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The THIRD Palestinian Hexbear Donation Drive IS NOW LIVE! Contribute now and your donations will be MATCHED 100% up to the first 1000€! - Hexbear
hexbear.netEDIT AGAIN We've raised so far $770 in donations, meaning we've already donated
a whopping $1540!!!! including the matching! You dears are wonderful, I love you
all! The Third Hexbear Palestinian Donation Drive starts NOW, as explained in my
previous post [https://hexbear.net/post/8121292]: I landed a job in March and I
will be putting forward 1000€ to match donations by other Hexbear users to a
number of Palestinian links (please, if there are other links that I’ve missed
or if any of the links isn’t valid for some reason, let me know ASAP). As it
worked the previous donation drive [https://hexbear.net/post/3970590] thanks to
dear user IgnusNilsen [u/IgnusNilsen], I have compiled a list of what I believe
to be confirmed links to Palestinian funds for donations. Simply carry out a
donation to any of the links provided and send me proof of said donation via DM
or posting a comment in this post. If you wish your username to be public in the
donation, you can also just post the proof in a reply to this post. I will try
to, as fast as possible (keep in mind that I live in west-European timezone),
post both the donation carried out by you and my matching donation to the
comments of this post together with the amount donated thus far! Let me know if
you want the donation to be anonymous and not related to your username, BY
DEFAULT I WILL MENTION THE USERNAME OF THE DONOR Thank you very much to
MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian [u/MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian], CARCOSA
[u/CARCOSA] and Soliman_Ayman [u/Soliman_Ayman] for helping me organize this
donation drive. If anyone else is capable of contributing a significant amount
to the matching donations, let me know via DM so that we can organize it too and
I’ll edit the post. Thank you to OurTimeWillCome [u/OurTimeWillCome] for keeping
us alert and reminding us when someone needs help. Feel free to crosspost this
donation post to any other federated Lemmy instance in case anyone else wants to
contribute. ACTIVE LINKS (PLEASE DM ME IF THE VALIDITY OF THE LINKS IS
QUESTIONED OR IF I MISSED ANY LINK) Mahmoud – Help me build my future and build
my family home
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-build-my-future-and-build-my-family-home?attribution_id=sl%3A50f68586-5436-4662-aa81-2f6072940a1e]
Help Karim and my family… My child needs urgent surgeries and our life is very
difficult
[https://chuffed.org/project/150674-support-umm-mohammeds-family-to-rebuild-their-future-and-to-survive-amidst-the-genocide]
Aya Mohamed - Support Mohamed’s family to reach safety outside Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mohameds-family-to-reach-safety-outside-gaza]
Ibrahim hema - Getting food for my brothers [https://gofund.me/5ec3ed09e] Save
Hala and her Children in Gaza
[https://chuffed.org/project/172805-save-hala-and-her-children-in-gaza] Help
Ehab and Abeer Rebuild Their Lives
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-abeer-and-her-family] Help Doaa
Radwan’s Family in Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-doaa-radwans-family-in-gaza] Sara and Ahmed -
Help Rebuild Sara and Ahmed's Lives After the Gaza War
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-sara-and-ahmeds-lives-after-the-gaza-war]
Support Heba and Ahmed’s Survival in Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-heba-and-ahmeds-survival-in-gaza] Help
Taghreed’s family evacuate Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-taghreeds-family-evacuate-gaza]
HelpMyBrotherADownSynd
[https://www.spotfund.com/story/50e29b37-5a06-4282-9d3d-a1376f4b13ae] Save
Raghda & Alaa’s Family from Genocide in Gaza
[https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-out-and-survive-the-genocide-in-gaza] Help my
Family Survive [https://www.gofundme.com/manage/ehfkt-help-my-family-survive]
Help the People of Gaza
[https://chuffed.org/project/171225-help-the-people-of-gaza]
Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.
Not everything, but as things stand, most things yeah. It’s what happens when you concentrate power for 100 years in one or two capitalist nations.
To you, “nuance” simply means “other nations must be even worse, look, I saw it on my western disinformation”
You’re the one who keeps dick measuring countries. I call out specific bad actions, regardless of who commits them.
It’s okay though, the west made you post that message.
I’m not “dick measuring” countries, you just systematically perform western-biased analysis of what are good and what are bad actions. For instance, you’d criticise the Chinese internet firewall or the Russian support to Assad, when the realistic alternatives are measurably worse. It seems that “lesser evil” to you guys is something that only applies to western genocidal maniacs and not to actually significantly different nations.
I wasn’t thinking about the Chinese internet firewall at the moment, but you bring up a good point - that’s a bad thing. What’s the alternative, internet freedom where china can’t police the media and public discourse?
Sucks how the west makes china censor it’s citizens.
The alternative is “free speech” dominated by western tech oligarchs in platforms subjected to intelligence monitoring and constant western interference. It’s exactly these things leading to murderers like Bolsonaro and Milei being elected.
So the state should choose what people can read and say?
Why on earth would you want that?
I really don’t get the tankie obsession with dictators and authoritarian rule. It seems so contrary to socialist ethos.
The state already chooses what people can read or say. I live in the EU, all Russian media are banned here. I fundamentally don’t disagree with banning Russian media, but it proves that this already happens, it’s just that the state sees that generally western media dominate internationally and it allows us to read it.
In the context of China, if the alternatives are between banning western media and not banning it, the success of the Chinese model and its resilience against western intelligence and propaganda make it obvious to me that the firewall was the correct choice in retrospect, however unsavory it may seem from the outside.
Since you’re so excited about being exposed to all media: do you personally go out of your way to watch Russian, Chinese, Cuban or Iranian media and engage with their citizens online, or does your “media freedom” de-facto result in you exclusively consuming western sources?
There’s the obvious language barrier, but just because something is not from the west does not mean it’s accurate.
I lived in Hong Kong for 3 years, Malaysia for 1, and live in a former Soviet country, so I am no stranger to non-western options.
I hope you give non-western media the same critical analysis that you do western media.
I’m not okay with suppression of information though. How would I even interact with Iranian citizens given that the government has blocked internet access?
Media isn’t blocked in western countries like it is in authoritarian dictatorships like china, Russia, Iran, north Korea, Cuba, etc…
Lack of popularity does not equal censorship and that’s a huge distinction. If I wanted to, I could read NK news.
Source check on the bolsonaro and milei murder convictions?
Francisco Franco was a murderer who died of old age, Trump is a murderer who will die of old age, Obama is a murdered who’s roaming the streets free, if you judge who’s a murderer according to whatever someone with a wig claims, that’s your fault not mine.