alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.
You're making more of a difference than I am. I'm not even going to upvote OP post and I'm just going to sit here and do nothing. I mean I might get up to pee in a minute.
You’re in the right. Doomerism that “both sides are just as bad” is what Republicans want people to believe. Did Biden lead an insurrection? Not that I’ve heard of. Thinking both sides are just as bad is a childish perspective.
They are bad though. On the one hand a Palestinian lost all 60 members of his family and several thousands died. On the other hand a Palestinian would have lost all 60 members of his family and several more thousands would have died. It is hard for that Palestinian to appreciate the difference and infinitely harder for his family to appreciate the difference.
Although your best option is Biden and I wouldn't say otherwise even as someone not receiving any benefits from his good internal policies, Biden still is a fascist.
He has been a practical one, by which I mean he mixes good domestic stuff with genociding halfway across the world, whereas the Orange Jello is a principled one, having done and still aiming to very bad domestic choices and genocidal fascism at both domestic and international domains.
So yeah, fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, but you still have a choice to pick the international fascist over full-time fascist.
"Fascisms is when you kill people!". Joe Biden is a lot of things that leftists do not like, neoliberal first among them. Saying he's a fascist is absolutely asinine and has no basis in reality. You're watering down terms that have clear definitions.
Right? Sure, Biden is a milquetoast, but he’s not spilling hate speech or mandating violence on minorities. Sure he’s complicit in the genocide, but there’s nothing he can really do.
He can easily dictate foreign policy and ensure his office is not using language supportive of Israel. He can openly condemn their actions. He can stop getting his Secretary of State to shield them at the UN. He can not fast track weapons to them. He can not push immigration bills that also have $14.1 billion in aid of Israel tacked onto them. And thats not even the half of it.
To act like PotUS is some powerless position in regards to US support for Israel is asinine.
Nothing at all. Just keep supporting everything Israel does, keep blocking any resolutions helping the Palestinians at the UN, keep funding the genocide. No, nothing at all he could do about any of that.
Reminds me of Matt Buchele (mattbooshell) 's video "disorienting times". Bouncing between atrocity on social media and you boss wants you to fix a typo on slide 3.
Living in ignorance is hardly healthy though. You'll only be caught flat footed when the bad shit finally catches up to you. How long that takes is a matter of luck and privilege, for some people it's sooner rather than later.
Sure, but if you can't compartmentalise the stuff that effects you from the stuff that doesn't, then it's not worth sacrificing your mental health over most of it.
This. It’s always been shit. The difference is that now, the internet is in on it. It used to be that all the TV network news would shill tons of bad news because it got more viewers than cute stories of bunnies and medical breakthroughs.
Now. The internet has caught up to that and is able to churn it out a lot more efficiently.
There are no more speed limits on highways? What does the Center for disease control have anything to do with regulating speed limits on federal /county/states/whatever highways?
Because if they're fascists they are not on opposite ends of the spectrum. The text is saying that Democrats produce fascists as well, because many Democrats enact what in regular life would be firmly right wing policies.
Because the Dems are the left wing in a bipartisan system, leftists hold the Dems to a higher standard. Likening them to fascists when they enact right wing policies against the will of the actual leftists forced to vote for them is a valid position.
There would have to be actual left wing candidates to begin with. Until then, they might be in different parties but they are firmly on the same end of the spectrum.