the pandemic is a demonstration in miniature of how we're handling the ongoing climate crisis and here we are, working out which arsonist isn't playing by the rules to destroy us all

"when people tell you who they are, believe them" sure, but when the system demonstrates its purpose, believe it too

i am just so tired of hearing people talk about removing one bad apple from the spoiled bunch, phoning the cops on the state, wanting to go back to normal

when normal is exactly how we got here, maybe a little faster and all at once, but normal nonetheless

i try not to add to the doomscrolling, but it's hard when people mistake that for apathy, so here's your irregular reminder that i have been mad so for long i have gotten t-shirts printed about it

at some point i realised, when we look back, we'll have a really hard time working out when world war two ended

after the destruction of the axis powers, we just moved the fighting elsewhere—proxy wars—many of which still ongoing

we talk about an end to fascism at the end of ww2, as american troops returned home to apartheid, went onto commit genocide in korea, proxy wars in vietnam, afghanistan, plus everything in latin america

don't even start me on the british

meanwhile sometimes i think about how what was called "the second iraq war" is now called "the iraq war" and honestly i don't have words to describe how depressing i find it

every so often i ask people "how many years passed between the end of american's human experimentation programs, and the moon landing" and the answer's a negative number

every so often i ask why pornography is still segregated

but that's enough doomscrolling for now

i'd say don't make me tap the t-shirts but that is exactly why i got them made https://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/1257262805864058880

donated to a food bank, i'm still mad but hey, something productive has come out of this thread