#like I would like to have ukrainian to arabic

[neristudy]

Having ADHD includes thinking “oh, I should definitely concentrate more on German because I have an exam so soon” and then coming back from grocery shopping thinking.

“hmm. You know what would be cool? Start learning arabic...”

[queer-geordie-dyke]

I'm struggling to understand why the war in Gaza is a 'genocide' when the government of Gaza together with civilians invaded and attacked Israel and have stated that they want to wipe Israel off the map. About 45,000 Gazans have been killed since Hamas's October 7th 2023 attack.

But the war in Ukraine in which Russia invaded and attacked Ukraine, and in which more than a million people have since been killed.. is 'just a war'. More people have been killed in Ukraine than in Gaza. So why is what Russia doing not a 'genocide'? Why is nobody parading in the streets calling for Russia to be wiped off the map? Where else do Ukrainians live besides Ukraine? Russia is trying to make Ukraine not exist, the identity of Ukrainian not exist, the Ukrainian language not exist. Russia has used a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile against Ukraine. No country has EVER done that.

But what Israel is doing is somehow worse? Because they are defending themselves and their land against the people who want to evict and/or exterminate them? Israel who send aid to civilians in Gaza? Israel who send evacuation warnings to civilians in Gaza before they drop bombs? Israel whose people (Jews) originated in the land (Israel) thousands of years before Islam even existed? Thousands of years before Arabs invaded and conquered it? Thousands of years before the word 'Palestine' was even invented (by the Romans!)

WHY? Besides ignorance of history and a generalised hatred of Jews, why? Why is the war in Gaza a "genocide" and the war in Ukraine not?

I see people who want to exterminate a group of people and take their land for themselves. Russia wants to delete Ukraine and Ukrainians and Hamas wants to delete Israel and Israelis. Ukrainians and Israelis are trying to stop that from happening.

Russia already has more land than any other country on earth. From Europe all the way to the far east of China. 'Palestinians' (Arabs) already have Jordan and Egypt and Lebanon and Syria and Saudi Arabia most of the rest of the Middle East and North Africa. Their language and religion dominates.

What I see is too former empires, the Russian Empire/Soviet Union and the Ottoman Empire/Muslim caliphate conquerers, who cannot accept that they will not be allowed to conquer the world any more. That minorities fight back and have support. That this is not the 19th century anymore.

And they have managed to twist and abuse the language of social justice to manipulate people into thinking they are the righteous ones when they are in fact the violent aggressors and the hateful fundamentalists.

Hamas and its supporters are the Westboro Baptist Church of Islam. They are sick, hateful, religious fundamentalists who wish death on anyone and everyone who is not like them.

There would be peace if Russia left Ukraine alone. There would be peace if Arabs who hate Israel simply moved 50 miles to Jordan or Egypt or went back to Arabia where their language and religion and culture came from. Their language would be safe, their religion would be safe, their culture would be dominant and entirely their own. If Israel or Ukraine were to give up fighting (defending themselves) their cultures and languages and history would all be destroyed. They would be homeless, stateless. Many if not most would be imprisoned or murdered.

It's antisemitism, that's really what it all boils down to. It's completely disingenuous of anyone to see the absolute double standards the only Jewish state in the world is held to and deny that, IMHO.

[mariacallous]

Over the past decade, China has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its international media network. The Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, and the China Daily web portal produce material in multiple languages and use multiple social-media accounts to amplify it. This huge investment produces plenty of positive coverage of China and benign depictions of the authoritarian world more broadly. Nevertheless, Beijing is also aware that news marked “made in China” doesn’t have anything like the influence that local people, using local media, would have if they were uttering the same messages.

That, in the regime’s thinking, is the ultimate form of propaganda: Get the natives to say it for you. Train them, persuade them, pay them—it doesn’t matter; whatever their motives, they’ll be more convincing. Chinese leaders call this tactic “borrowing boats to reach the sea.”

When a handful of employees at RT, the Russian state television network formerly known as Russia Today, allegedly offered to provide lucrative payments to the talking heads of Tenet Media, a Tennessee-based far-right influencer team, borrowing boats to reach the sea was exactly what they had in mind. According to a federal indictment released last week, RT employees spent nearly $10 million over the course of a year—money “laundered through a network of foreign shell entities,” including companies in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, and Hungary—with the aim of supporting Tenet Media’s work and shaping the messages in its videos.

The indictment makes clear that the influencers—propagandists, in fact—must have had a pretty good idea where the money was coming from. They were told that their benefactor was “Eduard Grigoriann,” a vaguely Euro-Armenian “investor.” They tried to Google him and found nothing; they asked for information and were shown a résumé that included a photograph of a man gazing through the window of a private jet. Sometimes, the messages from Grigoriann’s team were time-stamped in a way that indicated they were written in Moscow. Sometimes the alleged employees of Grigoriann’s alleged company misspelled Grigoriann’s name. Unsurprisingly, in their private conversations, the Tenet Media team occasionally referred to its mysterious backers as “the Russians.”

But the real question is not whether the talking heads of Tenet Media—the founders, Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan, who were the main interlocutors with the Russians, but also Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson—had guessed the true identity of their “investor.” Nor does it matter whether they knew who was really paying them to make videos that backed up absurd pro-Moscow narratives (that a terrorist attack at a Moscow shopping mall, loudly claimed by the Islamic State, was really carried out by Ukrainians, for example). More important is whether the audience knew, and I think we can safely say that it did not. And now that Tenet Media fans do know who funds their favorite influencers, it’s entirely possible that they won’t care.

This is because the messages formed part of a larger stream of authoritarian ideas that are now ubiquitous on the far right, and that make coherent sense as a package. They denounce U.S. institutions as broken, irreparable: If Donald Trump doesn’t win, it’s because the election is rigged. They imply American society is degenerate: White people are discriminated against in America. They suggest immigrants are part of a coordinated invasion, designed to destroy what remains of the culture: Illegal immigrants are eating household pets, a trope featured during this week’s presidential debate. For the Russians, the amplification of this narrative matters more than specific arguments about Ukraine. As the indictment delicately explains, many of the Russian-sponsored videos produced by Tenet Media were more relevant to American politics than to the Ukraine war: “While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions.”

But these themes are also consistent with the Trump campaign’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions. People who have come to distrust the basic institutions of American democracy, who feel aggrieved and rejected, who believe that immigrants are invaders who have been deliberately sent to replace them—these are not people who will necessarily be bothered that their favorite YouTubers, according to prosecutors, were being sponsored by a violent, lawless foreign dictator who repeatedly threatens the U.S. and its allies with nuclear armageddon. On the contrary, many of them now despise their own country so much that they might be pleased to hear there are foreigners who, like the ex-president, want to burn it all down. If you truly hate modern America—its diversity, its immense energy, its raucous debate—then you won’t mind hearing it denounced by other people who hate it and wish it ill. On X earlier this year, Chen referred to the U.S. as a “tyranny,” for example, a phrase that could easily have been produced by one of the Russian propagandists who regularly decry the U.S. on the evening news.

These pundits and their audience are not manipulated by Russian, Chinese, and other autocrats who sometimes fill their social-media feeds. The relationship goes the other way around; Russian, Chinese, and other influence operations are designed to spread the views of Americans who actively and enthusiastically support the autocratic narrative. You may have laughed at Trump’s rant on Tuesday night: “The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating—they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame.” But that language is meant to reach an audience already primed to believe that Kamala Harris, as Trump himself said, is “destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn’t have a chance of success. Not only success. We’ll end up being Venezuela on steroids.”

Plenty of other people are trying to reach that audience too. Indeed, the Grigoriann scheme was not the only one revealed in the past few days. In a separate case that has received less attention, the FBI last week filed an affidavit in a Pennsylvania courthouse supporting the seizure of 32 internet domains. The document describes another team of Russian operatives who have engaged in typosquatting—setting up fake news websites whose URLs resemble real ones. The affidavit mentions, for example, washingtonpost.pm, washingtonpost.ltd, fox-news.in, fox-news.top, and forward.pw, but we know there are others. This same propaganda group, known to European investigators as Doppelganger, has also set up similar sites in multiple European languages. Typosquatters do not necessarily seek to drive people to the fake sites. Instead, the fake URLs they provide make posts on Facebook, X, and other social media appear credible. When someone is quickly scrolling, they might not check whether a sensational headline purporting to be from The Washington Post is in fact linked to washingtonpost.pm, the fake site, as opposed to washingtonpost.com, the real one.

But this deception, too, would not work without people who are prepared to believe it. Just as the Grigoriann scam assumed the existence of pundits and viewers who don’t really care who is paying for the videos that make them angry, typosquatting—like all information laundering—assumes the existence of a credulous audience that is already willing to accept outrageous headlines and not ask too many questions. Again, although Russian teams seek to cultivate, influence, and amplify this audience—especially in Pennsylvania, apparently, because in Moscow, they know which swing states matter too—the Russians didn’t create it. Rather, it was created by Trump and the pundits who support him, and merely amplified by foreigners who want our democracy to fail.

These influencers and audiences are cynical, even nihilistic. They have deep distrust in American institutions, especially those connected to elections. We talk a lot about how authoritarianism might arrive in America someday, but in this sense, it’s already here: The United States has a very large population of people who look for, absorb, and believe anti-American messages wherever they are found, whether on the real Fox News or the fake fox-news.in. Trump was speaking directly to them on Tuesday. What happens next is up to other Americans, the ones who don’t believe that their country is cratering into chaos and don’t want a leader who will burn it all down. In the meantime, there are plenty of boats available to borrow for Russians who want to reach the sea.

[lepartidelamort]

Welp. Syria is Done.

It's unfortunate.

They keep saying “lightning fast offensive,” and there really is no other way to describe it. “Cheetah fast offensive” doesn’t cover it. You could maybe say “warp portal offensive,” but no one in the media would say that. I would say it.

Apparently, “no one saw it coming.”

I don’t really have any desire to go into the details here, but the media has always portrayed all of these various groups as representing different interests. That is probably true of the individuals involved in these groups, who are believers in whatever their cause is, whether they are Islamic extremists, Kurdish ethnic liberationists, or Turkish shills. I’m sure the members of these groups would disagree on several things. However, they all have the same core objective, which is overthrowing the Assad government. They work together remarkably well, presumably because they all know their money is coming from America, and they know the Americans want them cooperating. (I’m sure they imagine that when Assad is gone, they will build whichever sort of utopia they envision, just like Ukrainians planned to build an Aryan Reich.)

This started on November 28, and now it looks like it’s going to be totally over by Monday. At least, that’s according to basically every report. I’m not in Damascus and I’m not personally witnessing terrorists marching on the city, but that is what everyone is saying.

As I’m typing, the dust is already settling, and it is pretty undeniable that it’s over.

Syrian Girl, who is the biggest Syrian account on Twitter and an Assad-supporter, has posted a surrender note.

The war began in 2011 and lasted into 2017, then it was more or less over, then all of a sudden, like a flash of lightning or perhaps a warp portal, these people are marching on Damascus and Assad has allegedly fled to Russia. The Russians and Iranians have both pulled out most of their forces, and video shows Syrian soldiers fleeing to Iraq. That all appears to be confirmed by Al-Jazeera, which has the most journalists on the ground and although it is not a pro-Assad outlet, it tends to be pretty straightforward about events on the ground, at least in situations where people will know in a day or two whether they were accurate.

Why Did It Happen Now?

It happened for the obvious reasons. Hezbollah and Iran, which had supported Assad, were stretched thin by Israel, Russia stretched thin by the Ukraine, Israel had been bombing heavily in Syria and elsewhere to support the terrorists, the US had unlimited money to pour into the terrorist armies, Turkey has various ambitions and strategic goals.

Everything obvious is responsible.

There also appears to have been major backstabbing by the Syrian Arab Army commanders. There was some kind of stand-down. The Syrians are now blaming Iran, which in itself is sort of lmao, all things considered. (They’re not saying Iran did it on purpose, but they’re saying Iran was a bad ally and was irresponsibly buying off army commanders in a way that didn’t work.)

What Does It Mean?

Well, it’s very good for Israel and it’s very bad for Iran. This breaks the “Shia Belt,” putting an Israeli-backed Sunni terrorist regime in the middle of that belt. It’s also not great for Russia, as aside from the fact that Russia was not able to defend Syria, Russia will lose their Mediterranean base there.

Oh, and it’s pretty bad for Palestine.

All in all, it’s a pretty big blow to those in opposition to the Jewish-American world domination scheme, and it partially isolates Iran, as Israel is setting the stage for an American operation to destroy Iran.

There is likely to be ongoing fighting in the country indefinitely, but it will not be useful to Russia or Iran or any of the others at any time in the foreseeable future. Assad had the authority to rule the country, and no one else really does. So you’ll have this al-Qaeda type force in Damascus and various groups fighting against them, but there isn’t going to be another stable government in the future.

Oh, and this new Syria will be a staging base for international terrorism, which the US government can blame on whoever they want to go to war with. Just like the government/media somehow managed to blame Saddam for 9/11, they will say “there are still many Iranians operating in Syria and they clearly planned this attack.”

It’s all unfortunate.

At least for most.

Fortunate for some.

Andrew Anglin for the DailyStormer

[mylight-png]

For the sweet summer children of the world:

1) Israel isn't committing genocide. You know how I know that? Because the west bank and all neighboring countries with palestinian populations aren't getting carpet bombed. The only place getting bombed is the place with an active terrorist organization

2) "From the River to the Sea" actually IS a call to genocide and/or mass deportation of Jews and Arabs living in Israel

3) Israel isn't a colonial state. Stop projecting your guilt over your colonial history onto Israelis. Thank you.

4) Gaza shares a border with Israel and Egypt. Seems to me that if you're blockaded by not one but both of your neighbors, that means that you're the bad neighbor

5) Speaking of neighbors, if you really want to help the civilians trapped in Gaza - it would be more prudent to put pressure on Egypt to finally open the border and evacuate all civilians from an active war zone. Make Egypt actually help instead of sending tanks to the border to shoot refugees trying to escape and saying that they would rather have Gaza razed to the ground rather than accept fleeing innocents.

6) Actually, put pressure on the entire Arab world to accept refugees, Turkey included. When Ukrainians needed help, Europe opened its doors no problem, so why are the civilians in Gaza still packed like sardines in a tiny strip of land where any bomb is bound to have casualties. Evacuate them so IDF can do its job unhampered

Yes. (Dude, you're right, idk what to add.)

[ministerpeacefulpoetwordwitch]

Peace Is Breaking Out All Over The World

This is the most unbelievable story ever to happen - not happened yet though, in the progress.

Hamas sent a video to Trump of an American/Israeli citizen, an IDF soldier being held captive pleading to Trump to stop the war. Trump I hear has been moved and has communicated to Bibi, to end this thing now and has sent Senator Lindsey Graham to broker a cease fire deal to release the hostages. If you don't know, Lindsey is the biggest war hawk you ever knew on this planet, yet, here he is advocating for peace - the most unbelievable thing ever known to mankind, and this morning (afternoon) when I awake I hear that IDF troops are leaving Gaza. The deal being brokered would put Arabs in charge of Gaza and get Israel out of there. I understand that the Arabs have Triage units, food, water and tents in the ready to take care of the Palestinians in Gaza. I can't wait to turn on the TV and see nurses hugging Palestinian children, drying their tears and telling them it's going to be okay, it's over now.

Now in Ukraine Putin has a missile with Zelensky's name on it. Zelensky now wants peace. Putin can keep what ever part of Ukraine they have already taken. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to fight.

You might have heard that in Syria world war 3 has started - WRONG. North Korea, Iran and Russia have stepped up, that's coming to an end quick.

Astrologers have said that on the 1st of December everything changes - looks like they got that right. Peace is breaking out all over the world. Not holding my breath, we don't have peace yet, but so far, it's looking good and December 1st looks like it will be a day that will go down in history.

2025 is still going to be kinda rough - there will be high prices and food shortages caused by all this violence - but we'll get through it, just have to tighten our belts. In 2026 we will begin to see great things.

[hero-israel]

People said "if you support Ukrainians defending themselves but not Palestinians you're just racist!" but there's actually a compelling argument for why Hamas is more like Russia than Ukraine. Not for any moral reason mind you (though they are bad). But I see Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Hamas' pogrom (and China's impending invasion of Taiwan) as the same thing:

The last gasp of a once relevant regime trying to cause maximum harm and chaos before everyone stops thinking about them. If Russia couldn't assert its control over the Black Sea and prevent Nato/the Eu from expanding right up to its backyard it would no longer be a credible world power. If China doesn't hurry up and invade Taiwan shifting demographics and Xi Jinping's age might doom any future attempt. If Hamas didn't do something big and flashy, and provoke an overwhelming response so they could play the victim, more and more Arab states would normalize with Israel and the question of Gaza would be hashed out with trade deals instead of bombs, meaning Hamas' reason for holding onto power would become weaker.

That is an excellent analysis! Russia is a politically and demographically senescent petrostate, Hamas still trying to cloak itself in revolutionary language that has only brought failure for a century. Each of them are re-attempting old strategies from the mid-1900s and neither of them have the manpower to actually make it work.

Plus I never saw Ukrainians shoot thousands of missiles into Russia, hijack Russian airplanes, kidnap and murder Russian children, castrate Russian Olympic athletes, send suicide bombers into Russian old age homes on major holidays to wipe out 3 generations of families, send axe murderers into Russian churches to kill old men praying, etc. See, there's actually not a single damned thing in common except BANG BANG KABOOM, which admittedly can be very confusing for children

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

Today is the 80th day of the war. It's been 80 days since Israelis all learned that we're not safe from Palestinian terrorists even in our own homes. It's been 80 days since most Jews worldwide have come under attack, of one type or another, following the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It's been 80 days since over 100 Israeli hostages have slept in their own beds. It's been 80 days of having to explain that we didn't start or want this war. It's been 80 days of looking at our loved ones, and knowing that on Oct 7, it could have been them. It's been 80 days of knowing that we'll have to keep losing Israelis, and mourning our people, if we want to rid the world (Israelis and Palestinians alike) of the threat of Hamas.

And indeed, two more Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday, while no less than 14 fuenrals for young soldiers, most of them around 19 or 20 years old, were held all across the country. One of the funerals had to be held low key, with almost no attendance, because the kibbutz this young soldier, Gal Hershko, belongs to is in the north, and the community members are evacuated, due to Hezbollah rockets being fired at the area. It would be too risky for them to be at that cemetery. The eulogies for Gal were held at a gym, close to where the evacuated members of the community are staying.

Israel is letting into Gaza 80,000 vaccines for children, to help with the health situation there.

The Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya has experienced a serious issue with its computers system since yesterday, it's possibly another cyber attack, like the unsuccessful one on the Ziv Hospital (the one that's now known to have been carried out jointly by Hezbollah and Iran). The GMC has had to shut down its computers, and has initiated a special protocol that exists for such situations, saying no medical service has so far been stopped. Let's hope that this is resolved quickly, and doesn't end up costing any human life.

Ukrainian-born Israeli gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and world champion Artem Dolgopyat has decided to auction the world championship gold medal that he won on Oct 7, and donate the money to the Israelis from the communities which were massacred on that day. Winning this medal was his stated dream after taking gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But when asked about this, he replied, ""What is the status of a world champion worth if my country hurts? The state of Israel comes first for me."

This is CCTV footage, showing a fragment of a rocket that hit an Israeli supermarket, after it was successfully intercepted by Iron Dome (for all the people who think Israel should just be okay with rockets being fired at it, because we have this defense system):

What I also find interesting is that this was shared by al-Arabiya, a Saudi news channel. One of the theories about the timing of Hamas' massacre, is that it was meant to provoke an Israeli reaction so fierce, that the Arab world would have to take a stand against Israel, and the possibility of peace talks between the Israelis and Saudis would come to an end. If that was the intention, al-Arabiya posting footage that explains to the Arab world, the Israeli POV, is an indication that maybe those peace talks still have a chance.

This is 30 years old Israel Chana.

On the morning of Oct 7, he was coming back from celebrating his 30th birthday with his family, friends, ad the girlfriend he told his mom he wanted to propose to. After the rocket attacks started, the terrorists got to his neighborhood. Israel worked as a security guard. He grabbed his pistol, 15 bullets, and went out to fight the terrorists. He saved his neighborhood, but was killed himself.

May his memory be a blessing.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Woah that's so interesting.

I have so many questions because I really do love your account and how you think. You are very wise!

Why do you think anti Zionist Jews fail so terribly at creating a better alternative to Zionism? Would you say part of the reason is because they tend to be completely assimilated therefore lacking any sort of Jewishness and depth of knowledge about Judaism? Do you think the Left requires that Leftist Jews do not have a Jewish identity?

2. Has there been any interesting approaches to anti Zionism that has caught your eye? Do you know of any Zionists who wrote critiques of Zionism in a "I want this to be better and improve" type of way? You mentioned Bundism and how it failed while Zionism is still here. Why do you think Zionism survived? Are there any leftist/progressive/communist Zionist pieces you can recommend in general?

3. This is off topic but do you know any books articles etc that talk extensively about the theft of Jewishness especially through the two major world religions Christianity and Islam?

4. What makes Zionism so different from the Black Power Movements and Pan Arabism? People are fine with the latter but obsessively hate Zionism. Why? I mean, yes antisemitism but why is Jewish pride such a threat to people especially communists and the like? Why do the most intelligent POC and queers etc hate Zionism while supporting Islamism and Muslim extremist groups? Why are we such a threat to other marginalized groups?

1) I do think assimilation as well as lack of knowledge as to how assimilation is both infeasible and anti-jewish as a solution to jewish oppression leads many anti-zionist jews to erroneously believe assimilation is a viable alternative to Zionism, yes. When I said anti-zionist jews currently have no real remaining credible alternative to zionism though I meant that even anti-zionists who aren't assimilationists don't really have an answer to it and this isn't through any unique failing of theirs so much as there simply aren't good alternatives to nationalism generally at this point in time. Anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism largely mean nationalism in practice. When Russia launches a war to conquer Ukraine, the only meaningful way to protect Ukrainians from that oppression is to support the continued existence of their sovereignty.

I don't think it's remotely leftist to require that jews sacrifice their jewish identity. When I criticize leftists for essentially requiring this of us, this is a criticism I am making from the left, of the left, as a leftist jew.

2) I'm primarily interested in anti-zionism as an iteration of antisemitism, namely identifying the reasons why it's politically useful across various contexts, because the functions it serves are relevant to being able to understand and combat it. These for instance.

As for the second question really that's every zionist's critique of zionism. Sometimes they're even right.

As for zionism's survival, prior to Israel's establishment jews being a tiny, fractured people meant our political movements were largely impotent in the face of any opposition from non jews. Then as now, non jews hostile to us are far more numerous, far more electorally and politically significant, and far better resourced than we can ever be, let alone the non jews indifferent to us. Being unable to simply impose ourselves, anything we sought to accomplish politically required sufficient non-jewish buy-in. Zionism was the only political solution of ours that due to its being possible to align with their own interests could garner meaningful support from even antisemitic non jews. A good book on this subject.

As for leftist zionist recommendations, there's no more comprehensive treatment I know of than Albert Memmi's trilogy on the subject:

Portrait of a Jew

The Liberation of the Jew

Jews and Arabs

For something shorter here's a collection prepared in the wake of 10/7:

Additional piece I feel should be included on account of I think the failure to recognize the dynamic described is the source of a lot of confusion:

And I am not an ideological leftist so for socialist perspectives I will defer to others I know:

3) Check out Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition and Islamic Imperialism: A History.

4) Pretty much all of that originates in the 1960's and derives from the soviet anti-zionist campaign in conjunction with the ascending political power of postcolonial states in Asia and Africa. The chief concern of the African states was anti-colonialism, epitomized by the fight against apartheid, and the arab states seized on the opportunity to broker an alliance: in exchange for the support of the arab states on fighting apartheid, African diplomats would accede to arab demands that Israel be treated like a western colonial power in UN human rights matters.

[evilwickedme]

I've been thinking a lot about the war in Russia & Ukraine.

The way millions of people have been living in hell, and all I've done is reblog a couple of infographics about it, and kept on with my life. I was posting about thirsting after Jason Todd and my thoughts on Spideypool like everything was fine, because for me it was. I don't know if any Ukrainians follow me, but God, that must have been so alienating. I know, because it's how I feel now.

That's a failure in empathy on my part. I just wasn't thinking about it. But I've been trying to operate as usual while my entire reality is crashing around me, and it's not possible. I thought maybe fandom was exactly the distraction I needed, but having friends not even check up on me while they keep talking about marvel cartoons has been extremely sobering.

Nothing feels real. I can't avoid social media, because my head is a really dark place right now, and it's the best way I know to disengage (I can't concentrate on reading or watching stuff, either). But I feel extremely guilty disengaging. In between posts about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'm seeing people calling for my and my friends' and family's death, or for the deaths of my Arab friends and neighbors.

All this to say. I'm feeling very alone right now, and there's not really much I can do to change that.

A woman I know is crowdfunding to supply an empty building that has been volunteered to house 54 displaced families with mattresses and fridges. The actual crowdfunding platform is private, so I can't just volunteer the link, but any money donated to my ko-fi over the next 48 hours will be sent to this project. I myself will be donating as much as I can of my own money either way, but if anyone feels like they have the spare funds, there are 54 families that would greatly appreciate it.

[gryficowa]

I love seeing American liberals, from pinkwashing and masturbation to Harris, talk mostly about LGBT+, black people and nothing else, but no words about Arabs/Muslims, no words about people with disabilities, no words about border victims…

There's shit in Poland, but at least many LGBT+ people don't want to sacrifice the lives of GAZA CIVILIANS FOR THE EMPTY PROMISES OF POLITICIANS

The very thought of considering my rights to be more important than the lives of my children would disgust me

Yes, I hate my country, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm fucking disgusted with blue MAGA

I survived in a country where President Andrzej Duda started a campaign against LGBT+ people during the election campaign, I live in a country where in 2020 there were pro-life vans spreading queerphobic propaganda

Well, sorry American LGBT+ people, but you don't know shit about hell, you are privileged and instead of using your privilege to fight for the victims of genocide, you are ready to vote for a person who supports a country committing genocide

Pinkwashing/homonationalism is not your friend, stop fucking defending it

No matter how pissed I am at my country (Especially since they took in Ukrainians to wash their hands of attacking people on the Polish-Belarusian border, the fact that it was enough to lull people into sleep and their reactions to the inhumane treatment of innocent civilians deceived by Luakshenko is fucking disgusting)

But as a person who has seen shit in my country, I have the right to be even more angry that people accept genocide as long as they support LGBT+ people, American LGBT+ people are too privileged if they support it…

American LGBT+ people have forgotten what the struggle of LGBT+ people was like, how many of them died in concentration camps, you don't know your history if you support pinkwashing and are willing to vote for a person who uses homonationalism…

The truth is that your comfort and empty rights are more important than people's lives, and that is not fucking normal

[wizardfrog69]

sorry for reqiesting when you have alot of requests !!

but can i request hcs for jouno, ranpo, chuuya and kunikisa with a gn! autistoc s/o thats really "childish" (collects & sleeps wirh plushies, likes shows like bluey & mlp, is easily scared) and tends to act like cat + meow at them alot?

SORRY IF THIS SEEMS LIKE AN AUTISM STEREOTYPE, I MYSELF AM AUTISTIC AND IM LIKE THIS WHOOPS.

Thanks for requesting and dw about requesting when I have a lot of requests :)

'•.¸♡ childish and autistic s/o ♡¸.•'

Autistic!childish!gn!reader

Fluff

Masterlist

Enjoy!

Feat. Jōno, Ranpo, Chuuya and Kunikida

Saigiku Jōno

He isn't too fond of your childish nature, even though he can find it cute at times, he mainly isn't a fan.

He finds it odd whenever you meow at him, he's just confused about why you are meowing at him.

He also does know the difference between a cat's meow and your meow.

Ranpo Edogawa

As someone who is childish himself it's really fun to spend time with him.

He always enjoys sitting with a mountain of plushies around him while watching something made for children.

He also likes scaring you, he will try and not do it so often but he just can't help himself! He loves the cute screams you make when he scares you.

Also if you are looking for a cute show to watch then you can watch Molang, it is beyond adorable.

Also if you meow at him he will meow back.

One time Fukuzawa heard meowing coming from the ada office thing and he thought it was a cat, only to be disappointed that there weren't any cats.

Chuuya Nakahara

He isn't childish himself but he finds your behaviour really cute.

He isn't someone who enjoys children's shows (even though he watches them with you, mainly for your company and slightly for his enjoyment) he does make up for it with plushies of a show you like or are hyper-fixated on or one that is your special interest.

He does feel like he has to protect you if you get scared easily, he doesn't want you to be constantly scared.

Whenever you meow at him he's just confused and askes why you are meowing at him.

Doppo Kunikida

A combination which would never mix somehow is working?

Despite Kunikida's strict nature and ideal attitude, he still enjoys having a significant other who has a more child like persona.

He doesn't enjoy children's shows (or any really, claiming they are idiotic and so on) but he likes seeing you happy so he may sit by you while doing some work as you enjoy a show you are watching.

He doesn't want to spoil you too much but that cute and excited smile you hold is something which his heart seeks frequently, not being able to pull himself away from the thoughts of granting you something tailored to your liking.

He may find your meows a bit on the queer (as in odd/unique not as in the lgbtq+ one) side but he doesn't object to them in the slightest, especially if that is the way you communicate your affections.

༺♥︎༻ ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ *ೃ༄ *ੈ ★ ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ *ೃ༄ *ੈ ༺♥︎༻

Idk why I started writing like that for Kunikida, oh well.

Okay so this is the random list of languages that has no purpose and isn't significant in any way.

Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Irish, swahili, Czech, Ukrainian, Russian.

Yeah.

Have a wonderful day/night and drunk something nice like ice water :)

-Love, Az

[starlightbooklove]

I love Tumblr.

I just saw the replies to a post i made asking for the full story if what happened and is still happening in Palestine, and i have learned so much.

Here's the story in case you have the same doubts that I had:

The dispute dates back to the Mandate of Palestine as the area was under British occupation due to the Ottoman Empire’s defeat and dissolution after WW1 (the Ottomans had control of the Levant such as Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Lebanon went to France for awhile). Many Jewish Europeans wanted to settle in the homeland of their ancestors due to hostility in Europe and the lack of a country for Jewish people, but the constant settlement within the country (especially after WW2).

Led to hostility from the Arabic Palestinian population, and the war between Israel and other Arabic countries led to the expulsion of much of the Arabic population and the Exodus of many Jews from Egypt, Yemen, Iraq etc. The conflict continued for decades with Hamas attacking Israel recently and Israel responding with a constant bombardment of the area. This has led to many civilians dying, but Israel’s excuse is that Hamas uses guerrilla warfare.

Meaning that Israel believes Hamas hiding among the civilians will automatically lead to civilian casualties and that their war on Hamas is still justified. This is also why the civilian death toll in Ukraine vs Russia is comparably smaller, as the Ukrainian army tends to avoid civilian populated areas.

Chiming in to say the previous account is accurate and to add the context that a lot of Hamas' actions have been exaggerated or in some cases completely fabricated recently. This is NOT to say they are innocent or blameless, but to just warn you about being careful about claims of their actions and treatment of prisoners because there's a lot of disinformation as of late pertaining to it.

And Two other kind blogs recommended books:

"Decolonizing Palestine" as well as "The Hundred Year War on Palestine" are excellent books if you are able to access them!

I would like to add to these comments that Norman Finkelstein (an extremely well-known Jewish-American political historian) has spent most of his life writing about Israel, and his work on the subject is highly recommended.

Hope this helps someone to clarify confusions or get information, thank you thank you thank you to the accounts that responded ❤️❤️❤️ @thenablade @intricatecakes @gojiti @estro-boi ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[council-of-beetroot]

I think the universal language thing doesn't suck as much as people think.

Why this is beneficial?

It Doesn't Place Any Language as the Default

On the global sphere languages like English or French are the de facto lingua Franca. This would put people like Feliks or Yong Soo at a disadvantage. Having a default language that isn't one spoken by a nation as their main language makes it so no one has a clear advantage linguistically

Ease of Communication

Okay imagine all of the nations of Africa meet for a meeting. Thousands of languages are spoken in Africa it's an incredibly linguistically diverse continent. Now how should everyone communicate with one another? Should they emphasize a language like Swahili, English, French, or Arabic? This is what they do IRL in the African Union. But as language is an intrinsic part of identity I don't feel all the nations on a continent would really enjoy that.

Now commonly sited drawbacks and how to get past them

Q: What about forcing language on someone as a symbol of power?

A: Alright, I write mainly Eastern Europe and Russification was and is still a thing. Now does a default language mean Ivan can enforce his language on others? No, he can simply choose not to use it as a form of communication. Add the default nation language to Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and more after the failed January Uprising. The people of the country don't speak the default nation language. So use this as rationale for Ivan to adhere to Russian being a lingua Franca among the nations of the Soviet Union just as it was back then.

Really i see it like how it was with my friend group in highschool. We all spoke English. Yet I had a friend from Indonesia, Japan, The Czech Republic, and multiple friends from Germany. Sometimes the friends from Germany would spend lunch speaking to one another in German the rest of us not speaking a word of it, just chatted with ourselves entertained.

Q: What about my OTP?

A: your OTP can still learn one another's language. They are learning each other's culture that way and that's important. My best friend's family will speak to me in Spanish because they know I have learned it even though they also speak English as well.

Q: why bother learning a language then?

A: Simple, perhaps the default nation language is quite rudimentary and it can only function to get the basics across. The characters can still be motivated or forced to learn a another language.

Q: what about the people?

As stated before the nation default is only used by nation reps. Take this map of the languages of Interwar Poland. Feliks, if he wants to understand all of his people has probably had to learn some of these languages over the years. To this day Lithuania has Polish speaking minorities so he can use Polish with them. If Feliks is in Sejny or Puńsk for whatever reason or in Hajnówka he can use Lithuanian or Belarusian with those people.

Overall, I don't really care how you go about it this is just my opinion you do you and have fun! 💗

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Weird how supporting Ukraine in Russia's war of aggression is an NPC move and not really worth supporting (with many right-wingers actually supporting Russia) but supporting Israel is totally based and the only right thing to do.

Thank you anon, I've been waiting for some idiot to try and compare these two things. So let's list some of the ways the two situations are different.

Ukraine is not our ally. Israel is.

Ukraine provoked Russia by trying to join NATO, which was specifically forbidden by an agreement NATO had with Russia. Israel did nothing to provoke Hamas other than refuse to be genocided by religious fanatics.

Ukranian independence means nothing for the United States. Our situation is exactly the same no matter who wins that war. Israel is the only democracy in the middle east. It's the only country that has nukes in the middle east. Its existence draws the attention of terrorist states that would otherwise turn their violence back towards us. Its existence gives the various Islamic factions, many of which hate each other almost as much as they hate Jews or America, something to focus on instead of having the fundamentalists immediately go to war with the arab nations that are slowly westernizing. I can't overstate how much a stable, westernized middle east would benefit the US, and Israel's existence is important for that goal.

Russia is a legit government that declared war on another legit government. Hamas is a terrorist organization pretending to be a government that raided Israel, kidnapped and raped hundreds of people, murdered civilians, slaughtered babies, and stole children.

Russia has nukes. Hamas doesn't. If Putin is backed into a corner there's a decent chance he'll use those nukes. If Russia loses the war and that leads to Putin being ousted and a fight for power in Russia, those nukes could be stolen or sold to foreign powers that want to destroy the US and the west. If Russia collapses, then the chances of those nukes going outside of Russia increases drastically.

Those are just a few ways the two situations are different, and why any comparison between the two is stupid and ignorant. Now, if you want to know my personal thoughts, since I know people like you love to pretend that all right wingers have the exact same opinions on everything and demand we prostrate ourselves and self-flagellate over things we've never said, I'll readily admit that I have a deep sympathy for the historic, and modern, plight of the Jews that I don't have for Ukrainians. I'm much more emotionally invested in Israel than I am in Ukraine. But I do hope Ukraine wins. I think every country and every culture should be free to govern itself. I don't support Putin, I don't support Russia, and I think it's hilarious that what used to be the second most powerful military in the world is having so much trouble conquering a tiny country they should have, on paper at least, steamrolled in a few weeks.

But I also don't support the US getting involved in foreign conflicts unless there's something tangible to be gained for us, either economically, strategically, or diplomatically. We get nothing for our investment in Ukraine. We get a lot for our investment in Israel.

[stephobrien]

I’m coming from my vent account because I don’t want to get found out as a Jew on my main. Please, please stop posting in the antisemitism tag. You’re clogging it up and taking away a safe space for Jews by trying to delegitimise Jew hatred. Now, I don’t know if you’re good faith or not, but I’m leaning on no. You keep on going onto posts about Jew hatred from Jews, saying what boils down to ‘wow! I’ve learned so much from this!’ and then you go back to posting inflammatory things again. I mean, you posted something from Caitlin Johnstone, I can’t believe that you give a single shit about Jews (or Ukrainians) after that

As for your most recent post on how poor you just can’t believe lying Jews when we talk about discrimination because you’re scared we’re deceiving you, you put in a comment ‘If I'd seen said Arab nations' governments massacring thousands of civilians, while painting every single criticism of said massacre as Islamophobic, yes, I would have’. This is… I don’t even know how to tackle this, do you genuinely not know all of the horrific shit so many of the Arab states have done? Qatar is known as one of the biggest countries of modern slavery. The Houthis in Yemen sex traffic Ethiopian women, and also reintroduced slavery into Yemen. Just look at the atrocities so many of these countries have committed against Shia Muslims! Is your brain mush, how can you say this when there is so, so much evidence of the horrors that these nations have committed?! And if you think these states graciously accept criticism of those horrors… you’re being ignorant on purpose. And it’s still not okay to say that you don’t believe an Arab when they talk about anti Arab racism that they’ve experienced, I think we can at least agree on that. So why’s it not the same for Jews?

For a more personal example to Jews, look up the Mizrachi expulsion. The Arab states violently expelled almost a million Jews from their countries ‘because Israel’, which they only care about because it ruined their dream of pan Arabism, not because of any solidarity with the Arabs in the mandate btw. My family was lucky, we came from Iran, which is not Arab, so the violence was coming from the people rather than the state itself. But I’ve had to heard accounts from people talking about how they watched their family get shot in the head while their homes were repossessed for no reason other than the fact they were Jews. Is that bad enough for you? Does it even make a dent in your image of the Arab states? Or is it okay because it happened to Jews?

I know I sound very angry in this, and that’s because I am very angry. And that anger is completely justified! My life, and the lives of almost every Jew on this disgusting website, have been beyond horrible for five months. The number of times I’ve had to read about a new Jew hating shooting or stabbing in the world is too many too count. And then, non Jews like you decide to play the ‘oops, I just caaaan’t believe those Jews about Jew hatred because they could be zionists!’ (Which are around eighty percent of the Jewish population, but I don’t think you’re ready for that conversation yet, it’s reserved for people who actually want to learn). All of us are so unimaginably angry. All of us are at our fucking breaking point, or we’ve completely snapped already! The people you have interacted with have been some of the kindest, most levelheaded people here, but you’d better not get used to it, because we’re all tired of this bullshit

Thank you for taking the time to call me out. Between you and the several other people who contacted me about this, I’ve come to realize that that post was a terrible mistake.

It was meant to be a vent post about people who deliberately blur the lines around what’s actually antisemitism, and about my lack of certainty about my own ability to independently assess the less obvious instances of that (which is clearly still very lacking, as the response to that post made clear to me).

But it apparently caught a lot of innocent Jews in the crossfire, making them feel unsafe, unheard, and delegitimized. That wasn’t the intention, but it was clearly the effect. I screwed up badly, and I’m sorry.

I admittedly don’t know all the details about the horrific shit Arab nations have done. I was aware of Iraq’s government mass murdering protesters, and Saudi Arabia’s horrifically sexist laws, but some of the info you shared in this post is stuff I hadn’t previously heard of.

As for why I mentioned false accusations of antisemitism specifically, it’s because that’s the one I’ve seen several times a day lately, sometimes in the form of stuff like telling people who protest child murder that “You just don’t like it when Jews defend themselves.”

That said, you and the other people who responded have made it clear to me that that focus was based on an overly narrow view on my part. I’ve been more active in pro-Palestine circles than in circles that focus on the other situations you mentioned, so naturally that resulted in me seeing more antisemitism accusations than accusations focused on groups that aren’t directly involved in that conflict. So that resulted in a less than balanced viewpoint.

While my vent post was meant to be about one specific phenomenon I’d personally seen a lot of, the fact that I didn’t mention similar behavior on the part of groups I hadn’t personally seen as much of that behavior from did result in it being unjustly targeted, in a way I didn’t intend but should’ve assessed better.

What happened to you and other Jews at the hands of Arab nations (and pretty much every nation) was absolutely not okay. The effect my post had on you and other Jews who saw it was not okay. The treatment you’ve endured on Tumblr is not okay. And I’m sorry for the pain I caused you.

You have every right to be angry at me. I won’t ask you to forgive me or trust me, because I know I earned your anger with that poorly thought out post. I shouldn’t have made my own insecurities and frustrations other people’s problem like that. I screwed up badly, and I’m sorry.