[determinate-negation]

these are the same people who want to tell you that hillel isnt a political organization and you shouldnt protest it

[noosferik]

can't wait for biden to resign from the campaign this sunday, july 21 2024

[noosferik]

I'm about to pass out

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

You will get farther in one week paying close, nonjudgmental attention to the unmet needs underlying your "bad" behavior than you will in a year of punishing yourself and demanding you become a different person. I'm right shut up.

[27-moons]

I feel like I'm going insane. Multiple massacres in Gaza right now and no one is paying attention.

[acepumpkinpatrick]

^^^ Tonight alone, many people in Gaza are reporting carpet bombing that "rivals the first days of the war" and it has been going on for days now. Thousands are forcefully displaced. The thing every reporter is saying right now is that the streets are filled with people because "nobody knows where to go. No Place is safe"

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[transmechanicus]

Anyway for those of you not enmeshed with tumblr’s transgender mycelial network, or otherwise on its periphery, basically every damn day of pride month another couple trans bloggers have gotten wiped, regardless of blog content, following, blog age, anything, and it shows no sign of slowing. In general it seems to be hitting transfems more liberally, but transmasc and nonbinary friends of mine have also been wiped for their steadfast solidarity or Just Cause. There’s also been an uptick in posts being almost immediately marked mature by community tags for no discernible reason beyond “Posting While Trans”. This is a time to stick together like goddamn epoxy resin. Vocally defend and support each other. Block and ignore any wretched cunt spreading callouts or stirring up shit. Make sure you have a way to talk to your friends beyond this site. Don’t buy badges, don’t blaze, cold shoulder the fuck out of mod blogs, and give voice to your discontent.

Bite the hand🖤

[groupieculture]

When summer evenings feel like this gif it’s beautiful and it’s worth it

[tomorrowillbeyou]

maths enjoyers and bug enjoyers and horror movie enjoyers and so forth all need to come together and unite against the common enemy of people telling you how much they hate something as soon as you mention you like it

[tomorrowillbeyou]

literally can't believe i have to say this but i actually don't? want to hear about how much you hate maths in the tags? people are missing the point of the post it isn't about which of these things you like and don't like and which should be added or removed it's about having the basic decency to not constantly tell people you hate their interests when nobody asked. which you're failing to do right now.

[feralbiologist]

[cryptotheism]

No Zionists on my page thank you

[cryptotheism]

I am not arguing with a picrew ethnonationalist. From The River To The Sea.

[metamatar-deactivated20250401]

lmao one of the people handwringing about israeli academia feels bad about phd students bc apparently outside of the west israeli unis are the only institutions that academics aren't doing plagiarism at. i love when academic elitisim turns into straight up racism. yeah totally western academia has not produced fraud ever.

[metamatar-deactivated20250401]

im not lying

guy who totally cares about iranian students bc they are definitely getting access to israeli unis

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

[quasi-normalcy]

"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.

[sayruq]

[max1461]

Recently I've heard a number of Zionists say things to the effect of "everyone gets an ethnostate but us". Well, that's verbatim a white nationalist argument. I was arguing neo-Nazis saying that shit on reddit ten years ago. And the argument is not any more convincing when Zionists make it.

[sivavakkiyar]

it’s funny because all the ethnonationalists say this. Hindutva people say this—-they’re the only ones who are criticized! Zionists say this—-they’re the only ones who are criticized! White American racial nationalists say this—-obviously, there’s a conspiracy against them, they’re the only ones who are critiqued!

And they have seperate forums—-ones where they can bond with each other over how all of them are the ‘only ones’ who go through this, and another one where they make fun of the others, and a third that’s supposed to be their reasonable bait

[steveyockey]

In the absence of a clear and obvious angle to attack Bushnell’s protest, most likely due to his status as a serviceman that would make outright insulting him or suppressing the news itself scandalous, discussions on Western shores have now taken on the familiar framing of mental illness. In Time Magazine’s write-up of Bushnell’s death, the article finishes with a link to the suicide hotline, and asks readers to contact mental health providers if they are experiencing a “crisis.” Mark Joseph Stern, a writer at Slate, seemingly unasked, also wrote on Twitter/X:

“I strongly oppose valorizing any form of suicide as a noble, principled, or legitimate form of political protest. People suffering mental illness deserve empathy and respect, but it is wildly irresponsible to praise them for using a political justification to take their own life.”

Conviction does not exist to the American. To be willing to die in a selfless act for what they believe in only exists for those outside America's sphere of influence. Many will recall reporting on those who self-immolated in protest in Iran and in Russia for instance where this sort of approach, unwilling to engage with the root of its cause, would not even be entertained, let alone written and published with sincerity. The Arab Spring began with a self-immolation. The self-immolation of Buddhist monks in protest of South Vietnam’s persecution became defining images of the war and its corruption. Within America’s walls however, there is a belief, unspoken and ingrained from birth, that democracy allows for everyone’s voices to be heard and that its representatives are inherently inclined to respond to the people and their widespread wishes.

Desperation at inaction or complicity in terror and atrocity need not apply. Everyone incensed by their government to such an extent must simply have something wrong with them. To be able to go about one’s day knowing that children are screaming from the hunger that is eating their insides and that pregnant women are eating bread made from animal feed, and that the United States is supporting Israel’s creation of this famine, is apparently the real sign of well-adjustment.

Seamus Malekafzali, “The Words Burned Through His Throat: The Sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell,” February 26, 2024.

[determinate-negation]

New York Times Puts “Daily” Episode on Ice Amid Internal Firestorm Over Hamas Sexual Violence Article

As the Times faces scrutiny for its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, it has capitulated to the pro-Israel media watchdog CAMERA.

The New York Times pulled a high-profile episode of its podcast “The Daily” about sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 amid a furious internal debate about the strength of the paper’s original reporting on the subject, Times newsroom sources told The Intercept. The episode had been scheduled for January 9 and was based on a prominent article led by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Gettleman, claiming that Hamas had systematically used sexual violence as a weapon of war. 

[determinate-negation]

in light of one of the authors of this article being investigated for liking tweets calling for gaza to be turned into a slaughterhouse (which were used in the icj case as evidence of genocidal intent) and liking since disproved tweets about 40 beheaded babies, id like to remind people that the new york times front page october 7 article is being scrutinized for lack of evidence. at a recent talk at columbia university, gettleman, the main author of this article, backtracked heavily on his original claims, implied he was merely gathering stories rather than evidence. gettleman has previously run stories with fabricated quotes while reporting on other conflicts

[txttletale]

welcome to tubmlr, the website where the CEO (!) follows you off the website to yell at you (!) by listing all your private accounts (!!!). its an awesome tagline and a good reputation to have im pretty sure

[tsarina-anadyomene]

i liked the grimes-musk relationship because it unearthed a truth that many are uncomfortable with: lefty tumblr girls who don't read and libertarian reddit guys who also don't read are made for each other

[palms-upturned]

People in Gaza have been saying this would happen since the very start, as soon as the occupation started corralling everyone into the southern part of the strip they said this would happen. We watched it happen as the “safe” zones grew smaller and smaller and every time Rafah was targeted by air strikes even before this. And no one who could actually stop this lifted a finger. It’s been 129 days.