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TWO YEARS INTO A HOLOCAUST THAT U.S. MEDIA AND POLITICIANS KEEP INSISTING ISN’T HAPPENING, IT’S BECOME CLEAR THAT ISRAEL WOULD RATHER PERMANENTLY SACRIFICE ITS OWN REPUTATION AND FUTURE, THAN EXIST WITH WHAT IT CONSIDERS TO BE RACIAL IMPURITIES. FASCISM ALWAYS GOES THIS WAY. EVENTUALLY THE WAVE OF CARNAGE SWEEPS BACK TO DESTROY THE “FATHERLAND” ITSELF.
TWO YEARS IN, IT’S CLEAR THAT BOTH PARTIES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAVE OPTED TO PERMANENTLY SACRIFICE THEIR OWN REPUTATIONS AND FUTURES, IN ORDER TO PRIORITIZE ARMS DEALING, NORMALIZE WAR CRIMES, AND FUND AND FACILITATE ETHNIC CLEANSING. TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING IS THE LOWEST OF ANY U.S. PRESIDENT AT THIS POINT IN THEIR TERM, AND DEMOCRAT APPROVAL RATINGS ARE THE LOWEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN IN U.S. HISTORY. FASCISM ALWAYS GOES THIS WAY. EVENTUALLY THE WAVE OF CARNAGE SWEEPS BACK TO DESTROY THE “FATHERLAND” ITSELF.
ONE LOOK AT PALESTINE POLICY OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, IN THE U.S. AND OTHER WESTERN “DEMOCRACIES,” SHOWS IT TO BE THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEIR VOTERS WANT, REGARDLESS OF PARTY IN POWER. THESE COUNTRIES CAN BE CONSIDERED “DEMOCRACIES” ONLY INASMUCH AS ITS POPULATIONS CAN BE TRICKED INTO GOING ALONG WITH THE POLICIES THE RULING CLASS HAD ALREADY DECIDED ON IN ADVANCE. THE FACT THAT THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN MALFUNCTIONING RECENTLY CREATES REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THESE COUNTRIES WERE EVER REALLY DEMOCRACIES.
THE PRESENT STATE OF GENOCIDAL HORROR IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF BIDEN’S ODIOUS DEALS WITH NETANYAHU, MADE WITH VOTERS’ MONEY BUT WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. DEMOCRATS’ SUBSEQUENT ATTEMPT TO GIVE GENOCIDE A PASS, BECAUSE BIDEN, HARRIS, OR WALZ SEEMED LIKE NICE PEOPLE, WAS A CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE THAT MUST NEVER BE REPEATED IF THE HUMAN RACE WISHES TO CONTINUE ITS EXISTENCE. “EVIL DOESN’T COUNT WHEN MY TEAM DOES IT” NEEDS TO BE RADICALLY OPPOSED REGARDLESS WHETHER IT’S ISRAELIS, REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS USING THIS LUDICROUS CONCEPT AS THEIR DEFENSE.
TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY HAS BEEN EXACTLY AS THE LEFT WARNED IT WOULD BE. THE RESULTS OF DEMOCRATS CAVING IN TO TRUMP HAVE BEEN EXACTLY AS THE LEFT WARNED THEY WOULD BE. AND AS HARRIS REPORTEDLY ACKNOWLEDGES IN HER UPCOMING BOOK, THE REASON DEMOCRATS DESTROYED THEIR OWN CAMPAIGNS AND HANDED THE REINS TO REPUBLICANS IN THE FIRST PLACE IS EXACTLY AS THE LEFT WARNED IT WOULD BE: FUNDING AND FACILITATING GENOCIDE. THUS WHEN BIDEN, HARRIS AND DEMOCRATS MADE THIS CRIME THE TOP PRIORITY OF THEIR PARTY, THE DAMAGE THEY DID TO THE FUTURE OF OUR SPECIES BY UNLEASHING TRUMP ONTO THE LAWLESS, VIOLENT HELLSCAPE THEY HELPED PREPARE WAS SO ENORMOUS, IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO CALCULATE.
THE AMERICAN PROJECT OF PALESTINIAN ANNIHILATION, INITIATED BY BIDEN AND DUTIFULLY SUSTAINED BY TRUMP, WAS DESIGNED TO STOKE ILLNESS, POVERTY, AND HATRED FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. EVEN IF ISRAEL’S TERROR CAMPAIGN WERE ENDED TOMORROW, DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TRAUMA THEY HAVE INFLICTED ON MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS WOULD MAGICALLY VANISH OVERNIGHT? NO, BIDEN AND TRUMP, ALONG WITH MULTI-BILLIONAIRE WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS LIKE JEFF BEZOS, DANIEL EK, AND PETER THEIL, ARE BANKING ON MAXIMUM PAIN. PAIN THE WORLD OVER, PAIN WITHOUT END. THE PROFIT MARGINS OF ARMS DEALERS, ON WHICH THE BILLIONAIRE ECONOMY IS INCREASINGLY PROPPED UP, DEPEND ON THE WOUNDS NEVER BEING ALLOWED TO HEAL.
MEANWHILE ISRAELIS AND SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL’S POLICIES CONTINUE TO PUZZLE OVER WHY THE WORLD IS GIVING THEM SUCH A HARD TIME. IS NOT ISRAEL DOING WHAT BOTH U.S. PARTIES HAVE BEEN PAYING HER TO DO? IS SHE NOT DOING THE SAME THINGS THE U.S. HAS BEEN DOING PROFITABLY FOR CENTURIES? WAS NOT THE U.S. FOUNDED ON GENOCIDE, ENSLAVEMENT OF ONE RACE BY ANOTHER, SETTLER COLONIALISM AND LAND THEFT, THE PREVENTION OF DEMOCRACY BY THE RICH? IS NOT THE U.S. ECONOMY PROPPED UP ON THESE VERY PRACTICES TO THIS DAY? THESE ARE FAIR QUESTIONS.
WHAT GETS IGNORED BY ISRAELI PROPAGANDA, AND IN FACT THE ENTIRETY OF CORPORATE-CONTROLLED DISCOURSE, IS THAT GENOCIDAL POLITICIANS, NO MATTER THEIR PARTY, ARE ABYSMALLY UNPOPULAR. THE MAIN QUALIFICATION OF THE GENOCIDAL POLITICIAN IS NOT THEIR CHARISMA, ETHICS, OR CLEVERNESS. IT’S THE EASE WITH WHICH THEY CAN BE BRIBED. THEIR CAREER WOULD GET NOWHERE WITHOUT THE CASH INFUSIONS FROM AIPAC AND THE OTHER BILLIONAIRES WHO WRITE THEIR POLICIES. BANKRUPT THE BILLIONAIRES, VOTE OUT THEIR CORRUPT PUPPETS, AND DEMOCRACY COULD BECOME AN ACTUAL THING WE COULD START TRYING.
TRUMP’S POLICIES AND STATEMENTS MAKE MORE SENSE ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT HIS MAIN WISH IS NEITHER TO BE RATIONAL NOR POPULAR, BUT TO BE FRIGHTENING. THE MISSION IS TO DISCOURAGE STRIKES, BOYCOTTS, AND LAWSUITS, ESPECIALLY FROM IMMIGRANTS AND LOW-WAGE WORKERS. TO DISCOURAGE THE POPULATION FROM REGISTERING ANY PROTEST TO ITS BEING BROUGHT TO UTTER RUIN WHILE FUNDING WORLD WAR. TO INTIMIDATE DEMOCRATS AND LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS INTO MEETING HIM HALFWAY NO MATTER HOW FAR OFF THE DEEP END HE GOES. ONCE HE ACHIEVES THAT, IT’S MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. THE EXCRUCIATING IRONY IS THAT ALL IT WOULD TAKE FOR HIS MISSION TO FAIL IS FOR HIS TARGETS TO HAVE A BIT MORE COURAGE. VICTORY GOES TO THE DARING AND THE IMAGINATIVE.
AS THE HORRORS INTENSIFY EACH DAY, WE TEAR OUR HAIR OUT WONDERING WHY DEMOCRATS DON’T FIGHT BACK A BIT HARDER. ALAS, IT ALL STARTS TO MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT DEMOCRATIC VOTING RECORDS. WE WERE WRONG TO PUT OUR FAITH IN A PARTY THAT IS IN FACT CONSISTENTLY PRO-ISRAEL, PRO-APARTHEID, PRO-CRACKDOWN, PRO-ICE, PRO-POLICE, PRO-DEPORTATION, PRO-MASS INCARCERATION, PRO-MASS SURVEILLANCE, PRO-BILLIONAIRE, AND PRO-WAR. WITH JUST ENOUGH OF A HANDFUL OF TOKEN EXCEPTIONS TO KEEP VOTERS CLINGING TO A LUDICROUS FANTASY THAT THE PARTY MIGHT RANDOMLY REVERSE COURSE AND STOP FOLLOWING ORDERS FROM ITS BILLIONAIRE MASTERS WHO KEEP THEM FROM GOING BANKRUPT.
IF DEMOCRATS ARE OUR FRIENDS, THEY ARE REMARKABLY UNRELIABLE. WHAT THEY AND THEIR OPERATIVES IN CORPORATE MEDIA PROPOSE AS STRATEGIES TO DEFEAT TRUMPISM AND SOLVE CLIMATE CRISIS ARE IN FACT HALF-MEASURES THAT COULD NEVER POSSIBLY ACHIEVE THE PROMISED RESULTS. FROM ISRAEL TO MINIMUM WAGE TO ICE TO MILITARY BUDGET, THEIR UMPTEENTH BROKEN PROMISE TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS IF ONLY YOU’LL GIVE THEM SOME MORE MONEY, WOULD BE LAUGHABLE IF IT WEREN’T SO APOCALYPTIC. THE ONLY THING KEEPING THIS CREAKY, UNGRATEFUL, INEFFECTUAL PARTY AFLOAT IS A BILLIONAIRE CLASS THAT MUST MAINTAIN THE ILLUSION OF A LIVELY CONFLICT BETWEEN ITS TWO PARTIES, IN ORDER NOT TO GET WIPED OUT AS A CLASS BY THE VAST MAJORITY OF HUMANS ON THE PLANET WHO HAVE NO NEED FOR THEM.
THE U.S. “ECONOMY” IS NOW PROPPED UP ON FINANCE, BIG TECH, AND WEAPONS SALES. THIS DECISION WAS ENTIRELY BIPARTISAN. FOCUSING TOO MUCH ON INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION-SEEKING EVILDOERS MISSES THE FOREST FOR THE TREES. IN THE GANGSTER WORLD OF WAR PROFITEERING AND BILLIONAIRISM, IN WHICH BOTH U.S. PARTIES HAVE HOPELESSLY ENTANGLED THEMSELVES, ANY INDIVIDUAL IS EXPENDABLE. POLITICIANS, CEOS, AND MEDIA PERSONALITIES CAN BE ELIMINATED AND REPLACED, SOMETIMES VIOLENTLY, WITH LITTLE OR NO EFFECT ON THE OVERALL APPARATUS. UNFORTUNATELY THE FUTURE WON’T BE SAVED BY SIMPLY GETTING RID OF TRUMP OR NETANYAHU, AS LONG AS WE KEEP TOLERATING THE WAR PROFITEERING AND BILLIONAIRISM THEY EPITOMIZE.
IT’S FARCICAL THAT ANTI-CAPITALISM IS NOW BRANDED AS “TERRORIST,” AND NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT OBVIOUSLY STRIPS THAT TERM OF ANY MEANING. IT’S THAT WE DON’T ACTUALLY HAVE FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM TO BEGIN WITH. OUR ECONOMY IS HIGHLY REGULATED, IN FAVOR OF BILLIONAIRES. IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ONE, OUR SYSTEM IS BEST DESCRIBED AS “SOCIALIST.” YOU GET TAX BREAKS, YOU GET SUBSIDIES, YOU GET BAILOUTS. IF ALAS YOU ARE NOT RICH, YOU GO IMMEDIATELY INTO CRIPPLING, UNFORGIVABLE DEBT UPON ENTERING ADULTHOOD, AND SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TRYING TO PAY IT OFF. THIS ISN’T CAPITALISM, THIS IS INDENTURED SERVITUDE. THE ENDLESS RENTS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND FEES REQUIRED FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE JUST TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS ECONOMY MAKE IT MORE LIKE “FEUDALISM” THAN “CAPITALISM.”
BECAUSE OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS RUNNING OUT OF WAYS TO INCREASE PROFITS BY ANY TRADITIONAL “CAPITALIST” MEANS, ITS RULING CLASSES IN THE U.S. AND ISRAEL ARE CURRENTLY DESIGNING A NEW SYSTEM OF PROFIT BASED ON DEBT, DATA COLLECTION, AND PHYSICAL VIOLENCE. THE VISION IS A GARGANTUAN, COSTLY SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURE IN WHICH A.I. ASSISTS ARMED AGENTS IN CHOOSING WHOM TO DETAIN, DEPORT, AND ASSASSINATE. AS WITH ALL A.I., ACCURACY IS A LOW PRIORITY. THIS PROJECT REQUIRES THAT A MASSIVELY FUNDED POLICE STATE AND MILITARY BE INCREASINGLY ALLOWED ACCESS TO REAMS OF PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED BY BIG TECH, THROUGH MILLIONS OF GOOGLE AND APPLE AND INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS, AND MILLIONS OF AMAZON AND SPOTIFY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE THEIR MONEY EXTRACTED BY THESE CORPORATIONS AND BY THEIR TAXES, AND BY THE RENTS, FEES, PENALTIES, AND INTEREST ASSOCIATED WITH THIS EXTRACTION, IN ORDER TO FUND WHAT AMOUNTS TO A GIANT WAR AGAINST THEMSELVES.
WITHIN THIS AMERICAN SYSTEM THAT IS SO HOSTILE TO NON-BILLIONAIRE LIFE, ITS TWO PARTIES DO PLAY SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ROLES. BUT THAT’S NOT THE SAME AS SAYING ONE PARTY UPHOLDS THE SYSTEM AND THE OTHER CRITIQUES IT. TOGETHER, THESE TWO PARTIES CONSTITUTE OUR SYSTEM, AND WITHOUT THEM THE SYSTEM NO LONGER EXISTS. BOTH HAVE PROVEN THEMSELVES ENTIRELY POWERLESS TO RESIST THE DEMANDS OF BILLIONAIRES. “CAPITALISM,” “THE ECONOMY,” AND “AMERICAN INTERESTS” ARE REALLY JUST CODEWORDS FOR OUR ASSISTED SUICIDE AT THE HANDS OF THE GREEDY, AND THE PAID POLITICAL PUPPETS WHO “DEFEND” SUCH EMPTY PHRASES.
IT’S FUNNY THAT WE EVER IMAGINE THAT ANY POLITICIAN OPERATING WITHIN THE MAINSTREAM OF OUR POLITICO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM WOULD OR COULD HAVE AN ACTUAL OPINION ABOUT THAT SYSTEM. IT WOULD BE LIKE ASKING A LINEBACKER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUPER BOWL WHETHER THEY ARE FOR OR AGAINST THE RULES OF FOOTBALL. IT’S AN ABSURD QUESTION. IT’S NOT THE ROLE OF A PLAYER ON EITHER TEAM TO HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT A GAME WHOSE PROCEDURES THEY’VE TRAINED THEIR WHOLE LIFE TO MASTER, AND HAVE BEEN REWARDED WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR UPHOLDING. EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BREAKING OF THE RULES (NOT KNEELING PROPERLY BEFORE THE WHISTLE EVEN BLOWS COMES TO MIND) GETS YOU PENALIZED OR EJECTED FROM THE GAME, AND SUBJECTED TO A MULTI-YEAR CAMPAIGN OF DEFAMATION.
THE PROBLEM IS THE AGE-OLD PITFALL OF THE FLIM-FLAM ARTIST: FALLING FOR THEIR OWN SCAM. EVEN THOUGH BILLIONAIRES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BOUGHT AND CONTROLLED THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL POLITICIANS AND MEDIA, THEY HAVE FAILED TO ACTUALLY WIN OVER THE PUBLIC. FEW AMONG US ARE PARTICULARLY DAZZLED BY THEIR VISION OF PROFITABLE GENOCIDES, RANDOM KIDNAPPINGS, FREE-SPEECH CRACKDOWNS, AND A.I. REPLACEMENT. IN FACT, THE PAST TWO YEARS HAVE, IF ANYTHING, BEEN MORE OF A VINDICATION OF THE HUMANE VALUES ESPOUSED BY THE LEFT. THE RULING CLASS SHOWS EVERY SIGN OF CRACKING AND PANICKING.
AMERICANS HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THEIR WHOLE LIVES THAT “INTIFADA,” “BLACK PANTHERS,” AND NONWHITE RADICAL TRADITIONS AND RESISTANCE STRUGGLES ARE “TERRORISM.” IN FACT, NOT WANTING PEOPLE TO STARVE TO DEATH HAS FOR CENTURIES BEEN DUBBED “TERRORISM” OR SOME SYNONYM, WHEN IT WENT AGAINST THE POLICIES OF THE POWERFUL. FOR SOME, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING OF A TRUMP, ISRAEL ALWAYS SOMETHING OF A NETANYAHU. NOW THAT THE WORD “TERRORISM” IS BEING INCREASINGLY APPLIED TO WHITE LIBERALS, IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO WHITEWASH THIS HISTORY.
WHAT BILLIONAIRE-OWNED MEDIA AND BILLIONAIRE-OWNED POLITICIANS CAN’T FACE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT DECADES OF HOLLYWOOD ULTRAVIOLENCE, TV COPAGANDA, AND THEIR OWN ENDLESS WARMONGERING HAVE FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DESIRED RESULT. THE FACT IS THAT MOST OF HUMANITY JUST ISN’T THAT BLOODTHIRSTY. NO MATTER HOW MUCH OUR RICH OVERSEERS WANT TO TURN US INTO ZOMBIES, HUMAN COMPASSION AND LOVE HAVE PROVEN INDESTRUCTIBLE.
INSTEAD OF WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME WAITING NERVOUSLY TO SEE WHO EMERGES AS THE VICTOR IN A STUPID GAME THAT ENDS WITH OUR DESTRUCTION EITHER WAY, WE WOULD DO WELL TO INVENT SOME NEW GAMES.