Do you think a regular 17 years old boy should be...?
Worrying about graduating high school and what universities to apply to
Getting a job to help pay for his dad's cancer treatment
Begging online in a language he barely speaks to save his family from genocide
Voting ended onNov 6, 2024
My friend Nader is a 17 years old Palestinian boy who has been campaigning tirelessly for months now in order to evacuate his whole family from Gaza.
When I first started chatting with him, his campaign, which has a total goal of €50,000, was at a bit above €5,000 at the time, about a month ago.
Thanks primarily to this sweet boy's daily efforts and the help he's received from some Tumblr users, we've managed to get his fundraiser to 62% of its total goal!!!!
With that in mind, if everyone who's donated a relatively small amount would donate a similar amount again as I did, we could SO easily take him very near his goal!!
His campaign is verified. It's the 4th campaign in this spreadsheet.
If we reach this €50,000 goal, we'd be saving not just Nad, but several young children, his father Ahmed who's a cancer patient, and many others. Reminder too that an uncle of his was martyred very recently. Anything can happen at any moment, and he gets very disheartened whenever donations decrease. We need to get them all out of Gaza as soon as possible.
His little niece is suffering from malnutrition, and every day when Nad and I resume chatting again he tells me how exhausted he is. I'm very worried for him and his family, as there's people dying of starvation all around him and him and his family aren't doing well. His family has already been displaced NINE times!!
Let's give Nad a chance to follow his dreams of going to university. Let's give his very small siblings a chance to know of a life free of bombings and shootings. Let's give his father the opportunity to deal with his cancer with dignity and an actual fighting chance.
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To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.
Anyone want to help me eat until Friday? Everyone in my house is broke and I get paid until Friday. Meaning I have no money for lunch for the week. We have a tiny bit of money for food but we're 6 people so its a bit worrying. I also work late a few nights this week and have no way of getting an uber home.
there needs to be a cultural shift in america like im not talking about culture war bullshit i mean the average american needs to learn to care about their community and the rest of the world and not be a self-absorbed asshole with a "fuck you i got mine" attitude.
At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.
You must unlearn this.
You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.
If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.
"But what about this situation when people are annoying"
"But what about that situation"
Yes! That one too! If they are not hurting anyone, if they are not being unkind, you can feel your annoyance and then move on with your life. It's fine. It's not that deep.
While we're talking about how Native American Genocide Happened, Actually I feel like a lot of you don't quite get the scale of it. Like europeans bulldozed two continents of real human people. I don't know how to make you comprehend that level of death and destruction if you don't have a personal frame of reference cause I don't think our minds are really Meant to grasp that sort of thing but if you try long enough your hands will start shaking
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