Credit: Peter de Wit
Note: this comic was first published Feb 8 2025, shortly after Trump made his “Riviera of the Middle East” comments. The comic just won a prize, which is probably why it was reposted now, but the context is relevant.
People greatly overestimate how much we, as a species, care about atrocities. The reality is that once they’re over, we move on. Actually even when they’re going on, the overwhelming majority of people don’t and won’t care because it doesn’t affect them. This will never change, that’s just the way we are.
Think about it, how many of you still care about how ISIS genocided the Yazidis or that Azerbaijan ethnic cleansed Armenians out of Artsakh? The answer is probably none. Even if you cared at the time, now you don’t care. Maybe that’s too far away, have you ever thought about how the land you live on right now was built on bloodshed? Probably not, but even if you did, you think of the violence as something in the distant past. The violence becomes an interesting historical fact rather than a persisting injustice.
This will be the case here too. After what is happening in Gaza right now comes to end, people will move on, and with time people will quickly accept the new reality and treat what happened as just another chapter in history. The kid in this comic strip will grow up to think that it’s cool that he went on a vacation with his family to a place that had such a wild historical event take place.
Fuck, the Syrian barbaric ISIS headchopper they shaved and put in a suit is now welcomed to the UN by the western regimes that backed this proxy mass-murderer.
It’s the governments whitewashing them, not the people.
I will never forget what that scumbag did, or those israeli monsters.This is what original sin means. The sins of our fathers, mothers, and nonbinary parents are passed onto us when we benefit from those sins, from that stolen wealth. It’s not enough to embrace Jesus Christ as your saviour, you must also cleanse yourself of colonisation and racism. That’s why I’m learning the language of the first nations who lived on the land I stand on, and fighting for their rights in the present. This sacrifice of our time, effort, and in some cases identity is required in order to be saved and enter the Lord’s kingdom.
LOL
We are saved by grace alone, not works
If you have truly felt the grace of Jesus Christ then you will be compelled to do works of kindness. But if you have been taken in by the lies of the Antichrist then you will convinced you have felt His grace even as you steal from the poor and step on the downtrodden.
Yes, but the good works don’t save you.
The commitment to sacrifice your privilege for the good of others is the grace that saves you
That’s works. It’s the Grace of God that saves you.
Commitment is grace.
42 For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve You?’
45 “He will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you did it not for one of the least of these, you did it not for Me.’
:(
That’s… I mean… is it optimism? Somehow it is, right?
Oh, it’s a hint towards that fascist fuck idea.
That’s a bingo.
This is similar to how the hunger games ends. Generations of people suffered and died in the meadows where little kids could now play in peace.
In this case of the comic it’s tourists discovering a mass grave of people that used to live where they are vacationing so yeah changes the tone a bit
It’s fun for all ages! (or whatever slogan makes the most money) /s
Needs a Trump tower to be accurate.
