Ⓥ Ⓐ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏴 ♉️ my name is Rem. trans femme, 38, poly. I’m a filmmaker, freelance photographer, and amateur musician. Sometimes depressed. Always antifascist.
“Why is ContraPoints saying [advocating for Palestine] is totally futile? Because ContraPoints doesn’t want to do anything about it… She feels that the only reasonable way to live is to accept that things are bad and not going to change. Even though that is actually unreasonable. Even though it is actually also morally quite bankrupt.
You are the one who is experiencing doom. That is the thing that you feel. That does not mean other people are supporting a doomed cause. It means that you feel doom about their cause. Examine why you might feel that way. They thought Vietnam was a doomed cause, too. Cuban revolution was a doomed cause. Chinese revolution was a doomed cause…
"Zero Palestinian lives were saved”… I don’t think this is true. For instance, think about the vast amount of fundraising campaigns that have tangibly helped, even as aid is blockaded in Israel, that has tangibly helped Palestinians. They have gained support as a result of this activism. So saying “zero Palestinian lives were saved” again, this is not true. This is not true.
But second of all, even if it was true, you’re going to blame people for speaking out against things that are actually wrong because it wasn’t effective enough instead of just like offering better ways to do it? Does something have to be done or not? Does something have to be done or not?“
I wanted to share these quotes from Sang’s video because I think he is really getting at something central I notice all the time on tumblr.
So many people from the global north on this website (including the ones who quickly distanced themselves from liberals like ContraPoints), still cling to this unfounded belief in their own supposed powerlessness.
You are not powerless. Your decisions matter and have tangible impact on other people. You are in this world with the rest of us. Whether you want to accept responsibility for your behavior or not, it still meaningfully influences other people’s lives.
Take stock of your actual, current impact. What are you already spending your days doing? How can you use your daily life to oppose genocide in Palestine?
Last week after writing a post encouraging others to donate to my friend @fadel-dani’s campaign (vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost) a lot of you actually did send funds.
Do you realize how much that tangibly improved his life last week?
He told me that he was able to buy flour and eat bread after previously having none for over a week. He was able to get painkillers and experience some small relief from his constant pain.
Your decision whether or not to donate (or whether or not to encourage other people to donate) is power. You are actually very powerful, and your decisions have a big influence on his family’s life. You are deciding how to use that power right now.
The donations make annimmediate tangible difference to Fadel, as closet-keys said, so please continue to share and give what you can! It will help Fadel afford medicine and other necesities
Gaza is currently going through a famine and it is very important to donate directly to Palestinians so they can afford what’s left of food. Fadel is in need of medication but also food to feed his family and himself.
Did being a crust punk back in my twenties provide me with any benefits? Not really but I can open a beer with just about any solid object (I don’t drink) and I can shave my own head without assistance. so I got that going for me which is nice
to me this comically incapsulates that adam sandler is unoriginal and incapable of fucking off. make something original adam, but good! (he won’t, it’ll be Click 2 for Netflix probably).
Cigarettes were unhealthy as shit but at least they made you look fuckable. people looked fuckable. now everytime someone takes a hit from their vape, we lose more of our eroticism
Hai does anyone have the picture of those four trannies cuddled up in a bed with one doll doing her “hormones” and a giant 9/11 poster on the wall? For science?
I’m having fun harassing racist conservatives on Facebook that are losing their minds over a brown girl in a lead role of Snow White; a fictional character. What a trash app. Literal garbage.
Ancient Sumerians: that trans girl is so pretty… I need her to bear my children. Maybe we should make her a priestess so the goddess may decide to make her fertile.
Lesbians today: that trans girl s so pretty… I need to breed her. If I keep railing her gay ass she definitely will get pregnant.
conclusion: lesbians are late Sumerian fertility goddesses
I like this post because I won’t see a screenshot of it on instagram randomly. No self jumpscare because they’re a bunch of prudes
