#Why Poland? I don't know

[bleueestrella]

Feliks Łukasiewicz (there was an attempt)

#I wanted to try drawing expressions #I realized that I've never drawn anybody angry or annoyed before #Why Poland? I don't know #aph poland #feliks łukasiewicz #hws poland #hetalia #this was strictly an expression thing so sorry for the boring drawing lol #hetalia fanart

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

blueberries on supertramp vinyls wannabe supper in america moment

#supper in the country between france & poland. nothing “america” here idc #Supertramp #Breakfast in America #photos without my chin save me #save me photos without my chin #sarah random mind #for the very first time putting my hair up (irconically though) #I DONT KNOW I WAS IN THE MOOD TO POST MYSELF TODAY #also I don't know why my friend says I look serious in the first one #there's something very wrong about me

[twpsyn-who]

Ok, but we all agree that Finland actually won, right? I mean, have you heard the public?! The hosts literally couldn't speak because of them chanting 'Cha Cha Cha'. And during Finland's performance???? The way everyone singed along????? Beautiful. Truly beautiful.

Is, you know, the jury once again fucking everything up. Like every year. I mean, if it were only our votes, Finland would have been the winner.

#i still don't knos why I'm still watching this when i know is all about politics in the end #does it really matter what we actually like? apparently no #fuck Sweden #i would have been happy with Israel winning rather than Sweden #actually!!! there were so many better options than Sweden!!! like!!!! it didn't even needed to be Finland like any other country would have #done it. beside UK and Poland. they can stay at the bottom of the score board #also Germany deserved better #esc finland #esc sweden #esc 2023 #eurovision 2023

[shizunstan]

I'm reading a book that makes me just so mad at christianity, not only nowadays but also in the early middle ages like gaaah so many thoughts

#so many places and so many cultures still know their history there's so many mythologies and older faiths #and then there are slavs #with most of everything just gone #where we're not sure about our history before christianity at all and only know a few legends but nothing truly solid #and why is that? #why the fack is that hmm?? *looks at the church with fire in my eyes* #because you facking murdered and burned and destroyed everything and what couldn't be destroyed you changed and added to your religion #ao many people don't know the history before so many practices #and taht they actually come from slavic culture #i'm so mad but also i know that making poland a christian country was rather a political decision #because if mieszko didn't do that we would've beed raided by western christian countries fo years and decades and centuries #until we would finally give in to their religion of 'love and compassion' #but ut still makes me so mad and sad and everything in between because the memory of what it was like before is mostly lost #and compared to roman or greek or nordic mythologies what we have is just scraps

[seenthisepisode]

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#i am close to tears - beware there is a rant about my life in the tags ahead so watch out - it's nothing VERY serious but it's... well #also this is literally about supernatural convention so it's not like a serious problem but it is a problem for me personally #so anyway last year when they announced misha for purgatory con 8 in dusseldorf i was like yes yes yes and i bought the tickets because: #1. i had a whole year to plan a trip 2. going to spn con was this little dream of mine because i've been in this fandom for years so #so i thought hey i deserve a little treat. i want to and deserve to go to a con and they just announced misha and i'd love to go #(and then they also announced jensen. and then jared too so like all 3 main guys will be there so !! a Treat !! yay!) and also Why Not #because it's in germany so it's the closest i would ever get a convention because i am from poland [*] no conventions here sorry #so i was like yeah the stars seem to have alligned yeah AND I BOUGHT THE TICKET. and the thing is SOLD OUT. and 3 main actor men are there #and a lot of mutuals that i'd finally love to meet maybe if they feel like it or whatever but i'd love to meet tumblr people so there's tha #and now. i just spent 3 hours after work looking for flights and everything. and. the conclusion. after 3 hours of looking at every possibl #way for me to get to Dusseldorf at the days of the con. well. the conclusion is i have no way to get there. and i am stuck. #and there are flights and they are not even that expensive. but the HOURS are horrible. i checked different airports and even looked at #flights to dortmund and i literally have no way to get there in a way that makes any sense... because arriving at 4pm on saturday is #too late. and the other option is being there at 8 am - cool - but i have no way of getting to the airport at 4 am. i'd have to take #additional day off from work (not an option). and i literally don't know what to do. it's almost 1 am and i should be happily asleep and i #am trying to solve this problem lmao because on one hand i really want to go and i want to figure out a way to get there 1. on time 2. in a #way that won't cost me 1/3 of my paycheck ; and on the other hand i just want to email the organizer to return the ticket or resell it to #someone because i know there will be someone who wants to go because the event is sold out #WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS HARD...... #AS I WRITE THIS I AM FULLY AWARE THIS IS SUCH A FIRST WORLD PROBLEM i know!!!!!! fully aware!!!! #but i just :(( really wanted to go :((( but i am slowly leaning towards the option of not going :((( because money and time :(( #and the kilometers between me and the con place :((((( #personal

[divingintothewatersoftheworld]

Nick decided to truly embrace french culture by wearing an eastpak during the paris trip

#for people who don't know it's the backpack he was wearing #i'm sure it's impossible to go to french school and not see multiple person with these backpacks #i realized it when we did an exchange thing with a school in poland few years ago and they were like #'why are you guys all wearing the same backpacks?' #heartstopper #heartstopper season 2 #nick nelson #alice oseman #osemanverse

[cum-roll]

i literally never saw anyone else but poles talk about this

do you have headaches when sky is cloudy? do you feel bad when storm approaches? when the pressure is funky? please comment or explain in tags if you can

#i don't know if this will show anything but i just don't understand why i have this exact conversation everyday and many poles online #comment on this and yet i have never seen anyone else mention something like this #this is probably silly but ill give it a go #poland #polls #young master is saying things??

[lucy-shining-star]

Hmm...searched in Polish to try to find out about christianity stance on vampires and find out that one of causes of turning into a vampire in slavic folklore is suicide...Hmm...

#dracula daily #dracula #i kind of had this in my memory but wasn't sure of it #another reasons was dying of hunger which is also kind of...interesting in context of dracula eating that much #also about christianity #christian church stance at least in poland seems to always be that they don't exist #and church forbidden burning corpses which was how old slavic funerals looked like so people came up with other was to stop people #they suspected of becoming vampires after death #into waking up as said vampires #...also i didn't know that one person widely suspected of being a vampire was niece of one of our kings #...also i'm not sure why i searched in polish not in english. but. i do not regret it #tw:suicide

[council-of-beetroot]

I apologize to anyone who reads my fics and is from Sejny

#hetalia #hws poland #i don't know why Sejny is my go to city to make jokes about

[caluski]

Waiting for my hair to dry so I'm browsing google maps for cafés in big far away cities... Like oh it makes me cry so much. One look at these pictures and I know I would walk in and fall in love with the first stranger i see. The big ones and small ones and bright ones and dark and cozy ones.... I love cafés so much

#All these are from London actually but I was looking thru like... America and poland and france.. Like ah man #I don't know why does this make me cry!!!! Somethings wrong with me #pogaduchy

[16sundayss]

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#people are always like #‘’ummm not everyone lives in the us guys!!!!’’ #whenever usamericans make posts #and yeah sometimes we’re annoying and self centered #but also do you specify the country you live in in every single post you make??? #do you think about every other country in the world first??? #no #a lot of the time ​you just post as if the only people who will see it are other people who live in your country #when you talk to people irl you’re mostly talking to people who live in your country #so why would posting online suddenly change how you think?? #i am more sympathetic to people who don’t live in the us canada or europe #or australia and other white english speaking countries #white westerners tend not to think of people outside our sphere #but i know damn well that white europeans are only thinking of other europeans when they talk about stuff not applying to ‘other countries’ #just hate when (western) europeans insult the us #don't act like most of you really care about anything east of germany #maybe poland on a good day #like we’re a kettle #and you’re a pot #don’t get so cocky #(western europeans just irk me so often) #(especially the english) #me

[toskarin]

I think it was ivy who said at one point that the oft-missed lesson of higurashi being good is that you should write about places you know intimately, which is why contemporary games set vaguely "in rural japan" by people unfamiliar with it don't really have that same intimacy

anyway setting that aside, purely observationally, nobody has taken this more to heart than poland

[pinkandgreenarepurpleandyellow]

MORE TEETH

#I LOVE POLAND WHY #I DON'T DANCE I KNOW YOU CAN NOT A CHANCE #TEEEEEEEEEETH

[applesauce42069]

so if people didn't hear what happened in calgary, essentially:

yes, that is a nazi salute. yes, that is the leader of Iran.

what is not visible in this photo is the pro-palestine protestors he was standing with. in the videos that circulated, you can see a blonde woman in a keffiyeh walk up to him, say something, and then walk away. there are people with keffiyehs and pro-palestine signs all around him.

they are the people who concern me the most. they claim to be pro palestine, pro justice and peace and equality. a man, standing in their protest, did a nazi salute, and none of them stopped him.

i'm a jew and the descendant of holocaust survivors and victims. if someone did a nazi salute in my vicinity and it was safe to do so, i would go bat shit on them.

so why did no one stop him?

i feel like is is emblematic of how antisemitism spreads among pro-palestine leftists. they don't set out to be antisemitic. they don't want to be antisemitic because its wrong to be prejudiced. but the antisemitism begins to slip through the cracks. they usually don't know enough about jewish people, jewish history, or antisemitism in general to counter it. the effect is slow, but damning. eventually these antisemitic symbols lose their meaning, become less important. so even in the face of something this overt, people don't stop it.

all i can say is that its truly disgusting that people turned the very real, longstanding oppression of palestinians by the israeli state into an excuse to spread violent, hateful, and harmful rhetoric at the expense of jewish people around the world.

and i would also like to say: my grandmother grew up in communist poland, raised by a holocaust survivor mother who had lost her own mother and sisters, likely to the nazi death squads east of Poland, the Einsatzgruppen, as they were trying to flee. Her father may have never met her, having died in the polish people's army around the same time she was born. all her life she wanted to come to canada, because it was safe and bountiful. she brought her family here, and i've always felt lucky for it. now we have people throwing up nazi salutes in our streets to celebrate the attempted bombing of our family members.

antisemitism is a plague.

#antisemitism #canada #jumblr

[historicity-was-already-taken]

I am posting and responding to this ask anonymously as I don't want anyone harassing its sender. This has already been communicated with the person who sent the ask.

I just want to thank you for being a light in the darkness of anti-semitism, especially on this website. I have found I am on this site a lot less ever since it was made clear that other leftists here are more anti-semitic than we ever knew possible, using very specific wording of our own trauma against us (i.e. saying stuff like "colonialism", "genocide/ethnic cleansing", and calling JEWISH PEOPLE Nazis). It feels like, at best, they know Hamas ≠ All or even most Palestinians, but think that they think all JEWS = Bibi; and at worst, agree with Hamas and think of him as some sort of "freedom fighter". So, thank you from one leftist Jew to another, just trying to keep afloat here. ❤️

You are very welcome; it's certainly been overwhelming, and I'm glad this can be a safe space for you.

I do want to push back on some of this ask, though. Specifically in regard to terms such as "colonialism," "apartheid," "genocide," and "ethnic cleansing."

The use of these terms is not inherently anti-Semitic. For a lot of people, these terms are the best ones they have access to describe what they are seeing. I do think such terms as “colonialism” and “apartheid” are overly simple in regard to the last ~3000 years of Jewish history, and that they cast the situation into an alien historical context which dilutes and uncomplicates the all the historical realities at stake, but I truly do not think that all who use these terms do so to cause Jewish people pain.

Further complicating the picture is that terms like "colonialism" aren’t completely wrong. Modern Zionism arose in the context of mid-nineteenth century European large-scale movements towards nationalism (ie, the creation of nation-states) and away from the multi-national empire. Jews—a subject of anti-Semitism and fifth columnist suspicions within those emergent European nations—reacted to all this by joining the nationalism game.

What’s ironic, is that those European Jews who founded contemporary Zionism were reacting to the exclusion and racial hatred with which Gentile Europeans treated them, and then once they had some settlements in Palestine, they deployed similar variants of racial hatred at both the Palestinian Arab population, and Middle Eastern Jewry.

The existence of a distinct people and ethnic group in Palestine before the aliyot were not something the first generation of Zionists were concerned with. Because they were part of the same shitty, white supremacist, pro-imperialistic intellectual European tradition to which they were responding as victimized parties. As time went on and Zionist thought spread across Ashkenazic communities, we can see some variants. Some forms of far-left Zionism in twentieth century Poland, for example, actively built the presence and rights of Palestinian Arabs into their ideology, some of them actively stating that Zionism could not be a success if it necessitated transforming Palestinian Arabs into a group of secondhand citizens and a cheap source of labor in their own home.

Those leftist strands of Zionism tended to be Socialist/Communist in nature, and centered around the idea of life in Eretz Yisrael as one of a series of self-sufficient communes. Thus when the 1930s hit and things start to go bad, the Zionists we see fleeing to Palestine tended to be of the more centrist and far right variants. The left wing, socialist movements, already operating as a collective, had a membership uncomfortable with fleeing to safety while the rest remained behind.

And that same socialist/communal attitude, is why those variants of Zionist thought never made it into the Israeli political mainstream; most of their members and proponents were murdered in the Holocaust in part because they refused to leave their comrades behind. The General Zionists and Zionist Revisionists who rode out the years of the Holocaust in Palestine therefore already had access to the avenues of power which would become important in 1948, when the British Empire shrugged off its responsibilities towards the regions it colonized and destabilized.

Now, as for ethnic cleansing. I can’t sugar-coat this: that’s what the Naqba was. It was ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs from their homes to make way for the Jewish State. The manipulative shit (but still somehow extremely prestigious) youth group I was in taught us that Arabs call it Naqba because they hate Jews and therefore existence of Jews in the Southern Levant was a tragedy, as was the fact that Hitler didn't finish the job.

That’s garbage: it’s called the Naqba because it was ethnic cleansing. And that's not the fault of the Holocaust survivors who made their way to Mandatory Palestine/Israel in the late 1940s--they lacked political power, and were often looked down upon by those who did; the Holocaust as part of Israeli National Mythology wasn't an immediate Thing.

If you spent your formative years around older Jewish folks of A Certain Generation, whose trauma has pretty much placed a permanent block on their ability to see some of what went down in 1948 for what it was, I can’t blame you for having that gut/cognitive dissonance reaction to the use of “ethnic cleansing” in the context of Israel and Palestine. I know those older folks. I loved them. They’re mostly gone now, and I miss them terribly. But their trauma-induced view of everything lives on in the ability of some younger Jews to properly name and understand what it is that happened in 1948.

It was ethnic cleansing.

Further, not only were Palestinian Arabs ethnically cleansed, but the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Jews who were forced by their governments to flee their homes of thousands of years and seek refuge in Israel throughout the second half of the twentieth century…the Western and Central European Jews in control of Israel and its institutions treated them like shit too. Hadassah actively stole the babies of Yemeni Jews, told the parents that their children were dead, and rehomed them to Ashkenazic couples. There were death certificates. Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community were forcibly sterilized, and their ongoing treatment by the State is racist and generally atrocious. And this analysis of the relationship between the Israel State, MENA Jewish populations, and different Ashkenazic groups in Israel is horribly short and overly simple.

As for genocide. I honestly don’t know. I do know many people, who are very much not Anti-Semites, who are calling what’s happening in Gaza right now genocide; many of these people are also Jewish. I know many others who refer to the experiences of Palestinians between 1948 and now as a slow genocide. Many of these people are also actively not anti-Semites, and many of them are Jewish.

So these terms, as uncomfortable as they may feel for people within the very specific Jewish generational background I believe we share, are not deployed as anti-Semitic weapons. Nazi comparisons? Yes. Swastikas superimposed over the Star of David? Yes. Very specific hook-nosed Jewish caricatures in relation to Israelis? Yes. Blood libel shit? Yes. These are all anti-Semitic, and are deployed to hurt and retraumatize Jewish people. But the rest are not nearly that simple.

And I didn’t learn this from like, Bad Evil Post-Modern Academics at Columbia University Who Hate Jews; I learned this from doing graduate-level work in the field of Modern Jewish History, and working in Jewish archives; this did not come from outside the building.

Now, as for Hamas as freedom fighters…that’s ignorant at best. Hamas’ charter clearly calls for the global destruction of the Jewish people [ETA: they edited this part out in 2017 for PR purposes], and their actions as rulers are horrifically, violently, homophobic, and seem to be more abut provoking Israel than they are about governing and protecting their people. But as you said, Hamas isn’t all Palestinians, and it’s also not all Palestinians who consider themselves freedom fighters. (A second reader of mine had the following commentary on this paragraph: "Might need a bit more complication around Hamas? I know that's not your area of expertise but it's worth mentioning that they were basically set up to undermine the PLO and what would become the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. You're right that they aren't representative of all Palestinian thought and resistance, and that they are on some fuck shit.")

So while I’m so glad that blog is a comfort to you, I encourage you to also take a step into some of your discomfort, and ask yourself where it comes from.

No one reading this post has my consent to use it to silence other Jewish people who are in different stages of their journey towards understanding how generational trauma has impacted their ability to grasp all of this. Further, if you choose to attack me for gently calling my people in, you're a piece of shit and I will be mean to you.

#jewish history #israeli history #palestinian history #history of zionism

[mangabacaxi]

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#no way they did not even win a set against france...... #this team is making me so depressed i wanna die #i feel france is gonna win this vnl don't know why #maybe poland or italy but i go with france #volleyball #vnl