I read that phrasing like the headlines that say things like “Ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon on shakey ground as Israel repeatedly bombs Lebanon”… like yeah that isn’t a ceasfire anymore??

I hate Ben Gvir with a passion and I cannot IMAGINE if I was jewish how much more I would hate and despise the man for dragging judaism through the mud in the pursuit of base murder and violence.

Don’t become who Netanyahu wants you to become, the only way bigots who rationalize their obsession with violence and subjugation through their fear of everything different than them can keep power in Israel is if they have people they can point to who despise jews in Israel for genuinely antisemitic reasons. This dynamic comes up again and again the longer you consider this tragedy, every action taken by leaders is done to cultivate an equally bigoted resistance in the existential enemy so as to preserve the status quo politics at home.

It is also a mental error to understand this purely as a product of the people living in Israel, this is directly connected to European and US politics and the consequences of them that have been reverberating in the middle east for generations. Support for Israel in the US often centers on christian power centers, not jewish ones and if you don’t step back and appreciate the broader context, than you will hyperfocus on jews in Israel being uniquely evil and desiring of Genocide when in reality the Palestinian Genocide expresses the capacity for the systems we have built to produce, back and sustain Genocide even when it is in plain sight for the entire world to see.

The second largest population center of jews on earth is New York City, which just elected Zohran Mamdani, a muslim as mayor and he is extremely popular. None of this has anything to do with the supposed holy words written on books god has handed down to us as guidance and everything to do with geopolitics, colonialism, xenophobia and empire.

Fuck Israel.

This is the real world, you are real, I am real. This space is biased, incomplete and unrepresentative of other spaces… just like all the other places…

However… by the massive polling collapse for support for Israel in the US alone you can demonstrate your thesis is incorrect.

Why the massive polling shift if not a rising human awareness of atrocity? It wasn’t like in the span of several years a bunch of USians developed familial connections to Genocide victims?

No, get out of here with your nihilism and cynicism.

Humans are capable of empathy, and across the world humans are screaming for this to stop, countless jews included. The chorus of people who may have never even met a Palestinian shouting at the top of their lungs to stop this Genocide is overwhelming and stretches across every demographic divide in societies.

The reason it hasn’t stopped isn’t a failing of the average person to care, there really isn’t any evidence of that at least in the US, the reason is the people in power do not care that the majority of us are shocked and gouged in our soul when we wake up to this Genocide happening every day.

You can see the same thing with Germany, if you look at the German government and see how they talk about things vs. how much the German people reject supporting the Palestinian Genocide and Israel again it is CRYSTAL CLEAR why this is happening and it isn’t the fault of the average person being too callous or uninterested.

The Palestinian Genocide is a product of European/US Colonialism supercharging itself and doubling down on hate until a limit is found, I don’t know if this Genocide is a product of forgetting, rather it might be more accurate to say it is a product of remembering.

I do not need a familial connection to Genocide to understand we are all in danger the world over when Genocide is allowed to flourish.

Literally

Where I draw the line for whether it is ethical to light things on fire is when they start destroying rare knowledge and books as fast as possible for no other reason than to hoard and obscure knowledge for private benefit.

It is one thing to fund the creation of knowledge and then hoard it, it is entirely another to begin actively attacking and destroying pre-existing publicly shared resources of knowledge in the pursuit of monetizing access to that very knowledge behind a gargantuan profit motivated entity.

We shouldn’t, not without corroborating indicators or other people with far different politics raising the alarm… and yet that is exactly what is happening.

We are talking about nuclear war here, and you condescend your own humanity by dismissing the danger here so carelessly.

Yes MTG is batshit crazy, nothing about my post is meant to suggest otherwise, there is a clear and present danger being pointed out here beyond a discussion of her…

and I pine for the days where I didn’t see a clear and present danger of escalation towards nuclear war.

I was born after the fall of the soviet union, but even that period… I don’t know if the incentives so heavily lined up to use nuclear weapons as they do now for the top leadership of the US and Israeli governments according to their politics, ideologies and vulnerabilities.

Alarmingly I don’t think this will escalate past a tit for tat use of tactical nuclear weapons, the US and Israel on Iran and russia on Ukraine… or at least I don’t think the people in decision making positions believe it will… which paradoxically makes escalation far more likely.

We are in an opposite position to Mutually Assured Destruction/MAD, if the US and Israel nuke Iran it puts their enemies and vassal states back in line, and if russia nukes Ukraine, that also forces Ukraine back in line and increases russia’s leverage on the entire region. For the powerful, this is a potential way to indirectly establish a bargain to force their underclasses and vassal states back into more subservient positions, I am not saying this will happen, but the incentive structure is downright murderous in my opinion right now. What better way for empires to forestall multipolarity?

The effects of these weapons cannot be understated, and there are people now high up in the US nuclear chain of command who are either too stupid or too crazy to fully grasp the implications of their use.

What scares me the most is these people understand one thing very well, if they drop a nuclear bomb on Iran it will obliterate any previous nuance to this war and make their political lives far easier, it will also help Putin by giving him effective permission to use a nuclear weapon on Ukraine, and Putin is Trump’s daddy.

I don’t naively trust MTG here, but this is serious.

He also did not have a Steven Miller to stroke his hate and desire for violence.

REVENUE NOT PROFIT

Meh just accelerate with F-force and then switch to G-force when you are up to speed and vice versa when slowing down, problem solved!

What I love most about Hasan Piker is how incomprehensibly liberals, empty centrists and conservatives absolutely panic when they see his name when in actuality Hasan Piker has very moderate and rationale beliefs.

No, Hasan isn’t a moderate according to the definition of a moderate being completely unreflective of how their beliefs and ideals connect to reality, but Hasan is actually very much a moderate in terms of wanting systematic change in the most boring, broadly beneficial and policy focused way possible. In ideology Hasan Piker is a younger Bernie Sanders with a “scary” name. There is nothing “radical” about Hasan Piker’s personality or politics when viewed from a rationale perspective, the beliefs of centrists are far more radical given the incredible unexamined hypocrisies at the heart of them.

People talk about Hasan Piker like he is some angry, dangerous man who casually suggests extremist forms of violence and judgement upon others as serious policy suggestions, which is another way to say that people talk about Hasan Piker like he behaves like a conservative.

This could not be further from the truth, Hasan Piker is a humanist, he is not someone like Tucker Carlson who harbors and nurtures ideologies of hate and violence like antisemitism and islamophobia.

If you want proof of this, watch some videos of Hasan Piker talking about Tucker Carlson, they both frequently criticize Israel, if Hasan didn’t care about the ethics Tucker Carlson would be a natural and very powerful ally to reach across the isle too, but Hasan correctly identifies Tucker Carlson as an enemy of muslims, jews and collective peace even though he appears to be on “Hasan’s side” on one of the topics Hasan is most passionate about.

Trump does NOT have to act rationally and he rarely does.

We are headed into WW3

Where is the evidence for Trump acting rationally about this?

Enough with the “Trump will TACO” nonsense, this is a genuinely scary moment for all of earth, Trump is too cowardly to back down.