I was eating lunch and had the news on. Another aid site, more killed in a baltant kill zone set up by the IOF. Last night I watched footage of a father holding his dead boy as bullets whizzed by overhead at one of these sites. The children are starving to death and here I am with a full stomach.

It makes me despair so much. I try and just disassociate most days, filling my time with mindless shit like youtube or video games. But there’s days like today that the façade cracks and the suffering shines through.

The USA is like a cruel owner of a vicious rabid dog that’s Israel and it’s mauling children and you’re not allowed to intervene. No matter how gruesome the scene is all you can do is standby and watch.

I was thinking about it: conspiracy theorists say events like 9/11 were a human sacrifice done to appease the mad god people like Nancy Pelosi worship. Okay, then by that logic, is Gaza not? What else do you call a broadcasted genocide the world tunes in on to catch a glimpse of the barbarism, other than a human sacrifice on an industrial scale?

I think it will go down as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th/21st century that the Jews became the very fascists they loathed.

  • drapeaunoir@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    29 days ago

    not “the Jews,” as that would be racist. “the zionists” would be correct. there are plenty of Jewish people that are on the frontlines protesting the genocide.

  • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    29 days ago

    I feel the same. Some days I just can’t bear the thought of what is happening even as I sit in my comfy house doing whatever normal things I do. I hate everything.

  • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    29 days ago

    the Jews became the very fascists they loathed.

    Didn’t loath fascists, just the Nazi iteration that harmed them. No group that’s not ideological in basis uniformally hates fascism no matter how much it’s various iterations has harmed them. Many groups that have been subjected to fascists are perfectly okay with just wearing the boots themselves and stomping on someone else instead of seeing the tools of oppression destroyed.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    29 days ago

    I honestly don’t even scroll Hexbear as much because I can’t bear to see the constant articles and images, which I recognize is a privilege and the mountains of horrors that Palestinians are suffering make my situation an infinitesimal atom. I still do read the articles and look at the photos to bear witness but it’s so difficult especially knowing that there doesn’t seem to be any possibility of ‘course correction’, for lack of a better term.

    It does really feel helpless. I’ve sent money to individuals and families, I support Palestinian businesses, I’ve been marching for Palestine for over a decade, but nothing changes the reality. Not that I ever really thought it would solve the situation. The only thing that will stop it and the entire occupation is a revolution here and the collapse of the empire but that doesn’t seem near enough to help the currently starving and shot children.

    I’ve said before, and I do believe, that short of organizing a revolution, there is not much that can currently be done by working class people in the US who are already relatively powerless here even with regards to their own interests. It’s like blaming a grocery clerk in Nazi Germany for the Holocaust. At the same time, there is an incredible amount of innocent blood on our hands just by being in the core and Gaza just lays that bare in the most explicit and tragic way.