ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]

20,000 years of this, 7 3 more to go

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • I do find it “odd” that if he had called the United States’ genocide of indigenous people an inspiration for what the Nazis were trying to do, no one would care. Maybe a few incredibly annoying right wingers would whine. But when you continue the comparisons onward to Israel it’s suddenly, “Woah woah woah! But Bible book says! How dare you!”

    Obviously this was in Argentina but I’ve noticed this same thing in the US. It is more legal to talk about our own government doing genocide, currently or in the past, than to accuse Israel of it. In many states criticizing or boycotting Israel is a crime. In no state is it a crime to criticize the US, or to boycott American products, or even specific US states or other countries. It’s only Israel.

    And like, I know that Israel is a part of the US empire and the rule is actually “It’s illegal to criticize the US Department of Genocide in the Levant,” but because they nominally act like a sovereign state it’s easy to understand how people come to “Our leaders are puppets of Israel! Israel is controlling the US!” because it sure does fucking look that way.

    And when you add that it’s “We’re totally a sovereign state and also we represent all Jews” it really throws a lot of fuel on the fire of actual antisemitism.


  • If you’re rich rich. If you’re normal rich it still sucks. It’s only good if you have a net worth of like, over $100M. A low level multi-millionaire still has to deal with health insurance.

    And that means very little. Healthcare in Honduras is also great if you’re super rich. Healthcare is great anywhere if you’re super rich, because you can always just go to where you can get healthcare.