Truly, truly I wonder about the use of social media in this society. A comrade said, "We should have been scared of social media the way we are scared of AI." and I agree. The effect it's had on social standings, like how influencers develop and the space it's taken up in politics... Social media is media, and we the people are as swayed by it as people were in past times when television came out and photography and film. Immediately, they were used to connect the world to each other and affect change in it.

Every day I see horrifying videos and images of children being burned, blown up, suffering severe malnourishment, sick with mutations from the toxicity in the environment, headless, limbless, dead in a million ways, but it feels like me and my human friends are the only people seeing that. Fascists have huge media "legacies" and content that they see every day and it's genuinely not what I see. People are eating and living in nice spaces and having fun talking about white supremacy. Out there, millions of fascists (yes, millions) are living in a world of their own already, and are trying desperately to make it real here. Zionists want to make video games simulating being an IDF soldier in the genocide right now. The Trump Gaza video from the White House makes me want to VOMIT. Yet millions are watching on their phones, praising these demons and salivating at the chance to participate and prove their worth. I'm baffled at the state of the world. How did we get here? We as humanity, how the hell have we arrived at this expanding point? And I don't ask in a historical way, but in a human spirit way... what's happened and is happening?

knowledge and media i was consuming throughout September 2024

Middle East Eye video on "Twi Nice Jewish Boys" podcast

Father of Aiden Clark condemning Trump and Vance for using his son's name to lie about hate crimes and terrorize immigrants.

Queer Jewish woman who sees that every Zionist accusation is a direct confession. So glad to know others who know this exist because it's fucking true and I'm worried about how the human population ignores this.