the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us
I'm sorry, you have to be paying sooo little attention to what's happening in Gaza to only just now be realizing they still have to pay for rent and food and whatnot. It's so expensive there. Why do you think there's all these fundraisers??
I keep seeing radlibs decoupling mutual aid work from its other key intracommunal and radical praxis and educational aspects to just make it about charity and passing around the same $20 bucks and I think that’s a huge disservice and misunderstanding of the work of mutual aid
Democrats: “of course I’m willing to vote for genocide. All that matters is that we beat Donald Trump.”
But you didn’t beat Donald Trump.
All you did was normalize genocide and let everyone know genocide wasn’t a deal breaker for you.
And in exchange you got nothing.