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bereft-of-frogs · 2 years

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Ngl the main reason I finally deleted TikTok wasn’t just because of the time suck and how it was ruining my attention span or making me feel shitty about myself/everything

But because I saw possibly the worst take to date on Ukraine and that was just the straw of stupidity that broke the camels back

It has been haunting me for two days

#I just hate how social media has convinced everyone they’re experts #god this guy was so stupid #I also hate these ‘intellectuals’ who know absolutely nothing about Eastern European history #or geopolitics in general #being like wow im so right about everything #I’m being so ~anti imperial~ by saying that ukraine should have instantly surrendered to russia #because imperialism good when russia do it?#I mean it was really just a new iteration of the ‘ukraine only hates russia because the us made them’ russian propaganda #because….they’d have no other reason to hate russia???#maybe like…skim the Wikipedia article first #like 5 minutes bare minimum before commenting #better yet just don’t comment #anyway hopefully this has exorcised the post from my brain #current events cw

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workersolidarity · 6 months

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🇺🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱🚨 ⚠️UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES RESOLUTION DEMANDING CEASEFIRE IN GAZA⚠️

The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution today demanding an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip.

The resolution passed with resounding support, with 153 Nations voting in favor, 10 nations voting against, and 23 abstentions.

The resolution demands an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire", the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and "ensuring humanitarian access", according to the United Nations General Assembly newsroom.

The resolution also reiterated the General Assembly's demand that all parties comply with their obligations under International Law, including Humanitarian Law, "notably with regard to the protection of civilians."

According to the UN newsroom, prior to the ceasefire resolution vote, two amendments making specific reference to Hamas were voted down by the Assembly.

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azuremallone · 15 days

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Azure's Newsflash Breakdown!

There were a fleet of helicopters flying in formation. OK. The one with the "President" and their "Foreign Minister" went down hard in a treacherous mountainside valley. Got it. No one in the formation knows or remembers where it went down and didn't bother to stick around or try to land nearby, and didn't even mark it on a map or send their coordinates...

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satellite-blossom · 24 days

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I'm going to say something that's probably going to get misinterpreted but it's not because you're black that you can't have US-centric beliefs. It's not just a white person thing. At one point you'll have to acknowledge that there's a multitude of black experiences that don't align with Afro-Americans' or even British black people's, because yes, there are other countries in the world than the USA or the UK.

I see a lot of "very bad takes" on certain issues on this site, for a lack of a better word, and their main issue (beyond the condescending tone they're written in) is their blatant US-centrism, which is particularly irritating when it's coming from people who beg others to "listen to diverse voices" and "educate themselves" while they themselves can't even acknowledge realities outside of North America. Being Afro-American doesn't guarantee you don't have US American mindsets to unlearn.

#And before anyone comes at me let it be known I am black myself #Black & French but also half Senegalese because of my bio mom #And my father has complicated origins because of geopolitical issues #But his parents were Togolese for one and Beninese for the other #I have relatives who live in various countries‚ from the Ivory Coast to Canada and we talk a lot #So while I cannot pretend I know everything about the ❝black experience❞ I know enough to know #that Afro-American's experience of blackness isn't universal and it's really fucking annoying when people claim it is #So much for generalizing what ❝blackness❞ to claim to have moral superiority compared to the average Tumblr user #yet being unable to even talk about La Négritude #❝Learn black history !❞ ❝Listen to black voices !❞ but focus on the USA and perhaps Canada #and never consider experiences from other places that differ from what Americans already know #That's how these guys sound like and it's INFURIATING #berry rambles #angry rant

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wild-at-mind · 3 months

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I feel like tags like these were inevitable on the post about people traumatising themselves for the greater good or w/e... There is SO much emphasis on posting on tumblr and other social media being so important and so useful and we must never stop. But I would like to counterargue with the idea that posting on social media (especially tumblr) constantly does very little/nothing. If that was true then the point here becomes meaningless.

#i guess i must be broken according to this person because i don't seem to feel emotions the way they feel helps palestine #activists in palestine are also calling for a general strike where no one goes to work and that has yet to materialise in a meaningful way #because people keep watering it down by saying 'oh it's ok just post constantly/about nothing else than palestine on social media'#yeah awesome great- look i'm sure there are people in palestine saying get the word out about our suffering etc #but they are also calling for more meaningful symbolic gestures like strikes which as far as I know no western country has delivered #because that would take a lot of organising and much less guilt tripping and people spending all their time posting #and comfort always comes up- comfort and discomfort- what even is comfort?#is feeling ok in your own mind an insult to palestine?#are there people losing everything in wars feeling better because someone in the west feels really really bad about their pain?#like sorry to be facetious but what on earth does any of this rhetoric accomplish #i spent years thinking like this and it made me so sick and now i'm better i am DONE with it- i cannot go back to this thinking #i can only live if i bend away from this kind of thinking like a plant to light- and i want to help others but people just won't stop #please- post on social media if you like. it doesn't help anyone to view the depths of their pain and feel bad #it is better to look towards hope a ceasefire and a resolution and end to the killing of palestinians for good #that can happen!!!#i think avoiding misinformation and dehumanising rhetoric about either side is also very important #i fully believe you can only understand geopolitics and war if you see everyone as human

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terriblelizbians · 1 year

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recently had a conversation with my friends that got me thinking about how very differently other people with similar political views to me feel about, like, patriotism? and, i guess, national identity? so i'm curious to see where others fall on this subject. i had to open tumblr on my computer for this. imagine.

some definitions/explanations:

"i love my country" = i feel some amount of loyalty or love to some broad idea of My Country and its symbols, not just the people in it; i am, to some degree, patriotic, even if i don't use that word to describe myself

"i'm neutral/apathetic about my country" = i have no sense of patriotic attachment to the idea of My Country and its symbols at all; possibly i don't have a strong sense of My Country as anything other than a physical location or governmental body

"i hate my country" = i feel strongly negative about the idea of My Country and its symbols, regardless of what i feel about the people in it; i have a sense of some greater identity or meaning to a Country than mere geography or government, and i think that identity/meaning is actively bad

"my country" = whatever you consider to be Yours. that might be where you physically reside, but it doesn't have to be, for example if you have a stronger connection to a different place and prefer to answer in regards to that country. but specifically this is about national identity and not cultural/ethnic/etc identity (although depending on your country those may overlap)

i put separate options for usamericans and everyone else because... well... i feel like there's an image of americans having a very specific relationship to patriotism and i wanted to see it separately

#polls #there is simply nothing i can tag this with that won't expose me to parts of tumblr i really don't want to interact with so i will just hav #to hope that people reblog this i guess #possibly screwing myself over by putting an essay of explanation at the end but i hate the thought of being ever ever misunderstood so. wel #anyway guess i will queue this up for when it is NOT almost 3 in the morning EST #sorry if this is weird or annoying. i just am very curious.#and as to my answer. i am a hater personally. sometimes i will border on apathetic if i haven't seen any patriotism in a while #but also i don't believe that countries should exist like. generally. as a geopolitical structure. and i think of that as separate from #The Country as a national identity but maybe those two beliefs aren't as separate in me as i think...

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seaofolives · 5 months

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9 people I'd like to know better

thank you for tagging me @cheer-me-up-scotty! everyone pls do this 💖

Last movie: oddly enough, it's as good as it gets. we caught it on TV and we just stayed bc there was nothing else good lmao

Sweet/spicy/savoury: it largely depends on the dish and the craving (e.g. not a huge fan of sweet spaghetti but I love milk tea with brown sugar pearls) so I'm just gonna say yes

Relationship status: happily aroace

Last thing I googled: a medical condition my cousin is suffering from :(

Current obsession: it's still gundam witch! my comfort son guel you will always be famous 😌❤️ but yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern has been rotating in my head like a chicken since episode 1

Last song: oh god speaking of

1. it's the ed theme of bravern

2. yes that's also guel jeturk singing

3. it's a bit of a bang brave banger isn't it?

4. now imagine you're listening to it for the first time while watching this

#liv is typing #honestly g witch and bravern is a p good spectrum of the kind of animes I like to watch #on one end we have smth serious that talks about relatable geopolitics and generational trauma (g witch)#on the other here's smth extremely unapologetically tongue-in-cheek (bravern)#(but there are several in-betweens yes)#Spotify

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mantisgodsdomain · 5 months

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Since we've been working on Timelines tonight we wanna note that it's occasionally, like, really funny to look at any confident claims about age we make, because we're really prone to moving dates around between even stories that don't incorporate a major AU and sometimes shuffling dates around means that information will be inconsistent anyways which occasionally results in situations where people will say information that they learned from our other fics and try to apply it to new fics but nope! That's incorrect! You've been deceived by assuming that character information still remains consistent between works.

#we speak #wereweevil vi is 19 and selkie vi is 17 and vi's like the only person who EVER has exact age as being Relevant #and even then it RARELY matters enough to actually be defined we usually just float her in a vague like. “it's around here” fog #the same way we do with every other character #generally broader worldbuilding info stays consistent between works bc we dont wanna rework All Of Geopolitics every fic #but character details? ages? even ballpark ages? yeah we swap those around so fucking often #if you want to know how old any of these freaks are youre Out Of Luck. all you get is “its up there”

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nonstandardrepertoire · 6 months

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today in "continuing adventures reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories": there's this one story that was published in 1904 where Holmes is called in to help with an International Diplomatic Incident involving an ill-advised letter from a hot-headed European ruler. if Holmes doesn't solve the case, Doyle writes that it could lead to a "great war" between European countries. he then goes on to explain the general geopolitical state of Europe and Britain's status as a country that could entirely rearrange the power structure of the continent except they like to remain neutral mostly . . . in a way that more or less neatly describes the geopolitical calculations of the July Crisis that would lead to World War 1 ten years later. the estimation that such a war could lead to hundreds of thousands dead is off (the total death toll for WW1 is around 40,000,000), but it's still very eerily prescient to read at this remove. a catastrophic disaster hanging over all their heads being foretold in a trashy throwaway mystery story ten years in advance

#this is just a high-stakes political thing that *could* happen but is hypothetical enough that it can just be #a plot device in this popular fiction story i'm writing #i mean also obviously what is going on here is that the geopolitics of Europe weren't. uh. subtle to people in Europe #WW1 was causally overdetermined and it would be *much weirder* if no one had picked up on any of it #but still to see it go from #to “this is a massive generational trauma that fundamentally changed the geopolitics of Europe”#is uh. is still a lot #Sherlock Holmes #life imitates art

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workersolidarity · 23 days

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UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSES RESOLUTION TO REEVALUATE PALESTINE UN MEMBERSHIP BID

The United Nations General Assembly passed on Friday a resolution calling for the reevaluation of Palestine's bid for membership to the General Assembly, and to grant the State of Palestine additional rights.

The resolution, which was drafted and pushed by the United Arab Emirates, co-sponsored by Turkiye, and signed onto by an additional 80 nations, was passed and adopted by an overwhelming majority of 143 member-states voting in favor, with just 9 countries voting against the resolution, and another 25 abstentions.

Further, the adopted resolution lamented the previous veto by the United States of a resolution calling for Palestinian membership, voted on in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), while calling for the preservation of Justice and respect for Palestinians' fundamental human rights.

The resolution emphasized the importance of respecting the territorial integrity of the occupied Palestinian territories and East Jerusalem, pointing out that Palestine is "qualified for membership in the United Nations" in accordance with UN Charter of Article 4. It also urged the UNSC to reconsider Palestine's membership bid "favorably."

Previously, in 2011, the State of Palestine applied for full membership at the United Nations, but could not gather enough support to pass a resolution in its favor, only receiving "permanent observer status" as of 2012.

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totaleclipseshadow · 11 months

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#france riots #government and politics #current events #geopolitics #general news #freedom of speech #ukraine conflict #latest news #global politics #politics

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meowmeowmessi · 1 year

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I’m actually very stressed rn idk what but something very DUBIOUS is going to happen. I don’t trust Barcelona after what they did last time and what they might still do. And I know Leo will keep trying to push it bc of Antonella and the kids.

tbh something dubious is always happening behind the scenes at barça. it's ze history of the futbol club bassalona (seriously. just read up on their history). fans see the romantics of a last dance, but the club as well as the league plan on piggybacking off him, so he's going to be a bit of a tool and he honestly can't do anything abt it. maybe xavi sees this too. maybe that's why he said it all depends on him: is he willing to sacrifice his comfort and deal with the politicking just to play for barça again?

#there was a theory going around that in 2021 the reason why laporta told messi at the very last minute that they couldn't extend him #was for the very purpose of ensuring he wouldn't be able to move to the PL #bc ppl don't realize but messi holds a /lot/ of power. both financially and just his public image in general #some theorize laliga (and tebas) didn't want the EPL to get their hands on that #messi's transfer has a lot to do with geopolitics too. a player like him is bound by some very unfortunate circumstances #so i perfectly understand why he's feeling so damn anxious abt this whole thing #this is another reason why i wanted him to go with pep as far back as 2020. bc he could've saved him from all this headache #but that's not happening and i've surrendered myself to this fact #asks

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oscartwofoxtrot · 1 year

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Dude I relate to your bio so hard. Sometimes I’m like ‘why does nobody talk about this show wtf!!’ and then I remember that the show came out 15 years ago and the events happened literally 20 years ago in march lmao

So yeah it’s definitely a product of its time and obv won’t be as relevant anymore today, but I only watched it for the first time a few months ago and I’m still depressed over the end scene with Johnny cash playing :(

#asks #real talk though i think it’s pretty wild that there’s still a fandom for this at all considering it’s a 7-ep miniseries from 15 years ago #that’s dedication babes!#also god help me i’m going to be serious for a second:#i personally think generation kill is as relevant as it’s ever been if not more so #it behooves the us and its allies to be able to call oopsie-doodles and just forget about the whole thing #because that way they never have to truly reckon with the damage they’ve done #20 years isn’t even very long ago geopolitically speaking. these events still have a material impact on people today #(that’s not a dunk on you anon it just goes to show how disconnected we (read: westerners) are from the consequences of our own wars)#gen kill is by no means perfect but it functions as a pretty good reminder that hey! this shit actually happened! and it was Fucked!#but anyway yeah. rant over. garfield meme be upon ye or whatever

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safije · 2 years

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I'm still confused why some(one) was so bothered that I post about Afghanistan as a non-Afghan. I assume if you're Afghan you'd appreciate that someone is sharing another side of your country that isn't just war and poverty. I guess not.

#And it's not like I only post about Afghanistan either lol #I'm interested in cultures and geopolitics in general

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necromancer-mango · 2 years

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been feeling some kind of way since attending one of the local conventions around here, there was a lot more anime stuff than before which was neat and some of the panels were interesting but attending them seeing all white panelists talking about nuanced subject matters sure is huh.

#also saw a booth where some white ppl were selling asian snacks to ppl #and u could get an entire roll cake at a local bakery or supermarket and smuggle it in with ur friends and it would probably be cheaper #but also like idk #they were panels about sexuality and gender which was cool to see but hearing ppl #with like a very eh grasp on imperialism and geopolitics talk about japan was ehhhh #idk idk i just felt really weird while looking around #theres probably a lot you could talk about b/c lot of these ppl were commenting on asian media becoming more popular in the states but #its a lot of white ppl talking abt this while calling korean and chinese animation anime while offhandedly mentioning the rest of asia #and its like on one hand yes this is very much a thing a lot of it is the utilization of soft power to export a certain image #and then on top of it when they talk about chinese media becoming more popular ppl are still very sinophobic???#not to mention its a lot of pale thin able-bodied han chinese ppl and white ppl miss a lot of the racism #directed at central/western/south/southeast asians within said media #b/c they dont know what it looks like and they have a very general grasp of our identities #hmhmgmgmg

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didanawisgi · 2 years

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#Covid-19 #geopolitics #fifth generational warfare #china #CCP #cdc #fda #government #hhs #Covid-19 vaccine #robert malone

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