Kvetching Is The Path Towards Tikkun Olam

Raziela, she/her, adult, white Sephardi, raised orthodox, OTD. PRO PALESTINE. Anti-Zionist, diasporist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, Intersectional, ML. Feminism and queer issues blog @baeddelmarx. Zionists, TERFs, SWERFs, and Messianics not welcome.

[transgeoffrickly-deactivated202]

every time someone talks about someone "faking disability to live on welfare" or anything to that effect i think about how my mom worked in law and directly knew of a case of a guy who had terminal brain cancer with an estimated few months to live and got rejected the first time he applied for disability income. like, he was 100% going to die and that wasn't disabled enough to not have to jump through a million hoops and get lawyers involved. non-disabled people "living off of welfare" is such a non issue because i cannot bring myself to care about the like, 3 people who maybe successfully do it compared to the thousands of people rejected who need aid

[catsonjas]

What's striking about Cuba's Market Reforms is they were coerced into it, essentially at gunpoint. I do not believe it is the end for their Socialist project however just bc they are making a retreat. A temporary retreat can be undone when US Empire falls, & Cuba's conditions have improved.

What matters now is that we fight for Cuba and defend Cuba, and help to improve their conditions. This is especially important if you live in the US Empire and can make demands to Politicians to end all sanctions & attacks on Cuba & Let Cuba breathe 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺

[abbasaragchifanclub]

never forget that its is china and the ussr who took the greatest losses in world war 2. never forget the asian and african soldiers who fought on the side of the allied forces against the nazis. never forget that the french massacred the african soldiers who fought with them when the latter asked for better pay and living conditions.

[abbasaragchifanclub]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[occidentalist]

Every UK and Irish news outlet rn is opting for bullshit euphemisms like “unrest” and pussyfooting around calling what just happened in Belfast what it fucking was; a pogrom. Nazis attempted a pogrom of (primarily black African) migrants.

[saturnialsapphic]

Can anyone help me get some fluids and food for myself and my wife? It’s a heatwave and heavy storm alerts outside and we have nothing at home to stay hydrated (our pipes aren’t trustworthy). Our unit doesn’t have ac. Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance.

Ca: SaturnialSapphic

Venmo: SaturnialSapphic

[tankie-transfeminist]

Today I wanted to talk about Kyle Bassinga. Kyle was a 21 year old man from Georgia, whose family described him as "a kind, thoughtful, and smart young man who loved nature, music, and the people around him". Kyle Bassinga was killed on February 18th 2026, just ten days after his birthday. He was found hanging from a tree in a park.

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

I know this website it too white for this to really go anywhere, but an understanding of the present reality of white supremacy in the United States is just so important to transfeminism here. Lynchings never stopped, white supremacy never went away, you just stopped looking.

[storyweavingspider]

Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.

Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.

But I do need y’all to know that Black folks are currently, actively, being disappeared and lynched—if they even find our bodies. Black girls are and have been more often stolen into human trafficking, especially if they’re immigrants, but I’ve been seeing new news of probable lynchings every other day. Shit is worse than you think it is right now, tumblr just too white of a site to care lol

[thewinter22]

People argue "I've seen a case like this every few months and it's always been a suicide"

Been a suicide or been ruled a suicide?

[storyweavingspider]

Usually it’s ruled a suicide because cops or people affiliated with cops/prisons/legal system like lawyers or prosecutors did it then buried the body on land belonging to one of those organizations, such as I noted here: in this thread, where over 200 bodies were found buried behind a jail since 2016:

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Non-Black and/or non-US based people often wonder why so many left-leaning Black folks in the US try to operate alternate justice systems within smaller community such as restorative justice, transformative justice, etc. when “all over the world, activists and their ancestors have fought for access to legal systems like this” and this is why.

Our legal system is explicitly designed to kill and enslave Black people. Our legal system from the cops to the lawyers and courts (one of the few times we got justice) to the prisons is legalized slavery where prisons are privatized and corporations are encouraged to maximize their profit by incentivizing every part of this system to hold as many people as possible.

Black folks can be proven innocent after years of time in prison or on death row and still killed by the state or dying in prison because the goal was never justice, it was to keep culling and controlling the Black population.

And outside of the system, we are lynched, raped, abused, trafficked, and robbed by those involved in our legal system, lives often irreparably destroyed, entire lives disappeared with no justice because that is the point, not a flaw. It’s almost always those in the legal system or their families and friends doing this, so that it can be ruled a suicide or a runaway or intracommunity issues and swept away.

So when we look to justice systems that do not throw away a life of any human, it is because we do not wish to see them enslaved, murdered, raped, abused, etc. at the hands of the state, because that is what WILL happen here in the US. We become abolitionists because we see that the alternative option is to allow others to become enslaved. Because it’s a minimum we can do when 95% of the time there will be no justice for us no matter what.

[captain-price-returns]

Zionists:

Actual Israeli history:

[fellahimedia]

If your response to early zionist political writers and leaders being quoted openly favoring the "transfer" of Palestinians is "idc that's not what zionism means blah blah" then you are seriously not interrogating 1. Your relationship to your idea of zionism and the reality of its development and execution and 2. Seriously need to check your anti palestinian racism. Because when I read these quotes from Ben Gurion, israel zangwill, yosef Weitz, and so on it breaks my heart that palestinians had no idea that this minority immigrant population was planning their exodus in explicit detail. That we were to early zionists "indistinguishable" from other Arabs and we wouldnt care to be "transferred" when the reality was that we cared deeply about our villages, our farm land, our cemeteries and places of worship and many palestinians attempted to walk back in 1948 to find their village destroyed

[skotoseme]

before nato turkey recruited thousands-tens of thousands of syrian mercenaries for libya, not only did it back the SNA, it also recruited foreign mercenaries for syria. among those thousands of mercenary recruits poured into syria through turkey were thousands of uyghurs alone. for over a decade they served as one of the proxies and fought under the same black flags alongside other salafi-jihadist militias like the AQ-offshoot factions with some joining daesh. the turkistan islamic movement played a significant role in the syrian proxy war, committed atrocities, and were active participants in massacres of syrian civilians, including the alawite massacres. this is not to absolve the other regional and multinational/transnational jihadists that partook in the syrian proxy war; my point is TIP’s role cannot be overlooked.

those foreign uyghur mercenaries and their entire families now constitute tens of thousands and have been settling on stolen syrian land and in homes that were confiscated from forcibly displaced syrian minority communities or settled in after they were slaughtered. those very militants are now integrated into the so-called “syrian army”, syrian ministry of defense, some of whom hold high-ranking positions. apparently syria is not for actual syrians but if you’re a foreign salafi then you’re more syrian than the “kuffar”. they’ve been indoctrinating children to become jihadists. they train child soldiers. there are videos of the children in camps making the beheading gesture and calling an arab journalist trying to talk to them a “kaffir”.

their end goal is to return to and fight PRC to establish the “east turkestan” project. they look up to zionism and the zionist ethnostate as a model and inspiration for their islamic state project.

also worth mentioning that when turkey deployed mercenaries to aid azerbaijan in its aggression against artsakh in 2020, not only thousands of syrian militants were transported, among the foreign ones were also uyghurs from TIP.

Uyghur fighters in Syria vow to come for China next

The Turkistan Islamic Party says its main mission to ‘liberate the Muslims of East Turkistan from the Chinese occupation’

Why Is Arab Media Silent About the Uyghur Separatists Supporting ‘Israel’?

By Shaher Ismail Al Shaher  -  Mar 31, 2024 We no longer hear much about the Uyghur issue, which Arab and international media outlets often

US gives nod to Syria to bring foreign jihadist ex-rebels into army

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Turkey accused of shipping in jihadists into Azerbaijan-Armenia war

JIHADIST groups are believed to have been present in Azerbaijan since at least February, it was claimed today, with Turkey accused of shippi

Turkey sends Syrian mercenaries of Nagorno Karabakh war to fight Russian forces in Ukraine - RIA

Turkey has sent the Syrian militants who stayed in Nagorno Karabakh after fighting for Azerbaijan against Armenian forces in the 2020 war in

[captain-price-returns]

Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not focus on impeaching President Trump if they regain a majori

The inability to even say something like "Yes if we win enough votes in congress" lol. Don't bother, we won't even try to remove the guy everyone hates. That's real political instincts.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[saturnialsapphic]

Hazels gofundme is live! Please help my wife out, this debt has been looming over her for years and she just wants to move on past it, she truly does not deserve the worry and stress and frustration tears from this. It’s a scaling goal that increases as she gets more, set up to match the ranges of legal fees / payments.

https://gofund.me/02d60cfbc

[existennialmemes]

A man records himself torching his work place while saying "All you had to do was pay us enough to live. Or at least enough not to do this."

And news reports are officially saying his motive is undetermined because they don't want to admit that they know exactly what his motive is.

"Nothing to see here folks. Just a truly baffling event that came completely out of nowhere and can't be understood. Please don't think about it and start rambling about workers' rights again."

[socialistsephardi]

[komsomolka]

the fact it's mainstream imperial core narrative is inhumane. it's confirmed that MILLIONS of soviets DIED because of hawkish capitalist policies which were implemented after ussr fall. gorbachev should be remembered as complicit party in this, i will not be afraid to say, genocide.

[dre759]

Motherfucker did not just fucking say “improves the lives of hundreds of millions people”

I’d also like to bring up a paper a friend told me about earlier today.

"Taking Stock of Shock. Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions" by Kristen Ghodsee. Where the study looked at East German and Polish populations after the transition to capitalism had occurred. The study found destitution that you would usually find in war zones.

Suffice to say. Fuck Gorbachev. If there’s a Hell he’s in there.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

It's not like I'm saying anything new here or anything, but the problem with "leftism" as a political descriptor (and with people who vaguely identify as "leftist" without any specifics) is best exemplified by the fact that "support small businesses" is broadly perceived to be a leftist cause on here.