✡︎ Funko Pop's Personal Blog ✡︎

I noticed that 41 - 50 were missing, so I created them.

41. What’s your favorite book?

42. What’s your favorite song?

43. What’s your favorite movie?

44. Have you ever danced in the rain?

45. What was one of the worst moments of your life?

46. What was one of the best moments of your life?

47. What’s something that makes you happy?

48. What was something unexpected that happened to you in the past year (positive)?

49. How do you decompress?

1) Figured this out.

Let's see-there's Jews are wealthy (Powerful Jewish Capitalists), Jews control everything/responsible for everything-hey we even have a shout out to the Nazi Octopus, Good Jews vs Bad Jews ('Real' Judaism), Jews are White, Jews are Rootless Cosmopolitans/Colonizers, Jews are Liars, Opposing Judaism Is Righteous (Are we talking Middle Ages, Nazism, Sovietism? No what, doesn't matter, it's the same shit repackaged!), The Jews Are the Bad Guys In An Ahistorial Cartoonish Way that They're Responsible For Their Own Ethnic Cleansing And Genocide in the Middle East Outside Israel....

Also "killing and invading their neighbors?" Did you not know Hezbollah and Hamas were the ones to attack Israel in the first place, after Israel had given them time and time again, the chance to not be psychotic Jew haters? Hamas were given resources and cash and what did they do with it? Initiate the worst attack on the Jewish people since the holocaust.

Hezbollah made the north's life a living hell for decades and you expect Israel to show them any goodwill?

the problem with israel is that they had so much goodwill following oct 7 because it was really such a horrific attack. all they had to do was respond more or less in kind and then sit back down and everything would be great

ALLL THEY HAD TO DO was murder and rape and behead and dismember and kidnap children just like my little blorbos!!!!!!! THEN no one would hate them [for waging a war they did not start, endangering their own soldiers in attempts to minimize civilian casualties, using taxpayer funds to provide aid they KNOW will be used to hurt them, spending millions providing healthcare to those who orchestrate the murder of jews (and their allies)]

I don’t.

The reason I have no time for this excuse is because of the distinction between emotion and action.

What Israel has done to Gaza is horrific, and I would hope that regardless of your views on the conflict, we can all acknowledge that there are now many people living among what is an almost-destroyed country. The IDF has committed war crimes at a minimum, and Israel’s current government (at the time of this post) is blatantly racist and anti-Palestinian. And I get that when we see those things, especially with social media where you now see children being blown up on your feed, that is going to give you negative feelings about Israel. And when you have negative feelings about a country, you very quickly end up having negative feelings about a country’s people.

That’s normal. It is normal to feel like this. It is normal because from the very start of our species, our brains had to group people into boxes in order to survive. This Group of people give you berries and help sharpen your hunting sticks and so they are Good; This Group of people chase you with their hunting sticks and steal your berries and so they are Bad. Placing friend or foe into simple boxes is how human beings made it through so many centuries.

Which is why whilst it is sometimes difficult to read, I do not blame Palestinian, Lebanese, etc people for fearing or hating Israelis. They are genuinely in fight or flight, life or death mode right now. Trusting the wrong Israeli could end with them getting attacked or killed. Mending the hatred and fear between all of these populations is going to take centuries, generations. That trauma will not go away easily.

Westerners watching this all on social media? No, I’m sorry, you do not get that excuse. You are not over there. You are not being bombed. You are not being killed. You are watching this on your TV, and you can turn off whenever you want. If you really wanted to, you could disassociate from the entire thing and never think about Israel again, by constructing your social media feeds and being careful about what news channels you watch. You have an immense amount of privilege in that if you are wading into this conflict, you are choosing to do so, and you are making the choice that you will be presented with death and destruction and suffering. You are choosing to interact with this.

And yeah, good. It’s good for people to witness this and to take an interest and to want to end suffering. But you do not get to hijack that suffering and act as though you seeing the destruction of Gaza on a screen is the same as actually being in it.

You hate Israelis? Fine. Now it’s your responsibility to unlearn that. Because you can unlearn it, because you are not the one having your villages ransacked, or guns pointed at your head, or your home taken over by settlers. You are not directly in that horror and fear and fury.

And you need to take a step back, and start taking some responsibility for your emotions. If you hate Israelis, that is your issue to solve. Israelis do not need to perform in the way you want in order for you to recognise their humanity.

You have the Internet. You have libraries. You have bookstores. Go look for the Israelis who protest against their government. Go look for the Israelis who try to help Palestinians. Go look for the Israelis who write nuanced, conflicted essays. Go look for the Israelis who create books and films in order to explore their reality via fiction. Go look for the Israelis who set up interfaith groups. Go look for the Israeli children who aren’t old enough to understand anything about what’s happening. Go look for the Israeli scientists who are creating incredible progress in medical science that can benefit everybody in the world. Go look for the Israeli engineers who help create the same technology you use to publicly deny their humanity. Go look for the Israeli musicians who have created beautiful music for the world to enjoy. Go look for the Israelis who were traumatised by Oct 7th, but still want to give peace a chance. Go look for the Israelis who want nothing more than to have a happy childhood, get a job, marry a nice spouse, raise their children, then retire—just like everybody else. Go look for the Israelis who are just like you.

If hearing Hebrew frightens you, go listen to Hebrew until it doesn’t.

If you think all Israelis hate Palestinians, go talk to them until you find one who doesn’t.

If you think all Israelis are ugly, go Google Image them until you find one you find beautiful.

If you think all Israelis are bloodthirsty, go research it until you find one advocating for peace.

If you point the finger at Israelis, remember there are three more pointing straight back at you.

I don’t really care if the past couple of years has ‘caused you’ to dehumanise and hate an entire population of people. Your emotions are your responsibility to tackle. Dehumanisation is your problem. Take some goddamn responsibility and sort yourselves out.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

It's also denial of the genocides experienced by Jews in the Middle East.

All human beings are equal and deserve life, shouldn't be displaced, and shouldn't face dehumanization.

Their grandparents are very often victims of the Holocaust, and the many efforts to displace Jews across the Middle East.

Jewish people experienced displacement at the hands of Europeans and Middle Easterners.

I've heard this so many times. That after the Holocaust Jews were supposed to move back in? To the homes where their neighbors ratted them out? The properties that were confiscated from them?

*snort*

This is Targowa 67, in Lodz, Poland. It was my paternal grandmother's family bakery and apartment.

My great-uncle was sent to the gulag by the Soviets when he tried to reclaim it after the Holocaust, and when we tried to reclaim it in the 1990s--as we had the paperwork still--the city government, which owns it now, threatened our lives. "You would have to come here to press the suit, and we would not be able to guarantee your safety" was what they said.

But hey, ignoring all of the history and stuff stolen from the Jews who then had to flee to other countries, while their oppressors got rich off of what they stole is just easier and gives a better sense of superiority, doesn't it?

Like, I didn’t fully understand this either until fairly recently! But it is so convenient for a ruling power to have a population of people who are literate, exempt from religious prohibitions on certain kinds of financial transactions, and incredibly easy targets for resentment and hatred.

So much of the last 2000 years of Jewish history involves Jews being 1) allowed to move to a region, 2) barred from most occupations, 3) steered (or forced) into fields that allow them to build up some degree of wealth and success while 4) serving as an involuntary meat shield between the peasantry and the ruling class.

And then when there’s famine or war or plague or social unrest or revolution, it’s so easy to aim all the blame at the Jews, who were doing pretty okay for themselves up to that point.

We take the fall for whatever has gone wrong, get killed or expelled, and conveniently are forced to leave behind the homes and businesses and wealth that we’d managed to build despite our deliberately limited options. Whoever’s now in charge gets the spoils, and those of us who survived have to go start over somewhere else.

This is an old, old pattern. It has happened to someone in the family of just about every single Jewish person alive, usually more than once. In my direct family tree, it happened to all my great-great grandparents, who left the Pale in the midst of the 1880s wave of pogroms. Hell, I have an uncle by marriage who had to flee Iran as a teenager in the 70s — that’s the 1970s, to be clear — and his family left behind homes and farms and bank accounts. Everything but what they could carry.

but ALSO, it cannot be understated that the existence of the state of Israel is a rare example of a successful decolonization project on the world stage.

People in colonies like the Americas, Australia, Sweden, South Africa, New Zeland, etc. Are calling an intifada to OUR home, makes me feel like they dont care. Makes me feel like they are willing to hand our land to another colonial population, we have no right in or any say over the land our tribes (and others) lived before white people stepped on our shores . You must know just as well as I do, if not more, how people shut down our "land back" movement and have been for at least my entire life. There is no line, they dont want any indigenous population that would affect their way of life, or make them feel guilty for taking land. Canada silently lets aboriginal sit in poverty, have apartheids, anti-native propaganda in schools, the population is extremely racist and even dare I say "hateful", and misunderstand the entire "free North America movement". In reality the Hamaskins have made it harder for any colony to decolonize, now that for example decolonization = violence and terrorism to almost every government world wide. Hamaskins have sullied and blackened the free america movement and have falsely applied it onto the Palestinians. As we have seen/heard, to be indigenous is to be poor, to be recognizeable, to be another race lower than them on the totem poll. This narrative now carries "land back = a bloody war" which makes governments pretty happy to further oppress indigenous peoples, and even take more rights away. If any of these people actually wanted decolonization, they would listen to the aboriginal peoples living there and not pretend we do not exist all over the world. The fact they dont even care about their own neighbors, how can we expect them to truly care about anything or anyone?

We were forced into one empire with horrible genocidal consequences, and colonizers want to put it in the hands of terrorist groups, that will finish the job.

I know plenty of these white leftists who really feel guilt about staying in Canada and the US, but just project that on Jews, whom they claim are so privileged, especially to "conveniently wield the victim card", especially the Holocaust, to "oppress natives". I actually once asked them in a server if they are so guilty about Columbus and all, why don't they just go back to where they came from? (using their argument when they always talked about Jews) I got warned by an admin for "being racist".

"the solution to oppression is to encourage toleration within your own society, not decide 'let’s pack our bags and go live someplace else' "

What the fuck.

"encourage toleration within your own society" AFTER THE HOLOCAUST? YOU WANTED THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAD JUST SURVIVED THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST TO "encourage toleration"?? FUCK YOU. YOU WANTED JEWISH PEOPLE TO GO BACK TO THEIR "NORMAL" LIVES IN THEIR DESTROYED HOUSES AND BUSINESSES WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS WHO TURNED THEM IN AND PARTICIPATED IN THAT VERY HOLOCAUST?

The amount of naivete presented in that statement blows me away completely. "Encourage toleration" WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THEY WERE DOING BEFORE THAT? "Encourage toleration" maybe you should stop putting it on the minorities to fix everything and make the damn racists responsible for fixing their racism. "Encourage toleration" like they didn't try. "Encourage toleration" like the countries that refused to host Jewish refugees actually welcomed them with open arms. Like mass antisemitism disappeared after Hitler died. Like no countries after WW2 Germany were antisemitic ever, in their politicians and leaders, their policies, their laws, their actions, anything.

"encourage toleration"