I hear these comments for not wanting to help people, and it feels like we’re worshipping individuality to the detriment of community, which is necessary for survival.
- “I don’t want my money going to ___ .”
- “This is not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic!”
- “You don’t have any freedoms under socialism/communism.”
- “They’re just looking for a handout because they’re lazy.”
- “I’m a self-made man. I didn’t need anyone’s help.”
- “Empathy is not a virtue.”
- “I don’t see how that’s my problem.”
Propaganda is a powerful tool, especially in the hands of someone skilled. I suspect you’re that skilled artisan of the dark art itself.
The situation is not better, objectively or otherwise. There is no Gaza ceasefire, only a lie. People are still being slaughtered and starved and allowed to die. Women are still being raped. Men are still being bulldozed and bombed. Children are still being executed.
Spare me your indignant speech and look closely at your own actions.
I’m Palestinian. The ceasefire is not real. People are still being slaughtered.
Not nearly at the same rate as under Biden. It is objectively better. We celebrated Christmas in Bethlehem for the first time this year since the genocide began.
Israel is still a genocidal expantionist ethno supremacist fascist state that wants to eliminate all Palestinians and has eyes on Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The situation in gaza today is objectively better.
You don’t get to simply dismiss facts as “propaganda”. The genocide is still going, but the ovens were turned off, and you’re telling me I should I have voted for the candidate that promised to keep fueling the oven because Trump is worse for you.
I agree, he is worse for you, and while I didn’t vote for him, I choose the collapse of the American empire over the all out accelerated genocide of my people that a healthy American empire can afford to fund.
And I don’t feel empathy for you for having to live through the death of your empire, because we told you loudly to help us and you called our genocide the lesser evil. You’ve destroyed all of countries and murdered millions of our people and you honor your war criminals and put them on a pedestal.
I feel bad for my family and friends who are in ice detention, and I blame those like you without a backbone that insisted the champion of genocide was the only other option.
First they came for the communists and all that. You didn’t help us, and you’re bitching at us for not voting to continue our extermination to save your cushy lifestyle at the very top of the world.
Propaganda isn’t an inherently bad word, by the way. It’s not a “dark art”, it can be done through the use of only facts, as I’m doing, and you have no chance of defeating fascism if you don’t also participate in positive propaganda. You have to unlearn colonial terms and learn the true meaning of words, and read some books on how to influence public opinion with facts, then come back and call it a dark art as if it’s a clever insult.
That second line tells me I can ignore you and miss nothing.
What a shit take on a horrid situation. Fuck off, MAGA.