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Aren’t they trying *not* to be sold but at risk of hostile bids?
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Aren’t they trying *not* to be sold but at risk of hostile bids?
I mean, we should still be fighting to mandate it. I don't really understand the mindset of settling for less.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I mean, we should still be fighting to mandate it. I don't really understand the mindset of settling for less.
Er, not trying to be contrary but isn’t it a likely threat to herd immunity? Do measles not need like a 90% vax rate to keep away? Won’t mutations become a risk even for the vaccinated?
Not an epidemiologist but just trying to understand.
Not an epidemiologist but just trying to understand.
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Er, not trying to be contrary but isn’t it a likely threat to herd immunity? Do measles not need like a 90% vax rate to keep away? Won’t mutations become a risk even for the vaccinated?
Not an epidemiologist but just trying to understand.
Not an epidemiologist but just trying to understand.
log off and get involved in real problems
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
log off and get involved in real problems
And no “I can just tell the Americans which one” is not a valid counter argument either bc their coordination is vital to the effort.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And no “I can just tell the Americans which one” is not a valid counter argument either bc their coordination is vital to the effort.
I’m not asking that. I’m asking not to tell Palestinian resistance which symbol to use to say “don’t wipe us out”.
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I’m not asking that. I’m asking not to tell Palestinian resistance which symbol to use to say “don’t wipe us out”.
Yea no, I’m not gonna police a symbol on the basis of Hakeem Jeffries’s race. People frequently use it instead of the flag for safety and we cannot go down the rabbit hole of determining when that is or isn’t.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yea no, I’m not gonna police a symbol on the basis of Hakeem Jeffries’s race. People frequently use it instead of the flag for safety and we cannot go down the rabbit hole of determining when that is or isn’t.
Palestinians have everything to do with this. Things don't exist in vacuums. The more you attack one group using it, the harder it becomes for it to be a uniting symbol.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Palestinians have everything to do with this. Things don't exist in vacuums. The more you attack one group using it, the harder it becomes for it to be a uniting symbol.
and please ALSO ask yourself if you sincerely believe there's been no censorship of or retaliation to the Palestinian flag that has merited use of a second symbol.
i'd love to hear you explain to a Gazan why you're coming after people who use this symbol.
i'd love to hear you explain to a Gazan why you're coming after people who use this symbol.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
and please ALSO ask yourself if you sincerely believe there's been no censorship of or retaliation to the Palestinian flag that has merited use of a second symbol.
i'd love to hear you explain to a Gazan why you're coming after people who use this symbol.
i'd love to hear you explain to a Gazan why you're coming after people who use this symbol.
please take a step back and consider the event that you're attacking and the moment in history that you're attacking it.
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
please take a step back and consider the event that you're attacking and the moment in history that you're attacking it.
Yes “playing the race card” is something racists frequently accuse people of. This makes Palestinian organizers racist, how?
Are they required to research all global history before they pick a symbol to oppose genocide with? Kind of hard when Israel keeps bombing their internet infrastructure.
Are they required to research all global history before they pick a symbol to oppose genocide with? Kind of hard when Israel keeps bombing their internet infrastructure.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Yes “playing the race card” is something racists frequently accuse people of. This makes Palestinian organizers racist, how?
Are they required to research all global history before they pick a symbol to oppose genocide with? Kind of hard when Israel keeps bombing their internet infrastructure.
Are they required to research all global history before they pick a symbol to oppose genocide with? Kind of hard when Israel keeps bombing their internet infrastructure.
Black Lives Matter use both the fist and the text flag.
If I was based in Russia and trying to bait people, I’d post like you do.
If I was based in Russia and trying to bait people, I’d post like you do.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Black Lives Matter use both the fist and the text flag.
If I was based in Russia and trying to bait people, I’d post like you do.
If I was based in Russia and trying to bait people, I’d post like you do.
Using multiple symbols is extremely common in movements.
Trans people use both the gender sign and the blue and pink flag. BLM use both the fist and the text flag. and Palestine activists use both watermelon and Gaza flag.
Trans people use both the gender sign and the blue and pink flag. BLM use both the fist and the text flag. and Palestine activists use both watermelon and Gaza flag.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Using multiple symbols is extremely common in movements.
Trans people use both the gender sign and the blue and pink flag. BLM use both the fist and the text flag. and Palestine activists use both watermelon and Gaza flag.
Trans people use both the gender sign and the blue and pink flag. BLM use both the fist and the text flag. and Palestine activists use both watermelon and Gaza flag.
No disagreement on that general point. But you are smearing anti-genocide activists — for a genocide against brown people no less — in total bad faith.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No disagreement on that general point. But you are smearing anti-genocide activists — for a genocide against brown people no less — in total bad faith.
Yes because acknowledging variety in what a symbol has been used for is the same as denying the existence of one of the historical use cases.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yes because acknowledging variety in what a symbol has been used for is the same as denying the existence of one of the historical use cases.
Whoever the fuck Layla is being a racist doesn’t change the symbol’s history in Palestine. And yes it spiked in 2023, that tends to happen when the country in question is facing a genocide.
Organizers aren’t using it for a secret second reason. Most are too young to even know that one.
Organizers aren’t using it for a secret second reason. Most are too young to even know that one.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Whoever the fuck Layla is being a racist doesn’t change the symbol’s history in Palestine. And yes it spiked in 2023, that tends to happen when the country in question is facing a genocide.
Organizers aren’t using it for a secret second reason. Most are too young to even know that one.
Organizers aren’t using it for a secret second reason. Most are too young to even know that one.
You clearly didn’t read.
![It started being used as such in response to Israeli suppression of the display of the Palestinian flag after the 1967 War, as the watermelon has the same colors as the flag: red, green,
white, and black.
[picture of watermelon symbol]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlvspkjeipy4egi3qnlbjrzq/bafkreiaock5wsjunqne62w5avureemb4lajwu7xw2454xspwoa5xj6okry@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
You clearly didn’t read.
I’m well aware my vote is my voice and that’s why I’m so fucking angry on my friends‘ behalf. Who do trans Americans have representing their voice?
If you fucks nominate Newsom they won’t have either candidate standing up for their basic dignity. Pick anyone else and quit going to bat for him.
If you fucks nominate Newsom they won’t have either candidate standing up for their basic dignity. Pick anyone else and quit going to bat for him.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I’m well aware my vote is my voice and that’s why I’m so fucking angry on my friends‘ behalf. Who do trans Americans have representing their voice?
If you fucks nominate Newsom they won’t have either candidate standing up for their basic dignity. Pick anyone else and quit going to bat for him.
If you fucks nominate Newsom they won’t have either candidate standing up for their basic dignity. Pick anyone else and quit going to bat for him.
Imagine being angrier about this headline than about Jeffries endorsing Trump’s border fascism.
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Imagine being angrier about this headline than about Jeffries endorsing Trump’s border fascism.
You’re in a mental prison.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
You’re in a mental prison.
lol no he’s in Brooklyn.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
lol no he’s in Brooklyn.