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GO BURN CD'S. GO FILL PHYSICAL DISCS. PIRATE EVERYTHING. DOWNLOAD BOOKS, MUSIC, GAMES, SHOWS, FILMS. SAVE SNAPSHOTS ON WAYBACK. FUCK THE MEDIA COMPANIES. STREAMING ISN'T FOREVER. PURCHASE ISN'T OWNERSHIP. FORGE THE OWNERSHIP WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. MAKE MEDIA YOUR BITCH. STAY VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

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When I was young my dad offhandedly told me he thought people treated fish with so much casual cruelty because fish can’t scream.

The words branded themselves across my soul.

As an adult I think he may have been joking. He payed no especial attention to any indignities fish suffered in our household but I could never forget. I saw fish in a different light after that.

Fish kept in tiny bowls, breathing their own poisons, dying by inches. Fish kept in cold tanks, casually disposed of. Fish touted as being short lived when they could outlive the better loved family dog if only they could breathe. Fish casually won and discarded in cheap plastic bags, thrown away a week later.

How they would scream, if they could.

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i’m gonna be real i dont think we’re gonna community garden our way out of this one

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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hope as a defense mechanism. as a coping strategy. as a way to see there is still a future to fight for and then to keep fighting for it. hope as in it being the thing you hold on to so it can save you. hoping so I won’t feel defeated by cruelty in the world, keeping hope alive because others desperately want us to lose it.

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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In 1955 (with a generalization in 1957) during the Algerian war of liberation, France created multiple “no-go/buffer zones” in Algeria. Anyone, human or animal, no matter the age, gender or reason, who was found in these areas was executed. The built about 2000 concentration camps in these areas and “invited” the population in these camps. It was either the concentration camp or execution (and the concentration camp also came with death). The reason the French gave to explain it all was to make it easier for the French to target the ALN without targeting the civilians (a lie again as you’ll see later) and to protect the civilian from being used as human shields by the ALN (which never happened) and also protect civilians from being forced to support the ALN (that forced support also never happened). They also presented it as a way to modernize the rural villages of Algeria and make them more “modern” and “nice” for the people (again a lie)

They built a couple of them nicely with actual houses so the propaganda pics for the rest of the world would look nice. But the majority of these camps were actually tents villages surrounded by barbed wires and controlled by French soldiers. Some were allowed to build dirt houses if they had the skills. The French also called them “regrouping villages” and “safe zones for civilians” cause calling them concentration camps would have been too obvious and kept them from denying what was happening. Especially just a decade after WW2.

They displaced a total of 3.5 millions Algerians (40% of the Algerian population) and 2.4 millions of them were put in these “safe zones for civilians”. The displaced were almost exclusively from rural villages that the French had destroyed before or after the forced displacement.

The food distribution in these camps, was controlled by France who not only didn’t bring in enough food for people to be healthy on purpose but also conditioned the distribution to how submissive and obedient the population was and even then they would give just enough to avoid starvation but not enough to avoid severe malnutrition. The death rate in these camps (especially for babies and during childbirth) was much higher than in the rest of Algeria. In some cases, the French also used these concentration camps to threaten the women and children and force the men into fighting against the revolution. They would also blast propaganda messages on speakers for Algerians to hear them hoping they would blame the ALN for their suffering.

At the end of the war of liberation 87% of the people who survived were unable to take care of themselves (financially but also physically and psychically) and were supported by the Algerian government until they got better…

I’m saying all of that because this is happening again right now in Gaza as we speak. People are more uncomfortable with using the term of concentration camp than they are with what’s happening. Once again colonizers are creating concentration camps for the indigenous people and giving them a different name. Pretending it’s to help and protect the indigenous people. Once again colonizers are creating a situation where aid is needed and then weaponizing it.

But you know how it ended? With the liberation of Algeria. With the settlers leaving the fuck out. And you know why it ended that way? Because Algerians fought but also because people put pressure on France. So if you are not Palestinian your job is to NOT give up and feel hopeless. Your job is to keep fighting with all you have. Because one day Incha’Allah Palestine will be free and Zionism will be a thing of the past.

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The longer I exist as a loudly proudly gay man the more I think that cishet men aren't actually attracted to women.

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I know its an old joke but it really does crack me up to think Frodo might not know Legolas's name, especially in the most obvious scene at Frodo's bed after waking up and he addresses literally everyone by name except Legolas, like come on you're telling me you couldn't have gotten Elijah to do another take so he could say that beautiful Elf's name lmao

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The "Cocoon," a biodegradable cardboard donut developed by Dutch company Land Life, aids tree growth in arid regions. It's placed around a seedling in a pit, filled with 25 liters of water, and then covered to prevent evaporation. The water slowly seeps into the soil, nurturing the roots. This method boasts up to a 95% survival rate in hot, dry areas, using 1000 times less water than traditional planting, and has helped plant over 10 million trees globally.

If current tree harvesting rates continue, the world could lose a substantial portion of its forests, potentially tens of millions of hectares, over the next 20 years.

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The way people on this website absolutely stumble over themselves to inform people who are from or currently live in countries that spent decades under Soviet control how wrong they are about the negatives of that system because I, an American/Canadian/Australian/Western European socialist, assuredly know better than you do, is just so wild to me.

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Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)

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Worlds Shittiest Cereal Now Endorsed By Bootlicker Dogs

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS The Fellowship of the Ring