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A slow but steady global shift is happening. A consensus is building. I only hope, for their own sake, Americans don't find themselves on the morally wrong side of history.

“It is instead the middle, the liberal, well-meaning, easily upset middle, that desperately needs the protection this kind of language provides. Because it is the middle of the empire that must look upon this and say: Yes, this is tragic, but necessary, because the alternative is barbarism.”

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“But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.”

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“Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist's every action is necessarily one of self-defense. The story begins not when the wagons arrive, but only after they are circled.”

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“Allowed to wield silence so freely, any institution will become insatiable. It's not only that the absence of information allows those complicit in but unaffected by wrongdoing to look away. The silence itself becomes an empty canvas, onto which any fantasy can be painted.”

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“Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but in the places where the bombs are built and launched it will have no bearing on mortgages, bills, employment. Indeed, in many of these places, what will have a real economic effect is if the bombing stops.”

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“The key… was to disguise the company's financial interest as a matter of great principle. Instead of pitching cigarette sales, it would create fake ‘smokers' rights’ groups who would agitate against smoking restrictions as a fundamental matter of liberty.”

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the average two stater in the US is someone who in rhetoric says they support a hypothetical Palestinian state and in practice has multiple cousins buying housing units in the would be capital of that state

If you occupy Palestinian territory and then cry it's antisemitic to protest that then you're just laundering your anti Palestinian bigotry

People continue to do this motte and bailey where they say that Aliyah is actually perfectly legal and fine and then the actually existing organization has listings for East Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim on their website. Sorry but that is in fact illegal. That is a choice.

Nefesh b’Nefesh promotes settlement. No offense but this is pretty clear cut. Their activities are in violation of international law and it's fine for Mamdani to say so.

Sanford Bishop (GA-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Lou Correa (CA-46) Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) Greg Stanton (AZ-04) Jim Costa (CA-21) Adam Gray (CA-13) Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Julie Johnson (TX-32) Emilia Sykes (OH-13) Don Davis (NC-01) Greg Landsman (OH-01) Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) Susie Lee (NV-03) Marc Veasey (X-33) Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Gene Vindman (VA-07) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Frank Mrvan (IN-01) Jared Golden (ME-02) Donald Norcross (NJ-01)

The House voted 230 to 176 to allow oil and gas companies to write a government report about why oil and gas refineries aren't making them enough money. Just trademark corruption.

And yet 25 Democrats voted for it.

germy @germyf.bsky.social bio: Mostly Harmless.

finally, someone who pronounces jeremy correctly

well i mean there was trump using the pulse nightclub shooting to pit lgbtq people against muslims, that’s also a form of pinkwashing.

really i think overall it’s about superficial support for those groups.

rfk jr being radicalized by internet ads is now canon

pinkwashing in the united states especially happens via corporate marketing but i think the point being made here is both parties largely support and fund israel and israel is the one that was originally accused of pinkwashing

The purpose of this kind of accusation is never moral concern. To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet. Excerpt from One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

it’s not porn jason

germy @germyf.bsky.social bio: Mostly Harmless.

finally, someone who pronounces jeremy correctly

i mean the word you’re looking for is “pinkwashing” and it was first used to describe israel

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Excuse to post a classic?

when my boyfriend and i were looking for a vet for our cat, i found one in town and was scrolling their website, and it said they “offer chiropractic services,” and my boyfriend was like “absolutely not, we will go to a vet out of town if we have to.” and we did.

no it severely mauled him and spit him out

when you’re a trad wife but you also have a really well-paying job as a stealthy kink content creator

Experience: I was swallowed by a hippo Paul Templer: ‘There was no transition at all, no sense of approaching danger. It was as if I had suddenly gone blind and deaf’

hippos mentioned, i have an obligation to link this article

They said they were asked to sign petitions for housing or safer streets. It was really to end recreational weed sales. - The Boston Globe The coalition pushing for the ballot initiative has denied allegations of misleading voters, saying they were concocted by the marijuana industry.

A group pushing to repeal legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Massachusetts has been dogged by allegations that it misled people into signing its petition.

mr. jingles

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