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"“Trust the Disgust: On the Death of Joy”—Read the latest piece here or on the Patreon! (1/2) www.patreon.com/posts/111103..."
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    "Trust the Disgust: On the Death of Joy

Kamala Harris would like to frame her campaign around the notion of "joy." Contrasting herself with Donald Trump's message of a United States in decline and his doom-and-gloom imagery, the Harris campaign aligns rather with the forces of good, with love and happiness and the feeling you get when you eat your grandmother's chocolate chip cookies and sugar and spice and everything nice. I saw a recent guest on Al Jazeera explain it this way: "If Donald Trump represents doomscrolling, the Harris/Walz campaign represents hopescrolling.""
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    "But joy isn't a state of moral goodness; it is an emotion, a feeling, arguably the real battlegrounds of this election, and I must offer another because I cannot speak of the Harris campaign without it:
Disgust. Repulsion. Stomach-churning moral revulsion, the visceral negation-reaction to the unacceptable and threateningly unbelonging, perverse elements encountered in the world. The gag reflex can be triggered by the stomach or by the conscience-protective in both cases!-and seeing a war criminal campaigning around "joy" while raining Hell on Earth down on the survivors of genocide in Gaza provokes only the strongest feelings of sickness in me. Would that it were so simple as vomiting this unacceptable knowledge out of my brain."
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    "Kamala "I'm speaking now" Harris dares to speak of "hope," "compassion," "democracy," about her vision for a supposedly brighter future, and worst of all: "joy." She helped murder the hope and joy of millions in Gaza along with (certainly by now) hundreds of thousands of civilians, probably half of them children. Her enthusiastic membership in a genocidal administration, her gleeful taking of the torch from the war criminal Biden-one of the most deeply reviled and deeply evil men alive today-makes her culpable. Her campaign is the death of compassion, her policy toward "Israel" the denial of democracy for millions of Palestinians, survivors of genocide for eleven months and for 76 years, in Gaza and the West Bank and the rest of Palestine. She intends to continue the essential US support for the most brutal apartheid regime the world has ever seen, in Palestine—a hellish vision of the future."
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    "Calling all of this "hypocrisy" feels inadequate. It's more disturbing than that. I don't feel disgust because Harris is saying one thing while doing another; that almost goes without saying in US politics. What disgusts me is that her supporters don't even see it as true hypocrisy. They do feel joy at these things. Harris must be speaking of the "joy" of a mass murderer who's gotten away with it and plans to kill again, the self-righteous joy of true zealots as they soak their swords in blood. These butchers. It's absolutely sickening that anyone can let themselves take pride in any of this without feeling deep, unshakeable and irreversible shame. I guess we'll see. But it's clear that Harris supporters live, or want to live, on another planet where up is down, good is bad, wrong is right and all things are permitted in the service of empire. Where the murder of innocents is something joyful. A complete moral inversion."
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