Updated 3 weeks ago
All of this is true
All of these are true. Call it antifa, or even low-key armchair anarchism!
Most of us will differ on the ranking, and a few of us get all bent out of shape over that. With the priority of humanity and our future, I personally put it as Ukraine=US, then a thousand nothings, then Gaza, then Israel.
All the crap in the Middle East, to me, is as important as Haiti, Venezuela, Armenia/Azerbaijan/Nagorno Karabakh, the Myanmar conflict or one of a hundred wars in Africa.
Why doesn’t anyone seem to have opinions or even basic knowledge on those? Or even find any of these places on a map? Because they don’t involve white/Jewish people, they aren’t trendy, and the mainstream media doesn’t report on those because they don’t generate clicks. There is zero nuance in the news anymore.
Disclaimer 1: I’m putting these into perspective and not trying to whatabout anything.
A little history
With less technology, in a survival of the fittest, protests had to actually matter. But as media saturation hit its peak, we started to see a lot of clunkerrs. In the late 80s, a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning in 1988 was THE issue of the day and everyone had to have an opinion on it. The early-mid 2010s was a cornucopia of outrage. People lost their minds over 5 second clips without context. Hands up! Don’t shoot! Michael Brown. Trayvon Martin. The only positive changes these protests brought were lining the pockets of Black Lives Matters scammers. Occupy Wall Street, which was a shitshow. And don’t forget Joseph Kony 2012, which famously ended with the guy ranting manic on the streets off San Diego, and the entire freaking Arab Spring.
All that outrage back then…. imagine had we known what was around the corner…
Disclaimer 2: There were plenty of protests and outrage that had knowledge and integrity – women’s suffrage, civil rights, Vietnam, and fighting fascism in the USA right now!
The Middle East will always be a mess
Going postal over the Middle East is like getting mad at the weather. Choose your battles. The only thing that will change over time in the Middle East is that Israel will slowly become a stronger and stronger hegemon. Once Iran gets de-Ayatollah’d, there’s really nothing left except to be patient with an exploding Palestinian population, and the misery and poverty that comes with that. Crazy as it is, one strategy for the IDF is to keep the Palestinian men too busy to impregnate more women, ~30% of whom are their first cousins.
