmons#i watched some pop culture news channels on youtube and they said something happened to roosterteeth but somethings always happening to rt
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when I was little I used to play clue with my sister and when I won by being like “okay YOU don’t have the candlestick and I don’t have the candlestick and there are no more cards, so it’s gotta be the candlestick” she would get really mad and tell me I was cheating because I wasn’t supposed to be making assumptions like that and she didn’t understand where I was getting the info from, so I was ruining the game for her
anyways I don’t rly get why people on twt are THAT mad about veilguard spoilers because they do not seem that deep
#dragon age spoilers#dav#da4 spoilers#da4#and my GOD the spoilers are here in the comments too#but like I keep seeing people like ‘I can’t believe they’d just tell us that the blight is organic’#girl the blight’s BEEN organic#‘they said we’re gonna see things about solas’ past!!!!!’#at solas’ house? his house in the fade? where all the dreams and spirits and memories live? groundbreaking#I can see the whole ‘ghilan’nain has been experimenting on darkspawn��� thing as a shock to some people#and I’m not saying you have to read the companion books#but like….. that was established in tevinter nights#a book that’s been out for four years and pretty widely discussed in the fandom#also though the discourse around spoilers for da4 has just been bizarre in general#like idk man I think that BioWare/content creators being like ‘in two weeks there will be spoilers on twt’ is….. decent and reasonable?#and some of the comments are so……. ????#I just don’t think ‘I don’t like spoilers so no one else should be allowed to see them’ is a very hinged take#I saw someone who said that them saying ‘’maybe stay off twt for a minute’#was essentially them telling her that she couldn’t read the news or talk to her family#like WHAT are you talking about#and I think yeah! it is totally your right to not want to see spoilers absolutely 1000% fair#but why are you watching a 22 minute gameplay reveal and expecting it to be entirely context-free???#ESPECIALLY when all the videos have a warning at the beginning about spoilers??#on twt I keep seeing people who are like ‘showing all this stuff about the game in advance is rude to fans and HORRIBLE marketing’#what do you MEEEEAAAAANNNNNNNN
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might be a controversial take .. but i think it's really fascinating how libs will literally cry and throw up about how YOU have no choice but to vote blue, even if they're sending weapons to kill babies overseas..because "we" cannot survive a trump presidency.
it's life or death for us but not for the people that have to dodge literal bombs everyday. they say that ' trump will be worse' when it comes to genocide, but what they really mean is "what if it happens to US?". which as we learned from the last time we had him as president... that did not happen.
you can argue "but project 2025!!", but we can argue "but what about cop city?". or the anti LGBT bills were already introduced under Biden? you can argue that trump will enact fascism in the US and i will say have you listened to any news that isnt msnbc or CNN. like have you been listening to the college students getting their heads bashed in by cops for protesting genocide or tweets by the people who's generations are being wiped out in real time...
the truth is that "we" have survived 4 years of trump, just as we have survived 4 years of biden. we can afford the risk of choosing third or not giving votes to either party, to try SOMETHING different ..ANYTHING . it's the fuckin least we could do.
#i saw a video where a man said that#if harris was to lose based on the genocide#it would completely change the game for israel lobbyists#it would force politicians to rethink their positions on isreal#politicians are removing themselves form leftists because they see us as a losing strategy#but if they see that you can lose the PRESIDENCY by supporting isreal imagine what that would do to isreal support#stupidest thing i ever read on here is the 'we cant help palestinians until we help ourselves first'#like they're saying this as a dem is president...and they have the ability to vote whoever n try something#and they dont....
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i keep getting tiktoks of these younger gen z kids referencing a time they did something relating to fandom in public and now they're embarrassed by it and everytime i see one i sit there thinking over all of middle and high school and having genuinely 0 moments that i feel embarrassed by, like i definitely did a lot of shit these kids would be embarrassed by but i think these are all just really fucking funny
also photographic evidence of the kinda kid i was. these are from 2014/15 when i was in 8th grade
-desolation row one shot(still on wattpad gerard way/reader smut)
-twerk it on (mcr crack fanfic no longer on wattpad but i have another fic in my library called twerking in taco bell which definitely ALSO used for my reading log)
-frank iero must die(a serial killer/assassin frerard fic, still on wattpad)
-hair (really vague maybe a phanfic? nowhere in my wattpad library rip)
my binder i used in 7th grade i had a blue one that looked pretty similar to this for 8th grade but idk where it went, also the parts i scribbled out are my full legal name i had written on it. i wrote it normally and then the big spot is where i wrote my name REALLY BIG in elysian code from the vladimir tod books. also the lines are from when i used an exacto knife to cut up some papers and forgot that my binder was underneath
in conclusion yall can now see why im so shameless about talking about shigaraki the way i do
#base line i started sobbing IN THE MIDDLE OF MATH CLASS and had my phone taken away bc i was watching the mv for the ghost of you by mcr#i went to school with cat whiskers#me and my bsf made a presentation about an imaginary trip to the planet uranus and we filled it with so many memes and butt puns she started#laughing so hard she couldn't breathe and i had to do the entire presentation alone and we got a standing ovation#my 8th grade science teacher hated us#another time same class we had an assignment where we had to make a bunch of words with the periodic table and we did shrek and lucifer one#after another and when we turned it in our teacher read it and immediately told us to leave💀💀#same class again different friend we saw NA on the periodic table and started singing nanana by mcr and got sent out of class bc we started#laughing so hard we couldn't breathe#high school i would eddie munson on the lunch tables#found that aspect of eddie so relatable#filmed youtube videos at my old hs that STILL EXIST ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL#id honestly have them up for anyone to see but my old bsf found them extremely embarrassing and she thinks i deleted them#i used to go to school with a whole library in my backpack like the entire pjo/hoo series of unfortunate events harry potter etc#my backpack had a bunch of doodles on it and it said battaco big asf and it was an inside joke with my friends for years bc of it#i also used to go to school dressed as frank iero/gerard way/etc#pete wentz eyeliner#larped with the anime club in this little corner outside of the library bc it had a bunch of trees and a 6 ft long stick that we took turns#holding and screaming YOU SHALL NOT PASS‼️‼️#the middle school book club had movies days on fridays and when people tried to vote to watch the lighting thief movie i stood on my chair#and spent so long bitching about how bad it was that we had to do the movie the next monday bc people needed to go home and the librarian#could not stop my righteous fury#a teacher assaulted me trying to get me to stand for the flag so i dead weight dropped on top of him and then ran around the class to stay#away(real hard to do in a small music classroom) and when i got tired of that i beat him up a little and i didnt get in trouble bc he was#really embarrassed i got the drop on him(bc i had tiddies)#that man hated me for being trans#really got mad at me when the pledge started after that and id get up and salute while singing welcome to the black parade#was also genuinely bad at soccer that my teacher sent me off to other teachers when our class did soccer bc the only time i ever got the#ball i kicked it into the wrong goal#i got more stories but i ran out of tags :(
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to be honest sometimes I see a post on here w like screenshots and detailed interpretation disputing a fanon interpretation but the fanon interpretation is just a blatant misreading of the text and im just like. how did u possibly read the text to arrive at that conclusion
#this is about a de post i saw and honestly i see kind of a lot of these#where its just like ... ueah man.... i learned that from playing the video game and listening to what characters said#but im mr english
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was human pizzahead's design influenced by the president from shadow the hedgehog (specifically his appearance in lythero's shadow the hedgehog vids)?
Im going to start collecting these bc theyre so funny to me. All White Men look The Same
#answered#chattin#the answer is no and it is SO funny thay i already saw that video so i knew what u were talking about#someone else said jerma and i got pissy about it but now its just funny#all white men look the same! im sorry!#if u think he looks like [insert white man] it is bc they all look the same to me hfjfbdjdnksnsks#but a serious answer is no#inspo was a mix of the dr from princess and the frog (personality wise and body type wise)#and like#i couldnt get a proper ref#but i was thinking of the very specific way older white men who are ‘clean shaven’ look when they would normally grow full beards#and they look almost….squishy?? that is NOT the word but im using it#the closest ref i can give u is brian//wecht#he is. so handsome to me….and i was thinking of him and some other white dudes ive seen irl#bc unfortunately most of my inspo is from people ive met irl#thats where most of my inspo for realistic peppino comes from lol
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Can't wrap around my head that people use tumblr for fashion inspo, like today I must have reblogged at least 20 posts about stabbing a roman emperor wdym you're coming here and searching how to build an outfit?
#inspired by me watching a tt from a guy that said that people where i live don't have good style#and saying they should go to pint.erest or here to find good outfit pics to run with#which like the piint of his video is amother whole tangent i can go off on but that's for another day#like??? i'm here spending my days talking aboyt slovenian rock band green finnish man and shitposts#you're here looking at fashion???#two different worlds fr#and then you have my friend that asked me what i was doing the other day and i went 'on tum.blr' and she asked 'people still use it?'#like wth#also fun fact: i saw the guy film said tt lmao he walked right past me the other day with the same fit#he didn't use that take though probably got scared at seeing someone with actual style here /j#anyways rant over
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i see you rbing mr kreiburg ☝️ what do you think of him bee huuuhhh :3
"He gazes intently, heart attuned to the melodies woven within the undulating ripples as if only he can decipher them." (<- the image description)
I'M GONNA BE HONEST, I didn't pay much attention to his costume before but today I got curious and IT IS SO PRETTYYYYY
I like his costume and Naib's one but WAOW I NEVER NOTICED LIKE. THE JELLYFISH AND EVERYTHING. ALSO THE HAIR LOOKS SO COOL AND THE COLORS WOOOW I LOVE IT
I just got a little curious about him hehe :3
#btw. I see what you are trying to do and let me tell you it's not working HA#tbh I'm so insane over this and Naib's costume. like. I know I said it before but MAN I LOVE THEM#Naib looks handsome and this guy looks pretty but THAT'S IT. OK.#🩵 — Milo!!!#📬#Also all I know about this guy is like#he is the composer#and I saw videos on tiktok where he shots someone#KASJSJKASJKSAJK#CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG HELP
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Listen to me, listen to me If someone comes up to you, bouncing with excitement about an idea, but as they're explaining it to you, you realize the idea isn't feasible to achieve, DO NOT just pop this person's excitement bubble and walk away
You gently, tactfully, kindly point out the holes in their idea. Then offer solutions and/or get them to start brainstorming on how to make the idea feasible. At the very least, be encouraging
It sucks ass to be on the receiving end of someone popping your excitement bubble and leaving you totally deflated. And nothing will stop me from coming to you with things I'm excited about faster than it
#Sword speaks#this post brought to you by my dad who's very new to gardening but excited about it#this man is under so much stress and doesn't get excited over much these days#but earlier he saw a video where a guy made it look like he could grow an apple and grape tree hybrid#now it might be obvious to some that it doesn't work like that but like I said my dad doesn't know much about gardening#and he got really excited about the idea and started showing the video around to our family#and saying he wants to try it#one member of my family just said 'that's fake stop falling for stupid videos'#and you could just see dad deflate and start to close off#BUT NOT ON MY WATCH BITCHES#I did a bunch of research and sent him what I found and explained why the video isn't realistic#then I sent him information on grafting multi-fruit trees and showed him some examples#I did the same with hybridization#I even sent him info on bonsai fruit trees cause they're cute and dad's a softie#and watched him get excited again! Then I told off the person who made the initial statement#cause c'mon don't be a douchebag#this man barely gets to have any fun let him have some fun!
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just finished reading delilah's statement, there was a lot of things in it that was either only tangentially related to the allegations or straight up unnecessary to put (in particular: putting in media references and cc metrics several times as flavor text, detailing the don turnt situation with no claims of whether or not permission was granted by the affected party, namedropping certain ccs who had nothing to do with the allegations, and putting the tweet and yearbook photo of one of the ppl who put forward that zam was a bully with no claims of whether or not permission was granted) which contributed a lot to the 47-page length
honestly so far what im getting is that there was a Lot of toxicity on multiple sides like not even just between zam and delilah
#tw abuse#there are multiple instances in particular that i wanted to get more context of#in particular how did zam go from telling delilah to khs to becoming her bestie??? and why did she call kab whos a 16 yo a worthless whore?#theres also several parts that made me think that her rep for jumping to conclusions isnt entirely unfounded#like you can excuse her mental state at the time for a lot of it but there are some that are just. where did you get that#i dont wanna reread the entire thing so ill just be citing that part at the end where she accused zam of not actually being in a bad mental#place and was just trying to manipulate her cause he was in vacation in nyc and was smiling in one of the pics is reaching#also hypocritical cause she was also in a bad mental place during twitchcon but was smiling happily in pics and videos#also dont like the fact that she put the yearbook photo there and the fact it was even posted publicly in the first place#it was probs for verification purposes but holy shit youre basically barely a step away from doxxing zam#apparently bormethius is putting out a statement so ill be waiting for that as well#fucken hell i get that delilah saw posting this publicly as necessary in order to get some kind of closure#but theres so many layers to this that airing this out to an uninvolved and contextless audience was only inevitably gonna make things wors#especially considering a lot of evidence has apparently been lost to deletion or the fact that they were done in vcs#but its too late for that now so i can only hope we get the full picture soon cause everybody involved looks so incredibly toxic#idk i just hope all parties involved will be able to move away from this and get better in the future#cause like theyre still young and immature man#(although the fact that theyre young and immature def contributed to how this even happened in the first place 💀)#with that being said#the drama channels are 100% in the wrong here#they like to present themselves as arbiters of truth but theyre nothing but glorified tabloids#allegations
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#saw a random comment in some discussion about leverage redemption where someone said that eliot really looks his age now#and they clearly meant it in a bad way#and I'm just. huh? I do not understand the way some people think lol#yes he does. he does. and it's fucking nice man#like yeah he was always hot but. 😳 now he's not JUST hot#idk maybe I'm the weirdo here but. except for the dumb haircut he looks better to me now#(I am a bit mad that the original show wasn't as good video quality because damn I just. it would have been very nice to get better#screenshots of his face when he was younger. but that's irrelevant lol)#okay I mean. there's an aspect of it that makes me sad but it's just. aging reminds me of mortality and that's not nice but. other than#that? I don't care#and yeah I do definitely like that he looks softer. ugh I wanna hug him so bad. etc.#personal
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super tuna!!!!!!! my entry for the wootteo event happening on weverse rn
open for better quality | no reposts | ID under the cut
[Image description: A digital drawing of Wootteo reeling in a tuna from the ocean. Wootteo looks at the fish with star-shaped eyes. The tuna fish is teary-eyed and terrified. A bright blue sky with a couple of clouds is seen in the background.]
#wootteo#jin#bts#the astronaut#super tuna#fanart#myart#doodle#not sure how many bts related tags i can use without being out of line so i'll leave it at that#also as promised i'm going to be sappy on main for a bit so if you don't want to see that you can ignore the tags#i'm waving at the armys who follow me hello i am one of you!!#i made a weverse acc yesterday bc i wanted to participate#it's probably a one in a million chance i'll actually win the raffle but it's still A Chance#anyway. when i first watched the video where jin explained wootteo's design#and he said wootteo is going to be there for us when he can't. definitely cried#and ofc the astronaut. not only the lyrics but the symbolism in the mv??#i was ok watching the mv and reading the lyrics#but the moment i saw c.hris martin introduce the song in the c.oldplay concert. man. i broke down#i know this will be temporary but they've been by my side for 8 years now and they've seriously given me hope when i wanted to just give up#i used to not understand when fans would say their favorite artists' music saved them but i get it now. i really do#i always think of that one quote from that one ending ment#'if we could reduce your pain from 100 to 99 that's enough for our existence to have meaning'#and they have. so many times#i know it's not over and they will be 7 again but it's going to take some getting used to#if you see me sobbing later this month you'll know why#in any case i am physically crying now but it's ok bc i love them so much#so come on weverse staff just draw my name and give me the wootteo merch
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still so frustrated that it's because it took so long doing the video production part of my kai analysis that a lot of my revelations were rendered redundant but it's fine. it's okay. i was right. it's just that now everyone else has had it handed to them on a silver platter instead of reading between the lines like i did incessantly for the months before the miniepisode.
#it's killed a lot of my motivation to make such videos. i must admit.#jestersvaguely#i could still try to make it but augh. it's like nankidai didn't even put kai in the limelight he put him under a stadium light#too much. too much! where's the subtlety where's the tact. i loved it so much more before it was just explicitly written. sorry.#what else are people meant to dig into or engage with characters with if you're just completely clearing ANY curiosity#i don't know. i should still make it. it'd require so much rewriting though because i was specifically drawing from ranger's existence#and now there's a whole miniepisode detailing the complications of the satous dynamic and it's like well now i have to analyze that#but it doesn't even add much more than what was already implied & extrapolated from.#which i already had. i already had all of this speculation written down and dug into and now i have to rid the entire section of speculatio#it's so much less. impressive i guess. it just feels so plain and basic and it's like 'well yes we all saw that play out in the miniepisode#and it's like NO IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE MINIEPISODE HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD'VE JUST REDUCED HIM TO ABUSIVE OLD MAN#AND COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN THE FACT HE LOVED RANGER. RANGER - INCAPABLE OF AFFECTION - SAID GASHU 'S AFFECTIONS WERE HIS#AND FROM RANGER. COMPARABLE TO A SON. KAI'S EXISTENCE & GASHU'S REACTION THEREAFTER ... AHHHHHHH#i don't know. more than anything i'm just upset at my own inaction because now it's like. this is the one thing that we didn't need to wait#on for analysis. now i need to wait for asunaro to be explained before i can do proper kai analysis and it's so frustrating and saddening#i don't know. i just hate that i can't do any actual kai analysis now because he's my favorite#there's the whole 'what do the satous mean for sara & the narrative' but that was meant to be part of the larger thing#not the focus of the video. the focus of the video was discussing everything with kai#and now it's like. well the entire cover's been blown off unceremoniously and it's#ah. it's frustrating. it's so frustrating. nankidai's storytelling is so sloppy i really don't know what draws me to it at all
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ok so legitimately this video has brought me a lot of joy & genuine hope.
Because I looked at this silly video & saw this man in his late 30’s who has the heart of a goofy theatre kid. And instead of growing out of that, he turned it into something really beautiful. And all of the people I see on my screen that are a part of what he created- they’re also goofy nerds & theatre kids at heart. A bunch of people 10+ years older than me who never had to grow out of it because they got to grow into it instead.
I’ve been told so many times to grow out of it that I’ve been convincing myself that it’s what I have to do. But I think that’s a Sad Bad Take so I’m gonna ignore it from now on
know your worth! 🙏
#idk man I saw the goofy artsy comedian guy make a silly video and it kinda just hit me#2 things I heard from family when I was younger that I carried with me for way too long:#when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up & I said artist my mom said “but what do you *really* want to be?”… I was like 5.#& when I started acting; “ok well do you want to act or do you want to eat?”#that one was freshman year of highschool & it really set the tone for me through those “where do I go after this?” years#this is rly cheesy & cliche to say about Internet Personality type people but…#getting dropout tv & seeing successful adults doing that despite the idea that The Arts don’t have valid careers- it kinda pushed me#& I finally stopped looking for permission to pursue what I want to#Goin into art & tech theatre. Gonna talk to a counselor at my community college this week to see how to make it happen
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i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we'll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son's eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters' old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya's sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn't be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.
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A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.
So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.
Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.
When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.
One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"
He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."
And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.
I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.
So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.
Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.
But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?
All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.
I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.
This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.
In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.
One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.
Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.
Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."
In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.
On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.
In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.
#riki babbles#I had this in my drafts for ages and I was like 'not the time' but a friend encouraged me to share so here it is#palestine
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