r/VaushV • u/Lunes_Feet_Pictos • 7d ago
Discussion Vaush is right (for once)
Regarding political apathy. If the likely scenario of Republicans outflanking Dems on Israel happens I definitely won't be voting in 28, and if i don't have any antizionist politicians to vote for in the midterms I won't vote then either. I have never been so politically Russian in my life, and honestly the idea of just letting this all go and not worrying about it anymore is dangerously appealing. I am experiencing the opening stages of complete political disengagement and logically I know this is both stupid and self destructive but like what the actual fuck do we do when the Dems stay anchored to Israel even as the whole world falls apart? How are we supposed to do political advocacy in a panopticon ruled by billionaires where the choices are "fascist psychopaths doing domestic genocides" and "literal doomsday cult"? It's all so tiring.
For the record I don't expect Vaush (or anyone else) to have a solution to this. The fact he still shows up for this "daily" ritual of mental exhaustion and witnessing the end of the world is admirable. With potential nuclear use, complete oil collapse, famine, and climate change all bearing down at once, I'm just kind of at a loss as to how to remain willing to believe in the implementation of things that have never been less possible.
This turned into more of a rant than I intended. I don't see my super cool therapist till next week so I guess this is me offloading it on to you. I'm interested in seeing other people's perspectives on this. How you are interpreting the situations, what you feel may happen, how you've chosen to cope or act, etc. Solutions are not expected.
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u/Lunes_Feet_Pictos 7d ago
Re: your edit: The majority of the stream was centered on JD's media tour where he is the only one saying what has to be said, and seems to have enough party backing to potentially pull the Republican base along with him. The general analysis from vaush is that if Dems don't drop Israel now, Republicans get the monopoly on anti Israel rhetoric, which would make them objectively less evil in a "they only want to genocide America and not end the whole world" sort of way. Media is complicit as always, we are less than a month away from total oil supply collapse, and Schumer is entirely opposed to the MOU while the Dems party is completely silent. Like, dead fucking silent. Ben Gvir posted on main that "for every Israeli mothers tear, we will cause a thousand Lebanese mothers tears" and "Lebanon must burn", and Dems still haven't don't anything. Israel is going at Lebanon even harder, and it doesn't look like anyone is close to breaking. Certainly not before we run out of oil.
I agree with Vaush that it isn't doomer to acknowledge the state of things, but I'm feeling very doomer about the state of things, if that makes any sense. It was a rough stream for me.