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The machine swallows life and spits out convenience.

For someone fortunate enough to be born wearing the boot, the capacity for mercy may well extend only to how hard one chooses to step on the neck. That anyone should take the shoe off entirely, walk away from the site of the trampling, is unthinkable.

-to see these things is to know the sand is sticking to the teeth. The gears will grind to a halt one day

"Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a handful, throw it. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can."
- Palestinian poet Rasha Abdulhadi

There exists no other remotely plausible explanation for a moral worldview in which what a protester might hypothetically do to a hospital deserves the strongest condemnation, while what a military does-- has done-- to multiple hospitals deserves none.

It's an admirable thing, in a politics possessed of a moral floor, to believe one can change the system from the inside[.] But when, after decades of such thinking, decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?

[8] of these [9 ppl] are starting to understand that they cannot win; that no matter how much red meat they throw out, they are still unable to give the party's base what it craves. [Trump] is armored in a baseness the other candidates simply don't know how to wear. He understands what his opponents don't- that the people who will decide this election have gone well past red meat. They want the body served up alive.

this is where the
poets will interject
they will say: show, don't tell
but that
assumes most people
can see.
- Marwa Helal