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Using a fear of Palestinian revenge as justification for the occupation is both wild and familiar

Aint nobody thinking about vengeance after getting freedom 😭 all we wanna do on this planet is drink chilled juice and not die

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fucking. what?

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if you support israel right now, you're supporting the extermination of the palestinian people.

it really is that simple.

this isn't a 'complicated conflict,' it isn't a situation that 'requires nuance,' it's not a 'geopolitical event' that requires us to condemn the 'bad actors' on 'both sides.'

it's a genocide.

there is no 'nuance' to be had here. it's a genocide, committed by the israeli state against the palestinian people, and it's happening right now as we speak. you don't have to infer anything: israel has openly, with next to no pushback from so-called liberal democracies, cut off gaza's access to water, food and electricity. that's more than two million palestinians denied even the basic necessities for life. a million of them, children.

what is that, if not a genocide?

and that's only the latest escalation. we could go all day, listing the atrocities the palestinian people have been subjected to. the killings, the beatings, the children sexually abused in detention center, all the hospitals and ambulances being blown up, videos of palestinians being heckled by settlers as they're driven from their homes, israelis gathering on hilltops to cheer as their military drops bombs on gaza...

but all westerns want to talk about, is hamas.

because the murder of palestinians by the IDF is status quo; it doesn't affect them. what's one more dead palestinian but a statistic? but if hamas has killed a handful of israelis — if they've go as far as to even kill babies — then that justifies the extermination of two million palestinians, children and infants included.

westerns will even say that the palestinians brought it on themselves; that they should have know that a drop of israeli blood requires a river in return.

and just so we're clear, you don't have to like hamas. but when you equate hamas with the IDF, when you derail every conversation by demanding a condemnation of 'both sides,' or when you, god forbid, agree that israel is justified in dismantling hamas — which, as israel themselves have outlined, will involve the complete destruction of gaza and the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians — then either wake up, or own up to the fact that you're a participant in the extermination of the palestinian people.

do you think i'm being harsh? then imagine how it's like living under constant aerial bombardment. with no food, no water, no electricity. constant air-raid sirens. a bomb, dropping every minute. never knowing a moment a peace, always wondering if today is going to be your last day, if you and your family are still going to be here tomorrow.

could you stomach living in gaza, for even a day? i doubt it.

and still, now, on the eve of what might be the ground invasion of gaza — with one million palestinians being told to flee, with nowhere to go — i'm getting messages from people who demand my sympathy... for israel.

well, you're not getting it.

i'm not even humoring your hand-wringing.

if you live in israel, and you're one of the ones who've turned a blind-eye to the suffering of the palestinian people, if you've fought for the IDF or tacitly supported them, if you've callously called upon the memory of the holocaust thinking the death and suffering of your ancestors would wash the blood of your own hands....

then yeah, i think you deserve every single hamas rocket lobbed at you and so much more.

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Illustrations by Kelsey Smith  //  Etsy  

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Billionaires don't deserve to die a slow, horrible, painful death.

Billionaires deserve empathy.

And not empathy from us, I mean they deserve to have empathy for the people they exploit.

Billionaires deserve to have a conscience.

Billionaires deserve to lose all of their money.

Billionaires deserve to be evicted.

Billionaires deserve welfare.

Billionaires deserve to sleep on the streets.

Billionaires deserve to knock on the door of a homeless shelter begging for a respite from the cold or heat.

Billionaires deserve humanity. Humanity that would turn their world upside down, and pull the cashmere rug out from underneath them.

Humanity that would radicalize them.

But that's just me!

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Important art

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reblog to kick the duffers in the ribs

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Sea Grunks Intro

Good god, I have been working on this for a while. What originally started out as small storyboard pro practice, ended up becoming an actual project. There was a good amount of time when I wasn’t sure I would finish it, but here it is. I hope you enjoy it!

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émerveiller

Delicate blossoms, I see you

Green in your youth, then blood on snow 

You look as sweet as you sound

How special is it, to be brought to tears with no words? 

To be stopped in your tracks with no movement? 

Delicate blossoms, I see you

And so I know you, and the stars know you

Your color, your symmetry, your beauty

Sometimes I have no words for you

Because I feel so lucky to have eyes

To see you, to have legs to carry me to you

And that luck gets stuck in my throat, and I cry

I am not embarrassed, because I’d rather appreciate

The hands of life that beckon to me 

Than pretend it doesn’t matter because you think it’s silly 

Delicate blossoms, I see you 

        –to amaze 

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Rain

I wouldn’t mind if the rain turned into acid

And melted away my rough exterior shell

I would walk down the sidewalk, bones exposed

And let people stare

Then maybe they’d understand what I meant 

When I said I can’t take it anymore 

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today i was talking to my therapist about being upset that my dad wanted a daughter and she told me 'your father is crying by a grave of his own making that has no corpse in it. you do not need to fill it for him and are not required to weep beside him' and I had to take a sip of water bc my mind stopped working for a moment

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girl in novel: hi my older brother who is 17 years old and popular, do you want breakfast ?

her brother: yes, remember when mom died when you were 4 and our dad is an alcoholic ?

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