#facts vs lies

[mafaldaknows]

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The irony of this Sunday morning rabbit hole is the fact that it grew from pure serendipity, as I pondered who Michael Cera was married to, after noticing a wedding ring on his finger in an Instagram reel about his role as “Allan” in Barbie (2023), and found this article:

Michael Cera and his lovely wife Nadine have proven that it IS absolutely 97.6% possible to keep your private life private, if you truly did want to keep your private life private (and didn’t tell Amy Schumer.)

It was at the bottom of this article that I found this fascinating juxtaposition of headlines.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Just as there’s a thin line between love and hate, there might be an equally thin line between girlfriend and stalker.

COMPARE & CONTRAST:

Loud & Proud

VS.

Whatever this is casual and “pRiVAtE”

The “insider” source’s solitary, continuously-retreaded statement still gets traction months after making its first appearance in the trash tabloid press, despite many opportunities for an update in the numerous new articles magically appearing every few weeks that no one asked for because no one really believes this specific fairy tale.

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#sunday morning rabbit hole #rabbit hole #range rover rodeo #bigfoot backyard bbq #tarmac tango #car and driver #fairytale #compare and contrast #true romance #facts vs lies #tom and zendaya #kyliegate #enough already #put up or shut up #public private romance #cryptozoological film footage #so private #insider source #no ones buying it kris #serendipity #michael cera #Allan #thanks barbie #privacy #PRomance #we’ve seen better footage of bigfoot #the universe has a sense of irony #mafalda needs more popcorn #tales from the charmiesphere

[muninnhuginn]

li tianchen saying he hated people who pretended to be nice but were secretly jerks the most + the neighbour who saw what was going on but backed off (whether because of his own safety or because liu lan shook her head to get him to go away with the idea that it would stop further escalation). the idea that "jerk pretending to be nice" in this case is represented by an observer seeing something wrong and refusing to intervene.

looking at cheng xiaoshi's repeated interference during dives vs lu guang's mantra to keep the past as it was. to remain an observer deliberately.

#link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren spoilers #tying these ideas together in a very loopy bow until I can decide what to make of it #the fact that during this entire dive we don't actually get to see how much of it was keeping things the same vs potential alterations #and that cxs went into the dive not knowing both li parents would die but lg received that info during the dive #he could easily decide to relay that info or choose to keep it to himself in the hopes of making cxs follow his instructions #(just as with keeping emma's death from him. the earthquake outcome.) #has lu guang actually been forced to change in any capacity or will he keep following the same lines. or does he trust cxs has changed #enough to follow the path even knowing the outcome. idk idk it's just musings #anyway I'm side-eying the guy with the football in the fountain big time. got some ideas but nothing settled yet beyond being sus at no fac

[silverselfshippingchaos]

........... so, hypothetically, in a hypothetical situation in which i were to say i think a.dam j.ensen was hot as shit, how would we feel?

#ash rambles 💚 #... now imagine that isn't hypothetical #in fact. it's very real! #he's. um. i barely know anything about the games. I'm watchinf the cutscenes for the first one. and. um. #i. um. sir.... sir.... HELLO... #I'm not saying i have a crush #but fuuuccckkkk when i tell you this man is so fine #.. okay i lied... i have a LITTLE crush... #ash vs not getting a new crush every two weeks #as human as it gets 🦾

[bylertruther]

He Is Literally Gay. ... whoa 😦 michael of "our son with a girl? 🤨" fame... good for him 👍

#i knew this but like . it just Hit me rn idk #the fact that she kisses him in front of a closet that separates them perfectly with him fully inside of it. #and then the next season shows a one way sign pointing to his closet. #and then he can't hug will and 'shitty knock-off' and he didn't flinch when will said 'what about us?' and 'from mike' and 'i felt like i #lost you' (which proves the hop letter in the bg of s3 WAS related to him and will) and 'it's hawkins it's not the same without you' and #him nodding when will said what he said on top of the car and nina's lover is never coming back and mike's face during the confession #and mike's face when will prompted him to 'confess' to el and mike's objective fucking LIES during that 'confession' i just. #he is gay. #hop's line about him changing? about how he misses will? mike's inability to say ily to eleven romantically? our son with a girl? #mike always calling el his family and friend and talking about her powers and being a superhero vs being an actual person? #AND THE FLOWERS THAT HE GAVE EL THAT WERE TOO MUCH YELLOW... AND HIM FOCUSING ON WILL NOT TALKING TO HIM #BUT NOT HIS LITERAL FUCKING GIRLFRIEND AND FRIEND BEING HARASSED AND UPSET AFTER? #HIS BREATHLESSNESS AND NERVOUSNESS ABOUT THE PAINTING? HOW HIS FACE DROPPED WHEN WILL SAID #EL COMMISSIONED IT? THE OUTSIDE JONATHAN POV SHOT AND HOW MIKE LOOKS AT WILL THERE? #bro i'm . [FLATLINES]

[endreal]

Just woke up for real but I partially woke up from a dream earlier where a friend had invited me to an upscale bar to try and trick my mind off things for a little while since this past week has been A Lot and when we got there (she drove) our other two friends had already grabbed seats at the bar and we all had laminated drink menus to look at except mine had a piece of masking tape across the top with a handwritten note that said "spicy little latina (sad), 1/2 strength" and it might've simultaneously the funniest and meanest thing that's ever happened to me in a dream

#Endreal vs. dreams #I wish I remembered the rest of the dream better #Some of the drinks on the menu sounded really unique #And on the way there we were talking about some really cool architectural history #Like levantine architecture not local stuff #And YEAH it was probably all made-up dream lies but I like knowing fake dream facts #Like my whale facts dream from ages ago

[rebelrainfall]

i think tony gilroy is a coward for not trying to claim that cassian is just like. two inches taller or shorter than he actually is. just for the sake of it. to complete the bit.

#it's so funny comparing the little fact box in my RO visual guide (canon) vs whatever that new one is (lies! every day more lies!) #like whatever i'm honestly over it tony gilroy's an idiot and i will be ignoring his opinions forever but it's just like. why. #why did he do that. #he could have just. not.

[myhyperfixationisiforgot]

Listen I understand that on first glance it would seem like Marie and Jordan took one bed and then Emma and Andre, I dunno, rock-paper-scissored for the other.

But really.

Andre and Jordan - who have been co-third wheels for their other friends for several years at this point, who have spent somewhere in the neighborhood of three years' worth of weekends getting high and drunk together - have absolutely been in this situation (ish) before.

There Were Only Two Beds and muscle memory would have kicked in before Emma could so much as ask about it.

#i understand that this is not the vibe that the scene actually gives off #but i think it's really funny that jordan and andre are in fact friends who have spent a fair amount of time with each other #vs emma and marie who met like. Last Week. #anyways this boils down to how i do think that they're both down to split a bed (or the floor or the couch etc etc) in this situation #gen v #andre anderson #jordan li

[cultivatingyourfuture]

OK BRAIN WORM NUMB R ONE. WHAT WAS THE THING WITH NEIL N PIERRE ABOUT DYING AND COMING BACK THE SAVE VS LIVING WRONG

i went through. my entire got damn blog trying to figure out WHAT you were referring to where the hell i had said this. and then realized it was the 3rd most recent reblog. im so smart and organized guys

so in reference to this post

essentially you can read it as either neil or pierre, but the perspective of WHO is saying this definitely changes.

for neil, the dying and coming back refers to the cyborg process and the fact that neil has the very unique situation of... being used for intermittent testing for about a year. And then being shut off and kept in essentially storage for about 6-8 years after that. where he was unconcious and did not age at all. so when he gets out, its still just a teenage boy, but suddenly everyone is so much older and everything is different and not only is eveline older shes also. not her anymore. which is not new ground here ajdjdhfjf

but its also worth noting that neil does not get the near instantaneous reconciliation that he did with cherry in WTTW, because cherry is dead. for at least 10 months. so it spends that time not knowing why cherry came to RR or who they are now or anything of the sort. so like if i had to do a line by line breakdown itd look like:

-"i died but i came back exactly the same" neil has not significantly aged and is around the same age he was when eveline knew it

-"you though, i came back and you were wrong" neil is the same. eveline is very much not. it has been a much shorter time

-"did the fact of my dying really damage you this much?" neil doesnt know WHY evelines so different and wonders if them being ripped apart the way they were had anything to do with it

-"was bringing me back worth what it cost you?" neil thinking the reason any of this happened is because eveline came back for him, and it cost her her life. (also the fact that haha um neil is. Kind of the one who kills cherry. oopsie!)

-"would it have been better to just leave me?" neil sees all the new people in their life that they dont know and feels guilty over the idea that He was (as far as he knows. because no one ever tells the kids anything except for vallen but shhh) the reason eveline went back, died, and left all of her friends to clean up the aftermath of it all. tldr neil blames himself for everything bad that happened to cherry and it fucks him up bc i cannot give that boy a moment of peace

pierre is a lot more straightforward. imagine some visage of eveline saying this shit to him. "bringing me back" is less about being brought from the dead and more about, like. taking someone by force and bringing them back home.

pierre sees the moment "eveline" escaped left as the big turning point of his life, when everything having to do with his future life became a lot less clear and what was left of his morals went down the drain in pursuit of Maybe Having Her Back One Day and as such he DOES wonder what may have happened had he just... let her be. so he lives in guilt over what happened because it went So So Wrong and because shes gone with next to no chance of seeing her again and not. the obvious reason he should feel guilt over eveline.

the more things change etc etc

#lies in a pile. On the ground. forever #neil #pierre #meta #worst comparison i could EVER make between these two and it is in VERY DIFFERENT WAYS #but neil and pierre both have issues understanding that eveline is gone and that cherry is not her. although they do understand that - #something Has fundamentally changed. #though neil is upset and frustrated by it because his sister DIDNT come back for him she DIDNT know he was even there #and this person ISNT HER but all of evelines love for him is in them for some reason but its not the same. it just isnt. #but he at least tries to understand how this happened and tries to connect with cherry where he can because. he's still grieving. #evelines been dead for 10 years but hes only been without her for a few months. its not an easy adjustment #pierre on the other hand. his reaction to cherry isnt to make an attempt to connect with this new person or anything #(which yaknow. thank god) but its to 'fix' eveline. to bring her back. #hes still got her memories. all he'd have to do is delete whatever files have filled their place and put them back in. #theres parallels her. both characters are in their own ways grieving and frustrated and upset about the fact that #yeah. shes gone. and this is not her. #but where neil tries to at least understand this new person who he can still see eveline in AND see this new happier person as well #pierre would rather hold onto what was and would effectively kill cherry if it meant having eveline back #yakno. grief and embracing the future vs living in the past and allthat #(except not really because what neils doing is grieving. Idk if i have a word for whatever pierres doing) #i doubt anyones gonna read this far soo uhh im also gonna say. something something ocarina of time on that one neil plot point #asks #down-thedrain

[dilfdoctordoom]

brain has rotted but 616 starmora could've been so so interesting and instead it's just bland mcu synergy.

#I'll never let anyone use me ever again #peter #lies & manipulates the team (later w specific focus on gam!!) #like. gam's whole vs the fact that major plot points for several concurrent gotg series is #like. hm. something is there something is brewing. my brain doesn't work enough though <3 #gotg thoughts

[horusmenhosetix]

This may be controversial; but after watching the trail and seeing and having to unfollow Amber supporters, it is clear to me that Amber was caught in lie after lie, faked the bruises, she even inadvertently told the jury how she faked them with her bruise kit, and wasn't injured when she claimed she was injured. Meanwhile Johnny was injured when he said he was and didn't lie to the jury under oath. From the hard evidence she was the actual abuser.

I know this is a sims blog and I don't want to argue about this so if you support Amber Heard please unfollow me now.

*This is not a setback for women victims, it is a set back for women abusers.* - Actually, this is a setback for victims, Amber Heard’s lies being believed is a setback for victims everywhere. That an abuser has such a following of people who believe her lies over the evidence that prove she is lying is a huge setback. I would feel discouraged about trying to come forward with abuse allegations after what happened to Johnny Depp. 

#Non-sims #tw: amber heard #tw: abuse #Amber actually told the jury how she faked her bruises I'm #She sat there with her crocodile tears and lied #Anti Amber Heard #I avoided this trail but I had to form my own opinion from the facts #And the facts show that Johnny was not an abuser #Heard vs Depp #Depp vs Heard

[pink-car]

having a terrible work shift

#me vs not being assertive enough #for customer service #should have lied harder and not mentioned a thing #too late now lmao #the fact that i’m coming back for another shift in less than 12 hours? terrible #daniel doesnt shut up <3

[thot-son-of-odin]

It confuses me when ppl use Loki Friggason but then use Thor Odinson,,,, like ok so you’ve determined that a parent was bad to one child and that child therefore doesn’t need to have their name attached to them,,,,,,,so why don’t u do that to the other child??? What did Thor Friggason ever do to you???

#I lied I know why #it’s because people don’t think that Thor was affected by odins parenting at all #they think that Loki was the only one to suffer in that house and therefore deserves emancipation vs Thor who apparently did not #ofc ignoring the fact that frigga was also complicit in a lot of Loki’s trauma #to me loki reclaiming odinson is not about Odin it’s about Thor #it’s a way to directly connect him back to his brother (it’s the equivalent of him going by Loki Thorsbrodir) #thor #loki #thor and loki

[selfundiagnosed]

&&the mental gymnastics they do to sleep each night without a guilty conscience so they can convince themselves their disgusting behavior is justified toward you🤥

#weird but creative lies #oddly specific enough to be believable lies #the reality of your actions & lack thereof are SO painful youd rather convince yourself of a lie to make you feel better #i am DYING to know what other lies you tell your loved ones about me haha #but the fact that someone who trusted your word snitched on you and told me your weird idea of smearing my name thru the mud #and with what you lied about its clear it comes from a place of deep insecurity of what you know im telling other people you did to ne #idk the parallels between me talking abt my lived experience with you as a close friend vs what you told your family im saying about THEM? #just own up to your wicked good ability to displace blame and make me look like a crazy person #oh youre telling everyone i put you in danger?! #i need to put you in more danger and make you look like your word is paper thin! #see theyre calling random people theyve never met nazis!! obviously i did nothing wrong not telling you i brought one to your house #you are so sick ive been wrestling for over a year since i found out #for you to take how uncomfortable that made me feel knowing you had a chance to tell me and didnt #and over a year later you still wont see why it hurt #but I understood why you didnt tell me so i trief to ask for spacr to heal our relationship and you snaked around that boundary #and tried to manipulate the people AROUND ME into forgiving you before i was ready #everyone does things to other humans that fuck them up. it does not reflect you. what reflects you as a person is how you handle it #and youre just burying your head in the sand acting like youre above it

[forestlion]

why is V releasing his thirteenth boring jazz ballad plus MV within a week. enlist NOW

#jungkook im gonna need you to release another bop we cannot be doing this #Kpop #Bts #I cant judge Vs music except for the fact that he couldn't pay me to listen to any of those songs #I lied he could pay me. And he should #Everyone got an album out and jungkooks chillin or what #Too busy fucking #Next song called Twelve #Hes fucking every month #And the lyrics are listing the months and then saying that hes fucking every day every month all year long #Hes the rolf zuchowsky of kpop #Januar Februar März April #Die fucking Uhr steht niemals still #My truth is V couldve released the most generic radio friendly pop song and jk would've still outdone him #V is like the Tzuyu of BTS #Hes got the most stans but we know Jungkook is the Nayeon #Anyway this also is a petition for jimin to get vocal lessons please #Serendipity is such a major slay but i truly wish he had. Like #Range. The capabilities #Ive been listening to serendipity. He did pop off..... #Pers

[specialagentartemis]

I get variations on this comment on my post about history misinformation all the time: "why does it matter?" Why does it matter that people believe falsehoods about history? Why does it matter if people spread history misinformation? Why does it matter if people on tumblr believe that those bronze dodecahedra were used for knitting, or that Persephone had a daughter named Mespyrian? It's not the kind of misinformation that actually hurts people, like anti-vaxx propaganda or climate change denial. It doesn't hurt anyone to believe something false about the past.

Which, one, thanks for letting me know on my post that you think my job doesn't matter and what I do is pointless, if it doesn't really matter if we know the truth or make up lies about history because lies don't hurt anyone. But two, there are lots of reasons that it matters.

It encourages us to distrust historians when they talk about other aspects of history. You might think it's harmless to believe that Pharaoh Hatshepsut was trans. It's less harmless when you're espousing that the Holocaust wasn't really about Jews because the Nazis "came for trans people first." You might think it's harmless to believe that the French royalty of Versailles pooped and urinated on the floor of the palace all the time, because they were asshole rich people anyway, who cares, we hate the rich here; it's rather less harmless when you decide that the USSR was the communist ideal and Good, Actually, and that reports of its genocidal oppression are actually lies.

It encourages anti-intellectualism in other areas of scholarship. Deciding based on your own gut that the experts don't know what they're talking about and are either too stupid to realize the truth, or maliciously hiding the truth, is how you get to anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. It is also how you come to discount housing-first solutions for homelessness or the idea that long-term sustained weight loss is both biologically unlikely and health-wise unnecessary for the majority of fat people - because they conflict with what you feel should be true. Believing what you want to be true about history, because you want to believe it, and discounting fact-based corrections because you don't want them to be true, can then bleed over into how you approach other sociological and scientific topics.

How we think about history informs how we think about the present. A lot of people want certain things to be true - this famous person from history was gay or trans, this sexist story was actually feminist in its origin - because we want proof that gay people, trans people, and women deserve to be respected, and this gives evidence to prove we once were and deserve to be. But let me tell you a different story: on Thanksgiving of 2016, I was at a family friend's house and listening to their drunk conservative relative rant, and he told me, confidently, that the Roman Empire fell because they instituted universal healthcare, which was proof that Obama was destroying America. Of course that's nonsense. But projecting what we think is true about the world back onto history, and then using that as recursive proof that that is how the world is... is shoddy scholarship, and gets used for topics you don't agree with just as much as the ones you do. We should not be encouraging this, because our politics should be informed by the truth and material reality, not how we wish the past proved us right.

It frequently reinforces "Good vs. Bad" dichotomies that are at best unhelpful and at worst victim-blaming. A very common thread of historical misinformation on tumblr is about the innocence or benevolence of oppressed groups, slandered by oppressors who were far worse. This very frequently has truth to it - but makes the lies hard to separate out. It often simplifies the narrative, and implies that the reason that colonialism and oppression were bad was because the victims were Good and didn't deserve it... not because colonialism and oppression are bad. You see this sometimes with radical feminist mother goddess Neolithic feminist utopia stuff, but you also see it a lot regarding Native American and African history. I have seen people earnestly argue that Aztecs did not practice human sacrifice, that that was a lie made up by the Spanish to slander them. That is not true. Human sacrifice was part of Aztec, Maya, and many Central American war/religious practices. They are significantly more complex than often presented, and came from a captive-based system of warfare that significantly reduced the number of people who got killed in war compared to European styles of war that primarily killed people on the battlefield rather than taking them captive for sacrifice... but the human sacrifice was real and did happen. This can often come off with the implications of a 'noble savage' or an 'innocent victim' that implies that the bad things the Spanish conquistadors did were bad because the victims were innocent or good. This is a very easy trap to fall into; if the victims were good, they didn't deserve it. Right? This logic is dangerous when you are presented with a person or group who did something bad... you're caught in a bind. Did they deserve their injustice or oppression because they did something bad? This kind of logic drives a lot of transphobia, homophobia, racism, and defenses of Kyle Rittenhouse today. The answer to a colonialist logic of "The Aztecs deserved to be conquered because they did human sacrifice and that's bad" is not "The Aztecs didn't do human sacrifice actually, that's just Spanish propaganda" (which is a lie) it should be "We Americans do human sacrifice all the god damn time with our forever wars in the Middle East, we just don't call it that. We use bullets and bombs rather than obsidian knives but we kill way, way more people in the name of our country. What does that make us? Maybe genocide is not okay regardless of if you think the people are weird and scary." It becomes hard to square your ethics of the Innocent Victim and Lying Perpetrator when you see real, complicated, individual-level and group-level interactions, where no group is made up of members who are all completely pure and good, and they don't deserve to be oppressed anyway.

It makes you an unwitting tool of the oppressor. The favorite, favorite allegation transphobes level at trans people, and conservatives at queer people, is that we're lying to push the Gay Agenda. We're liars or deluded fools. If you say something about queer or trans history that's easy to debunk as false, you have permanently hurt your credibility - and the cause of queer history. It makes you easy to write off as a liar or a deluded fool who needs misinformation to make your case. If you say Louisa May Alcott was trans, that's easy to counter with "there is literally no evidence of that, and lots of evidence that she was fine being a woman," and instantly tanks your credibility going forward, so when you then say James Barry was trans and push back against a novel or biopic that treats James Barry as a woman, you get "you don't know what you're talking about, didn't you say Louisa May Alcott was trans too?" TERFs love to call trans people liars - do not hand them ammunition, not even a single bullet. Make sure you can back up what you say with facts and evidence. This is true of homophobes, of racists, of sexists. Be confident of your facts, and have facts to give to the hopeful and questioning learners who you are relating this story to, or the bigots who you are telling off, because misinformation can only hurt you and your cause.

It makes the queer, female, POC, or other marginalized listeners hurt, sad, and betrayed when something they thought was a reflection of their own experiences turns out not to be real. This is a good response to a performance art piece purporting to tell a real story of gay WWI soldiers, until the author revealed it as fiction. Why would you want to set yourself up for disappointment like that? Why would you want to risk inflicting that disappointment and betrayal on anyone else?

It makes it harder to learn the actual truth.

Historical misinformation has consequences, and those consequences are best avoided - by checking your facts, citing your sources, and taking the time and effort to make sure you are actually telling the truth.

#history #history and the world #misinformation

[paper-mario-wiki]

genuine question coming from someone who is trying their best to support palestine but can't stomach condoning hamas's actions. how can you justify the murder of civilians and sexual violence that happened on october 7th? i know the fight for palestinian liberation is more important but they said orders to rape israeli women came from higher up in hamas. how can we support these people?

I will not be debating people in the notes of this post or in followup asks. I am not an authority on this subject, I am an individual giving commentary as I see it.

Do not attempt to follow this discourse up with intent to own me. You will waste your time and look stupid, I promise. Just unfollow and block me.

If your intent is genuine, and you are sincerely confused, then I will tell you that the first thing you must do is understand that your perspective of what happened on October 7th was not your own. It was made by a committee of communications officials and sold to you by news organizations to implant within you a version of what happened so that you would feel this precise feeling of hesitation, discomfort, and desire to withdraw yourself from the discussion. And that version is often full of blatant, contradictory, and easily fact-checkable lies. Israel knows that it doesn't have to make everyone support its cause to get away with it: if they can make enough people look away while they commit genocide, this too is a victory.

The sexual violence against Israeli women by Hamas has been vastly unsubstantiated, especially in comparison to the verifiable claims of IDF soldiers using sexual violence against Palestinian women. Go to any news articles and you will see "Claims of [number] of Israeli women raped by Hamas". You don't see firsthand reports, and you don't see consistent numbers, just people speaking for this group of unnamed and uncounted women. Further, many of the photos and videos of violence happening to women you see typically attached to these articles have turned out to be verified as Israeli soldiers assaulting Palestinian women during previous conflicts.

And that's another important note: previous conflicts. The date on everyone's mind has been October 7th, because that's when Hamas made an attack on the concert. Make no mistake, this was not the beginning of this conflict. And Palestine was not the aggressor.

Here is a graph of people killed as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine from 2002 to 2014. Notice, if you will, the yellow vs the pale blue. Can you guess which color represents which group? Just kidding you don't have to guess, the graph tells you.

After WW2, the European-Jewish population (which was 90% of the Jewish population at the time) emigrated to their holy land after over 1000 years. This land, now Palestine, had been under control by Muslim kingdoms since around 640 AD. The UN created a proposition following the Holocaust, submitted to create 2 states within Palestine: 54% would go to the Jewish population, and 46% would go to the Arab population. The Palestinian representatives rejected this proposal, but the Jewish representatives agreed, and over the next few years there would be a massive displacement of Muslims during what was called the Nakba; a cataclysmic event that saw 700,000 Palestinians (80% of them) displaced from the territory that the Israeli occupying force had claimed.

Since then there has been an ongoing pushing and cleansing of Palestinians over time. The remaining land that was not stolen during the 1948 mandate has been shrinking as Israel tightens its grip on the land and the people, exerting the force given to it by the United States to completely absorb the area. The process of which has been torturous and extraordinarily traumatic on the Palestinian population.

This map represents generations of murder, rape, and torture of Palestinians. A people who had their land forcefully taken from them, and have been made to be unwilling neighbors with their aggressors ever since. There are countless articles of IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens alike abusing Palestinians. Stealing their homes, starving their children, mocking their faith. This form of violent nationalism is born from Zionism, which was created by secular men, and has existed for less than a single century. The ideals of Zionism can only be seen out with the COMPLETE annihilation of the Palestinian people, something the terroristic Israeli force sees to go through with.

Hamas, at the moment, is fighting for the unconditional freedom of Palestine from their colonizers. We are seeing, in real time, the furious spirit of Palestine resisting what some of the worlds strongest military forces are trying to make to be their final death. In that impossible fight, they are seeing victories in urban warfare, and extreme coordination in guerilla tactics that we haven't seen since the Vietnam war. And during all of that, it has still been verifiably reported that they've been treating hostages well, many of them speaking positively about their time in captivity and expressing extreme dissatisfaction with Netanyahu's cabinet, something reflected in the staggering lack of direct interviews with hostages released.

Let's not mince words here, Hamas is absolutely killing people. Hamas is killing as many IDF soldiers as they possibly can, and yes, even some Israeli civilians have died. While it's true that these number significantly fewer than Palestinian civilian casualties, I'm not bold as to claim that that is not horrible. But this too is the fault of purposeful abuse of civilian population centers by the Israeli government. Ask yourself for a moment:

Why would Israel, being so aware of the horrifying whims of the savage Palestinians, allow a massive open-air concert to happen DIRECTLY on an unpatrolled border between Israel and Palestine? Why too does Israel insist on housing Civilian populations as close to Palestine as possible? They've already showed us: the military uses the deaths of their civilians as warrant to punish Palestinians in any way and to any extent they see fit.

Even if we're discounting the murderous occupier civilians shooting at Palestinian families and forcing them out of their life-long homes, it's still horrible to see otherwise incidentally innocent Israeli civilians die. Innocent death is inherently horrible. But even in a world where what happened on October 7th didn't happen, Israel intended to ensure the death, innocent or not, of all Palestinians who resist giving up their land. Hamas, Palestinian resistance groups, and now other Arab states have chosen to fight against this. Millions of people around the globe have chosen to unite and fight for them for this reason as well. It is why I support Palestine.

When a society lets mass atrocities happen in slow motion over decades, those atrocities become normal. And when those experiencing these atrocities fight back with economical blows of violence, it becomes a shocking disruption to the normal for those who haven't been paying attention, or were born into it; something the west relies on, and has packaged and sold as "terrorism" in the past few decades.

The modern Zionistic body of Israel has been a terroristic, murderous entity since its inception less than 100 years ago.

Do not let yourself be swayed into believing that murder, if done slowly enough, is not murder.

#anon #cw rape #long post