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Hi I'm cloudwick and I mostly post/reblog warrior cats here, but you'll also find:
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whet the fuck was cage the elephant singing about
capitalism
if you're thinking of "Aint No Rest for the Wicked" that's not about capitalism, it's about video game franchise Borderlands by Gearbox for 2K games
"if you pay the right price, your evening will be nice"
this is when you buy Borderlands and you have fun
It was also about Capitalism
"Ain't nothin in this world for free"
this is about the 4 DLC expansions you could buy at $9.99 apiece
How do you type with boxing gloves on?
I really don’t feel like we as a society are talking enough about this
TURN THE FUCKING AUDIO ON
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deep human voice: I'm not mama, mama's over there!
fawn, plaintively, continuing to approach: mee!
deep human voice: there, little guy! you're teeny-tiny!
fawn: (continues to approach)
deep human voice: here, let me-- we'll put you next to my coffee cup, so we can see how little you are.
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i’m going to let this video speak for itself. bc i don’t even know what to say anymore. i don’t know how we come back from this level of radicalization among young people to the point where holocaust denial has become the norm.
Whenever people say the holocaust wasn't that bad I always ask them why the gas chambers were invented because it really drives home just how insanely horrific it was (tw disturbing)
They were invented because bullets were too expensive. It's not enough that the nazis didn't value human lives, it's not even that a couple cents was too expensive to save human lives, it's that a couple cents was too expensive to kill human lives. The value of jews was placed at negative numbers.
We have the amounts to prove it's really bad but we don't even need that because the real truth of the holocaust is that everything about it is an exhibition in the most terrible humans can be, if it had happened to 5 people it would still be considered high on the list of atrocities.
yeah and i think ppl don’t understand that the reason jews have had to be so loud abt the holocaust is that. no one gave a shit. not really. if we wanted to have this horrific trauma and crime against our people recognized, we had to fight for it. and there are STILL huge portions of the population who don’t take it seriously.
It's always sat oddly with me whenever I see (frequently fellow POC) making this point of "oh well OUR death counts are higher and no one cares" because. Yes, sometimes our death counts ARE higher- the first one that jumped to mind watching this is the Native American population that even by extremely generous estimations is less than 1/5 of what it was pre-Columbus, though as the guy in the video points out we're talking centuries of extermination efforts and not less than half a decade with a higher population count to begin with so of course the numbers look way different.
HOWEVER I think also his point that he brings up that this is usually the problem with teaching history as a series of dates, names, and numbers instead of teaching the building blocks that got us to this point are a SIGNIFICANT factor in people both A: not giving nearly enough of a shit about literally any of these genocidal tragedies and B: not understanding the severity or how we got there.
And it does suck. It sucks that the genocide of this country's Native populations continues to be swept under the rug and totally erased by the colonizing society that's still to this day doing its damnedest to kill them. It sucks that we can't get our own politicians to actually discuss the ramifications of transatlantic slavery and Jim Crow on our black populations. It's awful that a precedent started multiple presidents ago of tossing Latinos in cages and mass deporting anyone with too-Spanish of a last name regardless of if they're citizens or not is still occurring today. It's terrible that we encouraged Asian immigrants to come to this country to work for us and then spat on them and tossed them south and into our slums or into camps when the work was finished. It's horrifying that a single act of war that the leader of our country knew about and let happen because it gave him his excuse also made it into hunting season for this country's Arab and Muslim population.
It SHOULD be talked about more. More people SHOULD care.
But saying "well at least they care about the holocaust"? That ain't it. Because usually those people who don't give a shit about any of that last paragraph also DON'T care about the holocaust, not really. If they even think it happened, it's usually the barest amount of lip service "oh yes that was bad I guess" and that's it.
We SHOULD care about the Holocaust. We should care that Hitler effectively built a Jew killing Machine and started feeding said Jew Killing Machine any Jews he could find and catch. If nothing else, to prevent it from happening again. To Jews. To anyone.
But I'm also not sold on the logic of the people like the person he stitched, that we should care less about one tragedy because other tragedies that are "worse" exist. Even if that was the case, I think when we get into the "whose genocide is worse" bickering, everyone has lost. None of these should have happened in the first place. People should know about and care about all of them. Caring about the Holocaust doesn't stop me from caring about black people.
I had a history teacher back in high school that changed the way I thought about history forever. Instead of the usual names and dates, which I can never remember and so have had horrendous grades in history growing up, he taught it like it was a story. From pre-historical Europe all the way to the 9/11 attack, we learned how each of these events stacked on top of each other and how each influenced the next. To this day it's the only A in history I've ever had, because for once I could finally understand how everything hooked together and what was going on. My next and final year of history was with a different teacher who just gave names and dates. My history grade went back to a C.
And I think, if that was my experience, and the experience of the thousands of kids who moved through that school system with me... how many of them didn't get that one history teacher who taught them in a way easier to comprehend? How many barely floated through history with a just-barely "adequate" understanding, and didn't actually absorb any of the information outside of the bare minimum required to pass? How many of them are walking around as adults? How many are teaching the next generation on that incredibly shakey ground? How many are out there directly contributing to this problem?
And how many others went through similar at other schools?
HUGE emphasis on your last couple of paragraphs. irt the holocaust, a lot of people seem to think it was a fluke event that’s over now so it’s fine and jews should just get over it. but the holocaust wasn’t a fluke. the fluke was the few decades of the world feeling guilty afterward.
jews have been persecuted, massacred, expelled, and subjugated for over 2000 years in the diaspora. there has pretty much never been a time in history since the roman expulsion where jews have not been oppressed in some way in the places we’ve lived, whether that was being segregated in shtetls or ghettos or living as dhimmis. europe in particular was extremely brutal to jews because of how different we were than the existing european populations. i once spent a depressing afternoon adding up all the known massacres and genocides of jews and it added up to the tens of millions.
so when you think about the holocaust, you cannot start in 1930. you have to start around 70 AD and pay attention to the ways antisemitism morphed and grew over 2000 years, hatred that eventually led to tens of millions of europeans being completely and totally fine with the systematic murder of millions of jews. we weren’t people to them. we were heretics. then we were baby killers. then we were rats. cockroaches. then we were shadowy figures controlling the banks and the media. we were the cause of [insert country here]’s problems, in every era, always. and hitler had a solution.
but that solution wasn’t unique. hitler was far from the first person to say “hmm there’s problems in society. let’s kill all the jews about it.” the holocaust wasn’t unique in its brutality. it was unique in its efficiency. hitler was just doing what gentiles, europeans in particular, had been doing for centuries, but with a lot more technology and resources. there were waves of pogroms in eastern europe leading up to the holocaust that killed upwards of 120,000 jews. the only reason it wasn’t more was because they didn’t have the technology or manpower. the nazis did.
someone mentioned in another reblog that the reason the nazis moved from just shooting jews and tossing them into mass graves was because it was cheaper, but that’s not the full story. the rest of it is that it took a lot of manpower and time to go to all these villages, round up the jews, shoot them, and toss them in a ditch. it was also taking a toll on the soldiers who had to do the killing. the purpose of the gas chambers and the camps was to remove as much human interaction as possible. to automate our deaths. the camps were horrific and brutal, but that wasn’t the primary goal. the primary goal was to kill as many jews as possible as quickly as possible in the most efficient way possible with as little resources and manpower expended as possible.
and when it was all over and two third of europe’s jewish population, one half of the total jewish population, and upwards of 90% of some jewish communities had been completely and totally eradicated, the survivors went home…..and experienced pogroms. their neighbors who had turned them in didn’t want them back so they slaughtered them. or they refused to give back their houses and property and possessions. or the government wouldn’t allow them to come back. these people who had survived hell on earth were faced with further dehumanization. many of whom are still alive today to tell us about it. many of whom wrote extensively about it and have left their stories as their legacy.
and i just….. i wonder if people can imagine what it’s like to live in fear for decades, to try to fight back against oppressive regimes that try to persecute you, then to be carted away in train cars made for livestock, to watch thousands of your people be murdered and burned to ashes, literally watch, to smell and see and walk by a mound of ashes that used to be your mother or your brother or your child. and then somehow you manage to survive, you go back home…and your neighbors drive you out again. you are homeless and starving and have nowhere to go. your family is dead. you have nothing. and every night in your dreams you see a pile of ashes. and then a couple of decades later, people start saying it “wasn’t that bad”, that other genocides were worse, that it was so long ago so why do the jews keep milking it??
the holocaust was the culmination of millennia of oppression, persecution, and genocide against jews that cost tens of millions of our lives. and you really think 80 years is enough time for that to fade from our communal memory and no longer be relevant to us?
Every disabled person deserves several million dollars to build or renovate their perfectly accessible ideal home I am not even joking. I would dismantle the us military in a heartbeat and give millions of dollars to every disabled and/or unhoused person so that they can have a home they love.
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HURRY UP
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11.25.2022
I posted this to bluesky a few days ago and I’m still feeling it
Could you imagine if Kamala picked Biden as her VP
Maybe I’m biased but chihuahuas literally have the same temperament as any other dog. It’s the same as saying “cats are evil” to me like that’s not true. what did you do to them
the evilest of glares @ social media accounts who purposely bother their chihuahua until it lashes out on camera because “small dog mad funny” and all the people who comment “this is proof they’re evil” under them
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