people are not mourning the man liam payne became, they are mourning the man he used to be and the man they grew up with. the man that was part of something that shaped millions of peoples lives.
it is just so strange to go from adoring a musician for years during the peak of your adolescence, have to then come to terms with the fact he is abusive and cruel in reality, and then have to learn of his gruesome death and try to fit that all into a neat statement
Since Julian Assange is being extradited, I'm posting a thread of few clips where he exposed the brutal war crimes of US military in Iraq.
1: American gunship helicopter opening fire on Iraqi civilians as American soldiers laugh behind.
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i need my fellow east asian diaspora folks in particular to own up to the fact that our communities and businesses have been and continue to be anti-Black in many ways. start there. instead of always being like "why isn't anti-asian racism taken seriously"