To be fair, in the aughts the US George W. Bush administration totally did torture for no good reason (except so that plutocrats could enjoy knowing brown people were suffering) and the US public let them get away with it, and even let the congressional report stay classified.

The Palestinian genocide's been part of the plan for a century now, though it was originally a British colonial plan.

The only difference now is that news media moguls don't control the narrative. Hopefully that's enough to get them to stop, but I doubt it.

Watching Iran's recent attempted revolution, violence is always unthinkable until the hour it's inevitable. They'll keep killing until enough people decide collectively it's time to kill back. Our plutocrats would rather scorch the Earth than lose their power, and this is exactly what is happening. Even if we just want them to be part of an egalitarian society with the rest of us.

I'm pretty sure it's not a good thing that Mahsa Amini has to die before Molotov cocktails are thrown and precincts are burned, if that is what is necessary to stop genocide. The problem is, it isn't going to help Mahsa Amini. It didn't help Armita Geravand. Whoever triggers the next public unrest won't be helped either, so this paradigm sucks.

So I wonder if all of Palestine will have to be lost before the people of the world are willing to take seriously the threat that our plutocratic elite present to the rest of us (and themselves). I hope not. But then I'm afraid the death of five million Palestinians still won't be enough.