#yes i'm petty fuck you

[apioperdon]

Israeli extremists will march through the West Bank violently attacking people, encroaching on villages and claiming the people living there have to leave because it's their village now (the IDF doing nothing but telling the Palestinians living there to just not interact with them, and wait for them to leave, because they don't get to decide who the village belongs to only the Israeli court gets to decide that),

post memes of beheaded/scorched babies and call it "chicken" on Israeli Telegram memes,

mock Palestinians while they are starving and dehydrating to death,

mock American peace activists who get murdered trying to keep family homes from being demolished, then later claim antisemitism when the story is written,

go out in droves and block aid trucks passing by standing there with their babies in strollers and throw boulders and slabs of rock on the street to block trucks delivering aid,

vote in polls showing they would never allow their children to date an Arab,

express disappointment that Palestinians are able to enjoy time in a polluted beach and therefor Israel obviously hasn't "done enough",

news channels will word for word say that Palestinians under four years old are the only ones maybe deserving of sympathy because any age over that is a terrorist...

And then people get on here and praise both sidsing the "conflict" by saying Netanyahu and Hamas are the real issues and calls for an end to decades of occupation and apartheid are just a foolhardy foreigner to the conflict's revolutionary fantasy. Fuck the Palestinian Americans, the Native Americans, the Jewish Americans, the Black American activists etc who are able to empathize with and recognize the same post 911 hysteria, the "terrorist" and "thug", the "demographic threat", and anti-indigenous rhetoric that gets repeated ad nauseum to support colonization/imperialism/theft/ethnic cleansing/genocide..

You can see a similar history / rationalization in "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Acting like this is somehow some white settler fantasy to plug our ears to our own colonial history and point fingers across the world is an attempt to assuage your own guilt for saying absolutely nothing, for not caring. The activists calling for an end to genocide are fools and hypocrites playing pretend and ultimately, at the end of the day, "hurting their cause"

This completely ignores the organizations and activists leading these protests, sit ins, camp outs, and pushing forward demands to divest from Israel and call for an immediate end to the settler activity and apartheid recognizing not only their own repeated history, but how it will come back in forms of police brutality, surveillance, and increased aid to brutalize and displace others. It ignores the solidarity of groups who have been victimized by these effects, former vets calling for an end to war profiteering, and people with family trapped in Gaza or who have lost the majority of their family

The same wording and rationalization we used then and still use today to displace and brutalize Natives is well recognized. (And no I wouldn't say it's every Israeli, but it's a big enough issue that recognizing the problem extends beyond just ousting Netanyahu and delves into an upheld ideology of superiority is crucial. Additionally, there have been Israelis denouncing their citizenship, there have been people leaving because they are able to)

Pushing it down the road by talking about how complicated a history it is and how it's really not fair to point fingers at the settlers who actively relocate to and steal homes out of families who have been there for decades and then get on tiktok and praise "reclaiming Gaza" while Palestinians upload videos of their children's faces peeling back from their skulls is not "taking the common sense side". It's not more human to recognize the victims of violence, while refusing to discuss the root issues and calling for an end to them. It's sticking your head in the sand and refusing to engage on a greater level than sympathy after the fact

Israeli settlers for months, years, have seen videos of Palestinians desperately crying for help and then dressed up in racist caricatures and call the videos of death and trauma "pallywood" lies. Well-respected and famous authors will tour calling for Jewish people to stand up and defend Israel (this was years ago) and be better PR, and characterize Palestinians as a people that bleed/brutalize their people and children for the sole purpose of attacking Jewish people (this is something U.S. politicians have echoed even before we get into the race science Biden recently spouted). Not gonna get fucking started on what's being cheered on on Telegram within the past few months

And then want to lecture about people not reading news articles from sources like CBS, CNN, New York Times, The Atlantic

I can't speak to specific directives given, but if you participated in, knew people who marched, or watched livestreams of anti-police brutality marches in 2020, you would recognize the media reported a distorted view that focused on acts of vandalism/provocation from the protester side, but rarely if ever included a full view of violence and incitement of the police. We should not need to be connected to it to care about genocide, but since that's a common complaint, we are connected to this and claiming otherwise is willful ignorance

This speech is incredibly long, but I would recommend watching the full thing. Chris Hedges is the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, he spent several years covering these issues and has written several books about the U.S. involvement in global warfare Here is a clip.

[diseaseriddencube]

normal people: alastor is aggressive with lucifer because he's actually under the control of lilith and needs to keep him away/help charlie or sth

me: alastor is aggressive with lucifer because he saw someone with two ounces more power than him, someone who could help charlie more than he has and show him up as worthless, and he Is Not Having Any Of That anyways do you wanna hear my npd headcanons and why he is actually me and

[engagemythrusters]

nothing is funnier to me than opening one of neil newbon's old streams to see how he interacted with the characters and then seeing someone in the chat go "I don't like Gale--he's a walking red flag"

girl you are there in that discord server or whatever because you like Astarion. your fingers should NOT be on your keyboard when it comes time to talk about red flags 😂

[hyasinthum]

okay so this latest episode of rwby beyond was beautiful and moving and all, but it never ceases to amaze me how good crwby is at putting their feet in their mouths when it comes to the implications they make about certain things

like what do you MEAN jaune and the gang went to the farmers market to buy farmers? to buy PEOPLE to do AGRICULTURAL LABOUR for them??? temporary arrangement or not, it's Deeply Weird to write your pale-skinned, blond-haired, blue-eyed character buying other sentient creatures. they literally could have written any other quirky afteran interaction. christ, these people need sensitivity readers

[sga-owns-my-soul]

my closest, longest friendship has completely blown up and ended and the thing i'm most upset about?

she stole my $16 secondhand billabong jacket 😭😭😭

[dangoulains-devotion]

yuffie has many interesting elements to her but people refuse to move past "i find energetic kids annoying" and it makes me sad

[archduke-enver-gortash]

posting on here is like my sisyphean boulder i'm constantly rolling tbh

[adelle-ein]

remarkably not okay overall really but at least there's my little video game guys

[navree]

"you can't put alicent in a mother's day asoiaf comp because she's not a good mother and that's okay :)" but you have no problem with cersei fucking lannister in it when half her affc chapters are just about how abysmally she fails as a mother to her children so i think you're just a cunt

[singsweetmelodies]

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[shatouto]

why would you talk like this on someone's art. that is explicitly tagged narumitsu. did you think i wouldn't see it? am i a joke to you?

[ruvviks]

okay now we NEED to know how you ended up on an anti Tony Stark blocklist - a Tony Stark hater

ok so i used to be super into m*rvel when i was a teen but i fucking HATED that guy's guts because 1) he's annoying 2) he's everywhere all the time and 3) i don't like the actor and 4) there's many in-universe reasons that i won't go over right now because i don't have time or energy for that but long story short: i hate his ass

and i was vocal about that on my blog because i wanted to just have fun with my friends on my dash but there's people out there looking for content like that specifically to get mad at people and that's how i ended up on a blocklist <3 love and light

[heartburstings]

do u ever see comments on posts and artwork full of effort and thought and passion etc and like. think about that post that talks about how people have the darndest time interacting with art without trying to crack a joke about it. is it really so boring to take someone's art seriously? is it necessary to demean someone's efforts, however unintended, for a 'joke' that consists of you being like "ooOOoOh how weird lol!!" like i don't want or mean to be a killjoy. but i think about that post a lot. like y do u need to add a punchline to something that doesn't need one. who asked u. why does it need to be funny. and u don't even have the decency to acknowledge its merit ;/

[tirednotflirting]

still thinking about the conversation i was having about travel with a couple of the new people in the office last week when at one point one of them says ‘yeah americans who only travel around the US are just so uncultured’ like babes. not everyone can afford international travel. have you thought of this?

[campingwiththecharmings]

no but, the quickest way to get me to not call you back with any sense of urgency is to call me multiple times in one day.

[anaalnathrakhs]

what is it with parents and raising you to be an upstanding citizen but jumping ship on it once you hit like, age 14