And finally, New Rule. Someone needs to tell the people who block traffic in the name of a cause, no one likes you. And you're probably hurting your cause.
In case you haven't seen what's going on lately, activists for ending the war in Gaza have taken to gathering on roads and bridges and stopping commuters from crossing. It happened last week in New York and San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle. They also blocked traffic here on the 405 but no one noticed.
What they did notice was this. That you have to be pretty dumb to think that the way to bring people around to your point of view is to make them late to pick up their kids from daycare.
And that's what most normies are thinking: I have a kid. I have a job. And yes, I'm sure there are injustices on both sides in the Middle East, as there are injustices all over the world, but I'm going to be late for work. Something you protesters on the bridge seem to have the luxury of not having to worry about. Which seems kind of privilege-ey. You can glue your hands to the street because your hands don't have to do any work today.
I'm not saying there aren't sincere passions about Gaza, especially among people from the region, but social justice warriors? For a lot of them it seems like it's more about the warrioring than about whatever the cause is. If you really cared about apartheid so much, which Israel does not actually practice - Arabs there vote, they serve in Parliament, they sit on the Judiciary - wouldn't you start with this? With the hundreds of millions of women in the world who live under a true apartheid. A gender apartheid of the most brutal kind?
Are you really speaking truth to power, or do you just think you look cool in a keffiyeh? Which is really just the new Che Guevara t-shirt. Another historical figure you never researched and so think is a hero but was actually a sadistic racist monster fighting for communism, the worst form of government ever.
But these are small matters when small matters when activism merges with narcissism. Less about the cause and more about me. Look at me. Watch me, and if you like the way I'm fighting injustice, remember to like and subscribe.
In February, a sad confused man even lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy, and in his last Facebook post he said, "Many of us like to ask ourselves 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery?'" Interesting cocktail question, sir, and I guess the right answer is "kill myself." But it wouldn't have actually fixed the problem. If General Ulysses S. Grant had immolated himself and his last words were, "hey Lincoln, are you using that log?"
And then last week, another sad confused man set himself on fire at the Trump trial in New York. So, you can tell yourself you're a martyr for the Palestinian cause, but it's a lot less special when the next guy does it for Stormy Daniels.
I don't want to diminish how sad it is that someone would take their own life for any reason, but maybe from now on, before anyone commits an act of civil disobedience, they should ask themselves a few questions like, "is the most important thing in my life something I hadn't heard of six months ago?" "Do I even know what the fuck I'm talking about?" "Am I really here for the cause, or is the cause here to bring you me?"
Hey, if it makes you feel good to cosplay as revolutionaries, knock yourself out, burn yourself out. Just don't drag Gaza into it. Also, throwing stuff on paintings is just stupid. No one sees mashed potatoes on a Monet and thinks, "he's got a point, I should recycle my cans."
Last week, Google employees staged a sit-in to protest their company doing business with Israel. Their t-shirts said "Googlers Against Genocide," but they could have just as well said "look at me, see me." And Google did see them. To the door. They fired all 28 of them the next day. Yes, Cojones Award coming to you guys next year!
But maybe the question that today's protester needs to ask themselves more than any other is, "why do I care so much about this particular cause?" North Korea starves its people. China puts them in concentration camps. Myanmar brutalizes The Rohingya. Boko Haram kidnaps whole villages of women. The president of Burundi says gays should be stoned to death because the, quote, "deserve it." Nothing? Ukraine?
Maybe if these Google employees had the slightest idea what kind of fundamentalist oppressive assholes they're supporting - Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard - they might take it a little easier on the world's greatest monster, Genocide Joe.
Genocide, by the way, is when you want to wipe out an entire people. That's the stated goal of Hamas. That's what "from the river to the sea" means. Hamas would do that to Israel but can't. Israel could do that to them but doesn't. And you know how you could find that out? Google it.
And, not to rub it in, but you know who all this posturing-for-a-cause reminds me of? This fat guy from Florida, who's always pretending that he's all about the cause of making America great again, when plainly he's simply history's greatest attention-whore? He's always finding some new Injustice. From Obama's birth certificate to rigged elections, learning nothing about it and making it personal. So, chew on that my warrior friends. The person you most resemble is the guy who looks like he's always jerking off two guys at once. There it is, I got it in.
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These people aren't just possibly the stupidest, most credulous idiots in the entire world, they're also fundamentally the most racist. They pretend to care, yet they don't give a damn about brown people killing brown people, or Asian people killing Asian people. Just like in their own home countries.
But when a country they code as "white" has the gall to stand up to terrorists they code as "colored" ("of color" but, same thing), then all hell breaks loose - the intersectional math has been violated.
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