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when you support the US military this is what you support

The following contains graphic imagery, but ive intentionally excluded anything directly depicting dead bodies. tumblr limits me to 10 images on this post or it could be flooded with far, far more.

prisoner comforting their child, Iraq, 2003

Iraqi prisoner held by the US, ~2003

destruction of Vietnam, 1968

A vietnamese soldier shortly before being executed. 1968

children with hydrocephalus from agent orange, which the USA sprayed 12 million gallons indiscriminately on to Vietnam

Korea, near pyongyang, completely flattened by US bombs, 1953

Libya after bombings by the US, ~2012

Do these not get to you? Can you see these and continue to defend the people doing their paperwork just because they didnt personally kill anyone? If they seem bad but you cant bring yourself to condemn them, What if i show you pictures from the US? Does this change anything for you?

U.S. (philidelphia), soon after the 1985 MOVE bombing which killed several Black radicals and 5 children

aftermath of the assassination of Fred Hampton, who was shot in his sleep by the FBI, 1969

If the first images flow by as anonymized destruction, but the last two hit you more directly, ask yourself why that is? Why do you view these differently just because of where on the globe they happened?

What difference does it make when the people killed are inside the US or outside? When the bombs are dropped domestically or elsewhere? do people not bleed to same everywhere in the world? Do their buildings not explode just the same? are the poisoned children not important to you?

its not just a nightmare when it happens within the US at the hands of the police. The U.S. is a global force of terror and even working with them as a janitor for college money makes you a collaborator.

The U.S. kills on a drastic scale, millions and millions of people globally, the vast majority of which being civilians. can you look me dead in the eyes and tell me that cops are bastards but military members shouldn't be shamed?

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late. 

What I was not told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side and managed a gay bar. 

Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?

Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.

But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.

One shouted out his window for the attacker to leave her alone, which did successfully scare the man off temporarily.

Another called the police but, seeing her still on her feet, said only that there had been a fight but the woman seemed to be okay.

And when Kitty Genovese was finally attacked in a vestibule where she couldn’t be seen from outside, Karl Ross, a neighbor, saw what was happening but was too frightened himself to go to her rescue–so he started calling other neighbors to ask what he should do. Eventually one of them told him to call the police, which he did, and the woman he called, Sophie Farrar, rushed out to help Kitty even though she didn’t know whether the attacker was gone.

Kitty Genovese died in the arms of a neighbor who tired to help and comfort her while they waited for the police and ambulance to arrive. Kitty was in fact still alive, although mortally wounded, when the ambulance reached the scene.

The man who saw the final stabbing? Who panicked and called other neighbors first instead of the police? The man who said, infamously, that he “didn’t want to get involved” because he was reluctant to turn to the police for help? He was thought to be gay himself. He was a friend of Kitty and Mary Ann’s. After being interviewed by the police he took a bottle of vodka to Mary Ann and sat with her, trying to comfort her.

So, no. I don’t think the evidence indicates that Kitty Genovese’s neighbors let her die because she was a lesbian, because Kitty Genovese’s neighbors tried to help.

See also: Debunking the Myth of Kitty Genovese (The New York Post)

A Call for Help (The New Yorker)

At the time, the NYPD was coming under quite a bit of criticism about rising crime rates and the seeming ineffectiveness of the police’s response to the problem. In the Kitty Genovese case, even though people did in fact call the police, it took about an hour for them to show up and the first detectives didn’t arrive until three hours later (at which point they mostly spent their time interrogating Kitty’s girlfriend about their relationship, because for “some reason” they considered her to be the most likely suspect for the murder. In fact, the police wouldn’t catch the actual killer until six days later when he was picked up for having a stolen TV in the trunk of his car, at which point he admitted to having committed a total of three murders). It’s not an accident that one of the things to come out of the Genovese case was the establishment of the 9-1-1 system, because at the time that the attack happened, you had to call the specific number of a particular police precinct and it was up to the duty sergeant on the desk to take action - which was usually to send someone out from the precinct to the address reported, because cops on foot patrol wouldn’t be outfitted with two-way radios for several years. It’s more than a little convenient that at a time when the NYPD is coming in for public scrutiny about its ability to do the basic job of responding to reports of crimes in a timely fashion, the Police Commissioner happens to hand the City Editor of the city’s most prominent newspaper a story which puts the blame for the slow response on the apathy and inaction of New Yorkers, neatly absolving the NYPD for its ridiculously poor performance in this case in particular and its response to the rise in crime in general. 

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Nuclear/renewable energy will mean far less pollution.

Transit oriented development will mean you won't have to own a car, and improved public health due to far more people being active.

An increase in domestic manufacturing means more jobs.

High speed trains instead of driving or flying.

Shutting down resource intensive and unpopular data centers.

Moving freight with electric trains instead of trucks means less wear on the roads, and less air pollution.

If you center Jewish feelings rather than Palestinians, you're not an ally to the Palestinian cause.

Saying Israel doesn't have a right to exist isn't antisemitism. Saying that Palestinians have the right to resist isn't antisemitism.

You don't need to center Jewish feelings when the genocide is being carried out in our names. In fact it should be our Jewish voices that speak up when stuff like this happens.