On daily assault - a poem (my last line is your first)

Thx HVR - James.

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Though I’m not living half-assed,

My life seems constantly on assault.

Lately, the news are full of „that‘s the past“

Of how supposedly humane freedoms can’t last

How anyone disabled and old should be outcast

Or gods forbid, someone who‘s got kids

But, gods, preserve the right to stare at tits

While nipples should be forbidden on media

When women—*any* non-male, cis, hetero white

Seemingly should get shoved from wikipedia

„Unimportant“ you scream, ‘cause you gotta be ‚right‘

How is any of that my fault?

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When we‘ve got money for everything else

Subsidizing billionaires and trampling the poor,

Imperialism, patriarchy, closing access for sure

Forget all your Christian ideals when someone‘s skin

Fits the idea of what you still label as sin

All while shitting on equality and people’s health

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Ignoring reality, deflecting and derailing

Calling for ‚sources‘ to take apart

Only to ignore the trend for minutiae

Cause what you ‚need‘ today is fiducia

All while whole lifelines are failing

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If only you find something to debate

Ignoring whatever doesn’t fit your idea

So you can install a closed gate

Let them set fire to fear

And all hail and cheer

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Exhaust the messenger, so you can ignore

The suffering happening right now and here

to your ‚friend‘, in front of your own door,

But instead of lending a helping hand

You finally show the rotten core

And call that ‚taking a stand‘

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Defending those who rape and pillage

Condemning your whole village

For being, for remaining „right“

Instead of having to admit

You hailed the wrong people as heroes

By virtue of bank accounts full of zeros

And the label never fit

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Better to kick who‘s already down

Not even willing to help your own neighbor

Than protest against who‘s actually stealing

‘Cause greed and jealousy is a whole feeling

A lifestyle for a whole merry-go-roun‘

And who doesn’t want more labor?

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Even when it would cost you nothing

Maybe some pride

Because pride is a holy McGuffin

Much better, apparently than getting treated

With decency and what you really needed

Human dignity already ceded

Your on the wrong sidd

Because the system isn’t as easily defeated

As someone already begging and kneeling

Broken and exhausted, powerless and too fee

So who cares if the facts go a little skew

That‘s just a whee-daddle, innit?

So grab the lamb already, and skin it

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People continue to yell „you gotta move fast“

Gotta hustle, gotta burn, through every resource

Every last turn, every last line, an obstacle course

Deep down, you know—so: „Don’t be last“

People already crawling, dying, burnt out?

Seems it only matters if it’s loud

And truth gets ‚annoying‘ fast

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People still tell you to „just push through“

When you‘re already crawling on your knees

Missing sight, missing an arm, or maybe teeth

Who cares?

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Doesn’t matter that they got you miscast

You‘re getting painted as „just lazy“

Your lack of remaining capacity a „lifestyle choice“

As if people‘s bodies and very lives are toys

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Does anyone still wonder about the existence of rape advice and the Epstein files

When everyone happily swallows the propaganda and calls truth lies?

Even when there‘s whole playbooks for exactly what is being done

By the people who rule, how to make people… gone

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And, oh, it was „just humor“ when you call ‘em out on it,

„Don‘t be a party pooper“, go on and swallow narc shit

Also: Who dares?

The underlying threat clear:

Follow along or it‘s you next

Who‘s gonna get axed

The pretty chain of FEAR

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Run faster? Fight harder? Push through?

When that‘s exactly what got you there

When it‘s exactly what‘s wrong with it all

In a world that‘s finite, the game rigged

“Yeah”, they go, shrugging, „life ain‘t fair“

And no matter how much you do

Our suffering minimized, your feelings bigged

When there‘s no gap in arguments, you‘ll stall

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Deflect again, derail, use whataboutism

Anything to widen the chism

As if we should never dare to aspire to more

You‘d rather hurt who‘s already sore

All for not wanting to believe you‘re being played

That‘s called a ‚sunken cost fallacy‘, mate

Maybe google it next time you blame ‘fate’

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Just like all the statistics, studies; even their own propaganda,

Not hidden at all, but painfully clear

Go do it yourself, take a look inside, don‘t be a bystander

The party program is all you need

There to take all you hold dear

Not just from your ‚lessers‘ but you, yes—YOU

If only you’re willing to see and can read

For heaven‘s sake there‘s even talking machines if you can‘t

Take a hint, man; gods, take a clue

My warnings are more than just a rant

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Yet you continue to blame the ones fallen

As if they caused it themselves

While their futures are getting stolen

For no reason, with full shelves—

Instead you compare apple to tomatoe

As if a very life is just potato-potatoe

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Until it‘s finally YOU who falls.

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Only then do you understand

That what was needed was the helping hand

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But now there‘s no one left to answer your calls

Because you closed the door

On them all, instead of asking for more(*).

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My last line is your first @ anyone reading this ;)

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(*) in the sense of “doing better” here, more, actually ‘humane’ (which increasingly feels like a laughable word, the more humans show their clear lack of so-called ‘humanity’, also called basic empathy); just in case there’s actually someone reading this to whom that wasn’t clear.

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A late, but maybe even more important commentary:

Did you know?
World hunger could’ve been ended by now.
The means ARE THERE.

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Instead, we have 1% of the global population “owning” 50% (FIFTY PERCENT) of ALL GLOBAL wealth (my numbers are probably erring on the small side doing this from memory and how these numbers are over a year old). Let that sink in.

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“Billionaires” is actually a euphemism. They are worse than any kings or emperors in history ever were. Their headcount in people DYING every day for their obscene wealth is HIGHER than any war. This is a GENOCIDE, “only” spersed out globally.

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Even in the richest countries we STILL haven’t gotten rid of HUNGER for our OWN poorest. Poverty still exists. In the very richest countries on this whole wide world.
NOT because “they money isn’t there”. Because our governments CHOOSE this.

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WE choose this.

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No? You don’t think so? Really?

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Here’s just a few ideas:

We could go on mass strikes.

Even just a few days, done by enough people uniting would have a MASSIVE impact. But we are cowering in FEAR. Don’t want to face it.

We ARE several billions. And every single on feels powerless?
Or just doesn’t care? Why do we even believe this shit?

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We could force corruption out of politics as the mere basic thing. Keep money out of politics, full stop.

Deny everyone a post related to who they have lobbyied for or have direct investments in, connections to.

Freeze their accounts.

At least deny them to make “laws” they profiteer from.

Ensure they cannot take money from anyone.

Pay them according to how they have actually HELPED or not. (Possibly minus whatever harm they caused.) How about performance reviews for politicians? We got them everywhere else after all. And how much money a country makes has no say in it. Only how the PEOPLE in it are affected.

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Do the people get basic healthcare? ALL people.

Do they all have housing? Enough food, water, clothes, basic necessary hygiene?

It is really NOT THAT HARD.

There is nothing to argue about there.

This is NOT for debate. It NEVER should be.

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Base law: Any other spending gets denied until THAT is taken care of. Until everyone in that country has BASIC necessities.

And no, excuses do not count. None of them.

No one CHOOSES to live under a bridge. To beg on the streets. To ruin their health. They are FORCED into it.

No one should have to choose between food or a roof over their head. Necessary hygiene products or the clothes on their back getting mended. Their health or their psyche vs. getting food on the table. And what about those who just… can’t?

Are we back to eugenics now?

Have we ever stopped it instead of hiding it under mislabeling?

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We could at the very least vote for people who vow to change this instead of the ones openly STATING they will not.

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Too many people just… don’t.

Instead, they listen to people blaming the POOR for causing the problems. Or whoever else. “Foreigners”. “Women working” — or not working but doing what others demand: getting children to continue society, do their supposed “job” as mothers. Unpaid, btw… Or it’s the queer people. Any kind of minority or disaffected. Different. “People are getting disability labels too easily these days”.

Are you serious?

Seriously? How dumb, how BRAINWASHED and damaged are we?

Because this is INSANITY.

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The poor are NOT causing the problems.
They are struggling to merely make it through another day.

*** They do not have the POWER to do so. ***

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Neither are other minorities or suppressed people.

*** They do not have the POWER to do so. ***

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Look at who HAS, ffs.
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You care about someone stealing a loaf out of a fucking garbage can more than about what the richest steal from the whole of society?

Instead of giving the food to someone who needs it before it SPOILS in masses, thrown away for nothing, just so that prices don’t drop, prices that are hurting a LOT of even the “normal” population already?

Or someone stealing some cigarettes after companies get them ADDICTED? More than about getting the abuser next door or at the very head of your country out of the power to abuse their next victim?

“Stealing” jobs? Look at the people who fired your five coworkers and now demand you do their job for a pittance of the original.

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Seriously?

This is no longer just “ignorance”.

This is WILLFUL.

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It is the very worst of the past STILL alive. Just under different labels.

But WORSE than ever, multiplied globally.

Our politicians are arguing about BASIC NECESSITIES for people to SURVIVE, least of all live, saying THAT is too much, in the same breath they are choosing to not go after tax fraud in the billions, or not to impose a tax on the superrich they WOULDN’T EVEN FEEL. Because “oh god, then they just go elsewhere” — so… do it EVERYWHERE. Let them not sell in your country anymore if they go somewhere else. STARVE THEM OUT. There are myriads of ways. PICK ONE. DO something. ANYTHING at this point.

There are better ways. WHY are we not going them?

As if that’s all we’re capable of.

Closing our eyes against suffering every. single. FUCKING. day.

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Why is it so hard to “agree” on basic necessities?

On very BASIC “humanity”? Gods, what a word. This whole race (and “race” is only HUMAN, there is no other race, features of a person are not “race”, ethnicity, religion, place of origin, none of this is race; races are “cats” vs. “dogs” things) deserves to die if we can’t do better than this.

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And not in a hundred years. NOW.

Because we CAN. The means are ALREADY there. We are not using them correctly. Why?

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Is this what we are choosing? Not even STARTING, not even “at home”, for “our own”, as some people so loudly proclaim?

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Money is an INVENTION.

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Debt, other than the moral one to make up for damages, is an INVENTION.

States? An invention.

Fictional boundaries between people. Every single one. Gender, clothes, someone’s private beliefs, who the FUCK cares?

Land “owning”? Seriously?

This planet belongs to ALL living things.

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But "we” are the “crown” of creation.

Yeah, sure. As we CHOOSE to not even clean up our own mess.

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No, not because we couldn’t.

Because we do not fear ENOUGH, apparently.

Do not FEEL enough.

Choose to not DO. What we COULD.

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Frozen. Numbed. Uncaring. Exhausted. Frightful.

WAKE UP.

This is “freeze and fawn”. THAT is what you should get therapy for:
Get your FIGHT back.

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Instead we blame the ones who refuse to numb. Who cannot numb.

Sure, they are the problem. (Irony, for anyone who can’t read it.)

Stuff them in therapy, so they grow “resilience” to somehow “accept reality” !?

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This is NOT reality. This is INSANITY.

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Anyone who has the physical CAPACITY to get out there SHOULD get out there. Maybe the only instance of “should” that I will ever condone.

GET OUT THERE ALREADY. PROTEST at the very least.
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Lend a hand to your neighbor, your suffering friend.

Ask them “how are you” with an added “I do NOT expect you to ‘be fine’, I want truth” and MEAN it.

Or don’t ask at all, but face what you are actually doing by not doing anything at all.

“Oh, but I am good”. Are you helping? No? Then you are NOT “good”. Standing by is not enough. You need to ACT on you “goodness” or it is worth nothing at all. That is the true devil. Not the one in books.

Pathological behavior is one thing. The “good” people looking away is another entirely.