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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.

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A photo I took of this exact statue on May 22, 2022. Pat the horse's butt on its way out.

good content

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i think this is an incredibly funny thing to say after you announced you're removing sokka's sexism, the systemic misogyny katara goes through, aang's reluctance to fulfill his duties as avatar, and generally any nuanced character flaw to make it more simpler, BUT you are adding more explicit violence (specifically the air nomad genocide) so that it's not for babies any more i guess.

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Here is a masterlist of every single genocidal statement made by the State of Israel, all appropriately quoted and sourced.

These statements cannot be retracted.

Quote from the Israeli State Minister of Agriculture and Development.

And yet, Zionists will tell you that “This is not a genocide, Hamas are using Palestinians as human shields!”

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Link to the official PDF transcripts of the ICJ hearing, with South Africa's argument being "Verbatim record 2024/1" and Israel's argument being "Verbatim record 2024/2".

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel.

full video of the first ICJ hearing, jan 11 2024

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i read an article that really puts into perspective part of why zionists and israel apologists and “leftists” want to be victims so bad.

you want us to hate you because if you reconcile with the fact that we don’t… you have no justification for your indiscriminate hatred and prejudice.

“Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.”

sound familiar? that’s what most zionists are afraid of. this (among a myriad of other reasons) is why they convince themselves that this genocidal ethnostate is their safe haven. they don’t want to be proven wrong when palestine is liberated and there is no “reverse nakba”.

you want arabs to want to kill you, because if they don’t… it just means you’re the one who’s genocidal. and that’s a tough pill to swallow, huh?

you, so badly, want palestinians and their supporters to be the barbarians you’ve indoctrinated your children to believe. because if they’re not, they’ll raise questions and come to the conclusion that it is actually you who is barbaric and cruel. and you’ll lose your power over their brainwashed minds. so what do you do? you lie.

“Apartheid-era white elites had justified white domination by saying that, without their rule, Black people would take revenge on them or ruin the country. When widespread revenge and ruin never came, many white people felt forced to fabricate it; otherwise, white dominance became all the more shameful—not only to apartheid’s proponents but even to anti-apartheid progressives, who had inevitably benefited from a regime that comprehensively promoted white interests.”

this is a tactic we’ve been seeing zionists and their apologists use pretty often. false reports and outlandish allegations crafted to fit the disgusting and racist image of palestinians they’ve created and instilled into their society. a way to fear monger—to control the public. to somehow justify the massacres and the occupation. to justify stealing the land and livelihoods of the natives. a sorry (and failed) attempt at making themselves seem less cruel and depraved than they are.

you fear the kindness of the people who oppose your harmful ideologies. and that’s why you choose to label them as antisemitic, and accuse them of hating you. of course, there is antisemitism in the world. nobody is denying that. but the things you label antisemitic? the way you refuse to separate a harmful political ideology from your identity? things like this???

yeah this… you do this because if you don’t, you’ll have to admit that you’re the one who’s being vile and disgusting. you’ll have to admit that your state was built upon war crimes, theft, and lies. you’ll have to admit that the land should be returned to the palestinians. and that’s not something even the most liberal of you israel supporters can reconcile with. because at the end of the day… you do not want to forgo the privileges you currently have. even if they exist at the expense of taking away the rights of another civilisation.

at the end of the day… it’s just you > an entire civilisation being murdered in your name.

that’s the bitter truth people like you don’t want to acknowledge. and that’s the exact bitter truth the people you hate so badly are forcing you to face.

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Two halves of one whole haircut

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All 13 full moons of 2023

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james somerton is back with a vague and self-centered apology video and has re-opened his patreon, so if you were subscribed to him when he shut it down, unsubscribe now.

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"the vocaloid community cant be THAT funny" here's kyounosuke yoshitate, voice provider of nekomura iroha, in the MIDDLE OF HIS VIDEO WHERE HE CAME OUT AS TRANS

i think about this so fucking often. its been 2 years and sometimes i still randomly go "i cant believe yoshitate kyounosuke used his fucking coming out to shill for iroha.... legend.... icon...."

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the blog killing axolotl is one of my favorite things that has ever happened on this website because talking about it afterwards sounds like an inside joke or perhaps a prank. like always be on the lookout for the blog killing axolotl. he can kill your blog. it happened to me once trust me.

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decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.