Notices by Sheeb (shebeencounter@mastodon.world)

It's been 20+ years since, out of an abundance of Islamophobia, the Patriot Act was passed by US Congress and the lessons are now more than obvious -

The Wars, ICE, perma-surveillance, mass displacement, the refugee crisis, taking your bloody shoes off at the airport and proliferated Arabophobia have all been catastrophic.

But here we are once again with ICE unchained, the West Asian war path forged anew, Islamic panic running rampant and both parties fighting for white supremacist supremacy.

Man, the Biden administration wasted so much energy trying to demonstrate just how woke and open-minded they were by pretending like the superficial representation of historically oppressed groups in the White House somehow directly corresponded with better outcomes and better policy.

And then they just fueled a genocide, supporting the most racist entity since the Reich while reflexively accusing anyone who opposed the atrocity of being terrorist sympathizers.

If only there were a lesson here

Identity Politics aren't necessarily bad. Standpoint epistemology has a role to play in providing perspective. But the lazy weaponization of it that both Biden and the Israeli gov't, and its propaganda organs, deploy as both a sword and shield to further harm a growing list of victims is a really depressing development.

Setting the discourse back decades, greasing the runway for bigotry's ascendance all while pointing to a gay, Black, pro-genocide spokesperson like its a collective achievement.

Gonna be awkward after Trump invokes the Insurrection Act when 4 out of 5 Democrats endorse the action, while the remaining one just kinda looks down and mumbles something about the Constitution.

@AnarchoNinaWrites it was always the plan, it was only ever the plan and it was hatched more than a century ago, notwithstanding recent updates to match the modern technofascist motif.

But yeah I'm sure Biden and Harris were gonna put a halt to it. If only they had another crack at it.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/06/26/gaza-day-after-plan-circulating-among-israeli-leaders/

"We're bad, too, you know...

In fact, we're even more evil!"

Mid-term messaging already on point. The House might have over 300 Republicans in it come Jan '27

So let me get this straight, Mr Senator -

Latinos were... correct in voting for Trump?

Begging Democrats to believe in something rather than just slipstreaming in behind Republican policies, hoping to confuse(?) enough people into voting for them, to make up for the would-be voters whom they've totally alienated via this procedure. I don't know, it seems like a bad gambit that we just saw fail spectacularly and yet I think it's all they've got on offer moving forward.

I mean, I'm not doing it. Join me.

Attacking bedrock components of the "Americans with Disabilities Act" inside of the first 2 weeks of your administration is certainly a choice that is made with full clarity of conscience that it is a victimless crime.

Little window in the mind palace of this unrepentant son of a bitch.

Actually, you're being played by the full force of American history, now personified by a handful of people who actually understand how "things happen" in the country. How things have been done and how things always will be done for whatever time we have left.

Unless... you choose to actually cripple the violent, white supremacist systems that truly govern the West and that will inevitably immiserate the entire planet, irrespective of who occupies the White House.

The evils of the past echo, and are continuously reproduced, in eternity unless you acknowledge them in the past, identify how they manifest in the present and seek to extricate and purge them from the future.

DEI programs, voting Democrat, more 'moderate' approaches to border fascism, sanctions regimes and the maintenance of the largest, "most lethal" colonial military empire in human history ain't gonna get it done.

Israel was in the process of reducing Palestine to ash so they could pave over it long before Hamas even existed, let alone before they broke through the gates.

The attack just gave them the excuse to do it faster.

The reason AIPAC works so hard to pack Congress with ghouls, why the ADL labels everything and everyone 'antisemitic' should they have the gall to criticize an apartheid government along with its supporters, why the US spent so much time associating brown skin with terrorism... is because if people could see what Israelis are doing to Palestinians with a sober head, they would be horrified.

Israel never stopped bombing Lebanon after the alleged ceasefire, too, so I suppose we should expect the same in Gaza.

After all, who's gonna stop them?

"... at comparable points in their ["wars"], Israel has killed nearly five times as many people as Bashar al-Assad did. If The Lancet is wrong, and the 45,000-dead count is accurate, then Israel has killed more than three times as many people as Assad did."

https://www.forever-wars.com/biden-through-the-devastation-of-gaza-argues-for-his-legacy/

"We totally would have convicted Trump and sent him to prison if only these fickle voters didn't get in our way!"

Fuck off, Jack. Y'all had 4 years to do something and you willfully chose not to, but I'm glad you're taking the opportunity to pass the buck. How liberal of you.

In what other situation are people allowed to weaponize their alleged/actual/historical trauma to to deliver pain, suffering, death and, you know, additional trauma to another group of people?

Right. Never. Because it's an absolutely fucking nonsensical explanation of a sadistic and criminal enterprise that no mental health clinician under the sun would define as an appropriate, acceptable or therapeutic reaction to psychological phenomena.

tfw when you're trying to come off as Pro-Israel but you end up outing yourself more narrowly as Pro-Genocide (and anti-Arab)

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-defunds-2-israeli-human-rights-groups/a-71217628

By the way, *this* is how fascism gets invited into the mainstream. Trump can't do it on his own. Winning the election wasn't enough. But when you suddenly have respected, albeit politically captured media outlets, freely finding "common ground" with Nativism's most infamous herald, the only conclusion you can reach is that it's a choice the liberal media-political apparatus is very willing to make.

And from a distance, sure looks like an electoral revenge campaign is on the horizon.

The New York Times now doing the bidding of... Donald Trump?

Old enough to remember when Trump demanded Obama use the term "Radical Islamic Terror" because he's a racist piggy, but what's the NYT's excuse?

You know, since "narratives" are in the discourse and all.