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"The US could stop the genocide in Gaza tomorrow!" Yes. As the biggest weapons supplier, the US could stop the genocide. But so could the EU, and that's not getting enough attention.

Israel's economy couldn't survive without the EU, not even for a short time. The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner and the biggest investor in Israel (nearly twice as big as the United States) and the EU is the main destination for Israeli investment.

Firm economic sanctions by the EU would not be some long term pressure builder, they would have immediate effect. The EU could stop the genocide in Gaza tomorrow. They choose not to.

queeranarchism

Let's also name the most complicit countries by name!

Biggest weapons exports to Israel: 1. US 2. Germany 3. Italy 4. UK

Biggest financial investors in Israel 1. The Netherlands 2. The US 3. Luxembourg 4. Germany

Biggest receivers of Israeli investments: 1. The Netherlands 2. The US 3. Cyprus 4. Germany

Biggest importers of Israeli goods: 1. US 2. Germany 3. Italy 4. The Netherlands

Biggest exporters of goods to Israel: 1. US 2. China 3. Ireland 4. Germany

Any of these countries could make a massive difference even without full EU consensus. A fucking tiny country like the Netherlands has 43% of ALL foreign investor capital in Israel. Luxemburg has 7%. If they cut those ties, that would do so much.

adult-life-fan-club

FUCK ISRAEL

queeranarchism

#is this all cuz of the fucking bible?#Israel has no high profit exports#do they?#is everyone sucking their dick#because of location and biblical references?

It's not the bible, at least not in the way it is in the US. The kind of christian zionists that believe all jews must return to the holy land in order for Christ to return, are not a significant group in most countries here. Other reasons are:

Location. Israel is a military base for the US-Europe-etc. alliance to do their wars in the middle east and control access to oil, vital shipping-routes, etc.

Mutual interest. Israel has worked hard to make itself indispensable to Europe's security, particularly it's intelligence apparatus. A lot of the best software to hack your enemies and to prevent getting hacked comes from Israel. Upset Israel too much, and you can lose access to that stuff.

Not wanting to upset European relations with the US. This is particularly obvious for Ireland, where the vast majority of the electorate hates Israel but the elected are happy to ignore that and continue kissing US' ass because their economy depends on it.

Not wanting to upset relations with Germany, where the political class has brainwashed itself into thinking that Holocaust guilt demands that they follow Israel right into the next genocide.

Propaganda. European politicians are not immune to it and Israel spends a lot of resources lobbying to European politicians and journalists. They've been absurdly succesful in Germany, but they have had some success everywhere.

Filtering through smear campaigns and funding. Every European country has their own version of AIPAC, which for decades now have been promoting pro-Israel politicians and journalists while undermining the careers of politicians and journalists who are critical of Israel. In the Netherlands they're called the CIDI. For a long time, if the CIDI hated you, your political career was basically over. So it's not weird that our national politics has very few people who are willing to criticize Israel, they were filtered out before they became big enough to enter the national level.

The weight of each factor will differ from country to country, and some will have other factors unique to them.

queeranarchism

I want the zionists on this post to know that you are currently outnumbered 3 to 6.458. You are losing support everywhere. My 85 year old grandma who has voted christian conservative all her life, goes out to protest against the genocide now.

Zionist politicians and media are trying to push back the inevitable but society is changing everywhere. The dam will break, the safety that you feel now as you defend a genocide will fall away and very few people will ever forgive you for the blood that will forever cling to your hands.

feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

anarchistmemedistro

62 8

technofeudalism

g00burr

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

anarchistmemedistro

no it’s worse. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

doberbutts

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

doberbutts

I do think it's really interesting that I have a lot of black butches and trans mascs on this post verifying in their tags that yes they've lived both as 'black woman' and as 'black man' and 'black man' is really not the improvement it's advertised to be and in the mean time I have also a bunch of nonblack people and especially white europeans saying this post is stupid and no one who agrees knows anything about what it's like to be a black woman and I'm just wondering out of the two options who do you think is more knowledgeable about what black people go through? 🤔

doberbutts

My nephew was 6 years old when his mother sat him down and explained to him very plainly what happens to black boys and black men who are out at night.

Both of my parents worked in education. My white (passing) mother was a special ed teacher in a middle school. My father was her district's administrator. She was paid more than him. Significantly. They both have Master's Degrees.

My nephew was 13 when Trayvon Martin was killed. His mother asked him to please make sure he came home before the streetlights came on, and if he couldn't make it to not wear a hoodie and certainly don't wear it up. No matter how cold.

My nephew and my father were both pinned down and had their afros shaved/ruined by teachers, people they should have been able to trust. My nephew, my cousins, and more than one of my uncles have had the same happen to their locs. When my mother became pregnant very early in my parents' marriage, no one believed that she actually *wanted* to marry my dad but that she'd accidentally become pregnant and married him to not be ashamed. When my parents adopted my sister who is much darker skinned than my other sister or myself, the assumption was that she was a child from one of dad's previous marriages (he's only ever been married to one woman: my mom) and that my sister was only there because of a custody battle. The first time my dad came to pick me up from school, the office refused to let him in the building and called the police on him for trying to abduct me, because everyone knew my mom was white and the logical conclusion of a black man picking up his black/mixed kid from school was that he was a kidnapper and not that he was my fucking father.

My father arrived home late one night after flying in from Japan and was understandably in comfortable clothes after being exclusively in suits in Japan in the middle of summer for 6 months. Our neighbor saw him pull into the driveway, let himself in the back door... and called the police saying a black man in a hoodie was breaking into our house. We'd lived there at that point for more than a decade. My nephew and I have been followed around in stores for wearing beaters and basketball shorts in the middle of summer. My cousin was harassed by cops while sitting at the bus stop because he had his hood up and was listening to music on his ipod. My uncle was cornered by airport security and ended up missing his flight because someone gave a 'tip' that he 'looked suspicious' in his jeans and a t-shirt.

Every single one of my older black relatives, male and female, have been raped. Every single one. Some of the younger ones too.

This is not a 'what if' post. This is not a 'higher discussion of systemic violence' post. This is a 'stop erasing the experiences of black men because you think there is no way on earth a black man can suffer outside of [just racism]' post.

doberbutts

two years ago I posted this and two years later this still rings true, but I want to draw attention to something:

This is the post that netted me my "reputation" for saying that black women have it better than black men or that black women caused these problems.

This post was made in specifically because of radfem talking points, in direct response to a radfem post I saw and was mad about. Two years later I am seeing white radfems say the same about F1nn5ter. My response is still the same. A: trans women aren't men, B: that's not even true of cis men because marginalized cis men experience all of these things on a regular basis.

No where in this post does this blame black women for anything or say that black women don't experience this- in fact I specifically mention black butches in multiple reblogs and in other posts discussing this exact topic. Black women are frequently forcibly degendered and masculinized, and God forbid a black woman actually be GNC and masculine or transgender because then her risk of violence to be enacted upon her is at an absurd height.

This is a critique of white, radical feminism and how it actively perpetuates racism. Don't get it twisted.

doberbutts

Anyway when I bring up these points with this post, this is the sort of attitude I'm talking about. ALL of these are from a recent post where I am talking about my specific experience as a black trans man and ALL of these are nonblack people taking it upon themselves to give lip service to acknowledging black people are oppressed and then IMMEDIATELY following up with not including black men in their idea of what counts as oppressed.

When I say white radical feminism leaves racially marginalized men out of discussions of their own oppression, this is what I'm talking about.

This was from a post where I said people talk over me frequently and tell me my voice as a black person doesn't matter and I was taught not to tolerate it as a girl and I'm certainly not going to start tolerating it as a man. That people have regarded my presence as a black person as a threat just existing in an area my entire life and I didn't think it was a good thing when I was a black girl and I still don't think it's a good thing as a black man. This was a post about antiblack racism and how it affects me, an entire ass black trans man.

And nonblack people STILL sought to completely erase my perspective off my own post.

Does it hurt, when I point out your racism? Is it uncomfortable to realize that you're not innocent in spreading and perpetuating the same racism that's caused black people to die to violence at astronomical rates? Is it a hard pill to swallow?

Good. Choke.

elierlick

It's funny how every evidence-based study finds this exact same result. Where is the flood of detransitioners we were promised years ago? Where are the whistleblowers of doctors "forcing" teens to transition? That's right, they don't exist.

shamebats

Only 4% of people who went back to living in their sex assigned at birth for a while cited that their reason was because they realized that gender transition was not for them. When considering all respondents who had transitioned, this number equates to only 0.36%.”

Nearly all respondents who were receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy (98%) or who had received gender-affirming surgery (97%) reported increased life satisfaction.

I doubt there's a single other type of medical treatment with numbers like this.

I'm dealing with migraine meds right now and even the fancy new preventatives have a 50% chance of working for you at all.

We really don't talk enough how miraculous HRT is. Nobody does it like her.

stillnaomi

so twitter is blocking videos of the Gazan genocide in the UK as harmful content, to comply with the online safety act. who could have foreseen that the government would use the act to pursue its political agenda under the guise of protecting children?

allcops

Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals

Hope you're sitting down to receive the SHOCKING NEWS that ICE Gestapo lied through their teeth about protestors they arrested in LA in June!

antifainternational

Well well well, turns out ICE are willing to lie on the stand to justify locking people up.

antifainternational

On this day in 1962, Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists got the Manchester welcome they so richly deserved.

xekstrin

stjohnstarling

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artphobos

queeranarchism

this goes perfectly with their other post about how to impact the metrics so much that management has to deal with it.

kirianthedivorce

Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

villainessbian

I don't know how to tell you this but you also have to care about what gets labelled as "porn"

kirianthedivorce

Oh absolutely, but this post is about how the bbc and other major media outlets are presenting it as only affecting websites like pornhub so that criticism of the act can be framed as people wanting children to be able to access websites like pornhub, instead of criticism of wider censorship and defending the right to privacy

golde-silvere

I guarantee that not all of those 6000 sites are on porn.

This is a government that wants to scrub trans people and evidence of war crimes off the web so young people won't be able to access such information. And just when it's considering lowering the legal voting age from 18 to 16.

Social media such as Bluesky are already implementing these measures. Discord is banning people from their accounts for years because they can't pass a face check. Communities for sensitive subjects that help people reach out to eachother are being surveiled.

The BBC are obscuring that the government is putting us under a heavier microscope by using porn sites as a scapegoat.

queeranarchism

& it would still be bad if the 6000 sites were porn. The ability of sex workers matter to sell their work matters.

guerrillatech

lizardsfromspace

Tens of thousands of notes on a post claiming a bill introduced by the Republicans will make credit card companies support NSFW content, and only a handful going "hey maybe don't support this".

Let's look into how the bill is being reported elsewhere - in fact, from the Senator who introduced the Senate version of the Fair Access to Banking Act

"In recent years, prominent American banks have engaged in a discriminatory practice, referred to as debanking. Banks and financial institutions use their economic standing to categorically exclude law-abiding, legal industries by refusing to lend or provide services to them."

Hmm. What industries could he mean?

"This includes industries such as firearms, ammunition, crypto, federal prison contractors, as well as energy producers."

Wow. Who could've guessed that's what he meant

“When progressives failed at banning these entire industries, what they did instead is they turned to weaponizing banks as sort of a backdoor to carry out their activist goals..."

So it is, in fact, a bill around trying to stop left-wing activists from, say, going after oil and gas companies or private prisons or the arms industry

But - surely it would include NSFW bans too, right? It would overturn them, right? If you read the text of the bill, which is deliberately vague as you'd expect, it explicitly allows banks to deny payment based on "quantitative, impartial risk-based standards" - it only bans it for "political" or "reputational risk" considerations. And claims that the adult media industry is "high risk" is why payment processors drop it

But let's see who supports it!

"The Fair Access to Banking Act is endorsed by several organizations, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation, National Rifle Association, North Dakota Petroleum Council, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, The Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Online Lenders Alliance, Day 1 Alliance, GEO Group, Lignite Energy Council, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, National Mining Association, CoreCivic, and the National ATM Council."

Private prison companies, fossil fuel companies, blockchain companies, and the NRA. But surely...? SURELY a bill we're explicitly told again and again is about preventing left-wing activism against private industry, that's co-sponsored by fucking Lindsey Graham, and that certainly seems to include a carve-out specifically to let payment processors continue to deny adult content, but not deny conservative political causes...would secretly be pro-NSFW content?

This bill is all over the internet now, with viral pleas to GET IT PASSED and shutdowns of any criticism of a bill whose real intent is extremely overt. All of this is a simple search away and straight from the horse's mouth, and nobody wants to do even that modicum of research because they would prefer to take someone's word for it that a magic panacea is just a few phone calls away. If you make phone calls asking for this to pass, you're being played: tricked into supporting a bill crafted by the people leading the moral panic that harassed Itch into oblivion that would do nothing to help that, but that would ban any activism against payments for destructive fossil fuel extraction or gun lobbying. The guy who made it just told everyone that's what it's for! Does no one care to look? To read the bill? You can be the one to read it and say it's bad (being the only person to actually read an odious bill is called "Russ Feingold-ing")

Looking up the talk about this bill one theme I saw a lot was people dismissing anyone pointing out a Republican introduced it by saying "I don't care who introduced it! AS LONG AS SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING!!!!" But you know what? If you saw that a Republican introduced the bill, and your reaction was to go "wow, so a Republican introduced a bill to protect adult content?" without even a pang of skepticism...I have no words tbh

lizardsfromspace

Muting notifications so that I don't have to see people reacting to me laying out exactly what the creator of the bill said about its purpose with "well, the text doesn't seem unreasonable" or insisting it may be good nonetheless. Like yes the courts will decide. Now to take a big drink of water and look up who controls the courts and

aelleaaellea

@i-add-sources

i-add-sources

@lizardfromspace as only pasted direct quotes from the sources she linked, and is correct.

Full bill text linked below, note the vague wording and clauses specifying "legal under federal law". Sex work is regulated on a state-level and illegal everywhere but Nevada.

depsidase

#america

redstonedust

i think all straight people should try being a little bisexual just to see how they feel about it. i dont even mean physically i just mean like. stare a photos of hot men for a bit. watch gay porn. deeply consider the potential of reconnecting with your childhood best friend who you kind of lost touch with despite how close you used to be, leading to a long slowburn romance in which you rediscover the things you love about eachother but don't want to commit in case it ruins your friendship. its called exploring your options ok.

queeranarchism

And cisgender people, while you're at it: next, try being a little nonbinary just to see how you feel about it. Let go of the idea of being a 'man' or a 'woman'. Float the idea of just being a person. Try on some other clothes. Think of a new name for yourself. Imagine what your body would look like if you could sculpt yourself from scratch, imagine your childhood best friend tracing your hands over the new curves or new flatness of your chest, your hairy of hairless stomach, almost down to a new bulge or lack of bulge, only to shy away at the last moment out of fear that there won't be any going back once your best friend's hands enter your underwear. Just think on it for a bit.

i-hate-chick-fil-a

Wait, what the fuck for? How… Arrested just for offering to help? I…I’m speechless.

queeranarchism

According to the article, these were often parents or family members of the unaccompanied children, who instead of getting their children released to them, got an immigration background check and an arrest.

loredwy

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

Edit: Now that we're talking about it, look. There is all the countries ratification dates, along with considerations for their laws.

And you can check the convention here.

Edit 2: For those in the US who want to check their state's laws compliance to the convention, there is this site.

Edit 3: The map source btw. Its from wikipedia.

Thank you people in the notes for the info and image desc.

firapolemos05

Yikes

queeranarchism

the article: https://www.hrw.org/feature/2022/09/13/how-do-states-measure-up-child-rights

The main violations:

Marriage below 18 years of age. No minimum age for marriage in 6 States, 15 years old in 2 States, 16 years old in 24 States and 17 years old in 9 States. CRC compliance in 0 states.

Corporal punishment. Legal in private schools in 25 states and legal in public or private schools in 22 other states, legal in the home in 50 states, legal in juvenile detention in 6 states. CRC compliance in 0 states.

Child labor below 15 years of age. Varies per sector. The biggest issue in the US is exemptions for work by children in agriculture: No minimum age in 23 states, 9 years old in 1 state, 10 years old in 2 states, 12 years old in 11 states, 12 years old in 1 state, 14 years old in 12 states. CRC compliance in 0 states.

Juvenile Jurisdiction and imprisonment. No minimum age in 24 states, 7 years old in 2 states, 8 years old in 1 state, 10 years old in 15 states, 11 years old in 1 state, 12 years old in 5 states, 13 years old in 2 states. CRC compliance in 0 states. Trying children as adults: No minimum age in 22 states. 12 years in 4 states, 13 years in 4 states, 14 years in 16 states, 15 years in 2 states, 16 years in 1 state. CRC compliance in 0 states. Juveniles can be sentences to life without parole in 22 states. Children as young as 13 years old have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Last updates September 2023.

through-a-historic-lens

A bleeding reporter interviews a bleeding activist after one of the mass anti-war demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which were violently broken up by Chicago police and federal troops

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