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#elijah mcclain

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How you choose to act in the face of violence and genocide now is how you would have acted back then. There is no "product of its times" or "modern" values. There has always been a choice to act against genocide as long as the status quo has supported it.

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

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Granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?

You do what you can.

The Boondocks // S02E14: The Hunger Strike

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Yours truly has a birthday coming up in five days! I have a Throne wishlist of things I want and/or need, so consider sending me a gift.

I have a Ko-fi as well, if you have cash to spare: https://ko-fi.com/lunafirebird/goal?g=36.

Please and thank you!

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Real talk...

I appreciate each and every post I see on this funky little website that reminds me that people like me (poor and/or disabled) deserve nice things. Maybe it's the former gifted kid in me, but I always feel tremendous guilt asking for help, even when I need it to keep my lights on, a roof over my and Archie's heads, and food on the table, let alone asking for nice things (even with my birthday coming up on Monday). It's a guilt I wish could shake off completely, because the position I'm in isn't my fault; I'm doing the best I can and deserve to be happy. So it's nice to be reminded of that, even unintentionally.

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Zelda art community people: is there a tag for art that has this energy but with Ganon?

#ganon

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I have a new upload coming soon about the Good Times reboot, and I'm hoping to take a different angle with it than what I'm seeing come out about it. I don't think anyone is shocked to hear it was bad, that it was a bunch of racist and ableist stereotypes, and that it should be forgotten. But I think it also showcases how people kind of treat Black creatives in Hollywood when they take part in this kind of thing.

I love this article and keep coming back to it, so enjoy:

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Imagine calling Palestinians documenting their own genocide on their iPhones powered by a MacGyvered car battery "misinformation" because it hasn't been backed up and approved of by 40 peer-reviewed data analysts from the West that you personally approve of. I can't imagine being that ghoulish and heartless

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The police and the higher ups aren’t arresting protesters because they are afraid that their minds will be changed. They chose money over people and that’s set in stone. No, they are afraid that these protesters will change YOUR mind.

free palestine

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that sure is a lotta sass coming out of someone whos armrest height

#miles tails prower #sonic the hedgehog #wholesome sonic and tails wednesday #the brothers ever #unbreakable bond

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I keep forgetting to share this!!!!

#tloz au #ganondorf #navi #sheik

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The fact that people reacted so strongly to the DS remake lightening everything up also speaks to a clever design choice that they did.

N64 games have that really foggy look and a lot of games have draw distance challenges that hurt a lot of the game's quality.

OoT instead designed several environments that would benefit from the darkened foggy look. When you first fight Gohma and look up, you see the glowing eye but the darker, foggier environment works well in the context of fighting a giant monster. You can't as easily make out the little intricacies in the model.

Trailing through the haunted wasteland comes to mind too. It makes sense why you'd have trouble with visibility and the environment with a sandy desert.

OoT would very frequently take advantage of its own technical limitations on top of the many ways it innovated mechanics. Obviously those graphics don't hold up to current era visuals, but I feel we don't talk about game mechanics in terms of how they utilize what they have access to at the time.

The DS remake's visuals are better and work far better with more advanced hardware to support the game, yet so many people felt the loss in atmosphere from lightening up the rooms in both Majora and OoT 3D.

People so badly want to convince others that those that think that OoT is a good game are looking at it through nostalgia-tinted glasses. To be honest this is so untrue; I replayed the game recently and it is legitimately a good game. People still play it today for the first time and enjoy their playthrough. Even those that want to weakly argue that it has “dated elements” well, what does that mean? It’s a game from 1998 so of course it won’t look or feel like a modern game but is it so difficult to handle that you feel its “age”?

OoT is over 25 years old and still not only remains playable but also enjoyable. It revolutionized the game industry. You don’t have to be that much of a hater; just accept that it is an excellent game that is standing the test of time.

#ocarina of time #tloz #ganondorf #oot #young link #sheik

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#dr congo #free drc #drc #democratic republic of the congo #congo

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#fuck nestle

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If you must know I am still displeased that I have to share the love of LoZ with crackers who think that supporting Ganondorf is equivalent to supporting zionism like get your hands off of him there are plenty of cracker god-loving genocidal folks for you to go fuck out there if that's what gets your rocks off.

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How to spot Liberal Zionist Propaganda 101

This post is by no means exhaustive at all. There are many Liberal Zionist talking points but these are just some of the most common ones. While on the surface they seem a little naive and hopeful at best, they are very much harmful. If you claim to be an ally to Palestinians, this post is primarily for you!

For starters, liberal Zionists will often try to both-sides the issue of Palestine, talk about how it's complicated, they'll claim that the conflict hurts both Israelis and Palestinians, how the only way forward is one where Jews and Arabs "just need to get along," amongst other things. They also often like to centre themselves, even when acknowledging Palestinians as the victims of Israel or this "conflict." From time to time, they also like to engage in tokenising certain Palestinians whose views tend to more or less align with theirs. Here are some common arguments you may hear from them:

1. Any form of justifying Israel's existence or claiming that the only solution is two states

It does not really need to be said why justifying Israel's existence is harmful but justifying its continued existence also means legitimising Israel's land theft, its expulsions of Palestinians, and its ongoing harm to Palestinians and other populations. Reducing any sorts of “solutions” into a binary is unhelpful. Needless to say, a 2ss would not even address any legitimate concerns Palestinian have, such as the right of return, and would only legitimise Israel’s colonialism. Talking about a two-state solution also implies that the root of the conflict lies in Palestinians not having their own state rather than being an occupied people. It is very much also possible to construct a paradigm where Jews and Palestinians both live together on the same land as equal citizens that doesn't involve two separate states, much less an ethnostate.

2. Security for Israel could only come through peace

This is a similar talking point to the one above. Not only does it centre Israeli safety and security above Palestinian liberation but it mistakenly assumes that once Israel makes peace with Palestinians, it'll achieve security. The reality, however, is that Israel's imagined security has quite often come at the expense of peace. In fact, "peace" has just acted as nothing more than a smoke-screen for Israel to carry out its expansionist policies, particularly in the West Bank. When liberal Zionists talk about peace juxtaposed with Israeli security, they're talking about attaining a negative peace rather than a positive one.

3. Israelis are not their government.

This point does nothing to actually help Palestinians. It is also an incredibly tone-deaf thing to say when Israel has targeted many Palestinian civilians by having alleged proximity to Hamas, such as being family members of militants or leaders (inc. children!), civil servants in a Hamas-led government, or even any male above the age of 15 they consider to be a potential combatant! It also deliberately erases Israeli civilians' support of and culpability in Israel's actions towards Palestinians.

4. Netanyahu and/or the Israeli right are the source of conflict.

While it is true that things have gotten inadvertently worse under Israel's various right-wing governments, they are not the source of conflict, but rather a product of extremist nationalism and Jewish supremacy perpetuated by the system. Both the 1967 occupations and settlements were undertaken under centre-left governments in Israel, and Israeli policy under non-right wing governments has been just as harmful towards Palestinians and has paved the way for where we are today. Blaming Netanyahu just also obscures the violent nature of Israel's military occupation over Palestinians which long precede him coming into power.

5. Netanyahu and Hamas are two sides of the same coin

I don't think I've seen any allies give validity to this claim but it's an extremely reductionist claim and is sort of similar to the one above. Groups like Hamas are merely a response to the Israeli occupation while Netanyahu is a byproduct of it. While some Israelis may see Hamas or their actions as an "obstacle to peace," Israel's actions and policies long pre-date Hamas and how Israel is currently responding to Hamas is no different to how Israel has engaged with Palestinian militant groups in the past, regardless of political affiliations or political goals. It is also important to note that Hamas has agreed to the establishment of a state along 1967 borders while Netanyahu aims to prolong the occupation and empower the settler movement (some of whom are part of his coalition government) as much as possible.

6. Israel is not a settler-colonial state.

While it is indisputable that Jews have historical connections to Palestine, that doesn’t automatically make you Indigenous or negate Israeli settler-colonialism. Colonialism in particular describes a relationship of exploitation. There are many cases of this, but we most clearly see this in the West Bank where Israel exploits natural resources on occupied Palestinian territory for its own political and economic gains. In terms of settler-colonialism, it is widely known that Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to make way for Jewish refugees and migrants to the new state of Israel, and is still actively facilitating Jewish migration to Israel today while denying Palestinians their right of return.

7. (X) doesn't help Palestinians.

It is not up to anyone to determine whether certain tactics or strategies are helpful or not. This point only seeks to discredit pro-Palestine organising. Only Palestinians get to decide what is actually helpful for the cause or not.

8. Any sort of Hamas-blaming.

On the surface it may seem like there’s nothing wrong with this, but this point is often harmful and usually lends itself to right-wing talking points because its objective is to deflect blame away from Israel. Certain arguments blaming Hamas also aim to minimise Palestinian suffering perpetuated by Israel. It also paints Israeli violence as retaliatory to Palestinian violence which only obfuscates Israel’s (and by extension, the US’) role in its state military apparatus and the differing power dynamics between Israelis and Palestinians. In other contexts, this point seeks to also legitimise certain opposition, such as the Palestinian Authority. Hamas-blaming also tends to sometimes lead to racist diatribes about Palestinians and their culture.

9. Al-Jazeera is not a credible news source.

Al Jazeera is a news source like any other. It has varying editorial policies and therefore will have equally good reporting on certain issues while having terrible reporting on others. The difference is that Al-Jazeera's news on Palestine is credible because it comes directly from their Palestinian reporters on the ground and first-hand eyewitness accounts. Western news sources are no more or less credible than al-Jazeera. Compare this to CNN, NYT, and any other Western news sources where Palestinian voices are often entirely missing from the narrative.

10. Overemphasis of antisemitism on the left

Antisemitism is a real issue and has the potential to fester in left circles if not directly addressed head on. Combatting antisemitism is extremely important, however, it is not an issue exclusive to the left. There is also a double standard in that no one expects Zionists to call out Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Certain accusations of "antisemitism" also seek to distract from what's going on in Palestine by making it about Jewish comfort and feelings. Combatting antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism etc is always important as the basis of good politics.

Last but not least, be wary of native collaborators or any sort of normalisers! They are Palestinians or Arabs who try very hard to appeal to Western liberal consensus and can end up perpetuating a lot of harm to the cause and/or other activists. You will know them when you see them.

#palestine

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Portraits of Afro-Palestinians from the Book “Guardians of the Mosque”