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in hindsight, it makes a lot of sense that macklemore would happily release a free palestine song that is AS balls-out anticapitalist and antiimperialist as it is, considering in 2011 he won a grammy with a song all about being poor and spending your money wisely while still being cool and looking fresh, bemoaning blind consumption.

it was a small domino to start with, sure, but the trail is there.

yes!

and that person just happened to be the person who is currently the most celebrated rapper in the world, Kendrick Lamar! he was apologizing for winning over Good Kid, M.a.a.d. City!

funny enough, he did NOT apologize to the other artists, and two of them are Drake and Kanye, which is EXTRA hilarious considering how well that decision also aged.

a lot of people are bringing up a very good point:

Macklemore has been an ally this whole fucking time, making whole songs dedicated to LGBT and BLM stuff. nobody ever talked shit about him for anything other than being uber-corny.

i think now that we're in the post-cringe era there's a lot of people remembering where we left him and thinking "oh fuck im so sorry white boy"

“Umm it will actually be very difficult for universities to divest from israel and arms manufacturers without tuition skyrocketing 🤓☝🏼” why is the financial stability of a college (and the economy at large, especially in the us) so reliant on what amounts to war profiteering to begin with? Why is that an inevitability that we’re supposed to accept?

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

Also, a lot of the so called harmless examples used for peaceful protests were specifically supposed to be disruptive as all hell. Like, take sit-ins, for example. What you were probably told is that black people just refused to leave white only establishments to make a point.

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.

Even what was framed as "quiet peaceful protest" was actually very disruptive both socially and economically.

— Mahmoud Darwish

they need to invent a writing that is easy. and fast also

monkey paw finger curls and another AI generative text program is born

nooo my good intentions

Damn did you see that? That was fucked up, right? Anyway I'm Rod Serling.

macklemore showing up as one of the biggest mainstream celebrity voices on this. remember everyone who stayed quiet

The ground invasion of Rafah has started amid heavy bombing in Rafah and Central Gaza

*~tHe OnLy DeMoCrAcY iN tHe MidDdLe EaSt~*

Excerpt from a pre recorded report by Al Jazeera's correspondent Imran Khan:

Tell me you're losing the media war so fucking bad without telling me you're losing the media war...

ID: Twitter post by Alan MacLeod which reads

Breaking: Annelise Orleck, Head of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, has been banned from Campus for six months after protecting Jewish students protesting for Palestine from police attacks. Attached is a photo of Annelise Orleck.

Retweet by ceasefire (@kymtje) which reads

Combating antisemitism by banning the head of Jewish studies nothing to see here End ID

Slight corrections and additions: While Dr. Orleck still teaches at Dartmouth, she no longer chairs the department. However, she made it clear that she believed her presence as an older Jewish professor would make students safer by showing solidarity, and is outraged by the school’s response. Dartmouth claims that her suspension was “an error in the bail process, which they were working to fix.” Dr. Orleck was knocked to the ground and zip-tied, and came away with a case of whiplash.

Dartmouth brought in police only two hours after the encampment was set up, and the president has strongly defended her choice to create a culture of escalation and violence.

Source:

Please stop he is drowning.....

Gone forever

How can Germans ban entry of people to all of Europe that seems like a really bad idea to allow Germany that power

Seems odd that Germany has that authority given its history

Idk just seems wild to me that Germany can decide who is allowed in Europe and no one does anything about it???

"Capitalism breeds innovation" girl there are only five websites left and they all look the same

please let your voice shine gorgeous

I love yokai so much

THIS IS IT, THE BEST CRYPTID

Emperor of Kyoto: We have a thief! Which one of you ate my breakfast before it arrived?!

Servant Who Definitely Ate All The Emperor’s Breakfast: Oh you’ve never heard of the Breakfast Bird??