#this isn’t anything succinct im just tired of people being disappointed in world powers for not changing the world.

[sleevebuscemii]

whats so disheartening about palestine, any crisis in the middle east/the global south, is that there is no investment to care. at the hozier show i went to on friday he called on us to urge representatives for a ceasefire, citing the us involvement in ending ireland’s occupation. the UN director who resigned sees this as a failure of the UN to do their job. the world is calling on world powers to intervene. but none of that means anything when the united states the united nations any world power has no investment in saving the lives of people in sudan or the congo or yemen or afghanistan or pakistan or libya or syria and i can go on. white supremacy dictates what lives are worth living and worth SAVING even at a global scale. colonization dictates what people what countries what ethnicities will live in this world and what people/countries/ethnicities are meant to die in it. the global narrative allows for it to be wrong for the irish to suffer for ukraine to suffer for jewish people to suffer but something about palestinian children dying or sudanese families getting torn apart or families in the congo being eradicated by disease seems inevitable. its tragic and its horrible but it doesn’t ever feel wrong enough to put a real end to. its only enough to provide aid or support or humanitarian relief but a real collective response to ensure these atrocities stop completely and never repeat is never on the table is never an option is never the aim. you’re only worth saving if you’re at best an asset or at the very least not something we’ve invested in the destruction of.

this is in no way meant to be a hopeless post at all. but people need to start thinking about this differently. they need to understand the bigger picture and what colonialism does on a larger scale. you have to think about every common denominator of who is suffering and who is causing the suffering and who is in a position to do something about it. keep calling your representatives. keep protesting. keep boycotting. keep speaking out. but do not treat this as an isolated incident do Not treat this like a new occurrence in history. think about how we got here think about what it will take for real change think about Who will usher in real change.