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jewish-sideblog · 5 months

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"Both indigenous and colonizers" CAN PEOPLE STOP TALKING ABOUT SHIT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND PLEASE

This wave of antisemitism and bullshit about "indigenous vs colonizer" makes me so scared as an indigenous person in the US of what will happen when Land Back movements do result in actual sovereignty restoration and then tribes do what people do and disagree over land and resources, like we were doing for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. Will we be reduced down to colonizers too??

It feels like Westerners, especially USAmericans, have such a black and white idea of what it means to be indigenous and what it means to be a colonizer/settler (because those terms are always conflated) and it makes me so angry and frustrated to see people apply those standards and lines thinking not just to complex sovereignty movements in their own countries but also to incredibly complex conflicts and wars happening on the other side of the world.

The damage I've seen done to sovereignty movements here in the US alone, people going around claiming that we want all "settlers" to go back to Europe or that we're going to start massacring people, has been horrible and the fact that it's all just to justify antisemitism makes me sick.

Genuinely. They're blocked now, but that same person said something to the effect of "Would an Iranian praying in a Mosque built on the ashes of a former synagogue be decolonization?"

And that was the point at which I was like. Ok. It seems like most people genuinely don't actually know what the terms "colonization", "colonizer" and "coloniality" mean. Obviously, that wouldn't be decolonization, because the Jews never colonized Iran. Emigration and colonization aren't the same fucking thing!

I used to have so much faith in my generation. I thought we were critical thinkers, capable of flexibility and engagement with new ideas. But I'm realizing now that we're basically just rebranded boomers. Back in the day, anybody you disagreed with was labelled as a "Communist". It didn't actually fucking matter if they were communist sympathizers, Soviet sympathizers, or even if they were remotely allied with socialist ideals. You could just call them a "Communist" and be done with it, without even understanding what that term means.

It's the same shit today. Instead of a HUAC witch hunt targeting communists, it's a social witch hunt targeting "colonizers" and "Zionists". I am terrified that the moment indigenous rights movements in the Americas and Oceania start making practical strides in Land Back, regaining rightful control over the ways your own land is used, you'll all be labelled as "colonizers" or "imperialists" or whatever the bad buzz word of the month turns out to be.

People simply can't wrap their heads around the idea that indigenous decolonization doesn't have the end goal of ethnically cleansing non-native people from the Americas. And it's because they're so absorbed in colonial thinking. They can't even fucking imagine what sovereignty could look like beyond an authoritarian structure based on control and violence. It's the same with Israel and Palestine-- they think that Jewish sovereignty must look like complete Jewish control to the detriment of Arabs, and they think Palestinian sovereignty must look like total Arab control to the detriment of Jews. The idea that a shared state or a two-state solution is "racist" stems from that false dichotomy.

Establishing an ideological binary of violence that pits "indigenous" against "colonizer", "native" against "settler", and "us" against "them" with no room for cooperation or collaboration is the core of colonialism. Because the core of colonialism is the idea that only one group can have true power at a time. And that's just not the way the world has to work.

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vaspider · 1 month

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If your first instinct is to respond to someone talking about how people are conflating Zionism and Judaism in dangerous ways with 'why am I seeing Zionism on my dash,' you are part of the fucking problem, asshole.

My old shul just finished installing concrete blockades around the playground just in case someone decides to try to drive a truck across the playground while the kids are out there. Every synagogue I know has added more guards, more security. There was a car crash tonight outside a synagogue a friend of mine attends, and for a second when everybody could see one of the cars veering off the road toward the synagogue, the thought went through their head, essentially, oh, it's starting.

And the fact that posts like this, posts made by people who are tired and scared because they're being held to account for the actions of a country halfway around the world, over which they have no control whatsoever, posts of people saying 'please fucking listen to us,' are literally being held up as evidence that we're Bad Evil Zionists who should be purged? That's a fucking problem.

Since 2016, 2017 -- basically since I became Jewish -- I have made it a policy never to talk about I/P online because I don't actually think it's productive, and I have more productive shit I can be doing. The fact that I don't talk about it has been held up as ironclad proof of my opinions.

Think about that. The fact that I said 'I will not tell you what my opinion is because I think the way this is handled online isn't productive' seven years ago is held up as absolute proof of what I think now, and that those opinions are the somehow magically opinions that people who already think I'm a piece of shit want me to have so they have more reasons to say 'yeah, spider sucks.'

I didn't even have the same pronouns seven years ago. I lived 3000 miles away from where I live now. I own a company. I have two wives. But you're right, I must think the exact same thing about this thing that lets you hate me without thinking, 'am I the baddie?'

It's so fucking transparent. Zionist is now just "Jew I don't like," and Zionism is "any act Jews take which makes them visible in ways that don't involve groveling or dying." It's fucking pathetic. If you have spoken to a Zionist, you're a Zionist. If you have ever expressed any opinion about Israel that isn't 'it and all Israelis should be of course set on fire,' you're a Zionist. If you express no opinions at all about Israel, you're a Zionist. If someone already doesn't like you for whatever reason, they'll decide you're a fucking Zionist, and then that's all they need. Nobody ever questions it when they're told a Jew online is a Dirty, Evil, Zionist, and if you say you're not, actually, then you're a Lying, Dirty, Evil, Zionist.

Like, could y'all be any more transparent?

#the people calling me a Zionist also tend to misgender me #but i'm sure that's nothing that needs to be unpacked #no sir

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matan4il · 4 months

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please hate me because i praying ceasefire of both sides - realase hostages and free gaza for civilians

Why would I hate you for this message? I'd like to think you have good intentions, and are mostly uninformed about what your message actually means.

The problem is that, as I wrote here, good intentions can lead to real harm, when people don't understand the consequences of their choices, and we're still responsible for the harm we caused, no matter how good are intentions were.

So let's make it clear: It's great to want the hostages free! But that's not enough after Oct 7.

Hamas has violated every ceasefire ever, including the one that was in place until 6:30 in the morning on that day. Its terrorists slaughtered civilians. They raped people of all ages, so brutally that bones were broken. They cut off body parts, breasts off women, genitalia off men, fingers and toes off children. They tied family members together, then burned those captives alive.

These terrorists placed a Jewish baby in an oven, and turned it on. Think about how much that baby must have screamed! It was in pain, and it was helpless, and all it could do to try and stop the physical hurt as it grew worse and worse, was to scream its little lungs out. And up until then, this baby probably thought the world was a good place, because whenever it cried, one of this kid's parents came, and made things better. what was the world to this child as it cried, and cried, and then screamed with every ounce of strength it had, and no one made the pain go away? I don't think I could ever fully process how horrible this baby's death was.

And a Hamas senior said explicitly on Oct 24, that they would continue in the exact same way, and carry out this massacre again, and again, and again...

A ceasefire before Hamas is destroyed means to accept that a massacre like this will happen again. Because no border can contain a genocidal terrorist organization, as Hamas proved on Oct 7. If you didn't understand that this is what it means, that it isn't a simple wish for peace, but a guarantee of another future massacre of innocent civilians, innocent babies, you do know now. And hopefully, you know better than to wish for the future deaths of more people in Israel.

If you don't, if you still wish for a ceasefire while Hamas continues to exist, with no regard for the well being of the people that it designates as it would be victims (which is all Jews, though as we've seen on Oct 7, Hamas will kill non-Jews as well, if they're associated with the Jewish state), then: 1. There is something morally wrong with your stance on this. 2. And you don't have a right to make that wish unless you put yourself in the line of Hamas' fire, by moving to Israel and living right on the border with Hamas, knowing that at any moment, they might breach the border again, and come and do to you, to your loved ones, what they have promised they will do to every last Israeli and Jew.

Lastly, I do wish for the Gazans to be free, just like I wish for the hostages to be released! I have no doubt that the Palestinians in Gaza will never be free, until Hamas is destroyed. If you do pray for Israelis and Gazans alike, you should pray for Hamas to be taken down, for the sake of the innocents on both sides. Then we have a chance at a real peace, not a fake ceasefire, that will for sure be broken.

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atimeofyourlife · 5 months

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Kindling the light

written for @steddieholidaydrabbles prompt: hanukkah | rated: t | wc: 577 | tags: jewish steve harrington Steve's father prevented him from celebrating Hanukkah, or observing any Jewish traditions passed down from his mother. After finding his Grandmother's Hannukiah, he allows himself to celebrate for the first time since he was a kid, bringing Eddie and Robin along with him.

Steve grumbled to himself as he searched the attic for Christmas decorations. Somehow he'd been the one chosen to host the party's Christmas gathering, and he didn't even really celebrate Christmas. He only went along with it as a kid because his father told him he had to, because it looked better if they were seen as a good, Christian family, and not a family of mixed faiths. He had always much preferred the years he could spend with his mother's family. The years he got to celebrate Hanukkah. Something he hadn't been able to do for nearly a decade, since his grandmother had passed away.

He tried to pull himself out of his thoughts, going back to searching the boxes. But he only moved a few more and he found a smaller, unlabeled box. He opened it to see his grandmother's Hanukkiah, and the memories came flooding back. Gathered as a family saying the blessings as the Hanukkah candles were lit, spending the evening together playing dreidel and eating latkes and receiving gelt alongside his cousins from his aunts and uncles and grandparents. It caused an ache in his chest, thinking about all the traditions he had missed because of his father.

"Steve? Did you find the decorations?" Eddie called from the ladder.

"I. Yeah. Some of them." Steve replied. "D'you want to grab them?"

Eddie pulled himself into the attic and came over to Steve. "Which boxes do you- what's that?"

"It's a Hanukkiah." Steve glanced up at Eddie, noticing that he looked confused. "It's a type of menorah for Hanukkah."

"Hanukkah? You're Jewish?"

"Yeah, on my mom's side." Steve wasn't sure what else to say.

"How did I not know that? And why do you have all this Christmas stuff then?" Eddie asked.

"Dad. He didn't want anyone to know that we're a mixed faith family, so me and mom had to follow his Christian beliefs. He wouldn't let us do anything, we couldn't celebrate Hanukkah, we couldn't observe Shabbat, we couldn't keep kosher. It was only when we visited Mom's family that we got to do any of it." Steve explained, a little sadly.

"Your dad is a total asshole. But when they're not around, why don't you do that stuff anyway. They don't have to know."

"If anyone else found out and it got back to my Dad, he would kill me."

"Just do it at home then." Eddie looked back at the Hanukkiah in its box. "When is Hanukkah anyway?"

And that was how Steve found himself celebrating Hanukkah for the first time in a decade. He had to focus to keep his hands steady as he lit the candles in the Hanukkiah, sitting pride of place in the front window, after reciting the blessings. He'd had to look up the blessings after not saying them for so long, something he felt a little ashamed about, even though he knew it was not his fault. He stepped back, Robin and Eddie on either side of him. He had missed so much of his traditions, but now he was looking forward to bringing it to his found family. Over time, he would introduce it to the kids. But for now, he had latke batter made up ready for frying, and he planned to teach Robin and Eddie how to play dreidel. Who had both been insistent on helping Steve celebrate Hanukkah, and helping him make it the best it could possibly be.

#steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #steve harrington x eddie munson #robin buckley #stranger things #jewish steve harrington #steve x eddie #stobin #platonic stobin #steddieholidaydrabbles #atimeofyourwrites

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angelsanarchy · 5 months

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Alkaline: Euronymous x Y/N Series PRT 25

Tagging: @ophelialaufey @madamemaximoff06 @forever-not-gonna-sink@ajmiila02@liquidsmoothdomme@shady-the-simp @auggiethecreator @tempt-ress @blacksoul-27

TW: Antisemitic verbiage, hate speech

Oystein had gone to work the next few days trying not to smile so much. Y/n called the shop everyday and they talked for almost an hour. The others thought he was jerking off in his office because he kept locking the door. The last thing he needed was any of them getting suspicious or asking him too many questions about his private life.

Today was different though. She walked through the door with a smile on her face and a brown bag in hand, ignoring everyone else in the shop.

"Hey." Oystein couldn't help but smile looking at her.

"Hi, I brought you lunch." She held the bag up and he laughed.

"I didn't even order anything yet." Oystein looked in the bag and she rolled her eyes.

"As if you weren't going to order from us anyway." Y/n leaned on the countertop and Oystein leaned forward to steal a kiss.

"Thank you. You want to stay and eat with me?" He asked extending his hand. She nodded taking it and following him down stairs instead of to his office.

"Let me grab a drink." He had never taken her down to the Black Circle hangout. She waited in the doorway as he retrieved a coke and a beer from the fridge. She doesn't bother talking to any of the others. She keeps her eyes on Oystein but when Varg stands up, both their attention is turned to him.

"Aren't you a Jew?" Varg blurted.

"Excuse me?" Y/n responded.

"I was going to ask what your thoughts were on these church burnings but then I realized how disgustingly Jewish your last name was." Varg's words were dripping with disdain but everyone else remained silent.

"Back off Varg." Oystein crossed the room towards Y/n but she held up her hand letting him know she was okay.

"That's a lot of talk coming from a guy who had to change his name to fit into his own bullshit narrative." Y/n's words made some of the others look at Varg confused.

"You know, you have some nerve coming in here. You aren't one of us. You could never be apart of what we're creating." Varg seethed.

"You're hanging out in the basement of a record shop talking about idiots who burn buildings down as if that's going to overrun the faith of those people. Newsflash, dumbass...they're buildings. No one was praying in them anyway. They were all rundown and considered historical." Y/n argued.

Varg made a move towards Y/n and Oystein put his hand on his chest.

"I'm serious...back off." Oystein was stern making Varg grit his teeth.

"I don't care if you're fucking her or not. She doesn't belong down here. She clearly doesn't agree with things the Black Circle does so she needs to be gone...now." Varg locked eyes with Oystein and he knew how tense the situation was.

"You're fucking a Jewish chick?" One of the others asked.

"Who I fuck has nothing to do with any of you jerkoffs." Oystein spat.

"Then don't bring a kike in here!" Varg challenged.

"Trust me, I don't want to be in your black metal circle jerk-" Varg shoved Oystein and this time the room moved. Hellhammer stepped into Y/n's side and pulled her back into the hallway to get her out of the fray as Oystein and Varg started arguing. He escourted her back upstairs and he told her to stay in the office. When Hellhammer got back to the bottom of the steps, Oystein ran into him.

"Is she okay?" He asked in a rush.

"She's fine man...but he's right." Oystein looked offended but Hellhammer quickly explained.

"She's not safe around Varg. You know that. He's fucking crazy with that Nazi shit. You know I don't have a problem with her at all, just maybe keep her from downstairs." Hellhammer watched Oystein's face soften before giving him a nod. They both could hear the others talking about gassing her just a few steps below but Hellhammer put his hand on his shoulder.

"Fuck them. Just go eat lunch with your girlfriend man." Oystein continued up the steps thinking about what Hellhammer had just said. He hadn't actually talked to Y/n about being exclusive but he knew that he wasn't seeing anyone else. He could only assume she was only talking to him as well. He also made a great point about Varg.

For some reason, Y/n was able to get under his skin like no one he had ever seen before. It was scary. Oystein walked into his office and saw Y/n sitting in the chair in front of his desk.

"Are you okay?" He asked frowning. He sat across from her sitting the drinks down on the table. She nodded her head.

"Are you burning churches down Oystein?" She asked sounding exhausted. He let his head fall slightly and she sighed.

"Please tell me I'm not going to regret getting into this with you. I need to here, out of jail, not dead. I can't handle losing anyone else." She explained reaching out for his hands.

"I know. I don't want you to regret being with me. I want to give you a reason to be a proud girlfriend." Oystein tried making her laugh.

"You just trying to slip that in there huh?" She put her hand on his cheek and he gave her a soft smile.

"I'm sorry that the answer to your question is disappointing but I won't be involved moving forward. You have my word." Kissing her hand.

"Good because I'm not visiting my boyfriend in lock up." She smiled making him laugh.

"Wow you wouldn't visit me? Not even to sneak in some good food?" Oystein teased.

"Not even then. You'll have to tough it out but you'll definetly need to cut all that pretty hair if you have to do an extended stay." She ruffled Oystein's hair and he leaned over kissing her lips. The two of them heard the others being loud downstairs and he walked over to lock the door so they could enjoy their lunch together. This is the life Oystein never expected to love but sitting in a record shop that belonged to him, with the girl he loved, eating his favorite food...this is the life he never dreamed of but was damn happy to have.

In the back of his mind though, the fear of having someone so precious to him near people as violently motivated as Varg put him on edge. He had to keep Y/n safe from this world.

#R!Euronymous #R!Euronymous x Y/n #Film: Lords of Chaos #Alkaline #Alkaline Series #One shot series #Rory Culkin #Culkin Cult #25/35

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marley-manson · 9 months

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My main takeaway of Fade Out, Fade In is that Hawkeye is extremely chill and secure lol. I feel like I've seen it used as an example of Hawkeye's egotism and I think that must be due to misremembering the episode because Hawkeye is constantly gracious wrt Charles as a surgeon. He's overjoyed that Charles knows the aneurysm operation they need to do and more than happy to let him do it, assist, and learn from him, asking questions and complimenting him. He's quick to give him the credit afterwards when Dr Berman wakes up as well.

When Charles finds a flood of patients too intense and doubts himself, Hawkeye reassures him by saying, "We're not any better than you, it's just that by sheer repetition we've gotten fast."

What Hawkeye takes issue with and makes fun of is Charles' superiority complex. He rolls his eyes when Charles pointedly insults him or anyone else, he mocks his haughty demeanour and upper class accent, calls him Chuck to annoy him, etc. This is all separate from his skill as a surgeon, which Hawkeye vocally admires, and all completely warranted because obviously Charles is an asshole lol.

The second takeaway of this episode is that I wish Potter was a villain. I'd forgotten this, but he's the one who arranges to keep Charles at the 4077 when otherwise Baldwin would've taken him back. Blah blah blah they need good surgeons and saving lives is important and someone's gotta do it blah blah blah, fact is Charles is well within his rights to hate Potter for this and I wish he did, and I wish we could be on his side about it properly, because I absolutely am on his side here.

Instead it's framed as something Charles deserves for being haughty, and a trial by fire to improve him. I would prefer to see it framed as a personal tragedy that engenders sympathy, perhaps planting the seed of comraderie between him and Hawk and BJ. Not a fan of framing being forced to work in a warzone as character building.

And now some miscellaneous thoughts:

-- Hawkeye clocks that Berman is jewish after hearing him speak one sentence (i assume, since hawk immediately jokes about him kibitzing), for the jewish hawkeye headcanoners

-- also love how overtly gay Berman is, I'm calling the "you doctors are all alike" joke as evidence of Berman clocking Hawkeye in return

-- "command me, o tall one with the presbyterian features" is such an amazing Klinger line

-- Hawk stealing Frank's boxers for himself

-- the scene with Margaret and Hawkeye and BJ is such an awful bait and switch lol, I go from 'aw they're friends!!' and loving Hawkeye when he tells her she doesn't have to tell them what's bothering her but she's clearly upset so she should sit and have a drink either way, to 'nooooo' when the (narratively endorsed) answer given to Margaret is she's too much of a flirty slut and it hurt Donald's feelings :(

-- Hawkeye being nice to Frank on the phone even when he's pissed at him and throws the phone immediately afterwards was cute honestly. Hawk speaking for both him and BJ was cute and married too ("we both think that's wonderful. we're proud to have known you")

-- BJ and Hawkeye both collaborated on the snake prank but Hawkeye's the one who gets a comeuppance >:( "Please, Mozart" is a fantastic final line though.

-- OH! the patient who didn't want to go back to the front because he doesn't want to kill anyone else! When he speaks to Mulcahy, Mulcahy starts off with his usual rote 'yeah it's scary go fight anyway' thing, and when dude corrects him about his reasons Mulcahy doesn't say anything, just stares off into the middle distance. And that's the end of that storyline.

Like man I would've liked to know what Mulcahy said to him lol, how Mulcahy squared that with himself. It's a fantastic counterpoint to his usual encouragement but I want more. Wish we could've repeated this premise in a Mulcahy-heavy episode.

#mash #marley on mash #mash s6 #hawkeye mash

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softlyspector · 1 year

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Prompt 4: sneaky mistletoe!! maybe how Mark, Steven, and Jake would kiss you under the mistletoe

Jake Lockley + mistletoe

a/n: sorry the inspo really just hit for Jake with this one.

"Aren't you Jewish?"

Jake deflates immediately, rolling his eyes at you and lowering the hand he'd been pointing suggestively to the mistletoe directly above your heads with.

You had a particular way of taking the wind out of his sails. It's something he likes about you, how easily you put him in his place, how readily you challenge him.

But the intense questioning in your eyes doesn't exactly inspire confidence, like you don't get why he'd even mention the mistletoe to you, even as a joke.

"Yeah, querida, but kissing is for anyone. So we're trapped here 'til we kiss."

"Still, pretty sure the rule doesn't apply to you," you note. The stern look on your face doesn't fade. Your frown deepens, nose scrunching, before you quirk a brow at him. "And what if I don't want to be kissed?"

"That's why I asked, didn't I?"

You'd invited Jake to your office's holiday party, and while the decorations skewed towards the Christmassy side, it was mostly fine, especially when they gave out golden opportunities to finally tell you how he feels.

Like the fucking mistletoe.

"Jake," you says his name slowly, the sound exaggerated in your mouth. "You don't really want to kiss me."

Jake lifts a brow at that accusation. "I really do." He steps closer, presses a palm to your cheek when you don't move away.

You're secluded, away from prying eyes in the mouth of the hall that leads to more office cubicles.

"I've been tryin' to tell you," he says. "But you don't really listen."

He steps closer to you, cocooning you against him, hope beating in his throat because you haven't told him to fuck off yet.

You scoff, the sound abruptly cutting off when he brushes his mouth against the crest of your cheek. "Like when?"

"Like when I remember the exact way you like that complicated drink you get. Like when I walk you home from work even when its raining."

You're frowning again, and Jake wonders how what he's said could possibly be mistaken as something bad. "You only do that stuff because you want to kiss me?"

Jake makes a frustrated sound, tips his forehead against yours. "Now you're not understanding me on purpose," he grumbles. "Don't do that, I get it enough from Marc."

You lips twitch, and you lean in a bit close, nestling your nose against his, inhaling softly. "Right." You bite your lip, "Guess there is mistletoe."

"And kissin' is for everyone, amor."

You nod, tilting your face into his. "So it'd be rude not to."

"Guess so." His chest hurts, breath caught in his throat before you kiss him once, a chaste little kiss, lips close, barely a brush of you against him.

Still, it makes him want to buckle at the knees.

Your hands rise to meet his, to press through the backs of his fingers and hold them against your skin.

The second kiss is better, he gets to taste you the second time, the taste of sugar on your tongue when your lips fit together.

Your skin is warm against his, the spell of the mistletoe broken when you have to break apart and slide to the side as someone approaches the hallway. But you keep your hand in his, and whisper. "So why?"

"Because you're mine," he says casually, looking behind your head, back towards a party he doesn't want to return to. "In any way you'll have me."

"Even if I never kissed you again?"

Jake turns and meets your eyes, wondering what kind of assholes you'd met before him, what kind of assholes made you feel like you even needed to ask. "Even then." Then he grins, "Wasn't that bad, was it?"

"Not what I'd call it, no," you hedge.

"Knew it."

"Cocky."

"Not if I'm right."

You try to hide a smile and fail, "Wanna leave? I know a place a couple blocks from here. Cozy. Might have more mistletoe." The intense, challenging, serious look you sport most often has faded, replaced by his favorite look on you.

Mischief.

"Fuck yes."

#jake lockley x reader #jake lockley x you

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officeshelpdesk · 2 months

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As someone who's a massive Jewish history nerd this fucking tweet drives me insane

Like yes there is a historical oppression of Jews but the way this paints this history is woefully inaccurate and clearly made by someone who has no understanding of it.

Let's go through these groups one by one

1.) The ancient Hebrews were Canaanites. There is no archeological evidence that captivity in Egypt actually happened. Instead, the story of Exodus should be looked at as a cultural myth about this idea of God being on the side of the ancient Israelites even when they're faced with insurmountable odds.

2.) It's widely argued among scholars if the Philistines actually were out to destroy the ancient kingdoms. There are two minds, one that describes that Samuel is an actual recording of historical battles; and one that argues that the Philistines were simply a nearby culture that could easily be made into some great villain.

3.) The Kingdom of Judah was a client state of the Assyrians, and despite skirmishes and rebellion, its population and power actually increased under the empire. Now if you want to point to Sennacherib specifically go for it, but the Assyrians also didn't fucking like him, and to portray the Assyrians as a group of people always out to destroy the Judeans is woefully without nuance.

4.) We will call this one fair

5.) ???? What does this mean. Not the ancient Greeks trying to destroy the Jewish people, sure we do have Antiochus trying to ban a bunch of practices, but what do we mean by the ancient Greeks being gone? I mean obviously right ancient Greek culture no longer exists in a way that matters. But, modern day Greece and modern day Israel are about as far removed from their ancient cultures as each other. If we're to say that the ancient Greeks were destroyed and lost to history, then so were the ancient Israelites. What are we arguing here?

6.) Fair!

7.) Fair!

8.) Mostly fair, I guess. Though you can of course make the argument that many Nazis actually did survive and lived on to rejoin politics and join NATO and stuff, but yeah the Nazi party did get bodied

Now before we get into the 8th one there is one other problem with this. And that is that this list is backed up by Zionist myth. The idea here is that Israel, the modern state, means Judaism, and Judaism means Israel. In order to back that up, we need to not only combine the two, but create an idea of Jewish history equalling Israel being this strong warrior state. So we're not gonna mention pogroms and persecutions in states that are Israel's modern allies, like the British. There are many places that have historically been deeply antisemitic, but that can't be brought up in this summary of history because it doesn't fit some narrative that allows Israel to be completely justified in wiping out Palestine

9.) Come on now, like seriously come on now. I find it deeply disrespectful to boil down millennia of Jewish perseverance into justification for a genocide.

But that's the problem! Is Zionists don't actually know history! They don't actually really care about any of these oppressions! They care about invading their neighbors and spreading power! The "baby's first Jewish history" they carry around and read from is just a means to that end!

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ladyimaginarium · 11 months

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Okay so I'm& revitalizing this again.

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As a Jewish person myself I should tell that I'm unable to not relate to what is happening now in Israel.

I also, can't deny simple facts. It's not the existence of Hamas, which created occupation of west bank as some are trying to put it. It's the occupation of Gaza which created Hamas in its present form. It's the years of silencing anyone in a pursuit for a creating of an approach for a peaceful coexistence with palestinians. Years of political killings, economical and trade blockades, terror-bombings of civilians, massacres of civilians by settlers, years of GENOCIDE. That's what created Hamas. People in Palestine didn't have an access to the goods, to the healthcare, they barely had an access to clean water, with Israel completely shutting its supply down after recent events.

It weren't some evil palestinians, which according to Israel's PM, should be erased from the face of earth, that created Hamas. It was Israel and it's apartheid itself.

I know many people from middle east. Many of them are my friends — palestinians included.

And I want to tell, even if it won't be much, I'm standing with you.

To my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel, I could only say: you are fighting struggle that you created for yourself, abandoning god, compassion, and empathy, and developing fate in only power, in a gun, in the nuclear arms, and cruelty in the name of some illusionary utopia impossible to build with those things. You have steel, and fire on your side, but as long as you wont have kindness, you will struggle. As the violence breeds violence. And you were really successful, in the affair of this unholly husbandry.

Yes. I'm a Jew. And I'm praying for Palestine. Because I know what it means to hear explosions in the middle of the night, when you don't have "Iron dome" over yourself as Israelites do. Because my eardrums once we're shattered after the missile exploded over my head.

I'm praying for Palestine. That is all I want to tell you.

P.S. Whatever anyone could say. Israel is a major military power with nuclear arms. And Palestine is a small strip of land, half of the population of which are children. Not all of those people are even Muslim. They aren't represented by Hamas.

And Israels government calls those people human animals, openly calling for the genocide. And major western powers, encouraging them, giving them arms. GIVING ARMS TO THE STATE WHICH LITERALLY HAS AN ATOMIC BOMB ON ITS SIDE. No matter which atrocities Hamas commited, they are not representing Palestine. And it is important to note, that it all is a consequence of Israels apartheid policies, and ethnic cleanings.

That is all I wanted to say.

#this is not my usual content #and i dont know #to whom it is adressed exactly #palestine #israel

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I’m genuinely trying not to slide into Islamaphobia. I’m in a fandom that for whatever reason has a lot of Muslims/people from Islamic countries (they’re all part of the majority population in their respective countries); and all of them have basically put a pause on fandom stuff to say absolutely vile things about Israel, and are very much doing the “kill yourself if you feel otherwise” thing. Reading all this I just had a moment where it hit me that anytime an Islamic holy day happens everyone wishes them well, and they seem to expect the well wishes and respect. I have never, ever seen them do the same for anyone else. No happy holidays to any other religious group. They’re also the kind of people that sound the alarm whenever there’s rights abuses and hate crimes, but never when it’s about antisemitic attacks, which as we all know have unfortunately never been rare. Hell, I realized I never bring up that I’m Catholic because I think I always subconsciously knew that would put me on thin ice with all of them. And I guess I was okay with this?? With knowing ostracization could occur to me at any moment? It’s like getting a bucket of ice dumped on me. And it’s like everyone else has said; if this was truly about Israel and not Jewish people, they’d say something about attacks on the Jewish diaspora, but they’re not. There would be something about not blaming or hurting Jews for Israel, but there isn’t. I can’t see the disproportionate hate for Israel as anything other than blatant antisemitism. And I haven’t seen any of the people I (formerly) followed prove me wrong. And it’s making me feel some pretty hateful feelings that I do not want.

Saw the image in this tweet and I went to look to see if it's real or a edit being passed around as real, haven't managed to find that one out yet so I'm not going to say if it is or not, my gut says yes but that's not a real source, regardless of that it will serve to make a point.

That being

It's the absolute lack of any consistency that's getting me the worst

The near 100% obvious feds making up seemingly most of that one patriot front group on their marches are treated as something to be feared and shunned and looked down on because of their hateful rhetoric which if they're spouting it then yes absolutely condemn them but also admit the obvious bit about some them being feds.

But this pops up on a feed and all of a sudden we get this action, all of a sudden false flags are a possibility that has to be entertained.

And oh lord the calling for the deaths of J6 people from some of the same people that decided to cheer for the mass slaughter at a rave, something that isn't even associated with the government beyond permitting, how does anyone make that connection in their minds.

Sorry, I might be adding more fuel to what's going on in your head with my own observations here, but it kinda needs to be said.

It's infuriating.

You being Catholic does get to let me segue really well here now too.

Said it in an ask last night as well, managed to land in a Catholic subreddit somehow and there were people popping off about Deus Vult and cleansing the Holy Land of unbelievers once and for all, it didn't read like a joke in the slightest past the first comment.

Not something I'm going to hold against Catholics

It's not going to be all Catholics thinking like that and it's not going to be all Muslims that are cheering on hamass, feels that way because that's what we're seeing.

Go see what Imam Tawhidi has to say though, never really super popular with the loud Muslims on the internet, but it's good to see him and remember that there are reformers out there.

Hating Muslims would include hating folks like him, not that I always agree with the dude but he's trying to get some positive changes in the way Muslims interact with the rest of the world.

Funny guy too

#anonymous

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okay so I watched two plays this past week, cabaret and a mirror. i also watched hadestown the week before, and it was fucking Stunning, but ive been thinking of how cabaret and a mirror have become pieces of comparison for me in terms of what they were attempting to do (I think I could also compare hadestown and cabaret in a similar way).

i did write quite a long first reaction to cabaret, basically summed up as, it was very good, very talented performers, and very politically safe -- the audience invited to it were always going to be overwhelmingly straight, well-off, and white, because that's how it was marketed and how it was priced, and so accordingly the show didn't seem to want to make that audience feel too challenged by being compared too harshly with the german woman who goes back on her engagement with a jewish man and decides to safely capitulate to the oncoming nazis, by being too called-out by songs like "money makes the world go around" and "if you could see her like i do," and even the idea that if you do not stand up politically when fascists are knocking at your door, then you are supporting fascists (and all this wrapped up in a glitzy, queer circus aesthetic to enjoy voyeuristically)

so it was very interesting going from that feeling to a play like a mirror, which was all abouuuuut censorship! @gjdraws big rundown forya!

spoilers:

we begin with all of us at a wedding -- an officially licenced perfectly legal wedding, is stressed, before the officials leave and we're suddenly directly informed that the play is about to start

as we watch it becomes apparent that the fourth wall isn't there, that we're a part of the performance, that we're watching a play within a play, and that the characters know that the audience is there

the play-within-a-play is a tale of a new playwright who comes up against the force of censorship in an unnamed country. JLM plays both the person clearly putting on the play, and the man who speaks in favour of censorship -- but specifically a benevolent censorship

no truncheons, no "re-education centers," just finding real talent (like this new playwright) and pointing them in the right direction, not writing reality, but inspirational, beautiful pieces

this becomes a problem when the playwright makes it apparent that he just writes what he hears -- he's got a photographic memory, and he's hiiiighly coded as autistic, not quite understanding the underlying messaging he's receiving, that he's expected to write propaganda

this all comes to a head when he reveals that he was there during a famous battle that was lauded as a great victory against terrible odds, but in actuality was indicative of terrible leadership that killed a lot of people -- because he was simply instructed to write about this battle, he writes it exactly as he remembers it...

worse, he keeps transcribing the exact conversation he has with the man who's trying to groom him to greatness, the "minister for the department of culture not the censorship department!!!" this man has secret copies of shakespeare (illegal) stashed under floorboards, will frequently mock other directors, and generally speaks in a way that shows him to be pompous, grandiose, hypocritical, and manipulative

from aspiring playwright to getting arrested and tortured by the police, we then get interrupted by the authorities. everyone in the room has been arrested (audience included) for dissemination of illegal materials. the end

a few interesting, thought-provoking, and/or funny things

the play-within-a-play actually gets interrupted a couple of times throughout, and the sham-wedding hastily re-established, adding a certain danger to the whole proceeding, but also a lot of comedy, as scenes are changed by the actors themselves

a particular Moment is when the man playing the playwright and the woman playing the secretary to "the minister for the department of culture" are about to have sex -- it's steamy and kind of a fun way of playing with the idea of explicit verbal consent- she asks him about how he writes, he says he just puts down what he sees as is, she tells him to narrate what she's doing, up until she kisses him, he narrates his reciprocation prior to kissing her back, then that she pulls down his trousers, before she takes over, narrating that he hikes up her skirt- and then the play is interrupted and they have to hastily readjust their clothes and pretend nothing is happening! followed by her going "uh there was meant to be a sex scene here, but we'll just skip it now," and the actor meant to be coming on next being caught unaware with a drink and a cigarette in his hand

it is a wonderful showcasing of JLM's presence onstage, he's just the mostest! of all time! he gets to play the whole range, villainous in the play-within-a-play, righteous revolutionary when it turns out he's the actual playwright as they all get arrested and dragged away, nervous manic energy whenever the play is getting interrupted, he's serious, he's hammy, he's jittery, he's menacing, he's oafish, he's sincere, he's devastated, genuinely doing it all!!!

the interaction with the audience is what really struck me, specifically in comparison with cabaret -- now obvs one doesn't have to do cabaret with direct audience interaction, and the thing is there was actually a fair bit of it in the pre-show and in the interval, and we have that opening willkommen bienvenue welcome promising the audience that everything is wonderful and perfect (which the subsequent play then negates). but my issue was (much longer in my actual cabaret post) how withdrawn from the audience that musical was. how politically disconnected, how little it felt - to me - like i was actually at a cabaret, or at a show interacting with the audience on a meta level

a mirror was incredibly meta, incredibly in-your-face, incredibly direct and pinpoint accurate in how it wanted to tell this -- the audience were dissidents, but we were also being warned: words have power, plays have power, censorship is a real danger, it already exists, be wary of complacency and when certain kinds of community voices are dehumanised as inherently dangerous ideas...

it was strange coming across this almost by accident, honestly, really because i was going to watch something that jlm was in, and boy was it Something! ive been noting how many narratives like this ive been coming across this year -- most recently hadestown, a mirror, babel, and monkey man all within two weeks. the fight is worth fighting, even though we may not win, or may not change everything at once, the fight is worth fighting, and it's global, it's spiritual, it's words, politics, religion (im sure i'll come across something based in science too). i don't know yet how to internalise these stories in reality, considering the reality we're living in. for now they're simply living alongside reality, whether it's the work i do, or the work and resistance happening around the world. it's not perfect, but the fight is worth fighting

#a mirror #jlm #jonny lee miller #all the actors were great #also i got to talk with two lovely men who sat next to me #i enjoy chatting with strangers #art

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On Saturday, Iran initiated a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel. Thankfully, most of them were successfully intercepted and caused minimal damage. Of course, in a stunning move, President Biden is pushing Israel not to retaliate. It's hard to imagine why Biden would do that, except when you consider that Joe Biden has been appeasing Iran since his days as Barack Obama's vice president.

With that in mind, it's also not surprising—though it's still shocking— that Joe Biden not only had prior knowledge of Iran's assault on Israel but also technically gave it the green light under certain conditions, according to a report from the Jerusalem Post.

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be "within certain limits." Turkey, which has denounced Israel for its campaign on Gaza, said earlier on Sunday that it did not want a further escalation of tensions in the region. The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had spoken to both his US Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding Ankara had been made aware of possible developments. Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Fidan to make clear that escalation in the Middle East was not in anyone's interest. "Iran informed us in advance of what would happen. Possible developments also came up during the meeting with Blinken, and they (the US) conveyed to Iran through us that this reaction must be within certain limits," the source said.

I've said before that, despite his public support for Israel, Biden has not been a friend to the Jewish state. And this report proves that. Joe Biden publicly told Iran not to attack Israel. When it was clear they didn't give a hoot what he said, the Biden administration basically said it was fine to attack Israel as long as the attack was "within certain limits."

And then Joe went on vacation.

Related: Trump Warned We Were on the Brink of WWIII Under Joe Biden, and He’s Been Proven Right

Considering the size and intensity of the attack, it's reasonable to question whether Iran heeded that warning, but I would say it's obvious Iran's leaders did not.

So, let's recap the facts here: Joe Biden told Iran's leaders not to attack Israel, but they ignored him. Then he said they could attack Israel with some restrictions, though they clearly ignored that as well. Now, Biden is telling Israel not to retaliate.

In short, Biden is still appeasing Iran.

Why is Joe Biden still kowtowing to Iran and throwing Israel under the bus? I can't answer that, but I know that Israel can't listen to Biden because doing so threatens its existence.

Will the mainstream media report on this interesting development? Not likely. Make no mistake about it: The media will always cover for Joe Biden. They will spin this conflict as Joe Biden displaying leadership and resolve on the world stage. They’ll prop Biden up as a strong and confident leader, hoping it will become true if they repeat the lie often enough, while we're supposed to pretend that we're not on the precipice of World War III.

Future generation will say....."Look right here. This is where America sealed it's doom. They never came back after that."

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hi quick question: what do u know about the lavender ai post that's circulating? i saw it on this fact checking blog i follow and they made it seem legit but im not convinced

Hi Nonnie!

Before I get into this specific subject, I just wanna tell you that for me personally, this war has been an eye opener about how little some "fact checking" sites are worth. I've read several articles on that type of site, which could have used some fact checking themselves. In some cases, they had author names attached to them, and when checking the authors out, it was easy to find that they were not free of bias themselves. So... yeah. Take "fact checking sites" with a grain of salt. Even journalists sometimes get it wrong, and they're held to higher standards, and have more personal accountability, than most "fact checking sites," not to mention that the latter often simply rely on a selection of journalistic sources, but sometimes without really taking into account which are reliable, and which aren't.

As for the lavender AI issue specifically, I heard it briefly referenced on the news, during a discussion panel, and it was brought up in the context of recent conspiracy theories about Israel. The panelists were so clear on how obviously false these all were, they didn't even really get into refuting any of them.

A bit like how, in the past, when watching panelists discussing antisemitic tropes reincarnated as anti-Israel lies, I saw them bring up the one claiming Israel set up a field hospital in Haiti after the earthquake in order to harvest organs, which is obviously a new version of "the Jews are bloodthirsty" without bothering to refute it, because to Israelis, it's evident that it's bullshit. Not only because we're aware that we're not actually those evil creatures, lusting for death and destruction, that the anti-Israel crowd likes to portray us as, but also because we know that the constant terrorist attacks here have made Israel a world leader in the field of emergency medicine (here's an example: even the antisemitic UN had to admit an IDF unit was the best medical emergency team in the world), so that's the actual reason we set up that field hospital, much like we use our experience to help others in basically every disaster around the world that's willing to accept aid from Israel (and sometimes we operate even in places like Syria, where technically, we're defined as an enemy state, so all of the aid had to be provided directly to private people, and while keeping their identity a secret, so their own government can't presecute them for receiving it).

Anyway, since the TV discussion didn't get into refuting what they clearly saw as an absurd, hateful lie, I went online in search of more info, and found that this news venturing into mainstream media happened in The Guardian, a British news source known for its anti-Israel bias, to the point where a female black, non-Jewish journalist of theirs felt the need to point it out all the way back in 2003, and in Nov 2023, a Jewish employee of theirs had published a personal piece about feeling unsafe there, and looking for another place of employment. But the source that The Guardian is quoting, is actually not a proper journalistic publication, it's an anti-Israel propaganda blog based magazine, which includes Israeli anti-Zionists and Palestinians, publishing in English since its audience is very much not Israelis despite claiming that they want to inspire change in Israel, and responsible for systematically vilifying the country and spreading lies about it.

If I, as an Israeli, thought that something was wrong with a system the IDF is using, and wanted to see real change in my army, I wouldn't go to a publication that isn't journalistic in nature, that doesn't publish in a local language, that most Israelis have never heard about, and that those who did, don't trust, because of its known anti-Israel reputation. That in itself makes me suspicious.

The IDF gave a statement in response to questions presented by The Guardian, based on the aforementioned piece. It's a bit long, but here are the main references to the claimed AI system Lavender (emphasis added by me):

Some of the claims portrayed in your questions are baseless in fact, while others reflect a flawed understanding of IDF directives and international law.

The process of identifying military targets in the IDF consists of various types of tools and methods, including information management tools, which are used in order to help the intelligence analysts to gather and optimally analyze the intelligence, obtained from a variety of sources. Contrary to claims, the IDF does not use an artificial intelligence system that identifies terrorist operatives or tries to predict whether a person is a terrorist. Information systems are merely tools for analysts in the target identification process. According to IDF directives, analysts must conduct independent examinations, in which they verify that the identified targets meet the relevant definitions in accordance with international law and additional restrictions stipulated in the IDF directives.

The “system” your questions refer to is not a system, but simply a database whose purpose is to cross-reference intelligence sources, in order to produce up-to-date layers of information on the military operatives of terrorist organizations. This is not a list of confirmed military operatives eligible to attack.

For each target, IDF procedures require conducting an individual assessment of the anticipated military advantage and collateral damage expected. Such assessments are not made categorically in relation to the approval of individual strikes. The assessment of the collateral damage expected from a strike is based on a variety of assessment methods and intelligence-gathering measures, in order to achieve the most accurate assessment possible, considering the relevant operational circumstances. The IDF does not carry out strikes when the expected collateral damage from the strike is excessive in relation to the military advantage. In accordance with the rules of international law, the assessment of the proportionality of a strike is conducted by the commanders on the basis of all the information available to them before the strike, and naturally not on the basis of its results in hindsight.

The IDF outright rejects the claim regarding any policy to kill tens of thousands of people in their homes.

Some things about the claims in that piece don't work out IMO. Like, the number of fatalities if indeed there's an AI system, which produced a list of 37,000 Hamas and PIJ terrorists, with an automatic green light to kill between 15 to 100 civilians per each, especially in the first months of the war, and even assuming they couldn't target them all during that period of time (we do know most Hamas units have been destroyed). There are about 1,500 terrorists in a Hamas battalion (source in Hebrew), and 4 are left in Rafah, so only about 6,000 Hamas terrorists are in the last area the IDF has not operated in yet. That would mean roughly 31,000 terrorists were accessible targets. Just for the sake of erring on the side of caution, let's assume 10 killed civilians per Hamas terrorist, instead of that piece's claimed 15-100 approved per target. This would produce somewhere around 341,000 people killed in the first months alone. Let's go even lower, let's say 5 civilians killed per terrorist instead of 15-100. That would mean 186,000 killed during those months. We are exactly 6 months into the war, and even Hamas' numbers (likely inflated) don't claim more than 33,000 as the total number of fatalities. The given numbers and directives in that so-called "article" just don't match the reality on the ground, but claim to explain it, and to prove that Israel is being callous with civilians' lives in Gaza.

I'll also add that the AI-based decision making described doesn't take into account the possible presence and harm to the lives of Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza. That's another thing that makes me doubt that piece, because the IDF commanders have repeatedly stated their commitment to bringing back all the hostages, and as many alive as possible, and Israeli soldiers more than once risked their own lives to get them out, whether it was living people, or the bodies of Israelis who deserve to get to be buried back home, with their loved ones there, as in tact as possible. This scenario only works if we assume the Israeli commanders and soldiers have no sentiment for the lives of their own kidnapped civilians.

I guess that's what the piece's aim is. To play on people's fears of AI determining whether people will live or die, and to paint Israel as an evil, unfeeling, bloodthirsty entity, capable of anything, including of the inhumanity of letting computers decide the fate of human beings. The ease and speed with which people believe this, and spread this notion, before anyone has verified that Lavender is anything other than a database, just like the IDF says, feels like a demonstration of how all antisemitic blood libels are spread.

I hope this helped!

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Look, we need to discuss something: regardless of who we vote for or how loud we get, the federal U.S. government is going to back Israel.

Before I say anything else, let me be clear that I am NOT saying to stop speaking out. Whatever our government does or doesn't do, we still have an individual responsibility to make Palestinian voices heard and support the victims of this genocide however we can. Sometimes, you push back not because you expect a wall to fall but because, at the end of the day, you know you'd be a little less human if you didn't. Palestinians deserve whatever hope and support we can give them.

But that doesn't mean the official U.S. stance is going to change. Not right now, not overnight, probably not even within the next year. Our federal government is going to back Israel because they're our puppet state for Islamophobia in the Middle East and a great way for us to pretend we care about Jewish people without actually helping any Jews. Neither the party in power nor the sitting president will change this. All of our presidents since 1947 have supported genocide in Palestine in one way or another, whether they were liberal or conservative.

This is not a good thing. There is no positive way to spin this. The U.S. is a colonialist genocidal state at its root, and neither party has made any steps to correct it.

A lot of people won't like me saying that because it removes the illusion of choice. "If we just elect X, then we can end the genocide," is not an accurate statement. No choice we make politically is going to make our country remove its boot from Palestine's throat.

But -- and this is the part that even more people are going to hate me for -- our only option is still to vote for Biden.

Again, let me be clear. I don't like Biden. I despise him. He's willfully committing genocide and has been this whole time. Point blank. End of. But that whole "illusion of choice" thing? Yeah, that also applies to American electoral habits. Other countries love to call us stupid for having a two party system and being so crippled by it. They're right -- it's an awful system and a proponent of our ruin. But the same countries who complain about it and say we should just dismantle it also seem to think we can do it overnight, and that just isn't possible. Everyone wants a revolution, everyone wants an uprising, but no one is willing to organize one. They want it to happen passively and jump in only if it doesn't inconvenience them. Or they want to pull big stunts like bombing a government building instead of doing the hard work of assigning people to stations, coordinating multifaceted attacks, gathering supplies. They don't want to get involved in the process of changing our laws or political landscape to put us in a position where we have more than 2 candidates to vote for.

And that's the truth. It's ugly, it's stupid, but we aren't mindless sheep for defaulting to the 2 party system. We base our choices on it because it's the only real "choice" we have -- back to that illusion. Voting for a third party candidate without any promise of a majority turnout is just going to split the Democratic vote in half, and that's how we get a lifetime of Trump as dictator. That is not an exaggeration. That is a genuine threat we are staring down right now.

Both parties suck. Both parties are committing genocide. But that doesn't make them equally evil. A conservative president would be announcing outright war on Palestine instead of pretending to give a shit about them while actively funding Israel. A conservative president would be sending all of our troops to Iraq and Iran and Yemen instead of murdering individuals or small groups in those countries. (Every single life is sacred. Biden's murders of Iraqi, Iranian, and Yemeni citizens is unforgivable and inexcusable. But it could also be so much worse. We could be doing to them what we're already doing to Palestine. We already have before.) A conservative president would be trying to remove us from the UN altogether and pass laws that would prevent individual citizens from supporting Palestine or even speaking out about it. A conservative president would be adding more fuel to our burgeoning civil war and stripping more and more rights from women, people of color, queer people, and immigrants.

Biden is not good. He isn't. Pretending otherwise is foolishly optimistic at best. But he's better than Trump or any other conservative at all for that matter. And he's also proven that he can be pushed further left when votes are on the line and people are loud enough about it. Even if he wasn't, though, he's still allowing us the right to vote. Trump won't.

#u.s. politics #fuck trump #fuck biden #free palestine #vote blue

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