Used to be in awe, terror, and confusion at how genocides in history were allowed to happen.
Now I just look at it with awe and terror. Americans' responses have cured my confusion. This is how it happened. Eat up state department lines. If not that, just ignore it outright. It's not happening to us and we can't do anything about it, right? The world just works the way it works and we totally couldn't have been organizing against this for the last 100 years. Anyways, here's a cool fucking shoe model I found. Look at this recipe! "Oh the world is so messy. Time to get back to work!"
How a group of people can be so stupid, how they can apply such racist double standards, how they can be so fucking silent and cowardly. You live in the most violent and powerful empire to ever exist. Is there no drive to make things better? Are we that jaded? I swear to God the average American can't see anything but what's 10 feet and 10 minutes in front of them. If THEIR child isn't being blown up or genocided it's not on the front of their mind.
"Civilized" society my fucking ass. Bunch of barbarians. I hope the pictures and memories of the Palestinian people haunt their memories forever when the rest come around to realize what's really going on. I hope they know exactly where they would've been during past historical events: silently on the side of the oppressor.
I have never felt this disgusted with the world and my "fellow USians" (as if I even want to identify as one anymore). This is fucking pathetic.
Don't want to be "poor me I'm so disgusted" because there's obviously real things happening to real people. Just voicing this to an audience who actually gets it.
100% with you, I've never felt so disgusted to live in the west. I want more than anything to move away from here.
I felt extremely disgusted in the days and weeks, then months and years, then decades after 9/11. That day did change everything for me. That was when I realized the country I thought I lived in wasn't even remotely close to what I thought it was, and even worse, most people didn't seem to notice nor care.
Over that timespan I've realized most of what I was taught in my life was a lie and it was done to perpetrate the very shit we see happening now. It's maddening to know that so many people just blindly follow along to whatever the state media says.
I'm glad I at least got to live through 9/11 so I don't have to combat bourgeois media trying to tell me it was something its not. I always try and tell people who are too young to know or remember that it was a bunch of bullshit lol
There’s plenty of accounts to demonstrate that.
Many people who did not live through it got varying degrees of BS about it on its anniversaries in schools. All this drama and yet nothing for COVID deaths.
You don’t need to have lived through it to get the right conclusion.
Yeah for sure, but having the lived experience is really validating. Otherwise it can feel a little too abstract sometimes
It is absolutely maddening as you said. Such a successful propaganda campaign that those who aren't insane feel crazy...
If you don't accept the mass killing of a people in the name of... whatever their arguments are, you're a crazy tankie who wants to see civilians killed.
Me too. But at the same time, I feel it's my duty to help fix this shit. The socialist countries are fine without me - but the west isn't.