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勿忘2569!

五大诉求，缺一不可!

光复加州，时代革命!

加州独立，唯一出路!

愿荣光归加州!

这是一道美丽的风景线!

没有非法移民，只有非法政权!

加州-美国，一边一国!

人权高于主权!

今晚我们都是洛杉矶人!

free California!

google translate tells me you want to free california from the yank regime??? no way this isn't a ripoff of free hong kong 💀

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I named it after kurapika

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this relationship feels like a totalitarian regime

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Any Christian who considers themselves a Zionists needs to watch this documentary right now. 

The Christians of Palestine are one of the worlds oldest Christian communities, if not the oldest. Yet, their plight and existence is often ignored by both Christians and Muslims around the world.

One of the clergymen in the documentary said that he believes Israel aims to be rid of Palestines Christians so the false narrative of Palestine-Israel being a "Jew vs Muslim" issue can be easier pushed. This I agree with. The "conflict" (putting conflict in quotes because I don't view it was an equal fight, but a battle between the oppressed and the oppressor) between the Palestinians and the state of Israel is often framed as a conflict between the Jews and the Muslims. While it is true that Islam has a role in the Palestinian cause (especially after the First Intifada with the rise of Hamas and other Islamist groups), Palestinian Christians are being erased, not just in the sense that they are rarely ever represented, but also in the sense that their communities are being destroyed. Zionists and Rightists often refer to Palestinian resistance as "Islamic Terrorism", and while its true that many of the resent operations are carried out by Muslim groups such as Hamas, its often ignored how many of the early faces of Palestinian armed resistance where from Christian backgrounds; such as Ghassan Kanafani, George Habash, and Wadie Haddad. 

This is not a religious conflict, it is a conflict between an oppressor, armed to the teeth by the US, and the oppressed, resisting in any way they can to make sure their existence does not get erased. A small community of ~1,000 Christians lived in Gaza before the current genocidal war, and while theres no way to tell at this point, its quite possible most of them have been killed.

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Trans women wears dress = anti feminist because shes not subverting gender norms enough.

Trans women doesnt wear a dress = anti feminist because shes not even TRYING to be a woman.

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last night reminded me that no matter what at least I have the hate in my heart

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Sits on your dash

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Have you ever been sent hate on tumblr? Can be anything from nasty replies to smear campaigns (im curious because I had to delete a post because people were being vile in the comments)

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revenge is actually kind of based, i mean it won't solve the problem that started all of this, but it will solve the problem of that bastard still being alive.

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it's fun not having anything useful or productive to say anymore

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I feel like the common literacy advice to "read critically" is very daunting when you first start reading (especially in self study) non fiction or theory and you keep experiencing the common "agree with the last position you heard" problem. this problem persists for much longer than people like to think it does - how are you supposed to question opinions you hear if the thesis of every book you read is the first opinion you ever encountered on a topic? how do you know what to think when everyone tells you they're right? this is just my experience but for me the two things that helped the most were:

to read criticism; reviews of books, someone's 10 note tumblr post, essays that respond to those ideas, twitter threads, your friend who took a class one time, etc. simply put, the more you steal people's opinions, the more you can sharpen your own. this gave me an idea of what the stakes are, how to pick and choose useful and useless aspects of a text, and, metatextually, what kind of aspects of a text can be criticized, a scope that is much much bigger than I initially thought, and:

to focus on a single topic at first. it's seductive to want to read everything because of the way people write those theory essential reading lists but only reading one seminal book on each topic is not a way to develop your understanding. by starting with various books that deal with a specific topic that interests you (for me, 19th century french psychiatry) you can get a better sense of the various approaches to a topic, the way historians contradict and respond to each other, the difference between an academic book, a news article, an anonymous anarchist library essay, and a communist propaganda leaflet on the same topic, and most importantly: you realize, as you accumulate knowledge, that published writings are often wrong and false! and realising the scope of this helps you be more confident in doubting and questioning any piece of writing in a critical way.

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The great qawwal Ustad Fariduddin Ayaz on Kabir in Had-Anhad, Bounded-Boundless (2007).

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The rate of extraction from the global south is truly enormous

Bananas grow by the millions of pounds, farmed by people paid cents on the hour, transported on trucks whose drivers are paid the same, loaded onto boats whose crews are paid in dollars per day, unloaded at an american port and driven by a rent-to-own trucker to a distribution center where a minimum wage worker labels and ships them to a store where another minimum wage worker stocks them for a dollar a pound. This is imperialism at work on a scale you can visibly see at every produce section at every grocery store in the usa

If you add up all the costs, the highest is first world labor. The labor of the toiling masses which happen before reaching american shores are nearly imperceptible compared to the wages paid to the american warehouse worker or grocery store worker. And yet, even those wages are nothing compared to the total profit extracted from this trade.

This same pattern repeats itself over and over again in every industry. These commodities end up in the first world to prop up their highly constructed and built by genocide and blood political-economy.

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let me guess your worst personality trait based on your taste in movies and tv shows

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once we were on a video call and he gave a smile so wide I almost killed myself and thought about it for an entire month until I told him

would anyone mind if I post about my best friend

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he's the sweetest kindest dumbassest wonderfulest person ever sometimes you're just reminded why you became friends in the first place or why you're still friends

would anyone mind if I post about my best friend