#political crap

[weedle-testaburger]

POINT AND LAUGH

[wahroh]

While kung foo fighting . . .

[tail-feathers]

My Dad and all of his friends were of this generation. All gone now.

Even the civilization they gallantly defended.

My heart grieves so.

[naradreamscape]

At this point, the DNC's true colours, and that of the US empire as a whole, are on full display. In the DNC's case, it's the essence of neoliberalism, which is that everyone has a valid place in government and representation...so long as they are supportive of the rest of the upper crust's pursuit of monetary gains and power. It's a Girl Power sticker on an oil fracking apparatus, or Raytheon bragging about how many LGBT+ employees it has.

People have been lied to that the Palestinian genocide is valid in any way - the population has been lied about to seem "uncivilized", "selfish" for not wanting to hand over their natural resources to the West, or as a culture of antisemites - in reality, they are defending themselves from self-entitled, often broken Jews enacting Manifest Destiny, who are backed by an imperialist empire that smelled oil.

Meanwhile, regular Jews such as myself are terrified that the establishment of a "home" state will mean we will one day be deported there against our wills. We are also sickened by how Palestinian people are being treated, and see it as a revolting mirror of the way our people have been treated throughout history. If this were a genuine Judaic settlement, the Arabs would be our neighbors; there would be no walls between us, and we would have bought our houses and land fairly from the ones who tended the land before us. If there were no aggressive, invasive occupation, there would be no native retaliation.

And yet, I am constantly told I, a White Ashken whose ancestors have lived in Europe and North America for centuries, am more entitled to occupied Palestinian land because the homes already there are "just Arabs". The gruesome deaths of children are supposed to be excused because "they were just going to grow up into terrorists anyway". I cannot believe the things I have seen self-identifying Jews say over the past 10 months...to meet them halfway in their arguments would be to land in blatant xenophobia.

The occupation of Palestine is not being done for "Jewish safety". It is being done to satiate the imperial industries of the USA, using a shield of profoundly Islamophobic religious extremists. At this point, everyone needs to call out the occupation. I, an actual Jew, am begging you all to feel comfortable criticizing the occupation. No one is benefiting from this, aside from bigots of many shades. The USA is committing a genocide for natural resources. Way too many of my people are trying to find personal benefit from this mass exodus.

To mi haverim: Please read more about Palestine that does not come from state propaganda or far-right publications. We should not see ourselves as being entitled to "civilize" the Middle East, because given everything we've seen the IDF filming themselves doing, does any of that seem civilized? And if you are scared to speak out, please know there are so many fellow anti-zionist Jews out there who would love to hear from you.

Goyim of America: speak out against your government. Do not fall prey to antisemitic stereotypes, but know the colony only represents a small percentage of our culture, one that is equivocal to nationalist Evangelical Christians. Criticize the colony as you would criticize any other foreign state's actions. Criticize American politicians for wasting money on genocide instead of your state and municipal systems. This won't stop until we are all united.

[tilbageidanmark]

(All the other memes I’ve made..)

[daddy4princessonly]

My fault like usual

[maricelmontes0308-blog]

Free Palestine, but DON'T FREE EVERYONE..........

Free Palestine, but don't free SYRIA

Free Palestine, but don't free LEBANON

Free Palestine, but don't free YEMEN

Free Palestine, but don't free WESTERN SAHARA

Free Palestine, but don't free WEST PAPUA

Free Palestine, but don't free IRAN

Free Palestine, but don't free KURDISTAN

Free Palestine, but don't free UYGHURISTAN/XINJIANG

Free Palestine, but don't free UKRAINE

Free Palestine, but don't free BELARUS

Free Palestine, but don't free TAIWAN

Free Palestine, but don't free CUBA

Free Palestine, but don't free VENEZUELA

Free Palestine, but don't free SOUTHERN MONGOLIA

Free Palestine, but don't free TIBET

Free Palestine, but don't free HONGKONG

Free Palestine, but don't free AFGHANISTAN

Free Palestine, but don't free CYPRUS

Free Palestine, but don't free ALL GAZANS WHO WERE AGAINST HAMAS

Free Palestine, but don't free SYRIANS AND LEBANESE WHO WERE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Free Palestine, but don't free IRANIAN PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT AGAINST IRGC

JUST FREE THE ISLAMIC STATE OF PALESTINE, BUT NOT EVERYONE 😊😊

[yourfavanxioussunshine]

[terracebatman]

Barney Sanders for President in 2024

[weedle-testaburger]

ngl even from the other side of the pond i'm so anxious about the election i feel like i could be sick. i can't imagine how bad it must be for you guys. you're in my prayers, and so is the prospect of trump getting annihilated like he fucking well deserves

[tail-feathers]

Dave is a national treasure. 😆

[naradreamscape]

The colony is apparently increasing its military budget significantly, which many of us are worried about, but that means the colony is about to have the same issue as the US where they have no money to actually care for the citizens nor infrastructure. They seem content to turn into a dead hedgehog - completely rolled up with all spikes erected, but decay on the inside. What matters most is defending those closest to the spikes

The backup reserves are close to drying up, too. While the US tends to take out loans from allied nations (i.e. Saudi Arabia, China), the colony only has the US. Nobody in the rest of the world wants to touch that poop. Once the money runs out, it runs out. The US is slowly self-destructing, but the colony is about to speedrun it

[aartoons18]

[jelliclebellsthatjelliclesring]

Made even more ironic by the fact that the English drink FAR AND AWAY more than the Irish do and yet still get to be “respectable gentlemen and ladies” and “responsible”

Again, colonial bullshit that can feck off

[tail-feathers]

This old saying remains powerful: “There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.”

[croyvenops]

Politics and A movie reccomdation

Political musings after remembering a movie.

Worth watching, made for TV film from 1975 about a rich girl turned hippy to revolutionary in that era. CW: political violence and references from the era. Also some women in their 70s underwear at points.

I haven't rewatched this movie yet and havent seen it in 18 years so the details may be muddy but there's a scene that's stuck with me: The main character is doing humanitarian work in South America where she chastised by a land owner for trying to teach his workers to read. Later she gets approached by a revolutionary that wants to have her help smuggle guns for them to fight with. She refuses but offers to get food or medicine and the guy refuses that. Tells her "Healthy, well fed men won't fight a revolution."

And I think about that a lot. I think about it when I see the rightwing and rich wanting to deny social help to anyone and everyone, keeping more for themselves and less for everyone else. I'm thinking "you're just shooting yourself in the foot. You keep them fed and healthy they'll have no reason fight against you." But I also feel more paranoid recently about online leftists decrying voting or doing protest votes as though it would do anything but let the Right take power. And I think they have the same attitude. They don't want things to get marginally better over time. They want the right to win to make life worse for everyone as a recruitment tool to foster a revolution that follows their preferred brand of communism/leftism/anarchy or what have you. And they can't have that if people are well fed and healthy.