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college: you owe me $8000 dollars right now
your cat: i'm having a $500 medical emergency right now
laundry: do me
ao3: i fucking killed myself
group project partners: how do i open Excel
funnily enough in the case of iraqis, this whole “we wuz sumerians/akkadians/babylonians” stuff is most popular amongst pro-status quo religious people who are coping with how bad things are
i’ve said this before but i’m like 100% in support of people embracing their pre-arabization and pre-islamic roots and rejecting the arab label but the thing is that they never do anything to actually do that besides “saar we are white not brown arab we even speak french”
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our dna is mostly a random mix of peninsular arab. we are not “native” to this land. which is… fine. who the hell gives a shit about your ancestry? we live in the era of citizenship. but these are the facts
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in the case of my fellow mesopotamians, it’d be cool if we actually started learning aramaic and reviving all of our unfortunately dead languages
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