A comment from me to someone in a FB group responding to this:
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No hate anywhere in this... Disgust, anger regarding hateful beliefs and murderous genocidal actions, you bet, for sure... Learn some distinctions...
And yes, the solution is for ALL of us to speak up, act out, engage with others, and keep doing so, so that what is going on is not hidden behind corporate "news" infotainment and spin, and corporate, lobbyist and oligarchical disinformation campaigns…
Along with joining together our actions and efforts and keeping each other informed in regards to what is actually happening on many fronts now...
Rather than trying to make each other "bad" for calling it out…
We are not going to educate MAGA fools, but we can educate and evolve with each other…
A second comment from me to someone in a FB group responding to this:
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I'm a little careful about sticking my hand out to those who will bite it off at the shoulder... And there are many many out there like that, gathering around the MAGA flag... Do I hate them...? No... But I know they are deeply misinformed and conditioned around some beliefs they are unable and/or unwilling to separate their own identities from...
So I mostly don't waste my time, other than calling both the MAGAs and the neoliberals out... Until something in them begins to wake up a little bit, and starts looking for something different... I am totally here for that... To discover that difference together...
Just like a half wolf dog I once had, when it was still just a little pup, I was careful with where I put my hands until it was able to learn that I was not other than it...
And that is one of the differences between humans and critters... Humans can for as long as they choose keep willfully believing everything and everyone is other than "it"... The one meta-belief or delusion near all humans seem to share... That we are separate... Otherwise there could be no wars... And no homelessness either...
But, here I am, my hand out and open to you, and my heart laid bare to everyone in this group who bothers to look, around this latest Nakba or catastrophe for the Palestinian people... And not just emotionally, also deeply reasoned and informed...
"Liberal" is not just an identity with walls around it, for me... As if our identities are like boxes, or mere bodies... It is and once was a way of actual being that extends beyond our limited forms, as part of how we interact and engage with each other... Just as "conservative" once was...
So liberal is not a bad word for me... But, those who surround themselves with that term, like a box, so that they can ignore the world around them, and it has become a rather small globe we and a zillion other species are all on these days, it is them I am calling out... And maybe occasionally poking a little hole or two in their boxes...
And I am especially calling out Biden, as much as I can, across the huge interstellar distance he keeps around him and his beliefs and identity... A Biden Administration that is hiding behind as well as manipulating that liberal label in spades, so as to keep doing the insanity they are doing...
Which will, more than ANYTHING else, allow Trump and the fascists to win in November...
All of what is happening in the Middle East and Palestine and Yemen, in regards to U.S. actions and activities, diplomatically and militarily and including the continual and constant transfer of arms and munitions to the IDF, and even U.S. military personnel helping to identify targets in Gaza, AND U.S. support of Israeli actions and contrariness at the U.N. and at the recent ICJ hearings, is totally Biden and his hand picked administration...
Biden is the Commander in Chief of all of that, militarily and diplomatically... Blinken and the state department is under and subject to the dictates of Biden, and so is our military...
That many in congress support this insanity and would act in even worse ways, at the urgings of AIPAC who contribute many millions every year to their campaigns, and that another god forbid Trump administration would act in even FURTHER worse ways, makes what the Biden administration's current actions and inactions in these regards (and some others) NO LESS egregious...
It is Biden who can turn it around... No one else... And it is Biden who is destroying his chances against the fascists winning the white house, in less than a year now... And maybe even both houses of congress...
A comment from me to someone in a FB group responding to this:
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No hate anywhere in this... Disgust, anger regarding hateful beliefs and murderous genocidal actions, you bet, for sure... Learn some distinctions...
And yes, the solution is for ALL of us to speak up, act out, engage with others, and keep doing so, so that what is going on is not hidden behind corporate "news" infotainment and spin, and corporate, lobbyist and oligarchical disinformation campaigns…
Along with joining together our actions and efforts and keeping each other informed in regards to what is actually happening on many fronts now...
Rather than trying to make each other "bad" for calling it out…
We are not going to educate MAGA fools, but we can educate and evolve with each other…
🙏🌻
A second comment from me to someone in a FB group responding to this:
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I'm a little careful about sticking my hand out to those who will bite it off at the shoulder... And there are many many out there like that, gathering around the MAGA flag... Do I hate them...? No... But I know they are deeply misinformed and conditioned around some beliefs they are unable and/or unwilling to separate their own identities from...
So I mostly don't waste my time, other than calling both the MAGAs and the neoliberals out... Until something in them begins to wake up a little bit, and starts looking for something different... I am totally here for that... To discover that difference together...
Just like a half wolf dog I once had, when it was still just a little pup, I was careful with where I put my hands until it was able to learn that I was not other than it...
And that is one of the differences between humans and critters... Humans can for as long as they choose keep willfully believing everything and everyone is other than "it"... The one meta-belief or delusion near all humans seem to share... That we are separate... Otherwise there could be no wars... And no homelessness either...
But, here I am, my hand out and open to you, and my heart laid bare to everyone in this group who bothers to look, around this latest Nakba or catastrophe for the Palestinian people... And not just emotionally, also deeply reasoned and informed...
"Liberal" is not just an identity with walls around it, for me... As if our identities are like boxes, or mere bodies... It is and once was a way of actual being that extends beyond our limited forms, as part of how we interact and engage with each other... Just as "conservative" once was...
So liberal is not a bad word for me... But, those who surround themselves with that term, like a box, so that they can ignore the world around them, and it has become a rather small globe we and a zillion other species are all on these days, it is them I am calling out... And maybe occasionally poking a little hole or two in their boxes...
And I am especially calling out Biden, as much as I can, across the huge interstellar distance he keeps around him and his beliefs and identity... A Biden Administration that is hiding behind as well as manipulating that liberal label in spades, so as to keep doing the insanity they are doing...
Which will, more than ANYTHING else, allow Trump and the fascists to win in November...
Just like I call out the MAGA hate...
🙏🌻
A third comment from me to someone in a FB group:
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All of what is happening in the Middle East and Palestine and Yemen, in regards to U.S. actions and activities, diplomatically and militarily and including the continual and constant transfer of arms and munitions to the IDF, and even U.S. military personnel helping to identify targets in Gaza, AND U.S. support of Israeli actions and contrariness at the U.N. and at the recent ICJ hearings, is totally Biden and his hand picked administration...
Biden is the Commander in Chief of all of that, militarily and diplomatically... Blinken and the state department is under and subject to the dictates of Biden, and so is our military...
That many in congress support this insanity and would act in even worse ways, at the urgings of AIPAC who contribute many millions every year to their campaigns, and that another god forbid Trump administration would act in even FURTHER worse ways, makes what the Biden administration's current actions and inactions in these regards (and some others) NO LESS egregious...
It is Biden who can turn it around... No one else... And it is Biden who is destroying his chances against the fascists winning the white house, in less than a year now... And maybe even both houses of congress...
god forbid indeed...
🙏🌻