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.
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
Funny here I thought it was the capitalist order that’s destroying the world.
Y’know, the one upheld by liberals and conservatives alike.
People keep telling me that capitalism’s the problem. We should vote against that. /s
Liberals and liberalism are conservative, both sides are not the same but they aren’t as far apart as they should be.
I’ve heard this bullshit before. Keep peddling it elsewhere
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Fascism is purely on the right, it’s a violent entrenchment of Capitalist power.
Opposite ends of what spectrum? Where are the left leaning candidates in America?
Bernie.
How many left leaning policies has he passed?
I think you mean “voted for”, he isn’t Congress, and therefore doesn’t pass bills, unless you suggest that only passed legislation makes someone one particular political wing, in which case, I’d argue that seems like a deeply flawed understanding of government.
My point was that there’s no left wing representation in any meaningful positions of power in the United States. Obviously.
Ooh I like this. Let me upvote it so I feel like I’m making a difference while I sit here dreading existence
Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties
Fuck off.
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.
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.
Biden is pushing for a ceasefire and sanctioning settlers, while Trump said that Israel should “finish the problem”.
If you consider a Palestinian who hasn’t lost their family yet, there’s a pretty obvious difference between the two candidates.
He literally sanctioned 3 settlers, and hes been lying for weeks now about how this supposed temporary truce is happening any minute now. Meanwhile he continues to offer vocal and physical aid to Israel.
Fuck off with the bidenoganda.
It was more than 30 settlers in the first batch, and it was clear that they wouldn’t stop there.
And it’s Hamas that is delaying the truce at this point, because they either don’t know where their own hostages are, or the hostages are all dead already and they don’t want to admit it.
Fuck off with your lies.
President Joe Biden handed down financial sanctions against four Israeli nationals last week who were allegedly connected to violence against civilians in the West Bank amid the Israel-Hamas war.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/israeli-settler-sanctioned-biden-speaks/story?id=106988009
It was 4 not 3, and certainly not 30. 4 people who were never going to go to the US or using US banks cant do so. Big fucking deal. Bidens an absolute flog whos doing nothing of substance.
And its not even connected to Israels current genocide in Gaza, which neans it does nothing to help end what he supports Israel doing.
Go on liar, prove this wrong.
Turns out my source was also counting other countries, so fair enough.
This month, the US, British and French governments placed sanctions on more than 30 Israeli settlers for acts of violence and incitement against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/israel-settler-violence-sanctions
Still, a ceasefire agreement has been proposed, and Hamas is the reason it hasn’t happened yet.
Also keep in mind that sanctions need to be ramped up gradually. That gives people time to change their behavior instead of immediately being punished by brand new policies, and it makes the sanctions relevant for a much longer period of time. If you go straight to 100% and your targets just get used to it, then you can’t use that card anymore.
Both sides can be bad in my view. We are at a point of choosing the lesser of two evils.
One side is literal fascist and the other no longer represents us
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.
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.
Sure, but if you can’t compartmentalise the stuff that effects you from the stuff that doesn’t, then it’s not worth sacrificing your mental health over most of it.
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.
This. It’s always been shit. The difference is that now, the internet is in on it. It used to be that all the TV network news would shill tons of bad news because it got more viewers than cute stories of bunnies and medical breakthroughs.
Now. The internet has caught up to that and is able to churn it out a lot more efficiently.
Everything has always been shit.
Reads like alt right zoomer doomer bullshit justifying that they aren’t brainwashed by their republican family lol.
