Diana

Our rulers did not expect this. They did not expect the public to sustain ferocious opposition to the Gaza holocaust for 20 months. In October 2023 they would've been assuring each other that all the protesting and outrage would die off soon, because that's what normally happens. And it just didn't. People refused to let this thing fade into the background. The mass media were forced to keep reporting on it — albeit with extreme bias — because if they didn't report on it at all they'd lose their last shred of credibility in the eyes of the public, and people would keep sharing the information on their own anyway. Remember how excited the Israel apologists got when those two embassy staff members were killed? They were like "Welp, that's it for the pro-Palestine movement! Saying Free Palestine is not allowed anymore everybody! Ahh, thank goodness, I was worried people would never let this thing go." And it just didn't pan out that way. Nobody bought it. The embassy staff killings were shuffled off in the daily news churn and forgotten, while Gaza remained. And I just think it's worth flagging what a miracle that is. How completely unexpected and unanticipated this would have been for our ruling institutions. They really thought we were all sufficiently ground down and subdued by life under the empire to just let them do what they want to Gaza without any resistance, and they were wrong. There's some life left in us yet. It is not a foregone conclusion that we will just passively watch our rulers carry us off over the ledge of dystopia, ecological disaster and nuclear armageddon. Revolution is not an impossible pipe dream. There is still a spark of hope. We still might turn this thing around.