functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”
West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.
“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.
“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.
“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”
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I suppose I should ask on behalf of my fellow ignoramuses why that persepolis quote is bad. I thought it was prescient, particularly to highlight the common humanity between the people of two countries that are hostile to each other. I don't think the part about our governments being the same are correct as America's worse for the world, but I didn't expect people to hate the quote that much.
In the era we live in, a government cannot exist independently of its people, "the usamerican government & the usamerican people" are not completely unrelated entities that happen to be on the same land with the people having no influence whatsoever on the government, nor is that true for any country on earth, let alone the Iranian people. The quote tries to ignore this reality by pretending as though the people of all countries are unrelated victims of their governments
While the "east" and "west" aren't perfect descriptions the world is very much divided! Again, the political scene does not exist independently of the population! Denying this reality denies the very context all governments currently exist in and make their decisions based on, it is denying the very active global hegemony's oppression, it therefore denies how the governments of SWANA exist in relation to it: sucking up to the west in expense of the populace and / or trying to protect the populace, it denies the victimhood of all Iranian people within this order actively hostile and deadly to their very life because it pretends such a hostile order does not exist in the place.
As you said it yourself too, "(our) governments being as bad as USA is incorrect". It is actually the worst offender here, the above so far is a deeply flawed understanding of how states & the world order operates. This deeply flawed understanding piles up to logically result in the final misconception: That the US; the deadly force that has been causing suffering and mayhem in SWANA for over a century, couping and scheming to install puppet regimes that results in the death of millions, dehumanizing everyone within the made up category of "the middle east", (something it carries from the west before it!) and the very aggressor here, is the same as its victims
The Iranian nation is a victim of the US, the Iranian Government does not exist independently of the people, the "just the government, not the people!" play pretend of trying to position the government as seperate from the general populace just furthers the said justification to attack every nation the US victimizes. Therefore it is a very detestable quote, born from mistakes in analysis the citizens of periphery who gather fame in the core unfortunately tend to fall in by passively internalizing the core's logic used to manufacture consent and combining them with the sometimes valid complaints they had of their state, admittedly it can also be from trying to assimilate by appearing as the Good Token Anonymized Person Of The Global South who would never think the opposition to the west is justified
Hence why it is especially disgusting with the turn of events that people think this quote is """relevant"" in any way, though of course if the US and its proxy entity were to attack not any civilians but military targets, they would still be very much making their intentions clear
It is being shared again after Satrapi has finally died. We have seen how "US and Iran governments are the same" once again since the US purposefully murdered hundreds of Iranian elementary school girls and crushed their tiny bodies under a rubble of their school, then threated nuclear holocaust on all Iranian people and the surrounding region. Let me make it clear: I was too kind, if you quote this, you are a dog. People like you nanufacture consent and have the blood of all the dead children on your hands.
Israel has besieged Gaza for over 19 years, making food and medicine scarce. However, after the October War, Israel completely blocked the entry of anything into Gaza, effectively imposing a total blockade. Gaza is a giant prison controlled by the worst jailers in the world: the Zionist Nazis who kill, displace, and starve us without mercy.
We have endured so much and are still alive thanks to your help and donations. Without them, we would have died long ago. With them, we can buy food and medicine for my brother, who suffers from anemia and needs urgent treatment before he dies from this illness, the siege, and starvation.
Please, friends, help us by donating so we can buy medicine for my brother. He hasn't taken it for over a month, and his condition is deteriorating every day. Please help us so we can buy healthy food to satisfy our hunger and help my brother recover. Please don't ignore us. Please donate to us.
Please support my dear friend Ahmed. He and his family have struggled with food insecurity through this genocidal war, and he and his brother are now deeply malnourished and need medicine, supplements, and nutritious food so their bodies can recover.
btw in that book kuang wrote that it's china who used WMDs against japanese civilians instead of usa. so it's not even really exploration of anti communist mythos about mao she straight up makes up shit to make her fantasy china (with her girl!mao version in the lead) responsible for usa war crimes.
Going from "I wanted a fantasy protagonist who looks like me" straight into anticommunist bootlicking is such a perfect encapsulation of liberal identity politics and its shortcomings
wait it makes so much sense that babel ended with most of the protagonist’s team blowing themselves up or dying… kuang really couldn’t imagine an actual revolutionary future
I want you to stop whatever you're doing right now. Stop it. This is important. I want to ask you something. Do you want palestinians to die? I assume, I hope you do not. If so, you must help. You have to help, because words, reblogs, likes, are worth very little to them. You cannot help them without taking actual, material action. Israel wants to kill Palestinans, and they will if they are not stopped, you must fight this.
Guys, I am trying to help build a small educational initiative please, Please, We need anything to complete this procedure, please we in Gaza are the most lacking thing is education. And we really need that, there are never schools. Now you can help build one, even if it's from tents, which may be the only reason hundreds of children were rescued
The Coastal Initiative in Gaza urgently needs your support to laun… Asma Yunis needs your support for Help the children of Gaza get a safe a
You think your donation won't help but that's a wrong thing every euro helps us guys please guys Every euro will help us. I don't know, but participation is free and also like But donate anything, please. You're just our hope.
Please guys, you are our only hope I will not forgive anyone who can donate and has not done so please we need help a lot please my dear friend. Don't ignore and donate now.
Some say that I am tired of standing with the Palestinians, how tired I am watching from behind the screens, how we who are present at the same event, we are still suffering from many things, the first of which is education. So I'm asking you to donate to buy some tents to start a small education initiative. please
It looks like they’re dropping a teaser trailer for the new Harry Potter reboot tomorrow
Just a few important and gentle reminders:
🫶🏻 DO NOT WATCH THIS FUCKING SHOW 🫶🏻
If you claim you support human rights - not just trans rights but human rights in general - yet still plan to watch this show, unfollow me. You’re a fucking hypocrite and I don’t want you following me.
Do not watch it even if you’re hate watching it, it still contributes to streaming revenue and views!
The adults in this reboot of the franchise are FULLY accountable for choosing to do this show and accepting a pay cheque over supporting a minority group. Even if they claim they support trans rights, they’re cowards and don’t actually support them at all.
The kids do NOT deserve abuse or hate, whether it’s because you’re comparing them to Dan/Rupert/Emma or because you’re boycotting due to the author’s views. They are literal CHILDREN.
Your nostalgia over a children’s series about kids going to school is NOT more important than trans people being respected and having rights. As long as JKR is still alive, she profits off of this.
And, just so you know, JKR profiting off of HP has DIRECTLY led to the disintegration of trans rights in the UK.
For example...
It follows an announcement in December that transgender members would be banned from joining.
From yestersday. This follows on from the UK supreme court ruling last year that equalities laws would be based on 'biological sex only.'
That supreme court ruling got through, not because 'everyone believes in it.' But because JKR directly payed MASSIVE amounts of money into right wing thinktanks, politicians, and TERF influencers.
Harry Potter directly funds transphobia and anti-trans laws in the UK.
She pours her money into the J.K Rowling women's fund. Meaning Harry Potter revenue directly pays for right wing transphobic pearl clutchers to take trans people to court and to stamp out the rights of trans people in the UK.
It is also hurting cis women in the UK because now we're all fucking paranoid about being 'transvestigated,' being abused in public (for 'not looking cis enough') or being denied services because some snotty billionaire decided she gets to decide who is or is not a 'woman' (based entirely on her weirdo, white, billionaire-class definition of the word.)
I feel like it really says something about the disconnect between tumblr staff and tumblr's userbase that matt made a post asking to "put together a board of the top Tumblristas in the world," had it reblogged by one of the biggest zionists on this site, and then had the staff account reblog it.......
like!! we don't need "top Tumblristas". first of all it's Tumblrinas secondly the term they're actually looking for is "tumblr famous," which has established connotations. and they're bad. you don't want to be tumblr famous and you don't get on tumblr to try to be tumblr famous.
second.... I made a post about things I would like to see from tumblr, posted it UNTAGGED, and it got 10K notes in TWO HOURS!!!!!!!!!! THATS FUCKING CRAZY!!! but that's US!!! that's tumblr in action right there!!!! they don't need representatives, they need to listen to what the community at large is saying!!! and they need to stop platforming zionists!!!!!
