ldnester90
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wow i never knew Ke Huy Quan auditioned for Harry Kim that's crazy
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Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.
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My friend asked me how many people on tumblr really watch Star Trek on a regular basis.
Reblog for Star Trek.
Ignore for a soul-crushing sense of being alone in the universe.
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Anti-voting rhetoric will be the death of the left. Literally.
Not a single fucking Republican voted to protect roe. It was fucking overturned in the first place bc trump got three Supreme Court appointments.
Every fucking thing wrong in this country is almost certainly the result of Republicans being in power. In 2020, Texas cut half of the polling places in black neighborhoods, and doubled them in white ones, regardless of population. It was Republicans bitching about mail in voting, and constantly, constantly fearmonger about voter fraud. Literally, their platform is about making civil rights harder to practice.
Would you like to know why? It’s because Republican politicians know better than anyone that higher voter participation means higher republican loss.
But what do I see from the online left, champions of the oppressed?
“Voting doesn’t do anything, the parties are the same, the system is rigged, etc, etc”
Don’t sit here and tell me you give a fuck about marginalized people if you aren’t ready to march your ass to the voting booth and vote out the party actively stripping their rights away.
Protest, donate, community build, unionize, and vote, vote, vote.
By the time direct action is the only option, it will be too fucking late.
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"From the River to the Sea"
@Daniel_Sugarman
In this thread, I’m going to go into some detail about what the phrase “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” means to many Jewish people. You may not agree, but I hope that it may enlighten those who simply don't understand the almost visceral reaction to it.
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2) For the benefit of a number of students at some of America’s most expensive higher education institutions, let’s start by clarifying - the river is the River Jordan, the sea is the Mediterranean.
3) So what do those chanting it mean? When asked, a bunch of them will say they want a single state in this area in which all people can live together in dignity and equality. Sounds great, right? Who would argue with that?
4) That claim is somewhat muddied when one particular version of that chant is used in Arabic, as has been heard and seen at various protests - من المية للمية / فلسطين عربية “From water to water, Palestine is Arab”. But let's leave that aside for the moment.
5) Note that the protesters are not calling for Israel to be *changed* into what they see as a free and equal society. For them this can only be achieved by Israel being *ended* and replaced by Palestine.
6) Objectively, you can say that the reason for this is that the protestors believe that Israel (and Zionism) is fundamentally incompatible with what they see as equality and freedom for all, which is why for them it has to go in its entirety. But...
7) But there is a significant degree of ambiguity as to what the end result *actually* means. And it’s that question mark which is why so many Jewish people see this slogan the way they do.
8) Because Jewish people have lots of different examples of what happens to Jewish communities who are minorities in countries in the MENA region. They get destroyed. I'll give you some examples.
9) Egypt. 1948 - 75,000 Jews. 2024 - 30 Jews.
10) Lebanon. 1948 - 9,000 Jews. 2024 - 20 Jews.
11) Syria. 1948 - 15,000 Jews. 2024 - 4 Jews.
12) Yemen. 1948 - 55,000 Jews. 2024 - 1 Jew.
13) Iraq. 1948 - 156,000 Jews. 2024 - 1 Jew.
14) Iran. 1948 - 150,000 Jews. 2024 - 8,750 Jews (under the strict control of the Iranian regime).
15) Libya. 1948 - 40,000 Jews. 2024 - No Jews.
16) Algeria. 1948 - 150,000 Jews. 2024 - 150 Jews,
17) Tunisia. 1948 - 105,000 Jews. 2024 - 1,500 Jews.
18) Morocco. 1948 - 270,000 Jews. 2024 - 2,000 Jews.
19) The anti-Zionist narrative is that this mass Exodus was the fault of the Zionists, who created Israel. No Israel, goes the refrain, and all those communities would still be there.
This ignores a very simple point.
20) In every single one of these countries, to a greater or lesser extent, Israel’s independence was followed by significant repression of local Jewish populations.
Every one.
21) Remind me, what’s the way to describe holding members of an ethnic or racial group responsible for what other members of that group may have done elsewhere?
22) By doing so - oppressing the local Jewish population via pogroms, repressive laws, denying Jewish people full citizenship, confiscation of land and property - these MENA countries made a more effective argument for Zionism than Israel ever could have done by itself.
23) What that said, very clearly, was that Jews as a minority in a MENA country lived there strictly on sufferance. That at any time they could be deprived of everything - including their lives.
This had been clear pre-Zionism too, but the reaction post-'48 put the seal on this.
24) Which brings us back to now. The one-state Palestine being dreamt of is one where, at best, Jews will be allowed to live as a minority.
25) I put it to you that the experience of more than half of Israel’s Jewish population - descended from those who had to leave MENA countries, means that they *know* what the end result of such a Palestine will be.
A land without Jews.
26) This, by the way, given most Israeli Jews now are descendants of MENA Jews is also why the “post-colonial” depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as some sort of “white vs brown” battle is so utterly brainless. And that’s before we discuss Israel’s many Ethiopian Jews.
27) I’ve gone on too long, I know, but just one final point. If the anti-Israel protestors really wanted to assure Jews - all Jews - that there would be a real future for Jews in their hoped for future one-state Palestine - they would be doing their best to engage with Zionists.
28) They would be saying “Zionism is an ideology built on numerous examples - in MENA and in Europe - that Jews are, in the long term, only safe in their own country. Let us show you that this isn’t necessarily the case. Let’s talk. Find common ground. Try for friendships.”
29) Instead Zionists are told they are Nazis. The same age-old antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish control are applied to “Zionists”. “Zionists” are excluded from the Community of the Good.
30) Congratulations!
You’ve just proved every single Jewish Zionist’s point for them - and you’ve helped create new ones. In a very similar way to those MENA countries post 1948.
*Thread ends*
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#depends on the crime#some crimes I can turn a blind eye to#and if they offed the right person? I could see myself helping to dispose the body#others? I'd never hesitate to report them to the cops and tell everything I could to the prosecutor#or something like that
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This is the End Goal of Capitalism
I have had strong visions of the need for a specifically geriatric care orientated fast response team for evictions,.
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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
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パぺるブルグ (Pappelburg)
Yarimizu, Hachioji, Tokyo (October 4th, 2020)
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ミルキーウェイ (Milky Way)
Kodachi, Fujikawaguchiko, Minamitsuru, Yamanashi (September 25th, 2022)
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[Start Caption]
*Someone offscreen is filming a scene of a red pizza delivery car outside of a closed classroom window with the subtitles 'Our sub didn't show up, so we ordered pizza in speech class😭'*
*The pizza delivery driver left their car and moves around the car and walks towards the classroom window while holding a pizza warming bag*
(The deliveryman reaches the window and while a hand goes to open the bottom half of the window halfway) *People in the background* Everybody listen- Go Go! Ok!'
*A blonde teenage crouches next to the window* 'Watch out, bro.' *class collectively laughs*
(Pizza deliveryman) There's a bunch of adults over there.
*The deliveryman reaches the open window as the person near the window holding a wad of cash lays the wad at the windowsill, the deliveryman slides two pizza boxes twice as the person near the window grabs them and places them on a table near the window in the classroom*
(Person near window) Ok, there's your money, bro, there's your money, you got like a 15 dollar tip, probably more than that.
(Pizza deliveryman) You guys are cool for doing this, all of you.'
(Window person) Se ya man.
(Pizza deliveryman) Hey what's up?
(Person near window)Have fun bro (person in background) bring in the pizzas.
*The camera moves to show the stack of pizza boxes on the table near the window. The top box has a logo on it with the words, "Ma Zerella's"*
*The person near the window closes it as some of the classmates emits shrieks of joy and laughter while others shush them*
*The camera pans to show the rest of the class before focusing on a empty desk*
[End caption]
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