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  • blazeknave@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.worldIsrael is starving Gaza
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    6 months ago

    I hate gatekeeping anything with anyone but I’ve felt the same as you since day 1. Maybe I just didn’t have enough empathy or kids close to me before fatherhood, but the difference for me is night and day. The idealistic political bullshit I’d espoused before… Now all I think is, all of you get fucked and get out of there so these children can be taken care of and their families can make a living to provide them basics. I have an online friend in Kiev. He mods a game I play. Same middleage, same corp tech sales career. Families. Similar lives two years ago. And we chat and just the usual shit, and, “oh fuck, missiles, brb.” This motherfucker could be anybody in Philadelphia, Seoul, or Vienna, and then, boom, war. It’s fucking horrendous. I’ve always despised war and the machine, but as a parent I don’t have opinions about how to stop it anymore, I just want it to end. And seeing it casually in the West like this, in a way our generation only watched in southeast Europe decades ago at this point… it’s jarring. Then looking over at Gaza from there… it’s hard to function to imagine life for these children. I feel like shit if I snap at my kid or that he’s not growing up less poor or unprivileged than me in spite of how hard I work. That feels like stolen childhood. He hasn’t been to Disney, and even knowing it’s corporate bullshit, I cry over letting him down. And then, again, you look at the kids in Gaza and my lord… How anyone can politicize any of it… They’re children.