A Catholic, fangirl, author.
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the way the war in gaza has been constantly about targeting flour, targeting hospitals, targeting universities, targeting water containers, targeting anything that brings life in order to “thin out the population” and “encourage palestinians to move to tent cities in egypt”
and then you have western media readily calling it a “humanitarian crisis” therefore fulfilling israel’s goal of manufacturing a humanitarian crisis. this entire war was with the purpose of collectively punishing a civilian population of 50% children. that’s why it was immediately understood and labelled as a genocide by multiple genoide scholars, by the lemkin institute, and is currently on trial for genocide at the hague
like the starvation and the blocking of aid and the dropping of parachuted MREs to just barely salvage the reputation of a few politicians is not a byproduct of the war. it’s not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. acquiescing to israelis blocking aid by building ports and dropping pallets of food means acquiescing to famine as a strategy instead of trying to stop it. famine is not collateral damage, it is a central pillar of genocide. killing children is not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. we don’t need hindsight to say this plainly, anyone who denies it now is another pillar of genocide.
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You can listen to Mohammed Barakat’s final words in the link above. No trigger warning though the video ends abruptly while he is still speaking.
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“I would kill for you. I would die for you” would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?
OP i hope its okay to reblog with your additions bc they are good
not only is it okay, I think i’d like that very much, thank you.
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Whoever invented “open in app” links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair
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Hey, can I challenge the Christian userbase in here to consider how we use language, specifically the word ‘retard’
I’ve only ever seen that word put on my dash by the Christian blogs I follow, and it makes me very sad. We should be using loving words that uplift and build people up, not words that are slurs and used to put people down.
It’s careless and thoughtless, and serves only to anger people or put them down. It’s a word with a long history of abuse towards people with intellectual disabilities, and we should be aware of that. (And yes, I am aware that it was originally a clinical diagnosis. But words change meaning overtime, and is that really the context you’re using it in?)
Sincerely, the sister of an awesome kid with Down Syndrome.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23)
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Bohemian Rhapsody. We Will Rock You. Somebody To Love. All hit singles, and all the direct product of a band that was formed when an astrophysicist and a dentistry major found a new friend in an art college, who then went on to recruit a fourth member from the electronics school. Based on this alliance I propose the rift in society between Arts and STEM students was fabricated to keep us separated so as to dilute our true power - and fabricated by who, you may ask? The business major, the only member of society who reaps no reward from art and science and thus must weaken us so as to stay ahead. In this essay I will
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if you want to actually materially address child abuse, the single most important thing you can do to start is give children the legally enforceable right to leave any situation they no longer want to be in.
church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family’s houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child’s inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can’t walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they’ll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.
children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.
original post by qweerhet because it’s unrebloggable but very important
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Why does all this feel so familiar? Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck am I?
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the whole “i used to be a teen who hated authority only to grow up to become the authority that hates teens” is a bad bad thing that practically every other generation has fallen into and we all need to make an extremely conscious effort not to repeat the fucking pattern
Studies have shown that the shift starts to happen around age 30. If you’re close to that, make a conscious effort to be open to and accepting of younger people. I’m 31 and paying close attention to how I react to young people and new trends and shit and trying to keep myself from developing those thought patterns.
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It is imperative you befriend people other than those of your own generation. It’s harder to lump people together if you know some of them. This is why you should also pursue friendships beyond your race, ability, religion (or lack thereof), and class. Humanity relies on relating to each other.
Not only that but being aware of (and critical of) the idea: “I felt powerless and now want power over others.” Befriending those outside your demographic doesn’t do much if your thought process is still “I suffered so you should too” or “I earned this spot—you can consider me a peer when you get here too” instead of challenging those systems and perceptions.
Too many adults who work with kids think this way. Simply being around the kids doesn’t challenge this mindset, you need to deconstruct how you think about power and authority.
You were right to feel like you weren’t being listened to or treated like a person—don’t repeat it on new kids.
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it’s genuinely so funny to me that gnosticism arose within like 20 years of Jesus’ death not because heresy is funny but imagine being the apostles and you have to deal with everyone trying to kill you at all times and then someone comes up and is like “umm btw we’ve decided that physical existence is ungodly and also some of us think if women have children they can’t be saved. Just thought you might like to know.” I would actually thrown hands.
Early Christians as soon as Gnostics start talking:
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Make Me Choose: Chris/Jill
or Ada/Leon or Rebecca/Billy?
(asked by @hereticstations)
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On the one hand they are iconic and I’m sad to see them go. On the other hand they have been going downhill for years and I’m hoping this leaves more room for smaller more focused locally owned craft stores
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I’m seeing a lot of posts like this so
If this post gets 10k notes by the end of winter I will try to actually get a hobby instead of just sitting here doing nothing rotting
It probably won’t happen but I guess I have some hope
y'all failed but since y'all are SO stubborn, 20k by the end of March and I’ll do it
This post has been purpled!
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