Milli Vanilli – Blame It On The Rain (Super Club Mix)
Ah, to be honest, I really don’t wish or hope anymore, fucked as it all is. When I go to sleep I just kinda yearn for a decent asteroid impact or a gamma ray burst or a pandemic that doesn’t half-ass the job. Don’t particularly care if I survive. The way I figure it the 99% who get wiped out are set free from whatever the hell this is that humans have made and the 1% who survive can finally just relax and be left alone. Now that’s a kind of tired that only comes with age and experience, I think.
NITTI – Hush Money
So, who else thinks Trump will ‘get off,’ as they say? 😆
It’s funny. All the shit that dude did: a million dead from COVID malfeasance, secret shuffles and prisons for migrant kids, the hurricane fiasco, having Putin’s butt baby, trying to bring back fascism and declaring antifascism all but treason, trying to stage a coup and start a civil war… all of that stuff, and the best the state can come up with is hushpuppy payments. And the prosecution’s case was flimsy af, at that.
Hot take from a random nobody on the internet. Take with a bubble of ball sweat. People keep saying that IDF operational tactics make no sense with regard to defeating Hamas. Half true. They’re doing a kind of shifting surge thing, trying to degrade resistance command structures, communications, and movement ability, and separating Gaza into bite-sized segments that are easier to occupy, control, and re-enter later. If they break enough tunnels, this would weaken their opposition significantly.
It won’t defeat it, however. And this is where the speculation comes in. It will have the effect of breaking resistance groups up from a single, unified fighting force into smaller resistance groups. Something larger than a cell but smaller than an insurgent army. Now, when coupled with the fact that the population is being starved and deprived of basic necessities over a year, what this does is ensure that, while resistance won’t be broken, it will be controllable in terms of space and volume.
They don’t want Hamas defeated. They want it, and the population and any potential new resistance recruits, tamed. Functional but not strong. Too hungry and sick to grow. They want the terrain of Gaza split up into sectors that can be occupied, entered, disrupted, policed, and then left in a state of relative ‘normalcy’ after the occupation has things under control. This is a plan for a decades-long occupation, with the specter of an ever-present armed resistance enemy for them to ‘fight.’
If a sector behaves, it’ll be developed and settled, similar to how things work in the West Bank. There will be food (in amounts and types controlled by the occupation). There will be medicine (likewise, strictly controlled by the occupation). They can then police Gaza as they do the West Bank. Usually no one bothers putting a paramilitary police raid of a house on the world news, so long as you say it was a police action against ‘terrorists’ or whatever. They can do that every night, forever.
They can then settle Gaza as they do the West Bank, while at the same time using the sporadic local uprisings as an excuse to keep the sectors militarized and heavily controlled. It’s not a campaign to ‘defeat terrorism’ or even to squash an insurgency. It’s the same playbook as the West Bank, a campaign of slow displacement, with episodic ethnic cleansing, from which Israel can profit over the long term while realizing its goal of eventual default annexation of the Palestinian territories.
This is the twenty-first century version of a nineteenth-century colonization plan, on live television. They have no intention of ‘winning’ this war. The plan is for a manageable long-term excuse to do what they’ve been trying to do since Israel was founded: get the Palestinians out, either through displacement or slow, orchestrated replacement. This is Zionism, and there is money to be made and political capital to be harnessed, all over the west, which is why it isn’t being stopped.
GAYLE – abcdefu
This is what America does, kids. This is what it has always done, always stood for, or always allowed to happen. It turns suffering into money and influence. Not any particular politician or party, the whole thing. The system itself. This is just one more episode in a long history of colonial genocide, for the US and the west as a cultural whole. When elites talk about ‘law’ or ‘democracy,’ they are only talking about the mechanisms of social permission and apologism to do things like this.
Almost every human state or empire has followed this pattern, so there’s no real alternative right now. It’s just that the west has been at it for so long, the interests and prejudices and cults of ideology around supremacy, social Darwinism, identity exceptionalism, are so entrenched, that with the help of mass media, surveillance, and corporate-state-backed weapons proliferation, they have perfected the model. A perfect flowchart of exploitation, extraction, eradication, suffering, and death.
If you’re running around waving any state’s flag or running cover for elites, you are not only complicit in that model, you are an active participant. It wants to collapse. We should let it. We should hasten it. That is the only way we will ever know true justice or safety as living things. This is unjust, unsustainable, and unnatural. We will never be able to vote or litigate our way to a better world, because those tools were made by and for the elite, who care nothing for life or for justice.