We work too hard.
We are too tired to fall in love.
Therefore we must overthrow the government.
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I've had this babe since my mid teens and I'm tired of treating tumblr like social media, will probably set this one up to function more like a blog where I post stuff I write or do, and reblog when I want to participate in a discussion.
I've only got around 500 followers and a handful of those interact regularly, so I don't figure too many people will mind one way or the other. In the unlikely event that someone really cares about seeing specific stuff on my blog, idk just tell me and I'll take that into account?
To my friends who follow me, you guys already know the kind of shit I like to talk about so if you want to stop me, now's your chance!
“Nonviolence is racist. I do not mean to exchange insults, and I use the epithet racist only after careful consideration. Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary ‘critical mass.’”
— Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State
(via meatthawsmoth)
with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!
on a darker note sorry. elon musk doing 2 sieg heils at the inauguration is crazy and i fucking hate this country. and the ADL defending it lol. lmao even.
which is not surprising to be clear the ADL has not been concerned with genuine antisemitism and white supremacy for a long time, they've been busy endorsing it. the obvious to people in my generation being that they have been a huge part of the push to redefine antisemitism as referring only to being against the modern nation state of Israel, the conflation of the people Yisrael with the medinat Israel currently comitting genocide, slandering pro-palestinian actions or imagery as antisemitic, painting JVP and SJP as pro terrorism.
some of you might remember their denial of the Armenian genocide and firing someone for acknowledging it. or when they came out against a mosque being built in new york cuz it was Too Close to the twin towers (who gives a fuck) but i feel like maybe not as many ppl are aware that the ADL spent the 70s opposing affirmative action and building on anti black racism in the american jewish community, and the 80s literally hiring private eyes to spy on anti apartheid activists and smearing Nelson Mandela (which if you read about the relationship between the apartheid state of south africa and the apartheid state of israel, checks out).
i dont remember where i was going with this i just hate zionists and israel with my whole heart and soul. oh yeah anyways the ADL is unreliable and a joke they are not the authority on antisemitism in any way shape or form
Remember, folks, the term "zio" was popularized by David Duke, a man too racist and antisemitic even for the KKK. It's a straight up neo-nazi term. Full stop.
If you use or or defend it's use, then anyone and everyone, regardless of political affiliation, is allowed to completely dismiss you as both unserious and a threat who deserves no platform.
Either you're a grifter using a tragedy to spread bigotry or you're a useful idiot who couldn't spare a critical thought to save your fucking life.
Hello to the white gentiles reblogging this! I want you to take a guess at how many people in this picture have been accused of being zionists by gentiles in the movement. The answer is, just from the faces I recognize off the top of my head, TOO MANY.
I want the white gentiles reblogging this to take a moment to examine how you interact with Jewish people in the Palestinian liberation movement. We need to be here, and we need to be able to save our energy for the Palestinians without having to fend off suspicion and accusations from the people supposed to be our allies. Thank you.
the problem with everyone becoming a reviewer and essayist now is that, plainly and gently, a lot of these people are not smart enough for the position
forget "smart enough" and all it implies about normative ideas of intelligence, it's just straight up ignorance and undeveloped critical thinking skills.
a lot of Particularly Active Online "Content Creators" would probably be considered broadly "smart" by any standard metric, but... just never bother to engage in any significant or deep scholarly research beyond MAYBE reading a full wikipedia article if they're feeling ambitious, and drawing all their conclusions based on social media buzzwords and cultural osmosis rather than any particularly thoughtful or direct engagement with the actual text they're addressing or any related primary sources.
Most of you were either not born or old enough to remember the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon and the scale of the terror Israel inflicted. In 2006, Israel killed about 1,200 in Lebanon in 34 days which was the whole duration of the aggression. Yet, today alone, Israel killed close to 300 in Lebanon. This intensification is the direct result of the way Israel faced absolutely no consequences for its unprecedented violence in Gaza for a whole year.
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I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.
Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in “Saki” don’t wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And it’s still going.
In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. It’s because the underwear ran out of places to hide. I’m obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of “Saki”, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didn’t even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!
And of course there is also the breast expansion. I don’t know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, “the one with the big boobs”, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesn’t get lost in the noise. It’s just that normally—in like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for example—normally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and you’d go, “Well, this is now untenable.”
That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.
Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.
It’s like this, okay: there’s no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. There’s a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.
The vibe with “Saki” is different.
It’s hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as “leering”, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into it—I can’t imagine anyone is making her do this—but “Saki” the comic has no opinion on the matter.
There are essentially no male characters in “Saki”. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of “Saki”, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so it’s no problem. It’s so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.
So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of “Saki”, right: it’s just normal that they don’t wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. It’s been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. It’s just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, it’s in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like what’s the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.
Do you get??? why I’m so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???
Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????
i read this post and was like "huh i have to see this for myself" so i went and just clicked around through some random chapters
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.
op said that and was entirely accurate, this is the most fascinating bit of "the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page" that i have ever encountered.
images uh. below the cut. because yikes don't look at them if anyone else might see it.
why are her breasts that size?
op was not joking about the frog boiling tiddy expansion because i think these are two panels of the same character? i didn't put much effort into confirming.
if you unironically call individuals tme/tma [including yourself] please for the love of g-d leave me the fuck alone. i don’t trust you and your insistence on creating another binary of sex and oppression is a danger to intersex and de/multitrans people.
i genuinely do not care how much you try to package it as pro-transfem, because transfem intersex and multitransitional people also deserve to be fucking safe.
reducing trans people and our experiences of oppression to our agabs is fundamentally transphobic and intersexist, period. miss me with that shit.
funny in a sad sort of way to be clear. Yes I'm sure there's infinite Nuance and if I really put my mind to it I can come up with about 10 different scenarios in one minute about why someone might need to eat at Chick-fil-A but at the end of the day those don't really apply to a lot of the bitches who are just like "oh but that spicy chicken sandwich though..." Does it? The truth is y'all are weak in the knees and have a spinal column the consistency of almond paste
If you tell me I'm so strong for adhering to any given boycott because food it's just that good I don't think it's funny and I don't respect you for it I'm just embarrassed that these are the people I have to work with
Farha (2021) is a movie about the Palestinian Nakba that’s just been put on Netflix, it’s a portrayal of the violence experienced by Palestinians during Israel’s creation from the perspective of a 14 year old girl - to my knowledge, this is the first film about the story of the Nakba on Netflix. (If you don’t know the history of the Nakba - this post can explain it quickly)
The movie is being received with a lot of praise from Palestinians online, however, the movie is currently being review bombed by zionists and condemned by the Israeli press and there have been threats towards showing of the film by Israel’s finance minister, this is the IMDb review page as of posting this:
If you would like to help support this film and Palestinian history being portrayed, please leave a positive review, and if you have Netflix, watch the film. The story of the Nakba has one that has long been silenced and it’s so rare to see it even acknowledged in media, my family survived it, many others didn’t, what they all experienced was real, and it’s about time there has been recognition of it.
ICJ has ruled that Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is in breach of international law.
The "transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as Israel's maintenance of their presence" is "contrary to article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention", a panel of 15 judges from around the world said.
The court said Israel must end the construction of settlements immediately - acts which render "Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful".
Israel's continued presence is "illegal" and should be ended as "rapidly as possible", the ICJ added.
