alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

    • Lamps@lemm.ee
      56·
      9 months ago

      You’re in the right. Doomerism that “both sides are just as bad” is what Republicans want people to believe. Did Biden lead an insurrection? Not that I’ve heard of. Thinking both sides are just as bad is a childish perspective.

      • DerArzt@lemmy.world
        28·
        9 months ago

        Both sides can be bad in my view. We are at a point of choosing the lesser of two evils.

      • Lesrid@lemm.ee
        17·
        9 months ago

        They are bad though. On the one hand a Palestinian lost all 60 members of his family and several thousands died. On the other hand a Palestinian would have lost all 60 members of his family and several more thousands would have died. It is hard for that Palestinian to appreciate the difference and infinitely harder for his family to appreciate the difference.

        • icydefiance@lemm.ee
          26·
          9 months ago

          Biden is pushing for a ceasefire and sanctioning settlers, while Trump said that Israel should “finish the problem”.

          If you consider a Palestinian who hasn’t lost their family yet, there’s a pretty obvious difference between the two candidates.

        • Lamps@lemm.ee
          14·
          9 months ago

          What you are saying is an atrocity; I agree with you wholeheartedly. Regardless, I will still be voting against the person who led an insurrection and who paved the way for women to lose their rights to bodily autonomy in Roe v Wade. It’s an easy choice.

    • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      Although your best option is Biden and I wouldn’t say otherwise even as someone not receiving any benefits from his good internal policies, Biden still is a fascist.

      He has been a practical one, by which I mean he mixes good domestic stuff with genociding halfway across the world, whereas the Orange Jello is a principled one, having done and still aiming to very bad domestic choices and genocidal fascism at both domestic and international domains.

      So yeah, fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, but you still have a choice to pick the international fascist over full-time fascist.

      • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
        18·
        9 months ago

        international fascist

        “Fascisms is when you kill people!”. Joe Biden is a lot of things that leftists do not like, neoliberal first among them. Saying he’s a fascist is absolutely asinine and has no basis in reality. You’re watering down terms that have clear definitions.

    • flames5123@lemmy.world
      20·
      9 months ago

      Right? Sure, Biden is a milquetoast, but he’s not spilling hate speech or mandating violence on minorities. Sure he’s complicit in the genocide, but there’s nothing he can really do.

      • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        42·
        9 months ago

        but there’s nothing he can really do.

        Fuck off.

        He can easily dictate foreign policy and ensure his office is not using language supportive of Israel. He can openly condemn their actions. He can stop getting his Secretary of State to shield them at the UN. He can not fast track weapons to them. He can not push immigration bills that also have $14.1 billion in aid of Israel tacked onto them. And thats not even the half of it.

        To act like PotUS is some powerless position in regards to US support for Israel is asinine.

      • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
        36·
        9 months ago

        Sure he’s complicit in the genocide, but there’s nothing he can really do.

        Lol I hope this is a joke because it’s a good one.

        [handing fresh magazines to a school shooter] yeah sorry kids there’s nothing I can really do, it’s a complicated world out there you know

      • stewie3128@lemmy.ml
        22·
        9 months ago

        Nothing at all. Just keep supporting everything Israel does, keep blocking any resolutions helping the Palestinians at the UN, keep funding the genocide. No, nothing at all he could do about any of that.