A Wicked, Foolish Lie

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Evening by Darya Kalashnikova

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Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

Rare firsthand accounts by Israeli whistleblowers cast light on the horrific conditions in the Sde Teiman torture camp in Naqab Desert. Palestinians are stripped down, blindfolded, forced in diapers, and forbidden from speaking. They are subjected to beatings and mental degradation regularly. So much depravity that has gone unseen. Doctors performing procedures outside of their expertise, amputations due to zip-typing of abductees’ wrists, having large dogs unleashed on them at night. Being fed food through straws. I can’t believe it. I am truly in shock. And this is just one whistleblower accounting of this. Who knows what else is happening beyond our knowledge

My heart is breaking into a million pieces

Worth mentioning that multiple Palestinians have recounted these stories before, as direct victims detailing their experiences. What's unique about these accounts from CNN Israeli whistle-blower is that they're from an Israeli, therefore people are more likely to take this seriously.

Shoutout to @grimreapersprint​ for actually exploring/explaining each of these in our discord! Here are her findings:

I really want a playlist populated by all this

Quality country trans meme I found on Facebook

SHREK CONFIRMED CANON HE/HIM LESBIAN!??!!?!!??!?

dyke shrek. shryke.

The only tank at Moscow’s Victory Day Parade was this single solitary T-34-85.

Again.

When I was in college, round about 2002 or so, I did a paper on hate groups that necessitated a couple of visits to Stormfront, a white supremacist website and message board. One of the pages on the site was a "children's page" operated by the child of Storrmfront's founder, which was a unique form of horrifying. But I also remember looking at a photo of the kid on the site and thinking, that poor fuckin' kid, what kind of chance did he ever have?

But it was just a paper and that was just a photo of a child I didn't know, so I turned in the paper and graduated and got on with life.

In 2016, @archwrites posted a link to an article by the Washington Post titled "The White Flight of Derek Black" (sorry about the paywall, Arch's post quotes some relevant parts here). I thought it looked like an interesting read: it was about a white supremacist named Derek Black and a group of campus activists at the school Black eventually attended, who set out to see if they could change his mind about race with radical kindness. In large part because of their work, Black eventually renounced white supremacy and became an antiracist.

And then I hit a photo in the article and gasped, because I recognized it. I'd seen the same photo on the Stormfront children's website. The kid I'd seen and pitied was grown up and had gotten out. Immensely satisfying to see.

But it was just a news story about someone I didn't even know, so I posted about how pleased I was to see it, and I got on with life again.

This morning, I woke to the news (sorry, it's the Daily Fail) that R. Derek Black, now 35, has just published a memoir, The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism. And in the epilogue, they come out as trans.

I can't imagine better news I could have heard about them -- that they're out, they're thriving, and they're embracing themself.

Congratulations, kid. It's a great new photo.

[ID: A recent photograph of R. Derek Black, with long curly red hair, wearing a floral collared shirt and a red cardigan, smiling for the camera.]

Fascism is a paper tiger, folks. We will win.

No. Jesus Christ. No.

This is literally the first thing you see on their homepage

Looking at it for fun and loving how in between the meme questions and inquiries about how much pot you smoke you get hit with this

Looking for the Bush-pilled Lainheads out there, girl of my dreams <3

it's probably because it's one guy's passion project, rather than a corporation trying to chase infinite growth by ripping off Tinder.

its openn source too! but yeah this dating app is Actually Good it was just released to a niche audience first (4chan)

the real question is: can a 4chan girl and a tumblr boy find love? learn now, in this genderswapped sequel to the 2010 classic...

jesus no

his humansona actually was on t though. that's what "incarnated as a human male" means. so for him, being on T does end with being on the T

Recently read "Radiance of France" and the French were fucking batshit insane about Nuclear Power, treating their nuclear sites as "New Cathedrals" bringing salvation.

tumblr is a beautiful ecosystem bc here you can see that transgender disabled mentally ill gay minorities can be just as annoying, obnoxious and reactionary as any cishet abled white person. THATS equality.

fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

My brother and I trying to piece together our dad’s life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again

When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were “I told them they shouldn’t have hanged that woman. Well by damn they’re paying now” and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means

My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, “Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she’ll be fine.” Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.

No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.

We were driving through Old Country once and my grandpa Sasha randomly went “oh this is where we blew up that bridge as kids, I guess it got rebuilt”

I love this one

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