You need to stop finding excuses for the people who are bad at representing you.

You know what else used to be incredibly expensive, to the point of being more valuable than gold? Aluminum.

So cry me a river.

That’s objectively good news. But sadly the cycle will continue until the apartheid and the occupation are dismantled.

I mean, they are also trying to decouple from China, and some are about to start a trade war. In other words, the overall system is trending into that direction. This is the opposite of what’s going on with Israel.

I find the “where are the protests” argument very disingenuous. Western countries are not bankrolling the Uyghur genocide, are not supporting it, are not invested in it and are not giving it immunity in the Security Council, as they do for Israel. So as a western citizen, what is there to protest? Protests are not rituals to dispel evil, they are a political pressure tactic.

“Facts don’t care about your feelings.” They like saying that phrase. FAFO, I guess…

But these kinds of myths, like those of other religious traditions, have some very important truths about humanity. In this case, it’s that it’s worth struggling for future generations. Early abolitionists might have not lived to see emancipation, but it was still worth it to fight the good fight.

Whatever dent we make today will be visible in decades. This is Moses in the desert, people, if we do what’s right, we won’t see the promised land, but our descendants will

I’m not even American and I’m getting sick of this kind of complaining.

The rich fucks responsible for the climate crisis are going to spend Christmas with their families.

Hail Britannia.