he didn't though, at least in the mainstream. liberals made him this funny thirsty trend for like a week and a half before they forgot about the whole thing, without having any serious class dialogue.
going off a bit of a tangent: my mom's a former nursing assistant who went into debt studying to become an LP-nurse when i was in middle school. as an assistant nurse, she developed arithitis from lifting patients with mobility issues every workday, yet she hasn't been able to afford a doctor's appointment in years (or eye care, or dental care). by the book, 2 workers should be lifting patients with proper technique, yet that's rarely the case due to intentional under-staffing and time constraints.
she usually worked in nursing homes; dressing people, hand feeding them, showering/bathing them, cleaning their excrement, etc. nursing assistants spend the most amount of time with patients, so she made a ton of meaningful connections with them over the years. a lot of patients would (and still do) tell her how they can't afford treatment or surgery themselves. after a patient passed (some of whom she'd be grieving over), she and a coworker were usually in charge of cleaning their stiffening bodies and lifting them into bags to be sent to the morgue.
assistant nursing (along with regular nursing to an extent) is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US by far, with up to 60% of facing an injury per year (most commonly back injuries). figuratively and literally the backbone of the healthcare industry who work for barely above minimum wage with little direction or support. if anyone has the most reason to [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], it's them
unfortunately most people turned it into a funny trend to talk about how cool and hot he is and moved on instead of creating any substantial mainstream dialogue on class consciousness. didn't help that he had incoherent politics and his (supposed) manifesto didn't say much.
i guess the halo effect helped more people agree with his actions, but part of me wonders how different we'd talk about if the shooter was an average joe with a story to tell, like a 50 year old denied life saving treatment, or someone like my mom: she works in healthcare, yet can't afford medical treatment for issues working in healthcare caused
it's definintely higher than that, there's plenty of americans who support israel but don't want their taxpayer money being spent on things outside the US
Hey smartass Germans have been getting faded for a while, it's been de facto decriminalized for years (aside from in B*vria). Go to any major German city in the past decade or two and you'd smell it as fast as in Cali. If you spent a day in Berlin you'd smell it on the clock lmao
Even in an ideal world where a two state solution is reasonably possible, it's inherently unfair to Palestinians. Full stop, they should have complete access to their land, confining them to the smallest, shittiest parts of it while Israel gets the arable, resource dense parts and still receives billions from foreign donors for their little ethnostate start up is not liberation. Even if Palestine got sovereignty and no more settlements were built, until Palestinians get reparations and stolen land back and the Blood and Soil law of return shit is abolished, there is no peace
Other way around, they're basically a US satellite state if anything. Biden said it himself, "if there wasn't an Israel we would have to invent one."
Here's a graph showing the countries that voted most closely in line with the US in the UN across the past couple decades:
The three dots behind Israel are former US Pacific Island territories that are currently US puppet states and officially give away much of their sovereignty to America under COFA. If you exclude those three, Israel aligns itself with America miles ahead of any other country.
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lmao he's such an attention whore, can't do the tiniest thing without a long-winded petty dramatic post about it