With the escalation in Gaza and West Bank on top of the incident I’m going to limit how much I spend on telegram, lemmy, etc. because I can get massively hyperfocussed on this shit. Feels a lot like when the Ukraine Russia war heated up and I was stuck to my phone 8 hours a day.
I’m lucky enough to have started my meds recently which are absolutely eviscerating my anxiety, but others aren’t so lucky.
Maybe delete a couple of apps and limit your exposure for a couple of days so even if you DO doomscroll it’s less paralysing.
The new world struggles to be born ❤️
when european imperialism got its first foothold in mainland north american in mexico city; it became known as the noche triste and this part of your comment reminded me of this memorable quote attributed to that night (translated):
everyone throughout the entire global south now have their own version of the noche triste and i think it helps to frame it this way as we watch helplessly while modern day imperialism does the same thing to the gazans, iranians, & ukrainians that classic imperialism did to the mexicans/native-americans/first-nations, aboriginals, jews, etc. throughout the world.
it’s especially troubling to me that they’re employing the exact same tactics like mass starvation; collective punishment; and ethnic cleansing that they employed in history and people universally accept that those historical episodes were genocides and holocausts, but refuse to apply those same labels to today’s episodes; as well as the fact that all of today’s episodes are perpetuated by same hegemony as the most recent historical ones.
It’s my favourite Gramsci quote if not the most harrowing.