Nah, fuck this. I can’t watch Gazans being annihilated and Jewish supporters of Palestine being arrested en masse in New York and Biden calling the Gaza ministry of health liars and all the manufactured consent in the media and still commit myself to “harm reduction” in 2024. The fascist creep still crept after November 2020. It crept in through school boards and state legislatures and governors and AGs and Supreme Court Justices and the refusal of the Biden Administration to fully undo many of Trump’s worst policies, esp. along the border. And now all this shit. Nobody did fuck-all. A bunch of people straight up sneered at what was happening in places like Oklahoma and said we fucking deserved it.
“harm reduction” implies that somewhere we’ve reduced harm by making our choices. Where was the harm reduced? Where did we keep people from getting hurt? Because from where I’m sitting, a whole lot of people are hurt or dead right now that shouldn’t be. maybe a certain class of Americans got a reprieve from having to see the direct consequences of American rule. they got to go back to brunch. I hope the overpriced mimosas were worth it.
“trump will be worse!” worse than what? worse than a house led by a bloodthirstier-than-ever Republican Party, worse than like 30 fucking states banning trans healthcare and reproductive healthcare, worse than entire school systems being dismantled by religious zealots? worse than this? lmao. Worse than Cop City? Worse than an entire supposedly-liberal media class calling random college students terrorism supporters directly to their faces? if the difference between Biden and Trump is that Biden isn’t planning on concentration camps for his second term that’ll be the only benefit.
my hope solely lies in the people who are actively raising their voices and putting their bodies on the line to stop what is so baldfacedly an epic human rights atrocity, a goddamn genocide. they are the only people I support. I’m done compromising my position because some #bluewave nerd got upset.
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No but this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. I’m tired of some vote-blue-no-matter-who dildo jumping into a comment section or my mentions or my DMs like “um excuse me sweaty it’s just the Republicans’ fault.” It’s not tho! Democrats hold power too! They hold federal fucking power right now, just because Republicans hold the house doesn’t mean Democrats are powerless! The entire Senate voted on a resolution – introduced by Chuck Schumer! – in full-throated support of Israel just this week! 97-0! When rubber meets road Democrats have proved time and again that they are not the “harm reduction” option.
These milkfed motherfuckers are condemning groups like Jewish Voice For Peace, likening them to Hamas supporters, for being ideologically consistent and protesting a genocide. People are being arrested, they’re being fired from their jobs, they’re being blackballed by universities and other institutions for doing the right thing and supporting Palestinians in defiance of “the West.”
So let’s talk about sides. My side is actively antifascist. My side is against white supremacy. My side is against colonial oppression and border violence. If your “side” routinely gives ground to khaki-wearing shitheads bearing tiki torches and cheerfully funds genocide then we’re not on the same side.