"He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert" - George Orwell 1984. The new account of @canadasilverdragon find me on Ao3 at https://archiveofourown.org/users/Canada_Silver_Dragon
Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"
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every time someone talks about someone "faking disability to live on welfare" or anything to that effect i think about how my mom worked in law and directly knew of a case of a guy who had terminal brain cancer with an estimated few months to live and got rejected the first time he applied for disability income. like, he was 100% going to die and that wasn't disabled enough to not have to jump through a million hoops and get lawyers involved. non-disabled people "living off of welfare" is such a non issue because i cannot bring myself to care about the like, 3 people who maybe successfully do it compared to the thousands of people rejected who need aid
also welfare is... ridiculously low? If you make over a certain amount of money they'll kick you off it, you have to have very specific life circumstances to even get it in the first place, etc
yeah gotta be honest every time i think about how the dome of the rock was literally built on top of the holiest site to judaism and that jews are actually literally banned from going there i wonder how the jewish people haven’t set the world on fire with justifiable rage
and not only that but the people whose religious structure now sits on top of the temple mount have historically fear mongered about jews supposedly plotting to take over the site and used these misinformation campaigns to justify violence against jews — the hebron massacre for example — and yet the jewish community is expected to not be pissed about any of this
also i should be used to this by now but i think it’s wild how every fucking time i make a post like this validating jewish pain i IMMEDIATELY lose followers. some of y’all just plain disgust me.
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Also, what prompted the Second Intifada (on paper), was that a Jewish politician went to visit the Temple Mount after the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf illegally excavated and dumped over 10 dump-trucks' worth of priceless artifacts within the Temple Mount.
And they slaughtered thousands of our civilians for it.
“A new sense may actually be dawning that only a mass movement against Israeli apartheid (similar to South Africa’s) will work.”
Fuck this article, but the headline spot on.
A Jewish man merely visiting the holiest place in the entire Jewish religion, that Jews aren't allowed to go near to "respect" the religion that built over it, and that alone prompted slaughtering thousands of our civilians.
20 years after the fact, what attacks did Israel face?
And people try to, "Well... both sides" it.
"Wellllll, a Jewish politician visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque made Muslims scared that they'd make changes to it, so you can understand why--"
a) Like when they "made changes" to our holiest site in the world by destroying and dumping tens of tonnes of our holiest artifacts??
b) A Jew visiting a Mosque shouldn't prompt slaughtering thousands of Jews.
I shouldn't have to say that.
And don't, "Well, apartheid--" me:
This was just after the Camp David Summit.
Just after the Israeli government agreed to all of Yassir Araf's demands for Palestinian statehood and then some: All of Gaza, 96% of the West Bank, East Jerusalem as the capitol, plus full monetary reparations for those displaced in 1948 War that they started.
And Arafat responded by not just rejecting statehood, but his Waqf by vandalizing and destroying ten dump-trucks worth of the holiest Jewish artifacts from the holiest Jewish place in the world.
And Jews were (and are) expected to be completely fine with it.
"They destroyed literally tonnes of our holiest artifacts, but we visited their mosque, so it's really all the same."
"They stabbed, shot, and blew up thousands of our civilians across a bloody summer, but one of our guys visited their mosque, so tit-for-tat."
Fuck that.
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If you disagree with me about any of this, that's fine.
I don't care.
I just wanted to draw attention to that one extra detail.
It's also important to point out that this act of vandalism destroyed historical evidence of our history in Israel.
See, the Waqf's illegal excavation of the Temple Mount has a part two: The Temple Mount Sifting Project. We know where all the rubble was dumped, and this organization, with the help of hundreds of thousands of volunteers, has spent decades sifting through it for all the priceless archeological treasures.
But one of the most important elements of an archeological find, perhaps the most important element, is the context. Not only where it was found, but how deep. What was above it? What was it above?
And all of that context was permanently, irrevocably destroyed. If a 3000 year old shard is found, we have to ask: has it been there for three thousand years? Or could it have spent two thousand years elsewhere before being moved?
If the Temple Mount hadn't been desecrated, we'd find that shard in a layer of debris that would prove how long it had been there. But as is, we can't be totally certain. We can't prove it.
I've volunteered with the sifting project twice. The first time, I found a piece of Herodian tile--that is, the specific type of tile that he used in all his major building projects, which we also see at Masada.
I held in my hands corroboration of the contemporary account of Herod renovating the Temple and adding the retaining walls and plaza that are still standing today, the structure the Dome of the Rock was built on.
But that evidence, and every other piece of evidence the project finds, has, and always will have, an asterisk.
A bit of room for doubt that will always be there, because the religious authority descended from the conquerors of the land deliberately destroyed the evidence of the cultural history that predated their presence.
And yet, somehow, we are the real imperialist colonizers, and our presence is the real desecration.
The destruction of the context is huge here, I'm just a Pagan archaeologist, but the loss of all that information is devastating for the history of the Jewish people. Only roughly 1% of all material culture survives into the archaeological record. Any destruction of that is criminal and, when practiced at scale evidence of cultural erasure, a hallmark of genocide.
When you factor in the fact that Jews are so so few, the amount of material culture within the archaeological is infinitesimally more finite, especially when compared to say the Roman Empire or the Arab Conquest. The scale and depth of just this incident of Temple Mount looting (note the Jordanian government also did significant damage during their occupation of the West Bank, this is not an isolated incident) is unimaginable.
The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage is an atrocity in itself and should be recognized as such.
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The Israeli far right: "America shouldn't be able to tell us what to do! We should be able to bomb whoever we want and build settlements wherever we want! Take off the golden handcuffs!"
The American left: "omg yeah, I don't want my nice golden handcuffs touching gross Jew wrists. You're so right."
I find it very funny that people stopped shipping Ribbun when it was revealed that Ribbit wasn’t a man but now that Jax is canonically a trans woman it’s popular again. We really will do anything except ship het huh?
I have two older brothers. There are things I disagree with them on politically, but I know their hearts are in the right place, and they are both good people. I love them both dearly, and I am glad to have them in my life.
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IDK how you could study anything about the french revolution and come away thinking it is something inspiring and admirable. it was a horror show. and you probably would've been executed or died in some type of riot.
I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again
OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.
"Why are all these gijinkas skinny twinks?!" Because skinny people are easier to draw, and a lot of the gijinkas are being drawn by amateur artists who are still learning. It's really that simple.
but also you aren’t a bad person for enjoying drawing and reading about twink anthropomorphicizations despite what tumblr puritans would have you think.
What are your hot takes on neurodivergence? (Autism, ADHD, OCD, DID, Schizophrenia, etc.)
I do think a lot of people use it as an excuse not to grow as a person or exit their comfort zone, even if they’ve never even been diagnosed with anything. And a lot of people do claim to have types of neurodivergence when they don’t, or if they do they base their whole existence and personality around it instead of letting it exist as a facet of their whole person.
I dislike the label neurodivergent personality because as the anon’s examples display, it’s far too wide a term with too many distinct conditions grouped into it, which has the side effect of making it so broad as to be meaningless. If stuff like ADHD and Anxiety disorders which are relatively mundane and ridiculously common (and quite possibly over diagnosed but I digress) are grouped in with rarer and more severe conditions like schizophrenia and DID then the label of neurodivergence loses utility from that broad grouping. Then again I learned while writing this that ADHD is only diagnosed in about 10% of American youth and not 40% like I had thought previously for reasons I now can’t remember so maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. It just seems to me these days that everyone is neurodivergent and as a consequence of that, no one is.
I prefer the term in part because I have multiple diagnoses. Plus, I feel like we must be traveling in very very very very very different circles because I have only heard a small minority of people (handful?) I interact with regularly IRL call themselves neurodivergent, and even here on Tumblr it's still a minority.
I don’t interact with that many people who actively call themselves neurodivergent but I do know a great deal of people who are technically neurodivergent due to minor ADHD or the like and that led to me viewing the label as too inclusive for it’s own good.
I mean I can understand the utility of the term, as a way to generally describe the very broad expanse of people whose brains work outside the spectrum of normal, but I also get that because it’s so broad ironically the usage ends up being kinda limited.
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I feel like a demigod is more of a threat than a mortal woman but honestly I don’t know that much about either of those stories, maybe Electra takes it, she does have a history of murder.
