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Solid Hawk

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Emergency button to stop the light truss in the theatre at my college

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I really like winnie the pooh, Can you draw winnie the pooh pleaseeeeee

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Yeah that tracks

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Was caught being sweet so I had to hit my father with the vicious dacula!

How so scaries????

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good > finally building the habit of checking my trouser pockets for tissues and stuff before putting them in the washing machine

bad > being unable to do so without saying "what's it got in its nasty little pocketses" in a gollum voice

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this is why you get two kittens! learn from my errors!

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kittenheavenpov on tiktok

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she's teaching him how to glare

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Serious question here: As succinctly as possible, please explain how antizionism is antisemitism, and how Zionism is not a settler colonial project.

In Short:

Zionism cannot be settler colonialism because it is, by definition, decolonization of the Jewish People's (aka the People of Israel's) native lands by its indigenous inhabitants. Inverting the reality of this is bigoted against Jews. Denying Jews their self-determination in their native lands is hateful against Jews. Turning us over to people who openly aim to genocide the Jews is hateful against Jews. Acting like you can separate a core tenant of Judaism that 90% of ethnic Jews agree with, from Judaism and its people, is pretty twisted and hateful against Jews.

But yeah I don't believe in oversimplifying things so... I will expand on this.

In Medium:

Zionism is a belief that Jews should have a nation and self-determination in our indigenous land where all ethnic Jews originally come from. Zionism succeeded in it's goals and currently Israel which currently houses half the world's Jews, most of whom are Holocaust and MENA (Middle East and North Africa)-region refugees and their descendents displaced from genocide and ethnic cleansing to the one place that would accept them. There is a little over 14 million Jews in the whole world and a little over 7 million of them live in Israel.

Antizionism is the belief that half the world's Jews, those 7 million Jews, can go fuck themselves, and their self detetermination. That they can, or should be genocided by their neighbors who have already shed their countries of their Jews, and that they would deserve it, too. That the world's most persecuted group of people have no right to self determination in oir native land, and the children of those who colonized our native land have all the right to self determination in our native land.

That is fucked, and antisemitic.

In Long:

Let's look at the history of Jews.

The Hebrew people who would later be called Israelites and then Jews were by all genetic and archeological accounts, descended and derived from Cannanites and split off to form a distinct culture in the land around 3700 years ago, eventually gaining control of the land somewhat approximating Israel's current borders.

Zionism is defined as the belief that Jews, who have been the most persecuted group in human history, deserve a right to self-determination in a nation in our indigenous land that we came from. Zionism is an old movement found as far back as the Old Testament from Jews who were exiled by Babylonian colonialists from Israel to what is now Iraq in years 597-538 BCE, after which most of the Jews were returned to Israel by Cyrus the Great of Persia. Later Romans would conquer what was by then known just as the Kingdom of Judea, and after a failed revolt in 135 CE they slaughtered 1 million Jews and sent most of the rest of us on slave ships and caravans around the Mediterranean and Middle East, bringing us far out into the world.

They renamed the land Syria Palaestinia, after the Philistines, which translates to INVADERS, who were a likely Phoenecian people who invaded the coast by sea and lived in oddy enough Gaza and that area and warred against the Israelites in Old Testament times and were eventually lost to history as a group 1000 years before Romans arrived.

From then we have yearned for our return. The idea of return to Israel is in our prayerbooks, mentioned as the closing of the passover Seder every year with a "Next Year In Jerusalem!", it is in our religious laws, and many commandments of our religion can only be carrid out in the land of Israel. Our holidays are organized around the agricultural calendar of the Levant with its dry and wet seasons instead of four seasons. In the late 1800s this movement of return to our homeland gained actual political traction in the world for the first time, and meanwhile Jews were returning to Ottoman (read: foreign imperial colonialists) Palestine and Jews were buying land (read: decolonizing) from the Ottoman Empire, and building things like small agraryan communes and even Tel Aviv was built on such a purchase not far from the ancient city of Yafo. Ottomans had ruled for 400 years before their downfall and Jews were Dhimmis, second-class citizens. We decolonized more of our land, and eventually the British took over and mucked about, and then in 1947 the UN votes Yes to a partition plan that would separate the land between the Jews and the children of our colonizers, and Israel agreed to this and Palestine did not. Israel decided fuck that we want independence and declared it with no particular borders established in this declaration. The same day, Egyptian tanks were rolling through Gaza into Israel, and a metric fuck ton of Arab nations join in and invade via Gaza and West Bank, and joined with Palestinian fighters, with the intention to "Drive the Jews into the Sea" and thus there was a war.

The Arabs lost this war they started badly enough that they now call it "The Catastrophe", and were pushed out to 1948 borders which left Palestinians with less land than they would have had if they peacefully split it with us by the Partition Plan.

This nation that the Jews yearned so hard for, for 2000 years straight, became Israel and it has existed as the singular Jewish country for over three quarters of a century now. We successfully decolonized and now have self-autonomy of our native land. Half of us live there. And those who are not Jews who are in our borders? Equal rights, equal everything. 1.6 million Palestinians living peacefully with Jews. 2 million Muslims living peacefully with Jews. Nowhere else in the region. You want to take that away (how? And then what? You saw what happened on Oct 7 and either stayed silent or cheered) and then say you don't hate me and my people? Be real.

Because what would happen if Israel goes away is just more of this:

...but without an army to protect us.

I don't know that every part of Israel's decolonization process has been pretty, or optimal, or free of human suffering. I do not agree with how Netanyahu's government does things, and especially with regards to the West Bank which was (unlike Gaza really to my knowledge) part of our former native territory and we should back off it because just as 7 million Jews aren't going anywhere, neither are the Palestinians, so they should also have autonomy over some of this land. It's not their fault they are the children of Judea's colonizers over the millenia. They have nowhere else to go.

Zionism says nothing at all about what to do with the children of our colonizers, especially when they keep trying so hard to kill us all the time. There's a range of opinions on that, but Zionism itself says nothing about it.

I'd like to say that our decolonization was done without bloodshed. But as I am frequently reminded by the "antizionist" crowd, "decolonization is violent".

Maybe it is. Didn't have to be. Didn't start off that way. Didn't have to do the Hebron massacre of 1927. Didn't have to try to drive the Jews into the Sea all those times and lose creating a refugee crisis. Didn't have to lob rockets at us for decades. Didn't have to do October 7th. Zionism won already, half the world's Jews are in our native lands enjoying our self-determination, and we have an army to defend the Jews now, and if anyone tries to kill us, it will always be their mistake every time. We aren't perfect human beings, but we are human beings, and we deserve self-determination as all peoples do, even if we don't do it exactly the way you want all the time.

Zionism is about Israel as a Jewish Nation existing, and ultimately not so much about what the State of Israel as a political entity does...those things are something else, and support of them or not supporting those things have little or nothing to do with what Zionism is, which is why 90% of Jews are Zionist despite a broader variety of opinions on Israeli politics or Israeli-palestinian geopolitics. The common thread is Jews should have a country in our native homeland.

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laughing at the entire conceit of live action httyd being "animation is for babies so we HAVE to remake this shot-for-shot in live action" but also they need to sell a new wave of plushies at universal studios orlando so toothless still looks like a fucking cartoon character

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predators are more conflict-averse than prey - a herbivore can get into a territorial dispute, get gored by a horn, and spend the next while weakened but still easily able to regain its strength from grass and tubers or whatever. a hunter that gets scratched by prey it still manages to kill might not be able to get a kill afterwards, and slowly starve. an ambush predator will back down if you stare at it, but a plant-eater will try to kick you to death.

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binging agents of shield rn and who allowed Miss Bobbi Morse to be that HOTTIE LIKE OMFGGGGGG

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Unique coat colors on cats 🖤