Straight nazi shit
Germans be like: We are eternally sorry for being nazis (for 11 years), to atone for our eternal sin (of 11 years) we must wholeheartedly and blindly support only one of the ethnic groups that we wronged, who just so happen to be the successor nazis (for almost 80 years now). 🥺
Literally
Zion heil 🤮
The State of Israel has done more to turn me into an antisemite than anyone else in my 50+ years of existence.
Fuck Israel.
Don't become who Netanyahu wants you to become, the only way bigots who rationalize their obsession with violence and subjugation through their fear of everything different than them can keep power in Israel is if they have people they can point to who despise jews in Israel for genuinely antisemitic reasons. This dynamic comes up again and again the longer you consider this tragedy, every action taken by leaders is done to cultivate an equally bigoted resistance in the existential enemy so as to preserve the status quo politics at home.
It is also a mental error to understand this purely as a product of the people living in Israel, this is directly connected to European and US politics and the consequences of them that have been reverberating in the middle east for generations. Support for Israel in the US often centers on christian power centers, not jewish ones and if you don't step back and appreciate the broader context, than you will hyperfocus on jews in Israel being uniquely evil and desiring of Genocide when in reality the Palestinian Genocide expresses the capacity for the systems we have built to produce, back and sustain Genocide even when it is in plain sight for the entire world to see.
The second largest population center of jews on earth is New York City, which just elected Zohran Mamdani, a muslim as mayor and he is extremely popular. None of this has anything to do with the supposed holy words written on books god has handed down to us as guidance and everything to do with geopolitics, colonialism, xenophobia and empire.
Fuck Israel.
They can keep power by continuing to bribe American politicians and taking over elections with money.
I don't think Netanyahu gives one single fuck about the Diaspora except as a cash source.
Every day I become more and more convinced that humanity in general just forgets history where there are no survivors left.
The very fucking second most WW2 veterans started passing away in droves, Nazis got bold again and now they run America and somehow, Israel.
Guess if that logic holds, the US and Russia will truly be friends soon after everyone who lives through the cold war is gone.
I wonder if it really is that simple.... once we lose the familial connections to the past, we just collectively forget. Or at least forget how important those lessons were.
I think it's more that no one yet wants to sacrifice their life for the hope that their death is more than just a failed attempt to curtail the great evils of this world. The massive numbers of people who agree that "something must be done" is useless without organization and leadership. The surveillance state makes that next-to-impossible. Privacy is key in the ability of a people to safely organize, yet privacy (and proper OPSEC) in the modern world is more complicated/difficult than most people are willing/able to manage. I think that we will see a great suffering leading up to the great collapse.
The Palestinian Genocide is a product of European/US Colonialism supercharging itself and doubling down on hate until a limit is found, I don't know if this Genocide is a product of forgetting, rather it might be more accurate to say it is a product of remembering.
I do not need a familial connection to Genocide to understand we are all in danger the world over when Genocide is allowed to flourish.
Maybe you don't, but most people do. Or it seems like it to me. Let's face it, you, me and probably 90% of the Fediverse is full of hypersensitive autists/ADHDers.... lots of awareness in our online spaces, but in the real world......
This is the real world, you are real, I am real. This space is biased, incomplete and unrepresentative of other spaces... just like all the other places...
However... by the massive polling collapse for support for Israel in the US alone you can demonstrate your thesis is incorrect.
Why the massive polling shift if not a rising human awareness of atrocity? It wasn't like in the span of several years a bunch of USians developed familial connections to Genocide victims?
No, get out of here with your nihilism and cynicism.
Humans are capable of empathy, and across the world humans are screaming for this to stop, countless jews included. The chorus of people who may have never even met a Palestinian shouting at the top of their lungs to stop this Genocide is overwhelming and stretches across every demographic divide in societies.
The reason it hasn't stopped isn't a failing of the average person to care, there really isn't any evidence of that at least in the US, the reason is the people in power do not care that the majority of us are shocked and gouged in our soul when we wake up to this Genocide happening every day.
You can see the same thing with Germany, if you look at the German government and see how they talk about things vs. how much the German people reject supporting the Palestinian Genocide and Israel again it is CRYSTAL CLEAR why this is happening and it isn't the fault of the average person being too callous or uninterested.
Hope it doesn't look too similar to a ballroom
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