It's crazy that they have the right idea about direct action and yet are using it on the worst possible targets.
Disrupting an art museum will not stop pollution or inconvenience the fossil fuel industry.
Take advice from MLK: Be nonviolent, but get in the way. Use methods of coercion.
As an American who knows how evil our government is, I would be like "good for panama but also China is probably not doing this out of justice and freedom"
I think this says more about just how mediocre these rich people can actually get away with being. Once you own so much that you don't have to work, whatever work you do is pretty much guaranteed to be easy.
Recently, Hamas carried out their largest and most brutal attack on Israel, killing many innocent people and generating international shock
Israel is now responding by invading Gaza: a dense, poor city with about 2 million people in it to try to wipe out Hamas.
There is now worldwide outrage at Israel's response, which is disproportionately deadly due to their advanced military and billions of foreign aid. People are protesting Israel as an apartheid state and claiming that they are now pursuing genocidal goals.
Being scared is suffering.
The United States does not have a democracy. The United States Government is an enemy of democracy.
A serious analysis of our government and history exposes layers and layers of undemocratic rot in no particular order, and by no means exhaustively: The electoral college, police intimidation and violence against protestors, gerrymandering, regulatory capture, the historic and current slavery, segregation, and disenfranchisement of Black Americans, mass surveillance, imprisonment of Asian Americans, torture of prisoners, the genocide of Native American Indians, systematic destruction of voter registries, and the ability of our lawmakers to invest in the industries they regulate, and regulate the industries they invest in. This injury to our democracy is topped with insult as every one of these glaring injustices is either still festering in our government, or had to be taken down through immense sacrifice and pain, or for the aforementioned minority groups, represents an irreparable scar on our history.
The result is a Princeton study that, even according to its critics, describes our government as having only a 50/50 chance of serving the will of the American public.
And that's just at home.
Abroad, the United States is a zealous and brutal enemy of democracy anywhere its true goals are threatened. Over the past century, the US has overthrown dictators and democracies alike in service of private wealth and power. They have murdered countless innocent people and left countless more to live and die in the aftermath. In at least one instance, just a few people in our government with a blank checkbook and no oversight or accountability were responsible for the destruction of democratic governments abroad.
The United States does not value democracy or freedom. It values the feeling of democracy and freedom while actually crushing people and taking everything they have unless they stand to benefit us more if we let them keep it.
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I'm aware plenty of people condemn Israel for good reason, but what I don't hear is the snide "you'll never get anyone on your side like that". It's a sentiment that black people have been hearing since the 60's, and is more commonly leveled against "underdogs" that are fighting an establishment.
I think it's a "sides" thing. It's mentally easy.
I think this story should be engaged with some nuance: I for example think Hamas is evil. But that does not mean I support Israel. Israel denies Palestinians their basic human rights, kills innocent people, and displaces people from their homes. It places palestinians as second class citizens.
They would be doing this whether or not there was a villain to oppose them, and they do it both when Hamas attacks and when they don't. They have an absurd amount of wealth and power. They have a military that absolutely crushes people when they do their thing, both in "peace" time and at war. The evil that Israel is capable of is simply not accessible to the likes of Hamas.
This is just like when Hillary was paraded around like it was her turn to be president.