I read this lib "how to" about Gaza - How To Speak To Voters Who Say They Can't Support Biden Because Of Gaza. The substack is co-run by George Takei and he's built himself into a super-popular lib brand. I wanted to know what he was promoting.
Most of it was exactly what I expected. But a surprising word stuck in my craw - "dealbreaker". As if there can be a "deal" made on morality. And - of course - the "deal" is we must change 100% and see things the lib way while they don't change an iota. Quite a deal!
Most of us know someone on the left who is dug in against voting for Joe Biden because of U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza. For them, the continued support of Israel and the flow of weapons is a dealbreaker, and they say they can’t support a president for reelection who would back a genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.
CW SA, genocide
spoiler
Joe Biden is a rapist.
George Takei is a rapist
Joe Biden is practically pro-life and Roe was overturned in his administration
Joe Biden's administration continues a pattern of undermining Haitian autonomy and rule of law.
Joe Biden is sending us off the cliff
The Ukrainian armed forces are rapists
Joe Biden is a stooge of the bourgeoisie
Joe Biden has had somewhere in the order of 200,000 Palestinians shot, bombed, starved, crushed in rubble, and shelled
Joe Biden's administration continues to operate concentration camps at the US Mexico border
Joe Biden's administration has seen an all out assault on trans people with absolutely no substantial action from the federal government to stop the disintegration of trans rights
That you stop lying.
GOOD POST, saving this for my lib colleagues
It's so chilling to realize that basically every single person this shit system of ours raises to the "top", actors, politicians, managers etc. is a shit tier person. It just is revealed over and over again. And these are the people that mediate everyones understanding of the world, that get to dictate what is or isn't done. The people who "curate" our reality.
How this becomes a system that just re-enforces exploitation and misery is just so easy to understand. There isn't any "few good men".
It all goes back to the power of blackmail IMO. It's a lot easier to manipulate public figures if the intelligence apparatus and the state department has access to a red button that destroys the credibility for any public figure. It's not so much that there's a big conspiracy, like Epstein, to get all the celebs to be doing heinous things to be used for blackmail; instead, all the institutions that are supposed to prevent abuse instead have been shifted to providing accountability or enforcing a punishment on those who are exposed as abusers. It goes both ways too, like with Takei, if you bend the knee and didn't offend too greatly the media forgives and extinguishes fire. That way, the media and the surveillance state ultimately have the power to make your career and end it, and they make sure there is still a culture for people to incriminate themselves on their watch before they get big. If 80% of the celebrities people pay attention to have skeletons in their closets, and we have an all knowing panopticon, it becomes a billion times easier for that panopticon to flip those celebrities into working in favor of the state dept's agenda.