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Thereโs this weird incongruity where support of Palestine is something only online leftists care about and therefore itโs not worth the Democratic Party adopting into their campaigning but also support of Palestine was a big enough roadblock to lose the election and thatโs online leftistsโ faults
Iโm glad now, of all times, Texas is using its emergency alert system on whatโs really important: asking everyone in the state to hand over information about a random guy in a town over an hour away from here who caused some sort of incident at an ICE facility
We often conflate online discourse with leftism movements/action as a whole. Online left discourse - especially on corporate owned platforms - can be toxic, purity based & fractious. Itโs why I highly encourage using online for education but push for IRL organizing and coalition building.
States do not bleed. They do not cry out in pain. They do not cry or laugh. They do not make poetry or compose music or write sonnets. They do not love and they do not experience joy. Because they are legal fictions organized for the convenience of *people*. States don't have rights. People do.
The problem with the attitude of "yes genocide is bad but it's going to happen no matter what we do and demanding it stop will only make it worse, so we just have to accept it as a fact of life" that so many people have about Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Myanmar, is that no one is disposable.
I'm trying to finish the Beowulf PS3 game and it's so unrelentingly bad I just want to curl up and go back to bed, call the whole day a write off. Despite it being as linear as they come I've got a walkthrough open purely to give me an excuse to stop looking at it.
Hot take: Star Trek Voyagers Borg storylines are actually good, people just dislike them because they centered on the Borg Queen whose existence, yes, does make the Borg less interesting - but thatโs not Voyagers fault. Thatโs First Contacts. And with what it had to work with, Voyager tried stuff.
Imagine if you can, the ENTIRE weight of the GOP's US federal government dedicated to smearing you, imprisoning you, and destroying your fucking life. And for what? Their racist white nationalism political football and a malignant narcissist who cannot and will not be shown to be wrong.
Learned recently that one of my grandmother's boyfriends, who was very kind to me when I was young, was a closeted trans woman. It's sad to think she never got to live her life, but it makes me ten times as determined to die scratching and biting to make sure the next generation gets to live theirs
Some are reading this as a defense of Contrapoints. I have my opinions but this wasnโt about her. All I will say on that for now is, I disagree with her characterization of a portion of online leftist as โall of the leftโ. That is kind of the point. Anyways, to be clear, Free Palestine.
One time on twitter I was talking about the Holocaust and mentioned some shit that went down in Poland like what is mentioned below. And like, out of nowhere, a shitload of Polish people showed up just going *batshit* on me, with some of the most wild revisionist history, it was staggering.
If the IDF is still fighting Hamas after dropping more bombs on them than anyone can reasonably fathom and killing an untold number of civilians from Gaza *and* all over the world, I think either they're the worst armed forces on the planet or maybe they're just lying about their objectives.
Why would *that* be your statement on Palestine? Come on now. I try to be as diplomatic as I can but some online liberals have this idea that if they are uncomfortable by something that claims to be on their side then it's somehow not effective. It's the attitude of a person without any vision.
the next Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube in August - a BIG one about US history + settler colonialism. Thanks to all my patrons for making it possible! Please do sign up to the Patreon if you can: in-depth work like this needs crowdfunding to survive ๐ www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...
Worst part of being a passionate consumer of fiction is the fact that there will be some scene in a book, movie, comic, whatever, where a character presents a profound life lesson that alters your moral consciousness forever... and then years later the writer is outed as a moral monster of some kind
this place would have lost the clone wars and be as forgotten as Post dot app if not for sex workers and the trans community in its early days, and it has constantly told those communities to go fuck themselves from the moment it became clear that they were going to make it god damn it.
this week's post is about the basics of flood preparedness and why in order to actually create a resilient society we will need to dramatically restructure our economic and decisionmaking models. if you want flood protection, we need a revolution margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/as-the-wat...
The reason you didn't hear about happy gays in history is, yes, closeting, but also they were too busy living their lives to write about it. There's this thing in customer service where satisfied people won't put in feedback but miserable people do every time. Social media proves this out, tbh.
this guy was telling me how if the soccer team loses, they burn the city down, and if the soccer team wins, they burn the city down, and I was like โwow Paris is just like Philadelphia!โ and now this guy is asking me for travel tips for Philadelphia and heโs fuckin stoked about it lol
One more thing about Contrapoints. She acts like the Israeli response to 10/7 and the American response to 9/11 could not be stopped. They were a fait accompli. But neither 10/7 nor 9/11 happened in a vacuum, and the genocide in Gaza, like the so-called "War on Terror," is a CHOICE.
i guess it'd be good to get to a point, mentally and emotionally, where you simply no longer expect bsky to do the 'right' thing. watching them casually nuke every palestinian into the sun while letting spammy hate speech and follow farming blue wave accts flourish is a good indication of that.
Among the many stupid aspects of this is it's just a tantrum. Trump never stands by anything for more than five minutes, so no one will take this as motivation to affect any kind of change because he's an unreliable actor. So it's useless to achieve his own aims. He's just being a pissbaby.