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[Rathbone @_rathbone]

Nobody cares about your religion. Stop mass-murdering children.

[lee @leleleanna]

the education gap has never been clearer and i mean that as non condescendingly as possible - we literally are getting dumber as a society. no critical thinking skills, reading comprehension & attention spans are at an all time low. it feels hopeless at times

[Sarah Shaikh @sarahshaikhx]

So dystopian to watch Bisan, a young Palestinian journalist and filmmaker win an Emmy when she is still trapped in the midst of a genocide.

[frogan @fr0gan]

israel is bombing villages in lebanon calling them hezbollah just as they’re bombing gaza to target hamas. all this is is an attempt to expand the apartheid as they have been trying to do for decades

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The west is a dystopian wasteland of moral degeneracy.

Usually when you hear a white person talk about moral decay it's some wingnut denouncing LGBTQ rights or women's reproductive rights or whatever, but that's not what I mean. I'm talking about real things here.

The real moral decay of our society is illustrated in the way all mainstream political candidates can openly support war crimes currently being inflicted on people in the global south without being immediately removed from power. The way monstrous war criminals of past administrations can endorse a liberal candidate without causing self-proclaimed progressives to recoil from that candidate in horror. The way you can have the two viable candidates for the world's most powerful elected position both pledge to continue an active genocide without instantly sparking a revolution.

The moral degeneracy of this civilization looks like living lives of relative comfort built on the backs of workers in the global south whose labor and resources are extracted from their nations at profoundly exploitative rates, while raining military explosives on impoverished populations who dare to disobey the dictates of our government, day after day, year after year, decade after decade, and acting like this is all fine and normal.

Being born into western civilization is like waking up in the middle of a massive lynch mob. Something terrible is happening, and everyone's going along with it and telling you it's fine and it's normal, and even if you're able to figure out that what they're doing is wrong in all the chaos and confusion you find yourself powerless to stop them, because the whole thing has so much momentum already and there are far too many people blindly caught up in the frenzy of bloodlust for you to make everyone change course. Even just continuing to live among them makes you complicit in their actions in many ways, but you have nowhere else to go besides this lynch mob town you were born into. So you just move to the fringes of the mob and share your objections with the few people who will listen to you.

Our civilization is cruel and savage, but we compartmentalize away from its cruelty and savagery and laugh at our sitcoms and vapid comedians and make believe the worst things happening politically in our society are the mainstream culture war wedge issues that pundits and politicians prefer to keep us talking about. We live out our lives sedated by entertainment and social media and food and pharmaceuticals while genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and ecocide unfold all around us, thinking ourselves good and virtuous if we are kind to our pets and hold the correct opinions about racial justice and vaccines.

If we as a society were actually good, none of this would be happening. Moral clarity would find all this intolerable, and would reject it and eject it by any means necessary. Which is why the powerful pour so much energy into keeping us all sedated and confused. A lot of power and wealth rides on our lack of moral clarity.

There is much wealth to be gained by exploiting labor and extracting resources around the world. There is much power to be secured by murdering, starving and terrorizing any population which refuses to bow to the interests of the western empire. This is why the western empire has the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever devised: because so much wealth and power depends on ensuring the west remains in a state of moral degeneracy, and that westerners do not regard the citizenry of the global south as fully human.

I personally reject religion, not because I'm some fedora-wearing wanker who makes fun of people for believing in God, but because I reject all aspects of the profoundly sick culture I was born into. Because I don't resonate with religion I often feel myself pulling away from religious-sounding jargon framing the actions of the western empire as "demonic" or calling the US "the great Satan" — but at the same time I completely understand it. When I see the inside of a child's skull for the hundredth time next to video footage of IDF soldiers mockingly dressed in the clothes of dead or displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead or displaced children while western podium pontiffs pretend to believe the military they're arming has done nothing wrong, I do struggle to find adjectives strong enough to describe what I am looking at. Maybe "demonic" is as close as you can get, even if you don't believe in actual biblical demons.

That's what I'm talking about when I say the west is a wasteland of moral degeneracy. The type of civilization which would allow its government to do things like this necessarily has a collective conscience that has been so warped and twisted by propaganda and self-interest that it's the same as not having a conscience at all. If you can't regard the vast majority of the population of this planet as fully human and equal to yourself, then morally speaking you're no better than the perpetrators of slavery and genocide we've been taught to judge negatively in history class.

And that's the norm here. It's what we were born into. It's what we spend all our lives being trained to accept as normal.

[World BEYOND War Canada @WBWCanada]

BREAKING: We’ve shut down all access to CANSEC, North America’s largest arms fair. This is where the weapons devastating Rafah right now are being sold. Where Israeli military reps are trying to justify their genocide. No one is getting into this arms fair here in Ottawa today.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

This is beautiful. Those whose land McGill sits on is give permission to the protesters to be on it.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is what his state has done to Gaza's universities.

[Arbeitology @Arbeitologist]

every politician all over the west should be treated like this wherever they go

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

Israel literally have the worst PR team of all time.

They have that clown Naftali, who literally blocked me because he was fed up of me exposing his blatant lies.

He also deleted a tweet confirming Israel had bombed the hospital, but then deleted and quickly changed the narrative.

You have Israel’s OFFICIAL account getting community noted all the time and causing celebrity supporters of Palestine, such as the Hadid sisters, to get doxxed and receive death threats after they publicly shamed Gigi Hadid for supporting Palestine on their OFFICIAL account.

You have journalists who are Israeli shills taking cover from “Hamas rockets” while people walk and cycle behind them.

You have phone calls that they release which are IMPOSSIBLE to verify.

You have 3D animations they release which are supposed to be used as proof of Hamas bases under hospitals??

You have interviews with “captured Hamas members” which under mossad interrogation, Israel can make them say pretty much anything.

Then you have this.

A message to the residents of Gaza, in English, when they speak Arabic and also while Israel has cut off their internet.

This is nothing more then propaganda for those stupid enough in the west who eat it up.

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

Worth a watch: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN criticising Canada's amendment to the UNGA resolution on Gaza, solely condemning Hamas.

All Western states voted for the amendment that nevertheless failed to pass.

[libby @evenstvr]

like what was the reason ??

[IGN @IGN]

BREAKING: A graphically enhanced version of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is coming to Switch in 2024. #NintendoDirect

[. @AoTWiki]

【Official Trailer】

Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 (Part 2)

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The final trailer for ‘THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM’ has been released.

The game releases on May 12 on Nintendo Switch.