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Concise:

Zionism is the Jewish people's right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. To oppose that you either have to (1) negate Jewish peoplehood or (2) believe that the Jewish people do not deserve the same rights as other people. Either way, that's antisemitism.

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I have to credit @amovingtarget‘s liveflail in response to your post for my inspiration!

(Image descriptions behind the cut.)

First image:

ART said, I want an apology.

I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands.  (I know ART isn't in the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.)

ART said, That was unnecessary.

In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, "Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now."

The second image is the “no take, only throw” meme with edited text.

In the first panel, the dog is saying, “Pls don’t make me pretend to be a person??”

In the second panel, “No treating me like an object!!”

In the third panel, “Only not a person”

Network Effect, Martha Wells

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so i will never understand tumblrs obsession with reactionary politics and the death of nuance but here we are.

children need healthy platonic friendships with adults. children need all manner of platonic relationships with adults and segregating children from ALL interactions with adults simply because some adults would like to cause them harm not only doesnt stop that from happening but also makes children EVEN MORE susceptible to abuse.

children should have literally no shortage of adults in their lives who they know, feel comfortable with, and are safe around. isolation ALWAYS increases the risk of abuse. children who dont have positive interactions cant identify behavior that isnt okay because they dont know any better! a child that has a healthy network of adults in their life does! they can compare behavior between adults and say “this isnt how everyone else treats me and i feel weird about it. maybe i can ask xyz who doesnt treat me this way if this is weird or not”

this also gives them more places to turn when things go wrong. a child whos in trouble but only has their parents and peers has a very limited number of options. ESPECIALLY if their parents are the adults in their lives who are harming them, which is overwhelmingly the more likely option. children are much more likely to abused by a family member than by a stranger. a child with more adult friendships, like for example, the woman who works at the library and always talks to them about tv shows they love, the guy from the comic book store who they see every week and who always recommends them new titles to try, the college age coach of their after school sport, the nurse from their school who they eat lunch with because the feel more comfortable there, that child has a large number of adults who they can now turn to in a crisis.

yes, there will always be bad people with bad intentions, but the solution isnt to isolate children from all adults therefore making them even more susceptible to harm if and when it happens. the solution is to surround children with as many examples of healthy positive relationships as possible so that they can easily identify when a situation is not right and then have an unlimited number of resources to go to for help.

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hi sorry i just realized something and now I am speculating about whether Crowley keeps houseplants and yells at them as a reframing device/coping mechanism to deal with the repressed trauma of Falling (read: being cast out of the Garden?)

like here he is, being INTENSE PERFECTIONIST AND CONTROL FREAK (in a way that he isn’t, in the rest of his life) and the second one of his plants shows a flaw, even a single leaf spot, he puts it down the garbage disposal, discarding it the way he felt he was discarded????

crowley, go to therapy

go to therapy, crowley

(or possibly he did go to therapy and the therapist was the one who suggested he get a hobby like gardening and he twitched a bit and went “mmm yeah Gardening, right. i can go make a Garden for myself sure. right. it’ll be very therapeutic.” it is not very therapeutic, it is just picking at an old scab)

HE’S NOT YELLING AT THE PLANTS, HE’S YELLING AT HIMSELF

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Please Spread the Word

Hey, sorry for all the unrelated posts, but no one outside seems to pay attention to this? Hong Kong, the city I’m from, is kind of under crisis?

To summarise, the pro-CCP controlled government is trying to pass an extradition law to China, where people can be sent to mainland China for ‘trial’. We don’t have that in the first place for a reason. To put this into context, their CHIEF JUSTICE literally said that constitutional democracies, judicial independence and separation of powers are ‘erroneous western notions’ that threaten the leadership of the ruling Communist party.

If this passes, the entire city is in danger. People could be detained at any time. Some people who sold books that were banned in China (which SHOULD NOT include HK according to the law) were KIDNAPPED to the mainland, and the law has not even passed yet!  Can you imagine what will happen if it does?

Last Sunday (9/6/2019) 1.03 million people stood up against the law in a protest. HK has a population of 7 million approx. That is 1/7 of all people in the city. Please, tell people about this. It pains me to see this just get completely overlooked. I can’t spend too much time typing this because I’m still doing my exams, so please excuse the lack of details. Go search up the protest for more, as well as the #noextraditiontochina tag.

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Reblogging this version for the image description, but I also want to include @vassraptor​‘s tags:  #also if your objection to the israeli flag #is 'colonialist state' #but you're okay with the stars and stripes or the union jack #then ditto

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Please reblog this, it could be a very important resource that one of your followers needs right now.

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I think a lot of people on this here website are extremely sensitive to rejection but not aware that being sensitive to rejection is a thing so they interpret that horrible feeling as “clearly someone here has a wrong opinion and I MUST prove it isn’t me” as opposed to like…“I am feeling a thing and i need to think and take care of myself and consider what’s causing this and how I can react healthily”

and I AM sympathetic to this because I have fallen into that trap many times and am only slowly figuring out how to avoid it, but it is a Very uncomfortable place to live because either you start brawling with every single person who has an opinion that even slightly differs from yours OR you start breaking yourself into such tiny pieces to never disagree with anyone that you just disappear, and it’s not a very fun way to live either way, and it just frustrates me so much to see it played out all the time

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Reminder: trans Muslims and gay Muslims exist and we’re not going anywhere.

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Gee I sure do love being a cryptid.  

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I know this is like extremely depressing lol but when I look at people I would consider dating/marrying, 1 of the “litmus tests” I have for myself is the answer to this question: “if this marriage were to fall apart, could I see myself coparenting successfully with this person?”

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Hey yall I had a fuckin thought 

So, as it’s roughly explained, the state alchemist program is a kind of “recruit potential human sacrifices” mechanism, with a side-order of “brute strength for the army”. But basically, the state alchemist title is mostly about being a researcher–given people like Shou Tucker exist, and given that the only requirement to stay a state alchemist is to submit a yearly report of your research that says “look I’m still being a useful scientist”.

So far, so far this is sensible, yeah? Father and the delightful children from down the lane are running a recruitment program for potential human sacrifices. So sure–butter them up! Give them lots of money, get them buddy-buddy with the government, and give them endless resources for research. It’s be pretty easy to trick a state alchemist in that position to open the portal if Sugar DaddyBradley is nudging them to do it.

And I’m still willing to go with this logic for the whole “draft the state alchemists into war” move. They make it pretty clear that was something of a last-ditch effort. And the blood transmutation circle around Amestris was an absolute necessity for Father’s plan. So the risk of a few state alchemists dying or resigning from your Potential Sacrifice Pool is worth it for the completion of the circle.

Now. To get to my fucking thought. 

Edward fucking Elric. This fucking fight-me 12 year old troglodyte shows up to the exam and performs circle-less transmutation in front of mother fucking Bradley, demonstrating to one of the seven Actual Fucking Homunculi that he’d already opened the portal. Ed was literally prepped as a human sacrifice before he showed up to Central. A fully set human sacrifice showed up at the homunculi’s door, said “hey look what I can do!”, proved he’d opened the mother fucking portal already, and said “hey yeah hire me”. Human sacrifice, free shipping, no assembly required, handcuffs not included!

They could have just tossed Ed into a shoebox and kept him there until the Promised Day. They wouldn’t even need to make up an excuse he attacked the f u  c k i n g president. That’s fucking treason babey. He’s 12, he’s an orphan, he’s from a rural town in buttfuck nowhere, he’s literally the easiest person alive to disappear. They could have arrested him for assassination crimes, kept him in gay baby jail, and just popped him out for the Promised Day

What do they do instead?! “Oh lmao this kid’s great. Let’s give him infinite money, no supervision, no governmental responsibilities, access to all our secret resources, and toss him on a train to who-the-fuck-knows-where-land”

They fucking did that

And like? They then had the audacity to be concerned when Edward “Fight Me” Elric almost got himself killed about 293 times. Just an endless game of “I thought u were watching him” from one homunculus to another when Ed fucking absconds half-way across the globe to go entice some other hostile entity into murdering him to death. That’s the whole series. Every arc is Ed baiting death while the homunculi are in the background like “:/ wish he wouldn’t do that”

This only gets worse when you consider they later learned Al opened the portal too because really?? These two stab-happy globe-trotting public menaces are 40% of your final evil plan for godhood. 40%. Almost half. You couldn’t fucking set aside a cardboard box to keep these idiots in?

We all knew Father was terrible at planning when we learned his thousands-of-years-in-the-making-plan involved him procrastinating until the last five minutes to get his last sacrifice, while he was?? playing chess in his fucking basement, I guess. But it’s like every time I think about it like really think about it I find 7 more reasons Father was a fucking shit idiot moron, king of the stupid fucking idiot club, flesh and blood founder of seven other established dumbasses, all living in their idiot hovel under central, just giving random dumbass 12 year olds infinite money, j u s t  b e c a u s e.

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Stop trying to fit society’s standards!!! Fit goblin standards instead!!! Be weird!!! Look slightly odd!!! Wear whatever you want!!! Goblins are here to have a nice time not to please other people!!!

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If you haven’t already, you’ll need to register by today -- 7 May -- to be able to vote in the European Parliament elections!

EU elections

Goooooooood morning troops. The UK will now definitely be participating in EU elections so register your arses to vote. If you’ve voted before you should be on the electoral register but if you’ve moved house then you need to re-register.

It takes 5 minutes and it’s all online, you’ll need your national insurance number to register.

If you’re in Scotland - the SNP are the party to get into the European Parliament. We need to show just how much Scotland wants to remain in the EU.

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Wishing a happy and peaceful Ramadan to all the Muslims here tonight. I hope Ramadan is generous to you and brings many blessings your way. 🌙💛

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Octopus Typewriter by Courtney Brown

Like a relic recovered from a sunken ship, still hosting its former resident, Oakland artist Courtney Brown fashioned a typewriter I pray makes it as a backdrop for the next 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake. Brown used a 1938 Underwood typewriter affixed with sculpted bronze tentacles - a beautiful fright right out of your dreams or nightmares.

You choose.

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A goyische friend asked, in the light of the Chabad shooting, what he can do. My immediate response was that he could volunteer to act as a door greeter at his local synagogue, which in retrospect sounded like ‘put yourself in the line of fire with us’, but going to synagogue shouldn’t BE putting oneself in the line of fire. It should be an act of love and commitment and community.

Do you want to know what you can really do to help, though? We’ve got killers referencing “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in all seriousness. Can we agree, as a group, that jokes coming from it aren’t cool? Can we stop perpetuating the antisemitic canards?

This means:

No secret lizard people jokes. These come via David Icke, who proposed that Zionists were reptilian aliens hiding among real people.

No Illuminati/‘secret cabal of bankers, media moguls and politicians running the world’ commentary. This is also often a dogwhistle for ‘them rich Jews run everything!’

Diligence to avoid promoting the blood libel–the ancient lie that Jewish people kill Christian babies for our matzah, or other lies that make us out as predators who seek the blood of our enemies.

Shut down Holocaust denial. Do I need to explain this one further?

A detailed list of antisemitic canards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard ) can be found on Wikipedia. If you hear these come up, whether it’s at work or at home, with older people who ‘just don’t know any better’ or your children, please shut this shit down. It is literally getting people killed.

Feel free to reblog this, even if you’re not Jewish.