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ironically i am working right now so i can’t do a full post on this like i would really prefer to do… but these are the most cartoonishly evil people that you could possibly imagine, even in a society as flawed as the one we’ve built for ourselves. these are bedrock groups devoted to protecting the american worker and consumer. massive huge giant waving red flags 🚩

i am telling you this is going to snowball into something nobody wants to see. the only upside is that this might actually lead to a worker uprising. this is fucking ghoulish.

BEST QUEER MEDIA TOURNAMENT FINAL ROUND!!!!!

[ propaganda masterpost]

Checking out Zionist blogs and they're still passing around the copium among themselves in their lil circlejerk of genocide supporters

From AL Shifa Hospital earlier: The little boy is screaming:

"I'm scared, I swear I'm scared I wanna go...."

This is too much for a child to experience.

His screams would never leave my mind, ever.

The Wall Street Journal reporter goes on to state that he had personally investigated the 40 beheaded babies story by going to Kfar Aza and found it to be untrue.

And then he and his colleague kept silent. They didn't debunk the story, even after Biden lied about seeing the photos.

Anywhere between 33,000 and 50,000 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF since October 7th

white gays need to read up on pinkwashing and homonationalism before ever even thinking about opening their mouths talking about homophobia/transphobia in the global south

why are you so obsessed with a country's laws regarding lgbt people when you will never visit it and only ever invoke its name as a way to a) uplift your own (homophobic & transphobic but western imperialist) country, or b) make it seem more backwards/"barbaric" vis-a-vis your own (again, also homophobic & transphobic) country.

not to mention the millions of tasteless "i'd be illegal there" quips, because the only way to care is to relate it back to yourself instead of extending support and empathy to fellow lgbt people who actually live there. and then the cherry on top being the withholding or withdrawal of support purely because of this perceived homo-/transphobia that is more hearsay and fearmongering than rooted in truth.

lest we forget, western imperialist powers are the main reason so many of these "backwards" countries have lgbtphobic laws in the first place.

Recommended readings:

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar (Puar coined the term "homonationalism" so I would consider this book and her work foundational)

"White Gaze Saving Brown Queers: Homonationalism Meets Imperialist Islamophobia" by Raihan Shariff

"Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism" by Maya Makdashi

here's a link to terrorist assemblages (the 10th anniversary extended edition, even)

I feel like I shouldn't be that angry with propalestinian kids on Tumblr; after all, they're just kids. If you're under 30, you gradually start to grasp how politics work; if you're under 25, you don't know shit about politics, and that's a fact (unless you're some kind of a wunderkind). Because, essentially, all this Middle Eastern situation is to them is just a new toy to fill their time with. They don't give a shit if they're shooting themselves in the leg by basically inviting a united islamist-orthodox christian army into their towns to rape and kill to their heart's content sometime later in this or next decade.

But man, is it still annoying.

ah yes, now calling out genocide and colonialism for what it is is just dumb kids being kids and not awareness of what's going on in the world. it's just a toy to pass time and not one of the biggest geopolitical events in recent history.

also your little take that people under 25 know nothing about politics? we do know. we are aware of what's happening in the world, maybe more than we'd like. that's the reason why you see so many of us being passionately pro-Palestine; because we see an injustice and are (trying to) stand up to it.

0/113 keep reblogging please we need the help no matter what size of the help. Even a dollar helps so much, this is so urgent.

Please yall I'm at roads end, we need money desperately . We have no car so we have to use uber and use what money we have or we either have to order groceries online through my paypal currently/or use uber to get our meds which is so expensive it's laughable so we'll soon be out of money, no matter what we get with my mom needing healthy meals that are. not cheap, the kids needing at least 3 meals or just two a day, as liu is in school and gets lunch there but daniel can't attend. Derek insulin is a top priority currently I dont mind being poor or going hungry but I.... can't do anything about it.

Please if everyone could donate something (if you want to/you are able only, ignore this if you cant!) From a quarter, a dime, a dollar or 5, it all counts & greatly appreciated to even a reblog or spreading the word is also so helpful. Thank you all.

p-y p-l v-nmo c-sh app kofi

the minecraft brothers

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

You sold some shitty copper, man, I don’t know what to tell you

Having to explain to way too many people that no, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

“How do you know they’re not hiding them?”

Do you have any idea the infrastructure required to just build a bomb, let alone test it? We’re talking about thousands of workers, hundreds of acres of facilities, just for fuel production alone.

Construction of specialized plants for assembly and subcritical experimentation.

Not to mention the actual testing of a device. No military in the world will willingly use a weapon that has not been tested in the real world. Computer simulations still aren’t able to accurately render what happens inside of a nuclear weapon at the moment of detonation.

Accurately measuring the yield (explosive power) of a nuclear weapon requires detonation, and extensive instrumentation. The setup of such a test is large and distinctive enough that it can be detected via satellite and aerial photography of test sites, as happened in 1977 in South Africa. The USSR got wind of a pending test and informed the US (yes, really), who overflew the site with an SR-71, and told South Africa to knock it the fuck off.

Iran is probably the most surveiled country in the world besides North Korea. They don’t have nukes.

Israel does, though, and Israel scares me.

I mean, even if the setup weren't detectable via satellite the detonation would be detectable via seismograph, right? Or is there some other type of testing?

Absolutely yes. That’s how we’ve detected basically every nuclear test since the 80s

And we can't forget that this supposed concern has been used to push for war against Iran for at least the last 20 years. Neocons have been screeching about "Iran is x months away from developing nuclear warheads" for pretty much the entirety of my lifetime.

Talking points like these are hold overs from the war on terror, and much like 9/11 the US government and their proxies in corporate media are going to use this moment to push for more war. Make sure you don't believe the bullshit.

"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

the caption did not adequately prepare me

They've met their goal of 20,000 letters but you can still send one to pile on the pressure on Columbia

Israel’s senseless slaughter leaves thousands of children orphaned. Palestine must be free! Don’t tire keep talking about what’s happening!

what is this from

the titanic

I FUCKING FORGOT I QUEUED THIS

For all who celebrate man’s hubris!