I don't care what invisible man in the sky you worship or what ethnicity you are: if you support the genocide of Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing of Lebanon and the illegal war on Iran, you are a shit person and if you're running for any office you deserve to lose.
You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?
It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."
It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."
It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."
It is not stupidity.
It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.
It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.
Not because the evidence is unclear.
But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.
Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.
The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.
Türk çevirmen ve aktivist Ayçin Kantoğlu’dan tüyler ürperten açıklamalar:
— Kimin bu deriler?
— Kimin bu organlar?
— Siz bir halkı organına, derisine varana kadar nasıl yağmalayabilirsiniz?
— Buna ne hakkınız var?
“Dünyanın en gelişkin deri bankasının bunların elinde olduğu söyleniyor. Fakat biz biliyoruz ki Museviler vücut bütünlüğünün bozulmaması bakımından ki onlar için önemli bir durum bu; kendi derilerini bağışlamıyorlar, kendi organlarını da bağışlamıyorlar. Peki nasıl oluyor da ellerinde dünyanın en gelişmiş organ bankasıyla deri bankası olabiliyor?”
No, I happen to know the war started in 1953 when the CIA overthrow Iran's legitimate government on behalf of Big Oil, and then installed the Shah, who robbed the country blind for the next 25 years, and imprisoned anyone who dissented.
When the Iranian people finally had enough and millions poured into the streets in a mass uprising in 1978, Jimmy Carter stupidly gave the brutal Shah sanctuary in the USA.....That's what provoked the student seizure of the US embassy, which could have been easily resolved had Carter sent the Shah back to Iran to face the justice he deserved, and met the students fair demand for an apology for the CIA coup. The so-called 47 year war on America never would have happened if the hard core cold warriors like Brzezinski had not so badly misled the hapless peanut farmer from Georgia.
@DarrenPJohn@havivrettiggur You keep saying that word like you understand what it means when clearly you don't. Brah, stick to sports. Your little peckerbrain isn't big enough to engage in complex critical thinking.
@AJEnglish Iran will not do anything. They let their own leaders be assassinated without response. They sat in a ceasefire and watched while Israel demolished southern Lebanon (majority Shia). They caved when they had the advantage and the world's support. Iran is a paper tiger.
@MouinRabbani I doubt it. The let Israel invade Southern Lebanon which is majority Shia in violation of the ceasefire. Lebanon is just a pawn for Iran.
@araghchi Iran sacrificed Hezbollah and Hamas months ago when they fell for the bluff and agreed to a ceasefire. Stop pretending like you care about what happens to them.
Israel can assassinate a flea off the rump of a donkey 6000 miles away so massacring women and children is a *choice* and they do it with glee in the name of world Jewry. Don't talk to me about antisemitism until the genocide stops and the perpetrators are in prison or hanged.
@IsraeliPM Nothing but ignorant raiders & barbarians. Destroying the most precious and irreplaceable legacy of early human civilization that belongs to ALL OF US. Yet, you destroy it with sadistic glee for your murderous, petty land grabs and wet dreams of a legitimate state. Fuck you.
@AgnesCallamard There is no way 2.2 million Palestinians are still alive since 10/7/2023 when there was 2.3 million Palestinians. Somebody needs to get the real number of deaths. Some sources from a year ago estimated 500,000.