Gaza WILL Get Worse Under Trump. It Will Also Get Worse Under Harris. by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-10-25 at 21:53:11 )

Gaza WILL Get Worse Under Trump. It Will Also Get Worse Under Harris. by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Know how I know? Because it has been getting worse and worse in Gaza for a whole year, and both Mr. Trump and Ms Harris have pledged to continue unconditionally supporting the state that is making it worse and worse.

The thing about people who argue that Gaza will get worse if Trump wins is that they are technically not wrong: Gaza will get worse if Trump wins. But it will also get worse if Harris wins.

Know how I know? Because it has been getting worse and worse in Gaza for a whole year, and both Trump and Harris have pledged to continue unconditionally supporting the state that is making it worse and worse.

Crazy person: If Trump wins something BAD might happen!

Normal person: His opponent is literally committing genocide right now.

Crazy person: No but like something REALLY bad!

The other day a Muslim streamer named Frogan enraged every western liberal on earth by making the very correct and obvious observation that the United States military is a force of immense evil in our world and the people who work for the United States military directly perpetrate those immense evils.

She is right. If you are offended by part of the things she said you are a bootlicker and a loser.

I am an avowed socialist but I have more in common with a United States libertarian who opposes the Gaza genocide than with any lefty I agree with about every issue besides Palestine. If you get Gaza right you are a better person than someone who gets it wrong, even if the rest of your politics are ridiculous and the rest of their politics are solid.

I am going to be so mean to Democrats if they lose another easily winnable election by unforced errors and try to blame anyone but themselves for their loss again. I am going to ruin peoples day. I will make grown men cry.

There are two types of Israel apologist:"
1. The openly racist and genocidal "Haha kill them all” kind.

2. The dishonest kind that makes bad faith arguments and pretends to believe things they know are false.

These are the only two types. There are no others. This is because the only two ways you can defend Israels genocidal atrocities are either (1) to argue that genocidal atrocities are good, or (2) to obfuscate the reality that indefensible genocidal atrocities are happening and need to stop immediately. Only the first can be done with any level of intellectual honesty.

If you liked "All the hospitals in Gaza are Hamas", you will love Israels new hit "All the hospitals in Lebanon are Hezbollah." "please see here:" - Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) October 21, 2024

So much of the Public Relations for the United States-Israeli genocide in Gaza revolves around convincing people to abandon their common sense and believe self-evidently idiotic bullshit, because that is all they have got.

They can not justify Israel bombing hospitals, routinely shooting Palestinian kids in the head, assassinating journalists and doctors and cultural leaders, and deliberately targeting areas known to be packed full of civilians, so they ask you to turn off your critical thinking faculties and accept that all of those people are either (A) Hamas or (B) "human shields" of Hamas.

They seriously ask you to set down everything you know about Israels history and its longstanding agenda to steal all Palestinian land and accept on faith that what is being done in Gaza is all about self-defense and fighting terrorism.

They will facilitate a genocide right in front of you for an entire year and then still ask you to believe that they are working real hard on a ceasefire and they will get aid to those starving civilians any minute now.

They will get caught in lie after lie after lie trying to justify their genocidal atrocities, and then STILL try to tell you that a bunch of journalists in Gaza are secret Hamas combatants and that there is a secret Hezbollah base hidden underneath a hospital in Beirut.

Their position is so evil and so stupid, so completely indefensible on any moral or rational basis, that the only tool in their toolbox is to ask you to voluntarily turn yourself into a drooling moron and swallow obvious propaganda right down your throat with zero gag reflex.

It would be cute and funny if it was not being used to justify the ugliest things happening in our world today.

If the mainstream western media were comprised of journalists instead of propagandists, there would be earth-shaking outcry over Israel claiming that six Al Jazeera reporters in Gaza are secret members of Hamas and thereby marking them for death.

It is not just people like me who view the western press as propagandists for the western empire - that is how they view themselves. They do not say it, and they might not even think it, but you see it tacitly acknowledged in the disparity between how they treat journalists who criticize the empire compared to mainstream reporters who dutifully toe the imperial line.

The outcry in the mainstream press over a Wall Street Journal reporter like Evan Gershkovich getting arrested or a Washington Post columnist like Jamal Khashoggi being murdered is always orders of magnitude greater than anything we have seen about all the Palestinian journalists being murdered in Gaza, or the imprisonment of Julian Assange, or the persecution of pro-Palestinian journalists like Asa Winstanley or Jeremy Loffredo.

This disparity reveals a clear "us vs them" attitude in the mainstream western press which draws a solid line between journalists who promote the information interests of the western empire and journalists who do not, with journalists who challenge the official narratives of Washington,D.C. and its allies placed firmly in the "them" category.

Even the way you will routinely see mainstream media outlets report news that was already broken by independent dissident media as a "scoop" without giving those indie outlets credit for their original reporting illustrates this "us and them" viewpoint. They simply do not regard journalists as real journalists unless they work for an imperial media outlet like The New York Times or the BBC, and therefore do not respect or regard them accordingly.

This shows that they do not view the job of "journalist" as simply someone who does journalism; for them, a real journalist is someone who aligns with the United States government and its allies and helps market its wars and agendas to the public. If you are not doing this, then you are not one of "us", you are one of "them", and you will be treated accordingly. And the "us" that they view themselves as belonging to is a collective of professional propagandists.

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Ah, the Buddha Ms Caitlin speaks the truth!!! - Cousin Lucky