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why am I here? in this time and space? why do I crave the places I do? why is the knocking of space and time a delight to my thin veiled mind?

in this life I am confused. I am overrun by signs and silence. A person who claims selfhood is not aware of the story, whole centuries of building, my lineage was sifting.

I don’t know why I was born now, confusion is my beacon. For what is a life better than an endless growing creation?

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firebuug

Colombia Earthquake Relief

Hello, if you haven't heard yet, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Western Colombia this morning. The death toll so far is at least 111. I'm lucky that my family living there was safe and unaffected from what I've heard so far, but many are suffering right now from loss of family, friends, homes, work, transportation and pets.

I've gathered links to donate to verified relief in the area. My heart goes out to anyone suffering in Colombia right now.

Bogotá Food Bank - I believe mercado pago allows non-Colombian payments via card

World Central Kitchen

Direct Relief

GEM Latam

Plan International

Feel free to append more or link smaller fundraisers for families affected. If you are not able to donate right now all is good, if you're able to spread the word that is more than enough. Thanks.

mikeyfuckinway

"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library

What level of ego is good? What aspect of ego is divine rage? What section of ego is my past life residue? What type of ego protects me, and most importantly, what ego holds me to the smallness I am so scared to leave behind?

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Why can't people give up convenience? It seems every time I am faced with the- "well don't you want to give up ur convenience to ensure that another human does not suffer for your convenience?" conversation I am met with glazed over eyes and an inability to feel shame. FEEL ASHAMED OF UR INABILITY TO CARE FOR OTHERS OUTSIDE OF URSELFFFF

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anglaised

u say the obama administration built the cages on the border and a liberal will do the five nights at freddys jump scare at you bc we arent supposed to talk about when democrats do insanely evil shit

I am so tired of working for nothing of worth. No amount of cash or product could contain enough worth to convince me that some politely folded quota, an ancient manipulation scheme continually driven to ensure that twelve people "above" me can vacation in and on colonized land, is worth MY LIFE FORCE. What am I expected to do? GIVE MY LIFE AWAY to watch them ungraciously devour the fruits of the labor they exploit!? Fuck no.

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jingerpi

sorry im upset and i need people to understand

when you support the US military this is what you support

The following contains graphic imagery, but ive intentionally excluded anything directly depicting dead bodies. tumblr limits me to 10 images on this post or it could be flooded with far, far more.

prisoner comforting their child, Iraq, 2003

Iraqi prisoner held by the US, ~2003

destruction of Vietnam, 1968

A vietnamese soldier shortly before being executed. 1968

children with hydrocephalus from agent orange, which the USA sprayed 12 million gallons indiscriminately on to Vietnam

Korea, near pyongyang, completely flattened by US bombs, 1953

Libya after bombings by the US, ~2012

Do these not get to you? Can you see these and continue to defend the people doing their paperwork just because they didnt personally kill anyone? If they seem bad but you cant bring yourself to condemn them, What if i show you pictures from the US? Does this change anything for you?

U.S. (philidelphia), soon after the 1985 MOVE bombing which killed several Black radicals and 5 children

aftermath of the assassination of Fred Hampton, who was shot in his sleep by the FBI, 1969

If the first images flow by as anonymized destruction, but the last two hit you more directly, ask yourself why that is? Why do you view these differently just because of where on the globe they happened?

What difference does it make when the people killed are inside the US or outside? When the bombs are dropped domestically or elsewhere? do people not bleed to same everywhere in the world? Do their buildings not explode just the same? are the poisoned children not important to you?

its not just a nightmare when it happens within the US at the hands of the police. The U.S. is a global force of terror and even working with them as a janitor for college money makes you a collaborator.

The U.S. kills on a drastic scale, millions and millions of people globally, the vast majority of which being civilians. can you look me dead in the eyes and tell me that cops are bastards but military members shouldn't be shamed?

Calley led the US Army platoon that carried out the mass murder of hundreds of civilians, including women and children, in the Vietnamese village of Son My in 1968. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 for killing 22 civilians, but only served three days behind bars after then-President Richard Nixon ordered his release under house arrest. The My Lai massacre, known as the Son My massacre in Vietnam, is considered among the worst war crimes in American military history. The killings shocked the US public at the time and galvanised the anti-Vietnam war movement. According to the Vietnamese government, 504 people were killed in the massacre. [note the passive voice] Calley, a junior college dropout from South Florida, enlisted in the army in 1964. He was quickly promoted to junior officer and then second lieutenant, at a time when the US army was desperate for soldiers. On the morning of 16 March 1968, Calley’s unit was airlifted to a hamlet in Son My - known to US soldiers at the time as My Lai 4 - on a mission to search and kill Viet Cong members and sympathisers. When they arrived, the officers were met with no resistance from the residents of the village, who were found cooking breakfast over outdoor fires, according to a 1972 report by journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. Mr Hersh reported that Calley and his unit proceeded to kill the civilians in the following hours. Many were rounded up in small groups and shot, he said. Others were pushed into a drainage ditch and shot, or were killed in or near their homes. Women and girls were raped by American officers and then murdered, Mr Hersh reported. The massacre was initially covered up but became public a year and a half later, thanks in large part to Mr Hersh’s reporting, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Calley was one of 26 soldiers who were charged with criminal offences and the only one convicted.

thesituation

learning and studying the atlantic slave trade in depth should be a core part of american history education because the scale of it is mind blowing and the level of depravity and length of time it went on for are absolutely inexcusable. anyone who knows deeply how chattel slavery worked wouldn’t dare dismiss it as being “far in the past,” a horrific centuries-long practice like that needs to be remembered vividly and reminded to the ancestors of the perpetrators and beneficiaries OFTEN and EMPHATICALLY, anything less constitutes an erasure of history imo