fetch the bolt cutters

non-israeli passing privilege

[pussiel]

she was only 27 years old but she was forced to learn to parallel park

[prorochestvo]

Hanna Rovina as Leah in The Dybbuk, 1922

[thunderstruck9]

Martin Wickström (Swedish, 1957), Not Dark Yet, 2012. Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm.

[dostoyevsky-official]

mask off 💀

it turns out i'm a little soft hippy centrist shitlib after all: i don't like it when civilians get killed. i am beholden to the idea that life is sacred, holy, and inviolable, that civilians are innocent no matter how much you do not like them. i am against cruelty—i have always been against it— and i believe that informs my understanding of the past and present: i am against the apartheid state and the blockade, i am against the ongoing carpet bombing of gaza. i will not cheer with you when dead bodies get dragged and spat on in the street, i do not think it is a moment of liberation when children get kidnapped and beaten. because i am against cruelty i do not celebrate shooting up 250 stupid concert goers. because of the principles i hold i don't like it when israel murders children, as it has done so in the last 48 hours, with the world's support. i do not support a government that kills over 200 innocents with impunity in retaliation. i do not understand what massacres justify which other massacres. it is barbaric to deny clean water and basic medicine to children; it is barbaric to shoot them, it is not a revolution. i don't like the kahanists and their state that led to this and i don't like hamas. i will not support the state of israel—i never have—and the impending invasion of gaza, instigated by two groups of fascist religious fundamentalists. i think cheering any part of this tragedy atrocious. but now i've gone and pulled a both-sides!

i want you to look at what's happening as a real act and not a media event where you pick the side that's convenient for your team. set aside the outrage, look at the people dying, and think of each life, that holds so much and is a miracle in itself. try to understand the immense tragedy of what it means for that to be cut short. do you not value life? does your value of life inform your politics? do you not support palestinians because you value life?

i’ve consistently posted about how opposed i am to violence targeting bystanders, the terror and bloodshed it achieves and nothing else. the history of the twentieth century, still unfolding around us, tells me that much. if you are celebrating, you are either an idiot, consumed by online politics, or you have lost some sense of humanity; look around—look carefully—and try to preserve it instead

[smashtheshell-deactivated202405]

305 notes for made up shit from a guy who listens to way too many podcasts. the average israeli is not blake flayton and people are not "fleeing back to their homelands" in any significant numbers. why is it that you need the true things described here - the power asymmetry, that gazans are living in an open air prison, that israel subjects them to continuous, genocidal murder sprees - to be enveloped by this fantasy? is shitposting so fun right now that you don't mind whether it's true or not?

[pri-ide]

Fela Kuti's daughter vaults through her dad's home in Nigeria

By Bruno Barbey for National Geographic (March, 1979)

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[pussiel]

my partner patiently explaining the concept of a moroccan jew to a chinese man via google translate

[pussiel]

"except their suicidal" this is suchhhh a comic relief rn thanks for sharing this nonsense.

והם כל כך משקרים לגבי זה רק שבחיים לא תיהיה אפשרות להוכיח את זה כי זה בחיים לא יקרה

כאילו זה ממש מוזר לטוען שאתה נגד גזענות אבל העובדה שכל הpoc רק משתוקקים להשתמש באלימות קיצונית נגדך לא מוטלת בספק. וגם אני מרגישה שזה בדיוק הדעות של בן גביר לגבי הסכסוך הוא חושב שפלסטינים וישראלים לא יכולים לחיות ביחד כי הפלסטינים הרצחנים מדי וגם השמאלנים בטוויטר חושבים ככה. אני חושבת שישראלים ופלסטינים כן יכולים לחיות ביחד ולכן אני נגד הכיבוש ונגד המצור

[smashtheshell-deactivated202405]

בבקשה תתרמו אם אתם יכולים (ותעדכנו אם הקישור לפייבוקס עובד כי אני לא מצליחה כרגע...)

זה הקישור

[pussiel]

i think people on twitter are vastly overestimating the number of brooklynites in israel

[pussiel]

these people live in the exact same right wing race war fantasy as steve bannon

[imeverywoman420]

low birth rates high rates of divorce: a society built on autonomy and personal freedom

society with high birth rates and no divorce: we call those Shitholes.

[pussiel]

those fucking parisians. if i get bedbugs again i’m solving the problem by throwing myself off the roof

[nikswonderland]

moomin and lily pads x / x

[redlipstickresurrected]

Salman Toor (Pakistani, b. 1983, Lahore, Pakistan, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - 1: Sleeping Boy, 2019, Oil on Panel  2: The Star, 2019, Oil on Wood  3: Man with Face Creams and Phone Plug, 2019, Oil on Canvas  4: The Arrival, 2019, Oil on Panel 

[vintage-ukraine]

Picnic by Serhiy Ripka, 1970s

[thatsbutterbaby]

Wladimir Schohin - Still Life, circa 1910. x