fix your hearts or die

"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

Cat on Stripes - Felicity House

British , b. 1950 -

It's ultimately idiotic to whine over how many red cards were awarded in a match a or *squints eyes* whether Bellingham suffered from homophobia I guess??? When this is the picture that went around the world. This was the cover of multiple journals, it was plastered all over social media just yesterday. This scares Milei, scares the British government, scares FIFA, and it scares all fascists. I don't think we're appreciating it enough.

This visibilizes a cause we've been seeking justice over for the last 44 years while the world undermined it. This is one step towards making everyone aware of the dark bits of history that everyone is ignorant to. It's not just Malvinas. It's the U.S. backed military dictatorship that sent all those hungry teenagers to fight trained soldiers. It's the mourning that surrounds us every day. It's what makes us relentless and hungry for the fight. Both on and off the pitch.

I don't think we appreciate enough just how revolutionary the consequences of this will be.

This is what happens when famous people use a massive, international platform to speak out against injustice in the world.

FIFA, England, Trump, Javier Milei: the world is watching. And what they've seen cannot be unseen. And what they read cannot be unread. And this picture will live in the history books and the minds of football fans for ages.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

Step 1: invade a territory

Step 2: kill and/or displace all the people who lived there

Step 3: many years later, when all the undesired population of said land is long gone, call for a referendum on whether your people identify as nationals of your country or of the other country whose people you got rid of on step 2