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deepseacityunderground · 6 months

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beginning to see american "if you dont vote for the blue warmongerers then you are personally responsible for the red warmongerers getting into power"

#it is so frustrating seeing americans play morals about what party is “harm reduction” when you know sure as hell #that both of them do the same shit #both parties destroy the stability and peace of global south nations for profit. both parties invest so much in global north countries #to encourage allyship and reliance so to never break that allyship. biden is FUNDING GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW.#both parties kill kids. both parties support modern day slavery. both parties pollute our earth and blame it on india and china #and (cus i know your average white american lib doesnt care about the rest of the world)#both parties make the usa a living hell for marginalized ppl. look at how badly indigenous and lgbt rights have been eroded over these 4 yr #look at what is happening at the us/mexico border. look at student loans. look at poverty.#they sat there and did nothing as roe vs wade was destroyed in front of their eyes.#its not harm reduction when both parties are doing the same harm but one of them is just being nicer about it #it is chickens voting for their butcher

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worstloki · 5 months

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Was kissinger a zionist or something?

Zionism was very much not the main thing he was known for

#National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under US Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford #millions killed in the global south #people are still affected by things he facilitated #Cambodia Vietnam Bangladesh Argentina #CIA overthrowing Chile’s was one #the list is pretty long #war crimes etc.#man lived to 100 #I suggest you look into it if you’re curious #briefly at least #Zionist sure but the rest...

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hussyknee · 6 months

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I have never felt this kind of bloodlust in my life.

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queersatanic · 2 years

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this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life. and it's april

The worst of the heat wave is expected late this week into this weekend with high temperatures approaching 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit (5-8 degrees Celsius) above normal across northern and northwestern India as well as parts of Pakistan. This region, including New Delhi, could endure temperatures in the mid to upper 40s Celsius -- which means temperatures over 110 and up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit are possible. And, unfortunately, this heat wont sleep. Little to no relief will come during the overnight hours as minimum temperatures will not dip below 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) in many areas. Prolonged periods of warm nights can prove deadly as they limit the body's ability to recover from daytime heat. This presents a major problem for India's population as a large portion lives without air conditioning, creating a life-threatening situation, particularly for the elderly.

#this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life #india #heatwave #pakistan #south asia #global warming #simpsons meme #worst day of my life #worst day of your life so far

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pandora-midnight · 2 months

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The vast majority of the left has repidly devolved into accelerationists, authoritarians, and sccelrationist authoritarians. Ideologies we used to all rightfully know are actually terrible praxis.

And the worst part is basically no one seems to care.

#my post: shadow #like holy shit #tankies are like half the left on this website suddenly #half of the rest are willing to platform and reblog from them because they post the right feeling things about one or two specific issues #or especially God forbid anyone from another country points #antisemitism has exploded #pro-facist and colonial powers worship had exploded as long as those powers didnt like the “west”#people literally willing to let the us and similar states devolve into right wing facism and leaders who have openly called for genocide so #to “teach” the liberals a lesson #or “jumo start the revolution”#like it's nuts #you all dont even understand actually leftist theory or beliefs #youve all immediately abandonded restorative and rehabilitative justice when you can get blood instead #youve abandoned any real sense of landback unless its able to be weaponized by white authrotatian commies #youve abanonded the global south except when their pawns for you #huge ranges if yall are literally compnaining about democracy being unethical #like wtf is wrong with you people #like you usamericans have a guy whos got a year plan to enact a nazis facist overtake of the country #and has openly discussed the like 6 different minorities he plans to start genociding day fucking one #and half of you are like “well the other guy isnt aggressive enough about ending shit he diesnt have power over #and so imma geasture in the nazis rather then spend 5 minutes voting to keep him out“#and then throw a bitch fot when anyone from your own backass country #points it out #you bitch about imperilism and America centrism and cultural imperialism #and that you demand and force activists and discussion in the rest of the world to use your specific qnd often specific to your issues view #of race #of ethnicity #culture and imperlism and indigenous and religion and everything else #even when it doesnt make sense #even when its actively harmful

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10000dandelions · 2 years

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queen elizabeth ii presided over the beginnings of the commonwealth (although it was her father who saw the establishment of the commonwealth), and perhaps her son & heir may preside over the sundering of the commonwealth.

after all, there's more than enough discontent over the actions of the british monarchy in every single commonwealth state (exacerbated, i suppose, by the actions of her descendants - i mean, what good is a monarch that can't control her own family?), and a lot of people are going to want to tell the uk to fuck off & head for independence & the destruction of the british empire asap. and the whole affair is definitely going to be rather bloody, especially in the global south - after all, history likes its meat rare, and you can't make an omelette w/o breaking some eggs.

(and for those of you in the usa: the colonialist mantle was taken over by you after the uk, let's not forget.)

bottom line, the ice is 100% going to crack, and even before "her majesty"'s death, many of the commonwealth's states were already like, fuck it, we’ll just go around you. (those states in the global south, especially india, as well as the pacific nations, are already being courted by... guess who? china. even over border tensions in india's case. and they're more than happy to go along.)

and now? when winter comes, britain's people will be forced to choose: charles iii's hot air, or actually heating their homes. their survival, or their monarchy. and the old guy is going to make them bleed.

and so the anglophone iron throne begins to crumble, just as people have finally begun to name and shame it; and just as its figureheads & creators slowly begin to die off.

tl;dr: a lot of shit will be going down even over the rest of this year, as well as the next few. climate collapse & new, more lethal waves of covid-19 are only going to encourage this, and for "great" britain there won't be any coming back from this - don't forget, they're not even trying.

#scotland #ireland #australia #new zealand #canada #fiji #india #jamaica #and all the rest of them in the global south... which i haven't even mentioned yet #don't forget malaysia and singapore too #auspo

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sab-teraa · 2 years

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Nothing annoys me more than A*mericans visiting a Global South country and talking about how cheap medical examinations are!! or how cheap housing is!! or how cheap food/entertainment is!! It seems cheap to YOU because our exchange rates are so weak. Majority of middle/low income individuals living in these Global South countries cannot comfortably afford these necessities.

#i just saw someone comparing how cheap and eye examination is in south africa #in comparision to the USA #and how the usa is such a bad country and how the rest of the world is so affordable but the USA is capitalistic and hates their people blah #like the usa has problems i agree #but comparing it against the global south is so dumb

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bebopsisyphus · 2 years

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All my simpathy to people in the US witnessing their rights and authonomy being revoked, truly. It sucks and seeing y'all protesting in the streets is inspiring. But jesus christ, there are too many non-american people who are talking about this as if it was the end of the world for them. Babes? Never seen you this angry about political developments happening in your own countries. What's up with that?

#it's starting to annoy me to see us news get so much repercussion #from people in the global south #the us is not more important than the rest of america wake up babe let's talk about us for a min #a 10 year old girl was prevented from aborting by a federal judge even though she'd been raped #here in brazil #if you didn't care about that but you care about roe v. wade being revoked take a look at your life and please realize you're not american

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girlcalledwhatsername · 3 months

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Harm reduction is about healthcare policies for people not about your elected representatives being imperialist and making matters worse for several colonised global south nations than they have ever been before, I hate how usamericans talk about the rest of the world I hate it sm I hate how they keep going to people of the global south demanding "well what can we do then" and then completely ignore the amount of people telling them they can organise, that it's not too late, that they have many many months to be putting pressure demanding a different candidate unless the genocides stop Not-Actively-Campaigning for the guy currently enacting the genocides, nope they just ignore all of that when they actually do get an answer and just go back to talking down to brown people like we're the idiots who don't understand politics here. I hate how your true colours show eventually, I hate how you're in such a hurry to secure "domestic policy" when people are telling you that such strong vocal support for Biden at this point hurts the chances of him stopping his genocidal actions right now in the present where it's happening

#I'm done showing solidarity with these westerners they never care to show it back do they?#sorry but the rest of us couldn't give a shit who you vote for ELEVEN months in the future who TF cares #the LEAST you can do is not actively vocally support and try to get others to support the current president #you are literally showing public support when you do that and it's disgusting to watch you do that #and then to argue with ppl from the global south (and even directly with palestinians on here) to try and prove you're in the right #or doing something good

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communistkenobi · 5 months

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I think it's good to highlight that the amount of money the US is spending to conduct a genocide in Palestine could instead easily be used to house every homeless person in america or socialize healthcare or cancel student debt, because this helps demonstrate to people how little the US government gives a shit about you, but even if the US cancelled its billions of dollars in aid to Israel right now and diverted all that money into creating a massive welfare state for every american, it would still be a horrifically evil imperial country. the mountain of wealth it rests on top of was produced by the process of settler colonialism and genocide and slavery - the US is a big reason why "the global south" exists as a geopolitical category at all - and hoarding these resources domestically would not suddenly make it a just state. I think it's important when making these arguments that our ultimate conclusion isn't that the US should just become a western european welfare state while leaving the current system of imperial inequality enact. that is not the road that will lead to a decolonized Palestine because decolonialism is not merely the absence of imperial aid, it is the destruction of the system that allows a country to extract, hoard, and then spend billions of dollars on missiles and tanks and guns to conduct genocide in the first place

#palestine

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homo-house · 6 months

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hey uh so I haven't seen anyone talking about this here yet, but

the amazon river, like the biggest river in the fucking world, in the middle of the amazon fucking rainforest, is currently going through its worst drought since the records began 121 years ago

picture from Folha PE

there's a lot going on but I haven't seen much international buzz around this like there was when the forest was on fire (maybe because it's harder to shift the narrative to blame brazil exclusively as if the rest of the world didn't have fault in this) so I wanted to bring this to tumblr's attention

I don't know too many details as I live in the other side of the country and we are suffering from the exact opposite (at least three cyclones this year, honestly have stopped counting - it's unusual for us to get hit by even one - floods, landslides, we have a death toll, people are losing everything to the water), but like, I as a brazilian have literally never seen pictures of the river like this before. every single city in the amazonas state is in a state of emergency as of november 1st.

pictures by Adriano Liziero (ig: geopanoramas)

we are used to seeing images of rio negro and solimões, the two main amazon river affluents, in all their grandiose and beauty and seeing these pictures is really fucking chilling. some of our news outlets are saying the solimões has turned to a sand desert... can you imagine this watery sight turning into a desert in the span of a year?

while down south we are seeing amounts of rain and hailstorms the likes of which our infrastructure is simply not built to deal with, up north people who have built everything around the river are at a loss of what to do.

the houses there that are built to float are just on the ground, people who depend on fishing for a living have to walk kilometers to find any fish that are still alive at all, the biodiversity there is at risk, and on an economic level it's hard to grasp how people from the northern states are getting by at all - the main means of transport for ANYTHING in that region is via the river water. this will impact the region for months to come. it doesnt make a lot of sense to build a lot of roads bc it's just better to use the waterway system, everything is built around or floats on the river after all. and like, the water level is so incomprehensibly low the boats are just STUCK. people are having a hard time getting from one place to another - keep in mind the widest parts of the river are over 10 km apart!!

this shit is really serious and i am trying not to think about it because we have a different kind of problem to worry about down south but it's really terrifying when I stop to think about it. you already know the climate crisis is real and the effects are beyond preventable now (we're past global warming, get used to calling it "global boiling"). we'll be switching strategies to damage control from now on and like, this is what it's come to.

I don't like to be alarmist but it's hard not to be alarmed. I'm sorry that I can't end this post with very clear intructions on how people overseas can help, there really isn't much to do except hope the water level rises soon, maybe pray if you believe in something. in that regard we just have to keep pressing for change at a global level; local conditions only would not, COULD NOT be causing this - the amazon river is a CONTINENTAL body of water, it spans across multiple countries. so my advice is spread the word, let your representatives know that you're worried and you want change towards sustainability, degrowth and reduced carbon emissions, support your local NGOs, maybe join a cause, I don't know? I recommend reading on ecological and feminist economics though

however, I know you can help the affected riverine families by donating to organizations dedicated to helping the region. keep in mind a single US dollar, pound or euro is worth over 5x more in our currency so anything you donate at all will certainly help those affected.

FAS - Sustainable Amazon Fundation

Idesam - Sustainable Developent and Preservation Institute of Amazonas

Greenpeace Brasil - I know Greenpeace isn't the best but they're one of the few options I can think of that have a bridge to the international world and they are helping directly

There are a lot of other smaller/local NGOs but I'm not sure how you could donate to them from overseas, I'll leave some of them here anyway:

Projeto Gari

Caritás Brasileira

If you know any other organizations please link them, I'll be sure to reblog though my reach isn't a lot

thank you so much for reading this to the end, don't feel obligated to share but please do if you can! even if you just read up to here it means a lot to me that someone out there knows

also as an afterthought, I wanted to expand on why I think this hasn't made big news yet: because unlike the case of the 2020 forest fires, other countries have to hold themselves accountable when looking at this situation. while in 2020 it was easier to pretend the fires were all our fault and people were talking about taking the amazon away from us like they wouldn't do much worse. global superpowers have no more forests to speak of so I guess they've been eyeing what latin america still has. so like this bit of the post is just to say if you're thinking of saying anything of the sort, maybe think of what your own country has done to contribute to this instead of blaming brazil exclusively and saying the amazon should be protected by force or whatever

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hussyknee · 9 months

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Does Ireland count as Global South, then? /genuine question

No?? It's no longer subject to England and has a per capita GDP higher than the UK's.

Western Europe and North America are the primary geo-political beneficiaries of the current economic and political world order.

#will admit that I don't know much about Northern Ireland though #I know it's pretty dire compared to the rest of the UK #but I can't imagine its any worse economically than the Mediterranean countries #I feel like Westerners of all races have a lot of trouble conceptualising the kind of poverty the rest of us are subject to #central europe isn't global south either before you ask #asks #anon #knee of huss

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jinnazah · 3 months

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seriously and i mean full offence, but if you were silent and complicit during this genocide, i hope you know no peace. i hope that if you actively ignored the BDS list because the blood of my people was less valuable than your shitty creature comforts (that were manufactured with the blood of the global south) i hope that one day, when these same corporations turn on you, or else the global south finally puts an end to their exploitation, i hope you live out the rest of your life in the same hollow, perpetually unsatisfied way.

i hope you never know a moment of real love and real happiness for the rest of your miserable, enduring existence; YOU, having robbed my people of their lives, so you could continue to avert your gaze and plug your ears in the hopes of avoiding the inconvenience of our cries, our pleas.

maybe the ICJ doesn’t win. maybe it’s another 75 years before palestine is completely and totally liberated and free, but palestine WILL be free. palestine will endure, as it always has, and know that we will remember you as cowards, and no amount of grovelling or apologizing will ever make up for the fact that you wholly believed your entitlement to comfort and ignorance was more important than our blood.

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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aristotels · 4 months

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ive started a shitstorm here and im still getting ppl in my inbox and notes absolutely missing the entire point of WHY knowing basic geography is important.

people calling me out for european imperialism are proving it by not even understanding the differences between western and eastern europe and the economic differences and exploitation or understanding what the fuck imperialism itself is and what constitutes it. yall keep arguing with a person from balkans about eurocentrism and this is why you should know where balkans are. i dont care about you knowing that zagreb is the croatian capital, its rly not important, the purpose of this entire discussion is understanding economic contexts of different countries

the actual purpose of this converstation is learning what imperial core is and how usamericans not trying to learn abt the countries theyre exploiting is harmful.

blue countries constitute the imperial core and hold monopoly over market, trade, education, military powers, etc. if you live in them you have some responsibilities. you affect the periphery and semi-periphery countries. your votes, your president, etc, affect them. you have a duty to know about the countries that your country opresses.

i also hope people read at least the wikipedia page on globalism if they wont read marx. and you can actually learn what the fuck global south is too

here's more information on imperial core countries and how that affects the rest. its a newer article, as opposed to the maps from 2000 and 2005.

im srsly done w this whole discussion and unless you want to discuss actual issues about exploitation and neocolonialism instead of asking me to name 50 usa states dont botheeeer im done

#reposting individually cuz propa was smart and disabled reblogs lol #txt

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zvaigzdelasas · 3 months

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ICJ has always been seen by many outside the west as just a western institution but if they don't rule in favor of South Africa here this will literally completely undermine their entire global legitimacy to the vast majority of the rest. In that case we're likely to see concrete parallel international court structures start being formed

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magz · 2 months

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The thing am want people to understand is:

The people that will see those unseriously worded and vague "stop treating motaz as your blorbo and stop canceling people for being problematic during a genocide" type posts,

and the reactions to those posts with outrage about woke people are "canceling" palestinians,

Those people seeing those posts aren't going to be the few yet loud callous "allies" making discourse that never truly supported palestinians.

Nor the people making bait trying to intentionally incite distrust in the Palestinian cause, that aren't allies but pose as ally. Or aren't even allies nor try to pretend to.

The people seeing it the most are going to be Sudanese people, and black allies to the Sudanese and Palestinians.

and whether intend to or not - those unserious worded posts and tweets, including when using same language as how u.s. conservatives and antiblack intellectuals talk about black people but in a leftist context -

Are a gateway into other posts having this obfuscated conversation with more expressly antiblack rhetoric surrounding the situation.

Serving to, in effect, steer away the conversation on Sudan and the original context. Make it about how global north people are so entitled, when black people in global south and Sudan are criticizing this. The way Sudanese aid is being redirected by Egypt, the perception of Sudanese being more "foreign" for being majorly black arab, how to boost Sudan plight - which am plan to steer this into.

But in only acknowledge the part of parasocial relations people have with Palestinian journalists where they don't take genocide seriously and are racist towards arabs in general, but not acknowledge the very common parasocial aspect where Sudanese girl criticizing Motaz would result in her getting harrassed and the proliferation of antiblackness - it shows how easy it is to fall for this stuff.

All it takes is a few people either not bothering to check the original context, or reacting to reactions. It doesn't necessarily require someone to have bad intentions nor "mean" to downplay antiblackness and the Sudanese. The effects will do the rest on social media. It is never about just 1 specific post, nor 1 specific person's intent.

Synonymizing "people criticizing Palestinians for legitimate concerns and supporting Sudanese ppl being exposed to discriminations big" with same group that "would abandon the Palestinian cause", in the people's consciousness. The conversations very premise was started wrong.

Yes, we can care about more things at once, but the framing is wrong.

Notice how some of the major Palestinian users on here are aware of this and chose not to do that for a reason.

[Note: am going to allow reblogs temporarily and then turn it off, so as to turn this into a more productive route after magz addressed these issues.]

#antiblack racism #racism #text post #o post #palestine

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