Aaron Bushnell was in the United States Air Force and he made the ultimate sacrifice. He filmed himself burning to death in front of the DC Israeli embassy while shouting ‘Free Palestine’ until he couldn’t any longer. He felt that the killing of Palestinians by Israel was wrong and that the complicity of the United States government in it was untenable.
He wasn’t just a soldier, he helped the homeless in San Antonio and was part of the local socialist community. In other words he talked the talk and walked the walk. This sacrifice that he made was done because he had a sense of justice, not because he was depressed.
That you Aaron for standing up for the Palestinian people and for your sacrifice; you will never be forgotten.
Full disclosure on this, I actually knew Vision online over twenty years ago during the deathrock revival. I stopped paying attention to him and the band when they started to look like rejects from a Motley Crue video. It was just a really bizarre shift and I lost track of the band.
I still go over to r/goth, even though I am banned from there, because the drama in that group gives me a lot of ideas for articles. Hi guys!!! Well, somebody over there made a long post questioning as to why Vision from Tragic Black was now a right winger. As proof they showed a few screenshots from Vision’s follow list and a list of all of his follows in a paste bin. I felt like the proof had to be a little more solid so I went over to Instagram and took screenshots of every one of his obvious right wing follows. I will post every screenshot and a brief commentary underneath each one. I know it sucks finding this shit out but if you are a fan of Tragic Black you deserve to be told the truth as to what kind of person Vision really is; a far right wing supporter.
Awwww…….look, he likes Charlie Kirk who is a very well known right wing grifter. How cute!
He even likes the rejected GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. What a nice lad!
Michale Graves is an admitted Proud Boy and Vision thinks that he is peachy-keen enough to follow. Right wing chuds supporting one another? Who knew?
Our boy is following Russel Brand AND Donald Trump. I guess the young lad really loves conspiracy theories. That’s so tragic! See what I did there?
Eric Trump? He is so enamored of the Cheeto that he also follows one of his grifter sons……and he also follows Matt Gaetz, a congressman who had been accused of sex trafficking minors.
He loves his fascist women blonde and extremely dumb; Marjorie Taylor Greene. So if you are a dumb blonde fascist bitch you may get a follow from him! How exciting!
I guess he also likes his fascist women with dark hair because here is Lauren Boebert! Or maybe he likes her because he wants her to jerk him off in a theatre? We will probably never know. Steven Crowder is a right wing grifter podcast idiot. I wonder if listening to his show helps Vision take a shit. Regular bowel movements are important!
Say hi to Josh Hawley, a GOP member of congress who thinks that women who are raped, either by a relative or somebody else, should be forced to have the child. So our little Vision is against a woman’s right to choose. What a peach!
He loves Lauren Boebert so very much that he has followed a second account of hers? Lovely!! Oh, and he follows the very problematic industrial band Nachtmahr, Not a shocker since Vision seems to be okay with racism and woman being exploited.
He follows yet another Donald Trump account and Kanye West. Just when you thought this crap couldn’t get any more stupid he throws us a bone! Thanks dude!
Ted Cruz is sooooo lucky to have a follower like Vision! Like OMG, right?
Awwwww…..I was wondering where his follow of Tucker Carlson was at. Vision doesn’t disappoint does he?
Both Tim Pool AND Ben Shapiro? Wow, Vision sure has his listening to far right wing grifters covered doesn’t he?
He follows Joe Rogan, because of course he does!
He also loves Andy Deane, a ‘goth’ musician who has been accused of rape among other really disgusting things. Bad birds of a feather hanging together. No shock.
We are now at the end of our saga, in which Vision forgot to remove his support of somebody that wasn’t a right wing grifter; President Obama. Vision fell down the far right rabbit hole and I can’t ever see him coming back from this. The end.
First I would like to say sorry for not being on here that much, and it is mostly due to the fact that I have been on Twitter almost all day every day. Since I have MS and can’t do anything physically I am spending my time helping to spread the word about the genocide and all of the lies that Israel has been spreading online.
Basically what is happening right now is that after the ICJ gave the ruling that Israel has to stop the bombing of Gaza Israel claimed that the UNRWA was full of Hamas terrorists. Western countries fell for this lie and have stopped funding the UN humanitarian organization. The Israeli government has always wanted the UNRWA gone so that they could starve the Palestinians into giving them Gaza. Out of over 13,000 UNRWA workers in Gaza only around 10 have been found to be guilty and they have been kicked out of the organization.
Since they have lost a lot of their funding the UNRWA needs all the help they can get. If you would like to help them here is their website. Also, if you live near where marches against the genocide are taking place I highly encourage you to attend them and let your feelings be known. EDIT: Now Israel claims it was only 4 UNRWA workers who were Hamass. Go figure.
Owen Jones’ new video about those who have public platforms who are doing nothing to help end the genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel. It is also my opinion, especially towards ‘influencers’ in the goth and punk subcultures. You cannot be in an alternative type subculture and support a literal genocide. End of. Too chicken shit, that you will lose followers? Oh noes, people supporting a genocide might not follow you. Fuck off with that nonsense.
Before I start I want it to be known I bought these with my own money, I did not receive these badges and patches for free or at a discount.
Since I have been endlessly posting about the genocide in Gaza on social media I decided to buy some politically themed patches and pins. I bought all the pins and patches off of Etsy. I got the badges from Wokerati Party, and I got the patches from Chaos Creations. I have a lot of DIY projects going on at the same time so I am not quite sure where the patches are going yet but I have some ideas. All of the patches and badges are of a good quality so I highly recommend them for all of your leftist political needs.
If you live on the US East Coast and want to make a difference please try to attend this. I am guessing that this is going to be huge so plan accordingly.
If you follow me on social media you know where I stand when it comes to the genocide of the Palestinian people by the government of Israel. I think it is disgusting what is happening and that there needs to be a ceasefire right now. If Genocide Joe wanted to end the siege he could with a snap of his fingers. Instead he directly sold bombs to Israel without the approval of Congress.
I have always been interested in the history of WWII. I have read numerous books about the rise of the Nazis in Germany and about the European theatre of the war in general. What is going on right now in Gaza, and the West Bank, is right out of a fascist’s 1930’s playbook. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) have been using propaganda to dehumanize the Palestinian people, calling them animals and inhuman; the same words that Goebbels used in his propaganda against the Jewish people.
If you want to learn about what is really going on in the conflict Owen Jones is an excellent source over on YouTube. He is one of the only Western journalists to devote all of his time to covering what is actually going on; digging up the propaganda to find the truth underneath. He frequently has guests on his show and sometimes he makes appearances on other shows. Besides that there are a bunch of us on Twitter(x) retweeting important news stories and photos coming out of Gaza,etc… John Cusack, the actor, has been very activedoing this so he is another good source to seek out on Twitter(x).
The best thing you can do, if you want to help end the genocide, is to use your social media platform to share articles about what is going on. The reason why Israel is beginning to lose the propaganda war is because of normal everyday people sharing media and turning the tide against them. If you have been listening to political punk bands like The Dead Kennedys for years you know exactly what to do to make a difference. Make uncle Jello proud.
I am going to keep this short and to the point. What the Israeli government is doing against the Palestinians is genocide and ethnic cleansing. They are killing innocent Palestinians who have nothing to do with Hamas. This is what the government of Israel has wanted since the beginning of their statehood; the Palestinians forced off of the land by any means necessary. It is disgusting that the US and UK governments are enabling this and I refuse to vote for any politician that supports the government of Israel. FREE PALESTINE!!!!!!
Over the last few weeks I have seen online more and more talk about classism and how it heavily affects those with little to no money. Almost all fashion these days can easily be considered ‘fast fashion’ since most clothing is now made in developing countries. The only way you are going to completely avoid it is if you buy used clothing or something handmade, and that isn’t as easy as some would make you believe.
Last week I went into town and visited the three charity shops there. I found nothing because they were all majorly picked over. Resellers actively go to these shops, and one of them has even opened their own local shop selling these clothes for way more cash. I’m not even joking. This type of thing is happening everywhere, so where the heck are ‘dark alternative’ type people supposed to find affordable clothing or accessories? On Poshmark and other related used product websites? Again many of the used products on those type of sites are very overpriced and not affordable for a whole chunk of people.
As you know I do a whole lot of DIY type projects and I frequently upcycle clothes that I find on clearance at my local New Look store. In the past I also bought a whole lot of clearance items off of Killstar for projects. Within the last year I have completely stopped buying anything from them because the quality of their items has jumped off of a cliff. In fact the quality of most ‘dark alternative’ type clothing is in the gutter right now; charging lots of money for items that you can find on Shein or Temu for a fraction of the price. Unfortunately this happens so frequently on Etsy that you have to do constant reverse image searches so that you don’t get ripped off.
Since all of this is the case why the hell should ‘dark alternative’ type people be shamed for buying what they can afford? It is often said that you can dress any way you want to if you are goth, but this is often paired with a wagging finger telling you where you should or should not shop. In a perfect world it would be great if fast fashion didn’t exist, but the world isn’t perfect and people have to buy clothing and accessories from somewhere. Yes, it is easy to do certain DIY type projects but you need supplies to do so and it can get very expensive gathering them together. The only people who shop on Shein and Temu who deserve any sort of derision are those who constantly make huge orders of things that they will more than likely almost never use. That is their business and they can do what they like, but it really comes across as being extremely wasteful.
My advice? Only buy things that you know you will either wear or turn into DIY type projects. Recently I browsed Temu for the first time and I actually found some very cool patches and badges. To my surprise I was also able to find and buy different Halloween themed ribbons and fabrics for fairly cheap. Where I live Halloween isn’t celebrated as heavily as in the US so I can’t find the same items in a store near me.
If any goth or ‘dark alternative’, uber goober gives you crap for shopping on Shein and Temu tell them to mind their own business; if you are happy that is all that really counts.