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there’s something, I think, to be said about the impact our actions have. it’s one thing to see luffy’s charisma and how it affects the people in his orbit—his crew, his friends, even the people he meets in passing. it’s another thing to watch, from the outside, how he inspires hope. kuma sees him as dragon’s son, who wants to be a pirate. then he sees him as the one who defeated arlong, who’s begun to make a name for himself in the east blue. and then he declares war on the world government. kuma sees, firsthand, the loyalty he inspires in his crew on thriller bark. how the people he would do anything to protect would do anything to protect him, too. luffy has his respect, standing against the world government with his infectious joy and his rubbery body.

and then kuma, a former slave and a racial minority, sees that luffy has punched a celestial dragon. it is, of course, a sin like no other. but it’s not just that—he punched a celestial dragon to protect a fishman and a mermaid. he stood against racism and slavery. and already, luffy reminded kuma of nika. but to see somebody so willing to fight against the status quo for the sake of freedom…kuma saw something there that he longed for. and though his days of freedom, of bodily autonomy, were numbered, maybe luffy could usher in a new dawn. maybe, the world that his daughter inherits could be a better one.

kuma didn’t just send luffy and his crew away out of the goodness of his heart. yes, he is kind, and yes, luffy is dragon’s son. but luffy, who kuma had never spoken to before, inspired such hope in him that kuma needed to protect him. all he could do was to send luffy away and to request that vegapunk program one last mission of his own into his will-less body. but he did it, because luffy gave him hope.

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Romaphobia is maybe the easiest litmus test for European "leftists", in the sense that many of them fail it immediately

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This is insane???? Zosan really is everything everywhere all at once because what do you mean Zoro was taught to respect the culinary arts since a young age while Sanji knows how to use a sword as much as he knows how to use a knife. What do you mean swords and knives are two blades of the same coin with one made for death and the other made for life. Remember when Zoro called Sanji an “invaluable member of the crew” before he was even introduced?? Yeah this explains why he holds cooks (and food) to such a high regard. Also remember how multiple official spin-offs have shown Zoro and Sanji bond over their blades? Remember how they were literally conceived as a pair in Oda’s drafts along with alliterative names? (Ryuma and Romeo) How they’re always drawn, written and referenced back to back because they are both foils and parallels of each other? Zosan really is The Ship Ever don’t talk to me omg

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Marjorie Taylor green is to the left of most democrats when it concerns israel. She's awful about everything else except for not wanting to fund israel *as much* as 4 billion dollars. It wasn't even a bill that banned funding to israel. Just a decrease.

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no actually i don't think antivaxxers' kids should die from a disease. i don't think gun advocates' kids should die in school shooting. children dying is bad actually, even if they're children of people you don't like.

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the way kids will just announce that they're minors nowadays is insane, you literally could not pry that information out of me under threat of death when I was younger

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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Born to serve

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my doomed by the narrative blorbos

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UN officials warned on 15 July that Israel’s months-long ‘Iron Wall’ operation in the occupied West Bank has caused the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1967, with 30,000 people forcibly uprooted since January and entire refugee camps emptied under military orders.

UN rights office spokesman Thameen al-Kheetan said the forced uprooting underway may constitute a crime under international law, stressing that “permanently displacing the civilian population within occupied territory amounts to unlawful transfer,” and depending on the circumstances, “could be tantamount to ethnic cleansing.” He said the campaign is “emptying large parts of the West Bank of Palestinians."

The UN said the offensive, launched in January, is impacting several northern refugee camps. Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for UNRWA, described it as “the longest since … the Second Intifada,” and warned it was causing “the largest population displacement of the Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.”

July 15, 2025.

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top 5 completed manga

Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui

The Poe Clan by Hagio Moto

Ace of the Diamond by Yuuji Terajima

Alice and Amaryllis by Mari Ozawa

Natsuko's Sake by Akira Oze

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top 5 music albums?

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park

Surprise by Crystal Waters

Taal Original Sound Track by AR Rahman

The Best of Shahenshah-E-Qawwali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Keroncong Jenaka

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People who complain about "the free palestine movement doing moral purity about elections" are so funny because the uncommitted movement group practically begged Harris to do something so they could endorse her and instead she just refused to let them speak and the dnc and sent bill Clinton, one of the most hated presidents for Palestinians, to give a speech about how israel needed to keep killing their family members. And in the end, uncommitted didn't even counter endorse her, they just avoided outright endorsing her. She did NOT want the palestine vote lmao

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top 5 yuri?

How Do We Relationship by Tamiful

Whispered Words by Takashi Ikeda

Sweet Blue Flowers by Shimura Takako

She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat by Yuzaki Sakaomi

Pulse by Ratana Satis

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Oh Mao Mao we’re really in it now

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recharging