Sick Sad World

I am Amer, a Palestinian man from Gaza. I live with my wife and four children in indescribable conditions. Despite all this suffering, hope remains in our hearts.

My wife, my children, and I live in a single small tent. We lack the most basic necessities, and our daily lives are full of challenges: power outages, water shortages, and difficulty in securing food and medicine.

The situation in Gaza is tragic, and we face relentless conflict every single day. But I believe that strength lies in unity, and that support, however small, can transform our family's life. I launched this campaign as a plea for hope and an appeal for help to overcome this hardship. All we ask is for the opportunity to live with dignity for my children and my family.

If you hear our story, please share it and offer your support, whether through prayer, a kind word, or any other means. Together, we can make Gaza a better place.

My daughters spend their days standing in long lines for water and bread instead of living their childhood 🥺 My husband was also injured while trying to bring food for us during the famine.

I created this fundraiser with a broken heart, only hoping to protect my daughters and give them a chance to live with dignity, safety, and hope again 🙏

Any donation, no matter how small, can help us survive. And if you cannot donate, sharing our story may help us reach someone who can, but please try to support us with a donation because my campaign is still new and my little girls desperately need your help 🌿

My family now lives in a tent with no stable shelter, my sister Jana has no school, and I have no steady job. My brother Kamal carries the burden of the entire family, working every day to secure just enough food, while I search for any work, no matter how difficult or dangerous, just to survive.

My mother, the beautiful dream we once cherished, wished for a calm and happy life for us, but the war tore us apart and shattered our hopes. As for Jana, my innocent sister, she lost her school, her books, and even her sense of hope, yet she still writes her dreams on small pieces of paper, hiding them in her torn clothes so they won’t get lost like everything else.

We are not asking for the impossible, only what keeps us alive with dignity and gives us a chance to rebuild our lives. Every donation, no matter how small, means so much to us. Your support will give us hope to keep going and try again. 🙏❤️

What a journey. Thanks for reading!!

Isaiah 65:17

Yeahhh. I mean, at the end of the day, I'm not gonna judge a person over what character they like/relate to. Sometimes you can like a character for the idea of them rather than how they're actually handled in the show? But I will say that this whole narrative is so botched. Jax stans (not fans, important distinction because stans are intense) will criticise you for rejecting Jax or thinking that he is irredeemable. I've heard people use phrases like 'he's still a person' and 'there's a reason he is the way he is' and honestly???? What about his mum then? That's right! You wanna defend this shitty character and downplay his actions? You sympathise with him? Sympathise with his mum then. You don't know *her*. You don't know what *she's* been through. Why does she deserve to die?

But they'd never extend that same amount of sympathy to someone like Jax's mum, and that's where the argument falls apart completely. This isn't about trying to save lost souls or believing in second chances. Someone doesn't like your blorbo, and you don't like that. If Jax stans were really so committed to their second chance philosophy, they wouldn't be so quick to demonise his mum and assume she's irredeemable. But that's never been the core of this discussion. And the show has created this audience response (which imo, is much worse than any Jax stan). The show *wants* you to demonise this random woman and it uses her death as a prop. You're not supposed to give a fuck about her dying. It's all about Jax. The show deliberately omits as much detail as possible about this woman and frames her in a very deliberate way. Don't ask questions - don't ask who is telling the story (Jax, manipulative and an unreliable narrator). They could've given us ONE detail about this woman, anything at all to show she's a person - but they won't. Because that would *humanise* her too much. And we're not supposed to think about Jax's mother as a human being.

"you don't like the finale because you weren't paying attention"

"you're only mad because you wouldn't have written it the same way"

all of these takes are willfully ignorant of people like myself who did pay close attention, didn't have much in the way of headcanon at all, and didn't expect the story to match the exact ways in which I would have written it.

"Hmm, sad backstory. You're still an abusive shithead that actively makes others' lives worse and refuses to change."