ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]

Russia and Ukraine both suck shit but I hope we all agree that a Russian victory and peace is and was always the best outcome. Honestly it should’ve happened over a year ago but Genocide Joe needed more skulls for his skull throne

I do find it “odd” that if he had called the United States’ genocide of indigenous people an inspiration for what the Nazis were trying to do, no one would care. Maybe a few incredibly annoying right wingers would whine. But when you continue the comparisons onward to Israel it’s suddenly, “Woah woah woah! But Bible book says! How dare you!”

Obviously this was in Argentina but I’ve noticed this same thing in the US. It is more legal to talk about our own government doing genocide, currently or in the past, than to accuse Israel of it. In many states criticizing or boycotting Israel is a crime. In no state is it a crime to criticize the US, or to boycott American products, or even specific US states or other countries. It’s only Israel.

And like, I know that Israel is a part of the US empire and the rule is actually “It’s illegal to criticize the US Department of Genocide in the Levant,” but because they nominally act like a sovereign state it’s easy to understand how people come to “Our leaders are puppets of Israel! Israel is controlling the US!” because it sure does fucking look that way.

And when you add that it’s “We’re totally a sovereign state and also we represent all Jews” it really throws a lot of fuel on the fire of actual antisemitism.

… why tho?

Certainly, just wanted to make it clear that this was published before that authorization

Published September 14th

I really want to stress part of this. The US and UK are bombing Yemen for upholding international law.

There are only 3 countries on earth that are actually in accordance with international law right now, and those countries are Yemen, Lebanon, and Iran. Those are the only 3 countries fulfilling the Responsibility to Protect. Every other country on this planet (I’m glaring at China while I say this) is failing that responsibility, and then a select few are dropping bombs to prevent those 3 from fulfilling that responsibility.

Every country selling a single cent of goods to Israel is violating this principle. There is a legal and moral responsibility to be dropping bombs on Tel Aviv, and not doing so is both a moral and legal failure. Xi, I’m sorry man, where the fuck are you?

Exactly, which is why I say, every time I see them translated I’m taken aback. I am very aware that there’s a very different context. It still throws me off when I see it because I (rightly) do not normally think of Hezbollah and the white supremacist preacher as the same and so seeing them use the same language feels super fucking weird.

I guess this is a better way to say it: Because of my background, those words to me have a white, Christian supremacist implication to them. When I hear people talk like that (in English) it is a very reasonable assumption to make that they’re a psycho that should be avoided at all costs. And that is not the case here, which is why it’s strange.

I shouldn’t have said “religious nuts” I suppose, that was my bad. Idk, could we maybe translate to synonyms that aren’t exactly how the Christian far-right talks?

Except it’s the same “flowery language” my fire and brimstone preacher gave at my grandma’s funeral where he said in the eulogy that my immediate family would burn in hell for not believing.

Excuse me for having a bit of religious trauma that comes out sometimes

I will say, when I see these things translated it does set off the alarm bells I developed being dragged to Southern Baptist services by family.

Full support to Hezbollah in their fight against “Israel,” but god damn why is it that most of the good guys lately are also religious nuts. In any other situation I’d hear this language and run far the fuck away.

Something something the capitalists will sell us the rope

“Overcapacity is when we can’t sell things at as high a price as we’d like”

“Overcapacity” just means “We can’t sell things at as inflated of a price as we’d like to”

Syria was just standing its ground against trespassers

Not mentioning in the headline of anything about the US in Syria that US presence there is illegal is journalistic malpractice

“US forces illegally in Syria hit by airstrike”

Nuclear armed submarine, or nuclear powered submarine? Those are two very very different things.

AP is the most garbage “news organization” in existence, and I despise the way they’ve set themselves up as this decentralized entity that somehow both protects them from any actual accountability while also granting them legitimacy as a neutral arbiter

Every other news source cites AP completely uncritically as if their articles just pop up out of the ether and are simply a list of the facts, when in reality they’re a right wing mess