Notices by Sheeb (shebeencounter@mastodon.world), page 3

The coverage of the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza over the last year has been a rolling abdication of basic journalistic standards and an undeniable demonstration of the blanket restrictions placed on reporting on certain subjects.

THIS is what you should all be mad about. That the western media was exposed as a tool of government policy should have long since removed whatever respect remained re: this dying, utterly compromised industry.

But here you all are today acting like this.

175+ journalists targeted during Israel's genocide on Palestine.

Journalists/Columnists at WaPo and LAT:

*Not one fucking peep*

Oligarch check-signers put their thumbs on the coverage (which we all saw coming), preventing an absolutely meaningless Presidential endorsement:

Journalists/Columnists at WaPo and LAT:

"This is fascism"

You are all so wildly unhinged right now. Take a breath. This is embarrassing.

@AnthonyJK Having to continuously raise funds like you do doesn't look anything like 'lazy' work to me.

It's very funny to watch the Biden-Harris administration still insist that it can reason with zealotry.

A mad dog doesn't stop attacking when its handler gently says, "Here, boy."

Kamala Harris needs you to believe that Israel systematically massacring children is a good thing for Americans and most of you are prepared to tell her that she's right.

"Vote for me and maybe, if the Palestinians accept their fate as stateless, permanently dispossessed citizens in a freshly cropped, occupied and bombed out concentration camp where everyone is disabled and/or psychologically tortured, we can set to work making a big show of the puppet "authority" that we establish on Israel's behalf.

How's that sound?"

Oh no, not American democracy!

Take these 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, the other 3 in the West Bank, however many Lebanese refugees you need to create and all the Iranians for all I care, just leave my democracy alone!

You're all psychotic.

The United States does not exist to promote human flourishing. It was founded upon the goal of extinguishing it in the pursuit of profit and that program has not shifted one bit since. The US exists to subsume all of humanity's most redeemable qualities beneath our species' most base instincts.

If you want better things. If you want humans to exist, not just survive, but exist on a functional and hospitable planet, the goals of US empire are fundamentally incompatible with your project.

Biden *is* the Republican in the cabinet, so...

Still not a substantive difference.

To see Palestinians as human you would first need to understand how your government has not only dehumanized them, but also how they've dehumanized you.

Successfully stripped of your innate sense of sympathy, thoroughly dispossed people present as enemies both of the state, and also to your identity as an American. Forcing you to view them, at best, as a nuisance, or more foolishly, as an existential threat. Weaponizing your idle consent to visit extreme terror and violence on the least of us.

@jeffowski You brought up housing, you bad faith prick. So let's talk about it.

Or is it just easier for hollow liberal cheerleaders like yourself to just reset back to electoral nonsense when your back is against the wall and you have absolutely no positive arguments to make in terms of what your champions will do to alleviate a problem that has been ongoing since Obama fucked up the recovery back in 2008?

@jeffowski so you're gonna glide right past the unhoused issue and the fact that Democrats were all lined up behind the Grant's Pass ruling, yeah?

Is that because you hate homeless people or only get upset about it when Republicans are the ones brutalizing them?

Must be nice.

@jeffowski as opposed to the people who refuse to regulate this allegedly nefarious practice and have overseen the single biggest increase in the US unhoused population in collective memory?

Yeah let's ride or die with the current crop of disinterested neoliberal ghouls and see how it plays out.

Is the Biden administration now taking policy advice from the Trump campaign?

Like... 24 hours apart.

JD Vance said Haitian migrants were eating cats and the Biden administration said, "OK we'll get rid of them. Happy now?"

This Eli Valley cartoon is now an official Biden-Harris policy consideration/campaign guidance

@mekkaokereke always loved this graph demonstrating how wealthy, 'bad' students are for more likely to graduate from college than non-wealthy, 'good' students.

The very first question in the US VP debate the other night was whether either of those two assholes would support a "pre-emptive" strike against Iran, a country that poses absolutely zero threat to the US, but for whom the US represents an historical existential threat, and I'm supposed to believe the United States are the good guys?

Right.

What this should have made clear is that it absolutely does not matter who you vote for next month - you're getting a fucking ghoul no matter what.

Tell me you learned zero lessons from the Iraq War without saying you learned zero lessons from the Iraq War -

The Media, US Citizens, politicians, none of y'all. It's fucking pathetic. You need to be stopped.

Someone with a coconut and a Ukrainian flag in their handle crawled into my mentions to mention how Trump would be worse on Middle Eastern affairs and I just laughed and laughed and definitely wasn't crying over how pathetic American liberals have become in recent years.

Just a complete surrender to the Military Industrial Complex's colonial imperative in exchange for... I'm not even sure exactly?