#2459 -- race to the bottom OR why the fuck

 

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race to the bottom

or

why the fuck

 

why the fuck are we supplying fanatical lunatic mass murderers

with weapons, with ammunition, with soothing words

and the odd tut tut

?

 

why are we paying taxes for this?

for tone it down please but we’ve still got your back?

you have a right to exist

…don’t we all?

 

oh, I see, it’s for precious leverage

 

don’t think I labour under a misapprehension

the other side’s less genocidal, less full of hate

they, too, get the soothing words

receive the weapons donations

and that is supposed to make it okay?

 

you begin to see where hate comes from don’t you?
there seems to be a direct link to unnatural death

and that seems to be the product of hate +$$$$

 

though often hate will lack the means

but why are we helping hate? …

 

so we can say ‘bad monster, down, boy

but you’re still our monster

you’re not at all like that other monster

the monster you hate

we hate too

 

then who was it lit the fuse?

who was it laid the cordite trail?

who was it wouldn’t forgive?

could never forgive?

 

something written in a dusty old book

to justify anything you like

to plague anything you hate

to kill and kill and kill

and wear the halo all the while

and smile for the cameras

be the always one hard done by

 

what the fuck?

 

my enemy’s enemy’s enemy’s enemy’s…

no knowing where this thing will go

how it spreads

how hate gets into every last corner

 

but how does a thing like this begin?

how do we make it end?