#the fuck we colonize

[dumplingcatho]

the one and only smart dumbass. the most guy ever. (he looks so serious here bc he's sitting for a portrait. the painter has been relying on his memory of the one time sokka was neutral 3.5 hrs ago)

#see i could give this a background and aged look and maybe a doodle. a teasing of zukka perhaps. the painter trying to work w sokka #if i do that there is a 70% chance i'll forget to do it and never post so fuck it we ball #sokka #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender #avatar: the last airbender #a:tla #so many ways to write an acronym not helped with a colon #my art

[mueritos]

i hope we continue to see more protests within the US military. i see a lot of leftists and folks who are anti-military who have such an open disdain for the people who are in the military, yet neglect to considering the conditions this country makes to produce ideology, poverty, and the illusion of choice to make all kinds of people choose to enlist in the military. You ever see those videos of ROTC kids recording each other asking why they joined the military and everyone's like, "healthcare", "it helped me go to college", "I was bored" or "free ptsd lol". I hate to remind everyone but folks who are in the military are people, too, and they are the same victims and perpetrators of violence as the rest of you, we have all been shallowly conditioned to view each other as enemies just because one person is wearing army greens and the other is not.

some of the biggest anti-war advocates are those who engaged in war. Veterans who genuinely believed they were protecting the US against "terrorism" come back with blood on their hands, and they choose to realize that it was US imperialism that forced them to carry out violence, instead of doubling down and shielding themselves from the fact that they too are capable of atrocities... This is a class of people who are intentionally conditioned to be as poor and as ideologically aligned to US imperialism so that the military has a never-ending pool to send their youth to destroy other country's youth. The only people I have ever heard say "do not join the military" are those who ARE military.

This is in no way to ever excuse or explain away any of the atrocious war crimes and violence this industry and its people have committed against others. What I am saying is that we absolutely cannot cast aside the individuals who have been victimized within US imperialism, even if they are wearing army greens. I was speaking with my Palestinian classmate last week and another classmate--a member of the US air force-- walked up to me and struck up a conversation. My military classmate showed me her new bird, bid both of us goodbye, and left. My Palestinian classmate asked me if I was close with her, and I said we talked quite often, and she said, "I never met a person who's in the military. I still hate the military, but I never knew that they did, too. I didn't realize that they were also victims."

If my Palestinian classmate--one who is actively watching her own community die--can understand that it is not individuals who are the problem but it is in fact systems, US imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism...why can't we all? And she has EVERY reason to hate any individual military member. A lot of online activism just creates more barriers. if your optics look bad, complicated, or contradictory, you are cast aside. Everyone has got the be the perfect activist, you can never make a mistake or share a half-baked thought, you should always believe every word from a marginalized persons mouth (because being marginalized doesn't mean you're not entrenched in white supremacy too!) and you should never question what you see...Do you know what you sound like? The very imperialists who are convincing poor whites to vote against themselves. Perfectionism is white supremacy. Black & white thinking is white supremacy.

I'd rather have a military member who genuinely believed in the US imperialism machine but was disillusioned after being deployed as my comrade than some leftist who cherishes the performance of "being a good person". I don't want "good people" in our movements. I want humans who care. I want humans who make mistakes and who learn from them. I want humans who accept the messiness of a person. I want humans who hold others accountable and allow themselves to take responsibility for their actions. I want people who change for themselves and others.

fight systems, not individual people. we can change each other, but if we're too preoccupied looking like the World's Perfect Activists, we will only consume each other alive. Connect to your fellow humans, forever and always.

#muertotalks #a mind dump after seeing so much come out after the self immolation of the us air force member #i know hes not the first one to self immolate for palestine #and he might not be the last #i hate the military #i really fucking do #but i choose to see the people within them as victims within the overall system just like the rest of us #i will never go through what they did to make them choose to enlist #i never struggled with poverty homelessness healthcare or social acceptance #i wont shame them #shame is not productive #i want them to know there are civilians who support their protests #i want them to know that we their allies too #a note on my palestinian classmate #if youre arab or also a colonized person impacted by the us military feel free to hate every member of the military #i dont intend to police yall in how you choose to feel your anger #im angry with you #the point i mean to make is about understanding and compassion #someone who has every right to hate these people still chose to see them as the people they are #yes i even want the best for the “bad” people in the military too #i dont want these people to continue the ideology but we cant stop that without dismantling these systems #and we cant do that without creating spaces for healing and reform and growth #so many thoughts so many thoughts #none of this is easy #i fight daily against impulsively hating the world #everyday is a fight to choose compassion and understanding #but being a leftist and doing leftism is not fucking easy #if you genuinely think it is it isnt #and you may be missing the point of what leftism is #anyway

[yourhighness6]

Just finished rewatching sneezypeasy's video again and I think it's safe to say that zutara is the mango boba of ships

#it's really good #that's all I'm saying #no one is going to get this reference #fuck it I'm posting anyway #zutara #katara x zuko #zuko x katara #zuko #katara #sneezypeasy #I think this video pretty much covers everything #except it only kind of touches on the colonization anti argument #but we've also disproved that #idk guys I think we did it #God the tags are taking over #why so many tags

[puppyeared]

We’ll play forever, me and you…!

#the owl house season 2 #the owl house spoilers #toh 2b #toh spoilers #kings tide spoilers #BABE WAKE UP NEW BLORBO DROPPED!!! I love the collector he’s so fucked up but so cool #I really wanna see how they deal with the collector because I don’t think we have a reason to hate him yet. unlike people wanting to grab #belos in a chokehold. fucking Straight White Man is a child abuser AND colonizer we have every reason to get his ass LMAO #I wouldn’t say collector is like. innocent. but he does hurt people and I think he does know but doesn’t really care #like apathetic almost. we also don’t know why he was sealed away so like that could change? but rn I think he’s cute. like a grizzly bear #you know it could kill you but it doesn’t stop you from wanting to hug it LOL #the owl house fanart #the owl house #toh fanart #toh #toh collector #the collector #king clawthorne #toh king #kings tide #my art #myart #eye strain #the owl house 2b

[inbabylontheywept]

"I think we underestimated the human population by eight or nine orders of magnitude."

The war room was reeling. The human population had been estimated in the mere hundred billion range. They should barely have had enough of an economy to field two light cruisers, least of all the goddamn armada that was ravaging the inner worlds. After the alpha strike, the human flotilla should’ve been completely crippled. Instead the number of ships they were fielding kept growing.

Tan-Hauser was the first target struck by a human attack, and they reported seventeen craft before they lost comms. Attican was hit just three days after that, but their reports already showed numbers above ninety. Any doubts that the fleet was growing were eliminated when Outpost Batan reported 1,217 FTL pings two days before the loss of Kira.

The number reported was so big it was written off as a sensor malfunction. Twenty-five billion souls lost, all because nobody in the war room could face reality.

They were going to face it now. The Kirarian in front of them was the primary sensor engineer for the Batan outpost, a specialist with more expertise in analyzing space lanes than warships. He’d been up for at least the last two days, poring over the sensor data, and only now was ready to begin to share his findings.

From the pain in his multifaceted eyes, it was clear he was still reeling from the loss of his homeworld.

Seeing that he had the room’s attention, he began to speak. The translation units each member of the war council had implanted experienced a moment of lag as they struggled to convert the almost musical tonal humming of the Kirarian tongue to more common galactic speech.

"The simplest data that can be analyzed from an FTL ping is the distance that the ship traveled before dropping to sublight. The contracted space in front of the craft traps small particles, even light itself for a short period, compressing its wavelength and then releasing it when the field disengages."

The war room nodded along. The explanation was mildly technical, but anyone that had traveled on an FTL shuttle before knew the hazards of exiting FTL directly in front of your home destination. Blasting your home station with a wave of alpha, beta, and ultraviolet rays was hardly a warm welcome.

The engineer continued.

“The… issue with this is that we’re used to the majority of the ping being in the UV spectrum. We aren’t entirely sure what the spectrum of the signals we got from the ships were because Batan station can only detect up into the low gamma range, but that’s still what the majority of the human’s FTL pings were detected in. That’s at least ten billion times the frequency that we’re used to. Since the frequency of the burst can be roughly modeled by multiplying the mean radiation per unit distance by the length of the path, that implies one of two things: That the human ships are either traveling through areas with ten billion times the standard background flux, or that they are traveling extragalactic distances.”

The engineer paused for a few seconds at that statement. The pain of loss still shone in his gemstone eyes, but something more immediate was beginning to take center stage: Fear.

“Because the craft is essentially throwing… well, normally it would be the next three or four days worth of cosmic background radiation at you. In our case it’s more like several decades. But because it’s just giving you an advance on your normal cosmic background radiation, you can track the void in the next several days' worth of background noise to determine the ship's approach vector. The 1,217 crafts that arrived weren’t coming from the same spot. There were actually hundreds of converging vectors, but more importantly…”

He trailed off, a small 3D model of the local space appearing in the center of the holo table. A spiked ball of vectors protruded from the galactic disk, each piercing cleanly through his former homeworld.

His voice cracked a little, the hum turning into a hiss. The translator tech paused a moment too, struggling to convey the subtle emotional cues into the message.

“They’re all coming off the galactic disk. That doesn’t just mean that we’re surrounded, that doesn’t just mean that we’re outnumbered… It means that each attack that we’ve seen up to this point is from an entirely separate group. What we’ve been mistaking for fleets, I believe, are simply the beginning trickles of their exploratory forces. Each of the sites that they’ve targeted hasn’t been of significant strategic importance; they’ve just been sites with unusually strong output signals. I think they’re just using our transmission stations as makeshift beacons for their FTL jumps." He took a deep breath to steady himself before providing his final thought. "I think we underestimated the size of the human population by eight or nine orders of magnitude.”

There was a heavy silence in the war room as that last sentence was processed. The engineer was already out the door before he heard the panic begin to set in.

Part of him felt a little guilty. It would’ve probably been kinder for them to go out not knowing what was about to hit them. Still, it wasn’t often you could force people with this much power to realize that they’d just lost everything.

There was a bitter satisfaction in that.

#hfy #humanity fuck yeah #humans are space orcs #science fiction #we are the swarm #scifi #writing #writblr #we are the cosmic horror #The goal was to imply that we have colonized hundreds of other galaxies

[virgolioness]

Looks like the 2020s is the decade where your fave cartoon characters gets possessed by fucking colonizers (updated)

#the owl house #toh #she ra #she-ra #the owl house thanks to them #toh season 3 #amphibia darcy #amphibia marcy #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #the owl house for the future #for the future #toh raine #raine whispers #possessed raine #god fucking dammit belos why- #if he possesses someone else in season 3 im going to yeet off that fucking skull #possessed catra #reason why i didnt add callum from tdp is cause we dont know if aavoros is a colonizer yet- #but if he is im adding callum-

[redpandavvstuffs]

"We need more clomplex female characters!!!"

Yall mfs couldn't even handle her 💀

#pink diamond #pink diamond steven universe #complex characters #Mfs who hates pink diamond and not the other diamonds are basically stupid as hell #Steven universe #She may have hurted people but doesn't change the fact that she was trying to fix her mistakes #“She left spinal!” It would've been risky. Pink couldn’t have brought spinel. She would’ve died in the war because of her happy go lucky na #“She traumatized many people!!” STFU ur acting as if she wasn't traumatized and abused as well 💀 #She's not 100% evil and not 100% good yall #“She left her all her problems to steven!” Well how the actual fuck was she supposed know when she don't have future vision? #Like bro even Garnet didn't knew 💀💀 #The way this fandom treats pink diamond... #Forever a pink diamond defender #Gtfo if ur a pink diamond hater this is NOT for you 💀 #She was like a child in a toxic home #We saw her development backwards #PD is the perfect example of no matter what you change #in some way #your past will always haunt you. she never wanted all of that for Steven 😕 #Anyway if it wasn't for her and stopping the colonization steven universe would've never existed #cotton candy

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

The current situation is Israel is very confusing to a lot of people, and the word "colonizers" is thrown a lot in conversations, social media and protests. If you are not sure whether you can or should call Israel a colonial state, here is a handy guide divided by origin-country of the speaker:

The UK: OUR INDEPENDENCE IS LITERALLY FROM YOU!

Italy: THIS IS LITERALLY ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT!

Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey, Mongolia: Every single one of you has conquered us at least once, so keep your mouth shut or start talking about reparations. (Yes, even the Mongols. Did you know that? I only found out a couple of years ago. Isn't that cool? I mean bad. Very bad...)

Every single country in the American continent + the surrounding islands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China, India, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia: LOL. Don't even fucking look at us.

Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Japan: Let me check a history book for a sec. Yeah, no.

Every other nation in the world: I don't know enough about your history to put you in another category, but no.

Liberia: Literally the only nation in the entire world that knows even half of what we’re going through. They’re not colonizers, and neither are we. Stop trying to force your Western terminology on our history.

North Korea: I think you need to deal with some other issues right now darling...

Hope this helps.

#you know nothing about jews or our history #stop pretending like you do #a native people coming back from exile to their ancestral homeland are not fucking colonizers #did we make every single mistake conceivable while doing it? hell yes #have we committed and are still committing crimes against the palestinians? absolutely #does that mean we don't belong here? fuck no #either open a fucking history book or shut your fucking mouth #jewish things #jumblr #israel

[suckerforfluff]

is it fucked up that as a filipino i dont know any filipino mc streamers or filipino streamers in general? like the ones who actually stream in tagalog/bisaya/ilocano/ilonggo/whatever dialect???

like im so envious of the ppl who are like "so and so was my childhood im excited to see them in qsmp" and here i am like "wow filipino streamers huh can't wait to meet them ^_^"

#qsmp #i would also like to preface this post by saying im from the middle of mindanao and i spent all my life hating manila #motherfucking manila why do they always get all the conventions and concerts #most of the ppl from manila ive interacted with online/irl when they learn im from mindanao say 'wait you have internet?' fuck off fuck you #actually now that i think about it maybe i dont want filipinos on the qsmp our country is so fucked up it's like the tower of babel #like what if theyre out of touch rich kids or worse like what if theyre from manila? like i cant handle that #dapat yung laki sa hirap dapat yung probinsyano #coco martin for qsmp #payag ako na tagamanila kung laki sa hirap #ALSO WE HAVE SO MANY DIALECTS LIKE HOW DOES THIS EVEN WORK? #like are they only recruiting tagalog streamers or are there cebuanos and ilonggos too? maybe even maguindanaoans? im reaching #when q said he was researching a country with an interesting culture i hope it was us #pilipinas as a country is just a whole can of worms and it sure is interesting #i also spent most of my life hating spanish ppl for colonizing our country haha and now im learning spanish haha how ironic #actually no im like cellbit im learning mexican #hi mexican ppl did u know our countries are like colony twins #girl no one is reading this

[roach-works]

as a fan of the space race and the large financial black hole of musks pockets that is space X I am deeply saddened to know that I wont get any more funny haha penis rocket explosions for the next year as elons famous "rapid unscheduled dissasembly" rockets are taken of the market

elons' rockets have been environmental disasters for the land, animals, and people that the toxic chunks rain down on, and his money has been made through deeply unethical financial exploitation over a lot of markets that were made measurably worse by his participation.

also, a shit ton of the funding is from the american military industrial complex, because they want to use the technology to make better drones and missiles to kill more people more often. even if everything actually went to plan and he was able to get people to mars alive, the mars settlement project will involve generations of indentured service workers dying of radiation poisoning in sealed little bunkers on another planet while rich tourists fuck around for funsies.

it's extremely funny that the rockets go boom, but the best case scenario is he never gets to fire another one ever, dies very soon, and his assets are chopped up by competitors who never again recreate any of his work.

#WE ALREADY HAVE NASA #THEY ALREADY MAKE ROCKETS THAT DON'T EXPLODE #THEY'RE A TRUE RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION COMPANY #space x is a deeply fucked up and deceptive puppet show #for one man's useless dream #of setting up a slave society on mars #every single rock and grain of dust on mars is DEEPLY RADIOACTIVE #can't stress that enough #mars is very very radioactive #we are not going to colonize there #we need to colonize the uninhabitable parts of EARTH #there's going to be even more of those parts very very soon

[hussyknee]

Over and over I am reminded that institutionalized academia is a pillar of white supremacy. Expertise built on the exclusion of the colonized and disabled for the purpose of propagating colonial, eugenicist structures and rationalizations. Decolonial academia has become just an excuse to study us like bugs under a microscope and speak over us, rather than treat us as experts of our own reality and oppressions.

#academia #i think white people should shut the fuck up forever at this point #seriously we have heard the iterations of racism and ableism already. you really have nothing whatsoever to add to the conversation #white supremacy #gatekeeping #global south #racism #anti blackness #ableism #formal education #colonialism #colonization #western imperialism #imperial core #decolonization #decolonial studies #post-colonial studies #scholarship #white privilege #white people #white academia #knee of huss

[yusiyomogi]

i feel like the more you learn about space, the more desperately you want to save earth from climate change.

#no. colonizing mars won't save us. #there's nothing better out there #we got so fucking lucky with this planet guys #we should do everything to keep it habitable #random thoughts #text post

[jewishbarbies]

so a man killed himself in support of antisemitic disinformation thanks to an actual terrorist organization’s attempt to rid the world of jews and it’s going to effectively be for nothing. this is where we’re at.

#g talks #antisemitism #‘At the hands of their colonizers’ sooo hamas? #the only people with colonies there is them #have whatever opinion you want about Israel being in gaza or the west bank #but this is getting absolutely fucking hazardous #we need to be so much more responsible than this #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog

[wonderneverlandsystem]

We stand with Palestine & Ukraine.

If you support Israel and or Russia right now feel free to get the fuck off our page, or let us know so we can block you. We don't want colonizers/colonizer sympathizers here.

#palestine #ukraine #we stand with palestine #we stand with ukraine #fuck colonizers #fuck colonialism

[rotzaprachim]

aaaand the unfolllowing spree continues

#Terrible time to be a leftist Jew btw terrible time #I like. Only want to talk to other Jews rn and I’m trying to register how fucked that is and just a symptom of cyclical systemic violence #The big picture thing is like. Are you saying that rape is a justified liberation tactic if the women are Jewish? #And if the answer is yes or you’ve reblogged someone for whom the answer is yes #Tw rape #Honestly people who left Jews no space to mourn after. The attach regardless of our political feelings and just went yay colonizer deaths #Everyone feeling soemthing right now is a hashtag fake fake anti colonialist #That’s another one. Like now we know and now we know

[zephyrfuse]

I don't usually look at plaza posts. I get to Ruler and stop playing. I knew there were the stans and simps, but I didn't know just HOW bad the fetishization was for Shiver. When I first saw Deep Cut, my feeling were meh for them. But the instant hate for Frye made me so sad. It was the same for Pearl. I just feel like Splatoon is kinda being ruined for so many people because of things like this. Which is sad, this series used to be fun. Now it feels so hostile.

to be fair i think it was a storm bound to happen, in a world and a company learning how to be more diverse with its cast, we are Going to uncover the biases that exist. Even if it feels like a big L, this was going to happen one way or another!! Sure the reality may suck, but its gonna have to be faced head on for any progress. This being up front and center is a result of progress, because there's no hiding anymore what's going on. I hope splatoon continues to make risks that are more risky than this. I hope fryes become the normal, and people will learn to love them. I hope the people who like to see this change can celebrate seeing people like her everywhere.

and if nintendo doesn't do it then i know we will!!!

#shosh #asks #we can have fun when we are together <3 but global bias is intimidating and oppressive at times but #we stick together!!! and honestly fuck the people that hate that #waiting patiently for nintendo to bring more pearls back and more stereotypically unattractive east asian leads <3 please #and tbh this is not rlly the fault of Peoppe as much as it is the result #of a history of colonization from pale countries and indoctining their biases into #other countries and peoples ans nations but yknow