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While the international community speaks of the genocide and ethnic cleansing we are enduring, we are focusing on the details of this urgent crisis moment by moment.

ahmed-motaz

My family and I are surrounded by winter's relentless bombardment. Shrapnel rains down on our heads and inside our tattered tent, leaving us without even the most basic protection. Flying in a torn tent offers no shelter from the bitter cold or the scorching summer heat. Every day we bid farewell to the martyrs of the revolution, witnessing children lose their lives before our very eyes, while we and our children suffer from a profound lack of basic necessities.

ahmed-motaz

We need your help, not to dismantle our tent, but to provide us with the food and medicine we desperately need to survive. I implore you not to abandon us in these circumstances.

closet-keys

Please please continue to support my young friend Ahmed. His family has been displaced many times, they live in a tent in a refugee camp in Gaza, and are subject to terror from attacks that continue under the false “ceasefire.” Ahmed needs food and medicine urgently.

pitbolshevik

if only yall focused on actual transphobia that trans men faced as much as you do on some random trans woman on tumblr making a textpost saying she hates men

pitbolshevik

like we could be discussing how cis people simultaneously infantilize and sexualize us or how we are routinely left out of conversations about abortion and gynecology or how cis men openly fantasize about forcing us to detransition or how conservatives seem extremely fucking interested in studying how soon we can get pregnant after forcibly detransitioning us or how trans men who DO choose to get pregnant are treated like freaks or how phallo and metoidio are extensively fearmongered about or how people insist that historical figures who lived as men up until their deaths were just gnc women

but no a trans woman said the phrase "birthday boy" once and that's obviously the real pressing issue here

#trans stuff #transphobia

dinah-lance

i think some of you guys should question why algorithms are only feeding you this negative information about argentina, only representing us as either violent, racist, or both, instead of showing you the black and brown argentinians and immigrants who are trying to tell you how it is living here, instead of showing you families being happy about the wins or argentinians supporting other latam countries throughout the world cup, algorithms that are programmed and designed overwhelmingly by usa rightwingers and zionists, and why would they want the world to have such a negative image of argentina at the same time as our president, a us/israeli puppet, is trying to remove laws that protect our land and resources so billionaires in those countries can buy it and exploit it, at the same time as peter thiel moved to argentina because he knows that same puppet president will give him whatever the fuck he wants and let him do whatever the fuck he wants, at the same time as israeli companies are trying to buy our water and burn our forests. think about it.

seek leftist argentinian voices, indigenous argentinian voices, black and brown argentinian voices, progressive argentinian voices. learn about our history and our current political climate from them, not from your algorithm, not from whatever goes viral.

alenkorra

For those of you who are genuinely interested in listening to afroargentinian voices, you can follow Emmanuel Ntaka, Zoe Gerbaudo, Jennifer Parker and PibaAfroQom.

All of them have spoken out about the dangers of this campaign that only erases afroargentines even more.

#imperialism #racism #antiblackness

manu-script

The lands richness belongs to indigenous people btw not to the Argentinian state or its European occupiers xoxo

wow what a novel concept I'm sure no one in the south american continent has ever thought of the brand new idea of land back of course not everyone knows the stupid south americans could have never thought of that

manu-script

its the condescending tone especially, like in that post that said it "probably sucks to be progressive in argentina", as if the savage south americans could never be smart enough to have their own independent causes to fight for and progressive movements that have lasted for decades (as long as a conveniently placed dictatorship didn't kill them off of course). nooo, you're right, we need Alex from Assfuck, California to come civilize us

manu-script

also it's very telling when the response at latines talking about imperialism is bringing up indigenous communities as a gotcha, because... they're still victims of imperialism. what's your point exactly?

earlier this year indigenous communities in cachi, salta were violently evicted from their homes by over 500 officers because a politician decided it so, but it's radio silence for that huh? if you only bring up native communities to try to silence latines that try to bring awareness to the imperialism that affects all of us, then you don't actually give a shit about them

#imperialism #look just because we're different from USamericans doesn't mean we're dumb or reactionary by default #again. with the US the rest of the world is expected to have a nuance view of its people #but with countries like argentina? they're just a bunch of nazis and colonizers so it's A-OK to be xenophobic towards them!#same to iran #they're a bunch of misogynists and queerphobes so it's A-OK to bomb them into submission!#never mind the inumerous times the US interfered on their politics to maintain their power or the bombings or the mercenaries or the pillag #the third world is an empoverished unstable mess for No Reason At All!#it's really a pity i won't be alive to watch the us empire draw its last breath before shrivelling and dying

frociaggina97

listen. listen to me very well. you might think that argentina lost the world cup because of your tweets and your hate and the threads and the posts. but the reality is that we lost because we played like shit. this has nothing to do with you, unfortunately it has all to do with the fuckass team.

callistocalls

fraught-with-peril

Further insider info on UberEats, DoorDash, etc. and why drivers hating you isn't about ableism, from a disabled gig driver:

What I need people to understand about rideshare food delivery apps in the vast majority of the US is that the driver quite literally does not get paid unless you tip. You need to forget what you know about tipping culture and start learning about how it's legal to pay tipped workers NOTHING. If you want to keep using the app, you have to tip. If you don't want to tip, fight to get the drivers legal protections and a living wage. If you keep using the app without tipping, fuck you.

Unlike with rides, an app delivery driver is not paid per mile OR for time. It's a flat rate, usually between $1.50 and $3 regardless of how long the order takes, how long the restaurant takes to make it, etc.

Deliveries in many markets usually take most or all of an hour to complete due to the distance & sheer volume of traffic, so we're looking at functionally $2 per online hour (not booked hour, booked hours are BULLSHIT because we can't do ANYTHING else while waiting on orders) on a good day if nobody tips.

I will remind you a gallon of gas costs more than that, and the round trip from the restaurant to you is usually enough to consume most of a gallon or even over a gallon of fuel. This is because the app doesn't always select a location near you. Instead, it often chooses the restaurant closest to the driver, which...honestly, on a busy day, it could be like 15 to 20 miles away from you because THAT was the closest place they could find a driver to. It's not our fault your food's cold, either, in other words.

The reason your food is taking an hour to get to you when you don't tip is because the apps will try their hardest NOT to raise this rate unless they're forced to. Your food isn't even being prepared because drivers are seeing an offer to go 15 miles for $1.50 and going "haha, no, I'm not a fucking idiot" and taking the offers that are higher. Your order floats around in the system getting $0.20 tacked onto the base pay until someone FINALLY takes it.

I literally never stop moving when I'm running deliveries unless I am at the customer's front door, so when you open said door and bitch at me for how long your food took to get to you, I know instantly that you didn't tip & the algorhithm didn't even bother showing it to me until it was worth my time because I always hit no on orders that ask me to do unpaid labor.

When you try to justify not tipping w/ any reason, you just look like an asshole to the people actually doing all this work for you. "I need you to do unpaid labor because I'm poor" yeah babe so are we, and we're usually poorer than the ones saying this shit

fraught-with-peril

So much of the hatred against gig economy drivers is just racism tbh but nobody wants to have that conversation

fraught-with-peril

I spent a while in the DFW airport queue, which is just a massive hidden parking lot at the airport where Uber and Lyft drivers must stay while waiting to be assigned a ride. Since it's too expensive to sit there with your car idling in the A/C, just about everyone is milling about in the grass outside of their cars to avoid baking to death in the setting sun. It's surprisingly welcoming compared to the stops I've had to make running food delivery. People are singing, dancing, and sharing sodas out of a cooler.

There was literally maybe one white person at a time in the crowd for the entire hour I had to wait for my turn. Out of a crowd of between 200 and 300 people at any given moment.

I'm not saying that Uber/Lyft drivers are all innocent little babs that need protecting (driver conduct is a serious issue ever since they stopped training ppl and making sure they had decent communication skills) but you NEED to listen for anti-immigrant sentiment and racism when conversations about driver conduct come up bc some of you are literally validating stories like "a Black man had the audacity to say hello to ME" as evidence that they're all bad...

#racism

hihereami

You are decended from escaped Nazi's though let's get that point straight.

This is exceedingly funny because I, Aimee, descend from a jewish Holocaust survivor. My great grandpa Berco, paternal grandfather to my mom. He's the only surviving member of his family after they were invaded and murdered by nazis on 1930s Romania.

I know more people descending from jewish, muslim or indigenous people than people with german ancestry. The only people with german ancestry I've met are jewish.

hihereami

The claim "Argentina is a nazi country" affects first and foremost jewish argentinians, not the fascists.

"Argentina is a white country" affects the brown, black and indigenous argentinians, not the racists.

"Argentina is an evil country aligned to the US and Israel" completely misses the point we're a third world country in Latin America under imperialist attack.

Milei's goverment is trying to pass laws that allow foreign goverments and corporations to buy our land. He's gifted them our water, lithium and scientific resources.

WE are the first victims of what's happening.

It's indigenous people whose land is about to be sold in this foreign takeover.

The victims of Argentinian racism are my brown friends who get stopped by the police.

The victims of the fascist state is my own fucking family, my 90 year old uncle with AIDS got his medication cut because they want him dead.

"Argentina chose its president, they must think like him" but Milei has support from foreign entities and rose to power thanks to the media painting him as "an economist" who would solve our terrible inflation problem. People were made to feel they had no other choice. We are a third world country with no global power whatsoever. We are the USA ans Israel's victim, not its ally.

So yeah, very funny, we descend from nazis. We have wiped all people who aren't white. We're zionists colonizers who threaten the UK. Yes, sure.

#argentina #imperialism #racism #funny how people seem to only apply this logic to argentina and not the US; who elected trump TWICE #like as a brazillian it would be desingenuous to say that latin america doesn't have problems with race and class -of course we do.#but we'd probably make progress on these fronts and more if the US gov quit banking coups or interfering w/ our elections #just to keep their hegemony intact (plus access to cheap resources)#yes we have sellouts with complexos de vira-lata who are after money and fucking the rest of the country over #in order to gain/keep their privileges but powerful and rich countries like the US keep buying what they're selling #in order to sustain their way of life #tldr: we're not saints but if we were left alone we might get some shit done

urfavhatesterfs

this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

delirious-heartthrob

This is the cutest thing ever. Godzilla says trans rights.

kitt-the-werefox

GODZILLA OFFICIAL???

#godzilla #trans stuff #stop motion #animation

userlindley

RIVERDALE 4.03, Dog Day Afternoon

#this is what it feels like learning roberto is doing the afterlife with archie show #<- prev tags #can't believe he's gonna adapt his own comic that has been on hiatus since 2016!

ahmed-motaz

While the international community speaks of the genocide and ethnic cleansing we are enduring, we are focusing on the details of this urgent crisis moment by moment.

ahmed-motaz

My family and I are surrounded by winter's relentless bombardment. Shrapnel rains down on our heads and inside our tattered tent, leaving us without even the most basic protection. Flying in a torn tent offers no shelter from the bitter cold or the scorching summer heat. Every day we bid farewell to the martyrs of the revolution, witnessing children lose their lives before our very eyes, while we and our children suffer from a profound lack of basic necessities.

ahmed-motaz

We need your help, not to dismantle our tent, but to provide us with the food and medicine we desperately need to survive. I implore you not to abandon us in these circumstances.

closet-keys

Please please continue to support my young friend Ahmed. His family has been displaced many times, they live in a tent in a refugee camp in Gaza, and are subject to terror from attacks that continue under the false “ceasefire.” Ahmed needs food and medicine urgently.

#palestine #signal boost

butch-bara

actually i’m putting this on main blog too people will legitimately be like “omg i’m SOOO glad they made the lesbian character in [tv show] the pretty one instead of some ugly disgusting hairy butch dyke! this is destroying the negative stereotype that all lesbians are ugly disgusting monsters 🤩 #woke #feminism #lesbian #pretty” and think they deserve to live

#sapphic tag #lesbophobia #weirdo politics #media representation #queer representation