The above image was made with stable diffusion using the prompt 'rows of people in suits in an ancient temple colorful.'
I'm officially out of touch with the youth of today. They're making racism popular again and I don't understand it. When asked if Israel "has a right to exist as a nation in the Middle East," 33% of US Gen Z voters said that it did not, and about 39% said that they don't believe Hamas is a terrorist group. In the UK, another recent poll found that 54% of 18-24-year-olds agreed that "the state of Israel should not exist," while only 21% disagreed with the statement.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has now reportedly conducted an airstrike inside Russian territory. Since the weapon used to conduct the airstrike was probably American, Russia will probably retaliate. Putin has gone on the record about what that might look like:
"If someone considers it possible to supply such weapons to a combat zone to strike our territory and create problems for us, then why do we not have the right to supply our weapons of the same class to those regions of the world from which the strikes will be carried out on sensitive objects of those countries that do this in relation to Russia?" Putin said. "That is, the answer may be symmetrical. ... If we see that these countries are being drawn into a war against us, and this is their direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation, then we reserve the right to act in a similar way."
So American positions in Syria may soon be under fire from Russian munitions. Conflict may also escalate across large swaths of Africa. According to The Intercept, "at least 15 military officers who benefited from U.S. security assistance have been involved in 12 coups in West Africa and the greater Sahel during the war on terror." Despite this, the Pentagon blames Russia for the instability. Soon Russia-backed militants and US-backed militants may be exchanging fire throughout the region.
Personally, I don't think the US should have any military role whatsoever in the wars in Israel and Ukraine. They are regional affairs that we should've stayed out of from the start. Now each side of our partisan divide has a war to condemn and a war to support. I think both sides are filled with lunatics.
There is unfortunately no longer a viable counterculture in the US to oppose the war machine. We can't look to the youth in the same way we once did. They lost their rebellious spirit right around the time everyone started using social media. The young these days obey authority and uncritically accept the propaganda to which they're continually exposed.
Instead of counterculture, we have cancel culture. Instead of speaking out, people are cowering in fear, kept separate from anyone who might share their views by customized digital cages. Vast numbers of us are being censored and suppressed, and this does little to convince us to support the official story. Someday, maybe soon, the dissent building up under the surface is going to boil over.
When that starts happening, things may get interesting. The internet could get weirder. Kennedy could be elected president. Maybe people with differing perspectives will even begin talking to each other again.
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