#while being in another country

[expectiations]

"I would rather end my own life than betray Angelica." – John Francis

[rwbysketches]

staring contest....

[castiel-left-his-mark-on-me]

I'm really not a conspiracy theorist. I don't know if Trump cheated to somehow skew the election his way; however, one thing I did notice-- having followed his "public" support for months prior to the election, the second he won, things went quite.

On Twitter, tags like "TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!" and "Trump47!" were trending for days before November 5th and all throughout election day. But then the results came out and those tags immediately disappeared. Which, fine, they were "old" tags, but -- it's not like new ones took their place. No "Trump won!" began dominating the trends. No "MAGA!" or "Congrats Mr. President"... nothing. In fact, various sport and international tags suddenly overtook, like the election was already old news.

Why? How? Of course, I know Elon is in Trump's pocket, and I know X/Twitter has been a MAGA megaphone for a while, and of course, I know Trump does have a real following out there-- but why did it seem so outspoken and dominating one second, and all but disappear the next?

I don't know if Trump cheated in order to win this election. I just know that the hype surrounding him got pretty damn quite the moment he won.

It just feels off to me.

[alex-dontknow]

in simple words:

"yeah we don't wanna end the genocide we just wanna save it for later"

The moment said genocide isn't of the white people, nobody bats an eye.

ALSO.

It's rather telling when a country who's endured an apartheid for decades can identify Israel as one, but not the huge Western powers who caused said apartheid?

The West don't want to admit what they caused and they hide behind their own romanticised history as a woollen shield.

[dykesynthezoid]

My mom was like “UGH I just don’t understand why hosting thanksgiving is so hard for me to do when my mom always seemed to handle it so well. I don’t know how my parents did it. How were they able to cook everything and get the house clean and looking nice all at the same time?” And I was like well. You’re a single woman living in one of the most expensive areas in the country. And your parents were able to raise four kids in a solidly middle class environment while living off of only one income. And also they were both functional alcoholics. So. 🤷

[aeolianblues]

do people like. Not realise that it is possible to be critical of two things at once or

[dailybakudekusong]

Today's BakuDeku Song Is: Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

And true it may seem like a stretch But it's thoughts like this that catch My troubled head when you're away And when I am missing you to death

[ratatatastic]

wait what was the media storm during game 7?

media storm as in after going up 3 and dropping the ball the next 3 there was a lot of headlines/media attention that was bandwagoning on edm and calling the cats the worst sports meltdown in history because of the possibility of a reverse sweep when in their opinion the cats shouldve closed this out long before and pauls talked about it right after winning the cup especially the whole TURN THE TVS OFF episode

and montys mentioned walking in on game 7 and seeing the tvs still on when they were supposed to be off (presumably because of said media from what we know of because of what paul said)

lets not even mention how pro-edm a lot of the tnt panel was even during the series and spittin chiclets was notoriously very pro-edm its why during the cam&strick podcast when they bring up the whole "do you pay attention to media? do you know whos on your side?" to ekky (especially considering how much pressure they were under the whole finals) that ekky brings up the spittin chiclets podcast like "i saw all those spittin chiclets guys all over edms bandwagon" and then proceeds to try not elaborate too much about it

[competitivedust]

So a Jewish woman visited Kerala, India and came across a pro-Palestine poster here. And then she proceeded to tear it down.

When she was confronted, she decided to act entitled and argue with the locals. She even said that "we make money off the jews. And then spread hate against them."

You do not get to go to another country and vandalise people's private property there. And you certainly don't get to enjoy the services provided by us and then blame us for taking money for said services.

And most importantly, if a poster which appeals to people to stand up for humanity triggers you so much, maybe take a look at who you are. Don't make this conflict and being pro-israel your entire personality.

[manofmanymons]

Gogglehead most likely to commit a crime.

THEM

[gxlden-angels]

Do not stop talking about Palestine. Do not forget about Palestine. This is not a battle of religion and I do not think it should be treated as such. From the river to the sea, they will be free 🇵🇸

Disclaimer: I am not an expert. I am just some guy in the US. I am not a direct source of information. Please listen to Palestinians. Please help them directly. Please help with protests if your country is supplying Israel with weapons like the US.

[verdiesque]

made the mistake of thinking a bit too long about political situation at home and now i'm crying again lol

[adore-gregor]

🙄🫠

[thedreadvampy]

Yes people are fucking dying and no I don't ever feel like. Great about people being killed in missile strikes.

But I also don't feel great about decades of civilians, including over 2,100 children in the last 20 years, being killed both by missile strikes and by being shot or beaten to death in the street.

250 people were killed in the Hamas rocket attacks on Saturday, which is around the same as the number of Palestinian people the Israeli security forces had murdered this year before Saturday, and significantly less than they've killed since Saturday.

look the people are not the state and despite Israel being an apartheid colony, being an Israeli citizen doesn't necessarily imply 100% agreement. It's been 70 years and 3 generations since Israel was established as a state and the majority of Israeli civilians now didn't choose to come, they're living in the country they were born (although the same is not so much true for people living in Gaza who have recently occupied the stolen homes of Palestinians). Israelis are human people with lives and hopes and passions and deaths of any person are tragic.

BUT.

Palestinians are human people with lives and hopes and passions and their lives matter just as much and are snuffed out without the international community batting an eye - I remind you again. 212 Palestinians including 38 children were murdered this year before this weekend's missile strikes and if you didn't give a shit until Hamas killed the same number of Israelis at which point everyone went OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY HOW COULD PALESTINIANS DO THIS (while Israel killed 300+ more Palestinians in under 24 hours) that's bc uhhhh you're fucking racist and don't think Palestinian lives are as important as Israeli ones

so like. sure we can acknowledge that 250 Israeli civilians' deaths are a tragedy, if we can also agree that the 300+ Palestinian civilians killed in retaliatory strikes are a tragedy and most importantly if we can agree that the 200+ Palestinians killed in 2023 before the Hamas strikes this weekend are not just a tragedy but a deliberate atrocity.

in January the Israeli government made it vocally clear before the UN than not only do they consider the occupation of Palestine permanent, they are explicitly focused on taking over as much Palestinian land as possible in perpetuity. Since then this whole year there have been a total of only FOUR (nonconsecutive) FULL WEEKS in which NO Palestines were killed by Israel (compared to only 8 weeks in which Israelis WERE killed, of which 2 incidents were friendly fire from another IDF member)

It's legitimately tragic when people are killed. And Israel has been systematically killing Palestinians to the degree there are Palestinian casualties recorded about 3 days in every 5 this year, usually multiple, with displacements, demolitions, injuries, arrests and beatings recorded almost every single day. I do not know how LITERALLY anyone can look at the numbers from this year, let alone the last 75, and conclude that Israel is the victim of unprovoked violence.

[liyazaki]

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[guiltyonsundays]

Incredible sequence of posts on the dash just now