answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:
tl;dr:
israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.
with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.
the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.
as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.
the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.
ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.
and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.
all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!
long answers under the cut!
if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks
not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices
i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.
unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.
this was posted on abc a few days ago
it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.
even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.
with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.
plugging gaza soup kitchen for those with the means to donate! it's another gazan-led initiative currently providing food, water, classes for children, and medical care across the north and south. you can donate through their website or their gofundme, or follow them on instagram for news about their projects
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Oh you put the fascist politician in your silly game? Oh the joke of your post is that trump and netanyahu are gay and fuck each other? Oh your joke is so funny because nazis and war criminals are gay, and it's funny when men are dressed as women (which we all know is SOOOO embarrassing) but it's super radical and cool, because you're joking? Should we throw a party? Should we invite the gamergate bros and the 8chan creator??
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Even in situations like this when the 'roles are reversed', they aren't really reversed. She is still wearing her makeup, has her hair done, her nails done, wears jewellery, is wearing clothes that aren't comfortable and that are ornamental, I could go on.
If the roles really were reversed, she would be wearing comfortable and functional clothes, she'd be bare faced and she wouldn't be so focused on making herself 'look presentable'.
The fact that she's still doing all of these things leads me to believe that this is still a male fantasy, a fetish for him. Under that full burka, is he shaven? Is he dehumanisingly ornamented for the female gaze? Does he obsess over his weight or his complexion? Most likely no, because he can take it off and go about living his life while she must still perform for him even in a situation were the 'roles are reversed'.
"Must still perform". No, she doesn't have to. Women cause their own problems by slathering their skin in cancer causing chemicals. It's time to grow up ladies, and take responsibility for your decisions to participate in and uphold patriarchy. Not everything is mens fault.
absolutely outlandish discourse happening in the notes here.
at the risk of stating the obvious, women putting more effort into their appearance because they have been socially pressured to do so are the victims of patriarchy not it's perpetrators.
Following firestorm over anti-Muslim remarks posted online related to boy’s death, restaurant shutters temporarily, citing community safety.
They folded within a day. Multiple of their other businesses are listed in the article.
Also the fucking wife that posted it is like "oh I meant to put that on my private account" like that's some kind of fucking excuse.
Looking further into them, they seem like ~lovely~ people, who are being sued for death threats and harassment. And wife goes around regularly saying stuff like this:
The worse thing about the current discourse about xenophobia in South Africa is those who aren't African and aren't educated on the countries politics getting involved. Why did I see a popular Marxist call it a "Pan-Nationalist pogrom"? The EFF and the PAC are some of the only mfs against these pogroms and they're the only Pan-Africanists.
I got lots of tags on my posts saying I'm propagandising for Iran whenever I posted something positive about Iran on here during the war. But then these people are now making posts complimenting the Vatican for criticising AI.
Praises for criticizing AI and condemnation for not wanting Iranians to die?
The most oppressed people in the world are small businesses artists living in the global north who have no choice in exploiting cheap asian labor to make money, poor americans joining the us military for personal gain who have no choice in bombing asians and africans, and tumblr users who have no choice but to share how awesome they think it is when Black americans get killed by american police
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Europeans slowly burning in the inferno built by centuries of their continent's financial power and genocidal gluttony: 'no, the only solution is 10 billion more AC units'.
In my thirty years of experiences in forming and breaking friendships with impcorers online I do feel like a token sometimes lol good for you for having a Muslim lesbian friend from the global South, you can put that in your resume
I feel like these people only like me when I said the things they want to hear but when I try to say things I want them to hear about myself they're shutting me out 😞
Recently I've been thinking why people are often more empathetic towards animals that people
It's racism first and foremost, obviously
But people also often think of animals as innocent beings incapable of wrongdoing, and people in distress or poverty as somehow "bringing it upon themselves"
We see this in the intense racism against people living in countries that suffer greatly from pollution, and those countries or regions somehow always just happen to be ex-colonies
People blame those people for littering or "fucking up their own ecology" which in their eyes justifies the suffering and health consequences they go through
Humans basically can never be innocent, their suffering is always somehow deserved, or their own fault, or we can just do nothing about it
It's basically "humans are the real disease" to conceal the fundamental inequalities and racism of the global economy
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Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food
