Unreal how easy it is to oppose genocide. To be vocally and visibly against the slaughter of 30,000 people, over a thousand children per week. If you haven’t been vocally and visibly against it three months into this ongoing mass murder, congratulations you’re profoundly racist.
i really resent how warmongers have weaponized nonviolence. they brazenly kill people, then successfully get media, politicians and educators to say that protesters must—must, above all else!—hew to a narrow definition of nonviolence.
My question is, how do you experience a world-changing, life-shattering event like a pandemic and still act like nothing happened and there's nothing to do about it still to this day? That's so fucking weird fr tho
god i love when characters abolsutely lose it and literally turn into monsters so then their friend/s has to calm them down and knock some sense in them in an emotional heartfelt scene, that shit is hard as HELLL
If you’re getting into reading more books this year I highly recommend —
• The Goodreads app! It’s like social media for reading. You can set goals, add books you’ve read or wish to read, & follow others.
• Libby App. Great for free ebooks & audio thru your library
Today I realized my partner and I like our sandwiches cut differently and everytime they make me a sandwich they make sure to cut it the way I like. It’s this level of attentiveness & kindness, even in our everyday lives, that keep me oh so in love with them.
There should be ZERO sympathy to the business owner who tells you he can't afford to pay a higher minimum wage. FDR said it best: "no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
I mean… we’ve always known the white establishment would be violent to the very end. Open resistance only becomes more necessary as they refuse to allow the birth of a true human rights-based multiracial democracy
Motaz is watching his friends, family & community members become ancestors before their time. His own ancestors are being dug up. Motaz like every other Palestinian is not in a situation where they can properly grieve these overwhelming losses. It costs nothing to give him grace