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Lebanon is currently being bombed with thousands displaced and hundreds martyred. The Israeli strikes are intensifying and nearly one million people are displaced as of 3/12/2026.

Below are a few sources accepting donations to provide food, aide, and more to those affected. If you have any means to donate please do so. The Lebanese Red Cross - provides life saving medical services across the country

Lebanese Food Bank - distributing food and essential supplies to those who are directly affected and displaced

Egna Legna Besidet - a women migrant domestic worker run humanitarian and advocacy organization providing humanitarian assistance and emergency aide for migrant domestic workers

If anyone has any other places to donate, please share.

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Hope people use this time to check themselves on their learned Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism— especially if you’re American or European. It is not “normal” for the Middle East to be “constantly at war”. Muslims are not more inclined to violence and “barbarism”.

The state of the region is the product of decades of colonialism, exploitation, and racism in play. The word “Middle East” itself stems from those very same things.

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Last night SNL had a skit in which Timothee Chalamet (of the orientalist franchise Dune fame) made a Hamas "joke".

Last year, when the attacks on Ukraine began, SNL brought on a Ukrainian choir to sing over a candlelight vigil.

The West does not see Palestinians, and their suffering, as human. Fuck SNL and fuck all the people who are comfortable and involved in the ongoing dehumanization of Palestinians. Their suffering is not a punchline.

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Wyll being the youngest of the guys is funny to me

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i know Orientalism is largely accepted and oftentimes encouraged in fantasy/dnd settings but i think all fans should be required to read Orientalism by Edward Said before playing/engaging in any of it

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very severe carpet bombing across Lebanon but especially Beirut right now 😞

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"Wyll is boring" he is the personification of daddy issues. he hides away at a beach TWICE and leaving the tav to go find him because he's not used to having people around who care abt him. he's been running around the sword coast for seven years just killing things and saving people because he got EXILED and chose to prove himself to his father and just help others. he spends his time training kids how to defend themselves. you find out his dad is the ARCHDUKE of Baldur's Gate. he almost drowned once trying to find mermaids. he has a literal devil haunting him that watches his every move. He managed to stop an entire cult of Tiamat AT AGE 17!!!!!!! he loves clowns.

Wyll isn't boring, ppl just haven't taken the time to explore his story and it SHOWS