When I read the news this morning, the first thing I did was open twitter for the first time in 2 weeks and retweet a bunch of tweets celebrating the Iranian attack on Tel Aviv. It felt cathartic and deserved, like they were finally getting what had been a long time coming and like the genocide might finally stop. And while the Iranian missile attack hasn't even done a fraction of the unimaginable destruction the Zionist entity has inflicted on any of its neighbors, there's still something gnawing at the back of my mind: "Don't ever become like them."
Israel has shown us some of the absolute worst that humanity is capable of. The cruelty and sadism even normal Israeli civilians have displayed towards the Palestinians has been appalling and shocking. But I don't want to believe that the majority of people in Israel are ontologically evil, irredeemable psychopaths, I want to believe that they are normal people at their core. The inhumane hatred they feel for the Palestinian people isn't some unique phenomenon exclusive to Jewish settlers or Republican congressmen, but something any of us could experience for another group of people under the wrong circumstances.
And while it's nowhere near that level, I can't deny that what I'm feeling right now and what I've been feeling for the past 20 months is hate. I hate Israel, I hate everything it has done and continues to do, I hate its fascist leadership, I hate how my own country's government makes me feel like I'm going insane by unconditionally supporting these rabid nazis, and I won't lie, I have developed a certain hatred for Israel's population as well. A part of me would love to see videos of Israelis being thrown out of their stolen homes and suffer even half of what they made the people of Palestine suffer. A part of me wants to see Tel Aviv razed to the ground just like the Gaza strip was.
But I don't want to be like that. Right now the damage done to Israel is negligible, but should it experience serious devastation, I do hope we can remember our humanity. Let it never get to the point where we take our families on a hill and watch other families get massacred for entertainment. Let it never get to the point where we cheer for some IDF general to get murked alongside 7 members of his family. I want to still be able to feel empathy (though not necessarily forgiveness) for people who have lost everything, even if 6 months ago they were supporting ethnic cleansing.
I don't wanna chastise anyone for joking about Tel Aviv getting nuked or for telling Israelis going "oh noo bomb shelterinos" on TikTok to pound sand. It's one thing to say that while Israel is still the dominant force and receiving unconditional support from the West. But when the point comes where the Zionist entity has been defeated (inshallah it will be soon), I hope we can restrain ourselves from indulging in cruelty and sadism. Nobody, not even Benjamin Netanyahu or Itamar Ben-Gvir, deserves having to pick up a family member's remains and stuff them in a plastic bag. Even the most despicable Zionist you can think of deserves better than what the Palestinians are going through.
Sorry for the ramble, this has been going through my mind all day. Also main I guess.
2028 will be:
John Fetterman & Marjorie Taylor Greene (D)
JD Vance & Nick Fuentes (R)
Though I think there's a decent chance they replace Fuentes with a Grok-generated Adolf Hitler. They're all gonna put their differing opinions on Jews aside and agree, in the name of bipartisanship, that non-whites aren't people and to quadruple funding for ICE. Fetterman and Greene initially look like they're gonna win because they're stupid in a kinda amusing way while Vance and Fuentes are just unbearable dweebs, but then Fetterman commits the least surprising murder/suicide in history and takes out his entire family. Greene takes this as a sign that QAnon was real after all and concedes the election to Vance.
The fascists now feel fully emboldened and coup Vance for being a race traitor and Fuentes for being a gay Mexican. Miller and Rubio are next in line but they're Jewish and Cuban respectively, so they get purged as well. With Donald Trump dead of McDonald's, they look to his descendants. Eric Trump and Don Jr. are way too stupid and Ivanka is a woman married to a Jew, so there's only one option left.
In late December 2028, President Barron Trump and his VP Zack "Asmongold" Hoyt are formally inaugurated. It's the first inauguration where the president does not give a speech. Not a single woman is in attendance voluntarily. Their first executive order is to publicly execute Hasan Piker, Anita Sarkeesian and Brie Larson. Their second order is that every white man who achieves a certain rank in one of various online games is entitled to a state-sanctioned girlfriend. The age of consent is abolished, pronouns are banned from the English language and Adin Ross is appointed Secretary of Education. The United States become the esports capital of the world. Life expectancy drops to 53. Thank you for your attention to this matter.