Israel is simply another branch of the US military.
I feel you comrade. No words. Anger beyond belief, but equal if not greater sadness. Ashamed that so many in my circle continue to uncritically swallow US state department propaganda while in the same breath calling themselves "anticapitalist."
I have friends coming from overseas this weekend. I'm supposed to hang out, live it up, show them around town. It all feels so wrong.
I'm really grateful for this online space. Some days it's the only thing that gets me through the day.
Chinese and other Asian-Americans better start thinking about formulating an escape plan.
Amerikkka is great at incorporating the people who operated in spite of its genocidal empire into its national mythmaking. It's insidious as fuck and I hate it here.
Same energy as holding a BLM and ThinBlueLine flag at the same time.
We should just start calling liberals "drones"
Reminder for everyone to take care of your mental health. I know we all can't help but get emotionally involved in major events, but there is a limit to that.
These same libshits are gonna be all "It's indiginous peoples' day not Columbus day!" tomorrow.
You are absolutely correct.
The colonist militias did heinous shit. They massacred entire indiginous tribes "just in case" they were on the British side.
Absolute trash
My word, it's maddening seeing people I know give "land acknowledgements" the day before and who now have "I stand with Israel" social media photos. Liberals only know bandwagoning.
Lost a ton of friends in March 2022 due to not bending the knee for Ukraine. Time for round 2 I guess.
Israel officially declaring war is a bleak sign of what is to come. May the innocents be protected.
Honestly, understanding that people have a limited capacity for depressing politics and news cycles, I have more compassion for people who are disengaged rather than liberals who pretend to care and have strong progressive opinions but then fall asleep after every general election.
Next year I will have to work really hard not to be aggressively ugly to any "progressive" trying to gaslight me into voting for Biden by using Latino/Trans/Women/BlackPeople as rhetorical pawns.
To your "blue collar or working class" question...
That is basically the whole conception of whiteness and race. During the pre-industrial European settling of Turtle Island, there was not really a shared "white" identity. Instead, you had Portugese, Spanish, British, French, German, etc. migrant laborers who all had significant differences with each other and eventually started to see that they had common interest with the enslaved African population. Look up Bacon's Rebellion if you're not familiar with it yet. While sadly an anti-indigenous partnership between settler and slave, it still was notable for the solidarity between the two laboring classes and resulted in the ruling government of Virginia to strengthen and solidify the racial caste system through legislation.
Racism was very much imposed on and ingrained into the working class from the emergence of capitalism and we continue to deal with our collective hangover from it.
Considering his notable role in the Gujarat pogrom, it's a horrific tragedy that he even got elected to head of state to begin with.
We need to move on from punitive justice to a restorative justice model.
Absolutely surreal in the worst ways to see a major world conflict being fought in part with smug social media dunks.