Rutherley🌹

🌹NYC-DSA. Writer/actor/socialist. he/him

[Rutherley🌹 @Rutherley]

@meowwolfe732 Fwiw, Gabriel Mann of The Rescues is a staunch Zionist who has signed virtually every Hollywood-affiliated pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian letter.

[Rutherley🌹 @Rutherley]

@BrieAfraid Fwiw, Gabriel Mann of The Rescues is a staunch Zionist who has signed virtually every Hollywood-affiliated pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian letter.

[Rutherley🌹 @Rutherley]

@NextBestPicture Anthony Hopkins 1993 - The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands

[Just Ken @YoungerPope]

Barack Obama’s decision to hold no one in the Bush administration to account for their war crimes because they wanted to be able to commit their own was the hinge point that decided the future of warfare worldwide for the worse.

[K. @IbaraEleven]

“Why are leftists so mean to democrats??”

This is why.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

As western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to denouncing Israel's genocidal atrocities after two years of silence, it's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that saying "death to the IDF" is a hate crime.

People who've been staring at this genocide from the beginning have been asking the entire time, what is it going to take? What will it take for our society to stop sleepwalking through inane trivialities and vapid distractions and start opposing the holocaust of our day?

Raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp packed full of children wasn't enough.

Burning children alive wasn't enough.

Systematically destroying Gaza's entire healthcare infrastructure — up to and including entering hospitals they've attacked and destroying individual pieces of medical equipment one by one — wasn't enough.

Killing more journalists than were killed in both World Wars plus the US Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Afghanistan, and the ongoing Ukraine War wasn't enough.

The systemic rape and torture of prisoners wasn't enough.

IDF soldiers routinely sharing photos and videos of themselves mockingly dressing in the clothes of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children wasn't enough.

Israeli officials openly expressing genocidal intent for the people of Gaza wasn't enough.

The US president and Israeli prime minister openly declaring a policy of complete ethnic cleansing of a Palestinian territory wasn't enough.

Field testing new weapons of war on Palestinians like they're guinea pigs in a laboratory wasn't enough.

Leaving countless civilians to slowly suffocate or die of dehydration trapped under the rubble of bombed buildings wasn't enough.

Creating an AI system to ensure that suspected Hamas fighters are bombed when they're at home with their children and naming it "Where's Daddy?" wasn't enough.

Using Palestinians as human shields wasn't enough.

Burying injured civilians alive with bulldozers wasn't enough.

The IDF admitting to running a popular Telegram channel called “72 Virgins” which posted extremely gory and sadistic snuff films of people in Gaza being butchered by Israeli forces wasn't enough.

IDF snipers routinely shooting children in the head and chest throughout the Gaza Strip wasn't enough.

The IDF flying drones to play the sounds of crying babies at night in order to lure out hiding civilians to murder them wasn't enough.

IDF troops telling the Israeli press that they were being ordered to massacre starving civilians seeking food from aid sites wasn't enough.

Israeli snipers targeting different body parts on starving civilians on designated days — leg day, head day, genitals day — wasn't enough.

Israeli citizens setting up blockades to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza while they enjoyed parties and barbecues at the blockade sites wasn't enough.

Using lies and propaganda to dismantle the aid system for bringing essential food and life-supporting supplies into Gaza, to replace it with a US/Israeli psyop where aid seekers are massacred every single day, wasn't enough.

Using siege warfare to deliberately starve Gaza for the previous 22 months wasn't enough.

But now that starvation has hit a critical point and deaths from malnutrition are skyrocketing, now that images of dead skeletal children are filling our screens, now that the damage to organs and brains from starvation will be irreversible in many cases — now it's enough.

That was the line, apparently. That's what mainstream western consciousness has decided is too much. Everything up until that line was fine, but now it's not fine anymore.

And the killing is still going on. The sudden awakening of conscience hasn't translated into any material actions or changes at all yet. If it had come in October or November 2023 like it should have we might be seeing that opposition translate into actually saving Gaza by now, but the light has only just been switched on.

I'm glad people are waking up to the cruel reality of this nightmare. I'm grateful to each and every influential voice who uses their platform to speak out, even at this late date. I truly am.

But I also think we need to take a very hard, very uncomfortable look at ourselves as a society right now. If all those monstrous abuses were tolerable for us over these last two years, there's something deeply and profoundly sick about our civilization.

We are not living right. We are not thinking right. We are not feeling right. We are warped and twisted. The information we consume and the norms we've been conditioned to accept have corrupted our souls.

We have been made into something bad. Something ugly. Something shameful. Something we need to do everything in our power to change.

We need to rescue ourselves from what we have become. We need to transform, deeply and radically, into something that could never again allow something like this to occur.

The way things are clearly isn't working. The mainstream worldview is clearly a lie. Everything we've been taught to believe about our society, our nation, our government and our world was clearly false.

We need to fight our way through the cognitive dissonance of recognizing that our entire way of looking at things as a collective has failed, and we need to find a new way of being.

Otherwise we're going to keep being smashed in the face with increasingly horrifying reminders into what we have allowed ourselves to become.

The lessons will repeat until they are learned.

We had better start learning them.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

The guy Booker is proudly posing with, on Oct 9 2023, said—in English—starvation would be a weapon of war. This was central to his Nov 2024 ICC arrest warrant. This is the most open, telegraphed criminal conspiracy in modern history. Now Booker is acting bumfuzzled and distraught

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

The U.S. government is stripping legal residents of their green cards for protesting genocide. I want you to really think about that, and the implications of it.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

Disappearing a man for protesting state violence is fascism.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I bet all you stupid commies wish you'd supported Kamala now, huh? You could have had a president who merely wants to explode and incinerate Palestinians instead of ethnically cleansing them! But NO, you chose to stay home or vote for Jill Stein, so now you get mass expulsion instead of the sweet gentle embrace of nonstop military hellfire.

I bet you feel so dumb now. You could have had kinder, more polite mass atrocities. You could be sitting here feeling smug and correct like me, instead of sitting there feeling like a fool for insisting upon your ponies and unicorns pie-in-the-sky unrealistic fantasy of not supporting an active genocide. Now you have to sit there and watch them ethnically cleanse Gaza and cry while I watch and masturbate.

Now you have to live with your decision you insolent, uppity peons. Soon you'll be BEGGING for a chance to support an administration that spent 15 months turning Gaza into gravel, but it's too late. Next election we'll make you vote for a former IDF member who wants to nuke Iran, just to make sure you've learned your lesson. And then we'll STILL spit on you.

Shame on you. Shame on you for failing to get on board the coconut train when you had a chance. You could have had a holocaust overseen by a competent and articulate woman of color. Now you get ethnic cleansing from an orange buffoon who tweets mean words. I hope you all get deported to the West Bank, and then I hope the West Bank gets obliterated — by a Democrat.

[🌼🌹Raquel🌹🌼 @eternallyRaq]

With the utmost disrespect, go fuck yourself.

I am sick of seeing all you freaks attacking Palestinians and Muslims and blaming them for Trump. You sat your asses down and pretended to not see Biden and Kamala gladly arming Israel every fucking day for 15 MONTHS.
You pretended like you didn’t see the mangled and orphaned children. You pretended like Biden wasn’t a willing participant. Like he didn’t allow Netanyahu to cross red line after red line and still send him 2,000 pound bombs to drop on hospitals and refugee camps.

And when any Muslim dates to ask you to open your fucking eyes you shunned them, you attacked them, you accused them of hurting democrats’ chances….

You sat silent while the democrats helped aid a genocide! You didn’t say a single word during the last 15 months. You didn’t even say anything when DNC attendees mocked 14 thousand dead Palestinian children at the DNC!

Shut the fuck up with your blaming Palestinians or blaming Muslims. You told them their votes didn’t even matter. That you didn’t need them anyway. That their protests wouod only serve to hurt Kamala or the democrats because “more people support Israel than Palestine so shut up and be quiet. If Kamala listened to Palestinians she could lose more votes than she’d gain so shut up!”

You are the ones to blame, not the people who watched you aid and defend the massacre f their family and friends.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

As do genocides.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

MSNBC is interviewing Palestinians in Gaza and asking them their thoughts on Trump’s comments

MSNBC never interviewed any Palestinians in Gaza while Biden and Kamala was slaughtering them

Liberals are truly disgusting. Only using Palestinians as a way to attack Trump

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

David Bentley Hart on the oft-neglected semicolon 👇

"A writer who disdains the semicolon is a fool. In fact, hostility to this most delicate and lyrical of punctuation marks is a sure sign of a deformed soul and a savage sensibility.

Conscious life is not a brute concatenation of discrete units of experience; it is often fluid, resistant to strict divisions and impermeable partitions, punctuated by moments of transition that are neither exactly terminal nor exactly continuous in character. Meaning, moreover, is often held together by elusive connections, ambiguous shifts of reference, mysterious coherences. And art should use whatever instruments it has at its disposal to express these ambiguous eventualities and perplexing alternations.

To master the semicolon is to master prose. To master the semicolon is to master language's miraculous capacity for capturing the shape of reality."

[John @johnnywizzz3]

“Democrats aren’t perfect but they’re better than whatever Trump is doing.” WHAT IS NOT CLICKING??? Dems create the conditions for Trump. They set Trump & Reps up for a slam dunk every time. Dems get crueler by the day & that sets the Reps up to be even WORSE bc that’s how

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Seventy million people can’t access healthcare right now and they’re focused on the cops

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

A writing tip from David Bentley Hart:

"All these vapidly doctrinaire injunctions – urging you to write only plain declarative sentences stripped of modifiers and composed solely of words familiar to the average ten-year-old and demanding that you always prefer charcoal-gray to sumptuous purple – are expressions of everything spiritually deadening about late modernity and its banausic values.

They reflect an epoch in which the mysterious, the evocative, and the beautifully elliptical have been systematically suppressed and nearly extinguished in the name of the efficient, the practical, the mechanical, and the starkly unambiguous – in short, in the name of everything that makes existence uninviting and life boring. They are reflections of an age of bloodless capitalist economism, the reign of brutally common sense, the barbarian triumph of function over form, a spare, Spartan civic architecture of featureless glass and steel and plastic, a consumerist society that lives on the ceaseless production and disposal of intrinsically graceless conveniences.

Learn to detest all of these things and you will be a better writer for having done so."