#usa biased

[angstandhappiness]

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WHY YOU'RE NOT SEEING PALESTINIAN SUFFERING "As the lights go out in Gaza and the people are butchered in the dark, ask yourself why you're not seeing interviews with Palestinian parents and children living in the most miserable place on earth about their dreams repeatedly turning to nightmares. Ask yourself why you're not seeing the stories of the multiple journalists who were murdered while trying to amplify the voices of the unheard." -Dr. Omar Suleiman

[chaosallstar]

I’ve been closely following this Olympics Jordan Chiles medal debacle very closely. My main takeaway of this whole thing?

Holy shit the vast majority of American gymnastics fans are fucking stupid

[remy-r4t]

Is there nothing more creative, you could’ve come up with Haas? 😭

[the-physicality]

All star game:

DT first points of the game (and only points for nearly 2 minutes)

Kah steal

DT finger twirling Kah’s foul iktr

A’ja miming flopping I’m gonna need that reaction gif

DT playing point i love it

i love cheryl miller

the uniform switch threw me

i love having a team that tries on rebounds [mostly]

there were a lot of in and outs

it's nice to see that the white shorts have a little more length [and more length options] than the red ones

DT finishing with the highest +/- [+5] and basically 15-5-5 [in 20 minutes]

Kah 7 points 1 reb 1 ast THREE steals in 11 minutes let's talk about it

10 points 7 reb from BG shooting 71.4%

that's a big mvp trophy

everybody finally appreciating phoenix we love to see it

[spiteful-aro]

Perhaps it's playing too much Vrising and thinking too much, but ya know what? Vampires are Aromanticism in metaphor.

It's the separation. The yawning gap of life vs. unlife. The Beating (allo) heart versus the Dead and Still (aro). It's cold hands that are harder to hold than warm ones, it's lips hiding fangs instead of inviting kisses, it's the frozen in undeath- staying single- versus the living and growing life- the societal markers of growing up being tied to marriage and starting families.

It fits like a circular block in a square hole.

It's the "Inherent romanticism of a bite" when it's really just a bite, it's the blood on the face revealing the so called monster being the revealing the Otherness the Differences of what looks 'normal' at first glance but they've always been different, it's the lone vampire in their castle, it's the dweller of the dark, it's the hidden at the edge of humanity it's the needing an invitation where Amatonormativity is the invisible barrier, it's the being warded off by symbols all over society (Cross my Heart is it Crosses or Hearts?) it's the tired old debate of monster or person, undeath as the shell of the life that was, the pretending of life versus the embracing of unlife.

Do you see it? Do you see the lack of reflection like looking at oneself for something that isn't there?

I see people say Vampires are very romantic, but nah, I see them a bit differently.

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[tenderanarchist]

It’s deeply disturbing to me that my dad having Fox News on day in and day out, repeating the same lies, has made my otherwise reasonable, science believing, liberal mom genuinely believe some ridiculous things- that China is trying to take over the world, that climate change isn’t that bad and it’s only a natural cycle of the earth that we’ll survive just fine, that having anti-fossil-fuels arguments means you want the collapse of the United States. These are all factually untrue, exaggerations and false correlations. They sound fucking crazy! Yet having them pounded into your head by an assertive man who sounds like he knows what he’s talking about and scorns all alternate arguments as those of “sheeple” instead of providing an unbiased view, slowly starts making you see those claims as facts. Especially when Fox is framed as a factual source (rather than entertainment which it is actually classified as) and is the majority or only source of world news and political opinion. Do people not realize how apeshit crazy, anti-fact, leading, mean-spirited and ignorant these shows are? Do they not know how to judge a credible source and discern opinion from evidence-based facts? Or is it just easier to hear somebody say, everything you’re told to be afraid of is a lie, scapegoat it on the Evil Communists instead?

[victoriousscarf]

This article was from last October and thus does not take the most recent events into account but I often find myself going back to it lately... Excuse me while I also now quote excessively from it below:

ROBINSON

And this helps us to understand the development of Palestinian resistance to this project. Today, this is characterized often as being based on irrational anti-Semitism. But as you point out, when we understand the history of the development of this resistance, we see it differently. There are even early Zionists on the record saying things like I don’t know how you expect the Palestinians to react, they’re going to react the same way every indigenous population reacts when there is a colonial project to impose minority rule. [Ben-Gurion himself said: “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country.”]

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ROBINSON

There have been many attempts in the United States and Israel to make Palestinians completely unpalatable and impossible offers and then characterize Palestinians as unreasonable, uncompromising “rejectionists” when they won’t accept the offer.

KHALIDI

That’s a trope that goes back to Abba Eban: “Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” There weren’t very many opportunities. There might have been one or two. I talk about the 1939 White Paper. It was a very limited opportunity. The Palestinians, in my view, were very foolish to fail to accept it. There might have been other opportunities. I was involved in the negotiations at Madrid and Washington [in the early 1990s] with an Israeli delegation in which we tried to achieve self-determination and statehood. And that was something that was systematically denied us by the ground rules laid down by the United States at the behest of Israel. The same ground rules ended up governing the Oslo process later on. So there was no opportunity there.

It turns out, I argue in the book, and I’ve argued elsewhere, that the maximum that would be offered, has ever been offered to the Palestinians, is some form of autonomy under Israeli sovereignty with complete and absolute Israeli security control. Israelis would have control of the borders, the airspace, the land, and the water under everything that Israel was willing to offer under every Israeli government. I go into Yitzhak Rabin’s shift in his willingness to accept the existence of a Palestinian people and his willingness to negotiate with the PLO. But even Rabin in his last speech made it very clear that there would never be a Palestinian state.

So self-determination, statehood, and independence are ruled out by the Americans and Israelis, then and now, I would argue. So what are we talking about? You can pick up your own garbage, but we’ll arrest anybody we want, any time we want, to torture them, beat them up, and drag them off to our jails. And we’ll do it to anybody who resists our dominance, and we make all the laws, and you obey our military rules. What kind of “state” is that? That’s not a very good deal.

ROBINSON

Let me dwell on this because it seems critical. To the extent that there has been talk of a “two state solution,” what has actually been on the table consistently in every negotiation for the last 50 years has never involved a concession by the United States and Israel—they negotiate together—that Palestinians should have anything that we would consider to be equivalent to a state in the sense that other states are states.

KHALIDI

The United States talks the talk, but it will not walk the walk. It will never say “this outcome has to include complete and absolute Palestinian independence.” It will never impose that in Israel. It will never lay that on the table as the outcome that has to be reached.

There are some Israeli governments that came closer to this than others. Rabin came closer. But none of them would have accepted the idea that Israel would give up its security control, that Israel would cease to control the borders, that Israel would cease to be the only sovereign power. I mean, if you don’t have your own army and your own borders, and your own economy, and your own ports and your own airports and your own airspace, you’re not sovereign. You’re not independent. You’re a dependent subunit of a larger sovereign state. And that’s all that Israel has so far been willing to offer. The United States has never pushed it to do anything more than what Israel was willing to do. The deference of the United States to Israel is limitless.

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ROBINSON

When you said the Palestinians are not engaging in terrorism, one important point is that various means of resistance are denied them. You’re very critical in the book of attacks on civilians. But at every stage, the available ways that Palestinians can fight back have been constricted, and those things that horrify us come out of that. 

KHALIDI

I think there’s another point to be made. I argue in the book that various forms of armed action, including, especially, attacks on civilians, are horrific, immoral, and, very importantly, politically counterproductive. I go into this in some detail at one point in the book. But it has to be said that slaughtering civilians is slaughtering civilians. When Israel kills 16 children and five women in Gaza, using 2000-pound bombs and Hellfire missiles, if you don’t describe that as terrorism, and you describe the death of an Israeli child or an Israeli woman or another Israeli civilian as terrorism, this is Orwellian language. You are simply using the word “terrorism” as a bludgeon to demonize Palestinian resistance, whereas somehow the murder of children in Gaza … 16 kids were killed in these attacks, five women were killed in these attacks. Heaven knows how many other civilians were killed. Maybe a dozen militants were killed? I don’t know. But 30 or so civilians were murdered. If that’s not terrorism, then the word has no meaning. And this happens every single time. There were 240 civilians killed in one of these attacks a few years ago. Each time the toll is equally lopsided. Why are attacks on civilians not considered terrorism? If you use the same measure, I have no problem with the use of that term. But then you have to describe the use of Hellfire missiles and F-16s and heavy artillery in the same way. In the book I go into the kinds of weapons that are used by Israel— the artillery, the missiles, the aircraft, the helicopters—and the indiscriminate nature of the attacks on a population of a couple of million people in a tiny area. If that’s not terrorism, I don’t know what is. But of course, the term is only applied to the Palestinians. Somehow Ukrainian resistance is not terrorism yet Palestinian resistance is. I repeat, I think the killing of civilians is wrong and immoral. It’s a violation of international law. But if that’s true for the Palestinians, certainly it’s true for the Israelis as well and on a much larger scale.

[thedevilscarnival]

its not oftentimes i get a take on my dash that fills me with enough rage to unfollow someone but saying that “good” citizens of a country do not exist because they aren’t doing enough to protest a war (like military industrial complexes DONT EXIST) is some of the most xenophobic shit ive ever seen. you are letting the horrors of a real event warp you into red scare 2 and you’re PROUD of it.

[uma1ra]

[noxtivagus]

yk i still haven't done ffxiv 6.3 n the curiosity n anticipation is still driving me. crazy. a bit. yes.

[sugar-and-spite]

this might be a weird question, but is there anywhere i can get reliable information on what's happening in palestine? like, i see a lot on here about the current situation and how to help, but i only know the absolute basics about how it started/why it escalated to this point. i could just google but seeing as i'm in america, i'm worried the results i find would be biased in the wrong direction, or just straight up false. i know i have some mutuals who are more informed than i am, so i'm hoping some of you can help me find some things to read so i understand more?

[kjzx]

I went on a bit of a Tumblr Search Journey (as one does) after writing the intro and got reminded of just how many classical art blog owners are covert fascists/terfs. I think the former are more common on twitter but I've heard quite a bit about the latter on here. Which is funny when you come to think about it.

All artists are shaped by their era. The "softly realistic women varying in size depending on artist and era" have always fit very precisely curated white beauty standards.

You can think they're cute or hot (I sure do. That's why I reblog all these paintings, aside from the admiration of the artist's skills) but if you don't consciously acknowledge the biases these people dealt with and their own share of racism and sexism just because this woman has a fat fold you have no consideration for historical context. Which never ends well in political movements, which feminism obviously is.

The reason these people didn't draw thin hourglass/skinny thick/BBL/whatever bodyshapes that are "in" today is because these body trends didn't exist, many of the body shapes weren't even physically possible.

This probably doesn't mean anything, but I do not consider you feminist for praising the male painter's art for painting women he thinks are hot just because the trends have changed. Lowkey, the same goes for lesbian/bi women artists too, at least to a degree.

These are faces and bodies of one race, a few ethnicities from said race, and a very lucky set of genetic makeup. All of that shown through someone else's specific vision. Someone, who might or might not have even seen women as fully human. If you look at these portrayals as the True Female Form maybe stop for a second and do some soul searching.

[wanderingmind867]

I don't think it'd be untrue to say Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater are practically saints compared to modern US politicians. The US has gone so far off the deep end since the 80s that any political figure after Ronald Reagan just gets worse and worse. The US is a country I legitimately think deserves to collapse at this point. Not to sound like a far right insane fool, but the US might as well have failed in every way. They separated from England, but I don't think that was ever the right decision. I mean, look where it ended up!

[royalberryriku]

While, yes, there is evidence of this being some of the case, I think it's important to also consider two important things: where the company who produced this source sit and how much of what's out there was propaganda for Russia or by others (and how this may somewhat overlap considering anti US government sentiment is something shared by both the Russian government AND US communists who are legit leftists).

So who owns WIRED? How reliable is it and how much weight should this article be given? The simple answer is, yes, it's all true, but also we have to be aware of the framing of this article and, most importantly, what is being omitted and what is being highlighted. There was absolutely interference in the 2016 election, this has also been proven in courts and in other sources beyond just the one given, so WIRED absolutely checks out with its facts as being true. However, not everyone who had this opinion was a Russian spy and certainly people who hated and still hate Hillary are Russian spies at all. However, many are leftists who are radical communists or anarchists who hold an agenda similar to that of Russia; the growth of communist ideologies and anti us government sentiment.

That reflects today and it's not only true for the US, but for Palestine as well. For those unfamiliar, Russia has been pushing (along with China) for a single state solution for Palestine and have been very aggressively anti Israel. This isn't because what Israel is doing is wrong though, this is because Israel is aligned with the USA and NATO, which is exactly what Russia's target was during election interference in the USA before and would be once again today. It's entirely to undermine the capitalist/ liberal USA government and always has been since even the Vietnam War and the Cold War.

What needs to be considered in this case is this then; is it an enemy of the capitalist system only or the existence of the USA at all? Would a new purely leftist government taken through revolution be Russia's goal, or the destruction of the government in order to win in a war? I actually don't know, but I do know that I can agree that democrats have committed horrific acts to keep NATO existing and that NATO itself is an imperialist power.

This is where a lot of nuance comes in here, do we accept that there is Russian propaganda that happens to align with leftist ideals or do we reject our own ideals because we don't want to confirm to Russian interference? It's hard to know what way is the "right" way since there is a lot of geopolitical factors at play here. It's hard to know what would be the overall best. Ultimately, I think it depends what type of future we, as individuals, want for the USA. If you're a Trotskyist, for example, you may align with Russia's perspective already since you already happen to believe in the same ideologies. Likewise, you may be against the fall of the government overall and want internal change through peaceful means and no use of force, which means voting blue anyway regardless of who it is even without this interference or knowledge of it. I think, in this way, as much as it is important to know all of this, it isn't as earth shattering as one might think at first glance. There's nuance and context behind it that, when you think about it, isn't all that surprising.

Essentially, it really depends on your beliefs and how ""susceptible"" to said propaganda you are. Especially since this propaganda isn't just "Russian propaganda" but specifically communist propaganda, which will push people into being radicalised into far left circles, which...isn't really a bad thing depending on where you sit. Of course, this isn't for everyone and those who are more centrist/ moderates would see it as a very bad thing for so much far left propaganda to exist and push for revolution. And overall, of course, both sides would have at least some concern that it's from a foreign country, no matter how inevitable it is due to the geopolitical context that said country would do this in any situation that could radicalise people into communism.

For people who don't remember the 2016 Tumblr was full of Russian trolls who posed as progressive social justice blogs and urged young liberals to throw their vote away on a third party. You can read more about it here :https://www.wired.com/story/tumblr-russia-trolls-propaganda/ This camapign was extraiordinary succesful and third party voters were a key reason why Trump one( if you look at the electoral results you will see that the race was so close that if the third party votes had gone to Hillary she would have easily buried Trump) Sadly we didn't know that this was a orchestred camapign until Tumblr released the data itself and told us who the blogs were. Those were not simple spam blogs. They were pros. They knew how to talk to people, they made real posts and interacted. They tried this in 2020 but we were wary because the memories were still fresh But now thy are trying again. I just found this guy who is running the EXACT same play book as in 2016. Pretending to be a person of color , poting progresive posts while at the same time urigng everyoe to vote third party. As soon as I called him out he immedately blocked me beause he knew I outed him. So now i's up to you guys. Don't let Trump supporting Russian trolls run their psy ops here. Report en masse and get them now instead of waiting for months for tumblr to tell us they worked for Trump REPORT THIS RUSSIAN TROLL NOW. DON'T LET THEM PULL THEIR GAMES AGAIN: https://www.tumblr.com/decolonize-the-left

[uma1ra]

This is genocide campaign from Israel, USA and the UK and their allies. They want to finish Palestinian, they want to finish Palestine, IDF killing, butchering Unarmed innocent civilians. This is preplanned campaign.