the fact that George "let's murder everyone in the middle east" bush Jr is getting rehabilitated in the public mind as just a bumbling incoherent buffoon and not the bloodthirsty neoconservative warhawk he was and still is is proof that Trump is only like two future presidencies away from being seen in pop culture as a wacky jokester

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You will live to watch elon musk die. dont kill yourself.

Hey I know I'm not that much of a punk circles kind of guy, but just in case you kids don't have anyone more credible to tell you this: do not put endangering badges on your back.

Yes, your battle jacket should consist exclusively of whatever the fuck you want to put on it, but if you've got political badges, rainbow pins, or anything advertising yourself as a member of a vulnerable group (whether that's trans, disabled, any kind of ethnic or refugee background, you probably know what yours are better than I do), only put them in places where you can see everyone who can see them. I'm not joking this is a safety measure. Punk scenes can be rough and sketchy places and not everyone who attends them is safe to be around.

You don't need to come tell me that this is unfair, because you're right. You don't need to come tell me that I shouldn't be telling you not to put a target on your back, but that I should be telling people who assault people to not assault people, because you're wrong. Yeah no shit it sucks but unfortunately if nazis gave a single fuck about who is morally correct, they wouldn't be nazis in the first place.

Be yourself by any means necessary, but protect yourself by any means necessary. Rainbows go in the front of the jacket.

operation olive branch reporting former volunteers to the FBI?!

Where did you hear about this?

If this is true, this honestly pushes me to believe that my initial reticence towards the OOB - which led me to start doing my own verifications - were somewhat founded even if they were based only on speculation and skepticism.

I learned it from volunteers speaking out on tiktok.

Theyre talking about how a lot of gaslighting and toxic bureaucracy goes on within the core which is keeping aid from actually getting to Palestinians. If you demand accountability for the money and what's it's being used for, you're isolated, the families you help are not given aid At All in retaliation, or now you're reported to the FBI I guess.

Tumblr is uploading one of the videos (since I know a lot of people don't have tiktok but still think you should be able to see this) and I'll be uploading a few more.

That said

Here's a link to ChyGunn's tiktok where they state that they, along with three other volunteers, were reported by OOB to the FBI. They said they were also contacted by OOB's lawyer.

Part 2 where the same user reads a statement clarifying they were reported for defamation of the core member's reputations among other "cyber crimes."

Besides that they've been speaking out for awhile about the lack of ethics within OOB. so this here is a link to the organized playlist they made of each tiktok they made about it. It's 71 parts/videos.

Screenshot of the complaint that ChyGunn posted.

Since the links are bouncing, these are 3 of the 4 ex volunteers where I got my info

Chygunn is reading the complaint and has the OOB playlist. Their videos about being reported to the FBI are also labeled as such and they're also recent (within the last day) so you don't have to scroll forever to find them.

This user, acabforcutet, is another ex volunteer who confirms that almost everything chygunn has experienced was also true for her. as well as having a back and forth with someone else which amounts to a clear cut incident of being gaslit by OOB

Faith has posted about the way OOB treated her, families she's sponsored, and how OOB refused to address any concerns she brought up. They're the vids with the red labels and yellow marks.

I did post a lot of these videos to my Tumblr for people without tiktok so they're all up now under #Operation Olive Branch if anyone wants to see them.

@el-shab-hussein i watched a few videos (thanks for linking them sibeblog side b!!) And Chy says the list of families is legit no matter what. Apparently OOB had donations to the org (?) Or something that they took for themselves but the list of families is separate from that. Here's the link where they said that:

I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.

I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...

*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families their neighbours

MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.

Mohammed is planning to distribute food parcels, each containing one liter of vegetable oil, one kilo of sugar, one kilo of rice, one kilo of lentils, one kilo of pasta, and a can of sauce, to the 70 families in Mawasi Al-Qarara camp later this week.

Thank you so much for all of your help so far. Any money that you can spare would really help to keep this initiative going in the coming weeks.

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I've seen a lot of "You have to communicate directly/don't expect other people to read your mind" posts going around tumblr lately and while I really do appreciate them because it's a skill a LOT of people need to work on, I do want to remind everyone to please meet people halfway sometimes.

I recently read a story on Reddit about a guy's pregnant wife texting him "I'm craving donuts but we don't have any in the house 😔" and he DIDN'T stop to pick up donuts on the way home from work. Everyone was taking his side because "she needs to communicate" and "he's not a mind reader" and "How was he supposed to know she wanted him to get donuts???" People, ffs, why on earth would she text him that while he was at work if not because she wanted him to get donuts? I was flabbergasted everyone was taking his side. "How was he supposed to know??" What? Like yeah it's true she didn't say "I want you to get me donuts" with those exact words in that exact order but the reason why people get upset if they hint they want you to do something and you don't do it is because they feel like you don't care about them and aren't actively thinking about their feelings. Especially in a marriage or LTR they are in a situation where the assumption is you care about filling the other person's needs.

Someone who loves and cares about someone will get the donuts "without being asked" just because their partner expresses a want or need. That's what someone is fishing for when they say "Aaaah I'm craving donuts 🥺🥺🥺" It's less about the donuts and more about feeling cared for. Sometimes straight up asking "Can you get me donuts?" defeats the purpose.

Also, women are typically socialized to communicate this way because they're punished socially for being too direct. I've heard that people of color, especially black people, often do this too because they're likely to be branded as "aggressive" if they're too direct with white people. So it might be a good idea to be a bit intersectional if we're trying to encourage people to be more direct.

Take the stereotypical example of a wife gets a new haircut and then gets upset that the husband doesn't notice. She's not literally mad at him for not saying the exact words "I like your new haircut." She's upset because she feels like he doesn't look at her and appreciate the efforts she's putting in anymore.

Obviously this will vary widely depending on the nature of your relationship with someone, but especially when it comes to intimate partnerships, there are certain things your significant other should not have to tell you directly. It's probably safe to assume your wife or husband wants a birthday present even if they don't ask for it. It's probably safe to assume your bf or gf would appreciate a valentine's day present or a compliment without them having to literally ask for it, unless they explicitly say otherwise.

This is difficult for a lot of neurodivergent people to learn manually if it's not instinctual and they didn't learn it growing up (lord knows I didn't) and yes, it's true that most people (especially NT people) should learn to communicate more directly. But also, your relationships would probably benefit from learning to read indirect cues and just pick up the donuts on the way home because you heard your wife is craving them. Sometimes what someone wants is for you to think about what they're feeling and what they want and do it without them asking directly. It's up to you whether or not you do that, but sometimes that is asking. I think this is what people generally mean when they say their partner is "thoughtful."

The thing about indirect requests (or passive aggression) is that they become common in people because the outcome of asking isn't always yes, it's often no. Sometimes, having asked the question explicitly and being rejected is a more painful outcome than deliberately not asking and consoling oneself that one's loved one has simply failed to understand the request. You can frame it in terms of game theory, even.

Imagine you want something (could be a cheap snack, could be a big ask like an expensive appliance--and bearing in mind that money, time, and space all have value in your life). You could survive without it, but it would be really nice to have. You ask your partner, who's supposed to be a person who cares about you, to do something for you.

Either way you choose, you have two potential outcomes.

If you choose to use your words and ask directly for what you want, you may receive...

If you choose to ask indirectly and just express how nice it would be to have something, you may receive...

I said game theory because you can vary how likely each outcome is by varying the function that describes the probability of successful requests. That is, say the likelihood of success (your partner gives you the thing) S(x,y,z) = [f(x) - g(y)] * h(z), where x is the level of value they place on your relationship, y is the amount of effort required by the request, and h(z) describes the likelihood of your partner correctly noticing your request with explicitness level z. Each person has their own peculiar f(x), g(y), and h(z) functions that vary independently of one another; h(z) is bounded between 0 and 1 (that is, it can never be negative, it can never be greater than 100% probability of being understood). Change your strategy accordingly, given that your partner is a familiar individual whose responses you are able to observe and predict.

The thing is, it doesn't become worth it to be more muted and subtle about your requests unless you think your odds of success S(x,y,z) are probably pretty fucking low. You're a human, so you can't really control the level of effort the things you want require. But you sure can decide whether or not to ask, and you can decide how obviously you want to ask. If explicit requests typically carry the risk of explicit rejection, and that sucks, you get more indirect about the things you think might get rejected. if that's most of the requests you make, well, you develop certain habits about asking.

the other thing is, we learn from experience, not just from our partners but throughout all our lives. All these dynamics also carry over for coworkers and siblings and parents and friends. and we learn our value from the frequency with which we hear "yes."

it's so easy to get in the habit of not asking explicitly, because the explicit rejection hurts more: at least the implicit one leaves you some comforting illusions, or maybe fantasies, of the problem being about being noticed rather than being valued. hurts less.

so if you are having an access conflict, where one partner needs assistance feeling safe making explicit requests and one needs assistance parsing the requests, there needs to be a discussion about how the situation can be adapted to support both parties through the problem. it is, funnily enough, quite possible to be both partners at once.

very possible. and neurodivergent folks are very prone to both ends of the breakdown. so, you know, friends. we ought to be talking explicitly about how to do things better amongst ourselves. yes?

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I do not know how to tell you what I feel when I read these words, my friends. 444 days of genocide. 444 days of a life forced into a tent. A whole life forced to fit into a backpack. We do not know what may happen in the next second, for that is how long it takes to bring the whole world down on you these days...In December 2022, I had travelled. I had been in Turkey and UAE. I had celebrated the new year that was going to come into my life. Now I read these words and look at my life which was forced into a tent, which was forced to fit into a backpack. I do not deserve this, my family does not deserve this, my people do not deserve this. We do not deserve to be left with memories of days gone by, with memories of the last birthday celebrated, of a new year's eve celebrated two years ago instead of looking forward to living a good life. How is this fair?

I do not ask much of you but only to stand with us. Do not abandon us, do not let the occupation forces make this life a reality. Help us however it is you can. Boost and donate to my fundraiser if it is possible.

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im only a man when im a grown ass man and im only a woman when god forbid women do anything

any time other than that? im a fucking Echidna

happy new year. may we see a free palestine in 2025

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The passing process once again!

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Best wishes and all the success possible for all of you for 2025!!

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Hello, I am Tawfiq Al-Tatri, I am 40 years old, from Gaza, and I have 5 children. Now I live in a refugee camp with my children because of the destruction of my home and repeated displacement, something that no one can bear because of our presence in a tent and the extreme cold at night. Every day we move from one place to another. My house was destroyed on My family, fortunately, we came out alive after losing many of my relatives and neighbors after the destruction of the neighborhood in which I live. Now I am trying to save my children’s lives from death and save their future. The only thing I can do is create this campaign with your help and the help of my cousin who lives in Belgium. Therefore, I ask you with hope to help me save. The costs of coordination from Gaza to Egypt and saving the lives of my children and getting them out of the trauma of war so that they can live a normal life like the rest of the children in the world. I am asking you because I am confident that you feel what we feel here in Gaza. Thank you.

I was displaced for the sixth time from my city after the occupation planes bombed the house from which I was displaced the last time. I went to Kamal Adwan Hospital with my children until the hospital was surrounded and I was arrested and my children were left in the street for long hours until they left me. Now I live in a displacement center in the middle of Gaza.

My full number was given by the young man Hussein (207). Thank you. I hope you continue to support me.

@yazan-famillly need your help! Mohammed and Basma, and their children Joud and Yaza, are in Gaza, and the situation is only getting worse every day. Their campaign isn't even halfway-funded, so please, share it, and donate to it if you can! Please know that your shares and donations make a difference, no matter how small they are

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