I remember people in high school burning through 3 cell phones a year, so I'm curious: How many mobile phones have you had in your lifetime?
1-3
4-6
7-9
10+
See ResultsAnd lemme know your age (if you feel comfortable!), and when you got your first phone in the tags!
If these options are scuffed I'm sorry, I genuinely have no clue how many phones people are "supposed" to have had (hence the poll)
I was a pretty weird outcasted child so one of the greatest wonders of my adult life has been realizing that you can just go someplace and meet some people and casually make some friends, and they might not be in your life forever but you can hang out for a while, and then you can go somewhere else and do it again, and again, if it doesn’t work out no biggie, etc.
Omg Emily my beloved darling I'm love her. I drew her in pastels forgetting she's more of a jewel tones girl ๐๐๐ sorry emi I love u still
*liberal voice* the office of president (which we repeatedly likened to a dictatorship/kingship when the other party held it) is actually almost entirely honorary and symbolic nowadays; the president can't Do Things because the government is Complicated (something unique only to the US) as America Is So Hugelarge (we must emphasize seven or eight times this paragraph how Very Big the US is - we will not examine why but just know the US is the biggest country in the whole world that isn't not the US) that we use Sacred Checks & Balances (another unique product of the anti-tyranny US), so our president is simultaneously a radical freedom fighter leading reformation from the internal top through incremental change and a completely helpless but necessary victim of the Great US Political Process that can't tie his shoes without supermajority congressional approval five months in advance
“Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”
-Joe Biden, 5 June 1986
always wondered what he meant by this
"i'm all for palestinian liberation but i draw the line at palestinians trying to liberate themselves"
Calling me a self-hating Jew for supporting Palestine is just funny. I’m I also self-hating for being an antifascist? Opposing Zionism is a Jewish tradition that’s just as old as Zionism is. Before the founding of the nation-state of Israel, the main opponents of Zionist ideology outside of Palestine were other Jews! Because those Jews were often anarchist, socialist or communist they were a major target of the Holocaust.
That tradition of Jewish antizionism faced a major setback because of how many of them would die in the camps. Only recently have we started to see a significant resurgence of this tradition, and it still is nowhere near the plurality or dominance it once held. Zionists considered the question settled in 1948 and because so many dissenting voices had died or were forced into diaspora across the world because of the Nazis, there was not enough people to resist these actions.
Still, the Zionist hijacking of the global Jewish community towards hegemonic, uncritical support for settler colonialism abroad was not complete until after 1967. There were still Jewish dissenters in the community, though efforts by right wing Jewish organizations following the aftermath of 1967 to marginalize and demonize criticism of Israel by Jews would set back the cause of Jewish antizionism and internal criticism of Israeli colonization for decades.
Israel and pro-Zionist organizations also spend a lot of money convincing diaspora Jews that this nation works in our interests. If this was a foregone conclusion, there would be no need to build an extensive pro-Israeli propaganda network through every mainstream Jewish organization. Despite the propaganda we’re fed since childhood and the popular marginalization and shaming of Jewish dissenters, large cracks are starting in appear in at least American Jewish support for Israel. More American Jews under 40 are willing to openly criticize Israel and even support the liberation of Palestine into a singular binational state with equality for all its citizens than in many decades. This is obviously not enough. These are rookie numbers and will need to be increased through active political education and engagement with the Jewish masses.
Israel is a kapo state. The earliest Zionists such as Theodore Herzl were willing to openly work with antisemites to achieve their goals. The infamous Belfour Declaration was of course authored by Arthur Belfour, an infamous British antisemite who agreed with the Zionists on the necessity of mass Jewish emigration from Europe. Then there’s the Transfer Agreement between Zionist settlement organizations and Adolf Hitler, which stipulated that if some Jews were allowed to settle in Palestine, the Nazi Party could seize their possessions and assets in exchange. What did these organizations have in common? Their desire for the Final Negation of the Diaspora. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine when the mainstream media wouldn’t deny, obfuscate or dismiss the neo-Nazism of the Azov Battalion, Israel was providing aid including weapons to this openly neo-Nazi paramilitary. Israel also armed Rodrigo “like Hitler killed 3 million Jews [sic], I will kill 3 million drug users” Duterte’s anticommunist drug war.
The creation of the state of Israel has done nothing to improve the conditions of Jews in the diaspora who are constantly the targets of popular conspiracy theories, intimidation and violence by white supremacists. Zionism actively consorts with the enemies of the Jewish masses and is therefore also an enemy of the Jewish masses, an active threat to our continued existence on this planet.
A diasporic people who have been repeatedly forced to flee their homes through violence while their possessions and assets are seized over a 1000 year period cannot liberate itself through driving another people into diaspora through violence while they seize their possessions and assets. That is not liberation, that is a sick, perverted inversion of the oppression we’ve suffered and now inflict on another people.
There is no pragmatic, good, moral or just reason to support Zionism and Israel as a Jew.
last night i had a dream that i was playing minecraft and i noticed i had 77 blocks of cobblestone in one slot instead of it being capped at 64 and it was so jarring to me that it literally booted me out of the dream. like sure you can fly now and your childhood home is a pharmacy but 77 pieces of cobblestone? unthinkable. wake the fuck up.
The peak of the whole "white person fixes racism" genre of the 2010s was the makers of Hidden Figures making up a good white person who fixes racism they also made up
Literally taking an organization that was already desegregated (NASA was never segregated, even!) by the time of the film, and resegregating it so a fictional white guy can desegregate it again
