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Please don’t stop talking about Palestine.

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The fact that over 10,000 people and counting in Gaza (likely way more than that considering how many people are missing/buried under the rubble) are dead is fucking unfathomable. I don’t think some people even understand how many 10,000 out of 2.2 million people is. Nearly half a percent of the population. Nearly one in every 200 people are dead in the Gaza Strip. In my home state of Texas, this would be as if you killed roughly 135,000 people. Any number of lives lost to violent military occupation is horrific, but this is on a scale that I don’t think most of us can even wrap our heads around. And just today it was reported by the Wall Street Journal that the United States is sending $320 million to Israel to arm them with more fucking bombs. I hope no one ever forgives us. I hope we never forgive ourselves.

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منشوراتي الدينيه ليست دليل على صلاحي

“My religious posts aren't proof of my goodness.”

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Gazans are being forced to leave the city and walk for 10 km ( 6.25 miles) on foot because Israeli air forces target any cars.

The first Nakba was in 1948 when 700,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their homes with the promises of being allowed back. They never were.

There will be a summit on 11/11 for Arab leaders. It's the United States and Europes pressure that keeps Arab countries from helping Gaza.

If we can keep pressing, maybe Egypt can finally be allowed to at least deliver proper portions of food and water and medicine.

Keep speaking up. Keep pusing.

We know from Sag aftra that speaking up and striking works!

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This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.

R.F. Kuang (Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, 2022)

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08112023 day 16/30 of intentionality

my intentions for today:

health: am meds, hygiene, exercise, diet log, pm meds

study: perception labs, perception lecture, stats revision, stats exam

commitments: dance 1, dance 2

🎧: Fuck Being Sober by Annika Wells

reflection: it's an edit-pics-and-journal-to-avoid-doing-work kinda day. stats exam opens in two hours

join the 30doi !

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also, a friendly reminder, the world we live in now consists of an active genocide.

of warcrimes being posted on twitter by the official account of israeli government.

of people looking at children, women and men being bombed, killed, starved and butchered and saying it is okay because of a single terrorist group, THAT ISRAEL CREATED.

of westerners saying to look away from the slaughter happening in gaza because your mental health is more important than thousands of lives.

of israeli politicians straight up using propaganda from nazi handbooks to dehumanise palestinians, calling them less than human, less than the rest of us, animals.

and what one palestinian man posted on his social media hit me more than anything: “if we actually were animals, people would care.”

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artwork by Semantica

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Muslim guy greets jews for standing against Israel in US

These jews >

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£££££

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PRAY FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸

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excellent work by marc

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the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.