President Gustavo Petro & Comandante Chávez, 1994

its just so... its not like i dont think ukraine is going through a horrible situation right now and i dont think all the solidarity with them is a bad thing or anything like that but its so sinister when you remember how little attention this would get if it was anything but a white country. where was palestine's somber chorus on snl? where was syria's moment of silence? why is israel still in eurovision? its just... its so transparent its not even funny.

it's because Ukrainians as victims serve political purposes for NATO powers. they give an excuse for western involvement and they are sold to westerners as in "it could happen to you, Putin could get you, too"

Don't worry it's just the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada posing with an OUN banner.

transcript of video by TikTok account thatannamarie from early December 2021

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Here's a word that every queer person should know: homonationalism is not the name of my new synth-pop album. It's a concept from sociology that acknowledges how queer people are used in conversations about global politics.

Homonationalism is when we use LGBT rights as a yardstick to judge how "moral" a society is. It's short for "homonormative nationalism"—say that five times fast—and it was first coined by Jasbir Puar to describe how the US presented itself as LGBT-friendly to contrast itself to "homophobic" Muslims during the War on Terror. It can also be applied to other contexts, like the way we talk about homophobic countries in Africa or the Caribbean while ignoring the role of European colonialism in those regions.

Put a finger down if you've ever heard something like:

Oh it's so weird. [Looks around as if hearing something from outside the room.] My neighbor's dog is going crazy...

You know you've lost the plot when you're talking about homophobia among Muslims, when white American Christians are the ones who made gay marriage illegal, ignored the entire AIDS crisis, and to this day don't have any national policies regarding conversion therapy, a trans-panic defense, or the forcing of trans women into men's prisons and vice-versa.

Barbados just became free of British rule this week; we should not be shocked if they have some homophobic policies.

And while I obviously believe that a more moral society is one with robust protections for queer people, LGBT rights can't be used to judge other countries, to make us feel better about bombing them.

As an aside, I live in Connecticut, an American state where it gets dark at 4pm now, and where LGBT rights are actually pretty good. We were one of the first states to institute gay marriage, transgender health care is part of our state insurance, and we're just generally more legally protected here.

And yet while legal support is very robust in our state, there's very little cultural support. Homophobia and transphobia in day-to-day life is roughly as bad as any other part of the country, and we have no gay cultural infrastructure. Only enough gay bars to count on one hand, and no known queer meeting spaces otherwise. It's obviously not as bad as living in a place where being gay is a crime, but it's still pretty lonely out here.

So for a variety of reasons, I don't appreciate queer and trans people being used as a pawn to further Islamophobia, anti-African sentiment, and general xenophobia. Mainly because it's racist and ignorant; many of these countries have a long, rich history of queer and trans and nonbinary identities before white European colonizers showed up, but also because western "acceptance" of LGBTQ people is very conditional and very limited in terms of material and legal protection.

White supremacy wins when we pit queer people and people of color against each other. We need international solidarity and an acknowledgment of colonialism to achieve equality and equity.

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i cannot BELIEVE that fucking POLAND has been rebranded as a savior of refugees, like this world is a sick joke

like this was their response to syrian refugees

kinda funny how with russians people acknowledge the boundary between a state and its people and how unilaterally rejecting russian things is bad TM but with china people comment under dumpling making vids on tiktok about xi jinpings policies🥱

they tried very hard to acknowledge such a boundary *rhetorically*, with "hate the state not the people", but it's just an excuse to cover their racism.

Babuschka Cat Prints // SelynnDraws

Bruh it’s not that hard to let go of Harry Potter why does it have such a gorilla grip on some of u people. “It’s a cultural phenomenon” okay? it’ll never be SpongeBob.

Ted Cruz isnt laying eggs anymore and hes a losing all his feathers more than normal I’m worried hes sick

Please be more clear that that’s a funny name you gave your chicken

what is "structural analysis"?

this

in my lesbian opinion i think we should, like, collectively take the word “twink” away from people who aren’t actually mlm 

HELLO NATO

Based on the funniest fucking anon ask I’ve ever seen on this site

For the people wanting to see the original ask

Thank you I was looking for that omg ahsjjsksksksk

yeah the united states lied and exaggerated about russia and vietnam and north korea and venezuela and chile and bolivia and iraq and all those places but theyd never lie or exaggerate about china. they wouldnt do that to us

Like. I’m just really upset. The exact same people who uncritically post things from US news sources saying that China’s super evil are the SAME people who are now saying “stop the asian hate!” when the shooter was POSTING about how much he hates China and how he wants to kill chinese people. This is a direct result of the cold war against China and if yall are able to post stupid shit about stopping “anti-asian hate” you can at least critically think about how every single major US news source is Suddenly putting out articles almost everyday about how evil China is

For real, it’s not rocket science: