ⶠcollege student, unpaid mossad intern (american exchange program)
ⶠcatholic
ⶠmilitary history enjoyer, common sense appreciator, anti cloud storage activist
ⶠi 100% unironically <3 capitalism, personal ownership, and democracy
ⶠpolitically homeless
â i write things now!
required reading: pg. 10, Anti-Zionism [x]
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I add $5 to my Israel trip fund for every hate or gaza gfm ask I receive
wait why do you care about Israel? —
I'm a born and raised catholic, and still practicing today, and I have jewish family! It's something that has always been a part of my identiy and something that I have always taken pride in. Its the reason i have the name i was given. Despite not being considered jewish myself, I have experienced antisemitism due to my jewish ancestry; my siblings and I were raised with the sobering reminder that in nazi germany, we also would have been considered undesireables. I'm proud to be the descendant of one of the most resilient groups to ever walk this earth.
from another post:
The reason I choose to mention it there is because I post a lot about israel, and it is something that does inform my opinions and affect my day to day life-- even in a positive way, for example I've found a wonderful community at hillel to learn more about Judaism (v important to me despite practicing another religion) and may have the opportunity to go in birthright soon because of it.
I do a lot of israel & jewish advocacy at my university, and part (although not all) of the reason I "care so much" is ultimately because of my ancestry. If there was a holocaust repeat, the best place for me to go and live a fulfilled, authentic life would be in israel. Growing up I went to the funerals of some of my immediate jewish relatives, and something that always stuck with me was just before the burial, pouring soil from the land of israel into their graves (I even have a post about it).
Identity is a complex thing, and I share all this information about mine here because it's very relevant to a lot of the content on my blog. A connection to the jewish people and the jewish land is just one facet of my identity, multidimensional just as everyone else's is.
Today is the court-ordered deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center. Â Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center boar
MSNBCNOW is gonna live stream the shitbagâs name coming off the Kennedy Center once the court stuff is done, in case you like me are an American who wants a tiny taste of what itâs like to get to erase a (wannabe) dictatorâs name and likeness from public places.
Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like âI had 47 panic attacks and itâs your faultâ if you tell them no is insane
I rejected someone and got called âthe scariest person Iâve ever metâ with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay
âYou just say whatever youâre thinking and I donât know how to handle itâ was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch
When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.
Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.
More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.
Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?
"Skylab was an orbiting laboratory launched by a Saturn V rocket in May of 1973. Skylab was visited three times by NASA astronauts who sometimes stayed as long as two and a half months. Many scientific tests were performed on Skylab, including astronomical observations in ultraviolet and X-ray light. Some of these observations yielded valuable information about Comet Kohoutek, our Sun and about the mysterious X-ray background - radiation that comes from all over the sky. Skylab fell back to earth on the 11th of July, 1979."
