I've had to block quite a few zionists on here, and one thing that I find interesting about how they justify the genocide is the argument that "arab Palestinians are not indigenous to the levant" but that jewish people are, therefore it is justified to remove the brown people to make way for the israeli state. It's extremely indicative of this mindset that racist people tend to have, which is that they feel certain races or groups are entitled to the section of land where they have historic ties, and everyone else who doesn't have those ties is not entitled, therefore it is justified to remove them by any means necessary

Which, if you think about it for more than 5 minutes, is completely insane. Every single person has - or should have - the right to travel and live wherever they want. That means that jewish people from every country, of every skin color, has the right to live in the middle east, regardless of whether they're doing it for religious reasons, because they want to connect more to their cultural heritage, or because they just simply want to emigrate to the area. It doesn't matter why they want to, what matters is that they wish to live there, and they should be allowed to do so

However, this also means that every single "arab Palestinian", as they put it, that is being displaced and subjected to genocide also has the same right to live in that area as the jewish people who wish to move there. It doesn't matter whether or not they are "indigenous to the levant", it doesn't matter if their family has lived there for generations or if they only recently moved there. By virtue of being a living person, they deserve the same right to travel and live anywhere they want, without fear of being pushed out or displaced by another group that feels they deserve to live there more

We see this issue with places like the US, or south africa, two countries which also have historically had huge issues with racism, segregation, apartheid, and displacing certain portions of the population. One key thing about the apartheid with south africa, and the land back movements in the US, is that it's not - or should not be - about removing the offending group from the country. In south africa, it was a decades long process of giving the black population the same rights as the white population, of removing the laws enabling discrimination and the separation. It wasn't about deporting the white population to europe, or about killing them so the black native population could regain control. It's the same with land back in the americas: it's not about deporting every white person in north/south america to europe, or about killing them to the indigenous populations can regain control. It's about allowing these nations and groups the same rights and autonomy as the governing class

The existence of one ethnic or racial group in a state is not inherently a threat to the other ethnic or racial groups that also live there, and attempting to remove one will either not work, or result in you needing to simply enacting genocide. You cannot displace or genocide your way into creating a safe home or a fair state, because any attempt to forcibly remove someone from the place they live in will result in pushback. It doesn't matter how long they and their family have lived there. It doesn't matter if you feel you have a stronger cultural connection to the area. You do not have the right to remove someone from their home, just like they do not have the right to remove you from your home, wherever that may be

If you cannot tolerate the idea of sharing your community with a group that is not your own, then perhaps you should not emigrate to a place where there exists people that are not like you. The levant may be small relative to many other countries or areas in the world, but it is not so small that jewish people and palestinians cannot both create a shared community

If tumblr goes down, you can always find me in the drift

It really might happen this year. I have a feeling.

dry humping in its specificity as a term implies the existence of wet humping

im just someones weird sister

I'm curious. Tag this with your sexuality and what your favorite M/F ship is.

so fucking stupid that meds literally work. "swallow this pebble it makes you think" hateful

There’s this guy in town who owns this little house, and a while back he rescued a street dog that was going to get put down. Turned out she was pregnant.

Problem is, he has mental health & drug issues and couldn’t afford to get them all spayed & neutered, so now there are 6 grown bitches with 15 puppies total, and they’ve dug under his fence in multiple places but he can’t afford to fix it so they go roaming all around town. (When I say can’t afford it, I mean his house is currently running on a generator because he can’t afford his electric bill.) He’s also a day laborer so he cannot take multiple full days off work to take them to the vet an hour away. He’s in a really rough spot.

He’s not a bad person. He’s just overwhelmed.

And this little conservative town with 6 churches for 300 people, have they tried to help their neighbor? Have they adopted the puppies he’s been trying to give away? Have they offered resources?

NOPE! All they wanna do is talk shit about him and complain about the dogs but never lift a finger of their own. And they come to his house to yell at him and cuss him out about the dogs, which does not exactly engender in him a cooperative attitude, as you might imagine.

So after a while of this going on, my mom gets fed up with all the NIMBY bullshit and starts talking to the guy, because she’s done animal rescue for 20-odd years and has Connections. He’s resistant at first, but when he realizes she’s not being an asshole to him on account of his addiction or the dogs, he decides to let her help.

She gets to work organizing and networking. Finds a non-profit that will cover vaccinations, spay/neuter, and flea treatments for all the dogs. Talks the next-door neighbor into paying for materials to fix the fence, since this guy can do the work of it himself. Gets him in touch with another non-profit that will adopt out the adult dogs.

Less than 2 weeks after she decided to do something, all puppies have been to the vet, 10 puppies and 4 adult dogs have been adopted out, and the second non-profit is coming by next week to pick up the remaining 7 dogs to ship them out for adoption.

I’ve learned a lot of things from my mom—some good, some bad—but I think the most important positive message she lives as an example of is this: sometimes, when something needs done and no one else is willing, you gotta stand up and say “I’ll do it.”

Your ritual begins tonight. It is a privilege to worship. You will kneel before the god. If not, it will hang you from the trees.

THE RITUAL (2017) dir. David Bruckner

So many characters should be permanently disabled in multiple ways or AT THE VERY LEAST have severe chronic pain but everyoens a coward so no one writes the effects of the injuries they inflict </3

how it's done

was waiting on an emergency plumber, decided to smoke by my car instead of stare at my fucked up kitchen. he pulled up next to me, leaned out the window and goes "i'm assuming you're the client" like yeah buddy, read that one right

ok

the outcome

it is up to you to decide whose portrait was destroyed

At long last, I have finally done it.

My first LOTR doodle. I've been wanting to do one for so long, I just didn't know what to do.

For those of you who are wondering, Merry and Pippin are behind Strider's cloak. 😁

Cannot overstate how much you do not have to ever hand it to Nintendo's copyright lawyers.