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So on this one single thing, Carlson is apparently correct, and it's a heck of a thing to watch people melting down about how clearly he's a shill.

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I have always dreamed of interviewers asking basic questions of the killer clowns who run America. I can't believe it took Tucker Carlson to do it.

I’ve heard Cruz talk about deposing “the mullahs” for 13 years straight. During the 2016 GOP primary, he said he wanted to see if “sand glows in the dark.” You’d figure he’d learn some basic facts about the main villain in his moral universe in that time

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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rivers and valleys in china

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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit

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What Mohammed El Kurd said.

I'm Jewish, and unless you're talking about antisemitism *coming from white nationalists/supremacists*, I don't wanna hear it. The term has been so warped to silence and criminalize Palestinians and everyone with a heart who supports their right to exist that it barely has meaning anymore.

I've never felt more welcomed than in Palestinian spaces in part *because* of my position as an antizionist Jewish activist. And it is not OWED me, that generosity of spirit. Palestinians are if anything more understanding of and accepting of Jews than we often are of each other - and considering some Palestinians may never have met a Jewish person who didn't wish them harm, that's a damn miracle.

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i have 2 main thoughts on the perceived hypocrisy of ppl cheering for bombing israel or whatever it is that the people who are "against suffering on both sides" will be critiquing at the current moment

the first is that there are some people who have a relatively principled anti-war or anti-violence stance. they simply do not like violence against civilians and don't find it justifiable, and they usually use international humanitarian law as their basis for what is and isn't acceptable. i respect that point of view and to a very strong extent i share it. i see people across the world with this stance btw, including friends in gaza, and they are usually either human rights lawyers, journalists, people who are exhausted by war and people who are just very kind. i respect and appreciate these people a lot. so i do mean it sincerely.

however, one of the other principles i have is i do not hold oppressed people to a higher standard than their oppressors. it doesn't matter what my personal opinion on something is, what matters is whether i have a right to express it or to critique a people with no other options. i don't like violence personally. but i am not going to mention that when i see people cheering for the elimination of their colonial oppressors. this is again why it is and continues to be important to understand colonial and imperial relationships, because the post-WWII human rights framework was meant to replace these relationships, and if it has not done so effectively then we must use anti-colonial strategy as a reference. and anti-colonial resistance is inherently violent because of colonial methods and violence, and because of the absence of international humanitarian law and its contemporary variations.

when the rule of law is restored, i'll talk in terms of human rights. but the absence of it was something the US is responsible for and all of us (the collective global south) really wanted and have warned against over and over again for the past two years. so no, i will not be holding any colonized people to a higher standard than their oppressors. given the extent of zionist atrocities, there is no situation in which palestinians will ever pass that threshold, because in order to do so they will need to fundamentally change the entire structure of the world. palestinians will never be capable of starving israeli children en masse or enforcing systemic, militarized occupation and in the event that they can do so then they will no longer be a colonized people but a formerly colonized people with substantial power of their own, in which case different moral and legal standards will apply.

the second thought i have is that human life has generally become cheap, and there is nobody more responsible for that than the US and its proxies. there was a perception that you could kill millions of people in the global south, from darfur to yemen to iraq, over the past two decades and that this would only cheapen the blood of people from the global south. and maybe on a geopolitical basis, it's true. but morally and ethically, people don't actually care anymore. and this is because mass death has been completely normalized. when israel says something like "why do you even care about 50,000 (incorrect number) palestinians being killed when half a million syrians were killed?" they don't understand that this applies to them too. it even applied on 9/11, and many americans thought this was the height of evil. but the truth is around the world nobody cares if a thousand americans or israelis are killed because thousands of people are killed to no consequence daily. for the past 76 years israelis thought killing palestinians constantly only makes palestinian blood cheap and israeli blood valuable. in reality it made everyone very cold to israeli suffering. i have met israelis who justify that as "of course the stronger side has less casualties" as though this is case-closed, reasonable logic. it is the law of the jungle, the justification of the jungle, and it should not be remotely surprising when it applies to you too.

the problem is when geopolitical calculations insist that cannot be the case against all logic. they insist that (some) american, israeli or ukrainian civilians do deserve the world to stop for them. when it's politically convenient, troops will amass in their memory and politicians will instantly tweet to condemn it. and this insistence becomes very polarizing and hostile. its why so many people are unsympathetic to ukrainians through no fault of their own, because they perceive that ukrainians were treated as though their life has greater value than the average person, and they have no sympathy for it. this is entirely due to the US's position on ukraine in exception to the rest of the world. but if you point out that hundreds of thousands of people were killed with no NATO alignment or EU refugee fast track, it gets called "oppression olympics" (a term i detest). if you point out that there is a fundamental racism to it, you get accused of monstrous dehumanization. but like. that's the world you built. when you let people die anywhere without consequence, it cheapens human life for everyone. and the forced valuation of some life more than others, to insist that some lives could not have been cheapened the way these others were cheapened, creates a very ugly dynamic that we see now across the world. i agree that it's ugly and it's bleak. but you made the sandwich.

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