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it has been genuinely devastating to see major governments, global news outlets and ignorant celebrities spreading a narrative that supports and upholds a regime responsible for the genocide of thousands of innocent lives. palestinians have been suffering for decades and nobody has cared; nobody has offered them the empathy that is now being so generously handed to a military force that is brutally murdering and displacing the palestinian people. 2.2 million people in gaza have had their electricity, food, water and fuel cut off. we are witnessing firsthand the utter annihilation of a population — dehumanising media coverage, blatant islamophobic propaganda, hundreds of children massacred — please understand that taking a “neutral” stance is siding with the oppressor. free palestine today, tomorrow, forever. from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
Im gonna shill for Marie Kondo again but this is why I find her books (yes, books, the TV show is fun but ultimately misses a lot of the core ideas) so good.
A lot of home org advice fully misses this aspect. Kondo not only acknowledges it, but leans into it. And ultimately this helps motivste me to keep my space tidy - it’s really hard to me to keep on the nebulous goal of self-care, but much easier to get up and put things away if I envision my salt and pepper grinders as like, retail workers who are now standing in an empty shop (my dining table) and just wanna go home (the spice rack where they live).
Normie tidying process: that heater should be put away for summer! I mean, I’m not gonna need it
Me: well it’s just chilling and also I can’t be arsed.
Kondo: that heater has done a good job keeping you warm over winter and now it should get to go have a rest in the cupboard
Me: !! Sabbatical for my heater!! Thank you for your service sir and have a very nice break!
There’s no way Hamas could’ve built tunnels under a field hospital that quickly. Israel has shown their hand, that they’ve been bluffing (as if it wasn’t obvious the whole time).
I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of “the free market” as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.
There is a trend amongst depictions of the founding fathers to show them as literal christ figures, a trend that started very early in the nation’s life.
I’d also like to point out Washington & Lincoln Apotheosis, artist unknown, about 1865, the same year as lincoln’s assasination
The personification of America in the form of Columbia, a goddess of both the land and the concepts that America tends to inhabit. A pre-anime Hetalia. She was often used in depictions of Manifest Destiny, a religions ideal that stated that America, by God’s will, must go from coast to coast.
American Progress by, John Gast, 1872. Note the indigenous people cast in literal darkness, away from the light. The religions deification of America relies upon colonialism and white supremacy
Like, there are actual studies on this stuff. Look up “American civil religion” if you’re struggling for search terms. Or “American founder worship.”
I was born to very devout Catholics, but once when in discussion with my father I mentioned Sally Hemings (The Known And Officially Historically Recognized Enslaved Woman Who Had Thomas Jefferson’s Illegitimate Children), he reacted like I had broken into a church and taken a shit in the tabernacle. American Civil Religion in the form of enshrinement of its history is a real thing.
[Image description: a tweet by Rachael Stott @.RachaelAtWork that says, “Star Trek TNG episodes are called like ‘Explosion’ and the episode is about a big explosion. TOS episodes are called 'What yonder soul doth go hence…a brother??’ and are about an omnipotent space frog who makes everyone take their clothes off.” /end image description]
20, as of May 2019. Is it no longer May 2019? Well, do the math.
why aren't you posting about [insert discourse here]
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