lesser evil calculus where it’s literally just n compared to n+1 is so unhinged like, this is not a meaningful measurement. if the harris admin promised to kill 200000 and maim one where the trump admin promised to kill 200001 are we making a difference here? kill 200000 and leave one on life support? what are we doing here. it’s so bleak
CW: Doomerism
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Genuinely instructive to watch Holocaust denial constructed in real time. I mean we’ve had a shitload of genocide denial in my lifetime, past, present, and even hypothetical, but watching the various propagandas of a full scale final solution in real time has tested so many various hypothesis of holocaust denial and left only the “They know.” ones on the table. I’m more interested in ends than motivation because it’s just easier to test hypothesis of ends in history (including contemporary history), and yet. . . I find myself so exhausted by the question now.
It’s all so painfully banal, so “normal”. It’s one thing to know the US is a fascist empire where it feels like there is a separation between the genocide of the state and its people. When more videos of death exist than the number of dead you’re allowed to say exist, and the mask falls away from everyone you’ve ever met, and all that is left is the raging violence you occasionally witness when you forced someone to reckon with empire and they chose to embrace it.
Death to America. Death to the Great Satan, Adversary of basic human rights, dignity, and communism. Death, let there be nothing but Death. Death is all the beast understands.
I’m ~ I’m not doing great folks. And the only thing that little gremlin in my brain found for “hope”, the last woe in Pandora’s box, the ball and chain weighing the fetters of us all, is a slim possibility that if Trump wins the Libs will start pretending to be against the genocide at the US southern border again instead of doing, between two presidents, worse than every president after 1945 (I can’t prove it but I’ve spoken to survivors, dead now, who swear Zyclon gas chambers were used to kill ‘excess’ migrant workers, in addition to the historical fact of its use in “delousing showers” for general work crossing). The present genocide at our border is a historical evil that rests almost solely at Biden and Obama and their cohort’s feet. The full Holocaust of the Palestinian people, constant increasing agression, Biden endorsing a ban on trans children’s care, the military police, Big Brother tech and social media . . . I’ll stop.