الله يرحم شهداء درعا
الله يلعن الكيان الصهيوني
Everytime a "high profile" Palestinian in Gaza is killed by the Israeli regime or taken prisoner, your usual Israeli propagandists always come up with some hogwash about how they were actually members of Hamas and therefore that made them a legitimate target for execution. Most of those individuals are almost always journalists and it just makes me laugh because imagine being in an active warzone where you're trying to report with bombs falling all around all day and all night and still somehow finding the time (and energy!) to go from the place you're reporting in to your battle position, especially with drones surveilling all around!
I hate seeing the "will you hide me" thing these days because the people saying this are not in any danger and just about every other group actually does need to be hidden or protected from the gestapo — Arabs, Muslims, people from south America, Mexico, Haiti, literally everyone else. I saw someone say "they wouldn't hide Gal Gadot" and I'm like the fuck are you talking about she has a private jet. What is even going on.
I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.
I WANT TO READ ALL THE BOOKS, STUDY ALL THE LANGUAGES, ADMIRE ALL THE ART... BUT I AM JUST SO TIRED!!!
Annoyed at both US and Canadian liberals acting like Canada is an oppressed Global South country that is under the boot of US imperialism and full of progressive revolutionaries when it's actually one of the wealthiest countries in the world and an enthusiastic ally of the US in its imperialism most of the time, and when it isn't, it has its own imperialist and colonialist projects, especially mining, both in the Global South and on stolen Indigenous land within so called Canada - don't even get me started on how reactionary Canadian settlers are either, and it's not just the white ones born here bc a lot of non-white diaspora and immigrants are just as nationalistic and hate both Indigenous peoples and the Global South, even if their families are originally from the latter.
I saw a Reddit thread from someone in Europe going, "Wow, Canada, I always thought you were just a smaller America, but you've really proven yourself to be a democratic power who protects the liberties of your people. The world's eyes are watching you and we're all really impressed."
Followed by Canadians being like, "thank you uwu i hate when people compare us to Americans and it's so nice to be recognized for our contributions to civil liberties"
It was the smuggest smugfest for a country that only just barely kinda-apologized for the hundreds of thousands First Nations children they slaughtered and dumped into mass graves outside of the residential schools they abducted and sent those children to, and on the heels of suing to say, "No, we don't have to provide clean water to reserves, we only do that as a favour"
Embarrassing.
I. HAVE. A. SUGGESTION!!!
remember that time jamie lee curtis posted a picture of crying children saying no child should be forced to go through the fear of bombs dropping but then deleted it when it was pointed out that it was palestinian children and not israeli children like she originally thought :)
its like her saying "except palestinian children, they deserve it". its just so evil.
As much as I love wearing the hijab for many reasons, I have been really struggling with it. Over the years of wearing it, the condition of my hair has really worsened. Lots of hair loss/hair thinning/scalp issues. I know that these issues can’t entirely be blamed on the hijab, but having the hijab on for like 10 hours everyday certainly doesn’t help.
Also I just miss going outside spontaneously without having to change and put on the hijab lol.
Probably a horrible time to vent about this in the last 10 days of Ramadan, but I have just been reflecting a lot about my relationship with my faith.