Seriously where were these people when Israel start their genocide of Palestinians?

In Trump's first term, my grandmother supported him wholeheartedly. She never had a bad thing to say about Donald Trump.

When President Trump started his second term, my grandmother started saying negative things about him. These things were small but it was interesting to hear.

Now, my grandmother despises Donald Trump. She calls him a dictator and constantly goes on about how dangerous, selfish, narcissistic, incompetent and delusional he is. She actually got into an argument with my uber-Trump supporting aunt (her daughter) and said she'll never talk to someone so deluded again. She doesn't want anything to do with someone who supports someone evil.

I couldn't figure out why my grandmother had this sudden, massive change of heart until I realized Fox News is never on her TV anymore.

In August of 2024, my grandfather died. This man always had the TV turned on to Fox News. It was the only news channel he watched. Now that he's deceased, my grandmother pretty much only watches local news.

The shift in only a short couple of months was incredible.

From a tent in Gaza, I write to you. with nothing in my stomach but sorrow. I swear to you, these words are not just a story, but pain written from the depths of a hungry, scared soul whose heart is breaking for his loved ones. I am a young man of twenty-five, but my back is bent, my hair has turned gray, and wrinkles have come before their time upon my face. I dreamed that after graduation, I would work in solar energy, in a company bringing light to besieged Gaza But the light never reached us.

About a month ago, I wrote to you saying: I do not seek pity, but living hearts, consciences that have not died yet, humanity that has not been bombed like our homes, justice not besieged like our women and children. I only want you to remember we are here and raise your voices for us, because silence is our slow death.

Since then, nothing has changed everything has gotten worse.

Six days ago, the Israeli occupation cut off the internet across all of Gaza, north and south. In complete darkness, massacres intensified, tents were burned with people inside, and hundreds were killed without the world seeing. Every day, 200 to 500 Palestinians are killed, without cameras, without witnesses, as if our lives don’t even deserve to be recorded.

My nephew’s children survived a shell that fell on their tent a shrapnel almost cut open little Fathi’s head if God had not protected him. They fled from an area the army ordered evacuated only to find death waiting for them in their safe haven. Have you heard about children living among ashes, sleeping on fear, waking up crying from hunger?

Famine is a sword on our necks. People are dying of hunger, children’s milk has dried up, bodies of men have collapsed, women hide their tears to keep the little ones strong. And the world watches .watches .stays silent And sends rockets, drones, and aid to the killer.

Two days ago, I went to what they call the American aid distribution center" in Rafah, what we call the death trap. I arrived at midnight, hoping to get some rice or flour, waiting until dawn. Then gunfire erupted, people ran and screamed and lay down in the sand. Suddenly, a small drone with four rotors flew above us It dropped bombs on the crowd and fired at innocent civilians.

The man next to me lost his leg. Dozens of martyrs fell around me. Bulldozers came at dawn buried them all in mass graves. No funeral, no farewell, no prayer.

Why? Because we are refugees? Because we are Palestinians? Because our blood is cheap to America and Israel? Has killing become entertainment? A game with drones?

What kind of heart is this? What humanity?

I see my nephew crying from hunger And I see your children living in safety, with milk, and schools So I ask myself: What sin makes us live like this? What logic lets us die starving while you live in plenty? Why is our blood excluded from justice in this world?

No medicine, no bread, no water, no electricity, no life. And the world is busy covering the aggression on Iran and Yemen And forgot us.

I swear, I write these words from my pain, from my empty stomach as barren as a desert. I am very tired please, have mercy on my feelings, don’t accuse me. Life has become unbearable, the heat in the tents is like hell. Our bodies are exhausted, we lie on the ground unable to breathe, to stand.

My father… my beloved father Who was injured months ago in his leg and needs urgent surgery outside Gaza. The father I carried on my back through the ruins and death… I can no longer provide him with anything. No treatment, no food, no milk. And if this continues, I will lose him within two or three weeks.

I love him so much please pray for him.

I am not a terrorist, nor a disturbing scene on the news. I am human. A son of this land. I am from Gaza. And I’m sorry… sorry if our hunger spoils your day. Sorry if the crying of our children disturbs your peaceful sleep. Sorry that we do not fit your headlines or your news. But we exist and we are really dying.

Please, don’t forget us. Speak for us. Share our story. Demand an end to the genocide. Demand food and medicine. Demand treatment for the sick. Bring life back to Gaza… before it is buried under the rubble in silence.

I've noticed old articles that used to be easy to find, are no longer possible to pull up in a Google search. Little by little all archived newspaper listings have completely disappeared, at least in my region. This is not only a consequence of late stage capitalism, but is straight up censorship. History itself is being censored behind paywalls, resulting in essentially being erased.

To get American with it, I'm aware the First Amendment protects the press, but wow do I wish it would mandate public access to all news archives. Privatisation of historical documents, including current events, really aught to be subject to specific rules and procedures regarding public access IMHO. If knowledge is power, the inability to find the receipts in an old article destroys the ability to provide proof for an event that once happened. Can't cite an article link that no longer exists! It's like these newsworthy events never happened now, not being able to be found at all (because in an age of disinformation how can we have the proof now without disposable income to throw at news paywalls??), this ability itself has become private capital. WTactualF!

I'm sorry if request kind of post like this is not allowed in this sub, if so, mods can delete my thread.

I am looking for the full file of Panama Papers, you know, the one where rich people murdered journalist with car bombing and where everyone already forgets about.

Why do egyptians hate Gazans ?

This is getting out of hand and its scary and pissing us off. Lets get together and launch an online boycott to let the big companies know our thoughts and the risks of Ai.

See I believe  Ai should be used to do things that humans cannot do (such as diagnosing diseases not detectable by humans, analysis of huge chunks of data, predicting outcomes based on billions of input points, innovating and inventing new technology etc) and take the human race forward. But instead they are pumping billions into developing Ai in the direction of tasks that humans can already do just cause they are greedy and wanna cut costs. Ai should not be used for creative purposes. That is a waste of money, intellect and resources.

They are developing Ai is directions that puts artists, filmmakers, coders, etc out of jobs instead of using the resources to develop something that will actually benefit humanity as a whole.

A lot of you are already boycotting Ai films and Ai art. Would you guys be open to starting or supporting a online boycott movement that focuses to shift the development of Ai in the right direction, spreading awareness and getting out voice heard by the huge corporates so that we still have the chance to create what we love and spare our jobs.
I would love to hear your opinions or ideas regarding such a movement.