@WarnerCrocker I wonder, how much of their rage is a common and justified rage?
I've been living with a simmering rage since the early 1990s when I began exploring beyond what I'd been told about the history of this hemisphere and the US in particular. I was 23ish years old when I began to realize that the America I thought I grew up in was largely a fabrication created by the wealthy in a class war.
It seems to me the root of fascism is this deception designed to obscure class conflict.
"So we’re having a war."
~ Rebecca Schoenkoepf
But, well, it's not "we" who are having a war.
It's Donald Trump who's having a war.
Because he has long wanted to control an army, play big man with soldiers.
#Trump #Venezuela #war #military #oil
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-right-heres-your-one-a-day-email
No, silly, it isn't a war.
It's a "special military operation".
"I never imagined that hunger could be more terrifying than the bombs and killing. This weapon caught us off-guard, something we never thought would be more brutal than anything else we’ve faced in this endless war.
It’s been four months without a single full meal for my family, nothing that meets even the basic needs on Maslow’s hierarchy"
Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid
#Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Starvation
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/22/flour-fire-and-fear-as-i-try-to-parent-in-a-starving
@RealJournalism
To me, "22 years ago" was not that long ago, and I remember exactly what I was thinking & how I felt when the #Dubya Administration was ginning up an excuse to attack #Iraq.
MILLIONS of protesters around the world took to the streets to protest the march to war.
It sickens me now to see how few people barely old enough to remember the build up to invade Iraq & the flag-waving afterward don't see what I see that history *clearly* appears to be repeating itself (only worse.) 😱
In the current aggressive imperialism of the US, some Americans online insist that they don't approve of war and shouldn't be lumped in with the Americans who are banging the drums for war.
It's not the job of Canadians, Kalaallit (Greenlanders), Panamanians or Gazans to make you feel better and absolve you personally of complicity in potential invasions. We have other things to do.
It's *your* job to make sure the wars don't happen. Stopping wars is hard; you need to start now.
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