I accidentally flipped to CNN and they're at it again. Trying to color revolution Iran, painting riots as rebellion. CNN, which incites genocide, is trying to overthrow the only country to do its duty under the genocide convention. The only independent country in the region, suffering under sanctions (White word for sieges), which are then used as a lever to sow chaos within. And CNN is in on it. They even had on former Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh, because what is CNN but a privatized propaganda outlet? It's one military-industrial-media complex, and their goals are blood simple. Sow chaos and reap the whirlwind.

I opened an old metablog I used to love (MetaFilter) and they're at it again. I left MetaFilter when they started censoring any comments about Russia, jumping on that war bandwagon, and they're still on the overthrow Iran bandwagon as well. These people, who are just ordinary people, still think they're the good guys and that the White Empire they're in is right this time, that this time will do it, this war, this overthrow is just, and they're so arrogant about it. These people still talk about overthrowing other countries and installing puppets like they're king of the world, and not merely stowage on the Titanic. It's nauseating, how callous they are with entire countries, these casual citizens, repeating rank propaganda like they just thought of it.

These are both rocks I wish I hadn't flipped over. I'm done with them. They (a rather amorphous they, but hey); they don't get it and they never will. Americans are irredeemable. I put 'Israeli' in scare quotes because I think that identity is fake, evil, and disappearing this decade, but I think the same about 'Americans'. Why should they got off so easy? The saying is Death to 'Israel' and Death to 'America', meaning that both those identities must be put in the historical dustbin. So I should put both names in scare quotes, really, and perhaps I will. I can SHIFT only my keyboard, but like Refaat Al-Areer throwing his whiteboard marker, I can throw something at the White Empire, even if it's only shade in the end.

'Americans' still think they're the good guys merely doing bad things, oopsying their way around continents, and Trump gives them a convenient foil to fool themselves. For example, Corbin Trent, who seems to be a nice person, describes America as entering a 12-step problem, saying, “Like every journey it starts with a first step. This one starts with looking in the mirror and admitting we have a problem.” Nice thoughts, like there's nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed with what's right with America, but I disrespectfully disagree. If 'Americans' were to look in the mirror they'd see that they are a problem and kill themselves (not individually, but identitly). The whole 'American' identity is founded on genocide on theft, it's not some modern aberration which can be redeemed by appealing to some slaver documentation. The identity 'American' is no more redeemable than Nazi, or German if we look at it seriously. We should have never put Germany back together and 'America' needs to break up, not wake up. This is not a nightmare that will pass, this is them.

I am somewhat cavalier about ending identities because identities do end. There aren't Babylonians or Cholas anymore, and those used to be big things. No one is immune to impermanence; it's kinda a permanent thing. My own Sri Lankan identity is younger than my grandparents and as a Buddhist we're taught that identities slough off from birth to birth like so much skin. Identities are useful insomuch as they're useful, and if your identity is only good for accumulating horrendous karma, it's better off dead. The United States is going to, inshallah, go the way of the United Soviet Socialist Republics. While that was a tragedy, this is a farce. The USSR had genuinely good intentions and did great things, but the USA started with bad intentions and ends ignominiously, and I say good riddance. 'Americans' will be gone within ten years and 'Americans' should be gone. It was a bad idea taken to its illogical conclusion. As the joke goes, my quarrel is not with the American government, it's with the 'American' people. The whole identity is cooked, so let me roast them as well.