by achrilock
Follow your grandfathers’ ways of thinking and their policies, and you will end up with a copy of the world they made, unjust and unstable as it ever was, and without the excess energy and time they had. America traded a rambling reactionary for a rambling reactionary, each as problematic as the other and both dedicated to bringing back the dying, dysfunctional world that old white westerners see as the glory days. For the world to survive and thrive, all empires, that whole worldview, must die.
The western press used OJ Simpson’s bullshit to cover up a genocide in the 90s, too.
I don’t see any beauty in it. None at all. Greatest crime ever committed, this existence, and finding and killing God is the only justice to be had. But, since that is most definitely beyond our reach at present, and since most of you are too weak in mind and character to even consider it, the next best thing is for us to kill each other and then ourselves. Just to show the bitch that it isn’t the boss of us. All of my smiles are false, rose-colored filters for the many children who surround me.
Watched a beetle die slowly over several hours last night. They’re out too early this year. Spring came too early this year, as it so often does, now. It wandered around frantically for the first hour, looking for… whatever. Then settled into a quiet, listless malaise. Then huddled itself against a wall on the cold concrete. That’s where we all end up, in the end. All activity and energy for nothing, alone, gasping for something we’ll never find. And then the dark. The universe your gods made.
Gloria Estefan, Miami Sound Machine – Conga
And, for the sake of cognitive and ethical consistency, the difference between the Ukraine and Israel situations is Ukraine is an existential defense of a people, who agreed to be effectively disarmed in exchange for western security guarantees, against eradication. Israel is a colonial project that’s been ethnically cleansing Palestine for nearly a century. Israel is the occupier trying to crush an indigenous resistance in order to take the land they live on. Apples n’ oranges. Putins n’ Yahus.
I mean, in the span of half a year we’ve gone from “Israel has a right to defend itself (against a mass shooting)” to ‘Israel has the right to murder 33,000+ people, ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank, use famine as a weapon, target journalists and aid workers, and bomb anyone in the region as and when they wish without consequences (using western heavy weapons).’ But this is somehow about hostages and “defeating Hamas.” I call that gettin’ swindled and pimped.
Ain’t nobody benefited from the US / Israel alliance except Israelis, defense contractors, energy corporations, repression tech brokers, religious extremists (of all stripes), and generations of intelligence folk who use Israel to do the dirty shit that the US can’t be caught doing in the region. It’s an imperial outpost that has brought nothing but problems for the people of the United States. If it wants to become a state, fine. Do the paperwork. Otherwise fuck off and deal with your own shit.
I mean, as far as I’m concerned anything that gets done against Iran’s regime is a win for freedom and justice, but this old US trick of talking out of both sides of your mouths with regard to political violence, of using airstrikes and then crying victim when it lands at your doorstep, ain’t gonna work if we’re going to fix this world. If Israel didn’t want a war with Iran, it shouldn’t have attacked Iran. If you don’t want a war with Iran, don’t help Israel attack Iran. It’s not complicated.
Tiny Tim – What Kind of American Are You?