thoughts from how to kill a zombie - strategising the end of neoliberalism by mark fisher

It's like leftists are fish living unhappily in the ocean who could grow legs and crawl out but they are unaware of their ability to do so.

Political Journaling mid-June 2025

First, I want to credit @ismatu.gwendolyn for the idea of political journaling.

Last night at 7:50PM, Donald Trump made a post on Truth Social revealing that the U.S. had dropped bombs on Iranian nuclear sites, claiming to have destroyed their nuclear abilities.

ICE deportations continue across the U.S. CBP cracks down on entry to the country by foreign nationals, searching the personal cell phones of those entering the U.S., threatening fines and imprisonment. A Norwegian man was recently denied entry to the United States and subsequently sent back to Norway after ICE agents searching his phone discovered a meme of VP JD Vance with a bald, egg shaped head (MSN.com).

Trump today claimed having struck a ceasefire deal between Iran and Israel following U.S. strikes which the president claimed to have destroyed Iran's nuclear abilities. The escalation marks a continuation of this administration's pattern of military interference w/o congressional approval. 

The State department has issued an advisory on June 22 to U.S. nationals traveling abroad globally:

The conflict between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to travel and periodic closure of airspace across the Middle East.  There is the potential for demonstrations against U.S. citizens and interests abroad. (state.gov)

The world is seeing the U.S. continuing its decades long insistence on global capitalism, continuing an emphasis on free trade and United States hegemony. The world is watching our country continue to destroy ecosystems and exploit workers across the globe through its foreign policy and economic initiatives. The proletariat of the planet can't take much more. The people united will never be defeated.

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62,214 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7th, 2023

On October 7th, 2023, 7,000 militants lead by Hamas, an extremist group in Gaza, broke out of the barricaded Gaza strip and killed a total of 1,200 people in southern Israel. Of these people, 736 were civilians, and 21 were children. 

Following these horrific attacks, many nations denounced Hamas' actions as terroristic in nature or as a dangerous escalatory tactic. To be clear, Hamas' actions were in no way justifiable. Violence is violence and violence is wrong. Given the long history of occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel, these attacks represent a boiling over of resentment towards Israelis.

The Israeli response to the attacks which occurred on October 7th has been immense. People around the globe have debated over the past year and a half whether Israel has the right to defend itself, a question whose answer I'm still not clear on. However, Israel's violent siege and systematic starvation of 2 million people in the Gaza strip is clearly wrong and there is no excuse for such violence and cruelty. We all have a responsibility to first and foremost to put pressure on lawmakers in the U.S. to stop sending arms to Israel, who has been and continues to carry out a genocide in Gaza, and to call for the opening of Gaza to humanitarian aid.

On June 1st, 2025, Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians and children trying to obtain aid from an Israeli-U.S. backed aid distro site. A UN humanitarian agency has described Gaza as the hungriest place on Earth, and has accused Israel of denying crucial food and water to 2 million people in dire condition. Starvation is wrong and clearly goes criminally beyond "Israel's right to defend itself."

The tragedy in Gaza is overwhelming, but what is worse is the external world's response to these atrocities. A ship named the Conscience carrying much needed humanitarian aid across the Mediterranean was attacked by what is presumed to be Israeli drones. The West continues to supply Israel with weapons to carry out its genocide. The President of the United States mocks Palestinian deaths by laying forth plans to take control of Gaza and turn it into a "Riviera of the Middle East."

Awareness is the first step towards action, and I want everyone to be aware of the atrocities that are taking place.

Children are burning. 

All eyes on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker