Speaker: Hello?

You guys mind if I say some words before we get goin' real quick?

Thanks a lot for comin' out and for stayin' this long. I don't know how many of you might be heading to Tipper but uh, I had some words I wanted to say just before, cause I understand that probably a good amount of you are goin' there, y'know?

To clear the air and also I think that there's some valuable lessons, y'know? Uhm. I don't really know where to begin. I wrote this out a bunch of times, but then at the last minute I figured, uh, I don't know how the tone is gonna be y'know? I don't know how the vibes or the energy is gonna be, and uh...

Last night was... Beautiful. My dad has a lot of bullshit advice, but one thing that's stood the test of time is that "the fear is always worse than the reality"

So uh, I'm sure a lot of you heard about that reddit post and that email leak or whatever.

I'm gonna try and keep this grounded and not make this about myself y'know...

I'm sure a lot of you have seen the recent news just this past week that the UN ruled it a genocide and this is along-side a long list of other international organizations.

I just wanna ask you guys something: How much energy must one spend, how much breath must one waste, or how many paragraphs must one type out CRUCIFYING someone to further to their left--someone more "radical" than they are--before stopping to consider just how strange it is to not be directing that energy towards THE PEOPLE JUSTIFYING, FACILITATING AND COMMITTING GENOCIDE?

I just got a bunch of sorta scattered ideas here in no particular order.

There's a Noam Chomsky quote that's kind of a banger. Noam Chomsky is pretty cool if you're into leftist stuff--he's a good entry level points or whatever, but:

"Beware of those who tell you who your enemies are"

It's interesting how the fallout of that email leak was more or less exactly what I would've expected from the protest itself, should it have happened, you know? It's kind of pathetic in a sense because America is the country where "nothing ever happens"--Like, we're living in this sort of "second" nature--like a copy of a copy. Where like, so many people are so chronically online where there lives felt very disrupted just from that email leaking at all? I just think it's interesting.

The only mistake I feel like I made was not being more careful. My logic was I didn't want to think to much about it because I wanted to do something, and I knew that if I thought about it too much, that it might not happen.

I didn't consider--uh--i considered a lot, a lot more than the redditors gave me credit for. I've thought about the prospect of something like that for the better part of the last 2 years. I've thought through as many possible future outcomes, and uh, every time I come back to it, im just like "it just seems like a good idea"

I mean, I'm not even gonna downplay [invalidate] some of the more radical ideas I had suggested. I understand that I know things that maybe other people might not about certain things that might go on in the music industry [cough pay gaps that would give any working class person an aneurism cough] , or, or even as it pertains to the average person's understanding of the Holocaust happening in Gaza right now.

But I mean, if it were up to me, I'm not gonna downplay or diminish or take away from, be like "Ohhh i'm so sowwy, PWEEEASE WILL U GUS WIKE ME? I SWEAR i'm not a PARTY POOPER! i'm COOL! Oh! Oh! Oh! I support Palestine, BUT..."

Every fuckin' reddit comment "I support Palestine, BUT..."

It's just interesting, y'know?

uhm. If it were up to me. We'd be shutting nearly every single fucking thing down in this country until our "elected" officials did SOMETHING.

And the fact of the matter is, if our "leaders" [Tipper], had said a single fucking thing about israel/palestine, for better or for worse, we would not be having this particular conversation right now. Whether it's tipper, or anybody, yknow?

So forgive me for my anger, but please just understand where it's coming from.

I don't really have anything else left to say. Thank you.

Free Palestine.