intactics:
watching fascists lie baldly and thoughtlessly about what is happening in Palestine is a very unpleasant callback to the many, many years I spent arguing with fascists about the war in Iraq. it took about a decade for the government to admit that they lied about the WMDs that go-around in oder to manufacture consent, and to label the entire Iraqi population terrorists on the basis of their religion. it’s also a bit depressing to me to realize there are people my age who were simply not paying attention to anything that happened because as children they didn’t know or care. they don’t remember the “free speech zones” because they were not protesting. I spent the entire GW Bush presidency protesting while underage, and I voted for Obama because he campaigned on closing Gitmo. the fact that he pardoned the previous administration on his first day in office basically disillusioned me with the American political process and the fact that Gitmo remains open to this day is, of course, an unforgivable insult to human life