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galleryyuhself · 1 year

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villainsandheroes · 8 months

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🦽 for villain pleaseeeeeeeeeee :D

I love you!!! :D Sorry it took so long :(

Villain coughed weakly, holding his chest as his ribs ached. He didn't know why the high and mighty Superhero suddenly stepped in the middle of their fight with Hero, but he swore he felt their ribs crack into a thousand pieces when Superhero threw the car at him. If only he could get away before they not...iced...

Superhero lifted the car and threw it to the side. "You know how tiresome I'm getting of hearing your name all over the news, Villain?" They picked him up, flying forward and slamming his back into a building. Villain gasped at the intense pain. "Why can't you keep your petty little hands to yourself for once?"

"Superhero?" Hero frowned while going over. "I think they understand."

"Do they?" Superhero chuckled as Villain writhed in pain. "Because I think he still hasn't gotten it through his head." They grabbed Villain's head and slammed it backward into the wall before dropping him. "Maybe that will help." They snorted while looking down at their crumbled form. "Come on, Hero. They won't bother you for a while."

Before Hero could protest Superhero had their arm around them and was pulling him away.

Villain shook a bit, head spinning, chest heaving, palms sweating. He had to get out of here. He tried sitting up but his vision went black and he fell backwards. Coughing heavier as his vision went in and out and everything started spinning.

He tried again several times to get up but couldn't, left there as citizens sneered as they walked past. A young girl watched him before frowning and going up.

"Do... do you need help, Mister?"

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dorkicon · 9 months

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bitching abt my job again

tags contain frank mentions of transphobia and homophobia

#this happened like. i dont know. a month ago or something but i still keep playing it in my mind #for those unawares: theres been a fucking community outrage over the pride display at the library i work at #and have been working/volunteering at for 5 years #only it never went up. it never went up. bc the mayor came in as a quote unquote private citizen and demanded it taken down #despite the fact that patrons are required to fill out complaint sheets and even then it isnt ensured a display will be taken down #so obviously its a misuse of power that hes spinning into him being a concerned citizen #and i made a whole post bitching abt it and im doing so again (hi) bc i didnt like how our director responded to it #and yeah. so there was a board meeting after that right. well i set up for them as i usually do and let me tell you. that was the first #--time more than like 6 people came to spectate. it was insane.#and i guarantee that this months meeting wont have half as many people that fucking crammed themselves in there to complain abt gay ppl #bc of course they dont give a shit about the library #they just care about how scary the queers are #and yeah it was a shit show. i learned we have a far right organization in our town #and i was sat right in front of her husband the whole time #(standing actually. i was standing between him and my moms chair and he was sighing and grumbling the whole time bc he couldnt muster the #--balls to ask the 5 foot 2 fag in front of him to please move lol. small victories right)#when i say her i mean the leader of the freaks. idk. chairman? anyway she had a whole speech about how like queers are bad and cutting #the penises off little babies or whatever and she pulled up this passage from a book that was part of the display #its some book by the youtuber rowan ellis-- here and queer i think was the title. it was cataloged in our ya section and contained passages #talking about like having safe sex and what dildoes are and all that kind of shit. just really clinical descriptions imo. im not familiar w #--the youtuber really but im assuming they wrote it as informational bc shocker: teens be having sex. unsafe sex. especially queer teens #sourse: i was one of tgose #and...think for a moment. remember when you were a teen. youd rather fucking DIE than listen to your parents give you the sex talk #and chances are if youre gay your parents arent even going to know WHAT gay sex is (hugging without shirts on) so youre going to look #--elsewhere #bc if youre a hormonal fucking teen youre going to figure it out one way or another! especially if youre from (cough) a podunk shitwater #--town like mine that ran on abstinence by way of sex education #i think teens deserve to have access to that sort of information through trusted means. and i do mean het teens too #but no these fucking morons put on airs like everyones waiting till marriage--no! not my becky sue! as if they werent fucking around in #--holy shit i reached taglimit. i didnt ecen know there was one. hold on

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starlooove · 7 months

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What they don’t tell you about doing shit ur bad at for fun is that ur still worried about ppl seeing it 💀💀💀

#my Duke week shit sitting in my sketchbook 💔#sorry babe let him stay there!#I think for rebellion I’m gonna do Duke joins red hood au #remember when Jason asked Tim to be his Robin?#well idk Batman did smth Duke wasn’t fw and he decided to dip and Jason picked him up #not to rant like I like Jason and all but idk how I feel about y’all saying #‘he just kills drug dealers and thugs’#like IK in our minds Hes about community action and shit but canonically #he really just kills ppl and leaves it for the community to deal with #OVERSIMPLIFICATION IK DONT GET MAD ITS JUST NOT ABOUT HIM #anyways the point is I think Duke would give him a more nuanced look on ppl who commit these crimes in the first place #like Jason is very victim focus but Duke is very much about personal responsibility but part of that IS giving ppl the opportunity to grow #part of that IS the reformation of drug dealers and run of the mill thugs and sometimes a warning is all it takes #I think they could be a great contrast to Bruce and tim #in my mind they both obviously care a lot but they also lack so much knowledge on the average citizen #And tim specifically even tho he’s highly compassionate I like the idea of him having low empathy #and in my mind Duke is extremely empathetic but he’s a hardass and when it comes to his expectations #so like let’s look at Harley reformation right? tim wouldn’t FEEL for her like that but he’d be able to provid a lot of room for her to grow #like hed tolerate regression more if that makes sense #Duke would understand her plight and feel for her but he also says that it’s because he understands it that he can’t let shit slide #lowk like bruce….#so when it comes to the red hood thing Duke is like ‘don’t shoot first 🙄’ but also all bets are off when u step outta line bc the fact that #u had the chance to grow and chose not to? he doesn’t like it and it twists later on where Jason’s the one telling Duke that its ok for ppl #to regress and that self improvement isn’t linear for anybody (including him bc the crux of the issue is that Duke is holding ppl to the #standards he holds himself to) I feel like I’m overexplaining badly but like. I will clarify if asked #anyways it doesn’t matter this is staying in the drafts

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darkwood-sleddog · 1 year

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Sorry to be heavy on main but people love to talk a big game about helping “vulnerable populations” when really they mean the visibly homeless. You ask them what we can do for vulnerable adults living in unsafe environments that are a home or place that is not visibly publicly and they throw their hands in the air and go “well there’s nothing that we can do if they don’t want help.”

Okay so you want to force homeless people from their encampments into pretty little boxes designed to house them but when it comes to a senior citizen whose home is physically falling down around them, living in waste we’re just gonna let that happen? We put together a task force to “help along” the homeless people living in their cars that stop along our town green to take advantage of our free wifi, but do nothing for the people actually living in this town? It’s hypocritical as fuck.

You don’t care about vulnerable people, you only care about the ones that affect your physical viewpoint.

#not dogs #sorry dealing with some stuff at work that is #objectively not my job but I literally can’t leave this alone bc #it’s not even the first instance of a disabled senior living in a house #that is gonna collapse on them #rural senior citizens and disabled people are so isolated and even if you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist #people only care when people are disabled visibly and how that affects them personally #we don’t throw our hands up with the homeless and say ‘oh well they don’t want help’#bc they are visible #‘community’ my ass

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kraviolis · 9 months

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hi guys here's my weekly update for y'all about the GTA5 RP streams ive been watching constantly!

the government of los santos is planning on starting a war with a sovereign nation just off the coast of san andreas called the sanguine isles because the nation has been trafficking weapons and supplying gangs within los santos with guns and literal WMDs that have taken so many lives and destroyed entire buildings.

this all started because at first the PD decided to infiltrate sanguine by putting an undercover spy on the island and having him worm his way into the island's militia inner circle. he got heavy amounts of intel on everything and provided this intel directly to the commissioner of the PD and to the director of the detective agency of the PD.

recently, after about 2-3 months of UC work and intel gathering, his cover was blown after the agent was spotted by allies of the sanguine isles while on the mainland for his uncle's funeral (his uncle being the previous commissioner who set up this whole op) and was recognized.

it wasnt immediate recognition and there was a lot of doubt as to whether divine (the cop) and jamie (his undercover identity) were the same person, but it really all got fucked up last night when yaeger (the leader of the sanguine isles) was called by shelby (one of the new commissioner's fiance) because she was pissed the commissioner was focused on work (the spy possibly being in danger bcus he decided to go back to the island) instead of wedding planning and asked him directly if divine (the cop) was in danger. this directly confirmed to yaeger that jamie (the undercover ID) and divine (the cop) were the same person.

divine, having learned how his cover was blown, went full scorched earth because he's severely mentally fucked up from his time on the island. he snitched on the PD to yaeger. then he refused to leave the island and told everyone he was joining yaeger.

bundy (senior park ranger) was called in for legal advice and help with a possible assassination attempt. he managed to talk down the commissioners of PD and the director of detectives from pulling a full on CIA operation that involved infiltrating the island and assassinating divine. because that would've basically been the state of san andreas declaring war on the sanguine isles.

instead, bundy (senior park ranger) invoked legislation written months ago because divine also has a warrant out for his arrest (he shot someone in the head for pissing on his uncle's grave) and the legislation is very clear that if someone on the island has a warrant, then los santos/san andreas has every right to go to the island to apprehend this individual and yaeger has to cooperate and assist them in the apprehension or else it is considered a violation of international law and possibly a declaration of war against the state of san andreas.

bundy (who is, i cannot emphasize this enough, a park ranger who is just a senior patrol officer.) basically came in to what was about to be an international incident that would lead to san andreas being seen as the aggressors and turned it completely around to the point where the sanguine isles are now violating international law and san andreas military has every right to invade them.

#shelby did 8/11 #btw bundy was doing fishing license checks 20 minutes before the director of detectives called and asked if he still had his sniper rifle.#krav talks #nopixel #im still baffled over the fact that bundy hasnt even been promoted to SGT yet. tessa was talking about promoting him to LT straight away #instead of doing the usual cpl -> sgt -> lt steps of promotion #and honestly bundy deserves it and would be incredibly useful as a LT #he could help the new sgts and take a load off of the three other LTs and give the ones newer to higher command advice #fun fact: this isnt the first time los santos has gone to war! the last war was a civil war #where a portion of citizens tried to secede from san andreas and establish an independent commune with their own laws and regulations #los santos won that war but im not sure if they'll win this next one

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loneliii-aura · 1 year

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To continue building my confidence by actually talking about things that can be disagreed with on this blog...

I feel like the US set an obnoxious precedent with flags by smacking its own flag across *absolutely everything.* It sort of...trivialized allegiance to ideas in a way that was consumer friendly and has led to endless variations of flags across all kinds of different communities. I'm most familiar with lgbt+ flag drama because those are the people I spend most of my time around, but it extends to other groups, too.

For example, I don't like the blue-green color gay flag. I feel like it entirely misses the point of the original flag, which was a list of qualities in gay men that could be celebrated across the board. It didn't need to be masculine coded because being gay was, in itself, subversive to the overarching cultural idea of masculinity.

Another example to do with that is the skin colors addition to the gay flag - I would argue that it should be the goal of people within the gay community to make a point of saying "people of color are included hands down" and take a stand against racism in the community, rather than adding the colors. This creates a sense of wariness. If someone *just* has the rainbow flag up--are they older, are they a gay white supremacist, or do they have a reason like mine not to use it?

To be fair to the other side... I understand the criticisms of the gay men's flag representing everyone, and wanting to find an answer to that by making a new pride flag for gay men specifically. My dislike of certain flags does have an anchor in time: the older a flag is, the more likely I am to be okay with it. I must admit to myself that the only way to build a history around something is to have it exist in the first place. I'm sure gay men were bitching about the rainbow flag's existence for similar reasons back when it was first created.

Beyond that, a lot of my discomfort most likely stems further back to a distaste for modern microidentity politics - I don't feel like there needs to be a label for every sexual and romantic variation on earth because I don't feel like people need to be privy to that information about me from the moment we meet. If I like them well enough and the topic goes there, I'll tell them.

In the long run...I think these flags were supposed to be a declaration of allegiance to community. 'Hey, you who was kicked out from your family for being gay, you who are closeted for fear of rejection...if you see this flag you will find people who will love and hold you as their own.' However, flags have become an allegiance to identity, which I don't believe is as sustainable in the same way.

And I think that was on the US, who portrayed patriotism as the number of flags in your yard and how you defined yourself as a loyal US citizen to be the most important identity one could have.

#The unrelenting gratefulness I have for being a first generation US citizen #I'm in deep enough to see the bs and where it comes from #But wasn't taught it by my family #Don't get me wrong - I use certain flags #There is something wonderful in identifying yourself with a quiet old flag #And recognizing it among other people #And I can't begrudge other people their use of flags #But I think a lot of the lead up to it is frustrating #I could be totally off base - and this probably isn't a unique problem to this day and age #I'd love to hear the thoughts of historians about people identifying with identities vs communities over the years #Or even movements vs communities #I don't feel like the modern US gay community is a movement beyond 'let's preserve our right to exist and love the way we want'#Unlike say factions of the French revolution #But I might be damn wrong about that

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ligbi · 9 months

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is anyone else in a field that feels like climbing up a falling ladder?

went to school for MIS (computer science but less programming more business) graduated 14. First job 15-18, another 19-20, and then 21-23. every time I job hunt I see positions that I had seen before but the amount they offer seems so much lower than they had offered? sysadmin seems like a position I could have sword was averaging 120k/year in 18, and now I'm seeing a listing for not even 60k.

I know every job is working their employees to the bone for as little as they can get away with while the world burns down but god you do everything right- go to school, go local to keep loans low, get a degree in something that can pay you instead of something you like- and you still get screwed

we need universal healthcare, ubi, and a fix to the housing crisis, as well as making all jobs 30hours 1.5x for any hours post that, and capping maximum pay (15x the lowest paid employee's salary is extremely generous. 30k for employees? You still get almost half a mil a year you greedy fucks)

#give everyone a snap card for at least 100/person/week #minimal taxes on first personal property #30% taxes on a secondary #increase % by at least 5 for each extra property #force all modern 'tech disruptors' to be painfully transparent about their profits #so they end up shut down because none of them are profitable and they have only fucked shit up for your avergae person #public transport for most of the country is. complicated #but bullet trains cheap between all major and minor cities is not #also just make public transport free #'oh but how would we pay' the military budget. calculate how much you owe the people you got to sign up per your bs little promises #and then keep maybe 20% and put the rest towards your fucking citizens #'what about immigrants' what about them they're citizens too open the damn borders #take in refugees help them you weird hateful fuckers #this country sucks but if it's better for others let them in #obviously make abortions safe and legal #decriminalize sex work and drugs #take the money you keep throwing at the cops and put it into your communities #blah blah blah #all this shit is so fucking easy it just requries the people in power to not be in the pockets of shitbags #and that won't stop until we limit campaign spending and provide housing for politicians #since their pay is Fine enough but for dc? ehhh #they need to be taken care of enough by their jobs to not be suceptiable to the wine and dine bs

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kyuala · 2 years

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oh my god i could probably talk abt this forever and i literally wont shut up about it until the world cup rolls around but do u guys wanna know abt the covert coup they tried to stage 2day

#ok so basically bols*naro n his allies were already fearing his loss right. bc they know lula is a popular leftist leader here #little bit of background lula rose to high ranking political office through populism. that means his main focus when in power r the masses #lower classes and socially oppressed groups like black ppl women the Gays™ etc #he was the first ever president to rly look at our country's northeast region and do something for them #historically the northeast is the poorest most discriminated against region. poverty is a great concern there #they annually suffer bc of droughts and they're the part of the country nearly the whole rest is xenophobic towards #i'd say rlly only the north region isnt so xenophobic towards them bc theyre almostttt there but #the south and southeast are the worst. im talking most whitened populations who descend from europeans n think they're better #just bc they're the richer regions too. the midwest comes close too in terms of xenophobia but literally who cares abt them. anyways #bc of this history the northeast region has a history of preferring left-wing leaders esp from pt - lula's party #in the 1st round of elections earlier this month lula won the majority of votes in that region - as expected. bols*naro spectacularly lost #after that he went on to publicly state during a live stream - yes that is how our now soon-to-be FORMER president communicated with us -#that the only reason lula won there is bc the illiteracy rates were higher. basically implying they didnt vote for him bc theyre uneducated #which is v obviously a lie. 7 out of 10 perfect scores in enem - our national highschool exams - came from that region so. yea theyre NOT #uneducated they just never bought into bols*naro's bullshit like the rest of the country did. and he knew that #so fast forward to today. free public transportation on election days is a right to every brazilian citizen #a lot of northeastern people depend on buses to get to the polling places. theyre most notably the region where this happens the most #the chief of the federal highway police is a known public supporter of blsnr. the frp announced they'd be having several traffic blitzes #during election day - that's illegal. keeping ppl from voting or making their journey 2 polling places more difficult is an electoral crime #the supreme electoral court ruled against this. the frp chief then released a statement basically saying yea idc i'll still do this #and 2day they did. several traffic blitzes were set up across the country but guess who took the bigger hit? northeastern voters #roughly HALF of the operations were set up in that region alone - the other half was p evenly distributed between the remaining 4 REGIONS #the northeast suffered roughly 5x more than other regions in voter suppression bc of this. n we already know why #yall know whats the funniest part of this? he still lost 💀#so yea thats basically how blsnr n his lackeys tried 2 overthrow a democratic decision b4 it was even made so they wouldnt lose their power #n when i say that was an illegal move i mean that department of the federal police literally never cared abt that before #n blsnr had already tried to suspend free fare across the country - to keep poor people from voting - during the 1st AND 2nd rounds #he failed so his frp supporters tried to step in. they were legally and directly prohibited from doing so and still went ahead w it #also several northeastern voters posted videos online of federal agents keeping the buses from circulating #and innumerous accounts of them trying to coerce and constrain voters into revealing their voting intentions - another crime

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boofblr · 2 years

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tell me the name of your favorite podcast + why you love it so much in the tags

#i have too many to count but i guess i have to go first #one is called pantsuit politics #two women who discuss politics in a holistic way #so not like political pundits. but like good citizens who want to understand what x means for how they should support their communities #another one of my faves is stuff you should know with josh and chuck!!#sometimes it's relaxing to hear some old guys tell me how drowning works. or what nato is #boof.txt

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massivelyspeedyobject · 2 years

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SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC? Just Look at India

Bharat will became Viswa Guru very soon. Liberty is no more. Law & order maintained by Babaji Ki Buldozer. Divide and rule, Horse-Trading, judiciary under pressure, Investigative agencies are misusing, No accountability of Police, Controlled Democracy.

VISWA GURU BHARAT (MODI): click on the link https://twitter.com/news24tvchannel/status/1554479048726020098?t=1KtFaFRHYCI3RX3sEISNVQ&s=19 DEMOCRACY:Is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or to choose governing officials to do so. But: Rulling Party doing horse trading to purchase Members of Lagislative Assembly & Members of…

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angelamontoo · 2 years

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Just watched lancer spy..

OK at this point it's on me cause I even made a post just the other day saying that I oughtta look up how much screentime peter has in a film before I watch it(and subsequently whine about it on tumblr) but you have to admit they're taken the piss by having one of the first billed actors be a dude who doesn't show up till the 30 minute mark, gets like 5 minutes of screentime and just evaporates out of the plot. Also idek where I got this assumption, but for some reason I figured that these films where Peter Lorre only got like 5 minutes of screentime weren't really a thing till the 40s

At least Fritz Feld was in it. Its always a nice treat when he pops up in something. Considering Max was the first character I've seen him play it's kind of surprising how dang loveable Fritz is. Also this makes three films to my knowledge with both Fritz Feld and Peter Lorre and its such a shame that they don't interact much or at all in any of them

Ferdi was pretty funny too. Loved when he left the room and just made that "Aaaagh" sound for no reason. My kind of guy

This makes the second Peter Lorre film I've seen where Peter does not play the character I find to be the most loveable. Tbh Major Gruning might be peters most meh character for me. I do enjoy that he's a rare Peter lorre character with facial hair though. Lil moostash

We got ourselves another supposed femme fatale, who's whole way of life, previous loyalties and nonchalance about murder just disappear over some joe she knew for like an hour. I swear, everytime I see this happen in one of these old films I appreciate o Shaughnessy a little bit more. She may end the film with the whole "oh Sam dont throw me away, I friggin love you and stuff uwu" thing, but it's entirely possible(and I much prefer to believe) that she never cared about Spade and just doesn't wanna go to jail and I love that about her. Give me more bad bitches who just don't wanna go to jail. At least if she's just gonna be killed off or something anyway

I did like Dolores outfits though. Especially the one with the shiny bonnet thing. That was neat

This feels like an especially stupid nitpick(and for me that's saying something) but it kinda bugs me that the Germans keep randomly saying German words to eachother. Why? Surely they're speaking to eachother in German and we're hearing it in English, but then why would some words and phrases still be German?

Uhhh. Idk how to end this post. I like Ferdi

#lancer spy #sigfried gruning #what am i even tagging him first for i barely bring him up lol #lt. michael bruce #dolores daria sunnel #fritz mueller #ferdi #i have no fucking clue how i was able to write so much about this stinken film i feel like i didnt even pay attention to most of it😂#hc that baron kurt is bayerisch and the berlin citizens thought it would be easier to communicate with him in english lo

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jewishvitya · 5 months

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A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.

#riki babbles #I had this in my drafts for ages and I was like 'not the time' but a friend encouraged me to share so here it is #palestine

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delicatelysublimeforester · 1 month

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Citizen Scientists Preserve the Heart of Saskatoon: The Battle for the Swales

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starlooove · 1 year

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Ok like i know the whole no metas in Gotham thing is a lot more nuanced than most fans take it BUT I kinda like fanon interpretation here just bc I want Duke to have a network of metas connected in Gotham

Edit: I always make the full post in the tags but honestly it derailed so much that I think my point isn’t even necessarily entirely abt Duke and metas but basically I like Duke and everyone else does by default now. If y’all won’t woobify him the way I want I’ll do it myself

#like #imo I think it’s funny if Gotham citizens took the idea of no metas in Gotham way too literally #to the point of ostracization #funny was not the right word there but im not going back so anyways I meant interesting #and Duke himself doesn’t rlly give a fuck #he discovered his powers post the whole Batman thing and he personally knows that the way Bruce sees it is not the way the average gothamite #-sees it but he also knows that Batman doesn’t do much to actively dissuade them but he also knows PSAs are not how barman operates and that #-if he brought it to Bruce’s attention brucie wayne would have a lot to say on it in a way that Batman couldn’t but also also #-ppl OUTSIDE of Gotham and even withing Gotham use the meta thing to their advantage and it’d be a shitstorm so he needs to wait and plan #which sucks.#anyways this is all to say that Duke is friends with literally everyone in a way that other members of the batfam can’t be due to #the intersections of his identity. take that as you will.#and honestly if we wanna go an X-men type route #metas that ARENT heroes are treated a lot worse even if they’re not villains but they know they can trust the signal #Duke as the signal not limited to gothams bat signal but as a signal to everyone that there’s someone in their corner #remember that post that was like canon Duke is who everyone wants fanon dick to be #Duke is actually friends with everyone everywhere ever that’s just his charisma #dick doesn’t wanna be Batman but part of him does do that paranoid hiding info seeking info mission above all else kinda thing #I don’t think Duke would do that #I feel like Duke WOULD put community first and if he had a team I think he’d be the type to trust them with the info he knows #like y’all know the whole Kaldur thing in YJ? I think Duke is the type have either vetoed the plan or told the whole team #which isn’t better or worse (im not gonna get into ALL of it now) but diff #this is turning into a Duke Meta (pun intended) And honestly imma make a whole separate post Abt that ftw #anyways Gotham metas aren’t heroes bc they aren’t allowed to be but Duke gives them a chance #and even if they choose not to take it they know that it’s there and that warms them up a little #warm for a gothamite anyways #og batfam and then meta batfam #even if the other bats have friends that are Metas they WILL flock to Duke and they all hate it lmao #Tim slowly getting all his friends stolen #the entire flashfam is fighting a custody battle for Duke as we speak

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THE 10 STAGES OF GENOCIDE, AND HOW FAR PALESTINE IS ALONG WITH THEM

This will be using the UN's ten stages of genocide map (as seen above) as a base for each stage.

So far, palestine is within its ninth stage of genocide.

*although I do not believe isreal is a real or valid country, this will be referring to its citizens as "isrealis"

First Stage: Classification.

This stage is about us and them narratives. In the Holocaust it was Jewish vs Germans, in this it is Palestinians vs israelis.

The ‘us vs them’ narrative has been drilled into young israelis' minds for decades and has only gotten worse.

Second Stage: Symbolism

I do not believe there are any symbols to tell an israel apart from a Palestinian person.

Most of the time it is based off their religion, however not all Palestinians are Muslim nor are all israel Jewish.

Instead of symbols, they segregate.

Third Stage: Discrimination

This stage is about taking things away from their target group. israel has taken away their housing, their land, and their property as seen in the west bank.

Fourth Stage: Dehumanisation

Dehumanisation refers to distancing the target group from humans, and making people less inclined to empathize with them.

israel refers to Palestinians as both animals and derogatory words such as "whores" or "monsters."

Fifth Stage: Organization

This stage is about planning the genocide, and training.

Many israeli students are taught in order for them to grow up and become IDF soldiers. They are taught how to kill without remorse and enjoy it.

Sixth Stage: Polarisation

Polarisation is about the media and spreading hate about their target group in media.

The IDF not only go on international TV and talk about palestinian "terrorists" but also spread misinfo on social media.

(see this post)

Seventh Stage: Preparation

When preparing perpetrators use code words in order to make their intentions seem brighter.

israel calls it "land disputes" or "self defense" when it is a genocide fueled by colonialist ideologies.

Eight Stage: Persecution

Persecution is about rounding up their target group and committing mass killings.

israel has rounded Palestinians up into Gaza, an open air prison, and continues to bomb their homes, shelters, and hospitals.

There is nowhere for palestinians to go.

Stage Nine: Extermination

This is the stage we are on. israel is destroying hospitals, relief centers, communities, and families.

They are attempting to find and kill every palestinian. Class of 2024 has been canceled due to all students dying.

This cannot continue.

Stage Ten: Denial

If we continue to let israel kill off Palestine, we will get here. To the point where zionists will deny the genocide entirely.

SPEAK UP. DO NOT LET IT COME TO THIS.

Thank you for reading. The original post can be found under the Twitter/X account @aligaytor_. OP has given me permission to share it to Tumblr.

#palestine #palestine news #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine 🇵🇸#i stand with palestine 🇵🇸#free palestine #news on gaza #save gaza #gaza genocide #free gaza #gaza #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #i stand with palestine #stand with gaza #genocide #info post

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