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i had a dream that there was like a revival of the man vs bear debate but instead it was "would you rather be alone in a woman's bathroom with a random trans woman or jk rowling?" and everyone picked the trans woman and jkr crashed out on twitter because of it

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Catholic church doesnt even allow divorce if domestic violence is involved and vatican city wouldnt exist nowadays without the help of Benito fucking Mussolini and yet theres always some motherfucker being like i hope the next pope is pro gay marriage. I hope I get a house from Santa Claus this year. I hope a horse is going to buy me cheese in the grocery store

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What do you mean by antizionist?

I mean I'm against the Zionist movement, the ideas that became dominant in it, and what it did in practice as a result of those ideas.

Specifically, I'm pro-Palestine and I think we shouldn't hold onto lands we conquered after driving away other populations, including pre-48 borders. If a Palestinian family was driven away from Akka, or Akko, however you want to call it, they should get to return to it.

In theory, more broadly, it means I'm against the concept of a state that prioritizes and caters to a specific ethnic group. If you think "but there are other countries that do that," I'm not as familiar with their politics, I still think that's wrong, and I'm going to focus on the place where I was born because... this is where I live. I don't trust the idea of a country made to prioritize a specific ethnicity. I believe that even if there was "a land without a people for the people without a land" - which there wasn't, Palestine was already inhabited - there was never going to be a way to build a Jewish state without ending up with the oppression and marginalization of non-Jewish people.

It's not that I think Jewish people don't have the right to live in this land. If we came here as refugees and tried to seek coexistence with the local population, without the aim to build a country on top of their cities and villages, this might have been a very different story. There has always been Jewish immigration to Palestine on some level, and there was always a Jewish community living here. Long before the Zionist movement. So for me it's about how the Zionist movement replicated the methods and actions of colonialist movements, and used the British who were occupying it at the time to give us legitimacy when they never had the right to give away land that wasn't theirs. I don't think this can be excused just because we have cultural and historical ties to this land.

Even if Israel was conceived as a shelter, this started with us destroying whole communities because that's what conquering a land means, and it was always going to lead to more of the same. Self defense has been used as an excuse to harm other populations all throughout history. Either on the scale of war, like conquering and expanding to preemptively deal with the threat of sharing a border with another nation, or in internal politics, like mistreating immigrants, or like transphobes using the idea of safety to create laws that hurt trans people. Or even socially, without needing laws, like we also see happening with trans people.

Self defense is a concept that can be weaponized, and does get weaponized all the time. And over the past year and a half we used it to destroy Gaza, bomb and starve its population, make it essentially uninhabitable. And we still call it self defense.

Unless all human beings are equally prioritized, even "self defense" and the idea of shelter become weapons.

So I'm against the concept, beyond what it ended up doing in practice, because I don't see a way the Zionist movement could have achieved anything without destroying a population wherever it tried to start a country, and even without that initial population I don't see a way to create a state that prioritizes us without marginalizing non-Jews living among us.

We have a right to safety. Not to be an oppressive occupying force. I believe this path was always wrong to pursue.

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Have you heard that apparently the dinosaurs didn't die out from the meteor impact, but rather from a form of continuous volcanic eruption from the deccan traps?

Do you know if there's any merit to this theory?

that theory has been largely discounted because the Deccan Traps erupted around a million years before the meteor hit, and yet we see no decrease in fossil diversity in this period like we would expect if this caused the great extinction. Chicxulub is still the reigning champ of abrupt end-times, I'm afraid.

but this is probably because, unlike the Siberian Traps that accelerated the end-Permian Great Dying, the Deccan Traps were relatively slow! they did release absolutely staggering amounts of magma, but spread out over a period of like 800,000 years or so. life more or less just went on around it, presumably dodging the enormous surface pools of lava and plumes of toxic gas.

however there is a significantly more terrifying theory out there now that suggests that the Deccan Traps DID play into the end-cretaceous extinction event.... because the Chicxulub Impactor rattled the entire planet so hard that it caused almost every volcano on earth to erupt at the same time, including the Traps.

so yeah! fuck!

sleep well.

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watching Andor, I keep forgetting that its supposed to be set in space because sometimes shots will look completely normal until you notice there's a freaky lil guy walking in the background

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firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

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yknow i really dont feel like i should have to say this but um. stop referring to kinks as degenerate

like really just stop using that word ever but *especially* don't use it here

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i remember learning the word melancholy at age 7 or something and thinking oh this word's gonna be huge for me

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Sketch of two little dragons in a park

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"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die

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i love you front facing coelacanth :]

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A selection of animals from various 17th and 18th century calligraphy copybooks which were drawn with single lines to practice (and show off) penmanship strokes.

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JOY HAS A HABIT OF RETURNING. BTW

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Ooh an Aramaic word! Cool and Jewish!

I imagine some trans person or enby changing their name like.

-> Goes to Wiktionary.org -> Clicks "Random entry" -> My name is now ጭምብል