Thank you Caitlin! I have no words, right now, to express my grief and fear at what is to come in the following months (years?) due to Israel's escalation of depravity that it has learnt from its role model and evil parent 'The United States of America'.
shes morally lightyears ahead of the dirty duo red & blu. Love her VP B. Ware ( great name too) lol but seriously its a no brainer imho. Genocide gotta end 🙏shes committed to that 100% we must ride this wave out to start extracting the psychotic system of dead weights, now embedded,killing slaughtering ,GENOCIDING in every GD direction in our names w/ our GD money. or really ask WHAT THE F COULD BE NEXT?✌️🙏
The fact that more of the electorate refuse to vote for the two big parties should be made more of by Jill Stein's campaigners. I hope that she is successful, against all odds.
There is no possible way that a third party can win the presidency while the idiotic “Electoral College” is the law of the land. If no candidate wins 270 electoral votes, the House of Representatives chooses the president.
That is always the 2 parties say and the excuse people make for not voting 3rd party. But voting 3rd parry sends a message, and if enough people do it that will send a strong message that the other two parties need to stop f*king us over.
so go vote a ham sand-witch but VOTE PLEASE if we dont win but show huge numbers the leverage accrues.Bernie could have had us there had he not been a traitor to independence hes a Dem( now a slur like Republican too)🤷♀️& they are both dead to many & movement is growing. OWNED SLAVE media just hides the #s vastly jumping both sinking ships
I have never fully understood the Electoral College thing. A few unelected heads can overturn the democratic mandate on a whim, it's crazy. Why does it still exist.
sure he did, it's why he ramped up support for Ukraine, assassinated an Iranian diplomat, tore up treaties with Russia, backed ISIS in Syria, and let us not forget the mewling worship of Israel.
We’re taught that it’s good to fight morally good wars. Surely Hezbollahs objective - to stop the genocide in Gaza - is morally good? Why is that hard for westerners to understand
When Israel says "Self defence", westerners nod and say "Yes". When Israel says "That tent is Hamas", westerners say "Yes, Hamas". When this is their upside-down, inside-out approach to morality, your post just looks like hieroglyphs. Or Hamas.
Unless you're a smug/hysterical millionaire on the television, giving them permission to even use the word genocide, they don't want to hear it.
I think the "morally good" part is something guys like Joe Biden or Donald Trump are unable to understand. Morally good to them means how much money can I make off of others, and how good is my golf stroke compared to yours?
its admission is uncovering a deep dark can of detestable worms & their behaviors not for the “great ideals they were sold “but to profit off blood & resources of innocents in the name of what “freedumb & demockracy”wormy humans committing ugly acts in the open with admission of THIS PARTICULAR GENOCIDE the house of dirty cards collapses. because WHAT ABOUT ALL The
“un-televised” ones & there are quite a few Not just wars im talking Genocides (Congo Mianmar right Now ?)Colonial crimes WE bury our heads from still. ADMISSION Steps on the road to reality 🤷♀️”They cant handle the truth” so… another fuckin holocaust 🤬🤯🗣️⛑️
If you’re a US voter going into the Nov elections, you simply can’t ignore the devastating effects of US foreign policy by BOTH parties towards the rest of the world.
Being a citizen of one of the most influential and powerful countries globally, it would be highly irresponsible and HARMFUL for you to solely focus on domestic policy issues.
One should never underestimate the short-sightedness and egotism of the American electorate. Always remember that almost every election boils down to the 4-6% in the mushy middle who are often undecided until they step into the voting booth! And THAT's the group that politicians must win over to win! They have no principles, no standards. At least one can say about one's stalwart opponents in the other party that they do in fact have convictions, that they do believe in something. Talking to people without conviction in this world always shocks me.
One sad contributing factor to the American electorate's mindset is decades of brainwashing and propaganda, and local press outlets with mainly local news coverage, rather than proper international coverage.
All this has resulted in a population firmly believing in certain pre-determined narratives and a lot of ignorance on objective, factual information.
The genocide-enabling White House statement that it was "a measure of justice" that the Hezbollah leader was killed because his organization was "responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror" leads to a perilous slippery slope: It begs the question, would it not be "a measure of justice" if certain past operators in that same House were similarly treated because they were, after all, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis between 2003 and 2009 in the course of the criminal war and reign of terror they waged against that people in those years? And would it not be "a measure of justice" if certain operators in the present administration suffered a similar fate because they are deeply complicit in the deaths of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the genocidal reign of terror waged against them over the past year by their client state, Israel?
The arrogant stupidity of this present American administration in making such utterances is matched only by their callousness, and venality, and mendacity, and hypocrisy, and general bloodthirstiness. Didn't their mommies ever teach them to think before they speak, and to rather keep their mouths shut and be taken for fools than open them and remove all doubt?
there is indeed still an enormous heap of justice to be measured to empire by this logic (it's were the 'death to america' chant comes from). us national debt pales in comparison. (molehill vs mountain - scale).
Do Americans know why Hezbollah bombed the marine barracks in Beirut? It was because Americans were killing civilians in Lebanon first. After Americans get payback for their actions they play the victim just like Israel does.
That Netanyahu was allowed to speak at the UN yesterday shows that body has been neutered and won’t do what it was founded to do.
Ahh well, at least the Houthis had a warm welcome for Netanyahu when he returned home.
The UN does serve the purpose of allowing some form of communication and diplomacy to occur openly. Which, given how the US refuses any kind of authentic diplomacy these days, other than Mafia Don diplomacy,i.e. do this or we will strangle your economy with sanctions, and coup your democratically elected leader and replace him with Zelensky our CIA cutout puppet.
It was also quite heartening to see many nations walk out on Netanyahu, who gave a speech similar to the kind Hitler would give to the Reichstag in the late 1930s.
Yeah I enjoyed seeing the Net giving a speech to an empty room except for the people he hired to applaud him. The first time that happened he didn’t have any applause. He learned. Caitlin linked to that speech too.
But can’t the UN send peacekeepers into Gaza to stop Israel’s assaults? Instead Israel is killing UN workers and nothing…..
Yes. Although it is true the UN has been sabotaged by the US veto power, and the deep corruption now of the US government, it still serves what I feel a vitally important role in allowing the world to publicly announce and communicate its grievances on a world forum, and help expose some of the obvious malfeasance that many would desperately like to hide. It keeps important dialogue open in some manner.
If there is a nuclear war because the US is so power hungry and greedy, well that would not do much for the empire domestically. So that completely rules out Kamala being any better in any way at all. If these people continue on the path they are on, supporting a megalomaniac like Netanyahu, sending him weapons, if they continue to provoke Russia, then they are doing harm domestically and in every way that is possible to do harm to the earth and to all of us and the rest of the creatures who live on it.
True, but that is a major strategy for Capitalists to make more money and profits. As Naomi Klein suggests in her book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism", wars and destruction give Capitalists an opportunity to get lucrative contracts to rebuild, an opportunity to make un-payable loans and then demand austerity (or worse).
Pillage, plunder, death, destruction, war, artificial resource monopolization -> all these are strategies that the Capitalists USE in their pursuit of profits, power, control, domination. The Covid crisis was a good example (and makes an excellent case study) as to how the "Capitalist class" (oligarchs, empire managers, power elite, etc.) uses such crises (real or manufactured) to create more wealth for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Yes, that is all true. But now they are getting to the point where their greed and "opportunities" are about to destroy the entire planet either by climate disaster or war or a combination of both. It makes no sense at all unless they consider themselves also to be untouchables. They may be in for some nasty surprises when they come out of their bunkers to see........destruction of everything. Not to mention they may have some problems breathing or finding food after their bunkers run out.
>>"But now they are getting to the point where their greed and "opportunities" are about to destroy the entire planet either by climate disaster or war or a combination of both."
THAT is the problem with narcissists, "masters of the universe", excessive hubris, irrational over-confidence, and "illusions of uber-superiority" that these so-called people have. Such people have "detached" themselves from reality (to a certain extent). And yes, you are right - they will get us ALL killed AND the planet - but their inability to realize that (because of aforementioned characteristics) seems to now be our biggest challenge.
HOW do we get "these people" to realize that they are NOT separate from the rest of the planet/ecosystems/societies/humanity ? HOW do we get THEM to realize that THEY are NOT "THAT SPECIAL"? Must WE always pay the price for their mistakes and follies? (History seems to provide a dystopian answer to that question unfortunately).
I don't think it is just people who consider themselves superior that is the problem. Part of the problem is that other less wealthy, less powerful people also consider them superior. It is not really an us and them problem. It is an all of us problem. Clearly, destroying the planet means that we all suffer, no matter how big our bank accounts, what kind of car we drive, how big our houses are or any of that. If the planet dies, we die. Period. I am not sure if it is narcissism or just plain stupidity our corporate and political leaders are exhibiting. And this is evidence of the insanity we are faced with: https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/national/military-news/tennessee-national-guard-deployment-to-the-middle-east/522-d1669ca5-2df7-4b09-9f46-d31ecd968713
It's the feeling of superiority and invincibility (to a large extent) that causes bad decisions to be made. Also the knowledge that "risks can be externalized" and passed-off onto others.
[Exampe: The 2008 financial crisis. Anyone with half a brain (or decent knowledge of finance) could have seen that CDS (credit default swaps), MBS (morgage backed securities) and CDO (collateralized debt obligations) were on a trajectory that would create a bubble that would eventually pop. BUT, these insane risks were taken for 2 main reasons (a) The "uber bosses" thought they could palm the risks on others and not have to pay any consequences for their gambling, and (b) overconfidence in their financial and economic models due to THIS hubris and sense of superiority based on their position in the social ladder and financial system]
It is an ALL of us problem foisted by the MINORITY (the power elite, etc.) on the majority. The power elite will (just as in the example of the 2008 financial crises) pay few costs for their mistakes - the rest of us will land up bearing the costs of THEIR actions.
The reason the "less wealthy" and "less powerful" people considen "them" superior is the same reason that many others consider them superior - because they have been brainwashed, propagandized, and gaslighted. It is because they have bought into the "illusion" that they are "less" at risk than all the others. As long as these people are still under these "illusions" (of being in smaller risk profiles), they will continue to follow and obey the commands of the power elite.
Caitlin writes: "...... a western supremacist worldview which does not consider non-western lives to have equal value to western lives".
This point is being amply demonstrated with US/West backed Israel's impunity and bloodlust. A bloodlust that the empire has weaponised to control the world. Israel is the hired gun. The white supremacist West who demonstrably has no regard for other lives, are on a rampage, on a carnage. Israel kills and destroys any movement seeking some form of liberation for their people from the strangle hold of empire. It is as if the powerful can denude the lands inhabited by other races, exterminate their people, and steal their resources. Is this the new face/phase of neo-neo-colonialism? Is this their answer to a global warming world so that the finite resources could be shared with less and less human beings?
Seeing the Israeli leader's disgusting performance at the UN General assembly, we should pause to think where is our humanity, decency and morality gone.
Thinking now of a quote from the Forrest Gump movie, when he's talking to Jenny at her gravesite under the tree:
"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both. I'll miss you Jenny." ~Forrest Gump
I think a good bit of blame traces back to our materialistic, capitalistic society which emphasizes out-witting others and is out of touch with any sense of the basis of all decency, which come from loving our "others" as ourselves. The golden rule has been crucified.
'The above statement by Daou is quantifiably, indisputably true, and it is devastating to the argument that Democrats should be supported in the name of “harm reduction”.
Hannah Arendt had something to say about that:
"When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
Biden’s statement applauding Israel’s assassination just painted a bulls eye on every American troop in the Middle East.
Bingo!
"It has long been obvious that western liberals are lying about who they are and what they stand for, but it took a Democrat overseeing genocidal atrocities during an election season to fully drive the point home."
I had arguments with shitlibs who were against the Bush wars, but then were in favor of them once Obama inherited them. I detested his use of drones and a few told me that they accepted them because they saved American lives.
Obama has the soul of a capitalistic and the arrogance of royalty. And (to borrow a phrase from my good Aggie {liberal] Texan mentor) he was as slick as greased owl shit!
Speaking of Aggies, I’m not sure if I could ever be forgiven for repurposing Robert Earl Keen’s great song “Maria,” but I’m going to do it:, “ When I sleep with you Natanyahu, there’s nothing left for dreams to steal.”
Interesting as I too stopped reading her for the same reason. And her fawning readers called my dissenting view that of a Russian bot or a Putin babe one too many times.
Wow, this post attracted a bunch of lunatics. This is why Israel is getting away with what they are doing. The western world can't make up its mind whether to kill all of the Muslims in the world to make room for the Christians and Jews or to stand around stomping their feet screaming at the politicians to stop hurting people like a bunch of six year olds.
Where is the will to stand up to the genocidal maniacs that inhabit the houses of power and demand they stop the Zionists? Where are all of the protestors who took to the streets in the 1960's and early 1970's to stop the war in Vietnam? I realize that most of those protesters are now in their 70's now but their children and grandchildren can take up the flag and stand in their places. The kids on the college campuses are trying to have peaceful protests but I would argue that peaceful sit in protests are not working.
If the people in the United States and Europe truly have a majority opinion that all of this killing truly needs to stop, then the people need to hit the streets like they did in 1973 and 1974 and scare the politicians like they did back then. Nixon and Kissinger were very afraid that the protesters were coming after them. The western world needs to instill that same fear in their leaders right now or the carnage will never end.
It's extremely painful to acknowledge that our beloved country has always shown no dignity toward -- or value of -- lives of non-"white" (i.e. European) humans, but we started out that way and have never turned back. That our most recently elected presidents so blatantly profess their support of this disgusting and destructive prejudice is the reason I will no longer support the Democratic candidates now applauding our brazen, self-righteous biases that cause our national partnership with the vile actions of Israel. Among others we encourage.
—Washington is a criminal regime as its illegal wars, regime changes and deliberate mass murder demonstrate beyond any doubt #HumanRights #AmericanImperialism
♦️US military has killed/helped kill 20+million people—overthrown 36 govts/interfered in 85 foreign elections—attempted to assassinate 50+foreign leaders—dropped bombs on people in 30+countries
In response to the ending question "is it worth it"? I have a mixed bag of beliefs in how it plays out. One there are a whole bunch of these Zionist Nazi politicians who are complete imbeciles, two some are Evangelical Nut Jobs that actually want the end times & hell on earth, three from "Fritz Freud" I saw some hard evidence Biden has this same end times plan and this administration wants to keep pushing Russia to make it happen (somehow taking the blame (which is insane in and of itself!)) and the last is that these idiots seem to think they can get away with it! I also question whether they know something that the general populace does not know like an incoming asteroid or something but then I remember these creatures are all Criminally Insane and Mass Murdering Sociopaths so killing is what makes them "feel joy joy"!
"The real harm reduction would entail ending the systems which make you choose between two murderous warmongers, and it would entail dismantling the US empire itself. Anything short of this is just fooling yourself."
There's one candidate who says just this--that it's time dismantle the US empire: Dr. Jill Stein. You don't have to choose between the two warmongers of the uniparty. Vote for Jill Stein, the anti-genocide/pro-peace/pro-worker candidate. jillstein2024.com
Thank you Caitlin! I have no words, right now, to express my grief and fear at what is to come in the following months (years?) due to Israel's escalation of depravity that it has learnt from its role model and evil parent 'The United States of America'.
"I have no words, right now" - take your time chokaski, we'll wait.
take your time too booger no rush
She is not perfect - no candidate ever is, but Jill Stein is getting my vote.
People, planet and peace. It's a world we ALL can live on together in harmony with each other and nature. jillstein2024.com
Lol! Kumbaya!
shes morally lightyears ahead of the dirty duo red & blu. Love her VP B. Ware ( great name too) lol but seriously its a no brainer imho. Genocide gotta end 🙏shes committed to that 100% we must ride this wave out to start extracting the psychotic system of dead weights, now embedded,killing slaughtering ,GENOCIDING in every GD direction in our names w/ our GD money. or really ask WHAT THE F COULD BE NEXT?✌️🙏
The fact that more of the electorate refuse to vote for the two big parties should be made more of by Jill Stein's campaigners. I hope that she is successful, against all odds.
There is no possible way that a third party can win the presidency while the idiotic “Electoral College” is the law of the land. If no candidate wins 270 electoral votes, the House of Representatives chooses the president.
That is always the 2 parties say and the excuse people make for not voting 3rd party. But voting 3rd parry sends a message, and if enough people do it that will send a strong message that the other two parties need to stop f*king us over.
so go vote a ham sand-witch but VOTE PLEASE if we dont win but show huge numbers the leverage accrues.Bernie could have had us there had he not been a traitor to independence hes a Dem( now a slur like Republican too)🤷♀️& they are both dead to many & movement is growing. OWNED SLAVE media just hides the #s vastly jumping both sinking ships
I have never fully understood the Electoral College thing. A few unelected heads can overturn the democratic mandate on a whim, it's crazy. Why does it still exist.
Because magic doesn’t exist.
And no, Democrat isn’t a slur. How old are you, 12?
#VoteOther
Trump doesn't want any wars.
sure he did, it's why he ramped up support for Ukraine, assassinated an Iranian diplomat, tore up treaties with Russia, backed ISIS in Syria, and let us not forget the mewling worship of Israel.
An aipac funded tRUMP wants the military state that is illegally occupying Palestine to “finish the job”. What do you think he means by that?
Is “HRC” a candidate in this election? Is “HRC” in the room with us right now?
We’re taught that it’s good to fight morally good wars. Surely Hezbollahs objective - to stop the genocide in Gaza - is morally good? Why is that hard for westerners to understand
When Israel says "Self defence", westerners nod and say "Yes". When Israel says "That tent is Hamas", westerners say "Yes, Hamas". When this is their upside-down, inside-out approach to morality, your post just looks like hieroglyphs. Or Hamas.
Unless you're a smug/hysterical millionaire on the television, giving them permission to even use the word genocide, they don't want to hear it.
I think the "morally good" part is something guys like Joe Biden or Donald Trump are unable to understand. Morally good to them means how much money can I make off of others, and how good is my golf stroke compared to yours?
its admission is uncovering a deep dark can of detestable worms & their behaviors not for the “great ideals they were sold “but to profit off blood & resources of innocents in the name of what “freedumb & demockracy”wormy humans committing ugly acts in the open with admission of THIS PARTICULAR GENOCIDE the house of dirty cards collapses. because WHAT ABOUT ALL The
“un-televised” ones & there are quite a few Not just wars im talking Genocides (Congo Mianmar right Now ?)Colonial crimes WE bury our heads from still. ADMISSION Steps on the road to reality 🤷♀️”They cant handle the truth” so… another fuckin holocaust 🤬🤯🗣️⛑️
If you’re a US voter going into the Nov elections, you simply can’t ignore the devastating effects of US foreign policy by BOTH parties towards the rest of the world.
Being a citizen of one of the most influential and powerful countries globally, it would be highly irresponsible and HARMFUL for you to solely focus on domestic policy issues.
One should never underestimate the short-sightedness and egotism of the American electorate. Always remember that almost every election boils down to the 4-6% in the mushy middle who are often undecided until they step into the voting booth! And THAT's the group that politicians must win over to win! They have no principles, no standards. At least one can say about one's stalwart opponents in the other party that they do in fact have convictions, that they do believe in something. Talking to people without conviction in this world always shocks me.
One sad contributing factor to the American electorate's mindset is decades of brainwashing and propaganda, and local press outlets with mainly local news coverage, rather than proper international coverage.
All this has resulted in a population firmly believing in certain pre-determined narratives and a lot of ignorance on objective, factual information.
The genocide-enabling White House statement that it was "a measure of justice" that the Hezbollah leader was killed because his organization was "responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror" leads to a perilous slippery slope: It begs the question, would it not be "a measure of justice" if certain past operators in that same House were similarly treated because they were, after all, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis between 2003 and 2009 in the course of the criminal war and reign of terror they waged against that people in those years? And would it not be "a measure of justice" if certain operators in the present administration suffered a similar fate because they are deeply complicit in the deaths of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the genocidal reign of terror waged against them over the past year by their client state, Israel?
The arrogant stupidity of this present American administration in making such utterances is matched only by their callousness, and venality, and mendacity, and hypocrisy, and general bloodthirstiness. Didn't their mommies ever teach them to think before they speak, and to rather keep their mouths shut and be taken for fools than open them and remove all doubt?
there is indeed still an enormous heap of justice to be measured to empire by this logic (it's were the 'death to america' chant comes from). us national debt pales in comparison. (molehill vs mountain - scale).
Well said W.F.Miloglav!
Do Americans know why Hezbollah bombed the marine barracks in Beirut? It was because Americans were killing civilians in Lebanon first. After Americans get payback for their actions they play the victim just like Israel does.
That Netanyahu was allowed to speak at the UN yesterday shows that body has been neutered and won’t do what it was founded to do.
Ahh well, at least the Houthis had a warm welcome for Netanyahu when he returned home.
The UN does serve the purpose of allowing some form of communication and diplomacy to occur openly. Which, given how the US refuses any kind of authentic diplomacy these days, other than Mafia Don diplomacy,i.e. do this or we will strangle your economy with sanctions, and coup your democratically elected leader and replace him with Zelensky our CIA cutout puppet.
It was also quite heartening to see many nations walk out on Netanyahu, who gave a speech similar to the kind Hitler would give to the Reichstag in the late 1930s.
Yeah I enjoyed seeing the Net giving a speech to an empty room except for the people he hired to applaud him. The first time that happened he didn’t have any applause. He learned. Caitlin linked to that speech too.
But can’t the UN send peacekeepers into Gaza to stop Israel’s assaults? Instead Israel is killing UN workers and nothing…..
Hi Sam
IsraHell won’t ALLOW peacekeepers.
Which speaks volumes about them.
lavrov also got a chance to communicate the russian stance for a broader audience.
Yes. Although it is true the UN has been sabotaged by the US veto power, and the deep corruption now of the US government, it still serves what I feel a vitally important role in allowing the world to publicly announce and communicate its grievances on a world forum, and help expose some of the obvious malfeasance that many would desperately like to hide. It keeps important dialogue open in some manner.
They are one and the same! You can see every time they commit their War Crimes they are good Israeli "Victims"!
If there is a nuclear war because the US is so power hungry and greedy, well that would not do much for the empire domestically. So that completely rules out Kamala being any better in any way at all. If these people continue on the path they are on, supporting a megalomaniac like Netanyahu, sending him weapons, if they continue to provoke Russia, then they are doing harm domestically and in every way that is possible to do harm to the earth and to all of us and the rest of the creatures who live on it.
True, but that is a major strategy for Capitalists to make more money and profits. As Naomi Klein suggests in her book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism", wars and destruction give Capitalists an opportunity to get lucrative contracts to rebuild, an opportunity to make un-payable loans and then demand austerity (or worse).
Pillage, plunder, death, destruction, war, artificial resource monopolization -> all these are strategies that the Capitalists USE in their pursuit of profits, power, control, domination. The Covid crisis was a good example (and makes an excellent case study) as to how the "Capitalist class" (oligarchs, empire managers, power elite, etc.) uses such crises (real or manufactured) to create more wealth for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Yes, that is all true. But now they are getting to the point where their greed and "opportunities" are about to destroy the entire planet either by climate disaster or war or a combination of both. It makes no sense at all unless they consider themselves also to be untouchables. They may be in for some nasty surprises when they come out of their bunkers to see........destruction of everything. Not to mention they may have some problems breathing or finding food after their bunkers run out.
>>"But now they are getting to the point where their greed and "opportunities" are about to destroy the entire planet either by climate disaster or war or a combination of both."
THAT is the problem with narcissists, "masters of the universe", excessive hubris, irrational over-confidence, and "illusions of uber-superiority" that these so-called people have. Such people have "detached" themselves from reality (to a certain extent). And yes, you are right - they will get us ALL killed AND the planet - but their inability to realize that (because of aforementioned characteristics) seems to now be our biggest challenge.
HOW do we get "these people" to realize that they are NOT separate from the rest of the planet/ecosystems/societies/humanity ? HOW do we get THEM to realize that THEY are NOT "THAT SPECIAL"? Must WE always pay the price for their mistakes and follies? (History seems to provide a dystopian answer to that question unfortunately).
I don't think it is just people who consider themselves superior that is the problem. Part of the problem is that other less wealthy, less powerful people also consider them superior. It is not really an us and them problem. It is an all of us problem. Clearly, destroying the planet means that we all suffer, no matter how big our bank accounts, what kind of car we drive, how big our houses are or any of that. If the planet dies, we die. Period. I am not sure if it is narcissism or just plain stupidity our corporate and political leaders are exhibiting. And this is evidence of the insanity we are faced with: https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/national/military-news/tennessee-national-guard-deployment-to-the-middle-east/522-d1669ca5-2df7-4b09-9f46-d31ecd968713
It's the feeling of superiority and invincibility (to a large extent) that causes bad decisions to be made. Also the knowledge that "risks can be externalized" and passed-off onto others.
[Exampe: The 2008 financial crisis. Anyone with half a brain (or decent knowledge of finance) could have seen that CDS (credit default swaps), MBS (morgage backed securities) and CDO (collateralized debt obligations) were on a trajectory that would create a bubble that would eventually pop. BUT, these insane risks were taken for 2 main reasons (a) The "uber bosses" thought they could palm the risks on others and not have to pay any consequences for their gambling, and (b) overconfidence in their financial and economic models due to THIS hubris and sense of superiority based on their position in the social ladder and financial system]
It is an ALL of us problem foisted by the MINORITY (the power elite, etc.) on the majority. The power elite will (just as in the example of the 2008 financial crises) pay few costs for their mistakes - the rest of us will land up bearing the costs of THEIR actions.
The reason the "less wealthy" and "less powerful" people considen "them" superior is the same reason that many others consider them superior - because they have been brainwashed, propagandized, and gaslighted. It is because they have bought into the "illusion" that they are "less" at risk than all the others. As long as these people are still under these "illusions" (of being in smaller risk profiles), they will continue to follow and obey the commands of the power elite.
Caitlin writes: "...... a western supremacist worldview which does not consider non-western lives to have equal value to western lives".
This point is being amply demonstrated with US/West backed Israel's impunity and bloodlust. A bloodlust that the empire has weaponised to control the world. Israel is the hired gun. The white supremacist West who demonstrably has no regard for other lives, are on a rampage, on a carnage. Israel kills and destroys any movement seeking some form of liberation for their people from the strangle hold of empire. It is as if the powerful can denude the lands inhabited by other races, exterminate their people, and steal their resources. Is this the new face/phase of neo-neo-colonialism? Is this their answer to a global warming world so that the finite resources could be shared with less and less human beings?
Seeing the Israeli leader's disgusting performance at the UN General assembly, we should pause to think where is our humanity, decency and morality gone.
"where is our humanity, decency and morality done"
Down the drain of corporate profits.
“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks jamenta. I was feeling somewhat desperate!
Yeah it's not looking good Indu. :(
Thinking now of a quote from the Forrest Gump movie, when he's talking to Jenny at her gravesite under the tree:
"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both. I'll miss you Jenny." ~Forrest Gump
I think a good bit of blame traces back to our materialistic, capitalistic society which emphasizes out-witting others and is out of touch with any sense of the basis of all decency, which come from loving our "others" as ourselves. The golden rule has been crucified.
It’s the lesser evil voting nonsense.
'The above statement by Daou is quantifiably, indisputably true, and it is devastating to the argument that Democrats should be supported in the name of “harm reduction”.
Hannah Arendt had something to say about that:
"When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
Biden’s statement applauding Israel’s assassination just painted a bulls eye on every American troop in the Middle East.
Bingo!
"It has long been obvious that western liberals are lying about who they are and what they stand for, but it took a Democrat overseeing genocidal atrocities during an election season to fully drive the point home."
I had arguments with shitlibs who were against the Bush wars, but then were in favor of them once Obama inherited them. I detested his use of drones and a few told me that they accepted them because they saved American lives.
OMG! Obama flushed this country's soul! What a faker.
He did and just like Clinton he is still worshipped as a great president. Obama expanded every war he inherited and started more on his own.
Clinton could have turned America into a peaceful country after the USSR fell, but he decided to expand NATO instead.
Obama has the soul of a capitalistic and the arrogance of royalty. And (to borrow a phrase from my good Aggie {liberal] Texan mentor) he was as slick as greased owl shit!
Molly Ivins? :-)
Speaking of Aggies, I’m not sure if I could ever be forgiven for repurposing Robert Earl Keen’s great song “Maria,” but I’m going to do it:, “ When I sleep with you Natanyahu, there’s nothing left for dreams to steal.”
Sorry for the stomach-churning image!
I stoped following Heather Cox Richardson months ago because of her unwavering support of Joe Biden.
Unwavering support for a genocide sure has a way of exposing people's true colors.
I had similar experiences when I presented a view they didn’t like.
Interesting as I too stopped reading her for the same reason. And her fawning readers called my dissenting view that of a Russian bot or a Putin babe one too many times.
Hi Selina
Then I guess I’m a Putin Babe too.
I lectured my good friend yesterday as to how fortunate the Russians are to have a leader who actually cares about HIS PEOPLE.
I had similar experiences whenever I presented a view they did’t like.
Me, too!
Wow, this post attracted a bunch of lunatics. This is why Israel is getting away with what they are doing. The western world can't make up its mind whether to kill all of the Muslims in the world to make room for the Christians and Jews or to stand around stomping their feet screaming at the politicians to stop hurting people like a bunch of six year olds.
Where is the will to stand up to the genocidal maniacs that inhabit the houses of power and demand they stop the Zionists? Where are all of the protestors who took to the streets in the 1960's and early 1970's to stop the war in Vietnam? I realize that most of those protesters are now in their 70's now but their children and grandchildren can take up the flag and stand in their places. The kids on the college campuses are trying to have peaceful protests but I would argue that peaceful sit in protests are not working.
If the people in the United States and Europe truly have a majority opinion that all of this killing truly needs to stop, then the people need to hit the streets like they did in 1973 and 1974 and scare the politicians like they did back then. Nixon and Kissinger were very afraid that the protesters were coming after them. The western world needs to instill that same fear in their leaders right now or the carnage will never end.
It's extremely painful to acknowledge that our beloved country has always shown no dignity toward -- or value of -- lives of non-"white" (i.e. European) humans, but we started out that way and have never turned back. That our most recently elected presidents so blatantly profess their support of this disgusting and destructive prejudice is the reason I will no longer support the Democratic candidates now applauding our brazen, self-righteous biases that cause our national partnership with the vile actions of Israel. Among others we encourage.
🛑 When Will USA Be Held To Account?
—Washington is a criminal regime as its illegal wars, regime changes and deliberate mass murder demonstrate beyond any doubt #HumanRights #AmericanImperialism
👇https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/12/28/a-mass-murdering-regime-dares-to-lecture-the-world-on-human-rights/
🛑 US WARS/HOSTILE ACTIONS since #WorldWarII
♦️US military has killed/helped kill 20+million people—overthrown 36 govts/interfered in 85 foreign elections—attempted to assassinate 50+foreign leaders—dropped bombs on people in 30+countries
#HumanRights
👇 https://davidswanson.org/warlist/
In response to the ending question "is it worth it"? I have a mixed bag of beliefs in how it plays out. One there are a whole bunch of these Zionist Nazi politicians who are complete imbeciles, two some are Evangelical Nut Jobs that actually want the end times & hell on earth, three from "Fritz Freud" I saw some hard evidence Biden has this same end times plan and this administration wants to keep pushing Russia to make it happen (somehow taking the blame (which is insane in and of itself!)) and the last is that these idiots seem to think they can get away with it! I also question whether they know something that the general populace does not know like an incoming asteroid or something but then I remember these creatures are all Criminally Insane and Mass Murdering Sociopaths so killing is what makes them "feel joy joy"!
Although, I promise you, what they are feeling is not joy! More like the ultimate ecstasy of schadenfreude.
"The real harm reduction would entail ending the systems which make you choose between two murderous warmongers, and it would entail dismantling the US empire itself. Anything short of this is just fooling yourself."
There's one candidate who says just this--that it's time dismantle the US empire: Dr. Jill Stein. You don't have to choose between the two warmongers of the uniparty. Vote for Jill Stein, the anti-genocide/pro-peace/pro-worker candidate. jillstein2024.com