#FUNDING AND LEADING A FUCKING GENOCIDE

[coyoxxtl]

ngl if you’re looking at what biden and his administration is doing to palestine and all you can say is “well trump would’ve been worse!” i deeply and truly want you to shit your pants to death

#i just CANNOT stand that EVERY discussion or grievance about how fucking foul the dem party is being rn is just #always met with this shallow and thoughtless choir of weak liberals who are so convinced that there is safety in a president thats fucking #and i cant stress this enough #FUNDING AND LEADING A FUCKING GENOCIDE #why are yall so fucking ATTACHED to voting as your only form of activism #do yall not give a shit if the people you vote for do wrong? do yall just not give a shit about holding our govt officials accountable? #this is outside whether or not voting is important to do or not. this is about seeing the people who we elect in positions of power abuse- #that power and acting accordingly #which means also not fucking voting him in office again #who give a fucking Shit if trump would be worse. to still believe that is so fucking childish. that’s irrelevant now. because Now our dem- #president is committing FUCKING GENOCIDE. to see a man lead the extermination of the palestinian people and think hes a Lesser Evil is #absolutely fucking insane. rethink your understanding of our government because it’s Painfully naive #im nowhere near confident of my own knowledge but i dont think you need to know much to understand this. its really fucking easy to see- #a president commit genocide and think No I Dont Think I Will Vote For Him Again #and that this is bigger than voting in a fucking election. do better. be more. because you will not stop fascism with voting. #and if youre still attached to voting for some reason then for the love of GOD do something. ANYTHING. when the people you vote for fail. #make them pick a candidate that wont commit genocide. but good luck with that. america wont stop being no.1 genocider until its dead. #txt

[yurinullification]

isn't it kinda wild how much more good am*ricans could be doing to help palestine if they actually started organizing themselves and lead strikes against their government to stop this shit instead of relying on calls for actions from a people actively being genocided and going back to not caring or doing anything particularly meaningful when the 'week-long global strike' is over and it turns out it didn't accomplish shit. it's YOUR fucking government funding this, which is not to say that every other country who funnels money to israel and supports them diplomatically isn't also complicit but Israel literally wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the US, and the people living within it are the ones who, outside of Israel itself, have the power to enact the most change on the situation.

[videogamepoc]

Before Israel’s war in Gaza, Palestinian programmer Doaa Ghandour was working on Palestine Skating Game’s grind rails. Any skater — be that skateboarding or roller skating — knows rails are essential to street-style skating. In Palestine Skating Game, these grind rails weave through the West Bank, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater-style, for use as you spray graffiti on the Israeli-built separation wall. It’s easy to see the appeal of Palestine Skating Game in its early prototype on Itch.io: The futuristic Bethlehem is made all the more colorful with paint splatters and graffiti, set to what the team describes as “Arabic electronic music.” And it’s designed to be enticing: “The idea is that if you immerse Westerners in that kind of art and music from the region, you’ll start to actually see people from the region as human beings,” Palestine Skating Game’s current project lead told Aftermath in November.

Palestine Skating Game has been in development for roughly two and a half years. The inspiration initially hit after the project lead, who was granted anonymity by Polygon, saw We Are Lady Parts, a TV show about an all-women Muslim punk band. Development has changed since then — it had to. “We have to acknowledge the existence of a lot more suffering,” the project lead told Polygon. “We are having to do the thing where we had one creative vision for the project, and now we have to figure out how that changes with respect to the events unfolding.” Israel’s war in Gaza is entering its fourth month. Nearly 28,000 people have been killed in Gaza, 388 in the occupied West Bank, and 1,139 in Israel, according to Al Jazeera. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is currently hearing a genocide case against Israel, wherein it argues that “the acts and omissions by Israel complained of by South Africa are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group,” as reported by Vox. Israel denies the accusation, saying its attacks are justified as a response to Hamas’ terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7, where roughly 1,200 people were killed. “Israeli Occupation Forces have cut off all medical supplies, as well as water and food, from Palestinians in Gaza, amidst the continued carpet bombing and genocide. It has left our friends to navigate the most severe humanitarian crisis of our time,” the fundraiser reads. Palestine Skating Game has been in development for roughly two and a half years. The inspiration initially hit after the project lead, who was granted anonymity by Polygon, saw We Are Lady Parts, a TV show about an all-women Muslim punk band. Development has changed since then — it had to. “We have to acknowledge the existence of a lot more suffering,” the project lead told Polygon. “We are having to do the thing where we had one creative vision for the project, and now we have to figure out how that changes with respect to the events unfolding.” The project lead said the team, which is Ghandour, writer Hadeel, and himself with four other developers and volunteers, want to make it easy for people — even those unfamiliar with the conflict — to see what’s happening in Gaza. “We want to make it easier for people to see, Oh, here’s how the West Bank has been slowly eaten up and balkanized,” he said. “We also just want it to be something that people want to share with their friends. There should be so many fucking cool things in this game that people will immediately want to say, ‘Hey, you’ve got to see this.’” The Palestine Skating Game team — the core group, four paid developers, and roughly 15 volunteer developers — is working on a full vertical slice, or a polished, short demo, of the game. They’re also hoping to run a Kickstarter, GoFundMe campaign, or other investment to fund more development.

#palestine #palestine skating game #gaza #free palestine #free gaza #doaa ghandour #video game industry #gaming industry

[house-of-musez]

Hi friendly reminder that being Pro-Palestine does not automatically equate being Anti-Israel.

Friendly reminder that being Pro-Palestine should not mean wanting the Israeli people to die.

Friendly reminder that the Israeli government does not speak for the Israeli people.

Friendly reminder that people don't deserve to die because their government/military decided to do a warcrimes.

Friendly reminder that the Israeli people being innocent in this does not mean the Israeli government can continue to commit a Genocide.

Friendly reminder that the countries supporting the Israeli government are still awful, and that being against them does not mean condemning the entire Israeli people.

Friendly reminder that there's fucking *nuance here*. That there are innocents on both sides and this fight has been being fought for decades and it's not fair to *anyone involved*. What is being done in Gaza and in all these other problems is an infringement on basic human rights. *But if you use that to justify saying all Israeli people should die, then you are no better than those who try to justify the Israeli's government's actions.*

For fuck's sake people, how hard is it to understand that *no one* deserves to die? That both sides involved deserve a home and a government who doesn't continue to fund this stupid fucking turf war that leads to innocent deaths? Israel exists and should continue to exist. Palestine exists and should continue to exist. There are innocent Israelites and innocent Palestinians. If either of them die that's a fucking tragedy, no matter which government is doing it.

Stop the war. Call for a ceasefire. But the goal of those things should not be eradicating a people or a nation. If you want there to be a ceasefire to prevent Israel from destroying Palestine, and yet turn around and say Israel shouldn't exist, you aren't anti-genocide. You aren't anti-war. You're anti-Israel. And that's not fucking okay.

#israel #palestine #israel vs palestine #israel hamas war #hamas massacre #free gaza #gaza #gaza genocide #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #from the river to the sea israel will be free #anti genocide #anti zionisim #fucks sake people #you can't try and say trump doesn't represent all americans and then turn around and say all Israeli people should die #its so stupid

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

I truly don't understand how anyone can look at the tensions between Israel and Iran and not be scared shitless at how things got this bad in a short amount of time.

The US government is basically telling Israel "Yeah, you can commit a genocide, we're not going to stop you."

It doesn't take a fucking genius to realize that Israel's actions were going to create a domino effect that was going to lead to a global conflict.

And like I said before, all this shit could have been avoided had the US government just implemented a permanent ceasefire in October. But they just kept funding this genocide because they're that morally bankrupt.

#Palestine #Free Palestine #Gaza #Iran #Ceasefire #US Politics

[edenfenixblogs]

Hi, I have a question and you seem like a really balanced person, so here goes: I want to join a drag king collective, and I’m so excited about it, but the king leading it has some Interesting views. It’s the kind of thing where it’s constant “fuck Zionists” and what feels like extremely performative activism (Palestinian flag in bio but no actual fundraising/peace efforts, posting misinformation/irresponsible rhetoric etc.) I’m scared that if I join it I’ll be treated different, and even more scared that my friends will think the antisemitism justified (they aren’t great at understanding what antisemitism looks like these days). Idk what to do about the fear of someone being antisemitic because I don’t want it to stop me from doing what I want, but I also know it’ll devastate me if it does happen. If you can offer any insight I’ll be very grateful.

Hi friend!

I'm really glad you reached out to me. Not because I pretend to know all the answers, but because I love that we can all rely on each other during this time.

Unfortunately, whether you sign up for this is ultimately a matter of your own personal priorities and how you are prone to handle confrontation.

Personally, if it was me, I would join. I'm not afraid of defending myself (but I very much used to be, so no shame if you're not there yet). If I wanted to explore my gender identity through performance (if indeed that is what you are doing. I've never been personally drawn to perform drag, so I cannot pretend to know exactly why one might start. But I don't think I'm out of line to assume that it involves some kind of exploration or critique of gender both personally and societally) I certainly wouldn't let antisemites be the reasons I didn't go for it.

If the Anti-Zionist jerk starts coming at you, you can simply say "OK, great. Real quick question: What's a Zionist?" And watch him squirm to say anything real or substantive other than "a Jew." He might say, "They're basically Nazis!" or "They're people who want Palestinians to suffer!" or some other confidently incorrect hyperbolic statement. If he does so, you can say, "Oh! Well, then that's definitely not what I am," and move on.

If he says something slightly more substantive, like, "They're people who think Jews should get to take land from Arabs/Palestinians in order to have a Jewish ethnostate!" You can use the same response as above. But you can also say, "Oh, weird. That's definitely not what I thought it was. Which Zionist Jews have said this, exactly? Cuz I heard it was something completely different." Remember, their goal isn't actually to educate you or help anyone or even to provide limited but factual information. The goal is to shame you into aligning with their self-righteous point of view. That is not an effective tactic when you respond with QUESTIONS instead of outright CORRECTIONS. Making people explain themselves is a great way to defang a bad faith accusation like that.

Finally, they might say, "It's someone who supports Israel." In this case, either of the above methods will work. Or you could question even further. Here's an example of a chat:

You: Supports Israel how?

Jerkface: They want Biden to use our tax dollars to fund a genocide!

You: Oh, well then I'm definitely not a Zionist.

Jerkface: No, you don't understand! It's people who think that Jews can only be safe in a settler colonial apartheid ethnostate that justified its existence by crying about the Holocaust.

You: Well then I'm still not a Zionist. I don't know why you're assuming these things about me. But people should generally cry about the Holocaust. It was really bad thing that people did to Jews. Do you not think the Holocaust is a big deal?

Jerkface: Of course I think it was a big deal. That's why we all have to condemn THIS genocide. The Jews are the Nazis now.

You: I don't know. I don't think that' show Nazism works. But I definitely don't like genocide. If liking genocide makes a Zionist, then I'm definitely not whatever you're accusing me of.

Jerkface: No! I'm just saying that Zionists don't want a ceasefire. They're trying to kill all the Palestinians.

You: I don't know what to tell you then. Because that's still not me. Of course I want Hamas and Israel to both stop bombing each other.

Jerkface: No, Palestine is JUSTIFIED in bombing Israelis because of the oppression.

You: I think its weird that you're conflating Palestinians with Hamas. Are you saying that Palestinian civilians are bombing Israel as as a protest tactic? I thought for sure that Hamas, a terrorist organization, was the group responsible for Anti-Israeli violence. Personally, I've always though that most Palestinians just want to live in peace and don't support terrorism and violence. I don't know why it would harm Palestinians to suggest that both Israel and Hamas should end this conflict diplomatically rather than with violence.

Jerkface: Right! That's why we need to tell Biden to call for a ceaseefire!

You: OK, but I still don't know if you're saying Israel should just stop firing or that Israel and Hamas should stop bombing. I definitely want everyone to stop bombing each other. But I'm not really sure why Hamas would care about what Biden says.

etc...

I call this the "Rabbi method," because when you go to a rabbi, they never really give you an answer to your question. They answer with other questions designed to get them to see their own answer.

Either Hamas is a terrorist group unfairly targeting Israeli civilians and launching bombs into civilian territories--something that is clearly bad and which makes average Palestinian civilians innocent victims (this is the truth btw) that require both Hamas and Israel too lay down their arms. OR Palestinians and Hamas are interchangeable terms and the ongoing oppression of Palestinians have driven them to violent, offensive, armed resistance--which you may or may not agree with as a revolutionary tactic (To be clear, this is NOT TRUE OF PALESTINIANS. PALESTINIANS ARE NOT TERRORISTS AND DO NOT DESERVE TO BE BOMBED). Palestine IS NOT HAMAS. Hamas is bombing Israeli civilians.

Israel is retaliating with extreme force and prejudice against a terrorist organization in a way that is devastating the lives and futures of Palestinian Civilians, who very much deserve for all sides to lay down their weapons and address their mutual grievances diplomatically and responsibly. What is occurring right now is a messy, ugly, brutal war that is killing and traumatizing all civilians in the Levant. And a one-sided ceasefire leaves the side that ceases firing dead. A ceasefire means that EVERYONE must cease firing.

Unless Jerkface has a plan for how to ensure the safety of Palestinian civilians from Hamas that also includes Israeli safety from Hamas, asking for Israelis to simply lay down all their weapons without any guarantee of safety is asking for a nation of mostly Jews to die without putting up a fight. And wanting Arab Israelis and also Jews not to die is not what Zionism means. It's not even what pro-Israel means. That's just called not being violently antisemitic, actually.

Israelis aren't mindless Zionist Nazi Monsters who get off on killing Palestinian babies. Palestinians aren't Noble Savages who have never done anything wrong as individual people and who are inherently morally superior to every single Israeli because they were born Palestinian. Both Israelis and Palestinians are complex, global micro-minorities who have both perpetrated tremendous harm to one another over the course of several decades, and neither group is going anywhere. Neither group deserves for its people to die. Neither group is only "worth helping" if western onlookers categorize them as "innocent" and "good." If someone's activism isn't geared toward respecting the inherent dignity of Palestinians and Israelis regardless of either group's history, then that person is not engaging in activism. If someone is asking you to support that cause because their chosen cause involves perfect cinnamon rolls being targeted by pure evil enemies, then they are not asking you to join them in activism. They are not even asking you to join them in a political reality. What they are asking is for you to join their toxic fandom.

And reducing this conflict down to simplistic fandom rhetoric is not going to help anyone and is frankly offensive to all Jews, Israelis, and Palestinians--all of whom deserve to be seen for the traumatized, suffering, imperfect people they are.

People don't earn support by being good. They inherently deserve support, because they are people.

All that said, maybe it's not emotionally useful for you to engage in this group. Maybe this type of conflict is too much for you. That's OK, too.

And while I would never let antisemitism take away an opportunity for me to fulfill a dream, I will say that my experience of Antisemitism during this time is 100000000% responsible for making me realize that the dreams I had before this experience need to evolve. I no longer wish to be in the town where I live. I wish to be home with my family closeby, because when the chips are down, that's who matters. The idea of moving back to my home state was unthinkable to me before October. Now? I cannot get out of here fast enough. There's nothing I want that is exclusive to my current location anymore. The community I thought I'd built for myself is gone. And while antisemitism didn't take them from me, it sure as fuck showed me that I never had it in thee first place.

If you're going to join this collective, be sure its worth the fight. And if it's not worth the fight, then look for a place that is. Exploring your gender identity freely should not come at the cost of living your ethnic and religious identities openly. Ever.

Don't trade one closet for another. You deserve more than that. We all do.

hope that helps @kit-chaos-doodle

#ask me stuff #kit-chaos-doodle #jumblr #advice #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

[nerdylilpeebee]

I am not one to put myself into discourse but I really need to explain something to you,

As a Palestinian you need to understand that Hamas aren't killing babies, those 40 Israeli babies were made up, this had been confirmed over and over again. Palestine is older then Israel, Isreal only started existing after WW2, Palestinian's welcomed them but we're faced with Starvation,genocide, rape and bombing in return.

It is currently Ramadan, a time of fasting from sunrise till sundown, yet they have no food nor water to have before this period.

13,000 innocent children have died. Over 300+ not even making it to their first birthday. Girls and woman are experiencing periods and pregnancy without proper supplies. Isreal is not struggling, they have received over 300+ billion dollars in support from the U.S.A alone. You're ignorance isn't some "I'm better and different" stunt. You are actively supporting the death of entire bloodlines and families.

Don't you dare pull "Well, what if their Hamas" Isreal has proved they can bomb a specific room to kill them. This isn't about Hamas, Isreal is wiping out entire families, lives, homes, etc.

They're killing innocent animals too.

To put this in your shoes, imagine if you were bombed, raped and tortured, not knowing if you were going to make it to the next day, you're being starved. Whilst media is actively supporting your nightmare, funding it, even.

Before you pull the Hamas card on me, I have been raised with Western media and in America. I find myself lucky for this even though my people are struggling.

Please, scroll through pro-Palestine tags without bringing your opinion into the matter to see what is going on. I beg.

No, honey, actually it wasn't disproven. The people who tried said "yeah, babies were beheaded, but it wasn't 40 of them." XD

Palestine is not older than Israel. There are references to Israel in the Torah, which is older than Islam. And no, the Palestinians did not "welcome Israel". XD that is blatantly false.

And really? So tell me, why do they know for sure these 13k kids have died but can't name how many of their hostages are alive? Please explain that to me. How is that possible?

Okay? Israel not struggling doesn't mean anything. XD Being weak and having your government steal the billions in foreign aid to make themselves rich does not make a war against you a genocide.

I'm not supporting the deaths of anybody, and It is 100% about Hamas, Israel literally sends warnings in an effort to avoid civilian casualties. Even if Hamas isn't lying (incredibly unlikely) they have killed less than most wars have in the modern era.

Even if I was in their shoes, honey, I wouldn't want people siding with my oppressors because westerners decided the terrorists who'd murder me for speaking against them and consider everyone I know and love to be martyrs they're happy to sacrifice are resistance fighters. And hell, there are Palestinians who hold this very stance, who knows that Hamas is the fucking problem not Israel, westerners like you just ignore them.

You were raised in America and with western media? Cool. Doesn't change that you're falling for propaganda. XD being raised in the West does not make you immune to propaganda.

And no, I will not let idiots spread misinformation, and I will not let them villainize the Jews because Israel is actually defending itself when terrorists attack them and kidnap their people instead of laying down and dying.

I have paid plenty of attention to what's happening, including from the Pro-Pal side, I just happen to know terrorists aren't the good guys just cuz they play to people's sympathy and use their own people as human shields to make Israel look like the villain.

Just cuz it didn't lead me to agree with you doesn't mean I haven't been exposing myself to Pro-Pal talking points and "evidence."

#tvp discourse #long post #israel #arab israeli conflict #hamas #gaza

[thatsheetyghost]

I don’t know how else to say it, and you can criticize him as much as you want (and to be fair, a lot of it is probably very accurate), but BIDEN IS THE ONLY VIABLE CANDIDATE TO STAVE OFF FASCISM IN THE US.

Could he do more? Maybe. Has he done nothing? Absolutely not; he’s been far more supportive of unions in the US. The past year we have had major labor victories in the US, and such victories would probably not have been able to happen under a GOP administration.

So to say you won’t vote for him under a single (albeit very bad) misstep in international politicking is absolutely fucking delusional and insane; you don’t give a shit about the Palestinians, you just want to stick it to Sleepy Man and allow even worse people in to not only give Israel funding forever, but to also enable genocides to happen IN THE US.

I don’t think the Palestinians being murdered by the Israel war machine would think highly of people who would throw their minority friends/neighbors/family into a fucking woodchipper to “”protest vote””. It’s a fucking pathetic virtue signal for Internet brownie points that works against pragmatic progressive policies.

I’m not requiring anyone to love Biden, he’s not great, there are a lot of valid issues with his administration, but look at his opposition next year: the GOP, lead by a fucking rapist criminal who want to genocide anyone non-white, non-straight, and non-Christian; they want to enact a cultural fucking genocide in my country, and I won’t just bend the knee to weirdo Marxist-Leninists screeching at me to start a revolution against one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

Fucking use your brain, vote Biden 2024.

#politics #2024 election #joe biden #isreal #palestine #gop #fascism #y’all need to think pragmatic and stop thinking you live in the fucking hunger games #revolution won’t work

[redinahedge]

idc about epic mickey but i saw a post on reddit screenshotting something here that pissed me the fuck off

unfortunately i blocked the sub before i could get a link to the post so i don't have one sorry

It was a post saying "if this game fails, you know who to blame," and they showed a post calling for people to pirate the game because Disney funds genocide. The comments were saying "Exactly, we need to show disney we want more of this and if we pirate we won't get another one!"

If any of those people who liked that reddit post see this, kindly fuck you :3 Is the return of an old video game franchise really more important to you than people's right to live peacefully in their homeland? To live AT ALL?

It's the same reason I'm pirating Sonic 3 and Knuckles. I am aware that mass piracy will lead to a financial crash. That's the point. I don't fucking care if we don't get another entry in the series because HUMAN LIVES ARE WORTH INFINITELY MORE.

I'm not saying don't get excited for the game, I'm saying that people's lives are more important than bootlicking a company to get them to know you like something. Pirate the game. Don't support genocide. Free Palestine.

#epic mickey #piracy #free palestine

[battleangel]

Truth, Justice & Northrup Grumman

Four genocides are happening right now:

Palestine/Gaza

Sudan

Congo

Tigra

Last 3 are in Africa so no mainstream news coverage.

US is funding the 1st one because of Zionism (Israel).

There is a 3 front war coming due to US presidential election being next November: Palestine (siding with Israel, Russia (siding with Ukraine), Iran (siding with Israel vs Iran & Palestine).

Biden is asking for $100 billion -- $60 billion for Israel & $40 billion for Ukraine.

He refuses to say how long the US engagements in Israel & Ukraine would be or to give any kind of timetable yet he is demanding 100 billion US dollars fund the genocide in Palestine & the war in Ukraine.

Biden is already openly threatening Iran using very bellicose statements that they had better stay out of Palestine and essentially doing everything he can to start WW3.

Biden is already making an argument that wars in Palestine & Ukraine are good for the US economy in trying to get Congress to approve the $100 billion in aid to Israel & Ukraine.

He claimed that US weapons manufacturing plants that make the weapons in the Israeli and Ukrainian conflicts would be responsible for creating 15k+ US jobs.

It is the Iraq War all over again.

Trumped up, contrived, fake as fuck, only happening to prop up sagging presidential approval ratings, to assure reelection & to drum up jingoism, nationalism & virulent blind patriotism that leads to nihilistic militarism, warmongering, national bloodlust & endless empire building on the corpses of young men, some idealistic, many black brown & poor, endlessly exploited by the capitalist war machine.

Ads to Be All You Can Be while Uncle Sam pays for college education that should be free when student loans literally just went back into repayment will coincide nicely with the aggressive push for WW3.

American jobs. American corpses. American mothers weeping for their dead sons.

Caskets draped in US flags for 21 year old boys.

18 year olds dying in a country they've never visited for no fucking reason.

Hamas is the enemy. Russia is the enemy. Iran is the enemy.

Go die for your country.

Go die for Biden.

Go die to build Americas empire.

Go kill people you've never even met.

Go pull a trigger when your only experience with guns is Call of Duty.

Go destroy your innocence.

Go make your parents proud.

Go risk your life for $30k.

Go risk your life for the VA to treat you like shit if you manage to survive.

Go risk your life so you can have your college education paid for.

Go get PTSD and night terrors.

Go be a man.

Go fight for your country.

Go get permanently injured and disabled.

Go be a wounded warrior.

Go for the propaganda.

Go so people can "Thank you for your service."

Go for free burgers at Applebees on Veterans Day.

Go so you can see your best friend in your squad get blown to smithereens in front of you.

Go to see civilians used as gun fodder and pregnant women used as shields.

Go to see toddlers killed and babies exploded.

Go so you can be given orders that will kill you just so your CO can look good.

Go to get endlessly hazed, bullied, harrassed and almost killed by your fellow Marines so you can get a fancy certcomm later.

Go so you can add "US veteran Armed Forces" to your LinkedIn.

Go endlessly traumatize yourself as an infantryman for noone to hire you once the "conflict" is over and you come home.

Go so you can see endless horrors in war then have endless difficulties "transitioning to a civilian career" once you get home.

Go for the death squads and rape parties.

Go to be captured by the enemy and tortured.

Go to be a prisoner of war.

Go so your weeping mother can be handed a folded flag at your burial to be put inside a glass case.

Go so you can fill the burial plots at military cemeteries across the country.

Go so Biden gets reelected and Trump gets reinstated on twitter.

Go for the chevrons and the stripes.

Go to get pinned.

Go for the trauma and nightmares.

Go so your VA benefits can get cut later.

Go so you can blow your brains out in a VA parking lot since theres still a waiting list to see a psychiatrist for your PTSD, depression, suicidal ideation, insomnia and night terrors.

Go for the sleep demon paralysis.

Go for the disfigurement.

Go for the IEDs.

Go for the bombs on the side of the road.

Go to drive a Humvee.

Go for the Nazi dress blues and shining saber.

Go for valor.

Go for courage.

Go to brag at future Christmas dinners and family parties.

Go to be a dutiful son.

Go because America needs her sacrificial lambs.

Go to be a colonizer.

Go to build empires.

Go to liberate people by destroying their country.

Go to be dehumanized in boot camp.

Go to be broken down and never built back up.

Go to be hazed by the biggest fraternity in the world, the United States military.

Go for the toxic masculinity, stay for the lifelong traumatization.

Go to be a stone cold killer.

Go to kill without blinking or thinking.

Go for the brainwashing and endless conditioning.

Go for the psychological torture.

Go for the pseudosexual sadomasochistic ritualistic tortures and humiliations of boot camp.

Go for the endless mindless roll calls.

Go for the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

Go to lose your humanity.

Go to have your sensitivity shredded in a blender.

Go to assert your manhood.

Go because the NFL had fighter jets fly over the stadium during Sunday Night Football.

Go because youre proud to be an American.

Go because its The American Way.

Go because of Pat Tillman.

Go because its what tough guys do.

Go because you cant find a job anyway.

Go because you can make a career out of it.

Go because of Modern Warfare III.

Go because of the Star Spangled Banner.

Go because of the Stars and Stripes.

Go because of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Go for the bald eagle.

Go for Reagan and the shining city on the hill.

Go for Dubya.

Go for the rockets red glare and the bombs bursting in air.

Go for the Super Bowl honoring you at half time.

Go for the proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Go for the home of the free and the land of the brave.

Go for spacious skies and amber waves of grain.

Go for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plains.

Go to crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

Go for the blood on your hands.

Go to blow someones brains out.

Go to rape a local girl.

Go to vent some steam.

Go for the myth and to build your own mystique.

Go to build a persona.

Go to reinvent yourself.

Go for GI Joe.

Go for Captain America.

Go to be superman.

Go to be a boy scout.

Go for truth, justice and the American Way.

Go to spray nerve gas on a local population.

Go to commit war crimes.

Go for the genocide.

Go for chemical warfare.

Go for psychological warfare.

Go for espirit de corps.

Go for teen spirit.

Go for Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.

Go for Lockeed Martin.

Go for Skunkworks.

Go for the CIA.

Go because pain is weakness leaving the body.

Go to get your head shaved and humanity stripped away.

Go be a cog in the machine.

Go because you havent done anything for your country today.

Go for the military industrial complex.

Go so your father can Friday Night Lights you and vicariously live through your military experience.

Go to be a neighborhood small town hero.

Go to get your head blown off so your high school gymnasium can be named after you.

Go to be a local dead celebrity.

Go to be honored at your hometowns Memorial Day Parade next year.

Go for the NFL to have a collective moment of silence for you and the other dead boys before kickoff.

Go to be thanked in a random celebrity PSA.

Go for free pancakes at IHOP on Veterans Day.

Go to fulfill your fathers warped sense of manhood, masculinity and being a man.

Go to continue the US history of violence and patrimony.

Go for the blood.

Go for the foreign pussy.

Go for the horrors.

Go for the viscera.

Go for the spilled intestines.

Go for the agonizing screams.

Go for the panic attacks and endless insomnia.

Go be a paranoid android.

Go because you havent earned your freedom.

Go to write your name in future US history books.

Go to cotinue the endless cycle of war, terror and violence.

Go for the injustice and genocide.

Go for the inhumanity.

Go for bootcamp graduation.

Go for the framed picture in your dress blues.

Go to be brave and strong.

Go to be fearless.

Go to be John Wayne.

Go for Oppenheimer.

Go for 9/11.

Go for America.

Go because We're number 1!

Go for a US flag waving on a Ford pickup truck.

Go for a Budweiser commercial with galloping horses and amber waves of grain.

Go for the Korean War.

Go for Lyndon B. Johnson.

Go for Richard Nixon.

Go for General Dwight Eisenhower.

Go for the Department of Defense.

Go for the Vietnam War.

Go for Emperor Hirohito.

Go for Hitler, Mussollini and Stalin.

Go for General Franco.

Go for Lenin.

Go for Mao.

Go for Admiral Yamamoto.

Go for Pearl Harbor.

Go for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Go for Ferdinand being assassinated.

Go for the Hundred Years War.

Go for the Spanish Inquisition.

Go for Columbus.

Go for the Founding Fathers.

Go for the sweet land of liberty.

Go for the land where my fathers died.

Go for the Pilgrims pride.

Go for General Washingtons apotheosis in the rotunda as a American god.

Go to deify yourself as a war hero.

Go to make yourself a comic book character.

Go so Ben Affleck can play you in a war movie.

Go for Blackhawk Down.

Go for Napoleon Bonaparte.

Go for Ridley Scott.

Go to be a gladiator.

Go for Julius Ceasar.

Go because Rome was built in a day.

Go for Christendom.

Go for Alexander the Great.

Go for manifest destiny.

Go for militaristic expansionism.

Go for your corpse to be found on the side of the road in a foreign country you cant even find on a fucking map.

Go so your Humvee can be exploded.

Go to terrorize the local populace.

Go to put on the armor of God and breastplate of righteousness.

Go be a christian soldier.

Go climb Jacobs Ladder.

Go be a soldier of the cross.

Go to be baptized in the blood.

Go wade in the water.

Go for the homesickness and depression.

Go for the drugs and alcoholism.

Go for the panic attacks and anxiety disorders.

Go have your sensitivity, vulnerability and innocence destroyed.

Go to be violated.

Go for the smell of napalm in the morning.

Go for Apocalypse Now.

Go for the victory formation.

Go for the mushroom cloud.

Go for the blitzkrieg.

Go for Army vs Navy.

Go to be politely saluted by strangers at airports.

Go to be a commissioned officer.

Go for the honorable discharge.

Go help Biden beat Trump.

Go help the Democrats look tough.

Go help the Army go viral on TikTok.

Go so Sexyy Red names her baby after you.

Go be used and abused.

Go for Saving Private Ryan and Tom Hanks.

Go for Schindlers List.

Go for Braveheart and Mel Gibson.

Go to remeber the Alamo!

Go for General Custer and Henry Fonda.

Go for John Ford and John Wayne.

Go for Green Berets.

Go for The Last Samurai and Tom Cruise.

Go for Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Go for Star Blazers and the Battleship Yamato.

Go to rape comfort girls.

Go for Voltron.

Go to transform like Optimus Prime.

Go for the Gram.

Go for the likes.

Go for the follows.

Go for the LinkedIn reactions.

Go for a pinned tweet.

Go to blow up on the for you page.

Go for virality.

Go for the silver play button on Youtube.

Go for the blue checkmark and verified account.

Go for the clout.

Go to be respected and admired.

Go to be shipped home to your mother in a pine box.

Go to prove youre a man and unafraid.

Go to be a Roman gladiator in the arena.

Go to slay the dragon.

Go to be King Arthur.

Go for the Sorcerers Stone.

Go for the key to the Euphrates River.

Go for the Sword in the Stone.

Go to be a Knight of the Round Table.

Go for the Queen of England.

Go for King and Country.

Go for your rightful place on Mount Rushmore.

Go for E Pluribus Unum.

Go for the Iliad.

Go for The 300.

Go for Thermopylae.

Go to bring down the walls of Jericho.

Go for Numbers 31:18 -- "Kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves."

#ww3 #world war 3 #militarism #military industrial complex #nihilism #war machine #propaganda #nation building #endless war #new cold war #end genocide #free palestine #anti zionisim #anti capitalism #lockheed #northrop grumman #raytheon #skunkworks #war crimes #ethnic cleansing #chemical warfare #free sudan #free congo #free tigray #colonialism #biden #trump #two party system #green party #socialism

[evilsoup]

my grandma had a fall last night and another this morning. Eventually an ambulance got to her at about 4.30pm today. She's going to be staying overnight in the ambulance, which is in a queue of ambulances outside the local hospital; this hospital has actually just stepped down from "critical incident" status, the fourth such they have declared since the start of 2024 (it's March 2024 as I write this) -- so this state of affairs is actually below the emergency threshold, this is a "normal" state of operation for a hospital in the UK in 2024.

This is ten years of the tories in power, slicing up the NHS so that what was once genuinely one of the best health services in the world is nowinto a bad joke. Maybe once there was fat to be cut, but they've gone through the muscle and half the bone; the structure is starting to collapse. And this is also the case for all social services. There are homeless people camping in tents around my city, something that hasn't happened since the 1980s but has been picking up in the last few years. There's plenty of money for persecuting asylum seekers or aiding the Israeli genocide in Gaza (where the RAF flies scouting missions for the IDF and the Royal Navy sorties alongside the US Navy to break the Houthi anti-genocide blockade) or contracting big tory donors to carry out work for the public sector at inflated margins or giving unlimited financial support to private train companies to break a strike; and because of this -- in order to facilitate this looting of the state sector, my grandma is staying overnight in a fucking ambulance.

The labour party is no better. They have essentially taken on a tory policy-set and right-wing nationalist ideology. The previous labour leadership were different -- and so were smeared in the press as friends of terrorists and as antisemites. Absurd lies to anyone who was paying attention, but an absurd lie repeated enough can trump the truth; "there's no smoke without fire" say the guys with the smoke machine. And so now we get migrant-bashing genocide-enabling austerity-mongering patriot scum leading the labour party. At least tony blair brought in surestart centres and raised a million children out of poverty.

It used to be the case that we had to argue that socialism was not possible by a reformist path, citing examples like Chile. Now it seems that basic social-democratic reforms are not even possible by a reformist path; "fund the NHS" becomes something approaching a transitional demand, and to most people who don't believe that political change is possible even this sounds like an absurd ultraleft slogan.

[curiouslyodd]

If there is anyone left who doesn't see this useless, lying, power-hungry cunt for what he is, I despair.

Fucking... 'stopping the violence will lead to violence'...

His entire argument is that if Israel stops indiscriminately bombing Palestine, Hamas might have enough time between dodging bombs to attack Israel again. Oh, and that a ceasefire would stop Hamas from releasing hostages (despite the fact that Israel rejected the request for a prisoner exchange including Palestinians that are being held indefinitely without charge).

Hamas aren't blameless here - the initial attack on Israel was monstrous, make no mistake. At no point should civilians have been targeted, and it is clear that many people were subjected to horrific cruelty during the attack. But while not justifying it, the cause for the attack lies directly in the hands of Israel's leadership. Decades of blockading Gaza, allowing only the barest trickle of aid to enter the area and preventing people from leaving. Constant harassment of Palestinians, often resulting in deadly violence. And direct funding of violent extremist groups to sabotage chances for peaceful resolution. Even if Israel completely switched tack and actively worked towards peace and integration, the wounds are so deep that such a process would take a long time.

But Starmer's solution to this is to say that the fighting has to continue, with the implication that it shouldn't end until Hamas has been eradicated. While senior figures in Israel have said that they consider all Gazans to be Hamas, and have been consistently targeting civilians since this current phase of the conflict began. And Netanyahu has actively called for genocide. I fully believe that even if all members of Hamas formally surrendered and gave themselves up, the bombings would continue uninterrupted.

In a way, Starmer is could be right. If there isn't a ceasefire, the violence in Gaza will eventually stop. Because the people who might have retaliated against this horror will be as dead as the civilians who didn't want to fight.

Can't commit violence against the dead. Certainly not if there's no one left to mourn them.

#UK news #Labour Party #Keir Starmer #UK politics #genocide #israel palestine conflict #if his aims with this statement were to quell the concerns of people angry at his stance #he's utterly fucked it up - thrown petrol on the flames #we're supposed to trust him to be Prime Minister? #frankly no different from the Tories at this point #also - yes - I recognise that you can perpetrate violence against the dead #desecration of corpses is a form of violence against the deceased person and their loved ones #but i feel that the way i worded it gets the point across #that rejecting a ceasefire in this situation is tantamount to facilitating genocide #happy to change if people ask though

[yourtongzhihazel]

Btw I think it’s laughable that you post about free Palestine considering you’ve fallen for the same bullshit “terrorist group” justifications that your behated US and Israel are currently using to continue their genocide of Palestinians, but since it’s China saying that they’re “de-radicalising” terrorists in Xinjiang that makes it true and okay.

That's nice dear but please put all your "criticisms" in one place so its easier to see.

Did you even read my post? Or is this another case of the famous tumblr reading comprehension? No where do I deny the existence and use of the vocational schools nor the heavy handed approach. I literally linked the actual translated legislation designating the creation and goals of the vocational schools in Xinjiang. Nor do I say i give a shit about terrorist designation; for FUCKS sake its literally stated in the very post.

The PLO, PFLP, even Hamas has received international support and from peoples across the world. ETIM has received support from: ISIS, al qaeda, and the usa. You be the judge.

It is well known that south korea and the usa uses 'witness testimonies' of people from the DPRK to justify their continued aggression against the country. Do you really think they wouldn't do the same thing here? Are you going to believe the isreali witness testimonies of Hamas as well? Be serious. Anecdotal evidence is not a valid way to judge an accusation as serious as genocide, especially not when there's an overwhelming amount of anecdotal evidence saying the exact opposite.

The bombings in Urumqi and across Xinjiang in the early 2000s killed scores and affected the daily lives of Uyghurs. Do you deny that these actions do not constitute a disruption to Uyghur livelihoods? In Kashmir, in response to bombings and attacks, the Indian army deployed soldiers and paramilitary forces to suppress activity. In Occupied Palestine, the IOF began killing and bombing indiscriminately. DO you claim that the improvement of material conditions that lead to radicalization through vocational schools rather than through bombs and guns is worse, or at the very least, the same? There hasn't been another bombing or attack in Xinjiang after 2017; after the implementation of the vocational school program. The poverty alleviation campaign heavily focused on the western regions of China, including Xinjiang and Uyghur living conditions are continuing to improve.

Cultural genocide? A very nebulous term. Do you mean the suppression of language? no, that can't be because not only is Uyghur one of the nationally recognized languages inside the PRC, it is taught in schools and is spoken daily in XInjiang. If you comapre this to the cultural genocide of the Irish, it holds no fucking water. Is it demolition of religious sites? No, that can't be because there has been a net INCREASE in mosques and religious sites in Xinjiang. Is it a suppression of cultural practices? No that can't be it because the PRC promotes cultural among all minority groups including Xinjaing Uyghurs, nor are they suppressing cultural practices. Is it denial of development funds and economic opportunity? No that can't be because the poverty alleviation program heavily targeted Xinjiang and the vast majority of Xinjiang agriculture is mechanized, as well as the expansion of the HSR system to Urumqi, connecting the capital to the rest of China.

Defining what constitutes a genocide is important. Otherwise, the word will lose its meaning. The fact that China's vocational program does not meet washington's definitions should tell you exactly what it needs to: that the yankee imperialists cannot find enough evidence to fit their terms. Understand that no depravity is below the us. They will do anything to get to their geopolitical and material aims.

I understand. It can be hard to admit you have been tricked by the us state department. This doesn't make you a bad person. What you continue to do AFTER you see through the west's lies is what matters. Are you going to continue manufacturing consent for future conflict with targets of US imperialism, or are you going to make a principled and critical stance against atrocity propaganda and american imperialism?

read about my sources

#mmp #death to the usa

[shepswrath]

Genuinely Sick to my fucking stomach how does biden manage to drag his feet on every other issue but plan to send somewhere around 100 billion to israel (and ukraine but still). I feel like the world is taking a deathspin and I'm honestly sick to my stomach that a human being could use money that'd genuinely be better used helping the very people he leads and the people who have been DISPLACED and their homes DESTROYED, whose families have been unjustifiably murdered rather than funding the complete and total destruction of an entire people. Why do we keep saying he's our only option. He will not get elected. Vote against him in the democratic candidate election. Do as much as you can to stop the genocide in Gaza. I'd say I can't believe that this is happening but this was. Pretty predictable in regards to American politics

#current world events #free palestine #free gaza #violence cw #kind of vent?? #i dunno.

[ardourie]

“no one person in the us controls much of anything” america is literally the leading country in funding and support for so many genocides and government coups what is with you people can you open wikipedia holy fuck, our presidents is why afghanistan is so fucked up, our government is why the “””””middle east”””” (hate even using that term) is so destroyed u people are so uneducated it’s scary

[highfantasy-soul]

why the fuck did I just see an instagram post from Zoe Saldana - from 2 days ago!!! - that reiterated the FALSE claims about the Oct. 7th attack? Just a bunch of unsubstantiated allegations. Stick to the facts - Israelis were killed, some taken hostage but there's no evidence of babies being beheaded or even of rape. Of course that doesn't mean the lives lost that day mean anything less, but spreading such misinformation is never a good idea. It leads to more false assumptions about 'the enemy' to dehumanize them and make them out to be the worst kind of monsters - the kind we 'don't negotiate' with. This leads to people like Zoe thinking that carpet bombing civilians is 'actually necessary' since we're dealing with such a 'horrific' group of people.

The hostages that have been released actually talk about relatively kind treatment by Hamas. Can you say the same for the Palestinians (including children) being held in Israeli prisons?

The pearl-clutching at lies spread by Israel and yet deafening silence to the actual footage of Palestinians being slaughtered is telling.

People like Zoe (Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, Aubrey Plaza, Bella Thorne, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Courtney Cox, Ewan McGregor, Gal Gadot, Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Timberlake, Jack Black, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Goldblum, Jessifa Biel, Josh Bolin, Jud Apatow, Katy Perry, Kristin Chenoweth, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Paul Rudd, Regina Spektor, Seth Meyers, Taika Waititi, Zach Snyder, and many more who signed the 'No Hostage Left Behind' post) are speaking loud and clear:

They only value certain hostages.

She thanks Biden for his 'unshakable moral conviction'. What does that conviction look like? Denying aid to Palestinians. Funding the Israeli military so they can continue to commit war crimes. Refusing to tell Israel to turn back on the power and water to the besieged Gaza Strip. Spreading more lies fed to him by Israel. Refusing to call for a ceasefire. Telling Israel that they have every right to do whatever it takes to 'destroy' Hamas - which means slaughtering every single person in Gaza. How is any of that getting the hostages back?

So many celebrities signing their name on a post riddled with lies.

Come on, people - at least use facts to try to back your case, pro-genocide as it may be.

Don't support indiscriminate murder of civilians and in the same breath claim you want 'freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace". There is no 'peace' in apartheid. There is no peace in genocide, in mass relocation, in discrimination and denial of basic human rights. There is not peace in that.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #zoe saldana #hollywood really needs to pay attention to what they're putting their names to #no justice no peace