How do you say “we told you so” nicely, without screaming? Without upsetting the comfortable classes who told us we were wrong, or that we were over-dramatic, or scare-mongering, or plain mad? Who put some of the best people in the world in prison FOR BEING RIGHT? A thread 🧵1/12

Feel like this rhetorical mode is going to get increasingly familiar. The mainstreaming of collective grieving over Empire's harms is just getting going and it's hard to see its necessity decreasing in our lifetimes. 'We fucked it' will become a form, an industry, a way of life

Neatly captures the development from fascist rhetorics/performances to something much more practical. Of course that spectacle aspect can coexist with material intervention, nowhere better than actual war. But I guess I’m missing when it was more dog-whistles and symbolism

wait WTF

Wondering again if western moral standards can *ever* assert themselves here, or if the global order is now just playing a new game without even notional boundaries

Been true for a while, but worth repeating that the moral credibility of the postwar liberal order has now been destroyed, and it can't be rebuilt or reestablished. It's gone forever.

We were taught about Anne Frank so it would never happen again, and every day I open this app and see the last words of countless new Anne Franks in real time...

This harrowing photograph deserves to command the front page of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and every leading newspaper across the globe. It is not merely an image,it is a cry of agony, a testament to a night when the world failed its most vulnerable.

Footage shows Palestinians being placed in caged roads and zones to receive a meal at an Israeli distribution point. How is this scene considered normal? This is complete and utter dehumanization of Palestinians.