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something i’ve been thinking about lately is like. growing up muslim right after 9/11 is something i’d never really reflected on much because it was all i’d ever known — at 5, my friend’s mum didn’t let her invite me to her birthday party because i was the only brown girl in our class, at 12, my classmates would joke about my family being part of isis, at 16, my dad was interrogated by american airport security for hours — and it always stung and it always hurt but it was just the way things were because the western world hated muslims. but i don’t think i’ve ever fully comprehended the extent to which we were hated until now.
palestine is being turned into a mass graveyard. every single day there are new photos of the atrocities being carried out against them and videos of them pleading for help and still those who can actually intervene turn a blind eye. israel is claiming to only be targeting hamas “terrorists” while bombing a refugee camp. israeli police raided and assaulted a non-zionist jewish neighbourhood. israeli soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing captured palestinians. this is not a complicated issue and it never has been. ethnic cleansing is being committed right in front of us. and yet the western world leaders refuse to call for a ceasefire.
and while zionist organisations accuse pro-palestine demonstrations of anti-semitism, while zionist celebrities insist that they’re afraid to leave their mansions in los angeles, a six year old muslim boy was stabbed to death and his mother wounded in the same attack in chicago. a muslim doctor was murdered while sitting outside her apartment complex in texas. hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested (many of whom have been jewish). despite what zionists want you to believe, this is not a jewish/muslim conflict. i have so much love and gratitude to my brave jewish brothers and sisters all over the world who are condemning israel for their actions.
ultimately, israel have been granted impunity by the west. they have slaughtered thousands upon thousands of innocent palestinians. they have bombed hospitals and schools indiscriminately. they have used white phosphorus, violating the geneva convention. they have completely eradicated nearly 900 bloodlines. how many more need to be wiped out? how many more children need to be buried underneath the rubble? how many more doctors need to be confronted with the bodies of their own family members? how many more journalists need to detail the horrific acts of violence they are witnessing? what more can be done to the palestinian people that has not been done already?
i truly believe that palestine will be free one day. i believe the palestinian people will receive the justice they finally deserve. but what breaks my heart is how much they have suffered and will continue to suffer before they are deemed worthy of help. and it would be to all of our detriment if we ignored how much of a factor palestine being a predominantly muslim state has played into the way the world has reacted to their genocide.
What's your "The original Starwalker" name?
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First name, by BIRTH MONTH:
January: The Original
February: The Original
March: The Original
April: The Original
May: The Original
June: The original
July: the Original
August: The Original
September:The Original
October: The: Original
November: The Original
Fectember: The Original
December: The Original
Your birth DATE: (last name)
1-10: Starwalker
11-20: Starwalker
July: Starwalker
12-30: Starwalker
31-32: Star Walker
I'm the original Starwalker
if youve been to the club unfollow me if youve had sex unfollow me if you like aranging things into little categories or patterns........hit me up
just so it shows up in the notes: this is an extremely good thing, which is why you will see the internet/cell companies revolt against it-- it will prevent them from selling your data to spamcall companies and selectively throttling their competitor's sites, among other things.
also remember that the internet has basically replaced phone service entirely now, with most phones now simply operating via VOIP. legislating the internet the same way as landlines were is really a no-brainer, it's the same service in a slightly different form.
I feel like we're almost in an era of like, reverse queerbaiting. Used to be that you'd be tricked into watching a show because the story implied there'd be gay rep, but now they're using gay rep to trick you into thinking there'll be a story.
It really does look like Bibi's career will finally be over
From your lips to His ears.
I was talking to someone recently who said something that really clarified this for me, which was that Bibi was a "Giffen good", that is, "the Israeli electorate feels like it needs more of him when he has hurt them so badly that they can’t afford anything better." And historically, that feels correct... but the way that this analogy doesn't work is important, and I think relevant, for the current situation.
For folks who aren't familiar with economics, a Giffen good is something that people buy more of when its price rises. Say that you have potatoes every single day for dinner, six days a week, and meat for dinner once a week on Shabbat. If the price of potatoes rises so that you can no longer afford meat, you'll instead have potatoes for dinner seven days a week, and as a result, you'll buy more potatoes.
The difference is... you actually need to eat. There was a reason why you didn't have a choice but to be priced out of eating anything other than potatoes – it's because in this situation, potatoes are all you can afford as a staple in the first place. When the market shifts and you get screwed, it's not the potatoes conspiring to rob you of other food sources. The potatoes and you are, bizarrely, in it together in a way that Netanyahu and the Israeli electorate never were.
Netanyahu isn't a Giffen good; Netanyahu is a payday loan company. He's never been just passively milking the rally-around-the-flag effect whenever a tragedy occurs. His entire political strategy is built around causing so much harm to befall his own voters that they get scared and are naturally drawn to bad authoritarian policies – the exact same policies, in fact, that he's used to spread fear in the first place. He engineered this current crisis, by enacting policies which he knew full well would both inflame tensions and undermine military readiness. He's being doing it since the very beginning – he literally backed Hamas back in the day. And now his claim is, in essence, "unless you support me going in guns blazing into the conflict that I engineered to keep you crawling back to me, I won't get you out of the the conflict that I engineered to keep you crawling back to me." Why should any Israeli believe him?
The illusion that Netanyahu maintains is that he's a staple like potatoes – that's he's the thing you need to fall back on even as the price of supporting him rises, because he's sadly the best and only option that you have. I sincerely hope that "worse than the Yom Kippur War" is enough to finally shatter that illusion for good, because if it isn't, then I don't think anything will.
Copying the article and text across to this version too, because good commentary
Netanyahu's Approval Ratings Have Hit Rock Bottom In Israel, Haaretz
"...In this survey, Likud sank to just 19 seats, a precipitous drop of 32 percent compared to the pre-attack poll. Gantz’s National Unity Party catapulted from 29 to 41 seats... ... Among those who voted for Likud, just under half preferred Netanyahu, while one-third supported someone else... ...Two-thirds responded that the debacle was worse than that of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. A majority of Jews who voted for parties in the Netanyahu coalition in 2022 agreed."
When Bibi is gone he needs to go to trial, I don't much care if it is in Israel or the ICC so long as he is held personally responsible for October 7 and every civilian death that followed regardless of national identity, and the Leadership of the IDF has a fundamental shakeup and investigation/prosecution into prejudiced procedure.
That last part is a high hope, but I think it is possible with a united international effort, especially in tandem with an internationally sanctioned strengthening of the Palestinian National Security Forces and rehabilitation of their procedures to eliminate the use of torture to rebuild trust with Palestinians who rely on them. I do think it is possible to build new settlements within the internationally recognised borders of Israel and undertake a policy of repatriation of settlers to them from the west bank, leaving the west bank settlements for the occupation of Palestinians... With an intentionally strengthened Palestinian Authority gaining statehood(because we know that Bibi has made it a specific point of his 16 year career in power to undermine the Palestinian Authority)
Protesters gathered outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, calling for an end to the attacks on gaza and Resignation of King(derisive) Bibi.
28/OCT/2023
Fuck you, Bibi! I hope you spend the rest of your miserable life in prison!
they were kids. real kids. kids with lives and dreams and hopes. they had favorite colors and foods and things to do and places to be. some were too young to have any of those things actually. some were infants and toddlers who didn't get the chance to grow and live and become their own people. they smiled and laughed. don't forget that. please don't forget that. don't let the gore and violence desensitize you. don't let these children become just bags of unrecognizable pieces of bone and tissue. don't let them become just masses covered in white clothe. don't let them become corpses in a mass grave. don't let them become numbers. don't forget who they were.
how can you look at those innocent faces, look at that father holding his children in plastic bags, and say that they deserved this?
how can you look at any of these children and say they deserved it?
(link to the video so you can read the photo captions as mine were all cut by for some reason: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8BkgAyn/ )
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I would like to add one more image to this.
end this fucking genocide, this is sickening.
Leslie Feinberg speech at the Al-Fatiha international retreat in Washington DC, 2002
