Life outside seems easier than the 'prison life' we endure in Gaza. I try to imagine other places where life is difficult, but I realize that even the harshest environments are open; at least there is a way out. Gaza is a closed prison. A rocket could kill you at any moment, food and water are rationed, and the heaviest burden is being besieged by memories, destruction, and graves. It is a constant cycle of physical and psychological torment.
Prices in Gaza have started to rise unusually, and goods have almost disappeared from the markets. Types of vegetables are scarce and expensive, and meats have vanished from the markets too. I mean, what's happening is the beginning of a new famine; food is expensive and scarce in the markets!
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They both bore the plague but at least Biden didn't actively rail against vaccines
Both are iredeemably evil for the harm they've caused to all these people. But it's even WORSE somehow when Trump is involved because at least Biden was just old and evil. Trump is old, STUPID, and evil.
Biden completely demolished any test/trace/treat infrastructure, got rid of free testing and vaccinations for covid, encouraged people to unmask despite the lack of proof that vaccination alone would stop the spread of covid, did not speak out against mask bans, and didn't do a damn thing to combat vaccine "hesitancy" which is now leading to the massive flu wave that's happening when flu is normally dwindling. If you can't see the stupidity in Biden stripping public health and pushing "back to normal" during an ongoing pandemic while diseases like measles, tuberculosis, and whooping cough reach levels not seen for decades and keep rising, you're obviously not engaging with reality from a place of good faith. We're in a vax and relax public health strategy where not even a quarter of people are getting their vaccines updated, but at least he isn't [food product] man, right?
See, we're criricizing past administrators for their quantifiable betrayals of the American people because... well it *happened.* Instead of attempting to scry what may come through the looking glass and goats bones and tea leaves, we are pointing to the things by which the democrats gave the massive potential to these anti-science actors on a silver platter by downplaying everything their voting base brought up or cared about and sprinting to the right to appease people they called fascists not two months prior. Discussing the recent past is in no way "downplaying" a future which is malleable and has yet to come to pass. The Yellowstone caldera could blow in 6 months. Covid could put Trump down for the count like it did Biden. Aliens could land in China and attempt to bring us into their federation of planets, only to betray us and use us as beasts of burden. All you can do is speculate until the present has become the past. Focus on what's in your control. Focus on what's recorded. Quit trying to pretend like consuming the latest breaking shit out of every white house press briefing is helpful and not literally a control mechanism. News as distraction and manipulation isn't a new thing. Ready this book.
I really struggle to understand anyone who professes to care about an issue then gets mad at posts like this.
What is the plan? Do you expect an issue to get sufficiently acknowledged if you're not consistent and vigilant? If you pick and chose when you care or when it's bad? If you essentially take the phone off the hook for years then put it back when you feel like you're now in danger?
Because fuck the people sounding the alarm bell on something like this for years right? Screw their incessant calls. We'll sacrifice them, it's okay. Disabled people in particular have been talking about this, but ignore them because them you had an election to win!
I just... do the people who care now really give a fuck? Or is this just some convenient criticism to you? Something you're now willing to admit is bad because you can lob it at a Trump. But will drop, ignore, or excuse it should we get another Democratic president?
Because that is a moral failure of epic proportions and isn't going to get us anywhere.
If can't engage with the government and presidency honestly? If you're not willing to admit any kind of president is going to do screwed up things that you need to address and hold them to task for? That Democrats too uphold the system in a way that sacrifices people and empowers Republicans?
If you can't hold everyone accountable regardless of their connection to you and what they do for you?
You're not ready for conversations like these. Stop entering them. Because it's disingenuous and you look childish.
"It's not that bad when my guy/team does it" is a child's logic. Enough.
I also want to add that a lot of people really weren't paying attention to the last four years if you can say that Biden is just "old/stupid/geriatric" or whatever.
First, Biden is a fascist. He is not a bad person because of concepts of ableism and ageism you tie to him. He is a direct actor in state violence and genocide. I really need people to stop picturing Biden as bad because he's old or "geriatric" or "stupid."
Democrats have also been very directly complicit in the eradication of public health and specifically with the pandemic. He makes fascist, genocidal, eugenicist decisions with a clear and conscious mind.
We have when the Biden administration and Harris specifically abdicated responsibility concerning the Delta variant:
Vice-president’s candid admission on Covid variants came in wide-ranging interview with the Los Angeles Times
We have that time Biden himself urged others to divert funds related to covid protections and public health to instead increase policing that directly kills disabled, in particular Black disabled people at disproportionate rates:
New York, Washington and a number of other major cities have reported increases in violent crime since the start of the pandemic.
People have been talking about the criminalization of masking that has already been in motion now:
Opponents denounce ‘dangerous’ Nassau county law making it a misdemeanor to wear a facial covering in public
Amid calls to reinstate mask bans, Covid-19 cases remain on the rise in 38 states, according to the CDC.
There's been coverage for years now about how Biden's policy on the pandemic has been abysmal:
Continuing its anti-science, anti-worker guidelines, the CDC considers once again weakening isolation recommendations for COVID+ people
This isn't even getting into the Biden administration rulings on testing and vaccination distribution, household counting, and so much more.
Biden himself got covid and repeated much of the same propaganda and disinformation surrounding the level of danger covid poses and pushed the "back to work" narrative for a reason.
The president continues to feel well, there is no reason to re-initiate treatment at this time, but he will isolate, said White House physic
Hell, for all the talk about the election outcome, it was repeatedly crickets when we repeatedly pointed out how the effects of the pandemic have changed the political landscape because so many people more likely to even vote democrat are now dead or disabled.
I'm barely even touching on the full extent to which Biden and other democrats have destroyed public health in the last four years, but I cannot emphasize enough that these are not "oncoming" threats nor are they exclusively republican threats.
If this isn't the point you're getting from these critiques, you're fucking up. Real radicalism seeks to address the root of the issue, and the issue isn't just one party like so many of y'all demand, it's the whole fucking system based on white supremacy and greed.
Help A (newly-married) Black Trans Couple Find Stability
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new month, same overall sitch; my wife is employed but makes piss poor wages and cannot cover our living expenses in full even at full time hours. we are behind on rent and regularly at risk of losing our home, and it takes everything i have to even make these posts, much less work a job.
my wife's links and my pay links are here | we also have patreon, ko-fi (not rly preferred) and a registry. reblogging this post (WITH NO TAGS UNLESS FOR ACCESSIBILITY) *and* donating even a little if you can helps.
damn it kinda feels like ppl saw we were almost there and stopped chipping in 😰 (funds should be sent To My Wife but any funds sent to me towards rent must have a house emoji in the payment note or else it goes towards our many other bills and expenses). would really like to be able to pay my fucking rent soon so i can begin the task of begging to pay next months. please help us.
A mask isn't fear. A mask isn't some lack of freedom. A mask isn't keeping you from living your life. Masks are technology that improve our lives by keeping us healthy. Adapt. Stop being a luddite.
There is something deeply cruel about watching hope approach you from across the sea… only to have it taken away before it arrives. We looked at the aid boats as if they were carrying life itself, not just medicine or food. We imagined children surviving, sick people finally receiving treatment, and mothers being able to stop crying for even one night. But even this small hope has been denied to us. In Gaza, death is no longer the most painful thing… waiting for rescue that never comes is.
The hardest thing a human being can experience is feeling that the world sees their suffering clearly and still continues life as normal. Here, fathers stand helpless before their children’s hunger, mothers hide their tears so their little ones will not become more afraid, and the sick wait for medicine that may never arrive. Imagine baby formula becoming an impossible dream. Imagine hearing your child ask, “Are we going to survive?” while you have no answer to give.
Everything in Gaza has become exhausting to the soul. The fear, the hunger, the sounds of bombardment, the endless waiting, and the unbearable feeling that we have been abandoned. And yet we still try to hold on to life, not because we are strong as people think, but because our children still look at us as if we are their last source of safety. And that alone is enough to break a heart a thousand times every single day.
just left pt trying to do as much laundry as i can afford i have more pt and dental surgery next week. just trying to survive, grateful for any positivity that can be spared <3
i have an autoimmune disease i keep forgetting about, in a lot of pain from the back injury, had to walk both ways to and from pt today. dont have funds for soup or cat litter, surviving day to day. grateful for any help <3
i'm just not going to tolerate any hand-waving sentiment towards forcible institutionalization to the effect of "oh, you know, that's mostly just done to the real crazies." i have been the real crazies! suicidal people and homeless people and schizophrenic people and people with "intrusive" symptoms are not asides in your argument about how soon this might start affecting real people who actually deserve freedom and self determination
Two trans girls brutally murdered in the span of a week but they're doing "hypervisibility" discourse on twitter. Feeling real privileged by my "hypervisibility" rn
Her family using her deadname in her funeral, articles calling a "transgender individual" instead of a woman, only refering to her with they they they them this person, can we kill everyone yet or nah
The sign many left wingers have subconsciously accepted moving right on covid and embraced lowering public health standards is when people seem to think “masks should be mandatory in healthcare settings /airplanes “ is somehow a radical position to take in an ongoing pandemic
its so fucking weird because "masks in healthcare" should be the default all of the time. Doctors and nurses are literally employed to go from sick person to sick person, treating immunocompromised people especially often.
Hi everyone! As you may know I’m a full time caregiver for my brother and that prevents me from working outside the home on a consistent basis. My brother receives disability but that unfortunately only covers 1/3 of our rent which leaves the rest of our household expenses such as food, utilities, internet service in my lap. Fortunately, I am able to babysit but the hours are inconsistent and recently the clients that I’ve come to depend on have been hit with their own financial struggles which leaves me in the lurch. Money is a huge source of anxiety for me as my bills are piling up faster than I am able to manage on my own. We have very little family to depend on or borrow from and even though that’s been the case for years, it’s even harder now with rising costs. We are hoping to take part in a program that would pay me to take care of my brother but we need a referral from my brothers doctor and the cost to travel to his appointment is mire than I am able to save on a weekly basis after groceries. Right now, my phone is turned off and I would like to switch providers but I would lose my number if I tried without service and I’d run the risk of delaying an already drawn out process with social services.
I’m thankful to all of you who have donated with times being as difficult as they are because I know my situation is not unique and I’m continuing my quest for reliable employment in the meantime but I want to try and get a few things paid off & prepare for the month ahead.
My goal is $1,200.
This would cover the final half of this month’s rent, our phones + internet, our pepco bill & to purchase menstrual supplies. I feel ashamed for asking because I wish I could handle it myself but I’ve exhausted all other options and the mental load has been whooping me lately. It feels as though we’re being priced out of life and it terrifies me. The fear of us losing our place keeps me up at night and as soon as our rent is paid off it’s time to pay again. It took years for us to receive what little government assistance we have just for me to now, not be able to work and make ends meet. We make a little progress and we get introduced to possible program just to get delayed smh! I’m grateful that we’ve made it thus far but I am stressed😭
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