Let's have a story, shall we?

Centuries ago, an indigenous people with millennia old deep cultural ties to their land are occupied and colonised and ethnically cleansed by various empires, forced into worldwide diaspora, where they suffer constant persecution, oppression, and genocide.

Finally after hundreds of years of this, and after suffering one of the worst genocides in human history, which annihilated two thirds of their population, they regain control and sovereignty over their land.

Fast forward another few decades. A woman, born and raised on her people's land, able to freely practice her culture and traditions, proud of her people and how they have endured, decides to go to a music festival with her friends. Young, happy, full of life, excited for her future.

And then, a violent militia group comprised of descendants of her ancestor's colonisers, a group whose sole aim is the complete removal of the indigenous people from their lands, rampages through the festival, and she is brutally raped and murdered, along with hundreds of others, and her body is dumped like trash. This atrocity ignites a worldwide movement blaming her and her people for their own deaths, and celebrates her rapists and murderers as "courageous freedom fighters."

Sounds utterly appalling, doesn't it? Beyond comprehension.

If your revulsion at this story changes when you learn the woman was an Israeli Jew, you are an antisemite, and there is no trying to argue your way out of it.

And this is why I post what I post every day. Because there is a monstrous injustice happening and people have to shout from the rooftops about it.

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A nice like ace emblem for a Friday night

there's like a thousand posts about it on this site but it bears reiterating that the reason a lot of Americans will specify which state they come from rather than simply saying that they are from the US is simple. it's because, despite the relative physical proximity, someone from Massachusetts and someone from New York are basically two wholly different breeds of person. and neither is human.

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This was so disheartening for me. I needed psychological care, but I couldn't get a psychologist because none of them were taking new patients (the mental health care system in Australia, like many places, is severely overloaded). And none of the psychiatrists at the clinic would even consider taking me on because I was too 'complex'? Is there anyone seeing a psychiatrist who's NOT complex?

What's really striking about this is, I was someone who, whilst being in a low, was still capable of doing all of the running around of chasing down clinics and trying to book appointments. How much harder would this have been for someone who didn't have the energy to do that? It just demonstrates that even when we have apparent access to healthcare, the reality of trying to get the care we need can be very different.

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I feel like every other week I have to make a post reminding people that autism is a disability. but. autism is a disability. it is disabling. a majority of autistic people do not need to be told that they are not trying hard enough to “overcome” one symptom or another. we do not need to be told that we’re weird or hard to talk to or slow or whatever else people always seem to think about us already. and we don’t need to be talked down to about how inconvenient we’re being when we Have Autism Symptoms. this is a disability. I can promise you we are aware that it disables us. that’s kind of the whole thing

let's start speaking the insurance companies' language. this fetus needs to be aborted because it simply does not have the credit history to be trusted to pay for cost of delivery.