every US military supporting cracker "leftist" on here needs to look up the murder of filipina trans woman jennifer laude. literally nothing makes me more violent and this is what your troops are doing while they're overseas, even during peacetime!

today marks 10 years since her life was cut short and 10 years of denied justice. it has also been 4 years since her murderer was given an absolute pardon by ex-president duterte, allowing him to return to the US as a free citizen. this is not the first time that the US military has committed a crime like this in the philippines, in fact, cases like this happen quite often. there is a saying that "no US citizen has ever been convicted on philippine soil." there were already few and far protections for trans women in the philippines, but the fact that the crime was committed by a US citizen gave it another dimension.

the visiting forces agreement (VFA) grants US military personnel exceptional legal status within the philippines, and effectively shields them from any legal consequences for their crimes in the philippines. the enhanced defense cooperation agreement (EDCA) also exacerbates this by extending the stay of US military personnel as well as allowing them to build facilities on US military bases. these are systematic tools of US imperialism that implicates many of our women in areas where there are US bases, as in the case of jennifer laude.

moreover, LGBTQ+ activists in the philippines are being silenced, not only because of their resistance against patriarchal gender and sexuality norms, but for drawing clear connections between anti-imperialism and their liberation.

for us, there can be no "queer liberation" without anti-imperialism, because we are first and foremost victims of imperialism. every law, agreement, and system made to benefit the US over our own people exacerbates all the problems that we already face. the issue of LGBTQ+ liberation is not just an issue of combating patriarchy, but of combating the systems which affect all of us.

so just remember, who is your enemy, USAmerican queer? the US military or the LGBTQ+ people of the world the US military oppresses?

remember jennifer laude.

5 years now.

a brief pause from hornyposting.

white people fantasizing about being considered special or unusual in the global south and in colonized countries is actually super fucking annoying? like oh my god im so glad sticking out and being unusual in other parts of the world is so fun and novelty for you. the rest of us have to worry about being asked for papers constantly, being arrested, not being allowed to cross borders, human trafficking and slavery, etc. im so glad you guys are having fun. please shut the fuck up. i dont give a fuck if you can speak tagalog, harold. making a bunch of gotcha video content about provincial and rural people being wowed by your european ass pronouncing basic words correctly is actually incredibly grating

why are all of my language learning resources for fucking europeans trying to swipe a fucking underage wife mommy-servant maid from my home country? why do most of the free resources for language learning teach me scummy sounding phrases used by smelly "expats" taking up all the oxygen in the room? i cannot stannnnndddddd these bitches.

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this sucks so bad i need to (remembers suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) form a codependent bond with an artificial intelligence on a decades-long revenge quest who has hated me for centuries

this sucks so bad i’m going to kill (remembers suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) anaander mianaai, the lord of the radch

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While I'm Maulu-posting here's more art of him that I hadn't put on tumblr. Talita meets him and Wintle-Layliv in her 40s on jobs to improve electrical infrastructure on the Shess peninsula, something I want write a short story about at some point. He is only like... 9 years old during the book I'm drawing right now, lol.

If you tell a yankee "its never okay to kill people for the US no matter how poor you are" you can trigger secret dialogue that makes you understand why Malcolm X hated liberals the way he did

i mean its easy to understand for other reasons but refusing to woobify their "socially excusable serial murderer" makes them do their ultimate attack that does 10d12 hitler particle radiation damage

I hate that it's common to only teach about how WW2 affected Westerners and all the war crimes that Germany committed, but nobody ever talks about the atrocities that Japan did to countless asian countries. Nobody ever talks about the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, the comfort women, the death railway, and literally dozens upon dozens of other war crimes they've committed. Nobody teaches any of this in their world history classes and it's fucking glossed over all the time, and Japan never even apologise for ANY OF THIS, and some of them TO THIS DAY denied it ever happened. An estimated 30 million people died because of this and not a single "we're sorry" to be seen from them, they don't even teach it in schools.