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Israel has worked hard to portray Gaza as a barren wasteland, backwater that is a terrorist stronghold. In reality, Gaza is a beautiful city/region with a rich history that has been decimated from constant bombings and strangled by the blockade. So much of what is being destroyed by Israel are restaurants, bookshops, schools, universities, houses and much of what contributes to life in Gaza and people’s livelihoods. Places that are attached to and filled with the memories of Palestinians in Gaza. It’s not just about making life miserable for the people who live there, but about projecting a particular image of Gaza to the world. This is also similar to how the US has portrayed places like Afghanistan to justify its invasions.

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When I was younger I was absolutely scared of the concept of hell, the only thing that was more terrifying than the unimaginable level of torture a person will experience in hell is the fact that they will always be immediately resurrected after dying to experience the same gruesome torture over and over for eternity, but now as an adult, I don't have much fear when it comes to hell, if anything the existence of hell comforts me and gives me some peace of mind,

Because now I know that it doesn't matter how many horrors, tortures, rape and deaths terrorists such as American terrorists and Israeli terrorists accumulate against my people, even if their regime continues for centuries to come, every evil act they have committed/will commit against innocent people on this Earth will not be even a fraction of a fraction of the punishment that awaits all of them when these pigs would be thrown to the deepest level of hell to suffer for eternity.

And while all of this is happening, all of their victims that they spent so much time and resources to make them suffer as humanly as possible, will be living in pure bless in heaven.

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please read this entire piece

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decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.

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Please donate to Palestine Action in order for their members to continue storming, halting, shutting down and dismantling all factories/offices owned by Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, across different countries.

If you can't donate, please visit their site to see what other ways you can support or join this movement, especially if your country host one of Elbit's factories.

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Been watching Hamilton in my history class. It's great and all but uh...how do I get the songs out my head?

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The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.

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may your glasses stay clean for an entire day. like to charge, reblog to cast.

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Okay so: mini rant!

I love, love, LOVE, Fahrenheit 451. Besides the while message of "censorship is bad for society and prevents people from making their own decisions Yada yada", I just love the way it was written.

From a readers pov or a writers pov, I love it both ways!

I don't usually say I "love" a book because I usually read a book and go "yeah that was good, interesting, whatever." I enjoy it, then move on. BUT I rarely read a book and just adore it. Fahrenheit 451 is one of them. Not the top top, but it's up there.

That's not to to say that I hate all the books I read because the list of books I hate is pretty short. Hm, for now at least. I haven't read all the books in the world. I should though!

Quick question though, do you have a book that you simply adore?

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I think a lot of discussion about starting to read comics vs manga doesn’t address that a good percentage of the people who are hardcore about comics now started by picking up some random issue, going ‘it makes no damn sense. Compels me though,’ and then kept reading just to find out what the fuck all that was about

like I see people insult the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure aspect of reading shared universe superhero comics, but some of us are little weirdos who got hooked on comics specifically because theyre a puzzle we get to put together

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I'm sure there's a legit, reasonable, logical reason to learn about flowers and their meanings in order to defeat batman.

Love when people say Talia was arranging all these guys to train Jason to keep him away from Gotham for as long as possible to protect Bruce bc it just makes me think of her running out of assassin skills and having to improvise

Bonus Bruce getting his flowers

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Reblog if you have used dude as a non gender specific term.

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I dreamt of my future self and I was beautiful and smart and happy. And my future self smiled at me and I smiled back and I have never loved myself nor felt that content in such a long time.

It felt amazing.

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Speaking of books it's been a while since I've seen one of these posts going around & I'm curious so everyone could you tell me what you are reading rn in the tags please

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I'll never forget the day I came home after my wisdom teeth removal.

They removed 5 teeth because I had an extra one and I spent days spitting blood in a cup. But instead of whining and groaning like I thought I would, I purposefully waited until a family member came by so I could show them exactly how much blood I could spit up and exactly how it smelled.

I wasn't allowed to talk much either for a bit, so I used a text to speech just to insult people.

All in all, great experience! Recovery went well, the docs did a great job, minimal pain. And I got to terrorize my family like a weirdo. So yeah. That was that.

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It's kinda weird, going to a majority white school as a black kid. Like as a kid you know that you have darker skin and you're a different race than most of the other kids. At first this doesn't bother you (at least in my experience ). You know that the other kids probably have a different way of life than you, but you don't particularly dwell on it. At least in the beginning.

For me that changed around third grade. When my teacher was suddenly serious and solemn and sat the entire class down and explained slavery to us. Particularly the enslavement of black people in America. I already knew about this, the black movement, and the speeches, the whole shebang. My parents and just about any black adult in my life made sure I did.

What came as a surprise to me was everyone else's reactions. They had never heard of such a thing before and as my teacher awkwardly explained how some white people enslaved an entire race, my race, I watched dozens of beady little eyes turn in my direction.

As if to say, "really? That happened to people like you? Black people?"

Let me make something clear, I don't think it was wrong of my third grade teacher to explain slavery to us because it's important to know. I don't think she did it out of some malicious intent to humiliate. I do not think that the kids in that class were racist per se or even cruel because I really can't attest to that.

What I'm trying to get at here is this: from that point on school made a point out of going over and over again about slavery. But it never got to the meat of it, not really. It was the exact same lessons, exact same homework, and the kids in my classroom weren't just kids in anymore. They were White Kids and I was a Black Kid and that seemed enough to be a divider. It seemed there was this constant caution not to offend me. And if it were not that it was back handed insults.

I don't have any hard feelings, kids are kids, it doesn't make it right, but yknow.

I'm not gonna say," there is no race, only the human race" because I have had many people tell me this as their defense for not being racist despite me not mentioning it to begin with. Point is! We're all different, even kids can see that. And that's okay. We should revel and enjoy our differences because it just makes society as a whole, better. However, I don't think we should draw a huge divider between each other. We'll always see someone and say," a black guy" or "a white guy" and that's fine and all.

I just don't think we should pit ourselves against each other. White VS Black. Man VS Woman. Right VS left.

Embrace our differences but don't let them tear us apart.

Of course I know it's not that simple by any means. I still think it's worth a try though, I think we can be a little better. I think I can be a little better. Just gotta try a little bit.