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what are you wearing rn and is it representative of your style

#pjs #small shirt long pants combo 🔛🔝 #the patterns are fucked but the silhouette is there

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Peach riot rise up series! Coming 12/15 to popmart

#so cute!!

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one of my favorite things about my job that i can say to people that sounds utterly ridiculous but is technically 100% true is that one of our sea turtles keeps trying to get me to commit a felony on her behalf and gets SUPER cranky when i won’t do it

#OMG THIS IS THE BEST POST EVER #I would commit multiple felonies for you Myrtle #my life will be complete when I become a marine biologists

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Saw this post floating around, don’t wanna target anyone or argue with Zionists, but it is my duty (especially as an actually indigenous Jew) to educate well-meaning gentiles who might see this and think they have no right to speak on the matter. I’ll go point by point.

1) “Is it so terrible for a Jew to be a Zionist?”

If we were living in any other era, where the genocidal crimes of Israel were not as widely known (though they were very well documented), you could perhaps ask this question in sincerity. Many Jews (such as myself) grow up in religious educational settings which either fail to mention the human rights violations of the state or claim they’re justified because “they want to kill us!” Past a certain point, though, one can’t continue to claim ignorance of what Zionism actually does. Short answer: yes, it is terrible for anyone to claim to be a Zionist, but this will be more evident as I continue to analyze these arguments.

2) “Zionism is the belief in the inherent right of the Jewish people to return to their homeland”

First of all, Palestine is not the “homeland” of the Jewish people any more than Siberia is the homeland of indigenous american tribes. Is there a historical connection? Yes, but though assimilation and migration Jews have found homes across the world. For me, my homeland is Mexico, because my family has lived there for generations, partly through migration but mostly through having cultivated the land for millennia. Even biblically speaking, Palestine does not “belong” to the Jewish people, it belongs to G-d. Furthermore, there is no shortage of Jewish scholarship and activism that asserts that wherever we live, that is our homeland. Frankly, I’m more interested in fighting to stay where I am than fighting to force people out of their homes to accommodate me.

3) “Zionism is the belief in the Jewish right not to be murdered”

By murdering others instead? Once again, there is no shortage of Jewish scholarship and activism in favor of Jewish self defense where we live. Jewish resistance fighters lived and died fighting the nazis in Europe under the third reich. If Zionism was actually interested in preventing Jewish death, it would fight antisemitism where it is. “Preventing murder” is not an excuse to commit genocide.

4) “there are so many definitions of Zionism”

Sorry but I just think of this tweet from @jewdas on Twitter when I read this: “There’s a actual existing Zionism which practices apartheid and denial of human rights. But there’s another Zionism inside my head which is all rainbows and kosher marshmallows, so who can say which is the real Zionism?” In other words, the actual, material consequences of Zionist beliefs are more important than what any individual thinks their Zionism is. Once again, we live in the Information Age, where anyone can easily learn about the damage that Zionism has done in Palestine and abroad. There is no excuse to continue using the label that doesn’t presuppose complete ignorance of Israeli violence.

5) “zionists just want to be safe from antisemitism in the diaspora”

See points 3 & 4.

6) “and this is different from evangelical zionists”

Materially speaking, not really. Once again, see point 4. Until you pull all US/european colonial support for Israel, this claim falls flat.

7) “zionists just want to live peacefully with other indigenous people in the area”

That’s not what indigeneity is, it doesn’t mean “from there,” it’s a specific relationship to the land and to its cultivation. (On a side note, even biblically and historically speaking, Jews are not “from” Palestine.) See point 2. Zionism has proven it is not a peaceful ideology. See point 4.

8) “people refuse to see the difference in types of Zionism because they hate the Jews”

No, it’s because there are no material differences. See point 4. Evangelical Zionism and Jewish Zionism actually share quite a bit in common. The “Jewish state” would not exist without evangelical Zionists. See point 6. And the original Jewish Zionist thinkers had a vested interest in tying the two together.

tl;dr, Zionism is a violent ideology in practice, and no amount of making excuses can hide the fact that it is genocidal and serves European/American interests. Additionally, just because one is not Jewish does not mean one does not have a duty and an obligation to eliminate Zionism wherever it crops up. Zionism has had disastrous consequences for Palestinians, and as western citizens, we benefit from their suffering. It must end now. May Palestine be freed in our lifetimes.

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doshadeng & taylorthompkins

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scientists have discovered an organism which they believe to have the lowest brain power of anything else previously discovered, and they're calling it the customer

#justice to all retail workers #I have 3 relatives who work in it #and the stories they tell me raise my blood pressure

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listened to malevolent podcast all the way through twice now. shall i go for a Third

#haha….yes…YES!! #BLACK ARTHUR SUPREMACY!!!! #this is the most gorgeous piece of art I’ve ever seen actually #I’m going to eat this pixel by pixel

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i've been getting into jem and holograms and its so fun now i kinda want to do small redesigns for the cast

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white woman with a mediocre singing voice that was an industry plant by her rich parents who took pics with people wearing swatstikas and has a private jet that is one of the top pollution. emissions in america and who routinely dates racist white guys and gets her parents to pay her way into award shows and buys spots on the billboard and has routinely snubbed black and brown musicians her entire career and uses lgbt ppl as props for her music campaigns despite being openly homophobic her self oh give me a break

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No one ever speak to me again.

I. Am. BETTER.

#grins cockily

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

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When they be saying shit like “act fool” bc they learned the phrase from a misspelled edit😭

So funny when white ppl use AAVE and we can tell y’all got it from the tiktok search function

#also when ppl were accidentally using gang signs from a hand heart trend #and mfs was like that’s a gang sign STOP #and yt mfs had the audacity to go #Do u think there’s gang members on tiktok😒 #LIKE YESS?? #do yall think that gangs are just science experiments #that are just let out to fill the quota of violence and intimidation #then are shuffled back into a non descript black van #where they are shipped back to their facility to live in solitude #like I don’t understand…

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hello tumblr user. in front of you stands a confident and outspoken character. your challenge today & forever is to consider the possibility they may simply have self-confidence and are not just faking to secretly cover up massive insecurities. good luck

#JOHNNY CAGE #PLSSS MY MAN KNOWS WHO TF HE IS #AND HE LIKES IT #RAAAHHHHH

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the way people treat girl characters in fandom joker-ifies me

#yesssss omfg #me with wolf pack #when yall talk abt Harlan bc he’s a gay man as if we don’t have two complelling female characters right there #one of which has nearly double the screen time Harlan does #and frankly has a more compelling love story w/ another pack member vs a guy we see for 20 mins max😭😭

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spotify wrapped polls!!!

#309 :3 #girlfriend by hemlocke springs #rdjjdjdkdnc she’s such a good singer #girlfriend and sever the blight are actually neck and neck for my fav song of hers #and yet she’s still not my top artist😭

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#MEEE LMFAO I SAVED FOR LIKE 6 MONTHS #that 20 gb cc and mods folder has never run better😭