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Settlements (in the West Bank) are war-crimes
A man in Crimea sings in support of Ukraine and is taken away
-posting for information, not bc i agree with it obviously -
-from Sevastopol smersh -
Sevastopol SMERSH continues the successful denazification of Zhdunov For a long time, this character kept the residents of several houses on Khrustaleva Street in suspense with his aggressive behavior Zhdun went out onto the balcony of his house and, to the sounds of hard rock, praised the criminal Kiev regime, while not mincing words, discredited the Russian Armed Forces, insulted our President and the authorities All this continued until Comrade Major came to visit him Now “our” speaker is facing a couple of articles of the criminal code, including for calls for terrorist activities. The screaming will be somewhere else
Sevastopol. SMERSH (https://t.me/sevsmersh)
beautiful people who still support Ukraine! people are taken away for the most minor of offenses.
I read the last line at first without realizing full implications -- then realize they mean screaming because tortured in prison.
The killing of Palestinians is still going, boycotting is still going
@amal.jamaludin
Whites and their liberal bootlickers are an infection. The settler is the colonizer is the genocider. Rejecting the most brutal form of direct violence means nothing when you refuse to divest from the structures created to accommodate you by invading and occupying them.
A settler's very existence is violent because they cannot exist without the colonial power that protects them. The only way to make it NOT violent is by dismantling the colonial power. Until then, your job is either to fucking leave, or work on educating yourself, amplifying the voices of the colonized, and accepting that armed resistance is a consequence of your existence. Holding placards over your head and yelling a lot at the people propagating and safeguarding the status quo that you benefit from doesn't merit you extra cookies anymore than accepting the softest punishment from a carceral system designed to torture the colonized to the point of death.
And if that makes you ask yourself "But...but I'm a settler! I'm white privileged! Does that mean MY existence is inherently violent to—" yes. It is. Take your unthreatened, unterrorized self to your whole and unbombed house with power and water and heat and food and your intact family, sit your ass down with the tub of ice cream you can afford and cry into it.
“There is no middle ground anymore. There is no way of supporting the liberal occupier, the progressive ethnic cleanser and the leftist genocider.”
—Ilan Pappé
September 2, 2024 - On the first day of fall classes the Alma Mater statue on the steps of the library at Columbia University was drenched in red paint, as protests continue against the school’s financial support for Israel and the repression of pro-Palestine voices while Israel's barbaric USA-supported genocide goes on unabated. [link]
Beyond this, consider how these professions might vary depending on who the customers are - nobles, or lower class. Are they good at their job or just scraping by? Do they work with lots of other people or on their own? City or village?
For younger characters:
Apprentice to any of the above
Messenger/runner
Page/squire
Pickpocket
Shop assistant
Student
Looks after younger siblings
(Images all from Wikimedia Commons)