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Once again asking why there was a music festival at the edge of the world's largest open air prison where people were dancing and partying while people were being starved and imprisoned so close to them. How is that a "peaceful" festival.

fairuzfan

Literally the one question no one has an answer to. Why were they there. Why did the Israeli government let them have a party there. Out of everywhere in "Israel", why did you have a party near the largest concentration camp as a citizen of an occupying nation.

industrialdyke

not to detract from your point, but that is quite literally what happened, and the resemblance is fucking terrifying.

around the time when the 1943 warsaw ghetto uprising began, the nazis set up a merry-go-round right next to the ghetto's walls along with music, and people were dancing, having fun in the pleasant april weather. marek edelman, one of the most prominent leaders of the uprising and a notorious anti-zionist as well as a leftist organizer, in the book "shielding the flame" (which i believe everyone should read as it provides insight into how the ghetto operated and made me realize how uncannily close the sitation looks like modern day gaza), stated that he could hear the music outside, and he could see the happy people, and he was so, so terrified that all that joy outside will drown out their screams for help, the gunshots and the fire.

and i can't help but think about how familiar it sounds now.

(tags by @verita-lapalissiana)

Wow.

You should really listen to the WHOLE thing because this woman does not mince words

lesbian-moon-gf

I'd like to emphasize the cruelty. Being a worker right now is absolutely shit. Food costs, low wages, shitty work environments, childcare costs. A medical abortion can costs anywhere to $550-$700 in states that border ban states. You have to travel. You need a hotel after driving 8 hrs to a clinic. You need a baby sitter. You need a job that LETS you take time off. You need food! If you're barely making ends meet, this is nearly impossible. If you got the time and money, donate or share an abortion fund in a banned state. These funds and orgs not only pay part of the abortion, many of them are scaling up to support people with travel costs. You can find them or your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

audrey-hepbae

National Network of Abortion Funds

catshinji

For Australian residents!

A House of Representatives petition has just been filed. Unlike other petitions, this one will be presented to the House and requires a response from a Minister.

Elbit Systems, the Israeli defence contractor responsible for much of the weaponry currently causing devastation in Gaza, has just been awarded a $917 million contract with the Australian government.

The demand of this petition is to remove all contracts and deals between Australia and Elbit Systems.

Again, this is more than a change.org petition - this is a government petition with a certainty of being tabled before the House of Representatives. This is just one step of many that this country needs to take in ending Australia's support for the genocide of Palestinians.

Please sign and share the petition here. And don't forget to confirm your signature via the email afterwards.

The deadline is April 17th - make sure to sign before then.

No contracts with the Israeli war machine.

sayruq

The Israeli occupation government wants to ban the only major news organisation covering the genocide before they invade Rafah where over 1 million Palestinians are trapped.

huzni

Lemme quote @gorillawithautism on this:

soon-palestine

great-tweets

Sigh.

thefortysecond

Important update! His story went viral enough that other paint companies reached out to him and he got a job with a new paint company!!

https://www.tiktok.com/@tonesterpaints/video/6898720259675540742

tsarinajissa

Athens TikToker Tony Piloseno, who’s famous for his paint-mixing videos, revealed Tuesday that he accepted a job at a small Orlando, Florida

dancinbutterfly

Listen. This is what people are talking about when they say that if you gave people a fucking UBI, folks would still work. Even “menial” work is beloved by various people if it’s given the respect it deserves and folks dont need to worry about - um - starving to death and dying of illness?

deadpoolsbottombitch

I legitimately love delivering pizzas! If it were sustainable i wouldn’t mind at all doing it for the rest of my life! One of my best friends absolutely loves cleaning, and the only reason she quit cleaning professionally is that she was sick of the ways she was treated. My stepfather has been a carpenter and construction worker for 30 years, despite being a highly qualified graphic designer and architect, bc the man just fuckin loves construction work. For every “menial/undesireable” job available, there is someone who is happy to work it, if not for the stigma and need to survive. And for the truly awful ones? Like slaughterhouse cleanup, sewer maintenance, roadkill pickup, etc? With UBI they could almost all be mechanized, saving people from having to do grueling and dangerous jobs they really don’t have to do.

purplesaline

There are even people who will do those jobs because they recognize that they need to get done. Those people may not love the job itself but they take great pride in doing something that needs to be done.

People don’t just work for free doing jobs they love. If there’s a niche there will always be someone willing to fill it.

actualaster

I talk shit but I actually don’t genuinely truly HATE retail, what I hate is how people (customers and employers) use, abuse, overwork, and generally treat the employees like shit

If I could have reasonable hours and accommodations for my limitations and be paid enough to survive without being asked to do 25 jobs advertised as 1 job and had UBI to ensure I could leave if it was too much/I was being mistreated/taken advantage of by employers looking to overwork employees to make more money I’d be totally happy to work retail as long as I physically could

best-cranberry

When I worked retail, my favorite part was working in the stock room cuz it’s like playing real life Jenga

lastoneout

Were it not for my disability and if it paid enough and I wasn’t treated like crap I am not kidding I would be happy to work at a movie theater probably for the rest of my life, I loved it that much.

Trust me, for every menial job that “no one would want” there is a person who would LOVE to do it. Forget that “I don’t dream of labor” stuff in a perfect world people would still work because there are people who genuinely enjoy working; It’s being FORCED to do it in shitty conditions for crap pay lest we starve to death or end up unhoused that’s the problem, not work itself.

teenslib

One of the best jobs I ever had was cemetery landscape maintenance.

krakensdottir

It all comes down to this: People don’t mind working. It isn’t work that people dread or are sick of. It’s working conditions.

Pay people well, respect them (and don’t allow customers to disrespect them), accommodate their needs, and people will work their asses off and more often than not do it happily. Work itself is not demeaning or soul-draining. Jobs don’t have to be that way.

kowabungadoodles

I loved making pizzas! I liked getting a bunch of tickets with different toppings and trying to do them fast and well and trying to get them out of the oven and into boxes and slicing them up evenly.

But my boss never stocked ingredients, we were always out of stuff, the hygene was terrible. He would come over to my nice pizza and WITH HIS BARE HANDS reorganise all the toppings to remove pieces of pepperoni like he would go out of business if we put 10 pieces on instead of 8 or whatever.

spacebeige

White Feminism

academiabutmakeitdiverse

I wish more white people - and white women especially - would get over their white fragility and truly understand how words and actions like these do more harm than good to women of color. They need to stop making everything about themselves and catering to other whites women like women of color don’t exist.

tomi4i

theauspolchronicles

If a landlord is in financial stress due to an investment they chose to make they can sell one of their multiple properties (that's if the tax deduction from negative gearing isn't enough, because our tax system spends more helping landlords than it does on any other aspect of housing support).

If a renter is in financial stress they can get kicked out without justification and can end up homeless because they can't afford anywhere due to unlimited rent increases.

These two risks are not the same and only the Greens actually understand and are pushing for us as a country to reassess how we view housing. It's a human right - not something the rich should be able to hoard and make endless profit off.

kropotkindersurprise

March 25, 2023 - TERF piece of shit Posie Parker had to cut her transphobic event in Auckland, New Zealand, short after a huge crowd of locals decided to run her fascist ass out of town, and she was covered in tomato sauce.

She was so shaken by the event she ended her entire transphobic tour of Australia and New Zealand, which so far had mostly proven popular with literal neo-nazis, and fled the country entirely. Good job, Auckland! [video]/[video]

tomatodiscourse

amazing use of tomato sauce people!!! 👏 this is what the tomato community is ABOUT 🍅🏳️‍⚧️

mysharona1987

ithelpstodream

darkerskin-deactivated20170723

Take this with you

honeybrowns

to all my white followers who stew in unnecessary guilt trying to come to terms with the privilege you have, watch this

mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor

White people and White passing people, this is a good video

theperksofbeingaperk

jinxfmrl

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

republicansareahategroup

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

deadredactedwalking-deactivated

300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript

sky-squido

Transcript: (sorry for the language!)

Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”

Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”

Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“

Speaker: “What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]

Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“

Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“

Speaker: “And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our own until it’s a country without… without what?“

Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“

Speaker: “Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding, following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know these…“

Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“

Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“

Speaker: “These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and destroy them before they destroy us!”

Speaker: “Thank you.“

One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“

Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*

Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”

Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*

Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“

Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“

Hungarian man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”

Young man: “What were you doing there?“

Hungarian man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.”

ladythatsmyskull

A film created for folks in case Martin Niemöller was too subtle.

idhren

“They used prejudice as a practical weapon to split the people.”

jessicalprice

In this country, we have no ‘other people’.

90% of Denmark’s Jews survived the Holocaust, because starting at the top, Denmark’s government and prominent citizens and all the way down emphasized this.

And all this was openly supported by King Christian. He did not, contrary to popular myth, ride his horse through Copenhagen wearing the Star of David, but he did make it clear, as he wrote in his diary, that he considered “our own Jews to be Danish citizens, and the Germans could not touch them”.

Denmark had, in essence, inoculated itself against Nazi propaganda because its citizens believed that Jews were not “other people.” As Bo Lidegard writes in Countrymen:

The Danish exception shows that the mobilisation of civil society’s humanism and protective engagement is not only a theoretical possibility: It can be done. We know because it happened.

Being a Jewish Dane or a Danish Jew might have made you a little different, but it didn’t make you other people.

Unlike Niemoller, they didn’t have to see atrocities visited on a series of Other People and only start caring when it happened to themselves. They understood it as happening to themselves from the start. Because their Jewish neighbors weren’t Other People.

As Denmark’s Jewish population sprang into panicked action, so did its Gentiles. Hundreds of people spontaneously began to tell Jews about the upcoming action and help them go into hiding. It was, in the words of historian Leni Yahil, “a living wall raised by the Danish people in the course of one night.”

Many of them didn’t even see it as “resistance work” on behalf of the Jews because it was simply fighting back against an attack on their own community.

Though there was anti-Semitism in Denmark before and after the Holocaust, the Nazis’ war on Jews was largely viewed as a war against Denmark itself. After the war, most Danes refused to take credit for their resistance work, which many had conducted under false names. Ordinary people who never considered themselves part of the Danish Resistance passed along messages, gathered food, gave hiding places or guarded the possessions of those who left until they returned home from the war.

Communities in which there are no Other People save lives.

midnightssea

local Twitter user comes to “terrifying” realization that someone’s physical appearance does not always indicate their political beliefs

betterbemeta

politics as aesthetic is a reliably fascist-enabling mindset. That may seem like a crazy take and obviously nobody's brainwashed for having a style or recognizing others with that style. but listen.

there is a reason why the right wing targets 'diversity' beyond just obvious racism, sexism, bigotry, control issues: the need to know someone else's 'place' ON-SIGHT is CRITICAL to a strict hierarchical society. This is also why they get mad at poor people having nice things, or art from marginalized minorities becoming influential.

The cruise control of seeing only people who look like you and act like you is critical to conservative's emotional goals. At the extreme, a conservative ideal doesn't even have to navigate other real people at all: just archetypes. Which is pretty handy if it's agonizing to contact your real living conditions with your whole authentic self.

Conservative political movements are style over substance: the feelings they solicit from their base are promoted as more important than the actual decision-making that will occur at right-wing hands. Again, a handy tactic when the choices you want to make are abhorrent for everyone but the aristocracy.

Punk and metal scenes-- genres that are famous for anti-authoritarianism-- have to be active in barring fascists from participation. They can't cruise control based on how people fit 'the style.' Meanwhile, the signals that fascists use to identify one another often are aesthetic-based because to state their political beliefs out-loud is (or has been...) punishable.

The warm and fuzzy feelings of safety you get when everyone looks like you are very easily exploitable. I know that we live in an age where everything functions like an advertisement and aesthetics rule all, but by law of demographic sizes alone more queer people and queer allies are going to look like a random middle aged dude than you think. Especially as people born after the AIDS genocide actually make it that far.

animentality

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