While I have your attention, Ibrahim from @wolf-aid is an only 15 years old boy from Gaza whose family is in dire need of help.
They were displaced due to the bombings, still face constant danger, and can’t afford food, nor can they get medical treatment for his father who suffers from cancer, due to the high prices and the destruction.
They need all the donations they can possibly get in order to survive, and eventually pass the border to safety when it reopens.
Altough the campaign has reached 90%, that does not mean that their situation can be looked away from.
I so desperately want to be able to convince Trump supporters with facts and logic and empathy, but it’s so important to remember that their ignorance is INTENTIONAL. my mom didn’t let us watch Sleeping Beauty growing up. I asked her why recently and she said, “it was evil.” when I pointed out other movies had similar themes and depictions of evil, and asked what the difference was, she couldn’t. I pressed one more time and she just said, “it felt evil to me. I didn’t like it”. same thing with dune 2: she said it was “dark”, and I was, “literally, like the movie’s lighting? Or the themes?” and she said “I don’t know” and didn’t want to talk about it more. many conservatives genuinely cannot tell the difference between “I don’t like it” and “this is evil” and they do not care to learn despite many chances
and while I’m at, this can also be true of left-leaning people!!!! please think about things. you are not necessarily smarter than conservatives and you are not immune to propaganda
i understand we cant be perfect in this, and microsoft has wormed its way into almost every aspect of our lives so its not like we can just cut all ties with a single mouse click, but like. you dont need that that video game.
BDS is specifically focusing a target on XBOX and is requesting people participate in the following tiers of engagement:
1. cancel game pass subscriptions
2. avoid spending time/money on candy crush, Minecraft and call of duty
3. boycott all Microsoft gaming products, including Xbox branded consoles and accessories AND any Microsoft owned publishing labels
Bare minimum you should be able to cancel a game pass subscription, but I think we can all try to push for a level 3 participation. BDS specifically requests people avoid Bethesda in their list of Microsoft owned publishers.
This is a specific request of a targeted boycott, which has a higher chance of success. It’s nearly impossible to avoid products from all companies involved in the genocide, but we can focus on specific targets with specific demands and help push Microsoft to divest.
btw the katy perry/bezos’ girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again
🚨 This is not a call… this is a scream from a mother watching her child slowly suffocate, and she can do nothing! 🚨
💔 My child is not dying because of illness… he is dying because we are poor! 💔
He is not dying because his body is weak…He is dying because he was born into a world where only the rich get to live.Because he needs surgery…but it will only happen if we pay!
Is being poor a crime that deserves death?
I am a mother, standing here helpless, watching my baby struggle to breathe.I can’t even hold him and comfort him because he’s slipping away from me…With every second that passes, I watch him die a little more.And I am dying with him, because we don’t have money to save him.
❌ The doctors said: “He has hours left… if we don’t do the surgery now, he will die.”
But no one asked about my pain, no one asked about my heart breaking… they only asked: “Do you have the money?”
Is this the price of life now? Money over humanity?
My child doesn’t know what money is…He doesn’t deserveto die just because he was born in a poor family.
Please… don’t let my baby die like this. Don’t let me bury him knowing his life could have been saved if only we were rich.
Donate anything… anything at all… because even a little can give him another chance at life.
Share this plea… don’t let him die silently just because we are poor!
