The latest TikTok trend is heartrending. Gazans remix viral posts into appeals for survival. Heels I want to wear before I die is followed by an appeal to not die. Not between posts but within posts, entertainment turns to extermination, and distraction to destruction. As the genocide goes on ever more, the algorithm drips blood from every pore. I'd say I can't take this anymore, but I'm not taking it. There is no gauze for Gaza. Just an idle gaze that gets more and more remote.

During the Gaza Genocide, war crimes are advertised, state terrorism is televised, and history isn't even revised. They're just doing the horrible in front of you and daring you to feel something. Where are we? What are we doing? A holocaust has turned into a telecast and “never again” has turned into constantly. The perfect victims become the perfect criminals. The slow crime of genocide becomes a fast extermination. Europe abuses people and then expels abusers, spreading trauma everywhere and calling it civilization. This has always been the long history, but now it's spread to short video. As Samuel Huntington said, “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” How can we forget? They're still doing it.

You have to know that they want it this way, ‘they’ being the White Empire (America, 'Israel', UK, same thing). They being inhuman corporations devoted to reproducing capital even if it means sacrificing human children. ‘It’ being a livestreamed genocide of millions, death streamed to the billions as an example. This is what will happen if you resist. So don't even think about it. So they defame the brave and censor coverage of resistance activities entirely (shout out Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ, etc) and inflame the suffering and stream it across every screen.

They say that the revolution won't be televised, and it isn't, but the oppression is advertised and it's insistent. They want you to see the cruelty, the cruelty is the point, the massacre is the message. The White Empire (like the Romans before them) crucify the Palestinians in public to communicate. Resist and die. Appeal to a higher power and you will be crucified by the powers that be, and they don't care who sees it. In fact, they want people to see, they want the Palestinians do die in public like Jesus did.

Note that the White Empire doesn't target the fighters (who they fear) but instead the civilians, to strike fear across the entire Empire. The cruelty is the point. They want you to see the suffering, to feel your own impotence, and then participate by scrolling onwards, towards earthly delights. Thus they censor the Resistance and televise the trauma. They cover-up the bravery of men in the field and show you the beggars in the streets. Make no mistake, they can still control much of what comes out, and the images of mass suffering are intentional. They want to strike fear in the masses everywhere and assert control through terrorism.

What else do you call this but luxury terrorism? Remember that every accusation from Empire is a confession. What else do you call people backing Al Qaeda (again) and bombing hospitals for attention? The Empire is the algorithm, or they hijack it at gunpoint, and they revel in misdirection. So they point to the genocide they're winning to distract from the war they're losing.

I don't believe them but I'll be damned if I don't feel them. The terrorism works on me, I feel terrified. But then I remember that the Resistance is still resistant, the Palestinian people are still existing, and the Empire is still disintegrating. That the rubble is the Empire's own reputation, that the huddled masses condemn them, and that they're torturing children in public out of sheer desperation. This is nothing to stop the daily destruction, but I have to believe that their day of judgement is coming.

Allah is surely much stronger than that of Algorithm and the people that still appeal to Them amidst such earthly devastation must have a place in heaven. My feed is full of angels with dirty faces that cannot even wash the blood off. How can we turn from their appeals, those who are closest to the Creator, via destruction? I of course encourage you to donate to these campaigns wherever you find them. Or refresh GazaFunds and donate without thinking that much. Give wherever the appeal reaches you, and out of whatever you have, and don't give up. I say that to myself as much as anyone.