something about vita sackville-west writing "how pleased i shall be to sit on your floor again" to virginia woolf is the most simple yet devastating line about intimacy and longing i have ever read
the point has already been made but the last time we saw this much western propaganda, fabricated images/stories, hate, and lies used to dehumanize and justify the slaughter of civilians, upwards of 5 million people died in the post 9/11 “war on terror”
and y’all are falling for it all over again
this is genocide, right before our eyes, and you guys are cheering
btw to anyone who's unfollowing people for posting too much about the ongoing ethnic cleansing enabled by your tax dollars, i hope the nagging sense of guilt you feel right now continues to trouble you forever.
as we all know, Posters will stop the genocide and it is imperative we all help by Looking At Posts
you joke about it but for years people have lost their jobs and livelihoods for speaking online about palestine because that's how much the israel lobby values public opinion. there are entire organizations dedicated to doxxing twitter accounts that post about the occupation. maybe you dont think information matters but nuclear-armed states certainly do.
In the early 20th century the autobiography was the primary way that fascist ideology was made available to the public. Today, it is the self-help book.
“neoliberal psychopolitics is always coming up with more refined forms of exploitation. Countless self-management workshops, motivational retreats and seminars on personality or mental training promise boundless self-optimization and heightened efficiency. They are steered by neoliberal techniques of domination, which aim to capitalize not just on working time but on the person him- or herself: all the attention the individual commands and, indeed, his or her very life. Neoliberalism has discovered integral human being as the object of exploitation. The neoliberal imperative of self-optimization serves only to promote perfect functioning within the system. Inhibitions, points of weakness and mistakes are to be therapeutically eliminated in order to enhance efficiency and performance. In turn, everything is made comparable and measurable and subjected to the logic of the market. It is not concern for the good life that drives self-optimization. Rather, self-optimization follows from systemic constraints – from the logic of quantifying success on the market…In contemporary American self-help literature, the magic word is healing. The term refers to self-optimization that is supposed to therapeutically eliminate any and all functional weakness or mental obstacle in the name of efficiency and performance. Yet perpetual self-optimization, which coincides point-for-point with the optimization of the system, is proving destructive. It is leading to mental collapse. Self-optimization, it turns out, amounts to total self-exploitation…It entails a new form of subjectivation. Endlessly working at self-improvement resembles the self-examination and self-monitoring of Protestantism, which represents a technology of subjectivation and domination in its own right. Now, instead of searching out sins, one hunts down negative thoughts.”
-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
also someone else pointed this out in the notes of that other post but trans people are like one of the main fronts in the reactionary culture wars across the US, Canada, UK, all these bastions of democracy and freedom and humanitarianism, and you’re scaremongering about homophobia as this uniquely Palestinian affliction as a pretext to support a genocide? the fuck is wrong with you? like genuinely what the fuck is wrong with you?
decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.
it fucking sucks how you can do all the therapy and self healing in the world and you still have to wake up living under a capitalist death cult that's killed community and crushes your soul
congrats you want to live and be happy
bad news the world doesn't want that for you
I'll still love fully and crawl to hope until my body gives out anyway I guess
It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.
decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years
UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire
US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire
Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests
Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
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