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ultimately, when it comes down to it, refusal to engage with transfeminism or denouncing tma/tme language as "unnecessary" is just a way of denying that like. women have it worse in society for the benefit of men and being trans doesn't actually change that core dynamic

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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

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people are so mean about horror movie victims like. sorry but if i had gone to a cabin in the woods with my friends as a teenager you couldn't have stopped us from reading aloud from the evil tome. how were they supposed to know the ancient curse was real they're like 17

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disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

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something really vile about Bernie Sanders using MLK as an example for how peaceful protests are better than riots as if he wasn't about to join in on more aggressive forms of protesting until they(white folks in power) took him out.

white people love to use king as an example but then forget they were the ones that killed him.

I hate liberals to an unnatural degree

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"third world immigrants" I didn't know these fascists are using it now

I guess to distinguish from European immigrants like Ukrainians??

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the summer of 2020 should have been a very instructive time in USAmerican politics for many people, because Democrat politicians collaborated hand in hand with term 1 Trump (the guy they had pretended to hate so viciously for years leading up to 2020 and have pretended to hate since) with the specific purpose of repressing an anti-racist protest movement and preserving policing. All these Democrat mayors and governors and senators went on and on about preserving the rule of law, and about how the protestors were going too far, and they called in the National Guard to brutally put them down. A handful of them feigned some support for the protests, and then as soon as they came into power, they immediately dropped all support and funding for police department across the USA dramatically increased. This was all also immediately followed by a whole new wave of Democrat branded denial of the covid crisis, a new war in Ukraine, and then the genocide in Palestine. None of this is ancient history, unless you were born in like 2010 or don't live in the USA this all should be pretty fresh in your memory, yet somehow the events of that summer have seemingly already been forgotten by so many people as if they were just a momentary dream

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the Madleen flotilla was intercepted over a hundred miles from gazan jurisdiction- in international waters. this is cited in the article op of the post lists, even.

the twelve activists on board are not israeli, and they weren't in israeli waters- what exactly makes this detainment 'legal'?

Just gonna nip this in the bud real fast: Greta Thunberg is neither a hostage nor has she been kidnapped.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-flotilla-greta-thunberg-b64e897fb37ee374e4494381304ff9be

It said the activists would return to their home countries and the aid would be sent to Gaza through established channels. It circulated footage of what appeared to be Israeli military personnel handing out sandwiches and water to the activists, who were wearing orange life vests.

Please fact check before spreading what is tantamount to blood libel (eg "the evil Jews are kidnapping good Christian girls")

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By June 11, we’ll be evicted if we don’t pay $900. I have four children. Their education will stop too. We have nowhere else to go—only a tent in the street, under bombing and disease. We left the tent to stand strong, not to return defeated. Please help us hold on. Donate now for our children's future and don't ignore it. For the sake of humanity 💔 don’t leave us alone in this injustice.

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the only reason i bring up legality to begin with is because government forces detaining citizens they have no jurisdiction over, in waters they have no jurisdiction over, is, by definition, a kidnapping. the tweet is not incorrect in calling it that.

disregarding matters of legality, israel's occupation and control of gazan waters is not a neutral, isolated fact. that in of itself is a gross violation of human rights and still would not grant israel the authority to make any sort of arrest- even if the flotilla had reached gazan waters. the fact of gazan waters being under israeli control does not then mean those waters belong to israel, and framing this kidnapping as being within legal bounds in any way is simply wrong.

you're well within your rights to say that other bloggers use of 'rats' and 'vermin' is unproductive at best, but i think you're the one being misleading here.

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except, notably, israel had no right to make this 'arrest'. the flotilla was roughly over a hundred miles away from either israeli or gazan jurisdiction, still within international waters, when it was intercepted. [X][X][X]

the reason people are calling it illegal is because it was. intercepting and imprisoning crews in waters that aren't under your country's jursdiction, whether via citizenship or breach of territory, is, in fact, against international law.

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I finished watching a documentary called Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul that was about two ex-citizens of North Korea who had very different takes on their country than what we usually hear from popular defectors.

We all hear the stories of North Koreans starving during the famine but what we're hardly told is that the US wanted them to starve and made it worse by placing sanctions to destabilize the country. Even former president Jimmy Carter admits this yet we still wonder why North Koreans hate America so much.

Another thing talked about in the film was that many defectors are paid to lie and exaggerate their stories by South Korean intelligence agencies and American organizations. I am by no means a tankie but this made me question how much of the propaganda we see about North Korea is actually true. Here's the link if anyone's interested: Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

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sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️‍⚧️

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Watching Trump absolutely destroy the position of the US in world diplomacy and the global market is like enjoying a sunny day due to global warming,

The context is grim, but it's impossible not to enjoy it a little bit.

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Queering the Map - No Pride In Genocide