mr_sunburn [he/him, comrade/them]

By that logic, are we part of the makeup of the actual material conditions or are some groups more complicit than others? Your hands and your “peeps” are looking pretty bloody as well, comrade.

Well yes, the US is funding genocide and extracting money from me to do it, but I don’t really get why you’re coming for me personally, edgelord.

I don’t have volitional control over the US Military and I don’t find the US military and its child killing actions heroic in the slightest, and its a continuation of nasty genocidal work from the foundation to the modern day through My Lai and Abu Ghraib.

I oppose those policies and am actively organizing with my fellow socialists to end this, but we both know it will take more than me saying “no”, it will take mass organized revolutionary action. We are all born into a world with disturbing contradictions and injustice and have a burden to work toward a more just world.

I was talking to a USA Democrat relative and she told me that watching Israel’s actions had made her start to get angry when she saw Jewish people. And that she “knows about the holocaust and all that” but that she “doesn’t feel sorry for them anymore” because what they’re doing in Palestine is wrong. I was surprised that she was self-aware enough to realize she was developing a strong anti-Jewish prejudice, but also that she seemingly was okay or even proud of her prejudice. I tried to talk her out of it but she basically clammed up when I started talking about her duty as a person to counteract the prejudice.

Ultimately, it exposed some of the inner workings when someone is developing a prejudice. They go through life with a simple, wrong heuristic, assigning humans to groups and making them collectively liable for actions of their group. That group is then judged as “good” and worthy of praise, or “bad” and worthy of scorn. It’s not complicated stuff but it is shameful and common.

That’ll show em!

Are they planning to put “Allow discretionary public executions by the state? Yes or No” on the ballot?