rozcdust:

also, a friendly reminder, the world we live in now consists of an active genocide.

of warcrimes being posted on twitter by the official account of israeli government.

of people looking at children, women and men being bombed, killed, starved and butchered and saying it is okay because of a single terrorist group, THAT ISRAEL CREATED.

of westerners saying to look away from the slaughter happening in gaza because your mental health is more important than thousands of lives.

of israeli politicians straight up using propaganda from nazi handbooks to dehumanise palestinians, calling them less than human, less than the rest of us, animals.

and what one palestinian man posted on his social media hit me more than anything: “if we actually were animals, people would care.”

zvaigzdelasas:

Thousands are sitting in at Grand Central Station demanding a #CeasefireNOW.

JVP, 27 Oct 23

apas-95:

anyway the key takeaway for those not yet radicalised, here, is that the architects of genocide will come to you with claims of opposing hatred, with claims of humanitarianism, with narratives that don’t simply accuse the Enemy of being subhuman and needing extermination, but of the Enemy being the real perpetrators of oppression and genocide.

the reality is that a simple ‘opposition to hatred and oppression’ will not save you from supporting and abetting genocide. you need more than that, because you will be presented with arguments built specifically to prey on your kneejerk credulity for, and backing of, the 'victims’ of oppression. what you will need is historical, material analysis of the forces at play and their histories. you will need to really ask yourself if the information you’re receiving - even if it is an overwhelming and seemingly uncontested information - is coming from an interested party.

and you will find that there exists no disinterested party, that there exists no impartiality, there only exists the sides of genuine oppressors and genuinely oppressed. you will strip away the rhetoric and find that one of those groups consistently sits on one side of a fifth-generation fighter-bomber aircraft, and one sits on the other.

determinate-negation:

nativenews:

asthevermincrawls:

ALT

I think this person on reddit summed up the youtube adblocker situation perfectly. my reaction to this is not “oh man guess I’ll watch ads.” its, “well, I guess I’ll just do something more productive with my time.” I highly doubt any adblock user is going to willingly go back to watching ads. so what actually happens is youtube loses a functionally tiny amount of its userbase–because adblockers weren’t even losing them a significant amount of money in the first place(!)–and a bunch of adblock users move on to something else. what a fantastic waste of time and effort

pissvortex:

there is no “cycle of violence” in gaza and every media allegory to this as a hamfisted attempt at commentary is cowardly. a cycle implies more than one actor, an exchange of blows in proportion to the last. there is no proportionality. there is only the combined might of the world’s imperialist powers stomping on palestinian heads ad infinitum

animentality:

hjarta:

hjarta:

literally not surprised in the slightest

yes he did

determinate-negation:

i feel like im watching the set up to a joke ive heard before, god these are horrible decisions

A real “first as tragedy, then as farce” situation where it’s all tragedy all the time and it seems like everyone knows but no one with power really gives a shit about the turning of the tragedy wheel