Man, some of the things I've seen. They think it's selfish if someone chooses to not cast a vote for either because of the situation. I've been very aware of the things happening in Gaza and sometimes the things that come across my feed make my stomach churn. I cannot for the life of me imagine calling people selfish for standing on that position even with everything on the line. Especially people with family/heritage in gaza.
Never underestimate how much power you truly have. It takes regular people like you and I to inspire change. The struggle has never been easy
"Heh, I wonder what they really mean by that metaphor—are you fucking kidding me!?"
I know. Especially when the sentiment even amongst the blue is "that's how it is, there's no point and if you question or criticize anyone for not speaking out it's a purity test and you're naive to want people not to die, nobody cares and the ones who do are in an era bubble yada yada yada".
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Yeah. It was inconvenient then and it remains so now. I hope people will reflect upon it at some point in the future, but I don't believe it's going to happen. And if Harris is not elected Arabs, Muslims and the left are going to be blamed for it.
Ain't either one of you lying. That's why I said hopeful but I don't honestly believe in my heart or head that it will come. Just wanting people to be better. I've seen and heard too much vile shit to actually be optimistic.Yup. If you ain't white your death is alright. America don't care about brown or black people. They always talk about how violence isn't America like they didn't commit genocide against the natives and black folks weren't slaves for 400 years.They are ‘civilised’, ‘European’ and ‘look like us’: the racist coverage of Ukraine | Moustafa Bayoumi
Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so
"this violence is unamerican" like I'm not working over 40hrs a week to fund a genocide against brown folks overseas.
Like folks ain't buying phones they don't need made possible by the slave labor and abuse of people in the Congo.
Like america didn't assassinate civil rights leaders and have public lynchings with barbecues and kid participation.
America is violent by nature and a lot of people are only their most morally just after the smoke is cleared. When shits actually going down they wanna stay quiet and comfortable.
After the fact it's oh how could this happen? We've learned and know better.
I always knew that the US will be in Israel's corner no matter who is in charge, but this display was such a massive shitting on all of the international law institutions America claims to uphold and defend.
A genuine fuck-off for all the dismissive bullshit whenever this gets brought up.
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We all know it in this thread but it is of course the perennial adage about the law protecting and not binding the in-group but binding and not protecting the out-group; US not only see domestic law like that, but international law too. It is solely there for their benefit and convenience, their ends, nothing else.
I guess what surprises me here is not the act itself but how open they are. It's like a show and their massage to the entire world is "we know what you think, we don't care".
I'll believe it when I see it.
