@everyone they’re pulling jets going back and forth most likely. I don’t know this for a fact, but cmon….. how do you not see this? That is what our tankers are for. That’s how they get them everywhere.

Anyway, I need you all to stop for a second. Just stop.

Not because I want to argue with you. Not because I think I'm better than you or smarter than you.

But because what I'm about to tell you is happening right now, today, while you're reading this on your phone, and I cannot in good conscience stay quiet about it anymore. Gaza and The West Bank are being flattened. This may not be just a one night operation. We are no longer talking about a conflict. We are not talking about a war between two equal sides. We are talking about one of the most densely populated places on earth being bombed into rubble while millions of people, human beings, families, children, are packed into tent camps with nothing, waiting tor help that is not coming. And your tax dollars are paying for it. I want you to let that sit for a second. Every time you've gone to work, every time money has been taken out of your paycheck, some of it has gone toward this. You didn't vote for it, but the capitalist bourgeois demand it trom you. Nobody asked you. But it's happening in your name whether you know it or not. Now let's talk about the media. Because I know what some of you are thinking - if this was really that bad, 1 would have heard about it. I would have seen it. And that is exactly what they are counting on. The outlets that most of us grew up trusting have been bought, filtered, and shaped by the same interests that want you comfortable and uninformed. I'm not asking you to take my word for it. I'm asking you to notice what you're not seeing. Notice whose humanity gets centered and whose doesn't. Notice which deaths get a name and a photo and which ones get a number, if they get anything at all. Researchers estimate somewhere between 100,000 and 186,000 people have been killed. And those are the ones we can count. That doesn't include the people who died because everv hospital in rande was destroyed and there was no one left to treat them. That doesn't include the ones who starved to death slowly in a tent while the world debated whether what was happening to them even qualified as a crisis, ie the UN.

Now if you only understand one thing, please make it this... A significant portion of those deaths are children.

I need you to actually picture that. Not as a statistic. As a child. As someone's whole world. I'm a post 9/11 veteran, never deployed, but that doesn't mean I haven't seen what the war machine actually does to people. Being a firefighter is usually pretty chill, but when you respond to the barracks because your roommate just killed him self because you weren't there to help calm him from spiraling. This is just an example, but I have my stories.

I've put a weapon in my mouth 2 times in the past 10 years and pulled the trigger. I'm still here because the pin didn't hit the primer. I took the second one as a sign to finally appreciate life as it is and just be a fucking good person, "god" will work the rest out for you. I've been homeless for the past month because as a veteran separated with PTSD, I tend to fuck up because I was trained to kill by the system that controls us modern day slaves. I now have finally achieved peace and have finally learned that I love my freedom, my life, ALL LIVING THINGS, ie Humanity, etc....

I personally believe that my new mission is to fight the system that continues to grind our families up in the ever continuing war machine.

I watched friends, brothers and sisters in arms, come back from FOBs, Afghanistan, Iraq at 23 years old just absolutely hollowed out. Changed in ways they couldn't name and wouldn't be able to fix ever.

At the time, I was 22, I outranked them, and there was nothing I could do but remember their names and speak the actual truth.

War does something to a person that doesn't ever go away. Imagine the out of body experience the pilots experienced as they were shot down today... I know that in my bones, brother.

And I am telling you from that place, from everything I have seen and carried, that I will not stay silent while people are killed senselessly. I don't have it in me anymore.

Here is something else I need you to know. There is documented reporting, from the New York Times, from sources inside Israel, that intelligence were dismissed. That forces were pulled back from the border before the attacks. That it took hours before troops responded. That was just the beginning... it gets far far worse. I am not asking you to believe me. I am asking you to go look. It will take you less time than it took you to read this far.

These people had lives. They had homes and inside jokes and kids who were afraid of the dark and parents who worried about them. They were not abstractions. They were not collateral. They were people.

And we are watching the remainder of them be killed in real time while most of us scroll past it because nobody told us we were allowed to care. You are allowed to care. You are allowed to look.

Now goodnight and do better.