The other day I was talking with my dad and brother about current events going on around the world including but not limited to the student protests going on internationally. We talked about how the freedom of speech, the press, and the right of the people to peacefully assemble and demand change were all under fire. After a comment from me about how “Genocide Joe” wasn’t getting my vote in the fall, my dad immediately went into how I just absolutely had to vote for Genocide Joe otherwise The Trumpkin would take office again and become a dictatorial tyrant who’d pardon himself of all crimes.
After pardoning himself of all crimes my dad argued that The Trumpkin would then pardon all the other traitors involved in the January sixth rebellion. Which theoretically could happen, after all The Trumpkin previously mentioned possibly pardoning the “political refugees” I believe was the exact wording he used, though don’t quote me on that. All I’m saying is that both choices are absolutely screwed ass backwards, six days to Sunday. With that in mind, both choices are terrible and the lesser of two evils means you’re still picking someone evil.
Picking evil isn’t how the world is made into a better place, it’s just not. There’s this great quote taken from Andrezej Sapkowski’s book The Last Wish in which the character of Geralt from the Witcher series and portrayed by Henry Cavill on the Netflix series The Witcher says the following when asked to pick the lesser of two evils. “Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit, I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
That’s where I sit on the issue of who to vote for. I choose neither as both are evil men if anyone bothers to look for more than five seconds. I mean hell, ol’ Donnie boy used to hang out at social parties with notorious serial rapist and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his equally notorious and equally guilty girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. If you really want to see how everything is connected y’all may look into connections between Epstein and the Mossad. Now I don’t claim to have all the information, more than that I think everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt unless evidence is incontrovertible or shown to be beyond a reasonable doubt.
That in mind let’s take a look at some facts. Our government has done some pretty fucked things over the years. When the bombing of Pearl Harbor happened we rounded up Japanese and Chinese American citizen and put them in internment camps; prisoners in their own country. Then we have blatant racism see Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma and the destruction thereof on 6/1/1921. Before that we had the injustices of genocidally ethnically cleansing the Native American peoples before the attempt at “naturalizing” them into Christian/ Catholic whitewashed, hair cut versions of themselves.
I’m aware of the irony of the resources on these topics I’m providing coming from what seems a Catholic publication. Doesn’t make information any less true or worth looking into though. I’ve found in my life there’s value to be gained from listening to all different sources of information; everyone from world experts on topics down to friend’s you’ll have a drink and cigar with and to never stop looking deeper or asking the big questions.
As I work in a combination mental health and wellness clinic I figured I’d share this series of images. If anyone like me has previously been in any form of abusive relationship I’m sure you’ll recognize the violence wheel.
After looking that over I’d be surprised if y’all didn’t take a second to yourselves to re-evaluate if you ACTUALLY want to just support anyone or anything by just blindly following others, likely to our own detriment. It’s our duty as citizens to use rational, critical thinking in order to determine what the best approach to solving differing problems is. Personally I’ve always had a thing about challenging authority, especially those in authority over me. It’s so easy to abuse power, frequently I’ve found those who are deserving of power are those who ironically never wanted it in the first place.
In rather stark contrast are those with power. Politicians, police, tycoons, celebs… all with more than they’ll ever know what to do with. Meanwhile those of us living paycheck to paycheck and tired of the wealth inequality are busy standing for what’s morally and ethically right. In this case? International protests standing in solidarity with the peoples of Haiti, Congo, and Palestine among others. Divestment from and boycotts of companies complicit in the continued and systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and peoples worldwide. (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, McDonald’s, Starbucks etc.)
Country wide, nationwide and worldwide calls for a cease of all military aid and weapons shipments to and in support of the apartheid, terrorist state of isn’treal. We the people outnumber the politicians, police, and even military. Add to that the fact that several celebs lost over a million followers in a day following the 2024 Met Gala debacle all from a celebrity call to “let them eat cake”
I think it’s fairly evident by this point that we the people have had enough. We want accountability of our leaders and institutions like colleges. We want to know what our money is being spent on and if it so happens that money isn’t being spent wisely, morally, or ethically then we the people deserve the right to as is posted everywhere in the restaurant industry refuse service to anyone.
Having had friends who’ve served in the military I can’t help but wonder what’s gone through their minds concerning these issues. I mean at least one of those friends is a father himself so I can’t imagine he’s just yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir about the issues going on worldwide. At some point one has to wonder, am I complicit? Am I directly or indirectly being part of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of an entire people group? I mean look, obviously these are issues others have asked themselves; hell, we had US Airman Aaron Bushnell 25 self-immolate on February 25, 2024 of this year.
Some of his last words prior to his extreme act of protest were “I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers—it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
Why has it become normal to ignore what’s actually wrong with society? I’m by no means the most intelligent to walk this planet; but I think it’s supremely ridiculous that when an active duty US military member sets themselves on fire directly outside the Israeli embassy in DC in protest of Isntreals’ ethno/urbi/genocide nobody makes any significant changes. Aaron Bushnell wasn’t even the first person in the US to use this extreme form of protest. A woman in Atlanta, draped in a Palestinian flag set herself ablaze last year in protest against what the terrorist, apartheid state of isn’treal’s continued wanton slaughter of children.
Why aren’t we more enraged about what’s being done in our name with our money? The people continuing the slaughter doing whatever they want with no consequences, oversight, or accountability. Why? We the people outnumber the entirety of Senate and Congress by a massive margin. Let’s work off of theoreticals for a second, my apartment property has easily over 200 units and that’s only one apartment complex in my city. If everyone renting citywide were to just say on the first of next month yeah we’re not paying rent what would actually happen?
I mean it’s not like the cops across the city are going to actually roll up and arrest or evict everyone. They don’t have the numbers. Also those property management companies would be boned. They can’t simply evict everyone. Let’s apply this theoretical concept on a larger scale shall we? I live in Indiana and per the United States 2020 decennial census data we have 6,785,528 people in the state of Indiana. Now we all know there are those individuals who don’t vote. Whether they feel like their vote wouldn’t make a difference anyways or they got to the ballot box too late. But for arguments sake, let’s say that the entirety of the state of Indiana just didn’t vote for a presidential candidate; now multiply that 6,785,528 people times fifty for all fifty states in the United States. That’d equal 339,276,400 people theoretically.
Now I don’t have a degree in politics or anything, more than that this is all a theoretical exercise but what if all of those people simply refused to vote? I mean, people have to have votes in order to get re-elected even with AIPAC or CUFI’s blood money donations right? So what would happen if everyone collectively simply said ah naw honey I’m good? Realize that I’m basing these calculations of the theoretical of every state having roughly the same number of people as Indiana and we can find the information to see how many people in each state there are. Realize however that if 339,276,400 theoretical people all showed up in Washington DC all demanding change at the same time?
The system would have no choice but to change in the face of such unified numbers. I’d venture to guess that even the police and military would come to the realization almost immediately that we better stand with the people. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Kim Kardashian lost over 3 million followers in a day. If we apply that level of unification en masse to all the areas that really matter and make a difference?
We’d be invincible. As is, the free Palestine movement is international and millions, more likely at least several billion strong. Which is wild when you take into context that the entire world population is a little over eight billion people. What it ultimately boils down to I think is the fact that there’s true evil in the world. Hitler, Stalin, Epstein, Maxwell, Netanyahu, Biden, Trump…the list keeps growing. In spite of all that? There’s still more of us than them. There’s this great quote from the character of V from V for Vendetta in Alan Moore’s graphic novel of the same name. In the graphic novel and movie both the character of V says rather matter of factly “people shouldn’t be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of the people.”
While I’d argue that the ideal is that nobody would be afraid of each other I also understand that to those in power, the idea of ever giving up the level of power and elitism they’ve achieved is an immediate non starter. These people seem to think that they can serve for however long they want. They’ve forgotten they serve the people for the people. As of now, we the people no longer want the status quo. The status quo was meant to be changed. Just like it was with the right to vote, women’s rights, and countless other causes over the years. Remember y’all, the tame never changed history. In the words of one of my favorite poets “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Holy Water, Burning Man 