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the cornell 7 situation reminds me of a thing that happens all the time for privileged people. our patriarchal society decides that a few humiliating headlines is punishment enough. their futures should not be allowed to be affected. their friendships should remain intact. when people become powerful, this effect only gets exaggerated. the fact that someone is a sex criminal or a war criminal should not be allowed to interfere with their privilege to remain in power. the fact that americans of privilege and power know going in that there will be no consequences for any of their crimes is an encouragement for them to commit them.

sexual assault in its many forms is completely normalized in our sick society. this behavior is modeled by the most successful members of our society again and again, and we wonder why studies confirm that most american women are survivors of sexual assault. when the idf commits mass rape in their torture chambers, our most powerful people either applaud it or try to hide it, but either way they try to fund it and shield it from legal consequences. our twisted definition of “decorum” insists that we pity the abuser and it’s the responsibility of the abused to make adjustments to their behavior to avoid the abuse.

it’s hard to believe, but there are americans alive today who actually remember when america was against genocides and mass rapes. today, both parties see a genocide/mass rape and immediately try to figure out how they can worsen it. fast track it. make money off it. how did our leaders become so depraved? partly because we dispensed no consequences. we assume that someone stealing diapers from walmart obviously has bad intentions, but pretend that someone committing genocide is just a tragic victim of the system they actually are being paid to control.

when we go to a restaurant and order the thing we want, we know we intend to do that. but when a much richer, much more powerful person does a thing that is much harder than ordering something at a restaurant, we think it’s some tragic accident. we fantasize that those poor politicians are just misinformed, or being controlled somehow. how can they be being controlled by people with less power? we are being asked to believe that democrats couldn’t possibly actually want the genocide they are funding and lying for.

who benefits when we decide not to ascribe intent to rich and powerful people who do horrible things like rape or mass murder? if you’re my friend and you steal diapers from walmart, i can still trust you when push comes to shove. when you do genocide, i obviously can’t trust you on any issue anymore, big or small. you’ve done the worst thing a human being can do. you’ve already demonstrated that you have no sense of judgement or morality whatsoever.

complaining that this or that politician isn’t solving society’s problems, or this or that corporation isn’t designing products that make life better, is completely misunderstanding the point of these entities in a collapsing capitalist empire. under our current system, the point is to create problems and design products that make life worse.

self sabotage by the rich and powerful is a very common and profitable strategy that doesn't get talked about enough. in a collapsing empire, success is no longer where the profit is. in a collapsing empire likes ours, hate, anger, confusion, disasters, wars, genocides, and economic crashes are where the money is.

congress wants voters to hate them. the only candidates that are allowed to run a campaign without getting smeared by SUPERPACs are candidates who are already committed to undermining the legislative branch of government. they don’t want the people to have a voice. they want the joe bidens and donald trumps of government to have the power to just fast track genocides without congressional approval. then they don’t have to be held accountable. democrats want republicans to invade iran. they agree with the policy because it boosts american weapons and oil profits, but they don’t want to take the blame.

AI is deliberately being used to undermine the accuracy of everything it touches. the people who use it to commit crimes like blowing up apartment buildings and elementary schools and purging voter rolls know very well that it’s inaccurate. they love it when you blame “AI” instead of blaming them.

government wants its agencies to fail. keep defunding them until they can no longer function, then trick voters into being the ones screaming for that agency’s eradication on account of government waste. corporations work the same way. downsizing is their goal. they want certain departments to fail so that they can cut them.

romcoms and sitcoms model a certain behavior. somebody fails to communicate their actual feelings, there’s some misunderstanding, hijinks ensue. perhaps in the minds of the entertainers making romcoms and sitcoms, the whole moral of the story is to know your feelings, don’t hide them, and don’t try to trick people into loving you. but if that was actually the behavior they showed onscreen, no hijinks would ensue. the romcom or sitcom would fail in the marketplace.

social media has got everyone starring in their own comedy show, including political leaders. they’re not trying to solve problems, they’re trying to create them. it’s better for ratings, you get more likes, you make more money. you no longer have to run campaigns on how your leadership will benefit voters. you have only to show how how your opponent’s leadership will be even worse. businesses and politicians intentionally create fear, misery, stress, depression and loneliness, and then create and sell new products that are advertised as solutions, but actually worsen the problem. they steal our creative work for AI and then sell or rent it back to us for a price.

i’m all for personal forgiveness when someone owns up to their mistake. even rapists and murderers. but there is no way that this person should be allowed to continue along their path to power. NORMALIZE DESTROYING THE CAREERS OF RAPISTS AND MURDERERS. it is not an example of “decorum” to allow such people to pursue positions of trust and power over other people’s lives.

Well now we have Trump at the U.N. taking a page from the Hillary Clinton playbook and threatening to “annihilate” Iran. (To be fair, Clinton’s word was “obliterate,” not “annihilate”. ) This is a proposition for mass murder of millions of innocent people, a nuclear detonation, and possible nuclear war.

Whether most Americans generally realize it or not, they actually want a socialist president, not more of these deranged Republicans or corporate Democrats. This is no theory. The latest poll finds Americans more likely to vote for a candidate who:

• Taxes billionaires +34
• Medicare For All +17
• Weapons for Israel -30
• War with Iran -33 (and that was before today’s threat of nuclear holocaust)

Though some politicians pay clever lip service to popular opinion, neither party’s mainstream actually represents any of these views in their policymaking. This includes the attack on Iran, which was desired and enabled by AIPAC-funded Democratic Party leadership.

From other recent polls we know there’s a whole list of other issues where most Americans hold socialist positions that are not represented by the mainstream of either corporate party:

• Regulating AI and opposing Flock cameras and data centers
• Increasing the education budget vs military / ICE / police budgets
• Raising minimum wage
• Focusing on material policies instead of identity slogans
• Phasing out fossil fuels and investing in cheap and easily scalable solar and wind energy
• Opposition to more border wall construction
• Forgiving student loans
• Ending family separation and concentration camps

People who claim that the “left” is too extreme for criticizing billionaire-owned, warmongering, omnicidal politicians are simply not paying attention. Culture has moved on. It’s the politicians themselves who are pretending that some imaginary “center” exists that wants to both-sides the biggest threats to human survival. If you’re still thinking that the positions held by people like Harris or Newsom in any way represent the center, or rationality, or survivability, you’ve now been left in the dust.

Yes our population does include some who genuinely like corporate Democrats. They’re a small and shrinking minority. Such politicians and their cheerleaders would probably increase their popularity if they would just say out loud that they hate Palestinians, Iranians, Latin American and African immigrants, and poor people, and that they love Big Oil, Big Tech, and billionaires. Not because the polls have shown these to be popular opinions, but because it would at least make such politicians more believable. Instead they play the moral superiority card and the good intentions card, and then turn out to be completely untrustworthy once in office. Is it any wonder they so often lose must-win elections to those who are willing to say such things out loud?

It’s not the left wing of the Democratic Party that’s made itself unelectable, it’s the corporate wing. They’re the one churning out spoiler candidates and committing atrocities. Just because it might not appear that way to everyone, because of the hundreds of millions of dollars AIPAC spends on smear campaigns and disinformation campaigns against popular left candidates, and a media owned by the same billionaires that explicitly oppose the left, doesn’t mean this isn’t true.

If you feel that your democracy is being undermined under Trump but didn’t feel that way under Biden, you are saying that you felt democratically represented by Biden’s policies, which included funding a genocide against popular opinion, lying about it, breaking both domestic and international laws to make sure the genocide was intensified and that the U.N. could do nothing about war crimes when committed by the U.S. or Israel, and physically attacking students who spoke up against their tuitions being used to make the genocide more effective. If those policies left you feeling well-represented, that’s fine, but it makes you an extreme-right voter.

Republicans may be the ones publicly accelerating humanity’s leap over the cliff at the moment, but the actual policies that mainstream Democrats are proposing in response don’t come anywhere close to meeting the seriousness of our global polycrisis:

• Nuclear bombs under the control of such minds as Trump and Netanyahu, for possible detonation in a forever war desired, stoked, and funded by both parties
• Breakdown of international law, brought on by repeated, normalized war crimes of both parties
• Wartime closure of trade routes, leading to increased resource scarcity, inflation, hunger, poverty, and homelessness no matter which party is in power
• Barely regulated or unregulated development of and over-investment in AI weapons and surveillance, championed by the mainstream of both parties
• potential WW3 with Russia and/or China, amid rising tension stoked by both parties
• Crackdowns on mass human migration of climate, war, and political refugees, brought on by the actions and inactions of both parties
• Bipartisan designation of activists trying to save the world from capitalism and fascism as un-American, unpatriotic, or terrorist

I understand that many see some logic in trying to elect a “moderate” fascist over an “extreme” one. But that lesser-of-two-evils argument falls apart as soon as you understand that fascism is not actually popular with Americans. And even if a lesser fascist were to gain power next time, this alternation between the two wings of fascism simply ensures that your kids will grow up under fascism, and that the anti-fascist opinions that most people actually hold are automatically iced out of the discourse and out of any future policymaking.

Once you consider electability and survival realities, continuing to support the Democratic Party as it currently exists is completely illogical and suicidal. Our other options are:

• Pressure Democrats, with a harshness appropriate to the emergency, to adopt policies that actually address electability and survival realities.
• Abandon both billionaire-funded parties in favor of one that actually addresses electability and survival realities.
• Form a new government with a new constitution that actually addresses reality.
• Make preparations to survive a post-apocalyptic reality in which the government either doesn’t exist, has abandoned you, or is actively trying to kill you.

Some of these outcomes may be mutually exclusive, but pursuing all of these strategies simultaneously for the time being is not a contradiction, but a way to increase the odds of success.

Many will still try to say that socialist victories, third party victories, or revolution can never happen here. Those who make predictions about what political shifts are and aren’t “realistic,” as a way to protect the status quo from the left’s attempts to save humanity, are simply not paying attention. Today’s rate of global change and severity of danger is both unprecedented and increasing, and no one can predict the future based on assumptions that it will be like the past. There is no guaranteed continuity with the relative comfort so many Americans have enjoyed their whole lives. Most Americans know nothing of the stress of ground wars, drought, gas shortages, drone killings, or battling your neighbors for scraps of food that they have so often felt comfortable inflicting on others. It’s those who have survived U.S. violence that are the ones with the relevant wisdom, should they be inclined to share that wisdom with their attackers.

Revolutions happen all the time. The U.S. was founded on one. Capitalist empires have a tendency to collapse after 250 years. My terms for people who claim that revolution is impossible, that we have to make do with our two corrupt parties as they are, that two-party voting is the most important or only thing we can do to save ourselves, and that every other creative idea that gets proposed is an unrealistic pipedream, are:

• Fascist
• Climate denier
• Genocidal racist
• Fan of nuclear war
• Person easily deceived by billionaires

There’s one thing you absolutely have to do to defeat fascism and that is to directly name the perpetrators and their crimes. Genocides, invasions, and a militarized police state that rounds up political dissidents and non-white immigrants are fully Hitlerian, fascist policies — even when they are carried out by Democratic or Black or Jewish lawmakers. You may have to experience some emotional discomfort and call out a politician you voted for, once admired, or that you are being peer pressured never to criticize. Calling out only half of the perpetrators just ends up replacing them with other perpetrators.

Those who look at the Trump presidencies and say “This isn’t America. This is an interruption of America,” but who still think of chattel slavery and Jim Crow as part of “Black history,” U.S. “annihilation” of Iran as part of “Iranian history,” U.S.-funded genocide as part of “Palestinian history,” and ICE and border walls and concentration camps as part of “Latin American history,” need to realize they are using a racial double standard. These policies are better understood as interruptions of Black history, Iranian history, Palestinian history, and Latin American history, much more than Trump is an interruption of American history. He is the apotheosis of American history.

Remember that one of the main purposes of Donald Trump is to entertain liberals. Don’t we remember who was the most popular character of Star Wars? The guy in the mask that everyone loved to hate. Trump keeps liberals glued to their screens. Talk show joke writers have never had it so easy. He provides endless material for whoever writes Democrat fundraising emails. How substantial a difference would a visiting Martian really perceive between someone with a Trump hat or bumper sticker and someone with Trump constantly on their screen? On the other hand, the left doesn’t want to be entertained by Donald Trump, nor by the industry that makes so much money obsessing over hating Donald Trump. What it wants is to replace fascist capitalism with a sustainable system that doesn’t incentivize its leaders to detonate nuclear bombs to protect billionaire profit margins.

White people, and especially Americans, tend to hold some pretty weird beliefs. But top of the list may be the belief that we have a basic right to permanent emotional comfort. This is a confusion of basic human rights with elitist privileges. A particularly bizarre dramatization of this belief is that paying audiences for the arts have a right never to experience any emotional discomfort. Another is that our lawmakers and other celebrities seem to have an extra-special right to be buffered from ever having to exhibit any human values. So it’s a relief to watch these absurd beliefs starting to crack, as Ed Sheeran goes down in flames.

Ed Sheeran is the Democratic party. Like Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton, like Kamala Harris, he is spineless, selfish, insecure multi-millionaire pretending he's just a nice guy whose “hands are tied,” but in fact would rather tens of thousands of children be slaughtered in front of everyone than potentially offend a member of the far right. Like them he is a pathetic money-grubber whose allegiance to corporate CEOs is more faithful than to his own supporters.

We come down hard on Ed Sheeran for kowtowing to some blowjob billionaire and rightly so, but how many other artists get away with their silence simply because they didn't invite Macklemore onto their stadium tour in the first place? How many politicians get away not only with silence, but with voting to give billions to genocide and ICE and illegal wars, and we just keep supporting them because they "seem nice?" We get too distracted by “great men” and miss the systems they epitomize — systems that supply Sheerans and Trumps and Bidens and Krafts as needed.

Liberals will fight bitterly against their own economic interests for the cause of…their right to not have an opinion. Their right to prioritize decorum over substance. Their right to overlook atrocities when committed by their “team.” Ed Sheeran is the Democratic party. Just like Biden, just like Harris, Sheeran was faced with literal fascism, and chose career suicide over giving one inch to the left and admitting he might have any power whatsoever to influence events for the better. Just bow down to the first genocidal member of the rich and famous that looks in his direction. Then follow it up with some weak statement centering his own sad feelings about it.

What both Ed Sheeran and Democrats seem not to remember is that when an old sex offending weak ass narcissist comes trying to tell you what to do, you're supposed to tell them them to fuck right off. Not start licking their boot and then watch all your support vanish overnight. It’s not just OK to hurt the feelings of genociders, fascists, war profiteers and war criminals. It’s imperative. History demands it. This is what we are supposed to have learned from the Holocaust.

Moral superiority and people-pleasing may be the Democrats’ brand, but if they had any actual interest in morality or pleasing voters, they would use their tremendous wealth and power and name recognition to take our 250-year old, decrepit, obsolete government, based as it is on genocide, slavery, white supremacy, sexism, elitism, corruption and capitalism — all traditionally legalized and publicly rewarded and buffered from any consequences — and replace it with something better. Preferably something our species might survive.

A key part of this necessary revolution would be the utter rejection of Israel's claim that it has the right to be cruel, irrational, dehumanizing, and lawbreaking. Rejecting its claim that it has every right to base its government on genocide, land theft, chauvinism, ethnic or religious supremacy, and unlimited greed, because Europe and America did it, and it would "antisemitic" not to let Israel indulge in the same cruelties and crimes. Of course it’s transparent that antisemitism was never the offending issue, neither for today’s Zionist politicians nor for that witless stadium owner, both of whom have been perfectly happy to team up with Kanye West. The offending issue is of course the claim that Brown people are human.

Putting all the blame on Netanyahu or Trump is popular but disingenuous. As long as the U.S. delays reckoning with its own historical facts, its moral claims about other parts of the world land as utterly hypocritical. We can laugh all we want at the Netanyahu-and-Epstein-loving football stadium guy, but until we have a bona fide movement that actually stands explicitly against genocide and apartheid and sex trafficking and patriarchy and gladiator sports for Black people, we're just the ones turning that disgusting man into a billionaire who can control the entertainment industry with the snap of a finger.

It makes zero sense to sanction or bomb other peoples because they are undemocratic, or terrorists, or have weapons of mass destruction, or break international laws, or oppress their women, children, and ethnic minorities, as long as those descriptions continue to apply first and foremost to our own country.

Since the days of colonization and slavery, white advantage in America has always included the right to be cruel, the right to be irrational, the right to dehumanize. Our system has always equated money and power. It has always exploited and lynched and over-policed Black people at its leisure. It was founded explicitly on denying non-whites, women, and the poor any right to participate in our so-called “democracy.” The MAGA movement is not an American aberration. It's really more an outing of an American guilty pleasure. It’s a debunking of an American myth.

George Washington was the richest man in America: a slave owning racist Englishman who did not consider Africans, or Americans (whom he called "Indians") to be human. He was Donald Trump. He was MAGA. And the answer to MAGA, Zionism, American exceptionalism, and every other far right movement trying to push everyone else around, is not to become more accommodating or more patriotic or more conservative or more reverent to the “Founding Fathers.” Such inane values are what have made liberals intolerable. The answer to the far right is revolution. Create a movement, a government, a way of operating, that's based on humane beliefs that people actually hold.

According to time-honored American tradition, we have one political party that hides our dark truth, and one that revels in it. Two strategies work together to sustain and recreate that dark truth decade after decade. What we need is a political movement that rejects that dark truth for what it is: Inhumane. Greedy. Genocidal. Elitist. Corrupt. Extremely violent. A threat to all life.

If we back another elitist corporate liberal who hates poor people, who kills Brown people so that some AI or weapons or oil CEO can get some more money — someone in the tradition of Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton — we guarantee that they either lose their election to the far right, or give way to an even worse far right in the following election, or simply become far right themselves. All the wishful thinking and clever speechwriting in the world won't change that fact. People are sick of the Bidens and Sheerans of this world. If corrupted, corporate shills like them can’t bring themselves to do the bare minimum, our survival demands we take our business elsewhere.

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Sending out RESIST™ fundraising emails while voting to defund universities that don’t line up with genocide is some bullshit.

Our lawmakers are obviously terrified of college students. Two administrations in a row would physically attack them for voicing opinions about their tuitions funding genocide. Every corporate news network and both political parties have been all in for Israel for close to three years. And yet look where public opinion is now. Students seem to have had more influence on what people really think than those “in power”.

Defunding education was always part of the neoliberal plan. “Run the country like a business.” Defund a thing until it can’t function anymore, and then ask, “Why are we giving taxpayer money to this worthless program?”

Follow the students’ example and speak up. If you’ve spent the past few years publicly entertaining the possibility that certain religions, ethnicities, genders or sexual preferences maybe don’t quite deserve the same rights as you do, well, you’ve got a lot of blood on your hands now.

If you’ve been publicly suggesting that basic human rights need to be earned, and are granted only to those populations who meet some criteria set by American capitalist politicians or talking heads, you’ve been actively helping to create a world without basic human rights.

If you publicly suggest that Democratic genocide isn’t as bad as Republican genocide and should be given a pass, you’ve got blood on your hands. Saying “I’ve always stood for tolerance and understanding” while funding literal genocide makes no sense. Saying you stand for decency or legality while being wishy washy on genocide makes no sense.

Having trauma does not give anyone the right to perpetuate more trauma on someone else. Stealing land is not a basic human right. Military occupations and invasions are not basic human rights. Committing genocide is not a basic human right. What IS a human right is self-defense from military occupations and genocides. Our politicians and media don’t seem to understand this unless the victims are white.

Any future political solutions in Palestine must take into account the fact that Israel stole land and massacred the population, not once, not twice, but continuously from 1948-2026. Peaceful coexistence cannot simply be imposed upon a people you’ve been massacring, on the very land you stole. It makes as much sense as me killing your family and stealing your car and then saying “OK I’ll let you share the car now”.

Neither the US nor Israel has reckoned with the genocide, slavery and land theft that created their countries and made them “rich”. Without repairing the trauma and harm, without empowering the populations who suffered so much violation and erasure, we are just living in an unsustainable fairy tale.

Why do we believe all those fairy tales about the basic goodness of America and its Founding Fathers? Partly thanks to a long tradition of politicians periodically swooping in and being very obviously NOT good. Trump is evil on purpose. He exists to make the Founding Fathers or the Democrats look reasonable. The Founding Fathers and the Democrats are not reasonable. The USA is not reasonable. Genocide is not reasonable. Slavery is not reasonable.

Trump acts like an insane person so that when he’s gone a “liberal” will replace him and the world will stop paying attention. This “liberal” will boost funding to Israel, boost ICE’s budget, boost the Pentagon’s budget, boost the number of wars we’re fighting, just like when Obama replaced Bush, just like when Biden replaced Trump.

Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu act like insane people so that when they’re gone and a “liberal” genocider has taken their place, the world will stop paying attention. Genocide will go back to being background noise. It’s the boring, everyday, normalized violence, approved by both parties, committed by reasonable-sounding people, not even making the news, that is leading the world to self-destruction and needs more people to speak up.

Military invasions used to be an exception. Torture used to be a scandal. Genocide used to be an emergency. Thanks to our two-party good-cop-bad-cop routine, American politicians have succeeded in normalizing the worst horrors humans have ever invented. The US has made them permanent, made them the baseline, made them the cornerstones of our economy.

To wit: Genocide is now legal Slavery is now legal Child pornography is now legal Concentration camps are now legal Torture is now legal Invading other countries for no reason is now legal Election interference is now legal War crimes are now legal Thank you Biden Thank you Trump

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So what actually is illegal and abnormal and frowned upon these days? Doing what the students have been doing. Saying no to genocide, apartheid, fascism, police brutality, mass surveillance, global warming, and concentration camps.