fix your hearts or die

I bring a "zionism is first and foremost a term and philosophy for jews that was co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum because they aren't allowed to say kike anymore" vibe to the function that frankly makes a lot of people uncomfortable

Voting is your civic duty. It is your responsibility to participate in your local elections. Show up to each and every single one of them*. Form opinions about every single thing on the ballot and vote on them. It’s not hard - I generally spend about an hour doing research before casting my ballot each election and I feel like I’m reasonably informed. This shit matters, and skipping out on voting doesn’t make you “cool” it makes you negligent.

hey if you're transfem you don't have to call yourself amab just so you know. if you're transmasc you don't have to call yourself afab. if you're nonbinary you don't need to use either. no one needs to know. thats a thing that happened to you once. you wouldn't call yourself a walmart resident because you needed pasta one time and that was the only thing open

It is actually very easy to google holidays so that you don't schedule your event on a major religious day and end up forcing people to choose between your event (a protest, pride parade, etc) and their religious beliefs and community. Scheduling things like that on Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat, Eid, etc is not ignorance, it is a willful choice to exclude big chunks of the community for their religions and cultures.

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

pro palestiniks are so fundamentally stupid they’d hear about kibbutzniks draining israel's malaria swamps and call it ecological imperialism

Because they envision Palestinians as needing to fit the model of the Ecological Indigene™ whose close relationship with and stewardship of the land was in perfect harmony, and hence they envision the state of abject ecological degradation and collapse the land was in for centuries under imperial Greco-Roman and Islamic rule as a romanticized, natural state that had been carefully nurtured and undisturbed since time immemorial. When in fact the colony of Palestine was such a blight on the native ecosystems that dozens of keystone species went extinct, most of the land was unnaturally desertified and swampified, and during several historic periods experienced such long and intense famines and droughts that human population declined drastically because most of the country was uninhabitable. Invasive species like tzabar - originating in Mexico - were heavily adopted and spread by settler communities, many staple crops like our ancient grape cultivars and date palms were wiped out, and things like our terrace farms (madregot or ma‘alot) and other native landscaping practices that used to keep local ecosystems and water systems and soils were mostly destroyed. Almost all large carnivores like lions, bears, monitor lizards, and crocodiles were extirpated due to overhunting, habitat destruction, and extinction of a lot of their original prey species: oryxes, hartebeests, onagers, ostriches, etc. Ancient Israel was not filled with swamps and deserts. Romantic nationalists see images of "Palestine before Zionism" and interpret its decay and neglect as being the normative condition - or even a beautiful indigenous cultivation - when the truth is that before Zionism, the colony of Palestine's exploitation of, violence against, and apathy towards the land and its oldest inhabitants brought it to ruin.