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Just because Maduro said "Free Palestine" once it doesn't mean that Venezuelans aren't going through real suffering. No one is going to put their children through crossing the Darien when things are fine in their country, that's for fucking sure.

For the love of God, stop using Palestine as a get out of jail free card to avoid acquiring uncomfortable nuance that challenges your position about Venezuela. Palestine and its people deserve better than that.

People from the poorest areas in the country the ones that have, admittedly suffered the most through all these years, are tired and they need support.

I'm going to speak from the perspective of someone who lived in Catia, one the biggest low income areas in Caracas. Catia is a big portion of Caracas, it is divided in smaller areas like Isias Medina Angarita (where I lived), but it includes Los Magallanes de Catia, Plaza Catia, Propatria, Perez Bonalde, 23 de Enero.

23 de Enero is an iconic, immediately recognizable view for any caraqueño. 23 de Enero is also ruled by Colectivos. What are Colectivos? Government armed militias used to "prevent" unrest in heavily populated, low income areas. They also have Juntas Comunales, that are basically a board of directors from government supporters that determine if you deserve to receive resources (minor stuff like food or gas for cooking). If either the Colectivos or the Junta Comunal decide you stepped out of line, you'll face consequences. The members of the Colectivo will basically surveil your every move. The Junta Comunal will ban you from acquiring a CLAP box (a box with certain foods sold at a controlled price, that you have to enroll to receive), or ban you from acquiring gas cylinders that you NEED to cook because houses in these popular areas do not have gas pipes. For years they have controlled people in these areas by terror and starvation.

You've never spoken to an actual Venezuelan in your entire life, not that you'd listen, anyway. The moment they said anything that you don't want to listen, you'd mentally check out, bury your head in your own ass and find a justification for the brutality and abuses venezuelans have to deal with.

I know what you’re thinking — that’s really slow! I can write that in 20 minutes. Right, but that assumes that when you started typing, you knew exactly what you were going to write — every line of dialogue your characters were about to say, every description perfectly pre-planned, etc.

And then you have to go back and edit it. And tag it. And cut out parts that don’t work and add new bits. So by the time you’ve got that “short” fic all ready to go, you’ve probably spent at least two hours on it, maybe more.

So yeah, as an author, I cringe seeing the “this was so short!!” comments on fics, even when they’re well-intentioned. Because someone just took 2+ hours out of their day for something you could read in less than five minutes and be done with.

Alan Scott (OG Green Lantern)

Animal Man

Aquaman

The Authority

Big Barda

Black Canary

Blue Beetle

Booster Gold and Blue Beetle

The Creeper

DC New 52

DC New Gods

DC Westerns

Deadman

Doom Patrol

The Flash (1) (2) (Wally West)

General DC Recs, or tl;dr edition

Green Arrow (1) (2)

Green Lantern, (v4 Alt) (Kyle Rayner)

Hawkman and Hawkgirl

Jay Garrick (OG Flash)

John Constantine/Hellblazer

Justice League/Justice League International

Justice Society of America

Larfleeze

Lobo

Martian Manhunter

The Phantom Stranger

Plastic Man

The Question

The Question (Renee Montoya)

Rogues (The Flash)

Solomon Grundy

Swamp Thing

The Spectre

Teen Titans

Wonder Woman (alt version)

Zatanna

SUPERMAN &  SUPERMAN FAMILY

Bibbo

Bizarro

Braniac

Jimmy Olsen

Krypto the Superdog

Lex Luthor

Lois Lane

Metallo

Mr. Mzxyptlk

Parasite

Phantom Zone Criminals

Power Girl

Prankster

Superboy

Supergirl

Superman (1) (2) (modern era)

Toyman

BATMAN & BATFAMILY 

Chronological Batman

For Beginners, Past the Basics (or alt version)

General Recs (1)  (2)

Grant Morrison’s run

Azrael

Bane

Bat-Family

Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), (or 2/2/13 update)

Bat-Mite

Batwoman

Catwoman

Damien Wayne

Joker

Nightwing (Dick Grayson)

Riddler (1) (2)

Robin (Tim Drake)

Stephanie Brown

Two Face

Villains General Rec

CAPTAIN MARVEL & MARVEL FAMILY

Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel Jr.

Mary Marvel

(Pls. Bruce having to put up with Dami’s shit is the best thing ever)

Like please. Bruce not a dad? Bruce, acting “too fatherly?” Pshh, not possible. The entirety of Batman canon would like to disagree with you. He might not know how to express his feelings all the time, but he cares deeply about each and every one of his kids, and has shown it on multiple occasions. I guess we also have to ignore that he actually legitimately has a biological child and three legally adopted children in canon. 

Me & every other Bruce fan^

But that's not what makes Amanita Ocreata and it's relatives awful.

With rabies there is no reprieve: you are sick and get sicker until you die. With these mushrooms, though, you will be sick for a while, and then suddenly you will feel like it has passed, and you are on the mend.

This is a lie. You are about to return to groaning intestinal pain, slip into a coma, and die. Because during that "reprieve" period, as Kingfisher & Wombat note, the active toxin in the mushroom is destroying your liver.

Palestine is going through a genocide/ethnic cleansing/colonization

Sudan is going through Genocide/Famine/War

In Congo the Children are being sold / the woman are getting sexually assaulted along with minors and impregnated/ Man are being slaved

Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Muslims are facing: possible genocide, forced abortion, forced sterilization, forced birth control, forced labor, torture in the north-western region of Xinjiang by china.

the Syrian Civil War is primarily rooted in a feud between Russia and the United States and their allies in the region over natural gas pipelines passing through Syria on their way to European markets, Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale military intervention in Syria to prevent the fall of their ally Bashar al-Assad and stop Syria from joining the Western sphere of influence = Syrian are dying everyday because of other people greed.