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Y'all still boycotting, right? Still following the BDS movement, right? You still remember that Boycotts are for life, right?? You read that the Israeli Zionist Occupation is connected to other ongoing genocides, e.g. in Congo, right???

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"We'll be back to rebuild it" Gaza, 2024

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If you criticize a state and they accuse you of criticizing a religion, you know they can’t justify themselves. They can only try to delegitimize you.

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Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

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Keep boycotting McDonald's

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The "only democracy in the Middle East", everyone.

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End the Occupation! Free Palestine!

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How 💔

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My mom’s house is set up so the front door opens directly to the staircase and into the main room/living room so when you come inside and head upstairs you look directly over the main room.

this is relevant because any time I came home and headed upstairs, my mom would have an opportunity to catch me on the stairs from her seat on the couch.

and often she has over friends for wine and coffee from from the community theatre or her church (catholic), and they’d stop me on my way up for things like, “oh come look at this picture I took of a snake in my garden! Can you tell me what it is?” Or, “can you explain Tiktok to us. Is it bad?”

I got used to giving five minute lectures on random topics before I had the chance to take my shoes off. I admired that they seemed to be so open minded, often asking me to explain topics like gender identity and other things very new to them.

But one day I came in and heard one of them say, “Oh let’s ask Mallaidh Anne. She’ll know.”

So I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and met the expectant faces of my mother and her friends, and then one of them said, “what’s monsterfucking?”

Bear in mind some of these women are published authors, so it’s not crazy that they’d encounter the term as a genre but that didn’t prepare me any better for the moment than knowing hippos exist would prep me to encounter one at a Burger King.

I do think it’s nice that parents have evolved new and exciting ways to corner us the way we must have done to them as children.

You thought it was awkward when your child asked you about sex or death before you were prepared for that conversation? Stop them on a random Tuesday when they’re 26 and ask them about the Omegaverse.