Mantikora 1w ago • 100%
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I don't know how to comfort you, this is beyond scary. And thank you for replying, it means a lot to get in touch with people who think and feel like I do. It's a small comfort in all of this, but still is.
Mantikora 1w ago • 100%
Do you have anyone you could talk to or know a local group that also cares about this like you do? They might be organizing protests or vigils.
I probably do, but knowing myself, I wouldn't be long in the group because I am kind of a loner. I chat a lot with people from other countries who are donating religiously like me, but we're all in sort of despair.
I mean, this really needs to stop. We are all affected by this. Fascism is raging and this needs to stop.
If I wasn't on lexapro, I would probably be in a hospital. This way I am able to function. People usually say they can't cry on lexapro. Well, go and watch online genocide and I guarantee you will cry your heart out. I've cried so much.
I really can't stand the fact that those people don't eat, don't sleep and have to see butchered loved ones every single day. The horrors they're facing every single day. Why is that allowed? Why our voices don't mean anything? Why their suffering doesn't matter shit to stupid governments? How is this possible?!
Mantikora 1w ago • 100%
I do think that we all deserve a distraction sometimes and taking a break from reading the news sometimes can actually help us gain strength to fight harder (depends on the person I suppose).
I manage to distract myself, but it doesn't last. The thing is, I've connected to those two young people from Gaza and this became personal to me. It's not just "people are being genocided", it's "my friends are going through hell". I wonder how families abroad who have someone in Gaza feel if I am fucked up like this. But I've met Palestinians, they're incredibly patient and resilient and noble... They endure pain like it's natural to them and in a way it is, they're experiencing it for generations now. Jesus, it's all so fucked up...
Mantikora 1w ago • 100%
Only my mother and my husband, but my husband is seeing me in this state is also afraid for me sometimes. People around me just don't care. My country sucks when empathy to non-white people concerns. Just yesterday my hairdresser said nonchalantly "oh, you still preoccupy with that". Yeah...
I know that everyone who follows this carnage in Gaza and wider is fucked up. I see it. So if you want to comfort me by saying I'm not alone, it won't work. I can't take it anymore. I'm avoiding my shrink because she will gaslight me that I am doing this to myself alone. She'll tell me not to follow the news, not to interact with people online about this and such stuff. I never found the words to defend my support to Gaza to her. I won't stop watching. It's the least I can do. I don't want to turn my head and continue with my life. I don't understand how doesn't she get that. And I don't understand how people can not think about what's happening in Gaza. Yeah, genocide is making me devastated and depressed and the only way I can feel better is if someone could end this carnage in the Middle East. But even after that, it's impossible to just forget and be happy like nothing happened. I will always carry this scar, I feel. I also feel selfish for writing this. Because Gazans are the ones who suffer, I'm just depressed from what's happening to them, what are scum doing to them. I feel guilt for eating, for taking a cab to work, for buying skincare... I'm spending so much money on donations and even the fact I'm doing something to those people doesn't comfort me. I'm trying to avoid the news. I just follow Gaza Now and watching what is fucking Pissrael doing to Gaza and wider. I can watch disfigured kids, but I can't read news, even from leftist outlets because I am sick and tired of talking and this is not ending. Just talk talk talk. First thing I do when I wake up is checking if my friends from Gaza were online. That's indication if they're still alive. If they weren't online, my heart will sink until someone from them sends me a message and while I'm waiting, I'm trying to find out what happened. I can't take it anymore. I'm constantly thinking about them and how the hell are they surviving this. My heart literally bleeds together with theirs. I want this to fucking end and I want my friends to live. I want their sufferings to finally end. I hate everyone, I'm scared what's waiting for us and I can't believe that we're witnessing this. I'm on 20mg of lexapro and it helps. But I am nevertheless so fucking depressed. Where's this planet going? Why did it have to be this way? I'll die. I will literally die from sadnesses and hopelessness. USA and Israel and all of your fucking allies, FUCK YOU. I hope something really bad will happen to you. You've destroyed all of our lives, but above everything, you genocide people in front of our eyes. Fuck you to hell, fucking monsters.
Mantikora 2w ago • 85%
Oh, I've read just a title and left my wisdom in comments because I wanted to.
Mantikora 2w ago • 81%
Balkan perspective here. You see, when you're 18, you can work. If you mean to be an adult and live with your parents, you should contribute. If you're a lazy fuck, your parents should kick you out, they're not responsible for you anymore. Me and my brother didn't pay rent, but as soon we hit adulthood and started to work, we started to financially help our mom to support her and we do it even now when we don't live with her anymore. I don't see anything wrong with this. In the end, this is just one of the ways you learn how to adult.
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
Those videos do look like a MK Ultra designed. Fake bullshit, created to make you stupid and convinced you have an enemy, while becoming someones.
Their bots on telegram are dm-ing fake videos of Hamas killing Palestinians, like, "they're animals, argh, see" and then you see the same person posting "Israel will fuck your mother and your children and I'm proud of it!". They're hitting on all the fronts.
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
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I'm trying my best to spread the word, please, share it wherever you can.
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
Probably because all the organizators are from first or second world countries. They provide their own bank accounts and then send the money accordingly to the agreement they have with the families.
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
Thank you for sharing. ❤️
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
Also, don't forget to sign and share https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/palestine_recognition_4_1_sign/?whatsapp
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
Beautiful introduction to the discussion.
I would like to remind everyone of donating directly to the families in Gaza. Many, many of them have GoFundMe and similar campaigns where they ask us for help. They need money. Try to imagine being starved and trying to run for your life. Sick, injured and on top of that starved and to be under constant bombing running for your life or what's left of it. Money we send them is used for basic necessities us free people (as resistance calls us) don't even think about. So please, please, consider "adopting" a family and help them survive this hell.
There's a lot of discussion on how they even receive that money. They do, through merchants (war dogs) who have the cash, so they're also a money exchange, since they receive it from the sender (usually campaign organizer) on their bank account and pay out cash to the receivers, with very high provisions, 15-30%.
Aid by organisations, unfortunately, get stuck. I don't even want to go into the depths of corruption during the war, but every war is like that, brings out the worse in those who can use the situation to their benefit. Also, let's not forget that the criminal IOF is attacking aid trucks. A lot of Gazans told me most of the aid just doesn't come through. That's why direct donations are the best way to help.
I've just sent an eSIM to these kids https://youtube.com/@ahmed-and-mahmoud-days, so, where is a will, there's a way.
Hope you will join many of us and donate.
Here are few campaigns:
https://gogetfunding.com/aya-al-harazin/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/daily-needs-for-gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-rebuild-our-lives-after-we-lost-everything-in-gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-yasmine-and-her-family-evacuate-from-gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dnhmg-help-my-brother-a-down-syndrome-patient
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yamen-undergo-surgery-in-gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-support-for-a-pregnant-mother-and-her-daughter
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-reem-albeshs-family-escape-gaza
https://chuffed.org/project/112789-help-motasem-and-his-family-survive
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mahmoud-and-his-family-to-safety
https://chuffed.org/project/113625-support-afafs-survival-in-gaza-including-cancer-treatment
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
They've lost their minds long time ago. This is beyond insanity.
After Iranian warning fireworks, starting that very night, in less than *24 hours they killed 80 people of which, of course, a bunch of kids.
Then, they bombed an orphanage.
Then West Bank.
Just yesterday they've barraged whole fucking Gaza. I don't count the dead anymore.
It's been less than a week of IOF's bestial rampage slaughter of Gazans. Gazans refusing to leave their homes. It's a bloodshed there.
*Edited "two hours ". Lapsus.
Mantikora 2w ago • 100%
it feels like people are trying to limit what woman are and are not allowed to be.
I'm also cis woman, half feminine, half tomboyish and the worst part, I act like a kid. People gave up telling me what is "real" woman or how she behaves or what she needs to do in order to be a true woman, but I get a lot of "grow up". I don't want to grow up and as I get older, I know I'm fitting my body less and less. Only when I feel feminine I'm comfortable with my age and the way I look. But a child in me wants to jump, show when she's happy, sad, dance, giggle... Imagine a forty year old woman talking to flowers on the road. That's me. You have no idea how people are restricting me. Calling me crazy, stupid. Even online. When I say I'm 40 I get a lot "you talk like an edgy teen" and I know it's an insult. I try not to get insulted. And with men, it's so strange. They all like every aspect of my character, but me being childish is inconvenient to them. Or when I refuse to be stereotypical woman, especially if they aren't capable of playing their own masculine role. And as much as I feel awesome in sexy outfit, I hate doing it for men's satisfaction because it's their vision of feminine.
It's all just odd.
Most of the time I'm attacked and questioned by traditional people. I don't know why are they so uncomfortable with nonconformism and when things don't fit their learned patterns. It's not like they're all alone on this planet and that they're the rule, although they are a norm.
I saw few women like you and honestly I don't know what the fuck is wrong with looking like you. Do we all have to look like virgins from males' imagination (fuck you, Petrarca and all those stupid poets and philosophers and prophets who made their definition of us by making us their objects of lust and desire 🫵)? And when people comment... Like why do you care?
Sorry, I'm stoned, I'm just typing my incoherent thoughts.
Mantikora 3w ago • 100%
What is this down arrow for then?
Mantikora 3w ago • 100%
Well, I guess it's a prototype. Also guessing they'll soon start murdering people like this. Beautiful world we live in.
Mantikora 3w ago • 100%
Yesterday I was on live transmission with my Gazans, celebrating the fireworks with them. Then I played "Oh, happy day" by The Edwin Hawkins Singers. I screamed of happiness on possiblity that Yoav Gallant is dead.
Celebration stopped this morning when my Gazans told me IOF killed 50 people last night in ruthless constant bombing. I have a footage of the aftermath of the attack on one family house.
Those penisless farts couldn't do anything to Iran, so they revenged on civilians. Who are starved, traumatized, cold... My hate towards Zionists grows stronger with each day. My hobby is to find them on telegram groups and pour my hate on them. Yoav Eliasi, the right wing Israhelli rapper bragged to me how he killed 20 Palestinians and how he will kill me. They are so sick and despicable, I'm constantly sick and want to vomit. And with their cockless trolling, they're enraging Muslims to the point that most of them actually talk as Zios do. They started to say bullshit like "Hitler was right". This is beyond fucked up and it's all Biden's fault. By Biden I mean him and his whole satanic administration.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3556660 > cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3556659 > > > https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/palestine_recognition_4_1_sign/?fpla > > > > https://act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/ceasefire-now-in-Lebanon/?t=13&akid=7446%2E894693%2EEHqoF7
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3556659 > https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/palestine_recognition_4_1_sign/?fpla > > https://act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/ceasefire-now-in-Lebanon/?t=13&akid=7446%2E894693%2EEHqoF7
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/palestine_recognition_4_1_sign/?fpla https://act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/ceasefire-now-in-Lebanon/?t=13&akid=7446%2E894693%2EEHqoF7
Mantikora 3w ago • 100%
If he'll survive, I'm sure some animals will survive with him too.
Mantikora 4w ago • 100%
If you survive, please be good to animals.
Mantikora 4w ago • 50%
I'm going to get so downvoted for this, lol. Wasn't Putin who attacked Ukraine? So who is escalating? At this moment we have two major criminals who are stubborn over their goals and won't stop fucking killing and wars. Fuck them all. You can't shit on USA and praise Russia. Same scummy coin, just different sides. They would all like to rule the world, fuck them.
Also, stupid Putin ruined the only paradise in the world, Chernobyl. You see, years after the nuclear accident, nature in Chernobyl started to flourish, animals came back because there was no humans there. A fucking paradise, I tell you. And then fucking Putin's troops march through Chernobyl, raise the radioactive dust and scare my animals with their war machines. So fuck that guy. I don't know why are you defending that asshole here, but he's an asshole and a murderer.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3517548
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3517548
www.gofundme.com
I'm posting one more Gazan family who needs our help. Do I have to say anything? It's a genocide there and any money those people receive means the world to them. Let's try to save some lives or at least give them some hope in means of our donations from which they'll buy food, medicines, necessities... From my experiences so far, Gazans will want to get on touch with you once you donate. It's usually because they want to verify themselves or ask you to share their campaign. I hope you will respond and help this little dude. Thanks to everyone who will participate and if you have some general questions about direct donations, let me know, I'll be happy to answer.
I'm trying to find decent sneakers that would last at least 3 years, preferably more, but that are not genocidal brands. It would be awesome if they didn't support slave labor and animal cruelty as well. Internet doesn't provide help. https://huffsports.com/which-sports-brands-support-palestine/ Adidas? Nike? Puma?! Aren't those brands which actually support State of occupated Palestine called Israel? Edit: Checked out some ethical sustainable brands in EU. Expensive, so I'll see if I want to spend that amount of money on sneakers, but, having Miret/Earthbound ones I bought on a really good discount, seems that's a good long-term sustainable eco ethical investment.
R as ret ar ded. I'm from Balkans and I think there's no swearing anywhere in the world like in Balkans. We use slurs A LOT and pretty casually, so I am always surprised when I am censored on some word online. It happened just now. The R word was removed from my comment, so I wanted to find out what's going on with it. Since I talk to people from all around the world, I don't want to be an ignorant fool and I want to learn why it isn't ok to say something, so I can implement it without the feeling I'm being deprived of free speech. Again, take in consideration the Balkan thing if you think I'm trolling with this post. I'm not. I swear to you, the shit we're able to say are insane and we really think it's no big deal. So, when did R word became a slur and why it's not ok to call someone R word as an insult? Thank you for the education. A human learns while grows and until dies. EDIT: You're really nice community and I am really thankful you've explained this to me. As I said, I can be a Slow Poke sometimes and growing where I grew, some shit has just stuck as normal and I am glad to unlearn it. My heart is leftist, but I grew up as a Catholic in the midst of the war where we learned a lot of hateful stuff as a normal part of identity. I want to fuck it off from me, so thanks, really.
www.quora.com
And Quora is full of them. It's pretty disgusting to read their bullshit, but sometimes it's needed so we know what we are dealing with, brainwashed puppets who really believe that one group of the people needs to be erased from the planet and people who twist and turn every narrative in their favor. Scary, scary shit.
Sorry, I am too lazy to search myself. Also, how do you search inside the... community? (How is sub called here? 🫢) Since I don't know how to search inside asklemmy, I have to ask, 😅 how are users of Lemmy called? Can someone post a link where it's originally asked, please? Additional question: when we edit our posts or comments, like adding something, do we put "Edit" before the edit, like on the platform that rhymes with edit?
I've noticed some occasional, but going to heavy censorship of Gazans accounts on some platforms. Not just Gazans, also accounts of people who are vocally pro Palestine. Banning Bassem Youssef from Twitter is just another example. And they say we live in the world of free speech. My belief is they're doing this to cover the shit in Palestine that's going to be even worse. Zionists are spinning every goddamn narrative and it's been disgusting for a long time that they can spew hate and lies and nothing will happen to them, but if you point out the truth about them, your online persona is dead. I'm just waiting for the CIA to knock my doors for everything I said on this topic online, lol. Or our rights being limited. Are we terrorists because we're pointing out fingers to real terrorists? Fuck them. I can't believe where we got as a society at this point.
Hey, everyone! New here and not sure if I am on the right place, I'm also traumatized with recent bans because I am trying to do something good, so I am afraid this post will be erased. Hope not. Anyways, this is not about me, it's about Juneina family. Like many Gazans, they went through hell and still living it. What's not stated in their description is that this family experienced being 10 days lying on the floor, in their own feces and among dead bodies of the family, because if they would get up, IOF sniper would take them down. At the moment the whole family is displaced and literally starving. I speak to Motasem almost daily and sometimes to Maram. Maram is literally traumatized and they're both heartbreakingly without any hope and I would like you to join me to try bring it back to them. As you can see, their campaign is going really slow. Most of the money we sent them on the private Manar's PayPal they used for bare survival. I'm sending them on another PayPal donation account and I can share that as well, but this one is made by Libby on Motasem's behalf for collecting money for the escape to Egypt. Can you help them, please? A weekly donation of 5 or 10$ would make a big difference in speeding up this fund raising. When we join together, we can change the world. Once we hopefully succeed saving them, we can shift our focus on another family. If you want to help other families as well, visit stupid reddit, sub GazaSupport, and you will find so many desperate people in need who need us. I know it's stupid to claim legitimacy of those accounts as anonymous, but I am giving my word those are not scammers and those families get the money that's raised. You can always take their number for a verification. That's how I gained a friend. Motasem is a beautiful soul, honourable and he's very shy to ask for help. That's why Libby, me and one girl in India are doing all we can to be his voice. Thanks to everyone who will give up few dollars for them. 🙏 Couldn't post a link in the title so here it is https://chuffed.org/project/112789-help-motasem-and-his-family-survive?utm_source=vero&utm_medium=email&utm_content=control&utm_campaign=Post-Donation%20Share%20|%20Email%201&utm_term=Workflow