Imagine going to the desert for a rave, in an apartheid state, mere miles from an open air concentration camp and not wondering if you are the baddies.
This actually is an apt comparison to 9/11 because in both cases the target countries unambigously deserved it.
At some point some propaganda came out that this was "a festival for peace". Looks like CNN reported it but later retracted it. Damage already done as it got parroted by other media
You can just make up stuff, say it's from an "anonymous source", then retract it and maintain your credibility by blaming it on the source you made up.
In fairness, Hamas made a lot of them more peaceful
It’s really wild how hard the media is trying to emotionally anchor this for Americans. They reference 9/11 AND Pearl Harbor in that list.
I have no way of really knowing, but I strongly suspect that Average-America’s regard for Israel is far more negative or at least neutral than it might have been a decade ago, and the way the media is going so hard in framing the narrative feels like they know it.
20+ years ago I was an Evangelical Christian. That group is rabidly pro-Israel now but at least before 9/11… well I would say they were exactly anti-Israel but the support was much, much more subdued.
If I was at that music festival I would have voted for Gaza militants not to attack it. I don't want to ruffle any feathers but I think this really detracted from the musical experience.
Libs are getting the perfect opportunity to see whether they would've been the people supporting the native Americans in their struggle or the people who colonized them.
Liberals love to support indigenous resistance in the abstract but the second shit gets real it’s all about the fucking nuance and complexity and how dare they actually do anything.
They've had this opportunity for a while now. They'll support them when it's convenient against non-white people. Kurds, indigenous groups in China, Assyrians, Amazon natives, various Latin American indigenous people, etc. Have them go against a majority white population and they either downplay their struggle or immediately support the colonizer. Sami people, Palestinians, Basque people, Irish, etc.
Where there any white people who opposed the genocide of Native Americans while i was actively happening at all? I know there were white abolitionists re: slavery but I've never heard of any white folks at the time talking about how what we were doing to the natives was bad?
There were plenty of publications, including one from Ben Franklin, that discussed the horrific things being done and how it was overboard. Most of them still held the idea that "civilizing" them had to happen, but didn't necessarily agree with the brutality of how it was being carried out.
the genocide of Native Americans while i was actively happening
It's still actively hapoening
Pearl Harbor moment
Hey it actually is though. Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen to bring the US into a conflict it wanted to be a part of but didn't really have a good reason for. Israel wants to say those mean Palestinians are bloodthirsty animals and treats them as such then acts shocked when people brought to the brink lash out and use that as an excuse for incredible violence with little to no repercussions internationally because "they're just defending themselves"
A 9/11, a Pearl Harbor, a Holocaust even. Some people are already classifying it as a mass extinction event. Read here why those festival goers are aptly compared to the dinosaurs.
i fully support the indigenous Paiute in their scalping raids at burning man
A reminder,
If this shooting cause you to stop supporting the liberation of Palestine, then you don't value Palestinian lives as much as you do Israelis.
I'm organizing my rave next to Auschwitz, it's going to take place on october 7th 1944. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.
First the quicksand at Burning Man and now this?!
maybe there is a just god.
Not enough energy to make the meme, but the same people on social media that want to kill all the muslims and let God sort them out are also mad at China about the Uyghurs.
Some Israeli posted "fuck them, I hope they get the Xinjiang treatment" and everyone was like wow lmao that's cool dude you want to make Palestine a bustling tourist destination
lets not forget in response to the 200 killed here isreal has already killed magnitudes more civillians in response
fire festival
Oh no. Now the settler-colonialists will have to take ecstasy in their pizza-discotecs again. THE HORROR....THE HORROR....
Damn, imagine rolling when the shit kicks off
Yeh if Hamas showed up while I was in a k-hole I too would be permanently traumatized.
You know that rave had some of the most mid eccies on the planet anyway
All of Israel's terror, genocide, starvation, everything this rotten settler state does is so a handful of European and American assholes can hold shitty EDM festivals with the worst music ever, go to awful restaurants called 'Professor Pizza!', and recreate the suburban sprawl of Glendale, Arizona in the Levant.
Pearl Harbor moment
More like the Santa Fe Riot
Bulldozing peoples' homes after forcing them into an open-air prison and then throwing a rave twenty feet from the fence is a war crime and should not be normalized, but here we are.
if israel hadn't confined a couple million people to an open air prison while conducting a genocide against them for their entire lives we wouldn't have to deal with the reality of a completely hopeless group of people fighting back in any way they can
We know, as our readers know, that the people are the resistance and vice versa: it is the relationship between the sword and shield, the heart and arm. Every Palestinian struggles under the occupation. As this historic battle rages on, we know that the tactics of the occupation will evolve. They will continue to target homes regardless of the presence of resistance activity in an attempt to demoralize the Palestinian people, draw blood, and accelerate their genocide.
As this happens, it is our obligation to our principles that dictates we must not fall into the trap of distinguishing between armed resistance fighters and non-combatants, as every Palestinian has a role in the current state of affairs. Every martyr must be mourned, and every zionist strike must be seen for the crime that it is. We will not allow the occupier or Western media to dehumanize us by creating distinctions between a colonized people whose remained existence on their lands is "militant."
Every Palestinian is a civilian even if they hold arms. A settler is an aggressor, a soldier, and an occupier even if they are lounging on our occupied beaches. As the IOF calls up thousands of reserves, it is clear that all settlers are soldiers. There exists a colonizer and the colonized, an oppressed and the oppressor. The people cannot be dissociated from resistance, because we are in a constant state of resistance.
Certainly, an explosive response is coming.
This struggle has been imposed on us. To resist is to survive, and to resist is a right.
Then you should be happy to know Hamas didn't target a single civilian in their operation. The zionist regime on the other hand only ever seems to target civilians.
Think about that next time you see people telling you to vote for the "Obama Tan Suit Dijong Mustard" party
People asked so you many legitimate questions, and like the hypocritical coward you are you haven't answered a single one
Again why do you elevate the lives of Israeli settlers over that of Palestinians? Why do you imply it was Palestinians who normalized civilian deaths and not the Israeli apartheid state? When are you gonna speak up about the 91 children Israeli bombs have already killed? Piece of shit
A group of soldiers kick in your door one night and slaughter your family. Good news though, they won't kill you, you just have to starve to death in the garage while they move a new family into what used to be your home and they will kill you if you complain. Now, on the day you decide to say fuck it since you're gonna die anyway you might as well pick up a hammer and get some payback, do you really care that their daughter just wanted to dance and sometimes felt bad for you?
Yep it's totally normal to hold a music festival in sight of the walls of the world's largest concentration camp, definitely not a thing surpremacists do
Oh yeah, I'm sure they went to a festival on illegally settled land within spitting distance of an open air prison because they totally support the palestinians. Obviously you are very smart, that's the most logical conclusion you could have possibly reached.
What? In that they deserved it?
explaining blowback to an American "Imagine a 9/11"
Blowback starter kit now with more blowback!Now with the greats such as: Pearl harbor, assassination of Franz Duke Ferdinand, and the rise of Hitlers nazi party. But wait there's more! Such as everybody's favorite, 9/11 and the Jan 2021 Trump insurrection
In that it was brown people getting uppity? I dunno.