Whatever Makes Your Ship Float

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

IDK if this works with the current incarnation of dA and i haven't tested it myself but this article discusses and links to an open source program that can mass download a user's favorites/galleries/etc. so it might be worth a try if you want to back things up before deactivating. some people in the reviews mentioned it only grabbing the thumbnails and messing up gifs but i'm not sure if that is still a present issue since those complaints are from ten years ago LOL.

A Palestinian woman who has lost 68 family members in Gaza confronts Senator Warren. She had no answer

We [Jewish Voice for Peace] mobilized with Harvard students and others in Cambridge to disrupt [Senator Warren] at dinner

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A father from Gaza narrates the painful story of how he lost his wife and son as young as 13.

hypothetical: let us say you live in ancient mexico, 15th century, in a nice sized village a few days walk away from Tenochtitlan. one day the aztecs come and raze your village to the ground, kill the men, rape the women, and kidnap the children. it is documented historically and forensically that the aztec empire slaughtered innocent people in the thousands every year and destroyed hundreds of neighboring villages to expand their claim to the land. the other villages fought back, sometimes even attacked preemptively, and were killed or enslaved for it. but the aztec are indigenous too, so it's okay, right? it's a complicated history, but aztecs live there too so that justifies over thousands of innocents murdered over decades of violent expansion, right?