#the situation IS complicated actually

[skypalacearchitect]

#while it is extremely tempting in discussions like these to point out that the Palestinians are largely descended from Arabs

#who violently colonized the area 1300 years ago #killing and displacing much of the indigenous Jewish population that had rebuilt itself after the Roman expulsion and genocide

#it is also true that many Jews have mixed ancestry and that does not dilute our claim of indigeneity

#and in addition to Arab ancestry many Palestinians also have ancestors who lived continually in the area for just as long as Jews did

#yes they are descended from actual settler colonialists but they are also descended from the indigenous peoples of the area

#some of whom were even originally Jewish and were converted and arabized by their colonizers

#but it is always absolutely wild to see leftists spouting off about decolonization and indigenous land rights

#and then they go and advocate for pushing indigenous people off their land

#like hey thanks for showing me your antisemitic colours #now I know you don't give a rat's ass about actual indigenous issues

#you just like having someone to hate #and Jews are always the easiest target

I think people need to understand that when someone says the situation in Israel/Palestine is complicated they are not necessarily saying that the discussion of who the oppressor vs oppressed is complicated. The Israeli government has been oppressing the Palestinians for a very long time, that is clear, and it is not complicated to understand that at least since the 80s they have had dramatically more financial and military power to keep control of the territory in the way they like.

However, it is reductive and dismissive to insist that there is no complexity in the potential ways to move forward to bring peace to the region. Despite what people on tumblr.edu like to believe, "Israel should never have been created" is not a practical solution to an incredibly heated geopolitical situation in the present day. Israel was created and it does exist. 10 million people live there. 74% of the population is native born and the country has existed for 75 years. Hand waving these fact away with the opinion that "they should move back to where they came from" may make you feel good about being a Radical Leftist, but it does not give anyone a road map for how exactly millions of people without dual citizenship are supposed to just up and evaporate. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that 21% of Israelis are Arabs, the very people you are claiming to want to give the land back to.

Insisting that there's nothing complicated about expecting an entire country's population to willingly dissappear with no consequences is not a productive way to think about this conflict. It ignores the many massive superpowers that have an interest in proping up different states in the region, the power dynamics involved in any land back movements, and the inevitably negative consequences of totally dissolving an established state without a plan. It is also completely and almost comically unrealistic, so much so that it makes it hard to believe that anyone who's opinion starts and ends with this idea really gives a shit about anyone who lives in the area as much as they care about their online leftist clout.

There's nothing complicated in understanding that the Israeli government is and has been maintaining an oppressive apartheid state for decades. It is, however, very complicated to come up with a realistic way to resolve some of the most intricately entangled land disputes on the planet without plunging the region into total chaos. Not everyone has to be deeply educated on every geopolitical situation, but it is very hard to take people seriously when they know nothing about the politics or history of a region and yet insist that there is nothing complicated about it at all.

There's a lot of people on this website who are getting dangerously smug about their own ignorance, and are starting to go down Qanon type anti-intellectual paths in the name of being sufficiently radical. Not knowing the details of a very convoluted land dispute isn't something to brag about online as you call for intentionally reductive solutions. You can support the Palestinian cause and be aware of the oppression they have faced while also holding off on calling people trying to do real analysis and de-escalation work bootlickers. We need to get control of the urge to fit every global issue into a simplistic YA novel narrative structure that appeals to Western revolutionary fantasies.

[paradox-n-bedrock]

me in big fandoms: oh cool, it's so active and there's so many people to vibe with, this is amaz-

*finds my niche angle that appeals to approximately six people*

me: okay, folks, it's you and me now

[literallyjusttoa]

Heading out to perpetuate the family's cycle of patricide! #YOLO #slay #girlboss

[cyanbeetle]

Wally stumbles into middle of nowhere, Kansas

[inkskinned]

one of the things about having an unstable parent is that it can so easily ruin your future. you want to get out, but getting out takes having agency. it takes the resume and the grades and the stellar community service history.

but you have to choose your battles. you know if you sign up for an after-school activity, it'll be okay for a while, so long as the activity is parent-approved and god-fearing. over time, like all things, it will become an argument (i can't keep carting your ass to these things) or a weapon (talk to me like that again, see if you get to go to practice). sometimes, if you love the thing, it's worth it. but you also know better than to love something: that's how they get you. if you ever actually want something, it will always be the center of their attention. they will never stop threatening you with it. telling you of course i'm a good parent, i came to all of those stupid events.

you learn to balance yourself perfectly. you can either have a social life or you can have hobbies. both of these things will be under constant scrutiny. you spend too much time with her, you should be at home with family is equally paired with you're acting like this because you're addicted to what's on that goddamn screen. you cannot ever actually win, so everything falls within a barter system that you calculate before entering: do you want to learn how to drive? if so, you'll need to give up asking for a new laptop, even though yours died. maybe you can work on a computer at the library. of course, that would mean you'd be allowed to go to the library, which would mean something else has to bleed. nothing ever actually comes free.

and that bitter, horrible irony: you could be literally following their orders and it still isn't pretty. they tell you to get a job; they hate that your job keeps you late and gives you access to actual money. they tell you to do better in school; they say no child of mine needs a tutor. they want you to stop being so morose, don't you know there are people who are really suffering - but they revile the idea you might actually need therapy.

you didn't survive that fall the way other people would. you've seen other people scramble and get their way out, however they could. maybe you were made too-soft: the answer didn't come to you easily. it wasn't quick. it was brutal and nasty. some people even asked you why didn't you just work hard and escape during school? and you felt your head spinning. why didn't you? (they control your financial aid. they control your loan status. they love having that kind of thing). maybe in another life you got diagnosed sooner and got the meds you needed to actually focus and got attention from the right teachers who helped you clear hurdles to get up out of here - but for now? here?

the effort of trying. the effort of not-dying. that kind of effort was absolutely agonizing.

[i-reblog-everything44]

The fandom when Anya is nice to jimmy and compliments/butters him up after the crash: obviously this is a fawn response. She doesn’t actually think these things about jimmy, she is simply trying to protect herself against a volatile, unstable person by placating him

The fandom when curly tries to placate jimmy by telling Jimmy he’d fix things, after being very nervous about jimmy’s anger and reaction when talking to Anya right beforehand and his heart racing so hard on the way to confront jimmy that he’s likely on the verge of a panic or anxiety attack: hmm. Obviously everything curly is saying to jimmy here is completely genuine and not motivated by anything. He obviously doesn’t care about the fact jimmy raped Anya and only cares about helping jimmy at the detriment to Anya. He’s a rape apologist. There could literally be no other potential explanation for why curly is saying the things he is saying right now. Let’s take everything curly is saying here completely at face value and not analyze anything else about Curly’s behavior or the rest of the scene.

[seriously why are people only capable of recognizing the fawn response in Anya and not Curly]

[jewreallythinkthat]

The most moderate, nuanced and productive people I have discussed the Israel-Hamas war with have been Jews, Israelis, and people with Palestinian family. Everyone directly affected by this just wants it to stop and to have peace and safety in the region in a way that minimises the casualty count.

The most extreme and performative and vile things I've been told are by people who have no connection to this and like to think they are experts because they have covered adjacent topics during learning, or read stuff online.

If all the randos in the west would just shut up for ten minutes and let those of us actually affected, with an understanding of the history of the land and the culture and the generational trauma experienced by Jews and Palestinians alike talk, we might actually have a chance to salvage this and stop it spiraling

[oacest]

Hi, I’ve seen a couple of quotes from Noel go around where he seems to be convinced/ fighting with the fact that Liam hated him (mostly from early or mid 90s). This seems so strange to me as the more dominant narrative, especially later on, seems to be that Liam is craving Noel’s affection, which he can rarely (publicly) seem to admit/ sometimes seemingly withholding it on purpose (even scoffing about how Liam’s love for him). What is your take on this?

they really have...... to put it mildly........ very different emotional communication styles lol. let's just say that. and they were in a very bad place with each other back in the day, fueled by a vicious cycle of avoidance and clinginess and believing the worst of each other. liam's reaction to emotional upset is generally to explode/demand while noel's is immediate (or preemptive) withdrawal. your use of the word "withholding" is exactly the key. when noel is upset or threatened or feels wronged/hurt he recoils, which makes liam chase him, which makes noel run harder, which makes liam get more aggressive, etc, ad infinitum. this behaviour on liam's part reads to noel as frightening and disrespectful (which it is) and noel's retreating reads to liam as vindictive and cruel (which it also is). noel doesn't like to tell (or think about) the truth of his emotional upheavals so it's easier for him to say "liam hates me" to the press than it is to say "we have an incredibly complicated and emotionally volatile codependent relationship that neither of us can understand fully and which causes us both a lot of suffering and it's none of anyone's business so quit fucking asking me." plus im certain on a lot of levels he does believe liam hates him (which liam no doubt does to some degree, largely due to feeling misunderstood and rejected), bc it would be so anathema for noel himself to treat a loved one in the specific ways liam has treated him in their lowest moments together that he can't process those behaviours as coming from someone who genuinely loves him.

[seance]

GOOD OMENS (2019-) / ALL THINGS END (Hozier, 2023)

[eat-a-dicker]

stolas cheating on stella doesn't mean he's a bad person, stolas cheating on stella is a bad thing because as two high class rich people enforcing the rules of an oppressive society goes, stella obviously cares about those rules and regulations and is angry about the social indignity of being cheated on. stolas, as someone participating as a part of the violent regime, should have recognized that this was going to happen and instead blew her off as a stupid dumb harpie (because she is) and didn't expect her to actualize her threats into violence because he thought very little of her.

[transingthoseformers]

That one "who did this :)" lipstick TikTok but with Optimus, Elita, Megatron, and Jazz :3

[zahri-melitor]

It's incredible the number of people who think Duke lives with Bruce. Duke lived with Bruce for approximately 18 months between the end of n52 in Batman #52 2011, and Batman and the Signal 2018.

Is your story set during All Star Batman 2016, and Duke is not yet aware of his powers? Congratulations! Duke (and his parents) are currently living at the Manor! (Oh? you didn't realise Doug and Elaine were also resident at the Manor during this period? Huh. Interesting)

Is Duke The Signal? Duke Thomas lives with his cousin, Jay, or possibly with his mother, Elaine, after she's cured. He does not live with Bruce. Bruce is not his foster parent.

[batsplat]

[uncanny-tranny]

It's just... odd to me, I suppose, going from "what is in my pants is completely irrelevant to most anybody else's life" to the expectation that you must be completely open, essentially, about what is in your pants.

I think a lot of people understand the general idea of why it's bad decorum to demand people offer explanations for private information like this, but they don't analyze exactly why it's bad besides, "asking directly is just rude" and not "asking in any way still enforces the often violent nature of gender and sex, and putting people in the 'right box' is a part of that violence."

It's especially odd when seeing other trans people enforcing the idea that "what's in your pants?" is a genuine, good-faith basis for interacting with others.

[notannascribbles]

i truly am so baffled sometimes like. were we not all rooting for adrien & marinette’s relationship to be a good thing? a healthy and beautiful and satisfying ending for both characters?? how are so many people excited about adrinette: lies and deception edition😭

[thatonebipotato]

Bernard definitely "knows a guy"

idk what situation he would need a guy for, but i feel like it wouldn't really matter. His life is just such a collection of weird situations, and he always just happens to know a guy because of it

Did he meet them through some weird online conspiracy boards? Did he meet them through the cult? Did he just extrovert really close to the sun and get away with it? Has this exact situation just happened so many times that he just knows the person he needs at this point? Honestly, he doesn't even know anymore

You know what he DOES know? A guy