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what are your thoughts about hamas / or do you have marxist oriented or just good not western media biased resources for understanding them?

theyre an islamist anti colonial organization, theyre also a political party with a military wing (al qassam brigades) which is what people usually are referring to when they talk about ~hamas~. they won in elections and have a degree of popular support and, because they are the ruling political party, theyre in charge of civil institutions in gaza, like schools and hospitals etc. when reporters describe things like the gaza health ministry as “hamas run” when they would never say this about another political party, they are purposefully trying to delegitimize it and obscuring the fact that they are the government that won in elections, not a rogue terrorist cell. al qassam brigades was not the only part of the resistance that took part in the attack on october 7, there are a bunch of other factions like the islamist PIJ, marxist PFLP and DFLP, and some others. im not the most knowledgable on like politics within gaza and exactly how people feel about hamas but theyre absolutely not a terrorist group, i think theyre much closer to other anti colonial militant organizations like the viet cong and algerian national liberation front. theyre also fighting an asymmetrical war using guerrilla strategies like the viet cong and nlf, and western media misrepresents this with all the shit about “hiding weapons by civilians” or whatever. i would recommend looking into the history of guerilla warfare and anti colonial struggle to understand why im criticizing media representations of it. they also make a lot of their rockets from scraps of israeli bombs! i think people should make a better distinction that hamas is a political party with a military wing (al qassam brigades) because then its more obvious that bombing civilian infrastructure thats allegedly “hamas run” is a war crime. also i heard in their statements that most of their militants are orphans whos parents were killed by israel and i think that should be noted. i think its also incorrect to say they have an issue with jews in general and are rabidly antisemitic as if their main aim is to kill jews, the way most media portrays them. they very specifically exist because of the continued occupation of palestine and without that i do not think they would give a shit about jews. they attack settler because theyre settlers, not because theyre jews. idk this article was pretty good and has a link to their 2017 charter where they specifically say their struggle is against zionism not jews

heres their charter thats linked in the article but ngl i just recommend reading their statements and material in general. not saying take every single thing at face value but theyre a political party with issues like any other, not evil sadistic terrorists. and why let mainstream media set the terms of your understanding of them

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gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.

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christ.

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One thing I’m going to make a habit of if I ever have kids is asking “do you want the fast answer or the full answer? »

Because as a child one of the most frustrating things was asking a question and

1) the adult brushed me off with the quickest answer possible because they either didn’t think I would understand the complete answer or because they were busy

Or

2) the adult immediately began to explain in-depth to me, or using a book or computer to show me something that I didn’t care about that much and just wanted a brief answer to

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Spacegirlswirl posted a convoy where I attack someone for saying asexual survivors are lying about their oppression impacting their assault.

I criticized that person brutally years ago, because calling survivors liars regarding their assaults is apologist.

Because asexuals face more sexual violence than lesbians, in every sexual assault study to ever include both groups. That denying this helped the assaults continue and kept us from tackling the true oppressive source of the issue.

But that argument was years ago.

Then spacegirlswirl said I was attacking her for the same reason I did the above individual.

And yeah. You said lesbians wanting you means you don't need their permission.

I hate you both for your well-documented rape apologism.

Spacegirlswirl talked extensively about how she wants me to masturbate and think of her while I cum.

She said this without my sexual consent, because she is a predator who associates with known self-proclaimed TERFs like bigprettygothgf.

Like any decent human I did the right thing and was as mean to her as possible for it. Fuck rape apologists. Fuck TERFs.

#sexual harassment cw #sexual abuse #sexual assault cw #transphobia cw #transmisogny cw

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the gaslighting jokes are really not funny anymore. you’ve circled from ‘we’re making fun of people watering down the term gaslighting’ to just kind of being dicks. literally just the new ‘triggered’ at this point

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Honestly these arguments about "anti's" and "ship and let ship" are so bullshit when held up to the light. Oh, you like the idea of this child and this adult in a relationship together? Cool! Now tell your boss about it. Tell your mom. Tell your neighbor who has kids. Tell anyone outside of this anonymous environment.

Because you fucking won't. You know it's wrong and fucked up to want a child to have a relationship with an adult. YOU KNOW that any sane real world person would think you're a disgusting piece of shit if you told them. So you stay in your little online community :) where you can bully others online with no consequences. Because no one would want to be around you if you told them this shit in real life.

#pedophila cw #csa cw

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The horrific extent of decades of controversial nuclear tests conducted by France in the islands of French Polynesia has been revealed in a new report, calculating the true scale of an unmitigated health disaster that researchers say has been hidden or ignored for decades.

Beginning in 1966, France began in secret a new round of nuclear tests at the Polynesian atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa – a classified military program that continued for 30 years before ending amidst mass protests in 1996, almost 200 nuclear explosions later.

[…]

“According to our calculations, based on a scientific reassessment of the doses received, approximately 110,000 people were infected, almost the entire Polynesian population at the time,” the researchers explain.

Evidence in the documentation suggests the contamination of radioactive particles settling onto populated regions was the basis for a ‘cluster’ of cancer cases affecting local Polynesians, which were secretly known to be linked to the tests by French military officials.

Continue Reading.

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so many history posts on this site are like

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Class is better understood as a relationship to other human beings than as a set of social markers. It can't be understood as simplistically as "do you give or take orders at work?" but that isn't a bad place to start.

The image of the "working class" conjured by American conservatives, and then taken up by liberals as liberals delegate the elaboration of political mythology and common sense to conservatives, seems to be based on pop culture depictions of white workers and wishful thinking about the size of workforces in specific favored industries (oil and gas). The fact that not even most working class whites correspond to this image doesn't matter much to conservatives or liberals, but for conservatives in particular there seems to be a confusion between what Marxists would call the proletariat and the petit-bourgeoisie. For conservatives, a Starbucks barista isn't working class, but a small business owner who manages employees is. Often this boils down to the performance of imagined "working class" behaviors. A liberal Starbucks employee to a conservative might as well be a bay area tech CEO, because they don't act how conservatives believe working people act.

There's also a confusion of class conflict with the urban-rural divide. There's at least some correspondence with reality there however as class can determine housing prospects in several different ways. That's slightly less egregious to me than making class a matter of cultural performance.

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“if only people with mental illness were treated with the care & respect that people with physical illnesses receive”

i have terrible news for you

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“people hate wandavision bc its trendy and is a female led mcu project which all suffer from unconcious misogynistic bias” ohhhhh my g-d some of you are so fucking stupid

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Cold take but disability accommodations for tests are largely meaningless when the disabled applicant is the one who’s legally responsible for collecting, reading, signing, and submitting all relevant paperwork especially when you’re talking about cognitive disabilities because it essentially amounts to “oh you have problems with executive function, focus, and organization? Here’s a bunch of extra hoops steps you’ll have to take that rely on executive function/focus/organization in order to get us to even consider you   (✿˵◕‿◕˵)

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disability benefits, and the excuse of "weeding out the fakes"

Its hard for disabled people to get disability benefits, no doubt, and were always told its to “weed out the liars who pretend to be disabled”

All theyre saying, is that they want disabled people to pay the price for abled people who lie to get something they dont need.

Now, when i first heard that excuse i wasnt taken aback by it,

I mean, abled people? Feeling entitled to something specifically meant for disabled people? To the point where disabled people cant get it anymore? That just sounds like another day that ends in “y”.

But i am frustrated with this constant excuse, and why am i?

Because the answer to weeding out the liars isnt to make it ten times as hard to get disability benefits, its to teach abled people that those benefits ARE NOT THEIRS, if one person needs a drink and the other person is stealing drinks, the answer isnt to make it near impossible to get drinks, its to stop the person stealing drinks. Its to teach that person not to steal. And yes, there will always be thieves, you cant stop them all, but these are the LIVES of disabled people that youre messing with, not giving them what they need can KILL them.

*opinion here* Id rather have one or two abled people be ableist and take what isnt theirs, ya know, like they do with our parking spots and elevators and bathrooms, than have it be ten times harder than it already is for disabled to fucking live. Between the time a disabled person gets denied for benefits and the next time they can apply and appeal and possibly get approved(or most likely denied again), their meds, doctors appointments, mobility aids, therapy appointments and general medical problems can increase and cause mental, physical and financial stress that couldve been avoided if they were not denied in the first place.

If youre worried about the “fakers” the answer is not to assume all disabled people are liars and run the risk of making their lives harder and them sicker.

Its to teach abled people to not treat disability as a money grab, its to teach abled people to not take what isnt theirs,

Adding to the ableism isnt gonna make ableism go away

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I don't know if any of you had the same experience as me, but I tried therapy when I was a teenager living in an abusive household and thought it was a waste of time. Ultimately my biggest problems (dad) were beyond my control and no amount of coping would make them better. Now that I'm an adult with actual control over my life and don't live with my dad anymore therapy is MUCH more helpful.

If any of you had bad experiences with therapy when you were younger it may be worth it to try again now.

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I think a lot of otherwise-healthy, young trans people ascribe a certain totality of their negative experiences with doctors and healthcare to being trans or cissexism and while that is most definitely the case i think there are ways to talk about it other than “well if i were cis or if this were not about being trans then I would have been seen and treated immediately and all my problems would have been taken seriously” which is just like. not true, if you have needed medical care for even a pretty uncontroversial physical reason.

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text from my dad (2021) - my dad

“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”

submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup​