Araali Anthony 🦉

I turn 37 on Sunday Here's 23 random things I wish I'd known back when I was 27 👇🏾

1)Weaponized tribalism. 2)Living in a thinly veiled autocratic vassal state to imperial interests in the region. Essential services commodified leaving us to compete & not cooperate to live and coping in all manner of unhealthy ways we mistake for happiness. 3)Memed politics.

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

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The only reason I haven't told my mother I actually wouldn't mind an arranged marriage is because our priorities are different. She'll go and look for a God-fearing woman, while I'm looking for a woman that God fears.

This is the surveillance state indoctrinating civilians into spying on everyone around them without their knowledge and consent. This is how fascism becomes normalised by dressing it up as content to be monetized for the benefit of few to the determinement of the majority.

I think karma doesn’t exist and it's just a comforting myth we cling to because the thought of living in a world where cruelty goes unpunished and virtue goes unnoticed is too unbearable for most to sit with. A lie we tell ourselves to avoid the gut punch reality that some

used to say I was a "people person" now I'm realizing I'm a "person person". People as a collective are exhausting & I struggle. I like individuals in the sense that that's a person, layered and complex and unique, someone to be experienced and understood.

Don’t be coming into my house and causing big spikes of cortisol

Most of us bought the lie that the collective struggle for emancipation from totalitarian structures ended. We just had to focus on pursuing our personal dreams. As things crumble, we KNOW the sacrifices & work to be done, but we see it as having too much to lose. So we wait...

devil's advocate implies the existence of heaven's prosecutor

The role of intellectuals is to challenge authority, not serve it.

Correct.

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai. But know that you will not be blameless for doing so.”

If God created everything and evil exists. Why is God regarded as "all good"?

there is no record of this photo prior to 2024 so it's safe to assume that this is AI. while this may seem harmless, the use of AI to establish false histories is indeed very dangerous. we are living in the age of misinformation.

51 being divisible by 17 is disgusting

No, but when you read the Old Testament laws you can really tell why God had to die on the cross. This abandonment to each other some call terror, a few recognize as freedom and most still cling to the dream of yet another return; unable to accept that "it is finished ".