i love that every walk has the potential to become a treasure hunt if you let it. feathers. mushrooms. cool bugs. strange clouds. tiny flowers growing through cracks. the earth is always hiding little surprises
"I don't pick sides" is a fallacy when there's a massive power imbalance and a clear aggressor. If your husband is abusing your child and you do nothing, you're not neutral in that scenario, and when your kid grows up you'll probably be blamed as much as the father.
A modern military force hammering a giant concentration camp full of colonized people using high-tech weapons of mass murder with the help of your tax dollars is not a "war" that you get to be "neutral" towards. It's a genocide, and you're either for it or against it. There is no comfortable third option where you get to avoid picking a side and also avoid looking like an asshole.
this shit drives me nuts. night driving used to be relaxing 20 years ago. now if you don't have the tallest vehicle on the road you're near blinded at all times it's actually fucking terrifying
I think you can simultaneously understand that 9/11 was a tragedy AND that it was a direct product of the US’s actions in the Middle East AND how American-centric it is that we frame it as the most devastating event ever while we have funded countless deaths in the Middle East