I know it shouldn't be surprising after well over a year of genocide in Gaza backed by the US, but I feel like the world moved on way too quick wrt Trump texting orders to massacre Yemenis with fire emojis. It's crazy that the indignation of this massacre being leaked took precedence in mainstream discourse over the massacre of Yemenis. Not even the casual, gleeful callousness with which it was done made most reporting. Arab lives truly mean so little. Arabs don't have lives at all. Our lives and the lives of our kin are so dehumanised that a world leader texting orders for Yemenis to be slaughtered via drone like a video game is indeed spoken of like a video game. the most outcry the mainstream can muster is how despicable it is that it wasn't kept a secret....not outrage that it happened at all...I guess it worked. All those movies with islamic terrorist villains, 25+ years of news media manufacturing consent for the occupation and slaughter of Iraqis, decades of DoD influence in Hollywood, all the times Israel's version of events was prioritised - it really did such a great job that the president of the US can massacre Yemenis with a text, the text is leaked, and people are mostly just mad that the text leaked.

watching fascists lie baldly and thoughtlessly about what is happening in Palestine is a very unpleasant callback to the many, many years I spent arguing with fascists about the war in Iraq. it took about a decade for the government to admit that they lied about the WMDs that go-around in oder to manufacture consent, and to label the entire Iraqi population terrorists on the basis of their religion. it's also a bit depressing to me to realize there are people my age who were simply not paying attention to anything that happened because as children they didn't know or care. they don't remember the "free speech zones" because they were not protesting. I spent the entire GW Bush presidency protesting while underage, and I voted for Obama because he campaigned on closing Gitmo. the fact that he pardoned the previous administration on his first day in office basically disillusioned me with the American political process and the fact that Gitmo remains open to this day is, of course, an unforgivable insult to human life

I feel like ppl get bogged down in semantics so let me make it real simple for you. A zionist is someone who supports the state of Israel. Zionism is the belief that a Jewish ethnostate called Israel should be developed in the Levant region (Palestine and Lebanon and Syria) regardless of the existence of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and their people. When any pro-Palestine person says someone is a Zionist, that's not a synonym for Jewish, nor is another word for "person I don't like". When we call someone a zionist it's because they support the existence of Israel as a colony. And just so we're clear: it does not matter if a zionist says they're sad about Palestinian suffering or they want to "live in peace" with Palestinians because as long as they support the existence of a colonial ethnostate called Israel then they're still doing Zionism. If I came to your house and just started living there and tried to starve you out and torture you so you would leave your house, it wouldn't matter that I felt "sorry" for you because I'm the reason you're suffering at all. That's why when you try and say "well, Neil Druckman says he wants the war to stop" that doesn't matter. He's still a zionist. He still wants Israel to exist as a colonial state which will always be at the expense of Palestinians. Do not fall for liberal Zionists. Get it in your fucking head that there's no "progressive" Zionism because there's no "progressive" way to support a state that necessitates the elimination of whole peoples.

if you ever used the trolley problem to describe the genocide the US is funding as a 'lesser evil' you're not allowed to be angry when someone implies the economic collapse of the US would be worth it if it forces the US to loosen its chokehold on other regions. you can't suddenly start finding the trolley metaphor disgusting only when you find yourself on the other train track. either you've always been against it or you shut the fuck up.

Also alot of people are showing themselves to be apologetic for US imperialism. Alot of people are "anti imperialist" to an extent that they are against US exported atrocities but dont want their lives to change. the standards of living in America will decrease if America's access to the global souths resources ends up being cut off. that's going to have to happen

no amount of greenwashing by the Israelis will erase the footage I've seen of olive groves burning. trees hundreds of years older than the colony, killed for the explicit purpose of impoverishing and starving Palestinian farmers. Palestinians have also reported nuclear waste dump sites on their lands to the UN - is this not poisoning the soil? the tonnage of the bombs and the phosphorus dropped on Gaza - is it not abhorrent to anyone who cares about the environment that Israel is hastening global warming all by itself?

43%! Come on y'all!

Ao3 campaign filling up in a blink of an eye is a joke

At this point making fun of it feels bad. Idk who are donating. But you people have money for your fic website but have no money for human lives.

Could cry you know. I could cry and I do feel like crying but uh. What's the point? I am just speechless that people can donate and reach $75000 in a day on a scam but when requested to donate to a fundraiser, a huge portion of fandom bloggers will accuse the families of being scammers and bots.

Linking my friend's fundraiser to this post because the situation has become dire.

Requesting people that if you are reblogging the post, consider sharing my friend's fundraiser. It has been five days since he has been able to buy food for his family of 24.

idk. just thinking about how there was some outrage during the iraq and there were people against it in no meaningful way and countless lives were lost and now we're STILL having to put up with these shitty movies about it. i can't help but look at the current state of activism for palestine -mine included- and thinking it's so lukewarm. i feel a terrible ache at the thought that in a number of years it's all going to be just another movie for some murderers to glorify. there must be more that can be done. i hate that this happens again and again and again.