what the emo kids of today don’t realize is that in the 2000s real emos didn’t call themselves emo because calling yourself emo meant you were a poser. if someone saw you wearing a black studded belt and hot topic mcr wristbands and asked you were emo you were supposed to say “i don’t choose labels……..” and then they’d know you were a true emo
there's a group of high school boys in this McDonald's and I just heard one of them say "I bet you you cannae break your own arm" so something interesting might happen shortly
update: they are settling the bet by googling whether or not it's possible for a person to deliberately break their own arm. narratively this is a letdown but I suppose in other ways it's for the best
My landlord pasted an ai generated ass eviction notice on my door because you have to cite a reason and he doesn’t have one so he just chopped that section out brother you cannot be serious
Would you like the added layer that he did this right after I tested for mold in my house and it was quite literally in every room and he came here to check out the hole in my ceiling that he has left unrepaired for two years
im gonna fight this in any way I can obviously but I want out of here as soon as possible I can’t get a new place until the end of this month but I do need to save for movers and a moving truck and a deposit. I also live with my mom who is severely disabled and I take care of which makes things more complicated. If you want to help my Cash App and Venmo are @ ishaanjs obviously nobody is obligated to give anything and thank you if you do
We all got that one mutual that be going through the most treacherous situations a person could endure and then posting a few minutes later about why such and such should get fucked through a concrete wall.
Mutual: my situationship partner just got caught in a tornado at a broken glass factory where they were cheating on me with my landlord who just increased my rent by 6000% and my pet marmot has a disease so rare they’re naming it after him and all my bones are becoming apricot jelly which I’m allergic to.
Same mutual 16 minutes later: Do you think Ronald McDonald and the Burger King ever explored each other’s bodies?
sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses
Silly Game Time: What are 3 places you'd like to visit? The more specific, the better!
(For Example: I want to visit South Korea, yeah, but more specifically, I wanna visit the giant statue of Yi Soon-Sin in South Korea.)
Jimmy's Popcorn Factory in the Netherlands, Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and uhhhhhhhhhh Belgium but I dunno what specific place- Definitely wanna see like. A K3 show though. Bc one of my moots told me about them and it seems fun :3
I'm bored, I've got a new blog, let's have some rent lowering gunshots:
Queer isn't a slur, fuck off.
Thoughtcrimes aren't real. "Your first thought is the one you were raised to have, your second is what you actually think." Sometimes it's your third or fourth.
Instinctive gut reactions are a horrible basis for a sense of morality and political beliefs.
Yes that includes disgust.
Israel isn't ontologically evil, "da joos" aren't evil, and Jews are indigenous to the Levant.
It's not a genocide, it's urban warfare. How many people die doesn't influence the definition of a genocide.
Maybe focus on things like Sudan, the Uyghur people, the Indigenous people in Canada and the USA who are currently undergoing active and decades-long shitshows?
Goy/Goyim also isn't a slur. It literally just means "Not a Jew." "Gasp oh no these homosexuals are calling people slurs!" "What's the slur?" "Straight." That's what you sound like. You sound like the muskrat getting pissy about being called cis.
Racism is bad. You need to, like. Actively try to be not racist. Because, if you're from the US (A lot of countries, but I can only speak for the US, since I've only lived here), you were raised in a country with a lot of systems in place that are very racist, and a lot of shit has become normalized that shouldn't be. So if you aren't actively trying to learn and stop that, then you're gonna end up hurting someone or doing something dumb.
Hmmmmmm what else. These are the most tumblr-controversial opinions I can think of. Hm. I mean, I live in Texas, so some irl-rent-lowering gunshots are the obvious, religious freedom, transgender issues, really just human rights in general. I can't really think of anything else that would be controversial on here, though. Hmmmmmm. I dunno. Trying to figure out what else to say, will add more then.
For all the activists screaming about being "kidnapped" by the Israelis, they sure aren't giving a single fuck about the ones that genuinely have been and are in actual danger.
Hello?, everyone that didn't shut up about the people the Israelis stopped, where the fuck are you? These ones are in genuine danger and you're completely silent.
Can't use it to scream about Israel so fuck these people I suppose.
Question that I'm asking in good faith because I really do want to know about it: why does Herzl describe israel as a colony if it isn't one?
(All good faith questions are welcome, Anon - thanks for this one!)
TLDR: Because words change meanings over time and Herzl wasn't psychic.
In the 1890s, "colony" just meant a planned settlement or concentrated community. This included Jewish agricultural colonies in the Pale, temperance colonies in Colorado, and utopian communes everywhere.
It was basically the Victorian word for "intentional community," with absolutely no imperial baggage required.
The specific meaning activists now deploy (colony as racial domination, metropole extraction, indigenous suppression) is a 20th century framework that didn't exist when Herzl was writing in 1896.
So a reader of the 21st century finds the word "colony" in an old text and assumes it carries a technical definition that was coined decades later.
It's a little like finding the word "trauma" in a Civil War field report and concluding the surgeon was diagnosing PTSD.
Meanwhile, 'settler colonialism' as applied to Israel isn't a neutral analytical tool that happens to fit badly. It's a framework specifically constructed to exclude the features that distinguish Jewish return from actual settler colonialism...and it still fails on its own stated terms.
Jewish immigrants to the Levant were never agents of any empire. They were overwhelmingly refugees from empires who were fleeing Russian pogroms, Eastern European persecution, and later Nazi Germany. No metropole sent them. No metropole would take them back if the project failed.
That's not a minor quibble about definitions, either - it's the primary distinction between settler colonialism and every other form of large population movement in history.
There's also the matter of indigeneity. The Jews returning to the Levant weren't arriving in a place with which they had no connection.
Jewish presence in the region is documented continuously from ancient history, including in Egyptian records dating to roughly 1210 BCE.
The religious, linguistic, and ancestral connection to the land is what distinguishes this case from the British in Kenya or the French in Algeria, who had no such ties - and it is some of the best-documented, most indisputable history humans have ever gathered. (This is why they're so constantly engaged in historical revisionism.)
So when proponents of the settler colonialism framework of accusation encounter these objections, what do they do?
They move the goalposts.
The absence of a metropole gets explained away as an "exception."
The indigenous origin of the Jewish people to the Levant gets ahistorically dismissed or ignored, despite the fact that the Jewish people are the only group whose national identity, language, and religion originated in and remained oriented toward that specific land throughout their entire existence.
The framework gets rewritten and the history is revised until Israel fits the allegation.
So, one word in Der Judenstaat doesn't settle* any of this.
From The Atlantic: The False Narrative of Settler Colonialism (paywall bypassed)
