Magic Is Found In the Ordinary

you cannot convince me illegal immigration is a real problem and I'm sick of pretending it is. yk when you were a kid and you got mad at your sibling for crossing an imaginary line that you drew in the car? that's what you're doing right now except you're actually killing people over it

it’s necessary that you understand and internalize that confidence is not a mystical and elusive trait. it is a relationship with yourself built on trust in yourself, your judgement, your abilities. it’s knowing that you are not lacking in anything and that you have everything you need to move through anything that happens to you. it is being comfortable with failure or getting hurt because you know you have all that you need to take care of yourself and even if you don’t, you have the chance and the tenacity to find it. so, why would you want to have any other relationship with yourself?

here's a link to the article (29 Mar, 2024)

additionally; while i am citing my followers on that math, it still helps, to boost this, you don't even have to boost this post specifically, i've pinned the original post for this gfm; i'm not asking i be plugged in any way, or to be followed by new people would share it with, but if you enjoy my work and want to see it return, and truly do want to help regardless but are also struggling (i know how it is, trust me) then you can still spread the gfm to others, link it to places and just ask like, your pals? coworkers? in your discords or mutual support chatrooms? suggest donation matching, however it might get this there quickly, for the family's sake

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

Let it be known that the world would rather watch as the zionist occupation wipes out my people systematically, industrially, daily, than to take the offensive and end it before it's too late, and it's already too late. No, what's most important to them is pretending bureaucracy is real and not a façade for Western war criminals to keep doing what they want as long as they want.

I’ve always known that to most people Arab lives are not worth mentioning, let alone caring for. But seeing it proved in my lifetime through a literal genocide is actually making me short-circuit. I can’t believe this is happening I can’t believe most aid orgs are withdrawing from Palestine I can’t believe nothing is being done

“it’s just Hamas” fuck you “this is pointless online advocacy” fuck you “Arabs had it coming because they’re misogynistic/barbarian” fuck you “blame this on Hamas” fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. I am so angry I can’t even find the words. I have never known a moment in my lifetime where I wasn’t of the understanding that being occupied is a given with being Iraqi—and now, I’m realizing through all this, with being Arab. You’re pissed off when we speak up about this because you want Arab people to just accept that this will forever be their fate and the fate of their homelands. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart. You are cold and you are soulless and you are complicit in every death that has happened and will happen.

People act like Arabs aren’t already dehumanized enough as it is. Now they have to drive a point that’s already forced on us over and over by expecting us to just sit back and be okay with genocide. I’ve never wished someone ill will in my life, but people like this are the exception. You are literally subhuman to me. I wish you nothing but endless pain and suffering, and I have never meant that more in my life.

the article goes into doctors' accounts of this in more detail, but they describe being tied to chairs and sliced with glass. being thrown into vehicles and beaten on the way--with rifles, with fists, hoses, sticks. they were constantly humiliated. they had to stand for irregular hours. they were left in nothing but boxers. many of their families don't even know they're missing and are frantically reporting them as missing. actual doctors. israel is now torturing doctors in gaza.

Like it's been said before that when Israelis and Zionists cry "why do you single out Israel?!", they should in fact be reminded that Israel singles itself out. I mean, who commits violence at this magnitude and then bemoans being the victim??