Nate, this was an excellent article! Thanks for sharing this. I think it’s darkly funny and hypocritical how the West—views the Middle East and other regions in the global south as its personal playground/killing fields..
But when we as citizens protest against this, we are quickly silenced and labeled terrorists. The absurdity of it all..
western liberalism was an illusion, a coverup for something much, much darker
with that being said, I stand with Palestine 🇵🇸 now and always ✊🏽
You have not left your country. You have assaulted no one. You have only decried a genocide with text and words. You are a terrorist?
We in these Western democracies, (republic in my case) need to elect officials that will constrain the scope of their actions to the welfare of their electorate. Calling their constituents a terrorist for opposing bad foreign policy is a warmup for squashing dissent over the evisceration of protection and services our respective governments should be providing. Binning public health, detonating weather forecasting and laissez fair in place of business regulation are only possible because we allow our governments to dictate justice. This is backwards, it is we who should dictate what is suitable conduct for our governments.
We need to be unequivocal in condemning bad governance.
"The only hope is that this can be a moment of mass radicalisation and education. The hope is that the scales are falling from the eyes of those who previously understood the liberal centrist parties to be the good guys. The hope is that the system is being exposed for what it truly is..."
ah, wouldn't it be loverly. in my eyes, sadly, all these hopes are hopium and will come to naught. i don't see the scales falling from anyone's eyes.
Nate, this was an excellent article! Thanks for sharing this. I think it’s darkly funny and hypocritical how the West—views the Middle East and other regions in the global south as its personal playground/killing fields..
But when we as citizens protest against this, we are quickly silenced and labeled terrorists. The absurdity of it all..
western liberalism was an illusion, a coverup for something much, much darker
with that being said, I stand with Palestine 🇵🇸 now and always ✊🏽
You have not left your country. You have assaulted no one. You have only decried a genocide with text and words. You are a terrorist?
We in these Western democracies, (republic in my case) need to elect officials that will constrain the scope of their actions to the welfare of their electorate. Calling their constituents a terrorist for opposing bad foreign policy is a warmup for squashing dissent over the evisceration of protection and services our respective governments should be providing. Binning public health, detonating weather forecasting and laissez fair in place of business regulation are only possible because we allow our governments to dictate justice. This is backwards, it is we who should dictate what is suitable conduct for our governments.
We need to be unequivocal in condemning bad governance.
Moral arguments are wasted on sociopaths, such as those who rule over the West.
Reward and punishment are the only language that they understand.
"The only hope is that this can be a moment of mass radicalisation and education. The hope is that the scales are falling from the eyes of those who previously understood the liberal centrist parties to be the good guys. The hope is that the system is being exposed for what it truly is..."
ah, wouldn't it be loverly. in my eyes, sadly, all these hopes are hopium and will come to naught. i don't see the scales falling from anyone's eyes.