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When you treat someone as the solution to all your problems, you tend to become pretty angry when they can't actually fix all those problems.

With the rise of weird fetishistic worship of indigenous people as "protectors of the land" in liberal and leftist circles, we're also going to be seeing a wave of backlash against indigenous people when things DON'T get fixed, accusations that we aren't really indigenous, and people turning back to the idea that we can't be trusted with our lands. When you are treated as a perfect savior, there is no room for failure.

#misc #text

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i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

#misc #text

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Highly recommend Tavi Gevinson’s series of essays critiquing Taylor Swift, the culture of Swiftieism, the nature of becoming famous as a young person, and the concept of person-as-brand, from the perspective of someone who both became famous on the internet as a tween and was briefly friends with Taylor in her girl squad era

#taylor swift #resources #text

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Palestinian women confront Israeli soldiers during the first intifada (1987-93)

#palestine #people #history #photography

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janellemonae: F l o a t 🧚🏾‍♂️🪰🪐

#janelle monae #people #photography

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Efeso, Turquía

#animals #photography

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Watercolor paintings by Emma Larsson on instagram

#art

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American Crow on the fence by my house

Photo by me, taken on FujiFilm X-T30 II

#animals #photography

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Shai Davidai needs to be FIRED and de-platformed. He's a danger to Palestinian/Arab/Muslim students and allies to Palestinian liberation. That has been proven time and again.

Here is another beautiful moment/act of solidarity I wanted to share that happened on the same campus:

#usa

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What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.

The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.

#history #important #text

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#music #text #capulets #some of their songs on yt have only a few hundred views but they're so good?? i couldn't believe it

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"Queers were here”

Graffiti in Ramallah, Palestine

#lgbt+ #palestine #photography

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#germany #banning languages. and singing. in germany. like-

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saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”

me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶

#polls #26 is my favourite i'd say. ideal temperature #anything up to 30 is ok with me i only hate it when it's that or more

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according to wikipedia there are 44-50 countries in europe so i just went with 50. have fun!

#europe #polls #12 #and passed through 4 more on overnight trips but didn't see more than the road and petrol stations so it doesn't count

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possibly the most important addition this week on Hozier Liked

#ireland #history #important #text

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it just broke that israel has seized 1,977 acres of west bank land for settlement, which marks the largest land theft since 1993. west bank raids are also seeing an all-time high, with a a reuters article stating a series of israeli raids raised the palestinian death toll in the west bank to 10. there are palestinians being abducted as well, a lot of whom are children. the west bank is slowly being eaten up by both israeli settlers and raids, but this is barely being covered by mainstream media.

#palestine #text