Swiftdrawer's Thoughts

A Message Of Solidarity

This is a message to all oppressed peoples across the entire world including the people of Palestine, refugees struggling to survive in refugee camps in locations such as Kenya, immigrants, migrants attempting to cross into the US from Mexico, queer people, black people suppressed in the Southern US, the disabled, and countless other groups. It is not a vocal minority that suffers nor are those aligned with the right the silent majority. No, the majority of the world's population is oppressed in some way. See: unethical labor practices in the US, India, and China. The truth of that matter is that a small minority of people want to rule the world under the capitalist system more than they already are.

Capitalism is not just or kind, it is all about maximizing profits and for whom? Not the workers or making things better. The infamous "First They Came For" poem has to be updated with how the world has been going largely downward after 2015 ended. That was also the year I really noticed how bad climate change was already getting at the time. This is a message of solidarity to every oppressed person in the world, including children being abused by other people and children by and large because many people see them as the property of their parents. When I was a minor, my mom dressed me up like a doll and would post pictures of me on a certain site and get all these likes and comments like how I should be a model. I miss her, she died far too soon but I have to right to speak my mind on how I viewed her as a person. She was selflessly selfish, she did a lot for me and is honestly a part of how I became who I am today.

But this isn't about me, this is about all oppressed peoples, no matter where they are. Dehumanization is playing out on live TV in the terrible country I live in. This is unacceptable, any form of hatred towards a minority group is uncalled for and must be condemned until the end of time. Because most of us are oppressed, this is our time to fight back and be militantly happy despite countless efforts to make us be consumed with our own pain and despair 24/7. We are the people, we are the workers of the world and others who make the world actually go around. We are legion, we are stronger together rather than as competitors eating each other alive. Those in power have all the financial and political power but they do not have all of the social power and that's part of why they're working so hard to crush any form of resistance we can muster, even just making artworks.

To the people of Gaza, I stand in solidarity with you. You do not deserve to see everything around you being bombed to the ground. What is happening to you is total war, the complete destruction of a specific location, regardless if it has civilian infrastructure or not. Most of your hospitals, homes, schools, and more have been bombed to oblivion ironically by a state set up for Jews in large part due to the Holocaust. You are not fodder for the gleeful destruction that those who are killing you are partaking in. You are as human as anyone else is. Gazans are currently being among the bravest people in the entire world. They are struggling to survive and trying not to let the establishment silence their pleas for help while also building connections with people and organizations from around the world. You truly do not deserve this.

It's clear now that the nation of Israel has normalized what it's doing to you and actively engaging in step 9 of genocide: extermination against you that it must be opposed by any means necessary. Including military intervention should it be the only way and the ending of weapons shipments to the army of sadists trying to bomb you out of existence. Israel and its accomplices must face recourse. Except that there's now a ceasefire in place. I really don't trust it. The people of Gaza still need our help. Most of them have lost things and people very precious to them. The timing of the ceasefire is really suspicious. I don't trust it. But still.. All of this is the result of decades of actions against Palestine which used to control a lot more territory but is now not even a nation fully recognized by the international community. The people of Gaza didn't ask for any of this crap, nor did any other Palestinians. I wish I had more words to say on this at the moment but I don't.