I am sickened by what is happening to the Palestinians. However, I feel that the West is complicit in this by supporting Israel for so, so long. But if this happens to the Palestinians, then at one point, it will all happen to us too, if the politicians/the government/state will it (and at one point, this will become our reality). Imperialism and colonialism are baked into the foundations of the so-called "moral" West.
However, I will continue to stand with Palestine. Free Palestine.
Oh Nate. People never think that whatever bad is happening will happen to them. Not even when it is happening to them.
Americans either kill their children or allow their children to die, every single day. Guns- intentional and accidental. Hot cars. Measles. Covid. Rsv. Sepsis. Starvation. (Yes, it happens) Beatings. Drownings. Pitbulls. And on and on.
Working in public health during a deadly pandemic showed me that no lives matter,
And the lives of children matter even less than the lives of working adults.
One woman whose son died from covid, regrets that she didn’t get him vaccinated. But we don’t get do overs in life. So her son stays dead and gone- forever.
Americans don’t care about American children. They don’t and won’t care about Brown children across the ocean. Look at all of the genocides and famines that have happened- what did Americans do- nothing. And more nothing.
This is a capitalist world- one where no lives matter
Yes to all of this, except I hope you understand that those vaccines aren’t going to stop Covid. Sure, maybe you won’t die, you might just end up with a lifelong disability. Or you might be fine.
But if you really want to stay healthy you want try to PREVENT the infection in the first place, and the only thing I have found that does that are respirator masks combined with clean air.
Full disclosure, I don’t have kids, I live alone, and I’m already disabled so I don’t have to go to work in a dangerous environment. I had three vaccines, the booster shot crashed me so hard I can’t take any more of them. But I haven’t had Covid at all because I am diligent about wearing a respirator mask everywhere that other people breathe.
So if you talk to that woman try to ease her guilt, even if that kid had a vaccine they would still get Covid and they might have died anyway.
Nate's thesis is correct. The powers that be will deliver wrath of biblical proportions on those who are obstacles to their sole control of resources. See Gaza.
There is another permutation to the abuse delivered by our rulers: the what can we possibly do performance whenever there is an industrial accident or natural disaster. Here in the US it is abundantly clear that help is not on the way when disaster strikes. And strikes will come and come. Too much additional energy in the oceans and atmosphere coupled with degraded and ill maintained infrastructure is a guarantee of more horrific and deadly events in our future.
you might want to update your death count estimate; this is from ralph nader 2 months ago:
(quote) The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect deaths (stemming from infectious disease, epidemics, untreated chronic illness, untreated serious wounds, and starvation) is well over 400,000 and growing by the day.
No crowded enclave like Gaza – the geographical size of Philadelphia – with 2.3 million people under a long-term siege blocking essentials can withstand over 115 thousand tons of bombs, plus artillery, grenades, and snipers targeting civilians, with uncontrollable fires everywhere. How could 97.5% of its inhabitants survive? Tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, and men lie under the rubble. Tens of thousands of diabetics and cancer victims have no medicine. Five thousand babies a month are born into the rubble.
As declared by the Israeli war ministries, “no food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” the words of genocide or mass murder of utterly defenseless civilians who had nothing to do with October 7, 2023 — hikes the ratio of “indirect deaths” to the higher range of three to fifteen-fold by the Geneva Declaration Secretariat’s review of prior conflicts.
I appreciate you. People need to understand that starvation isn’t quick and it’s not peaceful, and once it gets too far along even if you can get nourishment to people it can be too late even if they can still eat the food.
Also I am in the US where they are banning books everywhere, this situation in Gaza is a great example of why we need to ban that storybook that tells people that this colonization is right and reasonable.
It’s not, and that book needs to be banned, if we’re going to be banning books anyway. (I never want to advocate for banning books but if we’re going to do it it needs to be applied fairly. And that one needs to go. For many reasons.)
My tenth edition is devoted to the Palestinian people in which it has a unique feature, my Demand for the Government page which in this case is the Speaker of the House who is currently Mike Johnson whose address is Speaker Mike Johnson
568 Cannon House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
The tenth edition is at http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-10/index.html Click anywhere on this page to get to the Table of Contents, where at the end of it you will see Demands for the Government. Print it out and send it anonymously to the Speaker. Tell everyone you know to do the same.
This edition appeared in 2003.
You can also print out http://www.truedemocracy.net/w01/demands.html and send it too, because the 17th demand in this link will solve the Palestinian people, because it will stop the billions king to the Israeli government at the hands of the American people. We have power if we only use it.
God bless the Palestinian people to whom God gave that land, not the Israelis. See Genesis 21:12-18.
I am sickened by what is happening to the Palestinians. However, I feel that the West is complicit in this by supporting Israel for so, so long. But if this happens to the Palestinians, then at one point, it will all happen to us too, if the politicians/the government/state will it (and at one point, this will become our reality). Imperialism and colonialism are baked into the foundations of the so-called "moral" West.
However, I will continue to stand with Palestine. Free Palestine.
Oh Nate. People never think that whatever bad is happening will happen to them. Not even when it is happening to them.
Americans either kill their children or allow their children to die, every single day. Guns- intentional and accidental. Hot cars. Measles. Covid. Rsv. Sepsis. Starvation. (Yes, it happens) Beatings. Drownings. Pitbulls. And on and on.
Working in public health during a deadly pandemic showed me that no lives matter,
And the lives of children matter even less than the lives of working adults.
One woman whose son died from covid, regrets that she didn’t get him vaccinated. But we don’t get do overs in life. So her son stays dead and gone- forever.
Americans don’t care about American children. They don’t and won’t care about Brown children across the ocean. Look at all of the genocides and famines that have happened- what did Americans do- nothing. And more nothing.
This is a capitalist world- one where no lives matter
Yes to all of this, except I hope you understand that those vaccines aren’t going to stop Covid. Sure, maybe you won’t die, you might just end up with a lifelong disability. Or you might be fine.
But if you really want to stay healthy you want try to PREVENT the infection in the first place, and the only thing I have found that does that are respirator masks combined with clean air.
Full disclosure, I don’t have kids, I live alone, and I’m already disabled so I don’t have to go to work in a dangerous environment. I had three vaccines, the booster shot crashed me so hard I can’t take any more of them. But I haven’t had Covid at all because I am diligent about wearing a respirator mask everywhere that other people breathe.
So if you talk to that woman try to ease her guilt, even if that kid had a vaccine they would still get Covid and they might have died anyway.
Brilliant, brilliant comment. Absolute truth in a killing world that tries to claim a "pro-life" side to the lunacy.
Nate's thesis is correct. The powers that be will deliver wrath of biblical proportions on those who are obstacles to their sole control of resources. See Gaza.
There is another permutation to the abuse delivered by our rulers: the what can we possibly do performance whenever there is an industrial accident or natural disaster. Here in the US it is abundantly clear that help is not on the way when disaster strikes. And strikes will come and come. Too much additional energy in the oceans and atmosphere coupled with degraded and ill maintained infrastructure is a guarantee of more horrific and deadly events in our future.
another eloquent post ❤️ thank you nate.
you might want to update your death count estimate; this is from ralph nader 2 months ago:
(quote) The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect deaths (stemming from infectious disease, epidemics, untreated chronic illness, untreated serious wounds, and starvation) is well over 400,000 and growing by the day.
No crowded enclave like Gaza – the geographical size of Philadelphia – with 2.3 million people under a long-term siege blocking essentials can withstand over 115 thousand tons of bombs, plus artillery, grenades, and snipers targeting civilians, with uncontrollable fires everywhere. How could 97.5% of its inhabitants survive? Tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, and men lie under the rubble. Tens of thousands of diabetics and cancer victims have no medicine. Five thousand babies a month are born into the rubble.
As declared by the Israeli war ministries, “no food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” the words of genocide or mass murder of utterly defenseless civilians who had nothing to do with October 7, 2023 — hikes the ratio of “indirect deaths” to the higher range of three to fifteen-fold by the Geneva Declaration Secretariat’s review of prior conflicts.
https://mailchi.mp/nader/the-vast-gaza-death-undercount-undermines-civic-diplomatic-and-political-pressures?e=b7d6bbc8bd
I appreciate you. People need to understand that starvation isn’t quick and it’s not peaceful, and once it gets too far along even if you can get nourishment to people it can be too late even if they can still eat the food.
Also I am in the US where they are banning books everywhere, this situation in Gaza is a great example of why we need to ban that storybook that tells people that this colonization is right and reasonable.
It’s not, and that book needs to be banned, if we’re going to be banning books anyway. (I never want to advocate for banning books but if we’re going to do it it needs to be applied fairly. And that one needs to go. For many reasons.)
Climate change will starve the whole world. But they need energy and water for the AI.
My tenth edition is devoted to the Palestinian people. See http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-10/index.html This next link is the Demand for the Government page: http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-10/75.html
The only demand that can be ignored is #15 as that man died some years ago. This edition appeared in June 2003.
God gave that land to the seed of Ishmael. Genesis 21:12-18.
The Israelis are only there, because of a lie which I exposed in several of my editions.
My tenth edition is devoted to the Palestinian people in which it has a unique feature, my Demand for the Government page which in this case is the Speaker of the House who is currently Mike Johnson whose address is Speaker Mike Johnson
568 Cannon House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
The tenth edition is at http://www.truedemocracy.net/td-10/index.html Click anywhere on this page to get to the Table of Contents, where at the end of it you will see Demands for the Government. Print it out and send it anonymously to the Speaker. Tell everyone you know to do the same.
This edition appeared in 2003.
You can also print out http://www.truedemocracy.net/w01/demands.html and send it too, because the 17th demand in this link will solve the Palestinian people, because it will stop the billions king to the Israeli government at the hands of the American people. We have power if we only use it.
God bless the Palestinian people to whom God gave that land, not the Israelis. See Genesis 21:12-18.