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"we need more complex female characters" you guys can't even handle diane nguyen.

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you need to get it out of your mind that psychosomatic illness is just “making up symptoms” when it’s actually much more like your body is being actively poisoned by chemicals released from your brain

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I'm asking this in good faith, but also in an admitted lack of full understanding. If you don't have the energy to engage with this topic anymore please disregard it.

Someone on your post noted the comparison of Israel-Palestine to that of the Native Americans, but the way I read it it seemed like they were putting Palestinians in the role of the native Americans and Israel as the colonizing force, but historically wouldn't it be the Jewish people who are the Native Americans in that comparison? I ask because from what I know it would be the Jewish people in what is now Israel at the same time in history as the Natives in the Americas. Am I misinformed about that? I'm not trying to say Palestine would be the colonizing force in that comparison btw, just that if we're talking about natives to the land, it seems to me like it'd be the Jewish people.

tbh neither maps on exactly

the expulsion of jews from what is now israel/palestine started in 70 AD and then was a gradual process over the next few hundred years as people moved out due to oppression by various rulers, poverty, etc

palestinians, as far as i understand it, likely descend from a mix of some of the jews who were left behind and arabs who conquered the land. they've been there for hundreds of years, and some families have owned the same land for all of that time

the thing about indigeneity as it's been explained to me is that it's not about origin so much as relationship to colonization. and the founding of israel was colonization -- herzl actually used that word himself in his writings.

you know the jnf? the original purpose was to exploit a feature of ottoman land law. if you planted a tree on someone's land and they didn't remove it for a certain number of years, you could claim ownership of that land. this and other methods were used to steal parcels of land from palestinians.

"your ethnicity stole the land from our ethnicity, to whom the land belongs" is a fucked up framework that seems really akin to blood and soil (as does "our ethnicity has rightful ownership of this land from ancient times, so your ethnicity needs to clear out"), but genuinely wresting ownership from individuals owners really can be said to be stealing land.

also, the nakba was a series of massacres and fighting that led to a huge influx of palestinian refugees from many areas in israel/palestine, and israel seized control of the land and homes they vacated to hand over to jews. israel used the jnf, again, to cover the ruins of many palestinian villages with trees to obscure the fact that they were ever there. in general israel built over many palestinian villages and the mindset in israel is not to know and not to think about it.

personally i think the indigeneity debate is not useful. it feels sometimes that jews think that if we can prove we lived in israel in ancient times (we did, a lot of people insist we didn't because it is inconvenient), we can justify things like the above. my position is that it does not justify it, because it is not an excuse for causing human suffering.

however, many people use a framework that is not about human suffering, but about how invading foreign jews stole the land from the "rightful" ethnic group. i don't agree with that either. especially when it becomes an excuse to support ethnic cleansing in the other direction. that is to say: they locate the crime not in the invasion but in the foreignness. such people are motivated to deny the historical fact of jewish origins in israel, because their argument is based on jewish foreignness.

but anyway, the comparison to indigenous peoples in the americas refers to the way that palestinians experienced the establishment of the state of israel -- starting with small groups of settlers, involving violence early on and then massacres, and later ethnic cleansing and displacement. cities and towns destroyed. shoved into small areas with few resources. lack of power and autonomy.

in addition, the way the early zionist leaders conceptualized themselves as enlightened europeans colonizing land with disdain for the existing residents.

#this is a very good explanation!! #particularly thebpoint about the indigeneity debate not being particularly useful #like both groups have legitimate reasons to consider themselves indigenous #just being indigenous to an area doesnt give you the right to do whatever you want to it or the other people living there #also i think this framing can confuse americans sometimes? in that we tend to only talk about indigenieuty in the us in a very specific way #and the situation in israel palestine is just not a good analog #and another point. indigenous people can and do engage in imperialism against each other all the fucking time #and they always have #on every continent #you do not have to be a foreign invader to be a colonizer #but yeah those are my thoughts #discussing indigenous land rights isnt totally worthless in this situation but it shouldnt be within a north american framework #and putting it into one really misrepresents things #like the dynamics are all different #israel palestine #indigeneity

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Congratulations! You've just left the the ten millionth "free Palestine" comment on a post about a Jew in Ohio celebrating a holiday. This action has activated the latent gene in every Jewish person's DNA which gives us the knowledge of Bibi Netanyahu's personal phone number. I've already called him, he said he'll call off the bombing right away. Every Jew in the world will now immediately self-destruct. Your Nobel Peace Prize will arrive in three to five business days.

#yeahhh this bothers me so much #like when people comment free palestine and such on random jews posting about jewish things on social media #girl....... what makes you think that like. some random guy from the american midwest can do Anything about anything #or that they even disagree with you tbh #also like. read the fucking room ??? theres a time and a place to be talking about that sort of thing #and in a random jewish persons comments section is NOT it #idk how this sort of thing is even intended to be received but i feel like theres no positive interpretation here #it feels like its saying that all jews are responsible for the current crisis somehow? #or that all jews support israel #and also the idea that harrassing random people online is activism somehow #and the idea that like random american jews are better equipped than non jews to do anything about it? which um. theyre not #(meaning. look at jvp bc they do protests and marches all the time and it feels like the news and politicians arent listening to them) #(just like everyone else) #but yeah glad to see a post abt this bc it drives me insane #antisemitism

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The concept of gender is more unnatural than being trans at the end of the day

#trans #queer

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is that a compass in your pocket or does your peenus always point to true north

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the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

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no more sex. we ran out of sex

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Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

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isn’t it weird how toxic masculinity is still a thing when the aragorn/boromir forehead kiss should have obliterated it back in 2001

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Me: damn this situation I'm in sure isn't ideal, what am I gonna do about this

Suicidal Ideation Man who lives in my brain: perhaps I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

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not to be political but I've seen a lot of people saying that those who call Israel an apartheid don't know what they're talking about and um. As someone who has studied South African apartheid as well as grown up in a Jewish community. This claim has more merit than you think

#this post is brought to you by an article i read “debunking” the claim that israel is an apartheid and their “evidence” #included several policies that are the same if not more intense than apartheid era policies against black south africans #there are comparisons that hold weight here #although one thing i dont get and havent had explained to me yet. it looks to me as though both arabs and jews are indigenous to the region #in the way that both the hopewell culture and lenape people are indigenous to my state of pennsylvania #and thats a flimsy comparison i suppose since the hopewell culture (who lived here first chronologically) has died out #but anyway theres a case for indigeneity for both jews and arabs #its so silly to me that we dont consider both to be indigenous? yes many jews that came into israel in the early 20th century were #white europeans and carried the colonial baggage of that with them #but idk why its so hard to believe that an oppressed group can also be an oppressor?? like where's the intersectionality babes #anyway. the original point of this post was that maybe more of yall need to look into what south african apartheid was actually like #much like h*m*s leadership a lot of the ANC leadership was forced into exile and had to live and work outside of their country #(and this comparison is not perfect im aware. the tactics of the anc and h*m*s are totally different. however i think this comparison has #weight in that they are both one of the biggest names in opposition to the government. they do this in different ways at different levels o #intensity and violence. that is not to be ignored. but there are some comparisons that we can make and exile doesnt strike me as a bad one) #the bantustans in south africa were also constructed in a way that much like the west bank makes it highly difficult for an actual real #state to form #and the way that theyre set up invites puppet governments and corruption. this gives a major advantage to the apartheid state #id recommend reading Trevor Noah's Born A Crime if you havent #its a great introduction to what daily life in aparthid and after was like (its a memoir from about 1990-2005ish) #(apartheid was legally ended in 1994 but there are still remnants of it today and there were even more at the time of Born a Crime) #anyway these are my political thoughts of the day #edit: to my tangent about both groups being able to have some sort of claim to indigeneity. that in no way justifies any of the brutality #going on #i think its espeically cringe of israel to claim indigeneity and a sacred relationship with the land then create an environmental #catastrophe like they have in gaza. making the land unliveable is a bit of a perversion of the relationship you have with that land innit #in case it wasnt clear: ceasefire now and free palestine

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I wish more tbosas readers would realize that Coriolanus referring to Sejanus as "privileged" is deliberate, it's a way for Coriolanus to continue thinking of himself and his family as victims. It's frustrating how a lot of tbosas readers (specifically the ones who criticize Sejanus for being privileged and naive) dont seem to pick up on Coriolanus singling Sejanus out for his family's wealth when many of their classmates are wealthy too as a result of generational wealth unlike the Plinths who are new money. Coriolanus doesnt depise Sejanus for being privileged, it's because he thinks the Plinths don't deserve their wealth. It's entitlement, pure and simple.

#fr!! i think to an extent sejanus is meant to be read as privileged bc of the dad buying him out of everything but you know. the rest of the #capitol people are also privileged as hell #sejanus isnt privileged in a lot of ways tho #like he faces prejudrice for being from the districts and much of his storyline is about resisting assimilation into another culture #very swolid op #tbosas

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insanely important thrift store find

#buys this but i stay both a major loser and ugly

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funniest thing ever how jfk died the day before the airing of an unearthly child. and then like 40 years later they photoshopped the 9th doctor into his assassination

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“