#cw current events

[theyshapedlikefriends]

Reminder

I'll still post/reblog more plush friends in these trying times to cheer up people

But never forget Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Today and every day...

[who-parties-on-a-tuesday]

I keep seeing pro is*eal shit on my dash.

If I see any more of that shit, I'm blocking you.

I'm not in the mood to debate human rights with you.

Demand a permanent ceasefire

[mswyrr]

One of the most terrible things about this event is the sense of its inevitability. The violence of apartheid and colonialism begets more violence. Many people have struggled with the straightjacket of this inevitability, straining to articulate that its recognition does not mean its embrace. I am reminding myself that it was from Palestinians, many of them writing and speaking in these pages, that I learned to think of Palestine as a site of possibility—a place where the very idea of the nation-state, which has so harmed both peoples, could be remade or destroyed entirely. And it was Palestinians who opened my thinking to multiple visions of sharing the land. On the left, I hope we do not mistake the inevitability of the violence for an inescapable limit on our work or the quality of our thought. Even if our dreams for better have failed, they must accompany us through this moment to the other side. We need to imagine a movement for liberation better even than the Exodus—an exodus where neither people has to leave. Where people stay to pick up the pieces, rearranging themselves not just as Jews or Palestinians but as antifascists and workers and artists. I want what Puerto Rican Jewish poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales describes in her poem “Red Sea”:

We cannot cross until we carry each other,

all of us refugees, all of us prophets.

No more taking turns on history’s wheel,

trying to collect old debts no-one can pay.

The sea will not open that way.

This time that country

is what we promise each other,

our rage pressed cheek to cheek

until tears flood the space between,

until there are no enemies left,

because this time no one will be left to drown

and all of us must be chosen.

This time it’s all of us or none.

[earl-grey-love]

I don't know. I feel like if we're at a point where treating each other as human beings with equal value, respect, rights, and deserving of care is consider radical, even outright dangerous, then society has fundamentally failed.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

It's not like I've ever seen anyone here have any filter for what political messages they reblog, people just see someone talk about a situation in a way that makes them feel like they know who the villain is and press reblog, without question or applying any prior knowledge to their interpretation, especially if it's something that doesn't affect them personally, and especially if it goes against what they think most people believe so they can stick it to the man and feel like they know better. It's not something new and I usually don't hold it against anyone, I'm definitely guilty of it myself, but man does it feel more pervasive than ever now that every 5th post is taking a very confident stance on a war they only know from news and social media, all saying the same thing, enraged that anyone would ever claim otherwise. And it never hit so close to home for me, it was always someone else's problem for me too, someone I didn't know, but this time I got to spend a day wondering if a loved one was still alive, this time I get to be careful in public so I don't get killed for someone else's crimes.

Can we just all (myself included) think a little more, do a little more research before we decide what nuance does or does not exist? I promise you that you're not obligated to post about everything, you're not obligated to have an opinion on everything, and I promise you are going to be wrong sometimes.

[magic5ball]

To those who Spoke Up about Gaza

(I would like to preface this by asking any reader of the following post to please reserve judgement on me or my beliefs until you have read it all the way to the end. Also content warning for current world events.)

So there's been a lot of talk about what's going on in Gaza lately, and unsurprisingly, a lot of Americans have lost faith in their country. The current administration has at best condoned and at worst actively aided Ben Netanyahu in what can be generously described as war crimes in the Gaza region of Palestine.

As an American, I by all means should have lost faith in my country as well.

And yet, I didn't. In fact, if anything my faith in this country has been galvanized. Because whenever I go online, I see people all across this country, protesting, boycotting, donating, just GIVING a crap about the horrors currently being inflicted upon Palestinian civilians. Tens, hundreds, thousands of Americans more than willing to hold their government's feet to the fire and demand a stop to the killing.

Granted, there have been some mistakes. As much as I would like to say otherwise, antisemites have taken advantage of this tragedy to air their bigoted views, at times entangling naive activists. Donations have not always reached their desired destination, and others have foolishly assumed that because the IDF is committing war crimes, Hamas must be the 'good guys', so to speak.

But just because these things are true does not change the fact that what is occurring in Gaza is inhumane, and something must be done.

I recently read a tweet bemoaning how what's currently happening shows we've learned nothing from the Holocaust, but when I look at those tens, those hundreds of thousands of Americans screaming ENOUGH is ENOUGH, as early as a week after the IDF's incursion into Gaza, I cannot help but see a country that has witnessed tragedy, and cried

NEVER AGAIN!

One day, we will have a final body count for this tragedy. But the greater tragedy is we may never know just how many Palestinian lives were saved because of donated goods, esims, or because a ceasefire agreement arrived just in time.

To those who spoke up about Gaza, to those who saw cruelty and demanded mercy, Ithank you for the service you have done for your world. What you have done is more incredible than you could ever imagine.

[autogeneity]

hearing that some friends and relatives of people I know might be drafted into the israeli military, which is terrible at the best of times, but then they're like "yeah it's intense but at least it's for a good cause" and holy shit

[telestoapologist]

Cayde: Gary! What are your opinions on abortion? ABSURD answers for the solution only. Ghaul: Abortion, hm? Here is your solution: We will gather all of the unborn and put them in a small gladiator arena where they will fight to the death. The winner earns the right to be born and live a full life, whereas the loser must be ground up into a protein supplement that's given to future warriors. It is a scenario that benefits all, for the unworthy are disposed of, and our soldiers are properly sustained for combat. Cayde: Cayde: OKAY! Well! I wish I never asked that!

[lacewise]

I was explaining Evangelical Christian poisoning to one of my friends (she doesn’t have a lot of exposure to it because she’s Jewish) and I said, “You’d be surprised how many people think getting martyred is more powerful and more important than good works. It’s the Christianity.”

And I think that’s the full explanation of why one conflict has to be so much worse than every other (because they care about it), why they would throw over their own politics, ethics, and morals to coalition with Truly The Worst People Ever Devised, why there has to be a clearcut Ultimate Bad Guy (they view The Ultimate Bad Guys as a collective) and Ultimate Good Guys (they always view the Ultimate Good Guys as individuals), etc.

Even if they’re wrong, they’re lying, etc, they think they will be vindicated and deified as martyrs after their death. They don’t have to do real research. They don’t have to say true things. They don’t have to check they’re the ones being tricked or supporting violence, they can’t be held to the standard of fact-checking, ever. For any reason. Because they’ll be canonized. Because they’ll be martyrs.

It just… is the Christianity.

There are a lot of very bad things impacting a lot of people right now. There are a lot of violent and powerful people using civilians as pawns, sacrifices, or human shields in desperate power grabs. This is happening all over, to many groups of people. Please check your information sources, your media literacy, your critical thinking skills. Please be gentle with yourselves and don’t overwhelm your mind with violent scenes and imagery. Please rest.

Consider donating to aid organizations, like Standing Together.

Follow people who don’t hide the nuance of situations, and keep at least vaguely aware of concurrent events. And: cannot stress this enough, Take. Breaks.

Not resting and letting your mind process makes everyone much more vulnerable to being tricked. Propaganda works the same as marketing fraud which works the same as other types of scams. The more emotional, the more exhausted, the more desperate for change: the easier it is to spread lies. And once those lies spread, it is extremely difficult to trace them back to their origins.

That’s all I have to say. I should be back to my irregularly scheduled lace programming this weekend (provided my paints cooperate).

[gertruderobinsonscat]

Soundtrack to the Trump Indictment:

[rainbowsky]

I usually really appreciate your political takes because we share the same political ideologies. However, I'm extremely disappointed with your recent take on the Israel-Palestine conflict. "When will people learn that their own pain is not justification to inflict pain onto others?" is one of the worst and most privileged takes on this topic. You have completely overlooked years worth of oppression and human cost of Palestine in making this overly simplified statement. It actually hurts to see people talk this way

Anon...

There are so many troubling things to unpack here that I don't even know where to start. I guess all I really have to say in response (without ripping into you in a way that I do not currently have the heart for) is: you do not know my position on any of this. Don't pretend to. Everything that you are saying here is a reflection of yourself and your own assumptions, it is not a reflection of me.

I get that it is a lot easier to just do a drive-by snipe at somebody rather than actually engage in a conversation, but my DMs are always open. There is never any need - nor any excuse - for this kind of anonymous presumptuous BS. I have made that very clear in the past (and I hope you will read that post, Anon, because it is the best possible explanation of where I stand on anonymous messages).

[genderqueer-dream]

This isn't prompted by anyone here! It's prompted by some irl conversations. ⚠️

If you support the death penalty and believe that is is fair/reasonable, I want you to unfollow me right now.

This blog is very vocally anti-execution but I figured it had to be said. That is all.

[astralflows]

really surprised macron hasn't been murdered yet

[emcads]

in other news i went the entire day without hearing a peep about [redacted]’s presidential run, and only just now found out from LizaMinelliOutlives. which is as it should be.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

hi

you are not morally obligated to give platform to every voice that makes you feel guilty, ever

guilt does not make you a good person, that's not how anything works

thanks for reading I sincerely hope you can also comprehension

[draculas-tits]

so glad that we can literally always expect a slew of casual transphobia and erasure in radfem cis dialogue everytime abortion comes up