It's striking to me to know that I was the kind of kid who could have easily ended up in a headline like this. I was not very impeccable with my word at that age, to put it mildly.
Harris' campaign is younger than most of my groceries, while the next generation has been born and mastered sarcasm in the shadow of Trump's seemingly endless campaign. Being tied this early should be devastating news for 45.
I was just imagining a slightly better world, as a treat. Of course I'd prefer an even better outcome like peace and willing reparations, but I wasn't in the mood for an entirely counterfactual daydream. The current reality is an actual nightmare.
Since severing ties with Israel would only lead to more chaos in the region, what I'm really hoping for is Kamala 2025, followed by a change in Israeli leadership to mirror the recent US, UK, and French elections that have seen a broadly decimated right wing, and a strengthening of the centre left view of an international rules-based order. We could potentially see Bibi's regime tried for war crimes, China dissuaded from its designs on Taiwan, and Russia faced with stiffer international resolve in Ukraine and beyond.
I'm not prepared to defend any of that as immensely realistic, but writing it was the little taste of hope I needed in the moment.
If you're not maniacally ripping every minute of theoretical fun out of your vacation with an insane timetable that begins at 0500, you're probably rich enough that your dietician has you fasting intermittently.
Their mutual regard for one another transcends what they want from the relationship, which contrasts humourously with hetero norms of trying to change one other to get what you want
"Please verify" is not enough of a red flag to overcome confirmation bias. People have to be reminded to seek disconfirming evidence. "Highly forwarded link is likely propaganda, consider the writers motivations and other views on the subject."
This feels like a copypasta from a better universe than ours