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60.The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis - There is so much to hate about this graphic novel. The protagonists are hippies where she is part of a protest group and he deals weed. And they are supposed to be building a house but they never build that house. There's the implication that babies make everything better with that tacked on epilogue of her giving birth and three pages of an ugly baby (complete with a dedication at the beginning to the author's new baby - so yay for ugly babies?) Cue the "pregnant women are smug" song. There's the plot where the protest group is broken up even though they aren't doing much besides marches and they don't even let bystanders vandalize everything. This is not the kind of protest group that gets arrested. This is the kind of protest group that gets permits and uses off duty cops for security. There's the obnoxious woker than thou friend who is even more judgmental than everyone else. There's also a bit with a cop that is nice to the protagonist but then later that same cop beats up her friends.
The part where the protagonist is a caretaker for an old lady is kind of sweet but if that's her sole source of income there's no way that she's buying food. Caregivers get paid minimum wage. I know this from trying to get them to help my mom.
But the part that really pisses me, the part that turns this book from shitty to unforgivable is the protest against Sarin Gas (which the U.S. is now just manufacturing and selling in violation of all international treaties because when you give us President Zuckerberg why not go all the way into bullshit) and one of the signs indicates that Israel gassed Gaza.
This Nazi bitch writer wrote a scenario where Israel just outright committed the worst war crime short of genocide - one that Assad and Saddam Hussein barely got away with - to Gaza. Yes, Israel ends up killing civilians but if anyone knows anything about Israel they would know that Israel actually makes an effort to minimize civilian casualties (not that it matters to the people that insist on calling Israel Palestine as they believe that all military moves by Israel are war crimes. They even wanted to defund the Iron Dome which is a purely defensive program that stops Hamas from murdering children with missiles. And yeah, fuck Thought Slime for just outright stating that the Iron Dome kills children without even researching it. Because Israel bad. No matter what).
Do I have to make the damn qualifier that I don't think that Israel is perfect and that it can do a lot more to limit settlements and make life bearable for the people in the occupied territories?
But Eleanor Davis, Nazi Shit, is just assuming that there's a scenario where Israel is going to buy sarin gas from the United States and use it to kill thousands in Gaza indiscriminately. Because that fits her shitty worldview. When protest groups try to shout down Israeli scholars who talk about minimizing civilian casualties as Zionist Propagandists why not just assume that they won the propaganda wars and that Israel is evil enough to gas civilians.
There's also a conspiracy theorist who seems reasonable in a way that only a handwringing antisemitic leftist like Eleanor Davis could make. He's silly with his guns and his paranoia. That's all. He's just silly. ANd then then hippie dude shoots a gun in the air and accidentally kills him (so there's one joke in this boring ass book).
Anyhow, this is a shitty book with crap illustrations about privileged white people being privileged and pretending that they are as important as BLM with a "happy ending" where ugly babies make things better. If it didn't have that blatant antisemitic illustration, I would have been more than happy to forget about it. But Eleanor Davis is an antisemitic piece of shit so that sucked.
The part where the protagonist is a caretaker for an old lady is kind of sweet but if that's her sole source of income there's no way that she's buying food. Caregivers get paid minimum wage. I know this from trying to get them to help my mom.
But the part that really pisses me, the part that turns this book from shitty to unforgivable is the protest against Sarin Gas (which the U.S. is now just manufacturing and selling in violation of all international treaties because when you give us President Zuckerberg why not go all the way into bullshit) and one of the signs indicates that Israel gassed Gaza.
This Nazi bitch writer wrote a scenario where Israel just outright committed the worst war crime short of genocide - one that Assad and Saddam Hussein barely got away with - to Gaza. Yes, Israel ends up killing civilians but if anyone knows anything about Israel they would know that Israel actually makes an effort to minimize civilian casualties (not that it matters to the people that insist on calling Israel Palestine as they believe that all military moves by Israel are war crimes. They even wanted to defund the Iron Dome which is a purely defensive program that stops Hamas from murdering children with missiles. And yeah, fuck Thought Slime for just outright stating that the Iron Dome kills children without even researching it. Because Israel bad. No matter what).
Do I have to make the damn qualifier that I don't think that Israel is perfect and that it can do a lot more to limit settlements and make life bearable for the people in the occupied territories?
But Eleanor Davis, Nazi Shit, is just assuming that there's a scenario where Israel is going to buy sarin gas from the United States and use it to kill thousands in Gaza indiscriminately. Because that fits her shitty worldview. When protest groups try to shout down Israeli scholars who talk about minimizing civilian casualties as Zionist Propagandists why not just assume that they won the propaganda wars and that Israel is evil enough to gas civilians.
There's also a conspiracy theorist who seems reasonable in a way that only a handwringing antisemitic leftist like Eleanor Davis could make. He's silly with his guns and his paranoia. That's all. He's just silly. ANd then then hippie dude shoots a gun in the air and accidentally kills him (so there's one joke in this boring ass book).
Anyhow, this is a shitty book with crap illustrations about privileged white people being privileged and pretending that they are as important as BLM with a "happy ending" where ugly babies make things better. If it didn't have that blatant antisemitic illustration, I would have been more than happy to forget about it. But Eleanor Davis is an antisemitic piece of shit so that sucked.
