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Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco, author of "Palestine" and "Footnotes in Gaza," called "The War on Gaza." Chris Hedge’s Substack is reprinting them. 6.25.24. https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-war-on-gaza-62524?r=45tfw&utm_medium=ios
Dannoboyo
I have a lot of chicken hawk Jewish friends. And they all vote. They have a lot of clout. If You all voted in such significant and solid numbers that you voted rednecks out, and voted people even more progressive than Kamala in, they would listen to you all instead of Chicken Hawk Jews and Alt Right Christians and All Lives Matter SOBs. But if you don't vote, you will give up and sell out, or draw stupid pictures for your friends, and thus accomplish nothing.
Dannoboyo
You all are going to live long enough to really feel how hot the water gets before all the frogs die. Is that how you want to go? Get your ass out the door, and get your friends to VOTE. Trump is a sick fuck, but the people behind him are sicker. No one can lead this country out of this crap without serious majorities, and the fear of voters who will elect someone else. Vote Kamala now, vote EVERY ELECTION, Vote Left, one step at a time until you get there. But VOTE like every life depends on it
AllGloryToTheDarkLord
JackHL01
might work, but istill know what is going on!
And it wouldn't help anyone but me, - for a short while.
FrancsTireur
Well if there was a way to summarise how I've felt for the last year; there it is.
All those high minded ideals, all those ephemeral notions of equality and freedom and justice that supposedly meant so much to us that brave men and women were sent out to die for them time and time again in the 20th and 21st centuries and did so without complaint.
Ultimately it's worth nothing, not to our so called leaders and sadly not to many normal people either.
Probably because they weren't yet born in 1/
FrancsTireur
The great power politics phase of the human race, and didn't have to think about such things as the imperial Germany navy turning up off manhatten and blasting it to pieces while 100 thousand men landed in Boston. (Kaisers pre war plan to gain territory in the US)
Nor were alive to see the outcome of such political adventurism going badly wrong as it frequently did.
So we gleefully embark on a new era of the great game only this time in the shadow of the mushroom cloud that awaits us should 2/
FrancsTireur
We miscalculate as our forefathers did time and again. I'm not someone who pulls her punches so I can't help but register my disgust in Americans who even now as the rules based system is torn asunder by their inept president, will still scramble to vote for 4 years of his accomplice like rats on the titanic hoping to delay the inevitable arrival of the chaos your leaders have unleashed on foreign shores just a little while longer.
And what will you do with those 4 years?, you can't repair a 3/
FrancsTireur
System that took the better part of 200 years to establish in 4 years even if your chosen leader was willing and able to try; which she isn't.
So I know what you will do with those 4 years, like anyone who's lived long enough to see this spiral of self interest and political opportunism reach its inevitable end.
You will waste those 4 years and then ask for 4 more and hope to die before the suffering you have allowed to be wrought in your name reaches the shining shores of the United States 4/
FrancsTireur
It's unsurprisinng yet still sad to say that like every other self given title and pompous declaration in your history that you've failed to live up to; home of the brave is one more epithet to be added to the pyre.
A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings [with] it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a 5/
FrancsTireur
point which revises the traditional concept of war.
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start, workable methods were found insofar as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations 6/