Dirty clothes & dead kids
Dirty clothes & dead kids
alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.
Ooh I like this. Let me upvote it so I feel like I’m making a difference while I sit here dreading existence
You're making more of a difference than I am. I'm not even going to upvote OP post and I'm just going to sit here and do nothing. I mean I might get up to pee in a minute.
It made a difference to me. Thanks.
Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties
Fuck off.
You’re in the right. Doomerism that “both sides are just as bad” is what Republicans want people to believe. Did Biden lead an insurrection? Not that I’ve heard of. Thinking both sides are just as bad is a childish perspective.
They are bad though. On the one hand a Palestinian lost all 60 members of his family and several thousands died. On the other hand a Palestinian would have lost all 60 members of his family and several more thousands would have died. It is hard for that Palestinian to appreciate the difference and infinitely harder for his family to appreciate the difference.
Although your best option is Biden and I wouldn't say otherwise even as someone not receiving any benefits from his good internal policies, Biden still is a fascist.
He has been a practical one, by which I mean he mixes good domestic stuff with genociding halfway across the world, whereas the Orange Jello is a principled one, having done and still aiming to very bad domestic choices and genocidal fascism at both domestic and international domains.
So yeah, fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, but you still have a choice to pick the international fascist over full-time fascist.
international fascist
"Fascisms is when you kill people!". Joe Biden is a lot of things that leftists do not like, neoliberal first among them. Saying he's a fascist is absolutely asinine and has no basis in reality. You're watering down terms that have clear definitions.
Right? Sure, Biden is a milquetoast, but he’s not spilling hate speech or mandating violence on minorities. Sure he’s complicit in the genocide, but there’s nothing he can really do.
but there’s nothing he can really do.
Fuck off.
He can easily dictate foreign policy and ensure his office is not using language supportive of Israel. He can openly condemn their actions. He can stop getting his Secretary of State to shield them at the UN. He can not fast track weapons to them. He can not push immigration bills that also have $14.1 billion in aid of Israel tacked onto them. And thats not even the half of it.
To act like PotUS is some powerless position in regards to US support for Israel is asinine.
Sure he’s complicit in the genocide, but there’s nothing he can really do.
Lol I hope this is a joke because it's a good one.
[handing fresh magazines to a school shooter] yeah sorry kids there's nothing I can really do, it's a complicated world out there you know
Nothing at all. Just keep supporting everything Israel does, keep blocking any resolutions helping the Palestinians at the UN, keep funding the genocide. No, nothing at all he could do about any of that.
He can stop selling weapons to Netanyahu. He can stop running interference for him at the UN.
You can't fix it. Turn off the news. Go for a walk.
It's true that everything is shit. But everything has always been shit, whether you cared about it or not. And we're all still here.
The only difference between caring and not caring is that now you're miserable and anxious. And there's still nothing you can do.
Living in ignorance is hardly healthy though. You'll only be caught flat footed when the bad shit finally catches up to you. How long that takes is a matter of luck and privilege, for some people it's sooner rather than later.
Do what you can, so when the end comes you know you did your part. Go vegan, ride a bike, vote left, shop ethically. It does a lot to curb the unease.
Reminds me of Matt Buchele (mattbooshell) 's video "disorienting times". Bouncing between atrocity on social media and you boss wants you to fix a typo on slide 3.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2YMzm-LuR8/?igsh=anlneXloZHlsOXN5
The insta that followed that one for me was this one, and this is singularly the most legendary thing I've ever seen another human being do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
Very reminiscent of this poem
Before I click, I'm going to guess "Whitey On The Moon"?
Edit: Did not disappoint. I wanna give credit where credit is due.
Exactly what I thought too
ITT: people angry at the suggestion both parties are fascists on opposite ends of the spectrum
Because the mental laziness of suggesting that conservatives are the same as liberals is literally destroying the world.
But nevermind that. bOtH sIdEs
That's because they're not, they're fascists on the same end of the spectrum.
Fascism is purely on the right, it's a violent entrenchment of Capitalist power.
Because if they're fascists they are not on opposite ends of the spectrum. The text is saying that Democrats produce fascists as well, because many Democrats enact what in regular life would be firmly right wing policies.
Because the Dems are the left wing in a bipartisan system, leftists hold the Dems to a higher standard. Likening them to fascists when they enact right wing policies against the will of the actual leftists forced to vote for them is a valid position.
There would have to be actual left wing candidates to begin with. Until then, they might be in different parties but they are firmly on the same end of the spectrum.
There are no more speed limits on highways? What does the Center for disease control have anything to do with regulating speed limits on federal /county/states/whatever highways?
It's hyperbole.
But everything else in his rant was real.
Reads like alt right zoomer doomer bullshit justifying that they aren't brainwashed by their republican family lol.
Wales Visitation cadence sells it