The Kids Are All Right

"If the Israeli assault stopped today, and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the last eight months, it would take us 100 years to honor them all."

The Palestinian speaker at the UN Security Council highlights the devastating toll of casualties among Palestinians resulting from the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

every single time we come across what we think is the most horrific scene we have ever seen out of Gaza, we literally see something even worse right after.

i'm seeing a kid, 11 maybe 12, slowly dying on the hospital floor because according to doctors there are just no resources to save him. minutes later they announce him dead. his shirt moves up as he's carried away, we see that he has written his name on his body with a green sharpie.

he's loaded into a stretcher that has another person on it. the reporter says that the other person is also slowly dying.

there is a mother standing over the two of them, her face has lost all colour, she's crying and turning around herself as if she's looking for someone to tell this to.

now multiply this scene by over 10,000.

sometimes i feel like i’m working so so hard for someone else’s sake. i feel like all this effort i put in isn’t to better myself, but to ensure someone else doesn’t pick out all my weaknesses. it’s hard to try and get better when there’s always a threat of someone peering over your shoulder or suddenly appearing and listing everything you could/should be doing and making you feel guilty about what others are doing and what you’re not doing. i call it fear-working. trying to be the best you can be so that you’re not gonna be chastised for your mistakes.

The world continues to look on

The painting held by the protesters is "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in response to an event during the Spanish Civil War in 1937 where the small Basque town was bombed extensively by Nazi German and Italian forces. 1,645 people were killed and a further 889 were injured. The town was defenseless and held no military gain or strategic value to either opposing forces.

A thousand died defenceless at the hands of an unnecessary military raid. This is a war crime condemned by thousands across the globe.

Tens of thousands more are dying today in Palestine due to Israeli "defences", yet the Western world refuses to condemn them for the same war crime, and dozens more at a much more severe rate.

Guernica communicates the same message today as an anti-war painting, however it is not a conflict if one side has the weapons and the other has their prayers.

Israel is not and never will be the victim.

Israel is an Apartheid Terrorist state.

A four day ceasefire will never be enough if Palestinians are given freedom only to be carpet bombed and buried again. They are grouping the masses to wipe them out more efficiently.

It does not stop at a ceasefire. Palestine must be liberated.

We are witnessing the grotesque reality of the martyred Palestinians and thousands of their massacred children being written off as mere afterthoughts. The way western media outlets steadfastly refuse to call the Israeli aggression and onslaught for what it is, which is genocide and ethnic cleansing, is just another way of dehumanizing Palestinians. 

in light of israel's looming invasion on rafah, south africa implored the icj to call for the protection of palestinians with new preliminary orders. the icj denied this request, insisting that its january orders would be sufficient enough in ensuring the safety of people residing in rafah.

we have all seen how israel responded to the icj verdict earlier this month. they have all but intensified their attacks on palestinians, their favorite of whom seem to be children. this will end in a bloodbath. palestinians, already malnourished and living in literal tents, will be bombarded, they will be shot, they will be slaughtered. and when i say palestinians, a lot of them are actual toddlers. the videos coming out of this are proof enough.

at this point, it has been made amply clear that palestinians will never experience safety in their own homeland. a lot of the families in gaza are trying to raise funds to get out of it, because there's nowhere left to go.

there is nowhere left to go. if these people don't get the funds necessary to escape, they will die.

it's vital that you go to operation olive branch's spreadsheet, choose a family that resonates with you, and donate as much as you can to their gofundme. every last dollar counts. one dollar could be the difference between life and death for a family. please don't fall victim to the bystander effect. your contribution counts, however little it may be. and whether you're able to donate or not, spread this to as many people as you can. each second we stay silent is a second an entire family is brutally massacred.

Genuine question: why doesn’t Nintendo sell a lot of its Japan-exclusive merchandise internationally? There’s so much merch that we can’t access but really want as customers outside of Japan. Surely it would only mean more profits for the company, which will only exceed any shipping or manufacturing costs required to make and transfer the merch to other Nintendo branches? There’s three big official physical Nintendo stores where lots of merchandise is sold and two of them are in Japan (Osaka, Tokyo) excluding the New York store. What about people who don’t even live in the US, let alone living in NYC, like us Europeans and British fans, or even people who don’t have the opportunity to travel just to go to these stores? There’s so many products that aren’t even on the My Nintendo store, even licensed products by Play-Asia and Bandai-Namco are JP exclusive, and that’s not even considering marketing campaigns such as that of Baskin Robbins and 7-11, or even fun events/tournaments to celebrate franchises or game releases. Personally, I think it would really benefit both Nintendo and its fanbase to stop the region-locking of merch.