#see you tomorrow at the armistice day protest i guess.

[canmom]

god i had thought the 'humanitarian pause' shit was like. weird semantic doubletalk for a ceasefire of like, a couple of weeks or something, but it's not even that, it's "we will ask the fascists nicely to stop bombing evacuation routes (and nowhere else) for four hours a day"? we're beyond 'beyond parody'. the UK and US politicians across all but the most fringe parties are perfectly happy for everyone in Gaza to die, whether because they don't care or because they are too cowardly to risk anything to prevent a fucking genocide - and also think we're idiots.

meanwhile in UK news, after slowing review of asylum applications to an absolute crawl so that tens of thousands of people are stuck in indefinite legal limbo, the government is now making a big show of reinventing the prison hulk, spending a fortune to put a few hundred of those asylum-seekers onto an overcrowded and miserable boat. most likely a big show to try and hold on to its far-right base for a future comeback, since they're pretty much guaranteed to lose the next election.

well, that's grotesque - but at least when the Tories get voted out in a year, the Labour party will put an end to that right? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - no, you see, that would look bad in the Murdoch papers.

it's all just cruelty-as-spectacle all the way to the bottom. and apparently it works. what the fuck do you do!