I’ve been boycotting McDonald’s for over a year at this point because they give free meals to Israeli soldiers. I don’t understand what McDonald’s has to gain from doing this.

I would think, since it’s a massive corporation with the goal of earning as much money as possible, that it would make more sense to prioritize paying customers rather than non-paying soldiers.

And yet, despite the fact that McDonald’s has lost customers because of its support for Israel, it still continues to support Israel. What is it about Israeli soldiers that makes staying in their good graces more important to the company than earning back the trust of its customers?

Because I’m not planning on buying any more fries from McDonald’s- in spite of how mouth-wateringly delicious they are- until the company stops giving free meals to the IOF.

Same kind of logic as this:

All you "I won't vote for Kamala because of Gaza" people: HEADS UP!

You've got a wannabe dictator speaking to another wannabe dictator every fucking day to PREVENT A CEASEFIRE versus a candidate calling for a ceasefire.

Vote accordingly or I swear to gods you'll wake up one day and look back wishing you could change that one little decision.

It's been reported multiple times that Trump is out there encouraging Netanyahu to keep up the bombing while Harris and Biden are working to end it and yet some people dare to say they aren't going to try to get Harris elected and act like that won't directly result in more deaths and violence in this conflict. Shame on you.

Palestinians are literally out there right now saying Trump winning - which is what will happen if everyone doesn't get out there and vote for Harris - would be a worst case scenario for them (x). Don't you dare appropriate their struggle to try to justify your failure to do everything in your power to stop the Fascist GOP from getting into office.

Vote Blue all the way down the ballot. Lives are on the line. And if the GOP gets in you may not get a chance to vote again.

For those who don't want to read.

Trump = death to Palestine

Harris = chance of survival

I’m really hoping that the LGBT+ community will be able to save us on election day. Especially in the swing states, since they need the votes the most.

If Iran does decide to retaliate on a bigger scale, you best believe every western media will be painting it as the aggressor. Meanwhile, Israel is launching air strikes on every possible Arab country you could think of, as well as Iran. So many people are dying every second. Still no word of aid or medical supplies being permitted. Settler violence AND IOF violence has been getting so much worse in the West Bank. None of that resolution talk amounted to anything

There’s no question in my mind that Islamophobia is to blame. I believe that, ever since 9/11/2001, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden have been thought of as the face of the Middle East, Arabs, and Islam. Not that Islamophobes would care about the difference, of course- they consider the three to be a package deal.

The destruction of the Twin Towers ruined the reputation of the Middle East, Arabic people, and the religion of Islam, because the people in charge of the US government decided that the three were guilty by association with bin Laden and al-Qaeda. To this day, the association remains in the minds of those in power.

They think of the Middle East as a “bad” region, they think of Arabs as “bad” people, and they think of Islam as a “bad” religion, all because of their association with al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Making matters worse is the fact that the US is run by Christofascist politicians who consider anyone who’s not Christian to be evil.

This is utterly terrifying. If Biden doesn't change course and/or people don't realize that letting Trump become president will be SO much worse for everyone, Palestinians included, then we're getting an eternity of Trump, because he's GOING to declare himself dictator and take our elections away. I've had a panic attack every day for the last 2 months because of this. I don't know what to do.

“An eternity” of Trump? 🤨

Look, I don’t want him to establish a dictatorship any more than you do, but to say that he’ll rule “for eternity” is blatantly false.

Donald Trump is not immortal, he is an elderly man who has, at most, a few decades left to live. Now, I certainly don’t want to suffer under his tyranny for that long, but that doesn’t change the fact that a few decades is not forever.

People in positions of power, no matter how untouchable they may seem, are just as mortal as you and I. They, too, will grow old and die someday.

No one rules forever, so take solace in that knowledge.

Here’s what I don’t understand.

All that Chris Kempczinski and whoever else is in charge of McDonald’s have to do is stop giving free meals to Israeli soldiers, and/or financially supporting Israel in any other way they might be doing, and they’ll get their customers back, including myself.

Why would supporting Israel be more important to them than getting back their customers? I would think that serving meals to paying customers would take priority over serving them to non-paying soldiers.

Unless, perhaps, Mr. Kempczinski and the other execs are scared that the IOF will bomb their houses if they stop giving the soldiers their free meals.

I don’t know why the rest of this post was put in the tags instead of the actual post itself, but here are the tags.

I completely agree with everything said here, and it reminds me of this ad.

do not become immune to seeing this. "israel" and the usa and the uk are killing children.

"The Palestinian child Mustfa Abu Shalbak (16) who was killed by the occupation forces whist raiding Al Amari refugee camp." from Hisham Abu Shiqrah, 04/Mar/2024:

At this point I’ve seen enough photos and videos of Palestinian people’s corpses to make me feel like an amateur mortician. One thing I’ve noticed that’s mostly been consistent among the corpses is their jaundiced-looking skin. To me, it’s as if their skin had a set of red, green, and blue color sliders, and after they died, the red slider was turned down somewhat, making their skin look yellowish.

I wonder if my own skin will look like that after I die.

Speaking of that, do you remember when you posted this?

Do you think that’s what’s going on here? The idea of IOF soldiers killing Palestinians being “God-approved” killing? Same goes for torture and stealing and all the other crimes they’ve been allowed to get away with. It’s similar to the idea of protagonist-centered morality. As in, “it’s okay if we hurt them, but it’s not okay if they hurt us”.

What, did the IOF soldiers expect the people to calmly approach the trucks in an orderly fashion and politely request their food? After having not eaten anything for days?? They were starving, so of course they were going to mob the trucks, that’s how any starving animal, including humans, would behave. The IOF soldiers- heck, anyone else- would have done the same thing if they’d gone the same amount of time without food.

I’ve never starved before, but I do know from experience that once you get hungry enough, it becomes hard to think about anything else except eating. That gnawing feeling of emptiness in your stomach will grow harder and harder to ignore the longer you go without eating food, so I would imagine that, for the Palestinian people who’ve gone longer without food- and water- than anyone ever should, they’ve reached the point where hunger and thirst have completely taken over their minds. 😰

By that point, good manners are no longer possible. Food and water are the only things that matter. Only food and water. Politeness can only happen after the starving people’s appetites are sated.

I tried to tell that to this guy…

But he wasn’t having it. He said the two presidents are the same, I said Trump’s worse, but he didn’t care. In fact, he spent most of his time hurling insults at me and barely even tried to argue his point with me. He didn’t even care to read the evidence that you yourself provided, which he made clear in a quite vulgar fashion.

Me too.

…Me too.

What’s the name of the woman who vetoed the ceasefire, anyway? All the posts are just calling her “the US” as if she was the country itself. Obviously she’s not a country, she’s a person.

More specifically, she’s a person who’s decided to give up her morals and throw her lot in with white supremacists, perhaps in hopes that they would consider her “one of the good blacks”. Doesn’t she realize that white supremacists will never see her as an equal, regardless of how much she sucks up to them? In their eyes, a black person, or any person of color, who does their bidding is little more than a useful tool at best. But the moment she stops being useful to the white supremacists, they’ll turn their backs on her.

Maybe this video’s what’ll motivate my mom to give Elisabeth Warren a call.

Maybe.

I’ll give it a try, at least. To be honest, I think my mother has too much faith in “the system”. I don’t think she wants to believe that the IOF are as cruel as they are, because it’s too horrible to think about.

Hi, since you work for the Salvation Army, I wanted to ask you something. Do you know if there are any up-to-date news articles about the Salvation Army discriminating against LGBTQ people? One of the staff at my special ed. program told me that he donates to the Salvation Army to help people in Palestine, but people on this website are saying that the Salvation Army is anti-LGBTQ and should not be donated to.

I’d like to print out a news article about the Salvation Army’s mistreatment of LGBTQ people, but all the articles I could find are from 2019 or earlier, and I also found statements from Salvation Army spokespeople denying that they’re anti-LGBTQ. Is there anything I can do to help make my case against them stronger? I’ve never done this before so I’m kind of at a loss for what to do.

Aww, so sweet. I’m glad he gets to feed his cats. I hope he has enough food for himself, too.

Awwww, what a little cutie! I wish I could give her a hug.

This is exactly what I’m worried about. Even if the genocide in Palestine were successful (god forbid), I have no reason to believe that the IOF would stop there. They’ve already killed some people in Lebanon, so I imagine that would be their next target.

The Nazis didn’t stop at Germany. Appeasing Hitler didn’t stop him from wanting to annex more and more European countries to Germany, did it?

No, it didn’t. So why wouldn’t the IOF want to take over more countries after they’re done with Palestine? Their genocidal conquest needs to be stopped before it has the chance to spill over into other countries.

Hey, what a coincidence! I was blocked from Twitter for saying pretty much the same thing.

I’m sick of it, too, Faewitch, I’m sick of it too.

This is exactly the thing I wonder about every time I think about people in positions of power and how they run society. Thank you for putting words to it.

As I’m sure anyone reading this is already aware, Starbucks and McDonalds are the two most important brands to boycott, and there’s been news that the boycotts have been hurting their sales, so at least my decision to forego McDonald’s fries for the time being hasn’t been for nothing.

My mother and brother do like to order pizza sometimes, so I’ll let them know to boycott these three. Although Papa John’s is on this list, I didn’t see Papa Gino’s on it, and when I looked it up, the results said that it’s a Massachusetts-based pizza place, so it seems to be one of the local substitutes that Firasshams1 mentioned.

My mom doesn’t drink at Starbucks anyway, but Dunkin’ Donuts, too? Really? I guess it’s not just America that runs on Dunkin’, then. Thankfully my mom makes her own coffee with her coffeemaker.

I don’t eat candy so boycotting these is also a non-issue.

Uuuugh, whyyyyy? Why have you forsaken me, potato chips? Wait, French fries are potato chips, too, so that means we’ve been betrayed by both types of potato chips. Not cool.

Toothpaste. There are TOOTHPASTE companies sending money to Israel. All three of them. Are there even any other toothpaste companies besides these three? Wait… I just remembered Aquafresh, and I didn’t see it on this list. Does Aquafresh support Israel?

The fact that the senators are being referred to in third-person rather than as “you” implies that the caller isn’t actually talking to the senators in this script. Does that mean that, all this time, people who’ve been making posts that tell their readers to “call their representatives” were actually telling their readers to leave messages over the phone for the senators to listen to later, and not to actually have conversations with the senators?

All this time, I’ve been too nervous to call senators or representatives out of fear of them not taking me seriously and hanging up on me. Yet I could have been leaving messages for them instead?? Is that the implication here??

Ugh! I’m such an IDIOT!! Why didn’t I realize that sooner?!