I am going to keep it a buck. I am honestly surprised that liberals are actually trying to harm reduction logic a genocide. And not even the slow type of genocide that black people and Indigenous Americans are experiencing. Like a straight up, “we put a bunch of brown or ethnic people in a box and are giving someone the tools to light that motherfucker on fire” genocide. Not the type of genocide where it’s backed by a bunch of wealthy American entrepreneurs or the genocide that the state indirectly causes by consequence. No, it’s a simple fucking, “we are actively arming an ethnostate whose stated purpose is to wipe out a people and take their land” genocide. I joked about it at first and then there is a swath of white or privileged liberals who are like rationalizing it like wait, you aren’t meming? You’re seriously sliding down that slippery slope? My brother and sister in Satanael, what’s the point of keeping fascism at bay if the current ideology is blatantly aiding and abetting in genocide and ethnic cleansing?
And I’m serious. Call me naive but it’s straight up in your face, people. It’s not a genocide you aren’t aware of. It’s not a genocide that’s repressed by media. It’s not a genocide where you don’t see the before and after destruction. It’s the genocide that you see most of your politicians that you went to bat for unconsciously support. It’s the genocide where it could be stopped by the person whose in office because of your efforts but he is blithely supporting unconditionally. There have been several protests at his fucking doorstep. Businesses have been boycotted. Cities have called for a ceasefire. The motherfucking ICJ said y’all are probably doing a genocide so please stop killing Palestinians and they said we are going to dress as doctors and nurses and kill Palestinians who are paralyzed on top of killing 500 more Palestinians in response.
And y’all are trying to Vote Blue No Matter Who that shit? At this point, I can’t jive with y’all. No I can’t. Because I know that if push comes to shove, y’all about shit. Everything is this political game of chess and oppressed people and their struggles are your pawns. Fucking heartless.
It’s been almost a year since I wrote this and my sentiments have been exponentially increased.
All I have said and all I have ever said that you equivocated on genocide. You moved right on genocide. Somewhere along the line, you are okay with this. Project 2025 be damned, but a lot of you have not even flinched. This is just acceptable to you all now.
Okay.
So I don’t do purity politics. I am an anarchist. There is no person anyone can elect that I would have faith in to act in my best interest. They are not going to protect me from harmful laws. In fact, they will proudly legislate and bolster said harmful laws. I don’t trust them to propose bills that I support, amend them, or anything. Why? Because they aren’t you and I. That’s all I’m going to say. Have fun holding these people accountable after you elect them.
Oh look, photos of a massacre of Iraqis done by US Marines just got released just in time for Kamala to get endorsed by the man who helped create ISIS.
What alternative are you proposing? Seriously, what do you think these people could have done? Do you think that there is any way for them to convince the President to change his mind? What should they do instead of harm reduction?
There is not enough political will or ability in most of these people to even vote for anything in the sham elections much less do something more useful.
I was about to let this fly because honestly, I am sick of it.
What alternative am I proposing?
First, I am not your fucking organizer. I keep saying this but if you need me to be your activist and guide, my going rate is 8k a month and I expect 4k upfront. Straight cash.
Second, never in this thread have I suggested doing anything. In fact, my main criticism of do nothing liberals who love strapping this idea that you are helpless is to merely look at how far you compromised. In 2020, you lied to yourselves and said you would push Biden left. I’ve always been critical of that because I know Joe and that motherfucker does not change towards the left. That asshole becomes more conservative. For 60 years! But you all were so sure, and you went back to brunch. But I digress. My point has always been how far you changed to appease the Democratic Party. Where is the redline for you because that motherfucker seems to moved to a completely different meta planar reality. Genocide? That’s no longer your line anymore and that should fucking horrify you. It would horrify me if me from four years ago saw me in the present stumping for a campaign built on eradicating people of Palestinian descent because somehow I convinced myself that the other option was somehow worse.
You interrogate me not because you truly seek resolve, but because you don’t like what the mirror is reflecting back at you when you look at it. So you want to shatter it. Feel validated that you are making a moral judgement and I am just some criterion on the internet who doesn’t know what he is talking about. Sure.
I am not here to tell you what’s right or wrong because such value assessments are irrelevant in the face of a reality where a party made it a point to be insistently blithe and feign obviousness towards a genocide that they are actively aiding and abetting. The moral depravity of feigning ignorance of it all or just throwing your hands up because ‘what can you do’ apathy is already a bit underwhelming enough. So no judgement here, I am going to end this monologue with a crude, “shut the fuck up” and a definitive “figure it out yourself.”
You have assumed that I am a liberal and that I support the Democrats
While this is a sensible assumption to make, it is not correct.
I drew the line long before genocide
I never thought that Biden (or any other important democrat) was anything more than a corporate interest meat puppet
I understand your frustration
I’m just saying that the liberals won’t do anything else because they barely even manage to do this pathetic excuse of participation. A large protest that blocks important parts of the government is far more useful at making change happen than any vote.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not happen because a democrat president was “pushed left” and the Palestinian genocide won’t end because of that either.
You are correct.