#the active malice of the democrats

[eretzyisrael]

by Corey Walker

Anti-Israel activists are slamming a prominent anti-Israel group for mentioning the death of Israelis in a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.

In a lengthy statement which condemned Israel for causing “genocide, death, and destruction” in Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) also mourned “every life taken in the past year — Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese.” The group also said that “our commitment to Palestinian liberation is grounded in our belief that every human must have the right to live in safety and freedom.”

JVP, a so-called “anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy organization,” was emphatically condemned by pro-Palestinian activists for showing sympathy to the Israeli people in its official statement. Some of these commenters on social media directly compared Israeli Jews to Nazis — an antisemitic trope known as Holocaust inversion.  

“‘Every German life taken during the Auschwitz Uprising was valuable and a loss'” one commenter sarcastically posted on X/Twitter. 

“You are the Jewish voice for fascism not for peace. caring for the Nazis makes you a Nazi,” another commenter wrote on the social media platform. 

“This is a poorly crafted statement, perhaps not with [malice] but all the same,” an X user said.

“We really should really only be centering Palestinians here and not Israelis! This lessens the impact of any activism, and while I don’t think this is an intentional misstep or attempt at counterinsurgency we still have to take responsibility for our own habits!” another commenter posted.

“Your leadership is going to be hauled in front of a military tribunal when all your fellow Zionists are made to answer for their crimes,” one individual wrote.

JVP, an organization that purports to fight for “Palestinian liberation,” has positioned itself as a staunch adversary of the Jewish state. The organization;s explicit anti-Zionist stance places it among an extreme fringe within the Jewish community. 

The group argued in a recently resurfaced 2021 booklet that Jews should not write Hebrew liturgy because hearing the language would be “deeply traumatizing””to Palestinians.

JVP has repeatedly defended the Oct. 7 massacre of roughly 1,200 people in southern Israel by Hamas as a justified “resistance.” Chapters of the organization have urged other self-described “progressives” to throw their support behind  Hamas and other terrorist groups against Israel while expressing praise for terrorists such as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. JVP has also argued that the Israeli state should be dissolved, asserting that its existence actually makes Jews less safe.

Critics of the organization often point out that many JVP chapters do not possess a single person of Jewish faith. The organization does not require a Jewish person to found a chapter and has even helped orchestrate anti-Israel demonstrations in front of synagogues.

[jaythelay]

I'm drunk, probably blocked by most here and that's fine I imagine I'm alot to deal with, but I really think this is something any leftist needs to hear:

Lose your Innocence.

The world does not play fair, nor does it reward it. The world is not like Bernie Sanders or Tim Walz, the world works, presently, upon rules that dictate the strong-minded do nothing as to not oppose their own fears or morals, while the weak-minded do as they please.

The world is going to take and it will grin, you will never know if they're sincere in their justified outward appearance, but it doesn't matter, what matters is you were wronged, and they will get away with it.

The issue is not that something "wrong" happened, it's that it had No Purpose. That is what stops you, you know there's a purpose, and yet so many times you've seen it without. Without ever knowing if it was ignorance or malice, you never try it yourself.

The truth of the matter is always and has always been, that you were too innocent to strike back, to strike first, or to strike too hard.

Leftists need to genuinely? Start being what republicans describe them as, they need to be "the deep state" they need to be ridiculously anarchistic, socialists, not just push for livable wages but thriving, really just shove that shit down people's throats.

They need to start breaking shit and saying mean words.

As is, your innocence holds you back from ever throwing a punch, you feel as though it's meaningless to do so in the first place, but the fact is, Republicans Have No Reason, for what they do other than a Larp, it's Fun to them, they find Fun in Killing or Maiming Innocence.

You don't need to do that. You need a purpose behind it, one that isn't that. Call them faggots, call them absolute larpers, *** them on twitter, do it all man. Because they just proved there Is No Order, No Purpose, and most importantly, No Point in anything.

If they want this kind've world, you gotta toughen the fuck up, and break some fucking teeth (metaphorically, of course.) and do shit you've seen as wrong for so fucking long, because it Will happen to someone you care about otherwise. Republicans don't experience their own bullshit, bring it to them, because everyone pretends the left does anyways, you might as fucking well now.

tl;dr democrats/leftists aren't cool, they kick you out for making shitty jokes instead of making shitty jokes back. They don't have anything cool like my faboribe electric man elgon mufks! They don't even really say anything and when they do, it's some boring politics about another country and that pisses me off because I still can't pay off this thing, or this costs more and now that I'm politically active I'm paying attention to solely what the cool people say because I'm cool.

Leftists don't have dumb content or humor, they don't get stupid, and that, is why they don't understand the dumb fun of republicans. On top of this, they're also too weak to throw any punch socially and instead focus on critique.

To put it simpler, to the wider public, unfortunately and this is a bullet to the fuckin' heart, the Left's HBomberGuys vs R's Keemstars? Keemstar fuckin' Wins. Figure out why.

[emilyrox]

Can anyone give some guidance on how I should proceed with voting in the US Presidential election nexy year? I just realized we are in a huge predicament.

I don't wanna vote for Trump (or any Republican) because they are against basic human rights in our own country and want to get rid of abortion access, lgbtq+ rights, and basically any human right you can think of. From what I've seen I also don't believe they'd call for a ceasefire in Gaza. (I know the Democrats are currently funding the genocide but I've seen no Republicans say they'd call a ceasefire. Their silence is just as loud).

I don't wanna vote for Biden because he is currently actively funding the genocide in Palestine and the current government is giving the Israeli government billions of dollars to bomb Gaza while also claiming that we can't afford to wipe student debt or provide free healthcare in our own country. This isn't mere hypocrisy. It's outright malice.

The other democratic candidates from what I've seen also don't seem to be interested in calling for an immediate ceasefire so I don't really wanna vote for them either.

I would vote for a 3rd party but both the left and the right say that voting for a 3rd party is basically throwing away your vote (though imo that is a self-fulfilling prophecy; 'voting 3rd party is throwing away your vote. they never win' > they don't vote 3rd party > the 3rd party candidate doesn't win and either the democrats or republicans win > 'this is why voting 3rd party is throwing away your vote. they never win.' > repeat). I also don't know if the 3rd party candidates would call for a ceasefire.

So...any advice?

(I'm not accepting 'just don't vote' as advice).

[beesandwasps]

As with 9/11, the reason we’re supposed to be so shocked and angry about the attack on Israel is because the victims of western violence aren’t supposed to be able to hit back.

Americans hold guilt for their foreign policy, but in recent decades, the overwhelming majority of Americans have very little idea of what their own country’s foreign policy is doing around the world. That doesn’t eliminate their guilt, but if you talk with most of those ignorant Americans you will find that they don’t have any significant malice against the people being harmed — they have no clue that the harm has been happening, that it continues under Democrats and Republicans alike, that the genial smiling figures of Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden could possibly be deliberately harming people overseas. (Trump, of course, was not genial, was actively vicious in fact, but he’s an outlier — he also got less than half the popular vote in an election with significantly less than ⅔ turnout, so he doesn’t have and never had majority support from the population.) The US’s geographical isolation helps keep this ignorance going — it’s much easier for a US citizen to go without (socially) meeting a refugee than it is for nearly anybody else in the world. Thanks to carefully orchestrated avoidance in media and teaching materials, Joe Shmoe who worked in the World Trade Center and died there was probably not aware of, say, the half-million children estimated to have been killed by the US embargo of Iraq, or the US’s role in the overthrow of the democratic government of Iran and installation of a notoriously bloodthirsty and repressive puppet dictator. (It seems incredible, but it’s true — Americans mostly don’t know about these things.) If most of them had a vague sense that the US hadn’t been “nice”, that was the extent of their understanding, and in general they didn’t bear any actual malice towards the mideast — had they been asked, most of them would not have been able to give any reasons why people outside the US might hate it. That doesn’t make them innocent, but it does make them somewhat sympathetic.

Israelis, on the other hand, cannot possibly reach maturity without being aware of the treatment of Palestinians. Their political figures and public discourse talk about it, and the overwhelming majority of them are required to join the IDF, which — among other things — serves as guards for the open-air concentration camps in which the Palestinians live. Even the best-intentioned Israelis, the minority who are vocally against the whole thing, can’t live without participating in the systems which directly dehumanize and actively harm Palestinians. I therefore have strictly limited sympathy with the “innocent victims” of Hamas.

But in both cases, my sympathy for the direct victims takes the form of: yeah, okay, it’s sad that you, personally, had to pay the price for your country’s ongoing ridiculously evil policies. But this was not really a surprise, any more than an earthquake in California or a hurricane in Florida is a surprise. And unlike those natural disasters, your country’s government has chosen to create the conditions for this attack, and at least in theory you have a say in that government. Complain to them about your misfortune; it didn’t have to happen and they made something like this inevitable.

And, of course, in both cases the actual reaction is massive violence instead of concessions, and a refusal to learn a thing or try to understand the opposition in any meaningful way, because that would be an admission of guilt.

[softersinned-arc]

A reminder that Connor Roy was interested in politics at a very young age!

"That's the one who announced his campaign by inviting the government to arrest him, right?" (They melt into each other the way they always do, Astoria's hands on Baldwin's shoulders sliding down to rest against his chest while she leans forward to read over his shoulder.)

"His own family is endorsing an actual fascist over him." (Diana. New to the table. Here for the holiday. Trying not to talk about the elopement while Matthew drinks her coffee.) "I mean, that's got to say something about him."

"Besides that he's—" (Matthew is trying to be delicate, in a way he rarely is, no doubt for his new bride's benefit.) "—odd?"

"I believe the word you're looking for is insane." (Stasia, from across the dining room, peering out the window at a neighbor walking a new dog.)

"Family should support family even if they're insane." (Philippe, disapproving, in a way only Philippe can be.)

"Would you endorse me if I ran for president?" (Freyja, sitting on the table rather than at the table.)

(Verin, shoving her sister's leg with enough force to nearly send her toppling over:) "Fuck, no."

"Bitch." (Said without heat.)

"Fuckwit." (Said without malice.)

"Should we be getting involved at all? Making a donation?" (Matthew pretends he cares about the business, sometimes.)

"Why would our endorsement matter?" (Verin, scathing.) "We're not American."

"And we're forgetting the part where he's insane." (Stasia, given up on trying to get a better glimpse of the dog.)

"Given how Americans handle their own elections, perhaps they could use a better influence." (Ysabeau, dry, sipping her espresso.)

(Baldwin presses a kiss to his wife's wrist before allowing her to release him. Once she's sitting he's tugging her chair closer.) "I think that was the justification for inviting Russian—"

"—intervention?" (Philippe, amused, in a way only Philippe can be.)

"—sabotage?" (Diana, friendly neighborhood American.)

(Astoria leans into her husband again.) "We should look into making some discreet donations to whoever the Democratic nominee is."

"The liberals in that country are as bad as the conservatives." (Ysabeau's distinctly French disdain grows ever stronger. This may be aimed at the friendly neighborhood American, who is certainly too clever to rise to the bait.)

"Sure." (Scathing, dripping with venom: the friendly neighborhood American is neither too clever or all that friendly. Freyja suddenly looks interested in her new sister-in-law for the first time since being introduced.) "One party is actively trying to destroy any hint of human rights while the other is spineless and ineffective, but they're the same."

"Liberals care about the corporate bottom line as much as conservatives." (Verin sneaks a glance at Baldwin, forever prepared for their competitions, determined to win an endorsement of her own.) "Astoria might have a point."

"Practically speaking, our options are to hope for the best and then make a public statement on valuing freedom of the press in our American chapters when we've done nothing to protect it, or to get involved quietly enough that it doesn't draw too much attention, but loudly enough that we can prove it." (Astoria offers Verin a rare smile. She does have a point, thank you very much.)

"Can we go one meal without talking about the business?" (Is Matthew just sore that nobody's paying much attention to him?)

"Any blow to the Roys is worth pursuing." (Baldwin does what must be done: ignores his brother.)

"I don't see how you expect Mum or Verin or Astoria to girlboss under those conditions." (Freyja, bored again.) "And during Women's History Month, too. I thought you were a feminist, Matt."

"Text Alain. Have him look into our options. Find a liberal candidate who's friendly to businesses." (Philippe makes a valiant effort to put an end to it.)

"Has Connor Roy actually come out with a platform?" (Diana makes a valiant effort to get something useful out of the conversation.)

"Not being a fascist simply isn't enough?" (Ysabeau, still disdainful.)

"Mum, I don't see how you expect Diana to girlboss under these conditions." (Freyja, grinning.)

(Astoria catches Baldwin's hand in her own, raises a coffee cup with her other hand, inclines her head towards Diana.) "Welcome to the family."

[aquietwhyme]

In response to what is perhaps the largest protest movement in human history, the black lives matter movement, which themselves were organized in response to police violence and police rioting, Democratic US president Biden's main substantiative policy has been to "increase funding for the police absolutely, fund them more." It's not surprising coming from one of the originators of the '90s crime bill that emboldened the violence that BLM is protesting, but it's crazy and disheartening for me to see that so many active Democrats spend all their time blaming Republicans for everything and attacking anybody who criticizes our right wing government from the left.

Given the causes and ideology that these Democrats claim to espouse, and given the types of things they criticize Republicans for, you'd think they'd spend a little more time getting the plank out of their own eye, or at least acknowledging to themselves and their peers that the Democrats are part of the problem.

Then again, since a lot of these war crime-loving, racial oppression-enabling Democrats use the exact same rhetorical tactics, the exact same personal attacks and accusations of dishonesty and malice as the Republicans they claim to despise use, nobody should be surprised that they struggle with the concept that a whole lot of people dislike both parties without thinking they are the same or equally bad.

The slave owners that didn't beat and rape their slaves were on balance better than the ones who did as people and moral actors, but in the end they were the ones providing rhetorical cover for the institution itself and they were still slavers besides. So it is with the Democrats who claim to oppose the creeping slide into fascism while helping to create the material conditions that enable it to exist. Are they as bad as the fascists GOP itself? Of course not. Is their cowardice and support of institutions like US police forces part of the problem? Absolutely.

[mercurymusing]

This is a valid critique of misapplication of a co-opted term, but I think it misses the mark on why.

Harm reduction is individualized and what works for one individual may harm another: True!

Voting for Harris will help some and harm others: ehhh

This is a situation with four real options and two real outcomes.

Actions available to the average voter at this stage of the election:

Vote for Harris.

Vote for Trump.

Abstain.

Vote for another candidate.

Possible outcomes:

Harris wins.

Trump wins.

Who is going to suffer more under Harris than under Trump? Domestically or internationally?

Pick an issue and an impacted population, and Harris maintains baseline US self interest at worst. Trump projects active malice.

Voting for Harris is the only action that makes it more likely she'll win.

Abstention or third-party voting represent a fantasy that Dems will see less than perfect results and change course in a positive way. This is extremely unlikely. What third party candidates exist that represent ideologies less harmful than Harris? The libertarian? Jill Stein? You expect either of them to succeed? You expect the democrats to look at diverted votes and think "we should be more like them" in a way you'll like? Do you expect either major party to look at low vote turn out and think "the way to secure more votes for my party next time is to move away from the right"?

Harm reduction is a bad term for what's happening, because it doesn't represent an individualistic action that may help some and hurt others.

This isn't "my situation requires that I do something which would be unnecessarily harmful to anyone else because the alternative is worse for me". This is "I'm very sick and don't have the medication I need. But I have some ibuprofen, which will reduce the fever enough that I don't die outright in the next four hours." Constantly swallowing ibuprofen will destroy your liver, but it will keep you going stable enough to find something better, and it might hurt a little less in the meantime.

i hate hate hate that the term harm reduction has left addiction support circles because applying it to political candidates is just so massively misunderstanding what harm reduction is and that it is supposed to be individualized. what reduces harm for one person might be actively harmful to another, so saying shit like "voting for kamala is harm reduction" is just like. harm reduction for who? because it will reduce harm for a select few, while damaging the rest of us. idk where im going with this but its just so annoying that everyone misuses harm reduction en masse while real harm reductionist tactics would make them scream and throw up

[neoludite]

A.I. Job Crash

The following media is a political commentary protected under the First amendment of the Bill of Rights. It exercises Freedom of Speech and/or Freedom of the Press to make a point and ask the government to protect the population of the United States of America.

This work is intended for widespread distribution. Make copies and spread them further.

The following is an attempt to illustrate a growing problem in the economy. It is a request to the government to address the problem before it has a chance to get out of hand.

This whole work is an attempt to solve a problem before people get hurt. To fix things before violence happens. To use nonviolent means to resolve a problem.

Please share this message to help find a democratic solution.

Spread the message. Copy this message and repeat it elsewhere. Get the story out there, start petitions to the congressmen and congresswomen in your state. Tell the government to get on the job of instilling regulation early rather than after a new recession, or worse, an economic depression sets in.

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[example story]Hopeful and curious researcher

This Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence research could save lives! It could identify tumors for cancer treatment, break down protein folds to understand viruses, and help make workplaces safer. Wouldn’t it be wonderful?

Greedy corporations

I want to save more money, cut corners in production so I can funnel more money directly into my profits for me and the stockholders.

Well, what about this ‘deep learning’ AI research stuff? It looks like it is making serious headway. If we funnel some money into it now, we could soon replace our workforce with AI.

Yeah, yeah. A machine that works all day and all night, never takes vacations, and does not need employee benefits? We could save so much money and not have to deal with employees again!

Common Workforce

What? You want to get rid of us? How can we pay for food and shelter then?

How can we get new jobs, if all the jobs are filled or replaced by computers?

[/example story]

The story above is not a hypothetical situation. There are corporations that are thinking along those lines. They are planning to use AI research to do away with potentially large parts of their workforce.

The corporations, driven by greed, are actively trying to cut costs. Reducing their workforce cuts costs, and they are not looking any further than that.

What they are not thinking about, is that if people do not have jobs, then they do not have money to participate in the economy with, cannot buy things, and thus the economy does not flow.

Advanced computers are not evil. It is the reckless and greedy plans of the corporations that would make the tech damaging.

The problems start with their plans that would fire millions of people from their jobs.

Since the industrial revolution, wealthy corporate leaders have repeatedly tried to maximize profit by sacrificing quality and engaging in dishonest business practices. Lead paint, using leaf litter in early mattresses for stuffing, and pollution on massive scales are all parts of their greed. Hurting employees to make a bit of extra cash is just another aspect of this.

But, just as history shows us that they will disregard our needs in the name of greed, so does it show a few tools we can use to fight back. In particular, many of those practices are curtailed by government regulations. It is time to push back before things go bad.

We are on the edge of a crisis. Now, what is a crisis?

For the purposes of this message, a crisis is a problem that can cause the collapse of cities, bring down government, or severely harm the lives of at least a thousand people. I’m sure that there is a government definition somewhere in the bureaucracy, but this is the definition I am using.

It is not necessary for genuine malice to fuel their actions. When you get a dozen people in a room, none of whom are lower or middle class, and have them all doing a job that focuses on maximized profits, the echo chamber of their board meetings can cause them to stop thinking with any ethics or morality or long term financial planning, and start focusing on short term profits.

They forget that to make money, a business must spend money, and the first place it is spent is on the employees.

They also are driven by ignorance. Some big executive decides to do some bold move to save money, but fires important, essential employees who were the only ones who could operate a specific and important machine or stage of the process. Surely you know of the sort of situation.

The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment that shows how a computer would not have the judgment to turn off. In the thought experiment, an optimizer computer is tasked with making paperclips, and never stops, resulting in it processing the whole planet into paperclips. This is not particularly realistic, as it would require that the computer have the means to control all levels of industry to harvest the world. However, it does illustrate that an unthinking computer has no judgment to know what it is doing or to stop. It could be stopped by unplugging the main computer or having a human authorizer who can turn it off, or tell it to produce a certain number of batches.

They already have that in some tech, such as missile silos.

If we get the message out, get people repeating it, then the big businesses might try to use propaganda to stop it. Remember this: these are people who are making millions of dollars a year, while most of us would be happy making a mere 150 thousand dollars a year. Remember that these are corporate leaders who have an attitude that borders on sociopathic when it comes to stepping on employees and customers in the name of profit.

Spread the message. Copy this message and repeat it elsewhere. Get the story out there, start petitions to the congressmen and congresswomen in your state. Tell the government to get on the job of instilling regulation early rather than after a new recession, or worse, an economic depression sets in.

Talking points to think about. Some people might be able to dig up even more information, and spread it.

For the purpose of the message, define a crisis as something that could shut down a city, topple the government, or cause tens of thousands of people to lose their jobs.

Point out that ever since the industrial revolution, the wealthy corporate people have always had a portion that would hurt and abuse the populace in order to save some money or make more for themselves. These actions had to be brought to heel by government laws and mandates. The new AI revolution in industry promises the same problem again, and it is time for the government to proactively protect the workforce, not the wealthy people bleeding their workforce dry.

Point out the bottom up view of the economy that the corporations are ignoring.

Remind that employees are the first place where businesses must spend money to make money

Remind people that minimum wage is not growing as fast as inflation, and that if people had more disposable income, they could buy things.

Point out that if millions of people lose their jobs, they will not be buying things and thus the economy crashes

point out that the job market will be overwhelmed enough to block youths from getting jobs as well

Reminder of the great depression, and how it was caused by unwise economic decisions and a food crisis.

I do not wish to sound like I am riling up a mob, but I do wish to point out a parallel to history. Three major factors contributed to setting off the Great Depression. A famine struck, reducing food supplies, a stock market crash, and from the closing stock market came a massive drop in available jobs. Now, we are looking at a current food crisis, corporate leaders pushing forward a plan that could kill a lot of jobs, and if that goes badly, a potential stock market crash.

remind the populace of how petty the greed of the corporate people is, how they are grabbing for an extra few million when they already make a ton.

Some of the wealthy corporate leaders may try to lobby against this. They might try to spread propaganda that our jobs will not be lost. Remember this: the big companies have historically gone for cheap and harmful to the consumers and workforce. They are complaining that they won’t make even more money when they are not even being taxed fully in proportion to their income.

We would love to be making a hundred and fifty thousand a year, and they are complaining that they aren’t only making ten million a year?

Point out how a company like hasbro might lay off a thousand employees, then it will be repeated by many companies.

Explain paperclip maximizer and how it could easily be stopped by simply having check points that tell the ai to shut down or request authorization for further work, with a human actually being needed to provide that check point.

Remind people that we can fire congress by voting in new congressmen that will protect us

This should not be a partisan issue. That is to say, this is not about left wing or right wing, Republican or Democrat. This is looking at history, and how wealthy business people have historically focused on greed and how we need to make the government step up to make them comply. Remember, we can fire the government by voting in different politicians if they do not listen to our concerns.

We have more important things to worry about, like the food crisis (get more money into agricultural research and development) and global warming, which makes other things worse.

List examples of good uses of AI tech

Agriculture/Horticulture advancements to help fight food crisis.

Medical research and technology

help manage and reduce energy consumption on power grid?

Shipping industry solutions?

Maybe improve water reclamation tech to reduce drain on aquafers

[disgustedorite]

Joe Biden isn't 'misled' he's actively participating in a genocide while also denying its existence. What the fuck makes you think he, or any other democrat, would do anything to prevent a genocide here? Our only hope for liberation is organizing outside of bourgeoise political parties and forming militant organizations that can defend ourselves.

Remember that:

The prevailing propaganda in the US is "everyone in the middle east is a terrorist", and that politicians are not immune to said propaganda. Most people on the left aren't either. Biden is less sheltered than any other president we've had for a while, but he's still in the politician world which is more sheltered than it should be.

A lot of people really genuinely believe that the reports of genocide are exaggerated, a lot more than you realize, not out of malice but because of the propaganda I just mentioned and due to a lack of information being disseminated.

The vast majority of information about what's ACTUALLY HAPPENING in Gaza is exclusively circulating in extremely far left spaces, much further left than any in-office US politician you can name off the top of your head. Information simply isn't being disseminated to more left-center spaces, which is why you see so many people on the left supporting Israel and being confused and upset when people even further left start screaming at them.

Have you looked at any website that's been standing with Israel? Every single one of them has framed the Palestinian perspective as seeking a "final solution" against Jews--anyone who hears that first is gonna misguidedly shut out anything to the contrary because anyone against calling it the "final solution" is an automatic Nazi from that perspective. It's similar psychology to how so many people got locked into qanon not because they wanted to believe it, but because people going against it are framed as "supporting pedophiles".

Hamas is the face of literally all of this, especially in the media. It's not the fault of the Gazans that they're stuck with Hamas as their only chance at freedom at this point, but anyone not in the aforementioned far left spaces that actually report on it doesn't understand that.

I could be proven wrong, but it's realistic that Biden just straight up doesn't realize that people are telling the truth about it being a genocide and has, with information passed to him only though the filter of media and other politicians, and like basically everyone who isn't in far left circles, been lead to believe it to be a genocide against Israeli Jews instead, especially as the face of Gazan resistance right now is, unfortunately, Hamas. Knowingly supporting a genocide is in serious conflict with all of his other actions as president thus far, and someone needs to give him a reality check. It's a really fucking bad situation, but there's not much we can do about it at this point if protests don't get through to him. But as said in a previous post, it would also be so so much worse if Trump was in office--he'd proudly call it what it is with some stupid trumpy phrasing and support his literal buddy Benjamin Netanyahu anyway, and Gaza would just be a black mark on the coast by now with nobody left to report the number of casualties, and we might not even hear about it beyond a short "oh, Gaza was wiped off the map, aah, bad" that everyone forgets about in a day once the news suppression kicks in. And a bunch of people would be dead in the US too, we'd be in a hot nuclear war involving Russia and China, and the democracy would probably be over, but that's beside the point. I'd say that's a pretty important difference.

Meanwhile, while plenty of people are justifiably angry and saying they won't vote as a personal choice, many more who are actually calling for other people to not vote at all are social media accounts that mysteriously appeared or underwent a dramatic transformation only in the past three weeks. I spotted a former mutual who was hispanic living with their Mexican immigrant family in the US mysteriously turn into a Palestinian whose entire family except for themself lives in Gaza, whose deaths they then proceeded to liveblog one by one. Many of these blogs frequently share information sourced only from tweets and fake news sites that use overly loaded language that adds nothing to the information being shared, or even directly distracts from the facts, and serves only to make the reader angrier. Does this not sound a little bit familiar?

Everything sucks right now, but do what you can to slow down the rate at which things go downhill to give as many people as possible a fighting chance. If you don't, you become an easily sniped target in a worse world that could have been prevented.

[anthonybialy]

Enchanted Implements

Prosecute the item.  Blaming guns is the default position of those dedicated to dodging responsibility.  An ulterior motive comes naturally to culprits of societal decline.  Avoiding accountability is even more popular in this era of civilization’s dismantlers ripping copper wire out of the wall to afford a breakfast sandwich.  Teetering conditions conveniently allow enemies of law enforcement to aim at guns, which is the closest their ideology comes to working.

There sure is a lot of unhinged anger during this loving era.  Malice in the air is no excuse.  Pointing out how there’s an even crankier vibe these days than usual is not to denounce anyone but the assailing fiends, as attempting to arrest circumstances is the liberal standard.  But letting the unhinged roam the streets after engineering snapping couldn’t be keeping streets safe.

Democrats have decriminalized crime.  People who hate Death Wish made it a documentary.  Spreaders of chaos opened Arkham Asylum’s gates then bitch when Batman fights back.  Comic book movies are so popular that Democrats thought we’d enjoy making them into documentaries.

Someone has to confront menacers after cops have been ordered to retreat.  Accusers of objects do everything they possibly can to excuse felons.  The only way to inflict more indignity is to mock human prey they endangered, so naturally they go all in and do such, too.  Acting as if those who harm others are victims in their perfectly twisted liberal manner is the theoretical start of peril that’s actualized outside and also in many indoor locations.

Mental illness is the only thing that’s thriving.  It’s outpacing inflation.  A sensation of feeling terrible just happened to become widespread as soon as sob stories pre-empted prosecutions.  The ruling party doesn’t help despite their ceaseless preening about coerced assistance.  If pushy guides were trying to do everything they can to exacerbate hazard, they wouldn’t have to do anything differently.

The fact professional oafs are presumably not actively inflicting maliciousness is even more mortifying in its way, as it proves they can’t carry out a plan.  Meddling that exacerbates agony isn’t as fun as advertised.

Indicting the wrong thing makes guns like every other bit of liberal claptrap.  Trying to make everyone rich by letting Grandpa Joe stick cash in greeting cards spread only poverty.  The same party that’s generous with what belongs to others deprived people of health care by giving everyone insurance.  And acting like bullet delivery systems are the problem in jurisdictions where those who dream of shooting up the Second Amendment got every bit of control they wanted hasn’t stopped bullet storms.  We need climate change.

As always with failed liberalism, the lame reply involves claiming they didn’t get to mess with us enough.  Another trillion in money taken from you should make you rich just like limiting magazine capacity will finally stop criminals who obey laws.

The economy just happens to drop a world or two when Democrats get everything they crave.  Conniving conglomerates are so opposed to Joe Biden spreading compassion that they would hurt their own sales in order to make him look like a creepy dolt.  Acting as if it’s okay to steal can only get more shameful if those who believe it also think winning elections entitles them to control society in its entirety.  

Sob stories are sure to replace missing inventory.  Supply chain issues weren’t bad enough before the handful of goods that made it to the shelves disappeared down the trousers of scoundrels.  I’m sure they’re feeding orphans and not selling what’s pilfered.  Democrats claim the latter counts as economic stimulus.

As accomplices, the ruling party doesn’t want charges pressed.  Alleged wealth-spreaders spread only poverty.  A faction that caused the pecuniary devastation wants to issue a consolation prize to those they’ve maimed.  Democrats assist their constituency by allowing them to rip off those few who’ve managed to accumulate a few material goods.

Conditions are so bad that we miss the ‘90s.  Think what you’d like about Trump apologist and enthusiastic creep Rudy Giuliani now, and I’d probably agree.  But New York City was livable for a short but beloved era because the crime boss’s boss’s personal annoyance at miscreants.

Gothamites who suddenly basked in the shadows didn’t know where lunatics were sent and refused to care.  The contrast between a city that scared off the barbarous then and let them run the streets now is as stark as the difference between the erstwhile law and order practitioner’s ability to make the boroughs safe and his icky toadying for the all-time phony who brought us Joe Biden.

Spurring more crime with slightly more direct economic shutdowns than usual is how Democrats kept you safe.  Seclusion that could’ve been designed to break people was accompanied by realizing the economy was nothing more than people creating and trading in order to get everything needed.  Biden tried to turn the switch back on, but it’s solar-powered.

Causing turmoil isn’t bad enough.  Condemning the results of  on firearms would be funny if innocent people didn’t have to spend so much time ducking.  Looking to control guns instead of behavior would be like messing with businesses then using their inept interventions as an excuse for more of them.  Wait: they do that, too.

[xtruss]

While Other Countries Rush To Rescue Their Citizens From War Zone, America Abandons Them

— Maitreya Bhakal, An Indian Journalist | May 05 2023

Illustration: Chen Xia/Global Times

The US argues that the Chinese government does not care about its people. By contrast, the argument goes, the US is governed by a "democratic," "elected" government, and thus, cares about its people. It then makes the conclusion that the US protects its citizens, wherever in the world they might be, while China doesn't care about its citizens even in China, let alone across the globe.

So goes the propaganda.

And as usual with the West, its propagandists are following the dictum of their spiritual guru, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels: Psychological Projection, the art of accusing the enemy of that which you are yourself guilty and of possessing the qualities that you possess (which perhaps helps explain why many white Westerners consider non-white races to be subhuman).

Inhuman Heings

Sudan is in the midst of a civil war. The country is spiraling into a crisis, exacerbated by decades of Western sanctions and warmongering that has kept the nation poor, not to mention Western imperialism that has devastated the region for centuries.

As expected, multiple countries are rushing to Sudan to rescue their citizens. The situation is getting worse, that even the otherwise apathetic regimes of Western countries are taking action.

But not the benevolent United States. "It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad," proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a black Haitian-American and spokesperson for the civilization that once enslaved her ancestors.

This is not surprising. If the US can commit mass murder against its own people at home, if its police forces can kill thousands of civilians on the streets (it admits to killing only 1,000 each year), if it can encourage Americans to consume deadly drugs for profits which kill them by the tens of thousands each year - it is hardly about to start caring about black US nationals stuck in a war zone.

Indeed, the racial composition of Americans in Sudan could explain US' malice. Many of them are likely to be black, and thus at the bottom of the racial hierarchy that US governance is based upon.

Chattel slavery of people of African descent is the foundation of the United States. Today, while slavery has technically been "abolished," it continues surreptitiously in a vast gulag of internment camps known as "prisons," where blacks have a disproportionate presence.

Black Americans are even overrepresented in police killings; there are few races US cops enjoy killing more. Proportionally, far more blacks died from COVID-19 than whites. Infant mortality rates are higher for black infants than for white ones, and suicide rates among children are almost twice as high.

This could perhaps help explain why the US regime displays such vindictiveness toward its nationals stuck in the war in Sudan. There are an estimated 16,000 US nationals stranded in the country, perhaps more than those of any other nation. While the regime has evacuated its embassy staff (which are more likely to be white), it won't help the remaining US citizens, many of whom are probably black. The way America's leaders see it, "the only good black person is a dead one."

Or a comprador who can be useful to the regime, like spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre.

Being Human

The rank malice of the US regime stands in stark contrast to the attitude of many other countries, including India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and even a few Western ones that have initiated rescue operations.

Yet, the example of China, the most important target of the US propaganda machine, is particularly instructive. This is the one country that Western propaganda maligns the most as being uncaring and ruthless toward its citizens.

Ironically, China has already launched active emergency operations. It has rescued more than 1,300 of its citizens so far, and has helped many other countries with their citizens as well.

This puts US propagandists in an awkward position. It is just the latest in a series of cases where the world has witnessed China's actions as the complete opposite of their portrayal in Western mouthpieces and "news" media.

The superpower, as the US regime likes to call itself, has the richest military on Earth, countless military bases and personnel spread across the planet. It can literally print its own money - but can't evacuate its own citizens from a war zone.

The difference between people's lived experience and US propaganda has never been starker. Despite the US' best efforts to malign China, China keeps making friends and partners across the globe.

No wonder that fewer and fewer people today are falling for Western anti-China propaganda. While the "authoritarian Chinese regime" continues to protect and rescue Chinese nationals wherever they may be - it seems the US will only rescue its citizens in Hollywood movies.

— The Author is an Indian Commentator who Writes about China, India, the US and Global Issues.

[shaftking]

https://zuko-always-lies.tumblr.com/post/684440940181585920/as-someone-around-for-9-11-and-the-never-forget

These have gotta be some of the dumbest takes on this website. The fact that someone actually compared 9/11 to Trump formerly being president is fucking insane. They’re too busy whining about fake fascism to not give a fuck about a national tragedy and equate it to someone being in charge whom they personally did not like. I’d love to see these terminally online weirdos discuss Biden and his communistic regime becoming an actual national threat, but that would require them to actually give a shit about America, huh. (Plus idk if you’ve seen Avatar: The Last Airbender but that part about the show makes absolutely no sense lmao).

Jesus what the fuck. 9/11 is one of the most catastrophic national tragedies in many of our lifetimes, if not US history. I’m not above some dark humor or jokes about things like 9/11 but I still have some reverence for the fact that so many people died in a way that we are still feeling the fallout from.

My parents and people around their age could tell you where they were and what they were doing at the exact moment that they saw the live broadcast of 9/11. This event sent shockwaves through the US for a reason. Even seeing the footage and firsthand accounts are difficult.

People using a tragedy or responding to it with authoritarianism doesn’t make it irrelevant or worthy of some kind of scorn in and of itself.

Like, yeah, a lot of us don’t remember it firsthand. But that doesn’t make it less of a tragedy or a horrific terrorist attack. And yeah it led to some seriously asinine shit like the Patriot Act but we’ve basically all agreed that that was one of the biggest blunders of the Bush administration. And the Iraq war was started by Bush certainly, but it was continued by Obama who was just as much of a warhawk and it only started to decline under Trump when his administration began planning for a strategic removal of troops from the area.

And on the ATLA stuff. I’m a huge fan of the show, and I’ve seen it upwards of a dozen times because I just get obsessed with media and I have to say that comparison is absolutely nonsense.

The show takes deliberate inspiration from Japanese imperialism but also makes sure to give it a broad enough message and theme that it could apply to other things as well. To say it’s implicitly about the US and the Iraq war is ridiculous.

And to compare an event that deliberately and suddenly killed thousands to Trump’s election or administration or the mismanagement and authoritarianism of officials during the Covid19 outbreak is insane. And then to accuse the republicans of “descending into fascism” while these same people advocated for medical mandates and fucking concentration camps just last year. I don’t think they lack awareness I think they’re so wrapped up in their own bullshit to realize that their lies are only working on themselves.

[sunshineandteddybears]

To the anon who saw my rb about how terf ideology goes hand in hand with alt-right white supremist ideology and thought the best response was to harass me about ‘how some left people are bigots too so you therefore must be one hahaha got you’ you’ve one, revealed that you are aware you are a bigot and are not apologetic about it nor want to change your ways but also two are trying to justify it by claiming everyone else is too ala Avenue Q’s Everybody is Racist (this is not to disagree with some of your points about say how american democrat politics do indeed do similar propaganda to try to appear as progressive and not bigot for voting points without any genuine feelings on their part. however american democrats aren’t really all that left. they’re much closer to centrist) The thing is anon, the difference between you and me is that if I do possess any kind of bigotry (of which stems from genuine ignorance rather than your malic) I’m actively trying to learn and change because I do not want to be the kind of person you are. And standing up to outright hate isn’t something I will be shamed out of like you’re hoping to achieve. Because there’s nothing shameful in what I’m doing.  Idk if you are a terf or a white supremist or both (and as we know the two go hand in hand, so might as well just say both) but you will not crush me with your boot. I hope one day you will grow and learn and become a better version of yourself. 

[the-final-sif]

The link in your post is to a deleted tumblr post. I can't see what it said, but regardless, a tumblr post is not a valid source for making a claim like this.

If you hear a claim like this, your responsibility before making a post is to go do very basic fact checking before you go and scare a bunch of people with a false claim. The senate schedule is online, you can find it with a very quick google search. The democratic senate also has a website where they put in plainer text what they're planning to do each day. You can also check the EFF who are at the forefront of pushing back on this bill and would have some sort of news on it if this were the case.

Misinformation like this is actively dangerous to actual progress, because when you lie, by negligence or malice, you scare people, you get them worked up over nothing, and once they realize they got worked up over nothing, it's far more likely that in the future they'll assume a claim like this is false and not take action when they might need to.

If you aren't sure if a claim is true or false, if you don't know how to fact check or verify it, then you shouldn't be putting it out. Leave that to activists that do know what they're doing, like the EFF, and instead focus on amplifing the voice of those activists. Not fearmongering based on a random tumblr post you didn't fact check.

TALK ABOUT KOSA LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT TODAY, ITS GETTING PUSHED THROUGH SENATE TOMORROW AND WE CANT HAVE IT PASS!!

If yoy care about Palestine, racial, lgbtq, religious, or other minorities you NEED to care about KOSA. Email your state reps and call them!! Calling will do so much more than an email. Sending both can do more.

SPEAK UP AND BE LOUD!!

SAY NO TO KOSA!!

Go through the my page and search Kosa, you'll find resources.

https://www.tumblr.com/prismarts333/747035840217300992/theyre-gonna-push-kosa-through-senate-everything?source=share

GET IT TRENDING TO GET IT ENDING!!!

[rockinmyownboat]

Gender Fluidity is the New Cancer

I'm not a republican or a Democrat. I'm a human. I love living. And life is sacred. Regardless of its sex politics religion or lifestyle

I respect being gay as a lifestyle... I support equal rights, regardless of sex. I would never, ever impose my personal views on another human. Your body. Your rights. End of story there.

There's no malice or hate in my heart for the alphebetizers. Truly. Nothing but love and compassion.

On the flip side, i believe in science. Not a left-leaning, liberal interpretation of 'science' that cares more about furthering a political agenda than the betterment of humanity.

That science should be called what it is: "political indoctrination."

No, i stand against a cultural paradigm shift that's relying too heavily on expensive and experimental medical procedures. Im also not a fan of the way the left leans hard on the surrender of individual freedom to expression, namely the first Amendment rights we have to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Its one thing to put laws in place that protect others rights. Thats what Roe v. Wade was Supposed to be. Protection of rights. Red states endangering a woman's right to choose ? Its absolutely maddening. Fuck every one of those crusty, white, Good ol boys that think men have the right to impose bodily restrictions on pregnant women.

Men shouldn't have the right to say shit in regards to reproductive policies. No vagina? Shut the dick hole in your face, bro. If you are that concerned with the sanctity of life, focus on protecting the children that are already outside of the womb. They're the ones who actually NEED protection. Im sure the parents on the news who had children attending schools that were shot up while police did NOTHING would agree. Blue lives matter more than our future voters, apparently.

Try explaining that to little Timmys parents, why Sergeant Peckerwood with his badge and gun did nothing as a psychopathic asshole pulled the trigger that murdered their kid.

But i digress. That's a whole different issue.

The left is actively trying to take away EVERYONE'S rights to expression all because of a few select members of a subgroup that yap the loudest, like the most obnoxious ankle biters in history.

Hannah Gadsby is not a comedian. She's a political chihuahua. She's got her first Amendment rights though.. she can say what she wants.

Here's my thing: Ill debate her identifying as a "comedian" far more passionately than i would debate her choice of gender labels. I don't care if she calls herself a man or woman or gender neutral

I care that she thinks she's funny. She's a fucking leftist bully without a funny bone in her body.

Shes one example of the political subset that's taking us all for a ride. And it's anything but funny.

As if The Patriot Act wasn't enough to usher in a Red police state, now the Blue is taking it a step further by exploiting a political trend for votes. It's a continuation of civil rights erosion that will eventually lead to a civil war if we're not careful.

This is about everyones freedom. Not just trans.

Its about the leftist hypocrisy of using exclusionary language to force cultural inclusion that honestly VERY few object to.

Let trans be included. Give them their own bathrooms, if they want "special rights" ... i think that's doable.

Mr. Conservative-Blue-Collar should be able to rest easier knowing his daughter isnt in the stall next to a man that moonlights as a FarSide cartoon housewife. Its a minimal compromise.

Just don't try to tell the rest of us what we can or cannot say by delegating a disagreement in political bias as "hate speech." That's good old fashioned entitlement holding hands with A Weak, poor character quality.

This is what the left has latched onto with a goddamn locked jaw.

While the Red seeks to erode womens rights while maintaing the hypocrisy of piety, the Blue erodes personal speech, putting up a face of all inclusiveness, while their biases are more than blatant to follow

Our current bipartisan political climate is convoluting the simplest of truths.

We think the opposite party is the enemy. That red is the enemy or blue is the enemy.

Newslash...

Red and blue are the enemy. Both... Heads and tails are on the same fucking coin.

I am against any and all evil machiavellians who seek control over our autonomy. George W. Bush started it by cramming The Patriot Act up our collective asses. Obama continued our civil liberty erosion far more subtlely regardless of his media-blinded idolaters. Then we had Trump who ran this country like his own personal piggy bank, while constantly waivering between bipartisan pressure... and now Biden ... he's doing a bang up job isn't he??

Seems like regardless which party has white house control, the illusion of "We the People" is crumbling fast. They labor to build a utopia that is an empty rotten dream that WE THE PEOPLE will lose in; corporate interests are key. Not indidual autonomy.

We put more trust in biased media that sells empty narratives at the behest of its pharmaceutical addiction, all to our detriment.

Look back to the opioid crisis in the 90s if you want to know what happens when normal citizens put blind trust in Doctors and other medical professionals who are paid by back door lobbyists and pharma sales reps.

We created billionaires out of Big Pharma. All we wanted were pills to fix our "personality flaws" that we derive our insecurities from.

Give us pills to fix our pain.

We got addicted to our godhood. Any time a scientist plays God, im reminded of Ian Malcolm; "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they COULD, they didn't stop to think if they SHOULD. "

Someone explain, why after the absolute clusterfuck of misinformation from Big pharma during the pandemic, why the majority of general public still trust them when they say whats good for us, despite their lengthy lists of adverse health impacts on EVERY MEDICATION coming from that industry.

Anyone?

*crickets...*

Pay attention to where most of our money in the "free world" ends up. you'll start to see exactly why the world.... and specifically America .... is so fucked up.

When you understand who profits from what resources, it sharpens the picture of what's actually happening.

We are all too distracted with the politics surrounding the issues to be able to see the real forest for all its sleeze.

Few are paying attention.

Those who are in control of the world view Humans as a resource. That's it.

We are a resource of time and labor... but most importantly.... we offer the most compelling resource of all through our buying power. Our greatest asset is what we choose to spend our labor earnings on.

Lobbyists of white collar corporations run the goddamn show now.

The politicians don't.

Ill tell you, a politician is a puppet with a corporate hand jammed up their ass making them speak and vote. They use money as lube.

There's no idealists among thieves.

When you understand that fact, you start to realize how pointless all these fucking debates about "human rights" become.

A political decision that puts human autonomy in the Hands of a corrupt medical tech system and the government, exchanging money to live is a broken system....

Am i wrong?

Maybe... but....

Lets look at this in more detail.

Reassignment surgeries are INSTANT revenue generators.

Not just for a couple months. Or a couple years. For THE REST OF THAT PERSON'S LIFE.

Read up on Elliot Pages or Caitlyn Jenners reassignments. See how involved that process was and how much money was generated by the "simple" task of switching genders ...

Now, think about the money they're generating buying monthly prescriptions of artificially generated drugs and hormones.

They HAVE to take them ...

....so their body doesn't reject the transitions....

And kill them.

Their body will literally turn on them without pharmaceuticals.

Im not even gonna get into picking apart the unnatural science of tricking ones body into believing its another gender... I mean if someone is REALLY that insecure with themselves how they're born and want to put forth the effort and money to change that, more power to them BUT....

... that is a PERSONAL CHOICE.

It SHOULD NOT BE ACTIVELY PROMOTED IN POLITICS AS A MEANS TO GAIN VOTES.

By accepting reassignment surgeries, Elliot Page and Caitlyn Jenner did not "take control of their lives" as the mainstream narrative promotes. They willingly surrendered their physical lives to a corrupt system that fooled them into thinking they were "free" through their own affluence.

Contrary to leftist narratives, Jenner and Page should be less as idealized social pioneers and more poster-children testifying to our entire country's willing blind enslavement to Big Pharma.

If they cease to take hormones and drugs prescribed, it is at the cost of their own well being.

Are they really free? Or are they simply just slaves to a new system of control?

Medical technology companies are thriving. Slavering like dogs at a meat factory with all the "nip and tucks" that are generating a fortune now.

The 1% everyone hates is laughing their way to the bank as we debate semantical politics about "human rights" on social media.

It makes me think about how the EPA recently rejected the premise that glyphosate based herbicides cause cancer.

These weed killers are widely used and professionals in the science community have proven they're poisoning both the population and environment with their use.

But the EPA says "it's all good" because they profit from Bayer/Monsanto lobbyists.

Why? Why infect people with cancer? Why is it so easy to callously dismiss an average citizen who has been diagnosed with cancer from pesticides?

Duh. Money. Its about cash. Welcome to capitalism. Create a problem that creates a disease. Amp up the price on the cure. Simple economics.

A cancer diagnosis is an instant mass income generator for oncologists, surgeons, doctors, specialists ... the list goes on .... and we all know how wealthy they get doing what they do.

Is it so farfetched to think that Bayer/Monsanto WANT people to get cancer so their backdoor profits will increase?

Seems feasible to me.... ive seen cancer in action.

My family almost went broke paying for my Pop-pops in-home care before he finally passed away, all the while in extreme pain and suffering.

......Hmmm........ connection? Where is it ...

Cancer and the "gender fluidity" angle that's now being aggressively promoted by leftists are linked DIRECTLY and ONLY by who is being paid at the end of the day.

Medical tech. And Big Pharma.

In a court of law during a trial, there is a requirement to establish a clear motivation for a crime.

When you look at Big Pharma being poised to make a fortune from all this income generation from artificial gender reassignment surgeries that are all the rage now, it should cause you to think twice about where we are headed. Cause they've got a clear motive : Money.

It's not for the mental health of a cross dresser that thought he would be better off with a vagina after seeing Caitlyn Jenner on 60 Minutes ....

Cancer is one cash cow. So EPA will let cancer causing pesticides slide. And proudly endorse its use.

Gender reassignment will become another new cash cow guaranteeing a LIFETIME of customers to medical tech giants.

The purpose of those who have power is to keep it. they'll fight to do so by establishing systems of hierarchy to keep us subjugated.

They distract us via social media with irrelevant talking points to overburden us with details.

This same leftists currently AGGRESSIVELY pushing gender fluidity are from the SAME right wing government body that makes a fortune from Bayer/Monsanto lobbyists using cancer-causing chemicals in common household weed killers.

They're one.

And we the people are income generators.

Us and them.

We're not divided by citizenry. There exist two separate entities in our cultural habitus alright. But we are divided more in terms of power and income rather than political ideology.

Just like a cancer patients have been dollar sign indicators to the medical industry, so are gender reassignment "patients." Or more accurately, "victims" as I prefer to think of them.

Cancer kills you.

Gender reassignment kills who you were born to be.

So is there a difference?

Im not seeing it.

[odinsblog]

You are right to harshly criticize Trump -- just don't do it in a way that touts one of history's worst presidents and fortifies a culture of immunity for elite monsters

This weekend, George W. Bush released a video calling for national unity during the coronavirus emergency. This video, which has gotten almost 6 million views, prompted an outpouring of praise for Bush by those who pine for his presidency in comparison to our current leader.

Donald Trump deserves a lot of criticism right now. A lot. However, there are ways to rightly and righteously criticize Trump without touting the alleged honor, decency and humanity of George Bush, who was one of the most dishonorable, indecent and inhuman presidents in the history of our country.

I actually can’t believe I even felt the need to type out that last sentence. It should be basic, innate, reflexive knowledge for those who aren’t goldfish forgetting their entire world every 15 minutes.

For all the goldfish out there -- and for those who may have been too young to remember the 2000s -- let’s review Bush’s record in light of all his talk of bipartisan unity and all the liberal longing for his supposed competence, civility and leadership.

A Presidency Defined By Deadly Lies, Incompetence & Corporate Fealty

Bush’s presidency began with a terrorist plot whose early warning signs he ignored during his vacations. Bush’s tenure ended with an economic meltdown whose fuse was lit by his administration’s financial deregulation and lax enforcement.

Between those bookends on this sordid shelf of history were other volumes of disastrous malice and epic failure — and Bush hasn’t shown any remorse about any of it.

There was Bush’s Iraq War, based on lies, which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, destabilized an entire region and cost America trillions of dollars -- a preemptive invasion that was one of the most extreme, radical, dishonest and destructive acts of any commander in chief in all 250 years since the founding of the republic. And Bush wasn’t some innocent bystander -- he actively and repeatedly lied, over and over again, and strutted around with bravado slogans like “mission accomplished” and “bring ‘em on” as the bloodshed increased.

There was Hurricane Katrina, in which Bush’s incompetence and personnel decisions effectively allowed a city to drown -- all while he defiantly praised his political appointees as the casualties mounted and the disaster worsened.

There was also Bush obediently shilling for the oil and gas industry, playing a pivotal role locking in a climate cataclysm that could kill millions.

A Divider, Not A Uniter

If all that carnage wasn’t enough, Bush insisted he was a “uniter, not a divider” -- much like he is depicting himself as a unity figure today. But Bush and his political apparatus polarized politics in the most divisive ways.

This is a guy who presided over a political party that routinely impugned the patriotism of those who spoke out against his policies.

He suggested that Democrats were not sufficiently supportive of efforts to protect Americans from violent terrorism.

He ran a scorched-earth reelection campaign that sought to stir up right-wing bigotry by demonizing gay marriage.

He evaded the military draft and yet stood atop a political machine that vilified a legitimate war hero.

His government trampled the constitution by not only creating a surveillance panopticon, but also a system of actual torture.

This is the dude who got reelected and then immediately launched a polarizing campaign to turn Social Security over to his pals on Wall Street, who had already been enriched by Bush’s own previous two regressive tax cuts.

Rehabbing Bush’s Reputation Exemplifies The Pathology That Got Us Trump

I wish Bush as president had been the compassionate voice of reason that he suddenly sounds like in the video. But he wasn’t that president. He was the opposite, and no video -- no matter how slick -- should allow him to whitewash those facts away.

We shouldn’t care more about platitudes and stagecraft than about history and reality. We shouldn’t care how many times Bush appears with Ellen or the Obamas. We shouldn’t care about his paintings or his folksiness. Simply put: we shouldn’t allow Bush nostalgia and hagiography to be a thing — and we absolutely shouldn’t respect preening pundits and celebrities who think wistfully longing for Bush is a way to brandish their bipartisan integrity, civility and anti-Trump bonafides.

The understandable loathing of Trump, and the desire to negatively compare him to other presidents, must not prompt us to flush the facts of the Bush years down the memory hole. That kind of historical revisionism and immunity is part of how we ended up with Trump in the first place.

Trump was the scion of a wealthy family who failed in business, became a reality TV clown, was accused of fleecing investors and sexual misconduct -- and won the presidency anyway.

He is, in other words, the human personification of how our society has come to never hold rich powerful elites accountable for anything. His electoral success was the culmination of a nihilistic impulse that says a political candidate’s record, actions and behavior should have nothing to do with how we perceive them, and what rewards we are willing to give them.

Praising and normalizing George W. Bush is not a way to fix that deeper societal pathology that birthed the Trump presidency. On the contrary, rehabilitating Bush exemplifies and intensifies that pathology.

Bush and Trump are both monsters. If you want to criticize Trump -- which I encourage -- find a way to do it without touting or pining for the other monster. That shouldn’t be too much to ask.

Rock the boat,

Sirota

P.S. If you want one more trip down memory lane to remember exactly who Bush really is, read this 2004 report in the Nation written by me and Judd Legum of Popular Information.

source: https://sirota.substack.com/p/george-bush-is-bad-just-stop