I won't talk about history before my time. Let me tell you about lived experience.

There was some hope for peace in the 1990s. There was a feeling that things will really change, that there's a chance for a massive shift towards better times.

The Palestinians weren't the only ones who sabotaged that process; the Israeli extreme right was very much actively destroying it alongside the extreme elements in Palestinian society. In the years since, the Israeli extreme right, and the governments that capitulated to its demands, did a lot of damage. So did the Palestinians, both individual cases and as a society/state. There were several possible turning points, all squandered or intentionally fucked over.

But there's no both-sides in what happened on October 7, 2023. None whatsoever. This isn't a case of individual extremists raising shit. This is thousands of organized men, carefully planning and executing an outright evil. Heading out, cheering and laughing, to terrorize, hurt, rape, torture, burn, destroy, murder. Film it, laugh at it, laugh while doing it, celebrate it. That was a choice made. Those who returned made a choice to parade a naked bloodied dead woman to the cheers of their families. To showcase rather than hide their shameful actions.

There is no both-side-ism to that, there's no whatabout. This was an act of evil and horror, and anyone who stands for it - anyone who cheered, and anyone who said "well that's understandable after all" from the comfort of their gamer chair a thousand miles away - is part of that side, and part of that evil.

That's it. That's the point that stands.

This move started a war, and that war is fought on several fronts, and in a war people on both sides die, and in a war like this PR is something some people feel is worth more than human lives. I disagree with those people, but that's besides the point right now.

The war, and its death count, cannot expunge this one time event that started it. Nothing can. That choice made, by thousands of people on the ground, and by the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, who cheered it later, cannot be erased, cannot be padded with PR that calls it justified. It is forever damning evidence.

And it cannot shatter hope, not for good. Not for society at large. But it can show the real faces and asses of those who prefer this to peace.

Consider who you stand with.

Daily News, New York, September 7, 1925

Your daily reminder

I’m hard at work at the register

Atheistic goyim: religion sucks, people need to learn to question their religious texts and laws!!

Jews: (question their religious texts and laws)

Atheistic goyim: OMG NO NOT LIKE THAT

to all the jews who ive become friends with these past few months:

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subtitles should be on automatically. people who don’t want them should have to turn them off

by Hazel Gardner

Gargoyles #12

I recently watched Gargoyles for the first time, and I immediately knew I had to draw them because every single gargoyle design on this show kicks ass.

I think they would've been friends

Does this mean catboys can't loaf during Passover...

holy shit wait

idk why I made this

a couple more superman sketches cause he’s so silly to me

just... something I've noticed. (cw: this is about i/p and leftist activism)

so many stories are like:

villain: "there's a problem in this world that needs to be fixed, an injustice in the systems that control our life, so I shall fix it with VIOLENCE AND MURDER AND MORE VIOLENCE!"

hero: "halt, you fiend! I, a Good American Citizen™, shall stop you. scease this treachery at once!"

*proceeds to beat them up and do nothing about the issue that caused this, Happy Ending uwu everything is solved*

the purpose of these stories were propaganda, obviously, to associate fighting for justice with violence and villainy, and heroism with restoring the status quo and never questioning it.

people called bullshit, but instead of going "the source of the issue wasn't the villain, it was the system they were in. you can't just get rid of them and go about your day, you have to remove the problem from its source as well", they went "the source of the issue isn't the villain, it was the system they were in. the villain was actually completely justified in their response because of the end goal! sure their actions are bad, but the system is worse!" while completely ignoring how in most of these stories, the villains were okay with actual mass murder.

and here we are, in a post Oct. 7th world, where people look a massacre of Jews, and say the exact same thing. justifying undescribable acts of violence by saying "well these noble savages Palestinians had endured 75 years of genocide (wrong) apartheid (wrong) and ethnic cleansing (also wrong)! their response is understandable! I don't condone their violence, but something had to be done." and you get people simping for actual extremist terrorist organisations, marching around while parroting calls for genocide, and repeating words to make them sound educated on a conflict they only know about from social media posts.

yes, the systems are unfair and cruel and social justice needs to be achieved. but you can't turn a blind eye or actively condone horrific acts that are done in the name of that cause. speaking against it won't make you the "movie protagonist™", you HAVE to speak up against it if you want to work towards a peaceful future.

What I love about old-school Superman in the earliest days of Action Comics is that he doesn't usually fight super-villains or intergalactic threats. Instead he's introduced as the "Champion of the Oppressed." It's like they were entertaining the fantasy of being so powerful and so untouchable that you could single-handedly right the world's wrongs. Superman stands up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. He despises those who prey on or take advantage of others, and he has the strength to tell them to fuck off. Yes, he'll fight the aliens when they invade. But he'll just as readily stick up for the little guy who's being screwed over by his landlord.