(definitely not satire )
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When I was a kid I didn't understand how people let a genocide happen. I mean, just go there and protest, disrupting everything you can until they're forced to stop. Everyone's against genocide, right? We should be able to get millions of people to completely flood the streets and prevent everything from happening, including the killing. Sure, they'd gun some of us down, but it'd have to be less than they'd kill otherwise.
Now I'm voting for the guy supplying the weapons.
Am I wholly supporting him and am complicit in everything he has ever done and ever will do? No, but I'm disgusted with myself, and always will be. I have the ability to put my life on the line for the sake of saving those who are losing theirs, and instead I vote for the guy handing out the guns. I have no right to be anything but disgusted with myself. If you can rationalize it and forgive yourself, that's cool I guess, but I'm not going to give myself that out.
Innocent people - mothers, children - will be killed because of the actions of a man I voted for. The least I could do is feel bad about it. If people were being mowed down in my town by guns supplied by another country, I know I'd forever hate the people of that country for not doing something, ANYTHING, to stop it. Our country was founded by the act of stepping up to fight a government that doesn't care about people. Look at us now.
Holy shit homie :(
I guess if you are voluntarily refusing to give yourself an out, that’s your right.
But you absolutely are not required to feel any culpability for this. The meme is satire. The system which precipitated the current crisis wasn’t a product of you, nor your generation, nor even the previous one. You are operating as a reasonable and honest individual looking out for their neighbor in a shitty fucking situation.
The evil and oppression of centuries of white capitalists, imperialists, colonialists and slaveowners is not a cross that needs to dig into your own emotional wellbeing, this point only strengthened by the fact that none of those oppressive scum ever shed a single tear for the terror they wrought.
Thank you for your honesty and courage in posting this. I wish you a bright today and tomorrow ♥️
I appreciate the kind words, but I'm only responsible for my own actions, and at the end of the day, I have the ability to buy a ticket to Israel or DC to start a protest there.
It wouldn't do much good with just me, but maybe I'd drum up some support and get a few people to join me. That's how movements start, after all - one person becomes a few, becomes a lot, becomes a force to be reckoned with. But I'm not doing that. I'm posting on social media just like the "thoughts and prayers" crowd.
This whole situation has shown me exactly how people can let atrocities happen - they simply don't believe their actions would be enough to make a difference, so they sit and hope someone has the balls to do what they can't bring themselves to.
For what it’s worth, internet protest is a thing too.
I don’t know about you, but I grew up basically permanently online, and I gained a lot of my current political insight from raw and honest comments just like yours. It might not seem like it, but there are certainly eyes taking in your words right now that might change the way they look at the situation. While the barrier to entry for internet posting is low, that doesn’t make the outcome value of it nill.
And check out some local protests. The media has made it so that you certainly don’t need to book a ticket to DC to make your voice heard. 🫶
My fucking guy
By this line of reasoning you are personally complicit in literally every bad thing that anyone does. It's stupid and you're stupid for thinking it. Snap the fuck out of your martyr complex. You're not important enough to be a martyr. You're just a dude. The world does not rest on your shoulders.
I literally said I'm not complicit. I'm only responsible for myself, but I know that everyone is just some guy until they aren't. I know every movement started with some guy who decided to try to make a change. The world needs some guy right now, but it's not going to be me.