Bothered

Trying to help to get the truth out to people who are being brainwashed and groomed to dislike the wrong (good) people.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

It was this image in 2006, after years of learning about the occupation, that truly radicalized me about Israel. It proved to me Israel relishes in war crimes, flouts international law, and has no intention of allowing for peace. Boycott, divest, sanction.

[Michael Marshall @michael53021960]

This is what peak depravity looks like. Identity politics is just another racket, another scam to sell us the illusion of progress. All of these women are blood-soaked monsters, loyal members of the brutal ruling class.

[Bothered @BotheredFolk]

Heartbreak 💔: 7 aid workers on a peace mission to feed the hungry were killed by Israel, 3 British. But Britain is still selling arms to Israel! We need an arms embargo on Israel now. Join the call. #StopArms #PeaceNow https://t.co/acUk9Uhkvs

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened

A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today. He said he did it in protest of the genocide in Gaza.

Independent journalist Talia Jane reports that she was able to obtain footage of the incident, which the unnamed man apparently recorded himself. Jane reports that the man said he is “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force” and that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.” After igniting he repeatedly yelled “Free Palestine.”

According to Jane, a police officer showed up pointing a gun at the man’s burning body; I guess that’s just what American cops do when they aren’t sure what to do. Someone who was actually trying to save the man reportedly yelled “I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!”

This just might be the most American thing I have ever heard of. It’s more American than the fake bald eagle cries they put in Hollywood movies. It’s more American than monster trucks and mass shootings. You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers. If you were to pick a single moment in history to sum up the essence and expression of the US empire, that would be it.

The New York Times reports that the man “was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition.” A spokesman for the US Air Force has reportedly confirmed that the man is an active duty member.

“I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man reportedly recorded himself saying before the incident. “But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

The nameless protestor is correct. People in Gaza are being burned alive, are suffocating to death under collapsed buildings, are having operations and amputations without anesthesia, are starving to death, are watching their loved ones die in front of them, are experiencing suffering of a degree that very few of us here in the west can even imagine. And our ruling class is absolutely attempting to normalize this for us.

This isn’t even the first self-immolation we’ve seen in protest of Israel’s US-backed atrocities after October 7; back in December an unnamed protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate building in Atlanta.

And as I reflect on this I can’t help thinking, how many Israel supporters have self-immolated in protest of October 7? How many Israel supporters have self-immolated in protest of the super serious antisemitism crisis they claim is making Jews feel unsafe in their communities? Surely their claims are just as serious and sincere as those of Palestine supporters, no?

Of course not. This has not happened and the very idea is laughable. Israel apologists insist that it is they and their favorite ethnostate who are the real victims in all this, rather than the population of Gaza who has seen tens of thousands of Palestinians annihilated while Israeli soldiers openly celebrate their mass displacement and death. But you don’t see them self-immolating; you see them cheerleading for ethnic cleansing and genocide. They wouldn’t do anything to cause themselves pain or inconvenience to promote their pet agenda. They wouldn’t even miss brunch for it.

It’s a horrific thing, burning alive. I suspect that pretty much everyone who’s ever self-immolated has had serious regrets about it within the first few seconds. There’s simply nothing one can do to prepare oneself for the experience of that kind of pain, or for how long it can take them to lose consciousness after it’s started. At that point the only comfort they could possibly offer themselves is that it can’t go on forever.

But the fact that anyone would ever take such a measure at all shows how profoundly urgent they recognize this issue to be, and how much more sincere they are about it than those on the other side.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Make a note of today - the day when hate began to fail
🔷GB News losses mount to £76m
🔷TalkTV closing & going online
🔷Dan Wootton 'let go' by GB News, previously sacked by Daily Mail
🔷The vast majority in UK are kinder & more tolerant than the rabid right
Times are changing❤️

[Bothered @BotheredFolk]

😂🤣😂🤣

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

The other day Him Indoors (who has an MA in Literature) was talking about stories, and that there is no such thing as an original story. I argued with him, as usual. (I was probably wrong. As usual.). He was being very serious about it, though.
So he said "Every fictional story has forebears"
To which I replied "Apart from Goldilocks, which has three bears."
I want this to be on my gravestone because it is the the best joke I have ever made on the spot, and I still laugh whenever I think about it..
...
...
...
I'll get my coat.

[Jon Harding @_i0n]

Those who lied about Corbyn, and those who gave credence to those lies, delivered this miserable, treacherous, malicious, aggressive and brutal Tory regime.

These people knew exactly what they were doing, and the mainstream media know exactly what they did.

#ItWasAScam

[Michael Marshall @michael53021960]

Interesting to compare the Rayner of the Corbyn era to the automaton she became under Starmer.

[Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪🇸🇩 @OwenPaintbrush]

"Antisemitic hate mobs"

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

There were more arrests at Glastonbury than all the Gaza protests put together. Don’t fall for the lie about protesters being extremists. The extremism is supporting the genocide Follow @MoatsTV #Gaza #protest #Sunak https://t.co/CWfaPSLUJX

[Left Unity @LeftUnityParty]

Andrew Feinstein at the demonstration for Palestine outside the Camden Council meeting tonight.
Andrew will be standing against Keir Starmer at the general election.
Support him. Stop the genocide.

[Bothered @BotheredFolk]

More jews coming forward exposing Isreals wrong doings

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

How is this POSSIBLE???

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

An Israeli mother held hostage by Hamas "was more worried at times that she and her daughter...and sons...would be killed by the Israeli offensive than by their captors, who once shielded the family with their bodies as shrapnel rained around them." https://t.co/hpnYvXYFks

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Protest outside Camden Council where the Council refused a deputation from their residents on Gaza, & even refused public access to the gallery. Democracy? Not so much. More children have been murdered in Gaza than are at primary school in Camden! #CeasefireNow #BDSNow

[Bothered @BotheredFolk]

Thank goodness for George Galloway

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Keir Starmer said Israel had the right to do this to the children of Gaza.

Never forget. Never forgive. And never, ever vote Labour.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

When George Galloway was attacked and hospitalised by a pro-Israel fanatic, the political and media class never said a word.

Worth remembering, considering the weaponisation of attacks on MPs by both political parties to silence legitimate protests against genocide in Gaza

[Bothered @BotheredFolk]

Well done George Galloway.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"That's what I'm predicting here. The next election will be about muslims and will be about the taking away of civil liberties in this country. It's Sunak's last hope."

George Galloway speaks after being sworn in as Rochdale's MP.

https://t.co/xItZsH7tea

📺 Sky 501 / YouTube