The Biden admin’s role in Gaza normalized and established a tolerance for the wholesale slaughter of civilians. It’s why Trump can now bomb schools, hospitals, apartments, and stadiums anywhere in the world, and why there will be no pushback from our gutted and hollowed-out institutions
one poem even said "it's always been that way" or something like that like no it's not? this isn't normal? it doesnt matter how long it's been happening, these aren't natural misfortunes like dying from illness these are man made horrors and actually need to be stopped not 'lived alongside of'
i keep seeing this type of poem that's obviously written by someone not experiencing bombings talking about how they still need to do a house chore or errand while someone somewhere is suffering, and honestly it pisses me off bc they're normalising that suffering as 'part of life'
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
actually real
the death toll at the school kept increasing to more than double the initial count and i barely saw mentions of that. sorry i know I Know west asians and africans are dehumanised to the point where being murdered is mostly met with apathy but it still leaves me feeling bitter
i wish i could say people got desensitized after more than 2 years of continuous genocide but that is not the case. we had to beg people to care for the first few weeks of the genocide. the death toll had to reach like 10,000+ before i saw any sort of consistent global outrage
a week ago i saw a post about how punch the monkey got more sympathy than the palestinians killed on an almost daily basis and i wasn't online enough to see it for myself but now i'm barely seeing any outrage for the schoolgirls and the volleyball players. westerners' selective sympathy stinks
Pretty impressive how prescient so many of these criticisms of the Camp David Accords were in 1979 from an Egyptian left wing party.
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in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months
anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
The people that allowed fascism to win was, to nobody's surprise, the side that felt supporting genocide had to be negotiable because it'd be bad for them if the genocide had to stop. If everyone had joined the red line against genocide, you might've had both. Now we have neither.
A reminder that fascism thrives when people choose to sacrifice the weaker, and that people that might otherwise be sensible and kind but do step over that line will blame anyone but themselves to soothe their conscience when fascism does win.
setting the precedent here that firstly the united states can kidnap state leaders and try them in its own courts and secondly that the united states and israel can just full on assassinate other state leaders in broad daylight, all with zero consequences. good luck to the world
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier
Rather than regime change, Iran becoming a failed state & potentially breaking into a civil war & multiple weaker states is a common discussion among Iranians of all political leanings in Iran & leftist Iranians in diaspora. Yet it doesn't get much air elsewhere, esp on English MSM, I find.
also ignoring civilians' and childrens' deaths to be hopeful towards a regime change that would only serve american interests is just miserable
you could hate khamenei's guts just like you could hate nasrallah's guts that's fine even encouraged maybe but it remains that iran's kinda the last stronghold against the zionist state and american expansionism and if it falls the rest of the region might as well be damned so like 😐
seeing posts like "iranian cheered for the bombs" and "this is iranians' only chance at changing their oppressive regime" to somehow repaint this whole thing as salvation
genuinely most infuriating stance anyone can take atm
BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.
I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both
5 Calls can help you make the call:
5calls.org/issue/iran-i...
I have no words for how pathetic of a response this is.
Saudis needs to kick the oppressive, spineless, money hungry monarchy just as fast as the Brits.
I'm NEVER ashamed to be Arab, but i will always ashamed to be from Saudi specifically for as long as the rulers remain the same.
Is anybody out there going to reign in this genocidal nation once and for all? How can you attack 6 different nations, aim to eradicate the entire Palestinian population, break countless ceasefire agreements, and then bomb Iran as a "preventive" measure in the midst of negotiation?
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.
Why is it that the victims of the so-called, most moral army in the region, are mostly kids? The biggest death toll in the past 3 years by Israel's genocidal strikes has been kids, babies, and don't get me started on the amount of orphans who will suffer potential PTSD their entire lives.
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wish bluesky would allow Palestinians the basic dignity of keeping their accouts. it's a terrible violation of their humanity given the circumstances, it's solved nothing, and doing so would allow them to establish an actual digital footprint/continuity... not just to benefit the armchair detectives
definitely not a new thing but when it was introduced to me it was like finding the perfect escape. no questions asked afterwards, no feelings hurt and you live guilt free
