several years ago I had a terrible relationship-destroying row with a person I cared about very much and for some reason I had the poster for “Dunston Checks In” as my phone wallpaper so every time I looked at my phone in that soul-shattering evening I saw this fuckin ape looking at me while riding a suitcase
i think anyone who is genuinely worried about their mental health bc of the situation in gaza probably needs to reformat their way of thinking about it. the answer is not to take a “mental health break” where you pretend whats happening in gaza doesnt exist and stop being vocal and refuse to hear people around you who are vocal. the way to do that “mental health break” much more effectively and not selfishly would be to remove yourself from constant streams of idiotic and/or murderously evil people. stop watching tiktok debates. stop reading genocidal reddit comments and news articles from sources you KNOW want palestine dead. stop putting the focus on the murderers and keep your attention on sympathy and love for the murdered, on hope and optimism (even if naive) and activism to do your part in making things better. dont get me wrong the murderers still need to be dealt with but if you as an individual feel like you’re getting too overwhelmed with despair to be helpful, the answer is to shift your focus away from those causing the despair, not to ignore and abandon those who have to actually live through it.
What happens when Israel dismantled and falls? Like I assume the ppl living there can’t stay even if they were born on that land so does anyone have like an idea of where to ship them off to? Cause I doubt anyone in the area wants to take care of their oppressors even if they are just civilians. Idk do u think the usa would take em? That’s honestly why I haven’t been Completely 100% anti-Israel despite being Pro-Palestine bc no one has explained what to do with Israeli’s once there is no more Israel. Like stopping the military and giving back some land is cool but if all of Israel is gone would Palestinians let them stay or would they tell them to get out by force, just as Israel did? Is this a cycle or is there an end in the works?
how many times will it become patently obvious that you guys do not listen to palestinians and are influenced by hysterical zionist claims that palestinians will do unto zionists as zionists have done to them. this position is held by many palestinians
not a single thing any palestinians has said about a one-state solution where everyone is equal under a democratic law, not a single thing hamas has said, is as brutal as the reality israel currently enforces on palestinians
the reality is as long as this hysterical fear persists, the less diplomatic solutions are applied, the more people accept palestinian suffering and consider the occupation as a necessary evil, the less viable this solution will become. we are not past the point of no return, but the reality is there is no fear of persecution and no past suffering on the planet that can justify the existence of the israeli nation-state. it is doubtful that change will come from within israel specifically because the vast majority of israelis do not see palestinians as humans nor do they imagine anything better than “some land back” and “a little less mean military.” israel is a theocratic terrorist state. this is how it was established, how it functions and how it operates with impunity.
palestinians have asked for legal solutions, diplomatic solutions, humanitarian solutions, democratic solutions. and yet they’re the ones seen as monsters and human animals because they refuse to accept the violent dispossession of their land. it’s pretty straight-forward. whatever happens to israel is on israel, the united states, the eu, the uk, and every international entity that has refused to hold israel accountable for their crimes, that has refused to honor the agreement to a two-state solution, that has refused palestinian self-determination, that has refused international criminal court proceedings. palestinian liberation is a just cause.
if you continue to ask “what will happen to israel” while israel enacts a genocide of two million citizens under a siege, you do not see palestinians as human, either. because the question is not “what will happen to israel.” the question is “what is israel doing right now and how can we stop it by any means necessary”
People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.
This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep’s soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that’s gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.
What
Same for me, I get a new soul with every haircut. That’s why my personality changes so much.
Tumblr citizenship means being completely unsure if the person posting about sheep souls is being 100% serious or is just taking the piss.
all this blood is on the hands of everyone who decided to ‘stand with israel’ this week, knowingly or unknowingly, every single one of them
Israel has dropped more bombs in a week than the US used during a year of the most brutal parts of their invasion of Afghanistan. Thousands of rifles are being handed out to Israeli citizens, who are committing pogroms against Palestinians. All food, water, medicine, and electricity is being cut off from Gaza, all Palestinians are being ordered to leave within 24 hours or be declared hostile targets when there every exit is under blockade. Officials in Israel are threatening to use nukes.
Let us not mince words. This is an apartheid, settler-colonial state committing genocide. Everyone “standing with Israel” will be remembered the same as those who “stood with” Rhodesia, or French Algeria, or Generalplan Ost.
i promise you everyone in the world will remember that “America’s most progressive president” explicitly aided and abetted genocide for as long as they live including anyone who you morons are going to try to harass into voting blue no matter who next year