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The Palestinian Youth Movement Marched with Samidoun (now a designed terrorist org in Canada and the US) in opposition to aiding Ukraine on March 18, 2023:

The more listed orgs include:

And the demands of march?

To capitulate to Russia and stop aid to Ukraine.

tankie punk throws a fit that I touched their post

His second account

JOHN EGBERT - HOMESTUCK

reasoning: Fucking look at him

because the russian tactic is to first make sure the opponent considers the idea of concessions, then push for them to yield completely because such opponent is seen as weak and undeserving of respect. but to understand this westerners first have to understand that the circle doesn't go in the square hole

yes russians again hit a neighbourhood children's playground with a cluster ballistic missile in a city where there is physically no time to hide from such a missile. and because it's cluster it maximizes the number of killed children. this is what the peace talks facilitate

I actually think it's insane that thinking Ukraine should just?? Surrender to Russia?? An imperialist invader bombing Ukrainian cities?? Is a mainstream political stance in the US??? Like why am I hearing people on the radio talk about Ukraine "sacrificing young men" instead of just giving up and letting itself be absorbed into Russia??? I feel like I'm losing my mind.

I dunno if any of y’all have heard about the book Daddy’s Little Toy by Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa (under the pen name Tori Woods), but if you haven’t, here’s the synopsis and the pics of the cover/back —

Basically, this Australian woman released this book, and within days, she pulled it and deleted all her socials because of the harassment she was getting. Why was she being harassed? Because the male character had known the female character since she was three, and groomed her. Keep in mind, these are fictional characters. 

(There is also a rumor that, in her dedication, she wrote something along the lines of “I’ll never be able to see my children the same way”, but I haven’t been able to find any screenshots or really any proof of that.)

Then she was arrested. Again, she lives in Australia, and laws regarding fiction are notoriously strict there, so her book was deemed CSAM, and she was arrested for possessing, producing, and disseminating CSAM. 

She has also been let go from her place of work. Again, all this over fiction. 

I shouldn’t have to say that harassing, doxxing, and threatening to call CPS on someone for writing a book is wrong, we should all know this, but I guess we don’t. It’s wrong. You can say that the content of the book is disgusting, weird, whatever, but the sheer amount of people across all social media platforms I’ve seen not only agree with the arrest, but applaud it is both baffling and frightening.

I do not care if it’s glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing anything, because it’s fiction, and no one was hurt. I do not care that it was written as dark romance instead of splatterpunk/extreme horror, because you still have the duty, as a reader, to look at the back of the book or read a synopsis online and decide for yourself if it’s something you’d like to read, or if it’s something that will upset you. I don’t care how disgusting a book is, **arresting someone over any kind of fiction is bad**. It *legally* being CSAM in Australia doesn’t mean that’s a good or just law, and anyway, we shouldn’t be conflating legality with morality. 

I don’t know that I’d go the full nine yards and say it’s censorship, because she decided to pull it (granted, under threats of CPS and the police being called), but now that she’s been arrested, it’s pretty damn close to being censorship. 

We, as a society, NEED to come to the realization that written words or drawn pictures don’t harm anyone, because, like it or not, censorship is not a scalpel, it’s a shotgun. It’s just not pointed at you yet.

I’m also tired of seeing so many people acting like the Americans joining in on the debate are too “freedom-focused” because our laws aren’t so draconian (yet, anyway) that we don’t arrest people over fiction. Australia being too police state-y is not a good thing.

How can you, in good conscience, celebrate a woman being arrested, losing her job, losing her hobby, and potentially having to deal with CPS in the future, all over a book she wrote with original, fictional characters? Why would you ever want to target OTHER creators as well, and have them potentially face the same undeserved and unnecessary backlash, again, over fiction?

What the fuck is wrong with you so-called “normal people” that you care more about the characters and tropes these people write about, than the innocent lives you’re directly ruining, that you’d advocate for censorship, that you’d call for the death of someone?

Above is CNN quoting Muskrat's biography about him intentionally cutting Starlink connection for Ukrainian military

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nooo don't make the workwives fight... tho i am a staunch toshiro supporter and lover so i urge you to vote for the anxiety girl

joining in on the fun!

hello, effedupmod here to remind everyone that this list has no particular genre or theme and is almost entirely a random selection of movies that are available on EUM, particularly focused on the ones that are popular on there. no real meaning or reason for the selections beyond that, and also not necessarily a list of movies i personally enjoy or would recommend (and in fact there are quite a few on here that i actively hate lmao). thanks 👍

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vote for the beautiful transgender girl toshiro will become. and her actual role in the story

Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian kids and the US cutting funding for the programs tracking them NEEDS to be a bigger story

In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.

The US demands that Ukraine accept an immediate unconditional ceasefire. Ukraine agrees.

Russia rejects any talk of such a ceasefire, and instead asks for a halt on strikes on energy targets, an area where Ukraine is hurting Russia. The US agrees and Ukraine agrees.

Russia within one day violates the terms of its own proposal, attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure along with other civilian targets. There is no US response.

Meanwhile Russia insists that the United States enforce on Ukraine Russia’s war aims, even though they are outrageous and even though Russia is not winning the war. The US agrees.

The United States also insists that Ukraine concede its mineral wealth in exchange for nothing at all.

This has not been a peace process. It has not even been appeasement. It has been the US throwing its power on Russia’s side in a war of aggression.

2023 Deportation Remembrance Day showing the Ukrainian and Estonian flags.

During and after World War II the Soviets deported tens of thousands of Baltic people and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from their homelands and colonised the regions with ethnic russians.