[hypokeimena]

it actually makes me feel fully out of touch with consensus when people say an author is anti-war "because he said war is hell!"

please. please. do you know a single thing about Recorded Human History. "war is hell" is so, so frequently THE pro-war take, and the entire reason soldiers and officers receive social esteem for fighting. the honorable duty of undergoing The Trials Of War on behalf of your polity &/or beliefs is one of the fundamental cornerstones of masculinity in SO, SO many human cultures. what is anyone EVEN SAYING!!!

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

in a modern context, one could even argue that the emphasis placed on the traumatic nature of waging war, of participating in war, is part of how the participants morally absolve themselves from their participation. There is a common idea in liberalism (but not only in liberalism) that the trauma of killing one person, or ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, et cetera, is its own punishment, regardless of whether the persons killed were soldiers or civilians, whether it could even be considered right or wrong, whether it was necessary or unnecessary to kill them. Under this logic, renumeration or reconstruction for the victims is considered functionally irrelevant because of the exonerating suffering of the soldier.

In “Israel” they call this kind of narrative in media “Shooting and crying.”

This kind of apologia is/was often applied to the US military’s actions in every historical conflict, up to the present day. I have also seen American police officers use this kind of apologia when they are criticized for discrimination, murder, and various other crimes. They say “Oh, you civilians couldn’t possibly understand how hard it is to be a cop. It’s so difficult and traumatic.”

I think this idea of “exonerating trauma” is both dangerous and widespread. I’m sure there are many other examples of this type of rhetoric.

[turnways]

Actually, yes, at some point as an adult iIt is your responsibility to learn about history and politics outside of what you were taught in traditional k-12 education

[thesituation]

i don’t get ppl who are fine w period pussy. smelling like wet parking lot pennies

[thesituation]

you’re scaring me

[sailatina3]

China... so heckin authoritarian. And reading Mao is racist actually because China = racist. I am white. Look I don't support the US... but the tankies gotta stop supporting China and Cuba... these countries are literally problematic. Unlike the USA which definitely doesn't murder Black activists. Tankie punks heck off. You are brainwashed unlike me, I understand the true nature of North Korea because in middle school I watched the documentaries about americans going there. Nothing bad actually happened but the vibes were off. Plus I heard on TikTok that the Kim regime banned Hazbin Hotel. LOL go move there if you love it so much tankie. I'm anti ICE btw I love my mexican OCs. You believe that right? Ukraine.

[ilynpilled]

[ilynpilled]

lol

[tamamita]

Nobody has mentioned it yet, but the Shul that was protested last night in Queens was hosting a real estate event. They were selling stolen Palestinian land.

[tikishades]

That's a pretty big detail that would seriously change the optics here if true

[tamamita]

They were protesting the Tivuch Shelly real estate agency, if you check their site:

this is the white devil profiting off of the displacement of Palestinians.

[ilynpilled]

the very video she is qrting

[communistkenobi]

its so awesome when they just come right out and say it

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Oh my fucking god I've already seen yankees using this shit to votescold other yankees as if the shit they're doing to venezuela is s trump-specific aberration and not completely in line with the last 100 years of US bipartisan foreign policy re: Latin America.

"Now other countries are paying the price of your moral purity" etc etc. vamos cerrando el ortito gringo mamón, no tienes nada de valor que decir en esa cabecita dios mío.

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[butch-bakugo]

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

[churchoftheconfusedchicken]

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

[ifiknewiwouldtellyou]

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

[gayvampyr]

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

[nothingweirdhere]

this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…

[jvlianbashir]

"haha these alpha trad men really just have dom/sub kinks!" i know misogyny isn't real to a lot of you guys but did you know that some people just actually do genuinely think women are inferior creatures

[ahmed-motaz]

Please stop, please stop sharing the most trivial things that we in Gaza can no longer even dream of seeing. Stop doing things we can't do, and stop filming and publishing a life we once lived and have been deprived of.

[ahmed-motaz]

I'm not saying you should abandon your life; I'm saying there should be limits to what is published or what is done to us. We are dying of hunger while a large number of bloggers showcase their delicious and tempting food. We are being deprived of our homes while many bloggers post about the most luxurious and elegant places. Please be mindful of what is published; everything affects us and our mental well-being.

[ahmed-motaz]

I beg you, please understand our situation. I beg you to help us. What we're going through is no small thing. We're losing our lives. We want to live. We want to have hope, just like you. Yes, just like you. Please donate to us. Please share our suffering. I feel terrible about what's happening to us. The shooting hasn't stopped yet. The situation is dangerous and difficult. Please give us a new life. Your donation will save us. Please donate.

[ahmed-motaz]

While others spend their nights in the warmth of their homes, protected from the cold by the walls and surrounded by comfort, we spend our nights inside a tent that barely stands.

The wind whips it around as if it's about to be ripped from its place, and the cold seeps mercilessly into our bodies. Our blankets haven't dried in days, the weather is unkind, and each night is harder than the last.

For three days now, I've been searching for someone to help me buy a usable tent and my medicine, but my plea gets lost among the posts and goes unheard. Please, I'm not asking for much; just donate what you can. Please donate.

Donate to Help Sara and her family rebuild their home & live in safety, organized by sara murad

Hello, I am Sara Murad I used to live a simple life in my sec… sara murad needs your support for Help Sara and her family rebuild their hom

[pitbolshevik]

please donate

[pomegranates-and-photos]

A Palestinian boy throws a rock during the first intifada

[nowinexile]

His name is Ramzi Abu Redwan. During the time the picture was taken he was 8 years old. Today he is 36 and has become a world-class solo musician and composer, playing the Oud, Buzuq, Violin and Viola. 

He was discovered by a Palestinian musician who recognized his natural talent at the viola, and later received a scholarship to study at a conservatory in France. He could have stayed there and lived a comfortable life in Paris, but instead, he chose to return home and give back the gift of music by openning music schools in Palestinian towns and refugee camps.

[sherryzade]

he’s got a spotify btw!! if you’ve never heard a oud, i def encourage listening to his work. it’s a beautiful instrument from a beautiful people ❤🖤🤍💚

here’s my personal fave of what i’ve heard so far from his top 5

[lamignonette]

[bishiedoll]

リリカ (Lyrica) November 1976, cover by Takahashi Ryouko.

[tiny-librarian]

“Kazul’s not my dragon.“ Cimorene said sharply. “I’m her princess. You’ll never have any luck dealing with dragons if you don’t get these things straight.”

Dealing With Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede

[theotherhappyplace]

I saw this art when I was 11 years old and I was like “this is the best drawing in the history of the world”

[knightotoc]

The artist is Trina Schart Hyman, an incredible and prolific talent who passed away in 2004. You can find a ton of tributes to her online from other illustrators and organizations, like the children’s literary magazine Cricket, which she helped create. She illustrated over 150 books, won the Caldecott Medal and Honors, and helped other artists land gigs for decades. She was also gay, hilarious, and one of the first white children’s book illustrators to include diverse characters.

“You have to be so motivated that you have to want to draw so badly that it’s like taking away your oxygen not to draw. It has to be so much a part of your expression and your personality that you cannot live without it. You can’t go for more than two days without drawing. I mean, it is that basic a need for me.”

“[As a child,] I was too imaginative and sensitive. I used to burst into tears at the slightest thing and I was terrified, of people especially. I had trouble, I think, separating reality and fantasy. I learned to read early and I loved to read and I just lived in storybooks and in pictures. That was more real to me than the world. And, in a way, it still is.”

“For the past thirty years I’ve lived in a big old farmhouse in northwestern New Hampshire. Some part of it always needs fixing – there’s always a room falling off or a roof caving in – but to me it is home. Mostly there are walls and walls of books that hold it up and keep out the cold. I live here with my partner, Jean, who helps me keep it all going, and our two dogs, two cats, and five sheep. Jean is a teacher and the director of a little school where kids actually have fun learning.”

[To fellow illustrator Jim Arnosky] “I want a page of hands. You need to learn to draw hands.”

[To Arnosky, who lived in a rural Pennsylvia cabin with his pregnant wife and kid] “I’m giving you this cover assignment on one condition: that you get water put in that cabin.”

[To author Eric Kimmel] “Why is it that when­ev­er some­one writes a sto­ry about knights, ladies, and drag­ons, they send this shit to me?”

[To a Caldecott commitee organizer who asked if she enjoyed the dinner at the ceremony] “Oh, yes. Especially the dessert. It looked like a large chocolate penis.”

[To Kimmel] “Lis­ten, Eric. I know this is scary for you now. It’s real­ly noth­ing in the big scheme of things. Do you want to know what’s going to hap­pen? We live. We die. And in the mid­dle we have some good times and some bad times. That’s your sto­ry. That’s my sto­ry. That’s the sto­ry of every­body who ever lived and who­ev­er is going to live. You just hope that when the end comes, it will be quick and won’t be too painful.

“As for what you just told me, it will work itself out. The best result you’re hop­ing for prob­a­bly won’t hap­pen. But nei­ther will the worst. It will end up some­where in the mid­dle. It’s all about mon­ey any­way, which is not that big a deal. You’ll write a check and that will be the end of it. Life moves on and so will you. I promise that the next time we get togeth­er we’ll have a drink and laugh about it.

“There’s one more thing I want you to remem­ber while you’re going through it all. Pills help. So does booze. And so do friends. So use them.”

[On the Dykes on Bikes at a mid-90s Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, to Kimmel] “Did you see that, Eric? There are a lot of us.”

[gettinggangstalkedfor3years-dea]

Americans are fucking crazy for thinking I will excuse their child murderers cuz they're poor

[gettinggangstalkedfor3years-dea]

fuck the marines 😁

[gettinggangstalkedfor3years-dea]

murder 4 pay is not excusable, just cuz you're broke it doesn't mean you should just be able to kill people to get out of debt. Are iraqi lives so fucking worthless to you that someone's poverty escape is more important than the working class of the global south? You should be ashamed of yourselves. American lives are equal to the rest of the world, and that means no excuses for joining the american military. There is no excuse to joining the terrorist forces that kill middle eastern people, there is no excuse for anything. The people in the rest of the world are poor, we don't fly out thousands of kilometers to loot regular people's homes and country who didnt do anything wrong, we do not sign up for voluntary mass murder institution, and if we did americans would never shut the fuck up about it.

[hagiomoto]

This should be a bigger news tbh

[ot3]

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

[sailorscorpiovenus]

cannelle on ig