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I’m going to be real though unless you’re super young you really should have the perspective of the fact both the trump and biden presidencies were almost identical and this is not the end of the world at the end of the day if you’re an American citizen things will remain almost identical under any sitting president like we all grew up in the age of george bush who is responsible for the deaths of over a million people and it seems the average American doesn’t even remember that

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I don't know how to verbalize this properly because I'm frustrated and I've been frustrated and tired for so long.

I don't have sympathy left for white liberals putting on a song and dance of how these election results are a huge blow to their mental health and everyone checking in with everyone "don't do anything you can't undo! take care of yourself! go to therapy! make sure you talk to someone!"

And I think it's because of just how these same people saying that shit were the ones talking down to Palestinians constantly about our personal decision surrounding the vote. To them, this is the worst case scenario. Power shifting hands from one warmongering egomaniac to another. Ignoring the fact that, to us, the worst case scenario has already happened and has been happening for over a year.

I am keeping up hope because I owe it to the people in Gaza to be hopeful about the future -- their future.

But speaking on myself, I have not been okay for a long time. I am not the same person I was a year ago. I am tired and nothing in my life feels worthwhile. I don't even feel like a person anymore.

And I have to watch white people who are, as we speak, sending harassment to my friends and other Palestinians, cry and whine about how it's the end of the world.

Did you check in with your Palestinian friends (assuming you have any with the way you act) when the world ended for them?? Do you regularly check in with your Palestinian friends who don't feel normal anymore? Who haven't felt normal for a while? Who don't even remember what normal feels like?

Or are we just expected to stay strong and hold your hand when you're sad?

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i mean this in the meanest way possible, if you as a leftist, in an attempt to 'punish' the democrats, either didn't vote or voted for a third party, go fuck yourself. you chose your own self righteousness over actually doing good.

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Screaming.

Me: "You'd think these Palestinian men would stop impregnating these women while they're actively running from bombs."

Him: "It takes two to tango."

Me: "..Sir it's rape. It's marital rape. These women feel like they have to perform. There is actively NO WAY they want to be having a baby lying in dirt and blood."

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I think more people should just be ok with being single

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every day i think i've read the most depraved thing humanly imaginable published in a western media outlet and every day they prove me wrong by publishing something even worse

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Absolutely. I would argue the women are victims of the "glass cliff." When a company or government office is headed toward failure, they put a marginalized person in charge to take the blame.

I feel like Disney has been almost maliciously casting black and brown women in these live action remakes to generate public discourse, and they're leaving these poor actresses to fend for themselves almost? They don't seem to protect them in any meaningful way. The quality of the movies themselves is awful, and these women get the (extremely racist, misogynistic and misplaced) blame like it's somehow their fault that the movie is bad. Disney is pumping out garbage and it feels like they know it, but as long as the reaction is profoundly racist against the lead actresses and not actually thoughtful critiques of the quality of the writing and effects and screenplay the company itself can easily dismiss ALL dissatisfaction as infected racist discourse. Am I making sense

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"if trump is elected me and everyone i love are on the chopping block" you really aren't. you've been through 4 years of trump already and you weren't rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. You know who WAS sent to concentration camps during Trump though? Our fellow latinoamerican migrants. sent to camps set up by Obama. And who are still being sent to camps operated by Biden. And who Harris promises to send even more of us to camps.

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every progressive lib vid analyzing conservative thought nowadays is like "first, The Greatest Generation saved the world from Hitler and Stalin, then created an unspoilt paradise in the form of Suburban 1950's USA, only to be ruined when The Great Satan Regan passed the USA Is A Bad Country Law, turning the USA into a bad country for the first time."

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"On my twenty-fifth birthday, when I had lived one quarter of a century, I was nearly dead, almost catatonic, without the will to live. By my twenty-sixth birthday, I wanted more than anything to live. I was one year old, an infant born out of a corpse, still with the smell of death on her, but hating death.”

Andrea Dworkin

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“Shame must change sides.”

Gisele Pelicot is one of the bravest and most heroic people alive.

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tumblr is ground zero for something i like to call soft mens right’s activism (or uwu mra) and it makes me want to tear my hair out

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i think its pretty bold of the political realists on here who talk about harm reduction and strategic voting and so on to continuously claim "these people who hate kamala aren't GIVING you an alternative! they're not telling you what to do with x and x and x" while they also don't give US an alternative for what happens when kamala wins, continues to facilitate genocide, follows through on her campaign promises of increased surveillance, a more lethal military, and a deadlier border, and so on and so forth

admitting powerlessness outside the voting booth means you concede you have no power over kamala and you've conceded all your negotiating power in the voting booth. we've had exactly one year of seeing that the democrats will not be moved by popular protest, will adopt restrictions on free speech so authoritarian it has prompted a warning from the UN human rights office of the high commissioner (to absolutely zero reaction from either the party or its base) and will embrace dick cheney, brett mcgurk and all the architects of worst war crimes of the bush administration

you guys can talk about realism all you like, but i also think you're vastly underestimating that fascism doesn't just come from conservatives waving a red hat, it can come from neoliberals—i am speaking to you as someone with experience in this exact phenomenon who lives in your future.

there are people who care about this and there are people who don't, but i don't respect the people who pretend to care about it and then lie to you. they're lying when they tell you organizing will be easier under kamala, or that they will 'continue to fight the good fight' once she's elected, because if they were going to do that they would be doing it now, when it's most urgent, and they clearly aren't. they're campaigning for her, as she continues to endorse policies and wars so abhorrent even reagan would cringe. the only people really trying to do both are the democrats of the uncommitted campaign and its ilk, who are being continuously humiliated by this administration even as they desperately beg for any concession they can grasp. it is a questionable approach.

the difference between me and the people telling you to vote blue no matter who isn't that i necessarily care about you voting or not voting, it's that i think the people who tell you to vote are not telling you the truth about what you're voting for. they're telling you you might get some nominal policy protections for queer rights, but they won't question if this is a sufficient payoff for relinquishing the rights and lives of millions of people across the world. under trump you would be relinquishing your own rights, certainly, but i think it is insidious to be voting for 95% of trump's policies and then balk at the remaining 5% because they affect you personally, and have the audacity to claim losing your health insurance is equal to being vaporized by a bunker buster bomb in your own home (especially when MANY of you lost your health insurance under biden already).

i think it's insidious that the people telling you to vote are not telling you that your vote for some nominal policy improvements in your life is at the cost of co-signing some of the worst crimes in modern history. this is the reality of voting for kamala, this is the reality of conceding your power to her. this isn't something to be taken lightly and it's not something that can be brushed aside as strategy.

this is also in the difference between voting for someone and endorsing or campaigning for them, a dichotomy we saw with chappell roan last week, who struggled to articulate this basic principle while other celebrities warmly pinkwashed and purplewashed kamala's despicable platform. if you're voting for kamala in self-preservation, as the lesser evil, as the trolley problem agony as so many of you are claiming to, then you wouldn't exactly be shouting that choice from the rooftops. you would be angry that you're being forced to vote for genocide.

'well, what do i do?' you're going to ask. you can do whatever you feel is right. vote for kamala, don't vote for kamala, vote down the ballot, get militant about your local politics, do whatever you think is right. but when it comes to the presidential election a year ago i felt like pressuring her was the right strategy, and unlike the uncommitted movement i don't believe in bluffing. the pressure didn't work, she fucked her constituents over to continue killing children in the middle east, and she shouldn't win. this is my personal opinion, i have my justifications for it based on my own life experiences. you don't have to agree.

the question is, what do you do when you vote for her and nothing changes? what are you going to do about the genocide? what are you going to do about the regional war in the middle east? what are you going to do about people dying at your border? what solutions do the voting realists have for you now? they have nothing. just vote some more. when it's millions of your own people (when it's your entire country) on the chopping block, you'll start to see how this strategy is fucking useless.

the accelerationists (people who believe trump winning will usher in broader support for antifascist movements, empower the left and force people to confront the structural realities in place that allow fascism to breed) had a weak argument in october 2023.

but now the biden admin and the democrats themselves are the accelerationists. they're the ones ushering in extreme instability and calling that 'the birth of a new middle east' (the same rhetoric that made bush so unpopular obama could run on being the opposite of bush). and unlike the US, for us this isn't happening in slow motion with policies and protests and the erosion of civil rights, it's happening with bombs and mass displacement. MILLIONS of people are already displaced in the middle east as a direct result of biden's policies. we're already living american accelerationism. escalate to de-escalate. so when you call this 'the lesser evil,' you understand why we all think you're stupid motherfuckers voting for evil people and expecting that to lead to a better outcome despite all evidence to the contrary.

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"we're america. we can do both." this shit is so fucking bleak man. the planet is on fire, kamala's not saying shit about climate except to solemnly claim she "believes the climate crisis is real" while reiterating for the umpteenth time that she loves fracking now and we've got joe over here posting the world's dumbest bar graphs while israel's bombing campaign is emitting more co2 every two months than the annual carbon footprint of over 20 nations. these are the "good guys" who are gonna save us btw <3

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very few US veterans remotely regret their service, and the ones that do overwhelmingly do not regret it out of politics or remorse over participating in the machine, but regret over the fact that the personal trauma they endured was not "worth it" for the benefits they received. they are not upset they were a pawn for us imperialism, they're upset that they were not sufficiently rewarded enough for being said pawn.

stop trying to woobify these fucking people. you do not know US military culture if you think most people enlisted regret it for any reason other than "going to boot camp fucking sucks" or "the VA doesn't cover my medication". they are predominantly self-serving individuals who know exactly the deal they made: they directly uphold us imperialism in return for its spoils. that's it.

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it's really bleak to think about bisan winning a peabody and now an emmy tonight for her reporting like yeah with one hand the american elite are giving her awards for her fearlessness and bravery in the face of unspeakable horror and with the other hand the american elite are the ones sending the bombs and the rest of american journalism and media as a field are constantly actively manufacturing consent for the genocide that forces her to keep getting in front of a camera to say it's bisan from gaza and i'm still alive. something something liberals don't believe in politics anymore just in bearing witness to suffering, except the suffering is something they are actively creating. just horrific dystopian shit

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