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Last night I watched a video - of some kid in a Gaza hospital being reunited with their sister, who was previously thought of as dead. It did “get on top of me” as I watched their car drive away to what surely must be another potential bombing “target.”

We aren’t alone. We may cry alone at times, but there is solidarity in knowing sane people don’t solve heinous crimes with exponential heinous crimes. Sane people, where I live, watch a season opening hockey game that starts out with pomp and circumstance detailing how the Oilers “Stand with Israel” and think to themselves, ‘Wait a minute, what the f#%k do the owners of the Edmonton Oilers know about the history and nuance and criminal response to this heinous attack?” Obviously, the distractions our government and corporate society uses are very effective. But they don’t fool us all. I cry for every victim. I refuse to be any kind of jingoistic useful idiot buying the propaganda garbage and lies - from either of the violent sides. I just want no more children to die. Stop! Maybe it’s time to quit watching sports and start watching the war mongering government/corporate bastards. Maybe just buying the lines CK refuses to us something our schools should start teaching.

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