platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine
as someone who can have two cups of black tea several hours apart (never even one caffeinated coffee!) and then if i dare to venture any further i’m a jittery dizzy wreck who can’t sleep, i am so curious about how other people’s bodies handle this substance!
"cycle of violence" used in the context of colonization, resistance and national liberation is such an insulting, reductive, belittling phrase it tells me everything i need to know about whatever cunt is using it. people would never argue that violence in self-defense is morally reprehensible, so they obfuscate the very obvious origins of violence and the distinction between colonial violence and violent resistance, sometimes even barely acknowledging the former as violence at all.
what part of this is a cycle. because i can very easily point to the starting point and tell you what the palestinian resistance have stated is their end point.
you love rationalizing how much palestinian and arab blood being spilt every day doesn't bother you by arguing that "this is war, this is how things are, this is the cycle" and your solution to this nonexistent cycle necessitates the continuation of colonial violence just in ways that aren't so explicit and loud they end up disrupting your peace of mind. fuck off