And I understand the practicality of their voices for reaching a dumber audience. White people were more willing to listen to white people and Westerners whose countries have historically supported Israel are more willing to listen to a Jewish person talk about Israel. But it’s still really stupid

I understand it’s cool to have examples of “this person had the opportunity to benefit from supporting something evil and chose not to” in both cases but like that’s the bare minimum I’m sorry. Anti Zionist Jews and white abolitionists are both cool but shouldn’t be the main people being heard here

But people who join the US military at 18 were groomed by recruiters, they wanted to go to college, they thought they were serving their country, they were poor. The violence they inflicted was on brown people halfway across the world, and it gave them PTSD, so they’re not personally responsible.

Idk I’ve just been seeing the stuff about IDF members having an increase of mental health issues (lmao) and laugh reacting with everyone else but it’s making me think about some uncomfortable truths about the imperialist acts I helped launder by working for the vets and I want more people to wake up

why was I so worried about where some guy was gonna sleep at night and not worried about the devastation he’d left behind?

And I was complicit! I thought I was doing the right thing too, and I had to feed myself, but holy shit it keeps me up at night thinking of the families those guys murdered for no fucking reason

make up for it, I have to assume you think brown people halfway across the world are less human than you

IDF vets can go “I didn’t want to go to prison” (albeit a nice prison by American standards for a shorter sentence than they would have served in the IDF) American vets are like “I didn’t want to work at the grocery store” like I’m sorry unless you regret your “service” and repent and do stuff to -

No libs are going “but ICE offers a $50,000 signing bonus and $60,000 student loan repayment and healthcare, people need to feed their families!” because ICE’s violence is visible to them, ICE is hurting their neighbors. Do you think Afghan rice farmers slaughtered by Americans didn’t have families?

And don’t give me the “poverty draft” argument because Americans live in the heart of empire, the poorest Americans have a higher standard of living than most people in the world, if you oppose ICE but have a soft spot for American military members you have an enormous imperialism shaped blind spot

Very fluffy for a rat