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in our defense this is oil

And then you have Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem claiming, on air, that there are no Christians or churches in Gaza "because they were driven out by Hamas"

This is in response to two Palestinian Christian women in Gaza getting shot and killed by an Israeli sniper inside the church.

Every Zionist accusation is a confession.

If you're white and you have 8 kids you have a big happy family and you could even get a tv show from it

If you're black and have 8 kids you're contributing to the downfall of the west

It's so blatantly racist, when talk of low birth rates come up here (In Norway, but I assume same in other european countries) the solution is never immigration or adoption. Immigration (from global south, not from white countries) is a problem that needs to be solved/stopped apparently, but we also need... More people to be born??? It is so transparently racist and based in white supremacy, I can scarcely fathom that it's still even said outright, aloud with 0 consequences.

For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!

I nearly teared up reading “Andean agricultural technicians” bc fuck yes! these were members of Pre-Inca cultures who lived 7 to 10 thousand years ago, and they were scientists! food scientists and researchers and farmers whose names and language we can never know, who lived an inconceivably long time ago (pre-dating ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, India, Greece, and even some parts of Mesopotamia) and we are separated by millennia of time and history, but still for thousands of years the fruits vegetables of their labor and research have continued to nourish countless human lives, how is that not the most earthly form of a true miracle??? anyway yes potatoes are beautiful, salute their creators.

There are approximately 4000 varieties of potato in Peru. I’ve seen an incredible variety of corn and tomatoes, and root vegetables I’ve never seen before, on the local farmer markets. Yet some expats insist on buying only imported, expensive American brands of canned veggies… 🤷🏼‍♀️ Peruvian potatoes 👇🏼

It is long since time for us to start viewing plant domestication as the bioscience that it is. Because while the Andeans were creating potatoes, the ancient Mesoamericans were turning teosinte into corn:

And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:

These were not small, random changes, this was real concerted effort over years to turn inedible things into highly edible ones. And I’m convinced the main reason we’re reluctant to call them scientific achievements is, well, a racist one.

And it’s such a shame too, cause this was probably the most impotrant scientific effort in human history, it bought us the time to do everything else we do, to go from just trying to get enough calories every day to everything we do now, it game people the freedom to do other things with their lives, human society would not have existed as it is today without this

We need to appreciate our ancient food scientists

[image text: If I die today, / you must drink milk from the carton, wantonly! / You must shriek and scream in the shopping mall / in front of all those blind dead ghosts / and the placid, contemptuous mannequins, / and the mall gods who watch over everything / in their great bawdy underworld. / You must make a great loud racket. Such a loud fuss / to silence the birds and the sky and the rain. / You must be so crazy and free if I die today! / You must go to those cold-faced mannequins and take off their tiny shoes / and find out if mannequins have toes. / And if they do / (and I imagine they have blunt tawny nails on them) / You must find out what plastic mannequin flesh takes like. // You must kiss their shoes / Suck on them with your clumsy tongue. / And you must do this right there in front of the undead shoppers / and the ladies behind the perfume counter. // You must cry out and tell everyone, / "She is dead. She is dead." / And do what I imagined. / You must walk through the grocery store / and take juicy bites out of apples / and then put them back. / You must kiss people you hardly know with passion / so that they stumble dizzily for a moment.

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i think it's worthwhile to point out that she was crushed by a bulldozer as she stood in front of it in order to try and prevent the demoliton of palestinian houses in rafah

I wasn't gonna add to this, but like, no, I wanna add to this.

What will change for you, Whitey McWhiterson, if LandBack takes place?

Not a whole fucking lot.

You might be incentivized to switch to less-polluting modes of transportation, such as biking. Gas might be discouraged.

The environment might be prioritized.

You might become a citizen of, say, Mi'kma'ki instead of the USA.

Your kids might be taught an Indigenous language in schools.

History class would be a lot more up front.

But your day to day life? Very little will change. You're not gonna be kicked out if your house. You're not gonna be rounded up and put into a camp. You might be required to have the minimum basic decency towards the environment. It will be the Sovreign Peoples running the show.

But you, Joe Shmoe, will be left alone to live your life.

Which is more than we can say your people did for us.

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on