My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
My brain can’t comprehend how a monkey and a penguin get more attention than an actual human baby, starving in the middle of a genocide. People in Gaza deserve to live too. No child deserves to be starved to death or shot in the head.
I am so done. So done watching grief ridden fathers and family members dropping mid namaz e janaza for a death that was solely brought on the whimsy of an orange pig or sathanyahu
They’re not “getting pregnant” they’re being RAPED. ICE officers are separating girls from their families and taking them to separate facilities so they can rape them. This is the “law and order” the Trump administration is using our money to fund.
US has never been held accountable for all the atrocities committed in Vietnam and Korea adn yet all those veterans get celebrated , respected and awarded for war crimes