Horrifying images have emerged from Israel’s latest attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, with a video purporting to show a young girl scrambling for safety after the classroom she was sleeping in was engulfed by flames.
In an 11-second clip shared on the messaging site Telegram, a young girl can be seen trying to make her way out of a burning classroom following a deadly Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jargawi girls’ school.
Health officials told reporters they had recovered the severely burned bodies of 31 people, including children, after the late-night strike.
This is violence against us all. This is pure evil. Israel has decided to march around like nazis, and we’re all forced to go along with it. How do we escape this moral black hole? Are we already past the event horizon?
Yes. If Israel was forced to stop today and the aid flowed in from across the world it will take generations to rebuild. And there’s no replacing the lives lost or history erased. This is a stain that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. And it should. After WWII the world proclaimed “NEVER AGAIN”. But clearly that was a fuckin’ lie. My taxes pay for this. This is a personal stain on me myself. And a shame that will never go away. And its our job to make sure it never goes away.
I dare not hope for any kind of justice. The perpetrators will never pay a sufficient price. And I don’t just mean the rank and file troopers putting bullets in babies. I mean the financial backers. The social media cheerleaders. The obfuscating politicians.
I will never compromise on genocide. Not for all the money. Not under threat of death. This is evil. Period, There are no shades of grey here. There is no balance. This is apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing. And it is evil. The worst evil that the human imagination has yet to concieve. And its industrialized. People had to work up to this level of depravity.
Now I’m wondering how one goes about boycotting federal taxes.
Go to HR. Ask for a W-4. Change your withholding to $0.00.
Congrats. You’re no longer paying taxes. You will still owe taxes. They’ll come for you eventually. Maybe. If the country lasts long enough.
I converted a couple W4 jobs to 1099 and have stopped paying quarterly.
For the remaining W4 jobs I set a stupidly high allowance so that it reduced withholdings super low (I was wary of claiming EXEMPT because I didn’t meet the koala-fications, but I feel like I could argue high allowance was a typo or miscalc).
I’m paying thousands less per month in federal taxes now. After a couple years of this and filing I obviously owe quite a bit, but they put me on a payment plan and at this rate it’ll take over 10 years to pay back assuming I don’t keep adding to the balance each year.
If/when they forcibly try to come for it, I’ll hopefully delay, deny, dispose. That is even if they exist AND I’m still in the US by then.
We had our chance in 2016 with Bernie.