Not to dogpile you too much here - I understand this is difficult - but part of the problem is framing this as a Trump issue. It really isn't. Even with all this insanity, he still enjoys a 40% approval rating! This doesn't end only by cutting off MAGA's head, ahtough that would help - it also means salting the earth where it grows by finally eradicating the christofascist, patriarchal, racist current in the population that has been there since the country's founding and before. That fight is just as important as going to DC and [REDACTED].
I wholeheartedly applaud and support them! They're absolutely not the ones I'm referring to. Those I take issue with are the ones who do nothing but seek a pat on the head for being "one of the good ones". I don't care that you voted for Kamala or repost every Occupy Democrats meme you see. I care about praxis.
You're right, just like the incessant comparisons between ICE and the Gestapo conveniently gloss over ICE's much closer resemblance to slave catcher patrols. They refuse to admit this is a very, very old and well-established movement in their country. The problem is that they never decisively put down the Confederacy.
Every time I see this argument I'm reminded of Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. If "trying to help" is limited to thoughts and prayers online, it isn't help, it's just masturbation.
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Did you know that obesity kills more people than cancer? That's why we need to stop caring about cancer completely. Someone you know has cancer? Fuck them, because did I mention obesity is worse? We should only think about one thing at a time, and I get to decide what that thing is. Absolutely NOTHING should be done about cancer until not a single human being is obese.
I really, really hope the protesters succeed. Iran has such a glorious history and wonderful people - they deserve so much more. It could retake its place as the shining example of countries in the region, as it was for most of the last 5000 years.
