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the story of kfc fucks me up man. the colonel founded this gas station that expanded to restaurant, the chicken at the restaurant gets popular, makes KFC, it gets big and he sells it to a corporation for a lot of money. realizes he got sorta scammed out of the true worth of kfc so tries to get more money and they refuse and the courts side against him. then he starts a new chicken restaurant claiming the corporate people were not making chicken to his standards and kfc sued him because kfc owned the colonel's likeness and the courts agreed. a corporation owned this man's name and appearance. he wasnt allowed to use either, thus legally erasing his reputation making it harder for him to get taken seriously in any food venture. the man, to the day he died, was going into kfc's and throwing fits because the food had fallen into such bad shape he hated it was associated with him. and it's like, whether he's a bad man or a good man or whatever, a corporation owned his identity, stopped him from using his reputation and identity in other businesses, and refused to acknowledge his outrage that they changed his recipes and still attributed it to him. this is literally the obnoxious plot of a jay and silent bob movie, but it was this dude's real life. what the fuck.

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please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.

of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.

I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.

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Zionists be like: "dont you know?? He was gonna grow up into the supreme khamas leader!!!! We are all in danger!!!!!!"

iof sure is the most powerfull army in the world 🤡 it can kill 12 000 kids in just 4 months

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I know these politicians and IDF tik tokers are deeply unhinged because the higher ups have flat out told them to stop saying stuff like this/making sadistic videos especially in light of the South Africa case…but they still can’t help themselves.

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schrödinger's shitlib

it is so insanely important to vote for our guy instead of voting independant because whoever is president has insane godlike amounts of political power and voting for third party is like voting for satan or whatever. If biden wins we double pinky promise he will radically change america for the better single handedly

But also, even though biden is very likely suffering from severe mental health issues, its fine! The president really doesnt have that much power anyways (which is also why we never do anything ❤️) so its fine if he struggles to remember stuff like when he was vice president and what the nuclear launch codes are! The president really cant do anything anyways and its tooootally inconsequential so you might as well vote for biden yknow

#biden #fuck america #fuck capitalism #gaza #gaza genocide #vote green #I have legit seen the same person make both of these arguments days apart.......

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Ughhhhhhhnnn I'm gonna have to see more and more American voting discourse posts constantly this year huh? The talking points have to regress to "not voting democrat is a vote for trump!!" every four years forever and ever and ever and ever and *blood starts coming out of my ears and nose and eyes*

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Fucking boohoo maybe stop giving the iof food then

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Businesses firing employees for trying to organize a union is one of many pieces of evidence that capitalism is not about freedom, but about being as close to slavery as possible.

If capitalism were really about freedom, making sure employees have the means to negotiate wages would be encouraged, not suppressed.

This is also proof that "most people who work those jobs are teenagers" is a bullshit excuse for poverty wages. Teenagers deserve a living wage too.

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none of us expected much from the icj and all of us know israel would never abide by international law even if the ruling was more decisive anyway but really it's so fucking aggravating that these motherfuckers just said "we can't say it's a genocide, but israel has committed several acts that fall under article 2 of the genocide convention, with overwhelming evidence of genocidal intent which we have READ ALOUD IN THIS RULING but yeah let's wait a month from now and see what israel's report is like hopefully they've stopped slaughtering people to extinction or exile by then🤗🥰" and if they don't, which they definitely won't? would it be considered a genocide a month from now, after israel prove to us for the millionth time how little of consequence international law is to them? will you finally say it's a genocide when another couple thousand palestinian children starve to death or get obliterated by airstrikes? if so, what gives? what changed? the genocidal acts, the genocidal intent was there from the beginning and you said it with your own tongues

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Zionism 101

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It’s basically the same picture.

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You just know the NYT has a “style guide” for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone there should get fed up and leak it.

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Gaza and trauma.