#but better than active genocide)

[v-arbellanaris]

you can & should be deeply suspicious of anyone trying to sell you the narrative that making posts or spreading information abt palestine and gaza is not doing anything or is not important, especially when it comes with the tagline that you're incredibly "misinformed" and don't understand the "history" of the subject. spreading information counteracts propaganda and misinformation campaigns.

the court of public opinion is not some abstract nonsense concept; public opinion in egypt being overwhelmingly pro-palestinian is giving its leaders pause when considering selling out to american promises of greater economic relationships in return for opening routes to permanently displace palestinians from their homeland (thus enabling and abetting genocide of palestinians). (btw american attempts to "secure" a safe route of exit for palestinians to egypt is not out of interest for palestinian safety, because israel refuses palestinians the right of return. this is america agreeing with israel - stay, and be killed, or give up your ancestral lands and home. IT IS COLONIALISM.)

so talk. keep talking. KEEP TALKING. bc you SHOULD be outraged that gazan children are being shelled to extinction, and have been for the past seventy five years. you should talk about the nakba. you should talk about how this is not about religion - christian Palestinians and jewish palestinians are being killed in droves. israel went so far as to shell areas where their own hostages are being kept - this is not about safeguarding israel. it is about land. it is about TAKING LAND from indigenous people. we are seeing, in real time, the violence of colonialism, and we should talk about it. we should RAGE. it is not acceptable, we cannot stay quiet. where colonialism happened before in silence, in isolation, the whole world is watching, and out unequivocal stance should be THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. THIS IS A WAR CRIME, THIS IS GENOCIDE, AND WE CONDEMN THOSE TAKING PART AND THOSE COMPLICIT. talk about it on social media, show up to protests, give money, talk, talk, talk. sitting in silence while people are being genocided is not some sign of intellectualism or superior understanding of a "nuanced" stance on the subject - it is COMPLICITY.

to clarify - idc what you do on tumblr dot com. this is not really a platform for activism or whatever but im specifically talking abt people on socmed who tell you staying silent is better than doing something “uninformed”. like express support for palestine without 'understanding the nuance'. there is no nuance. it's a genocide. we are witnessing genocide. people telling you that talking abt a 'complex issue' does nothing are LYING TO YOU. it is NOT complex. and talking and expressing your opinion as a member of the public DOES do something. that's why the first thing oppressive states take away is your right to protest and congregrate. DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE LIES.

#keep unfollowing me btw #i hope you die mad abt. i hope when you look back on this you are shamed by your silence. #to clarify - idc what you do on tumblr dot com #this is not really a platform for activism or whatever #but im specifically talking abt people on socmed who tell you staying silent is better than doing something “uninformed” #like express support for palestine without 'understanding the nuance' #there is no nuance. it's a genocide. we are witnessing genocide #people telling you that talking abt a 'complex issue' does nothing #are LYING TO YOU. #it is NOT complex. and talking and expressing your opinion as a member of the public DOES do something #that's why the first thing oppressive states take away is your right to protest and congregrate #DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE LIES.

[dkettchen]

Y'all the new mashle opening goes so hard

#the song is called bling-bang-bang-born by creepy nuts #mashle #mashle: magic and muscles #if you want a HP alternative I do recommend it - the worst thing abt it is the standard baseline anime misogyny #but as far as world-building and the implications thereof go #it is fundamentally better set up than HP and its blood lines matter elf slavery goblins run the banks nonsense #we are actively questionning and fighting the status quo and genocide over here and the protag is of the affected group #and showing up all the elitist asshats #we love to see it

[gorillawithautism]

people need to stop arguing with palestinians on tumblr dot com

#swingset #ESPECIALLY with my mutuals #my mutuals are always right and have never been wrong so shut up please #but in all seriousness #palestinians are already going through enough and they're still going out of their way to spread information #to translate posts into english #to discuss antizionist theory as well as the active genocide of their people #and you think you have the right to argue with them??? #they're all human and that means they're imperfect and they're not above being wrong sometimes #but they know more about this than you do. they're much less likely to be wrong about it than you are #and there are better ways to go about that kind of discussion (such as: asking genuine questions #expressing confusion and asking how they got to the conclusion that theyre expressing #literally anything else that's kind and gentle and doesn't position yourself as above them) #you're not better than them. know your place. #have some respect for fucks sake

[howldean]

welcome to single-issue voting you’ve come to understand what single-issue voting is

#SHOW ME SOMEONE BETTER THAN BIDEN AND WE WILL TALK. SOMEONE MORE VIABLE. #trump will make things worse. and that does count for something. #and it IS okay to say as a transgender person in the us with strong understanding of how genocide is perpetuated and set up i CAN in fact #effectively say that it is HIGHLY LIKELY that we would reach an extermination stage under trump and instigated by him. #and it is not selfish to say that LESS GENOCIDE IS BETTER THAN MORE GENOCIDE and that trump could damn well make things worse there as well #and has a track record of support for israel and so it DOES matter. it DOES. and refusing to acknowledge that is turning on your peers #and saying that it is wrong to put our mask on first while advocating for our siblings everywhere is not wrong. and it IS how the most #effective activism is sustained and accomplished. we are no use to you dead #and yes. yes it is that scary. i live in fucking california and it is that scary even here. it is not safe and it will get worse #also don’t tell me to kill myself grow the fuck up. and don’t say you speak for all people of color cause you sure as fuck do Not

[gaesnek]

Okay originally i was meh about the Palestinian genocide by israel (though i didn't call it that at the time) saying that both sides were kinda shitty because one side is a terrorist organization and the other is a recognized terrorist organization but hearing about the gaza internet/communications blackout and actually seeing pictures of the bombings i'd like to remind everyone that if I see you show even the slightest complacency or support for israel I will be coming to your house and hitting you over the head with a metal bat

#and i'm usually not a violent person #99% of the time i'm all bark and no bite #but this time #I am fully prepared to punch someone and face the punishment for it #I would not be surprised if the bombings turn into firing squads and then into gas chambers #the altright have at least a thin veil in front of their fascism which doesn't make it any better but its better than directly bombing civs #but this #this is direct genocide #step 9 #the us is still on step 8 #(which again #still a problem #but better than active genocide) #israel #palestine #gaza strip #gaza #israel genocide #palestinian genocide

[fujianvenator]

im so serious if any of you put some vote blue no matter who uwu shit on my dash im breaking mutuals bidens office has publicly stated that they are Not withdrawing support for israel despite the literal fucking blackout they just put gaza in. biden publicly doubted the death toll published by the PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY. american foreign policy has real fucking consequences even if you personally dont see it from fucking chicago or california or whatever. even ignoring how fucking awful genocide joe is abt palestine, look at how much shit has gotten worse during his time in office. the repeal of roe v wade. the borders have gotten worse. his lax stance on covid policy is leading to thousands of deaths per day. still no student loan forgiveness. all these anti lgbt laws are being passed while Hes in office and everyones acting like he has no fucking power over any of it despite being the literal president like OPEN YOUR EYES

#vic.txt #he is ACTIVELY COMPLICIT IN A LITERAL FUCKING GENOCIDE #“hes better than the republicans” BY WHAT FUCKING METRIC? BECAUSE HE DOESNT OUTWARDLY SAY RACIST THINGS? LOOK AT WHAT HIS FUCKING #FOREIGN POLICY IS FUCKING DOING #HE IS ACTIVELY SIPHONING AMERICAN TAXPAYERS MONEY TO DROP BOMBS ON CHILDREN #GET A GRIP

[badolmen]

In high school one of our history classes (I think it was APUSH - Godspeed Mr. S) had us do an activity. We broke into groups and got a word bank full of infrastructure, institutions, and political buildings. We were supposed to rank them in what order we thought would be most effective to destroy military opposition. I don’t remember which group won (by having the most similar ranking to reflect whatever war we were studying at the time) or what my group ended up choosing for our ranking.

But I do distinctly remember looking at civilian hospitals, civilian homes, civilian schools and discussing them as targets with my group members. “good targets if we need to destroy morale” versus “we’re not invading, we’re just going after military targets.”

“If we were invading or trying to wipe them out, they’d be a priority - we would need to destroy places of community, places where safety is assumed.”

I’ve been thinking about that discussion a lot lately.

#ra speaks #personal #current events #I get it I’m coming from a place of privilege that as teens we could sit around and talk abt these things in a disconnected manner #but I do think it’s helped me understand the horror of what’s happening now #idk man it’s just. jfc how can anyone with a single braincell of military strategy look at what’s happening #and NOT call it a genocide??? #how did a bunch of hick town high school kids have a better grasp on the effects and intent of attacking civilian establishments #than elected gov officials? (they didn’t. the gov officials just don’t care or actively want this to happen.)

[kamigoot]

For what it's worth, I think we should riot more

I think the us government forgets that the people it oppresses outnumber them and maybe we should remind them what outrage looks like

#a joke for legal reasons #in minecraft #and im not talking like sedition stuff in minecraft #i just think that the government is actively neglecting its most vunerable people and should be held accountable #the government has proven time and time again that it doesn't want to take peaceful protests and petitions seriously in minecraft #i want this country to do and be better #not *gestures to everything all the time* this #and im tired of bottling up my political fury #like yes i try to be a nice kind softboi all the time #but sometimes the anger bottle pops its fucking cork #and im tired!!!! of being mad at this fucking oligarchy wearing the flayed desiccated skin of a democracy!!!! #why should i pay taxes to a country thats more ok with sending “aide” to a country actively doing genocide #than it is with feeding and sheltering the starving and homeless??? #like hello?????!?!? #how dare kameron bambron have political opinions and scream them into the void #how fucking dare he #politics #political opinion

[sk3l3t0n444]

wow i havent cried at transphobia in like forever...

#someone called transgenderism “a contagious delusion” #like mf what #like mf try being so unhappy with your life but theres one simple thing that could make your life 10x better but people will refuse to do it #and will actively go out of their way to try an find a different way to make you happy when all it takes is someone calling me a boy #im more of a man than those shitheads ever will be because how they define a man is strong and resilient and ive been stornger than those #whining and complaining assholes #they said that being trans is an attack on women GUESS WHAT YOU TREAT BOTH OF THEM HORRIBLY #UNTIL YOU GIVE IN AND USE ONE TO HURT THE OTHERS #eventually they will have nobody to attack and they will turn on the women and everybody else they recruit #their fake inclusion just will lead to genocide and im just so fucking tired of having to cater to some assholes who fucking hate me

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#LMAO #ACTIVELY AIDING+ABETTING GENOCIDE&THERE ARE STILL FUCKS GEARING UP FOR VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO LMAO #anyone-- ANYONE-- who tries to lecture me about voting is getting a fucking bat to the skull this year. #fucking evil little gremlins. every single fucking one of these vote-pushing fucking clowns. #it was uneducated&frankly fucking LAZY before to have the only fucking thing these ppl do be screaming at ppl online-- &ONLY online-- #about how much better they are for their enlightened view that voting is def going to save us all. #after what we have seen&are STILL seeing its cartoonishly fucking evil to keep up w the bullshit rhetoric #&i Do Not think any singular one of these fucks is better than a trump supporter. #both are old evil white men-- fucking disgracefully enough only ONE has legacy supporting fucking genocide. #as far as i can tell the two are the fucking same&so are all their idiot supporters.

[heartburstings]

i saw a post a while ago about how it's Okay to Ignore Palestine Posts because of mental health and how internet is escapism and blah blah blah. and it's like, okay. sure. mental health is important, but somehow i feel this is actually willful ignorance wrapped up in pretty language to feel more comfortable and justified in staying comfortable.

gonna copypaste some notes i took a while ago, bc it resonated w me and i feel is relevant to this kind of behavior, so i hope it resonates with u as well:

"The experience of being abandoned by humanity and then not being heard occurs when stories of resilience takes precedence over tales of inhumanity."

"Our responsibility is to change our narrative or 'internal working model'; to recognize vulnerability and revision a way to sensitize ourselves to hardship that our own coping and privileged experience allow us to avoid."

"And basically what that means is when we think about the stories of others, when we hear things that we don't necessarily like to hear, we have a choice. We go with it, we move forward in it, and we continue to in some ways enter the people's lives with whom we work, or we retreat. We go back to our privilege, and we think about their stories as something that we're not able to relate to or connect with."

#wynn speaks #wanted to get that out of me. the ''if you don't like graffiti then just look away like you do for human suffering...'' pic got to me. #some ppl are rly out here treating news of genocide and activism like unwanted graffiti on their dashboard. #sorry it makes u feel unsafe and clutters up ur clean safe environment. sorry to remind u that u have a responsibility to other people. #the way to deal with that is not to ignore it tho it is to help do something to the best of ur abilities. btw. #u can still prioritize ur mental health w/o ignoring atrocities. doing what you can-- #such as boosting palestinian voices for example. which is as easy as reading a post or an article and hitting rb. or just reading up. #--will always be better than just. doing nothing and looking away. #respectfully speaking. putting this nicely. u are capable of doing at least the bare minimum of solidarity n support. #you're uncomfortable? you're distressed? that's normal! so do something about it! get with it!!! #<- this is a general 'you' btw. not directed at anyone specific. #i just wanted to get this damn thing out of my system so i can. have more space in my brain for other things.

[zickmonkey]

Decided to start working on cancerbook again but I think I lost all of my Tommy research :(

#It might be in my folder #I hope it's in my folder #Because believe it or not I don't really want to redo the research #I kind of forgot that I was actively at Rainey talking about her #The fake medicine of canon is so much easier #My canon not cancerbook canon #Do you think John Green called the fault in our stars cancer book at first? #Or do we think John Green is a better person than I? #(certain genocide related qualities aside) (BOO John and Hank Green) #Cancer book has a title btw #but cancer book is so much easier than We Weren't The Lucky Ones #jamie shut the fuck up #personal blog #just vibing #rambling #books #writing

[gibbearish]

ive always had issues with the term "terminally online" mostly because of how it swiftly devolved to just mean "anyone online i disagree with", however recently it did finally click for me when someone messaged me about my aaron bushnell posts and ended it with "yeah idk i just think it would've done more good for him to stay alive and donate to esims for gaza" bc i just. like. where do you even start with that. like that to me is an opinion that cannot come from anywhere other than having your entire frame of reference for activism and the united states military be gathered online. you really think someone who thought they had to /kill themselves/ to avoid /active contributions to genocide/ would've done more good just. keeping their head down and doing what they were told and throwing a spare couple dollars at the esims fund? do you think you know more about the harm he was helping do than he did, that you can speculate on how best to outweigh it? do you think if "donate to esims" was actually a more productive option he wouldnt have picked that before SELF IMMOLATION???? and like ive since blocked that person because of some other issues but. it took quite literally everything in me not to say anything about it in the moment

#origibberish #and like obv donating is helpful but like. idk it just struck me as immensely presumptuous and just. so far disconnected from the actual #issue that i just sat there staring at the message box for like 30 seconds before i tried to start responding #also this absolutely isnt to say that suicide was the best option #its to say when you know nothing about a person except that they thought they were doing so much harm that #suicide was the only way to stop it. it strikes me as pretty fuckin weird to assume you know more about how he couldve done better #and like i can see how they got there‚ donating to esims is pretty much all /we/ can do to help so i can see that sinking in as like #a requirement? but idk #at a certain point you have to ackowledge that that kind of thing is like. the online help. thats the help you do if you have no way to #directly effect things. it's helpful but it's also a way to let people /feel/ like theyre helping‚ to feel less helpless abt it #it's the barest minimum assistance a completely uninvolved person can give. it is not a magical end genocide spell where #if enough people do it that WILL fix things #like. it's just the airbag. the crash is still happening. having more airbags won't stop the crash and you're yelling at the driver for #choosing to jump out of the flaming wreckage rather than buy more airbags #like. it's the barest minimum. therefore i really dont think it wouldve outweighed an active contributor continuing to contribute. #and like i know nothing about his position or what those contributions mightve been but thats my point is that #i know nothing except that /he/ thought it was bad enough that it was worth doing this #and then i ask myself how bad something i was being made to do would have to be for me to take that route out #and i go 'wow yeah it was probably pretty fuckin bad' #idk. idk what my point in posting this really is except that its been weighing on my mind since the convo #i feel like part of it too is like. a reaction to the weird glorification of him #like some peoples reaction has been 'wow what a hero' and so people are rushing to go 'no suicide is never heroic its always bad' and im #just like. hey. maybe we shouldnt assign a moral value in either direction to deciding not to be alive anymore. #maybe deciding not to live should be considered an entirely personal decision given that the person it effects #most is that fucking person. maybe we need a refresher course on how bodily autonomy also includes things #you personally disagree with and that self harm and suicide are not exempt from that. #because like saying 'suicide is Bad And Evil' doesnt make suicidal people Less Suicidal #it just makes them feel even worse about themselves for something they dont have control over #and conversely ive seen posts being like 'im suicidal and this glorification of him almost made me commit‚ you people #almost killed me' and im like. no u dont get to say that‚ if this is effecting ur mental health its ur responsibility to log off

[ottitty]

"Voting for biden is damage control" there are literally candidates on the ballot who dont support throwing USAmerican money that could go towards, idk, helping people not starve and die? Towards Israel's genocidal tirade

#like it sucks that theyre more interested about our people than the active genocide happening rn #free palestine first and foremost #but if were talking damage control lets not put a president who actively supports genocide and cant get jack shit done in power #when theres better options #politics /

[cinematicbookworm]

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#you know what I don’t get all these people saying they don’t wanna vote cause it supports an admin that supports genocide like what do they #think not voting is gonna do it’s also going to support genocide like unfortunately those of us who live in America live under a two party #system not all not voting this cycle is gonna do or even voting third party at the presidential level is gonna do is gonna place the #balance in favor of the republicans that’s how this works the only way it doesn’t is if you were somehow able to get a different voting #system in place by next year and that’s not happening obviously no genocide is better than any genocide but the argument that somehow there #will be less genocide if you don’t vote is baffling to me like you realize the republicans are literally running on a platform of genocide #like they want to genocide people here as well as people over there and all I’m seeing is people complaining that Biden supports genocide #like you think the other option doesn’t why would you actively advocate for making it harder to stop the genocide over there by allowing #the party who wants to take your right away to even protest the genocide an easier time getting into office #it makes no sense to me like did you not have any form of gov class in your states and if you went to college did you not take any gov #or political science classes or is your only learning on the political system made up entirely of tweets and tumblr posts by angry people #cause if it’s the second option please I beg of you to actually educate your self on how things work and then maybe go and try to actually #make a change realize that you have to grit and bear the untasteful shit in the short term I order to make changes in the long term learn #like you want a revolution learn about the consequences don’t assume it’s gonna be a cake walk get out in your community and make a change #actively go and put the effort in cause if your not doing that and you don’t vote this upcoming cycle then I have news for you you do not #the moral high ground in this argument you just don’t instead your just an appothetic idiot who doesn’t actually care #not voting is what republicans want you to do it makes it easy for them not voting is not a protest in this country it’s conceding the #fight it’s giving up all of you who say you want to punch those of us who want to actually be able to make a change slowly instead of #violently rising up you are either ignorant or malicious you and the people you claim to care about would likely not survive that act there #y’all are angry I get that I’m angry too but impotently calling for people to abandon the process makes no sense like do you want the more #genocide genuinely do you cause that’s what is going to happen not less why must the answer be all or none unfortunately none is not #currently a reality that we can get with a single election but it is something this election can move towards I am begging y’all to #actually study history and loom at what has happened pretty much every time a country has had people protest by not voting every time the #people who were the worse option got voted in the world is not black and white sometimes you have to make a decision that you don’t like so #that you can position yourself to make the actions for the greater good it’s sucks I wish it wasn’t like that but it is and y’all need to #wake the fuck up put on your adult pants and do the fucking work to change instead of fucking giving up and doing nothing

[zoramones]

hey y’all! so sorry i haven’t been active in the past few days, it’s just been a rough few weeks lately. please know that i am not staying silent about palestine and all the other terrible things happening in the world right now. i’ve spent the last few days collecting resources and storing them in my drafts. more info on about palestine and how to help will be posted soon! <33

#heyo it’s zo! #zo’s info #🇵🇸🍉 #palestine #gaza strip #palestine resources #it’s been a rough little while #but i will be more active once the christmas break comes around #i love y’all #<333 #keep talking about palestine #expose israel #free palestine #get educated on what’s happening in gaza #doing what you can is better than doing nothing at all!! #hold this facist ethnostate accountable #this isn’t a war it’s a genocide #israel is a terrorist state #our voices cannot go quiet #the people need our help #no one is free until we are all free #zo ✬ #zoramones