Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
What, exactly, is it with the ‘cohens?’ Is it a function of the simulation substrate that determines the nature of the Illuminati? Or is it the, ever-insidious, homosexual chicken agenda? Think about it. It’s right there in plain sight. ‘Co,’ meaning ‘together,’ and ‘hen,’ meaning ‘woman chicken.’ I’m only trying to follow these patterns, friends. I’m not antisemitic, and I’m not anti-lesbian-chicken, but our children need to be educated. It’s for the children. We’ve got to think of the eggs.
And I have seen ideologues, fine people on many sides, making, rather self-assuredly, an already tiresome juxtaposition between anti-authoritarian rejections of police and arbitrary laws and calls for the prosecution of war criminals. We do not live in a tidy theoretical construct. We live in a messy, often unjust, reality. Sometimes the best solution is not ideal. And there is a qualitative moral difference between bending a few rules to prevent injustice, to stop killing, and ethnic cleansing.
Unfortunately, many people in the west are still running cover for Israel, or trying to give them an out minus consequences. The situation is very simple. The ICJ issued a legal order for Israel to cease military operations in Rafah to avoid civilian harm. Israel arrogantly and demonstrably ignored the order. Civilians were harmed and killed. Anyone within the Israeli government who was involved, including its leadership, should be taken into custody immediately and tried for war crimes.
Because the overt goal of Israel’s historic enterprise, and in particular its present campaign, is the removal or eradication of the Palestinian people, both from Gaza and from the West Bank. The Israel they demand, the Zionist ethnostate, cannot exist without ethnic cleansing, therefore they are engaged in ethnic cleansing. And the US, and its leadership, is attempting to profit in various ways from this endeavor while cynically pretending at overtures of peace and reconciliation.
And the press needs to stop characterizing ‘far right’ political factions around the world as anything other than fascism. There is no vast ideological divide between ‘far right’ and fascism. They exist to create and spread fascism, wherever in the world they may reside. The softening language is a throwback from the post-war world that allowed neoliberalism to avoid actually fighting fascists again. Call it out for what it is, or stop muddying the waters and doing their dirty work for them.
Palestine is getting lynched by the Israeli government, it’s being streamed live to the world, and the west is providing the rope and applauding the act. That’s about where we all are in terms of ‘law and order.’
I had a dream last night that I was trying, in a blog post written on notebook paper, to describe the differences between contemporary leftist ideology versus authoritarian communism or neoliberal democracy. I was explaining, using the civics wheel from Stellaris, that while we are egalitarian we also assigned greater importance to certain intrinsic concessions toward living things, and that this therefore made us ‘spiritualists’ within that context. Straight from the aliens to my brain, to you.