Beetle [hy/hym]

Humans can already do this by themselves, we’re just learned from a young age to ignore those signs.

Engage in popular boycott movements like BDS

Hexbear loves to hate on Eurovision but I used to love watching it for the spectacle and the incredible staging. It’s cool to see what a small artists would do if they suddenly had almost limitless resources for their staging. Of course there’s a lot of professional teams working on it as well and not all artists have the creative freedom to make those decisions but the ones that do are why I used to watch it.

When I learned that probably the biggest reason why it still exists and why it’s so well funded is because it’s a very effective campaign to normalise Israel I had to stop watching. The special treatment Israel now gets at Eurovision (they get to have armed guards that harass all other performers and even got one banned from playing last year) really shows how important Israel and Eurovision are for each other.

This year they even banned all flags including gay pride flags because they needed an excuse to ban Palestinian flags.

The pretences keep the people satisfied. All over Europe there are daily protests and activists who engage in direct action. It’s been really difficult for the media to keep demonising these protesters and activists because more people are starting to look through the bs. Police forces are in crisis because suppressing the protests is really hard work. Also labour unions are slowly starting to get involved and demand an end to support of Israel.

Fully openly backing Israel would put fuel to the fire and accelerate these movements. Governments are walking tight rope between backing Israel and preventing mass riots and strikes at public sectors.

In The Netherlands the tide regarding Palestine is changing a bit (slowly though). Several cities are calling the genocide by its name and pressuring the government to stop supporting Israel. Also in a few cities student encampments have been set up again and this time more universities didn’t react by immediately calling the cops and are actually doing tiny concessions. The concessions are obviously not enough and purely symbolic but it’s a noticeable difference compared to last year where they didn’t engage in any conversation and implied that the protests are purely antisemitic.

Can’t say I’d recommend the journey. It’s better to avoid being eaten by a frog.

The Iran explosion made me think of this: I’ve heard Lebanese people say the Beirut explosion is rumoured to be done by Israel, is there anything written about that possibility?

True but whenever anything happens in the us I have to stop reading the mega because it’s 90% us stories. I’m just now back after not following the mega for a while because of the tariffs.

It’s a joke because it sounds similar

40%

Profit

Yay

Not defending this asshole but the police does lie all the time

Donate to an indigenous community

It’s symbolic, those are traditional throwing vests. Students are still wearing theirs.

Paper towels? Lol

This is so funny, I love green party infighting (they all suck).