You gotta deal with it

You want civilized? This is civilized. Here's a link and here's the truth.

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There you go. This post is part of a thread. Enough.

And people wonder why I have anger issues. Here's my proof of innocence. Now Imma stream Billie Bust Up TO CALM MY ASS DOWN. Then Imma WRITE that Isekai and draw two of my OCs for said Isekai KISSING.

And I hate saying I fucking told you so and I hate saying you should have blocked them... But I told you so. You should have blocked those people on my damn block list. Served you fucking right. And after I'm done drawing and shit, I'm working on my own document. No fucking help needed!

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may the universe reward their bravery

Emily has every right to be upset but dragging it isn't helping anyone. Clinging onto this isn't healthy for her at all. Jorge apologized. It's obvious he's changed. People make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. He doesn't want people butting into his personal life. That much is obvious. And yes, we don't know him personally. But we don't know her either. I just personally think it's not any of our business. Please don't harass any of them. Or Talya.

Thank you!

I hate Hamas for making things worse for Palestinians and the families of the hostages; yes both sides with their governments are shit and horrible and I blame them and those who support them. But the civilians (those who are against this conflict and their governments) are the only ones I feel sympathy because they are the ones who are paying the price.

It makes me upset to see people being just outright cruel towards jews and scapegoating them as always. I have seen tons of anti-jew towards them in Tumblr that I cannot blame the jews for reacting defensive!

It makes me sick and ashamed for not realizing this sooner that I distance myself from anything related to said movement and slowly becoming apathetic and desensitized because I don't know who to trust and advocate for. I hate this so much because I care for those civilians, especially those innocent children paying the price....

...yeah...

it's one thing to be on the receiving end of a shitton of Jew hatred but it's a whole other thing when that hatred is wrapped up in this pretending to care about a vulnerable group but instead actually advocating for things that are actively harming said group (of course this is the thousands of years of antisemitic tradition doing the same thing it always does)

~former billionaire Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (deceased).

This is the "Pro Palestinian" ideology at its core. Sacrifice Palestinian lives to use their corpses as a raciopolitical cudgel against Jews, especially the Bad Jews Who Believe In Self Determination, all in service of some sort of a religious ritual summoning of "The Revolution" which never comes. Palestinians are literally human sacrifices towards some political "greater good" that will never materialize because human sacrifice and Jew hate or any other sort of bigotry have never made society better ever, and especially not in combination.

Anyway there are obvious litmus tests such as whether a person can firmly condemn the genocide, rape, torture, butchering, and kidnapping on October 7th and want hostages to come home from tunnels and random civilian homes in Gaza or whether they try to deny or excuse October 7 and curse the hostages for existing and being a nuisance. Whether they condemn as the cause of all death in the region or support Hamas and Hezbollah and Houthis. Whether or not they believe a two state solution is the only way to preserve security and dignity and autonomy of everyone living in the Levant, or whether they chant slogans calling for the ethnic cleansing of 7 million Jews from their native lands. Because these these are all things upon which basic humanity of the situation rests. The thing that is misunderstood is Zionists by and large want Palestinian people to have sovereignty over our native land because two thousand years of imperial settler colonialism put those people at the crossroads of three continents and, like us who were exiled from our native lands and then all exiled again from wherever we got exiled to whether it was Europe or the Middle East or North Africa and also don't have anywhere to go, especially with a new wave of Naziism in some of the few diaspora countries we once thought were safe for us (just like Jews living in Germany thought before the rise of Nazis and even for a while after).

Most people have never met a Jew whose ancestors were exiled to the Middle East or North Africa two thousand years ago and remained there until they were exiled again...because almost all of them ended up in the newly created Israel as refugees.

They were kicked out, of course, because a bunch of Jews including Holocaust refugees had just declared independence in their native land and therefore all the Jews that had been part of the social fabric of these countries (mostly as second class citizens called Dhimmis, but still...) had to be kicked out, naturally, you see.

The irony is these countries by expelling their Jews because they were upset that Israel existed, only made Israel stronger, because it was just about entirely Israel that absorbed these people who now today make up 70% of Israel's 7 million Jews.

And yes, I will be the one to say it, because if a Jewish person says it, some people are just gonna say that they’re colonizers, this, that, and the other. But we need reason, and not just blindly accuse each other of deplorable acts.

There’s been a lot of heat on both sides of the Israel-Palestine issue, and for good reason. But I’m going to offer my own perspective. I know I’m going to get a lot of hate, but I’m not going to stand here and just blindly accept the marginalization of human lives.

I’m from the USA, as some of y’all know, and my country has sadly done a lot of hurt towards many different people of many different backgrounds, and we’re still dealing with the repercussions of that today. So keep this in mind, because I want to ask you all some questions.

Native Americans were subject to horrible treatment by white settlers, including being put on reservations, having their land taken, and having their culture erased. Would this give them the right to storm the US Capitol, rape women, take mothers and children as hostages, and kill civilians?

African-Americans, also, were subject to horrible treatment, including the slave trade, segregation, and outright murder based on nothing but the color of their skin. Would this give them the right to storm the US Capitol, rape women, take mothers and children as hostages, and kill civilians?

For a more recent example, Japanese people were put in internment camps during WWII. Many of these people had never set foot on Japanese soil, but had been born and raised as American citizens. Would this give them the right to storm the US Capitol, rape women, take mothers and children as hostages, and kill civilians?

If the answer to these three scenarios is no, why is it okay when Hamas does it to Israeli citizens?

I’m not going to address the issue of land ownership, since that isn’t getting anyone anywhere with this argument. But what I will say is this: the day that Hamas chose to start this whole thing shows you all you need to know about their true colors.

What day was that? October 7th, 2023. Right at the beginning of the Feast of Sukkot, one of the holiest days in Judaism.

Hamas literally chose one of the holiest days in the Jewish faith to start the killing, torturing, and suffering of Jews that continues today, more than a year after it started. This is no arbitrary date, and many other terrorist groups have a similar modus operandi—take the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, for example.

Hamas aren’t freedom fighters, or a resistance movement. They are terrorists who will not stop killing until every Jew both in Israel and outside Israel is dead.

And they don’t just kill Jews. They’ve even killed other Palestinians—take the conflict in July and August of 2014 when 23 Palestinians were murdered by Hamas, many of whom were supporters of Rafah, Hamas’s political rivals.

When I say this, I am not trying to dunk on Palestinians. Many Palestinians have nothing to do with this, and just want the fighting to stop. But there are other Palestinians, and many Palestinian supporters, who have done absolutely reprehensible things—attacking Jews publicly, tearing missing posters of Jews down, and calling for the death of Jews, to name a few.

I fully understand that many Palestinians do have grievances against the Israeli state. That is perfectly valid, and I will always fight as an American for free speech everywhere, and for the right for the people to speak out against oppression. But these actions that are being taken are not the answer, and they’re only going to lead to more antisemitism and Islamophobia, both of which we have enough of in society without all this.

In summary, to the Jews: keep fighting. You matter, you are loved, and you are necessary in this world. All is not lost yet.

To the Palestinians: You have a right to your beliefs, and to your opinions, including about the Jewish state. I will always fight for your right to speak your minds, and to speak out against oppression and discrimination. But all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Speak out against oppression of your neighbors, and speak out against terrorism.