Why is anyone surprised that Jewish soldiers in the Jewish supremacist army of the Jewish supremacist state would feel emboldened to do whatever he wants? He can shoot machine gun fire into a random house on camera. He can execute a Palestinian family in their car. Of course he can destroy a statue.

People develop a theory of mind for this stuff that essentially is nonsense. It has nothing to do with these soldiers being Jewish and therefore they do bad things. They do bad things because the state and the army is Jewish *supremacist* and Jews who commit crimes are not prosecuted.

The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.

One of my pet peeves about the criticism the last jedi received is that the bombers having hatches that open to literally drop the bombs actually makes perfect sense given the way artificial gravity works in the ships and the conservation of linear momentum

Sorry to be super blunt about this, but if you're defending war with Turkey in the year 2026, you should be taken out back post haste for a treat (just look straight ahead, no no, don't look back, we're with you). You've lost your marbles and you are a danger to others.

the artemis ii pics of the moon and perfect splashdown reminded me what actual science looks like – instead of, say, an ai program named clifford that can write christmas cards for me.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Just this intense belief that they have the right to render the entire region a permanent no man’s land so that they feel safe

There’s a lot of words to describe Israel’s attitudes to its neighbours (and de facto subjects in the case of Palestine), but one word that comes up a lot less often than it should is “entitlement”

I’ve said in the past that any plan that has “and then the people will rise up” as an essential component is probably doomed. But even then, I was talking about e.g. the Jacobite army’s invasion of England, and not “blowing up a girl’s school with the children inside it”.

Basically 99% of the discourse around it is based on the principle of acting like you were born yesterday and have no idea what the Geneva Convention is.

The reason that there are strikes on Lebanon is that Israel is illegally attacking one of its neighbors but given that this is a more or less permanent state of affairs it’s easy to miss

This is basically the only response you need against basically any conceivable defence of Israeli conduct.

substitute ‘Hegseth’ for ‘Rust’ and I think we about have this one covered

You could find a semi-credible way to be a Trump-supportive parish priest or bishop up until the point they start threatening the Vatican envoy with a Babylonian Captivity situation. To go along with that would be open schism and your career is over lol

There are plenty of super Trumpy Catholics, I know (and went to school with) a bunch of them. But if you start yelling at the Papal Nuncio about Avignon they have to bail on you, you dumbass

The stupidity of picking a fight with the Vatican is I guess pretty much in line with the stupidity of everything else these goons do. They're too dumb to understand that they keep more leaners on their side if they don't force people to pick a side

Just a reminder to Congress: Any time you send soldiers to another country to start bombing shit and shooting at shit and killing the people of that country, THAT IS A WAR. If your President is DOING WAR without Congressional Approval, THAT IS A CRIME AND HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

I checked in on Twitter for what people are saying re the Iran situation, and basically whenever anyone says "this has gone terribly for America" they're flooded by replies being like "er excuse me we killed many Iranians while they killed few Americans, that's called winning" so yeah OP vindicated.

this person beat me to my next point, which is that the most powerful oppositional force keeping the sedevacantist movement (i.e. the "Vatican II wasn't real and neither are any of the woke popes that followed it" trads) from formal schism is that their base of institutional support collapses

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

No, the well being is safe and sound in its well

Has it harmed your well being?

This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.

Israel Hayom, the largest daily newspaper in Israel which is also owned by the Adelson family, is upset that the failure in Iran will “make it harder for Israel to enlist Washington again” in future wars.

doing research before i form my opinion ever heard of it?

A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful. It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/does-gende...

The biggest form of political correctness in America is that basically every single conservative commentator is a gutter bigot and it's just universally understood that it's beyond the pale to ever acknowledge that.

Fun fact, maintaining the naval blockade through the armistice until the final peace treaty was signed was also what the Allies did to Germany after WWI, so there's real precedent for.

Which means two things, cable news hasn't prevented the change in opinion, and also that young Dems were already so anti Israel that the shift was more prominent among the olds

People really need to grapple with the indisputable data-backed point that the biggest shift in public opinion since Oct 7th has actually been among Dem voters aged 50 and up.

rename all the Robert E Lee shit in Virginia for George Thomas, the Virginian General who stayed loyal to the union and kicked the Confederacy's ass.

Any assessment of the jacobins that does not stress they ended slavery the moment they got power, and forced through civil rights for jewish and black people and actors (!), that they opposed the girondinist war etc is simply unserious. Their policy track record was unbelievable.

this is the ceasefire agreement that trump agreed to, which to me looks like an insane strategic defeat for the US

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

US Jets taking off from English Airbases this evening. They will reach Iran just as Trump's deadline ends.

again very funny to think that a critical pro trump message in 2024 was that he wouldn’t start world war iii

7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister. The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation. And Downing Street says... nothing. If you won’t speak up now, when will you?

Defense for Children International-Palestine announced that it has ceased operations. “After 35 years of defending Palestinian children’s rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations,” they said.

Iran's partners should extend their nuclear deterrence shield over Iran and threaten a second strike on any state that uses nuclear weapons in the area. Again, I don't think this is an intention, but use of nuclear weapons would make everyone infinitely more likely to use them and must be deterred.

That's their prerogative I guess but every president keeps making this same mistake. Trump is a genuine aberration in that he is even more insane than Bush and doesn't understand that this makes management of the region even less tenable in the long term, but there needs to be real breaks from this.

But it didn't because the US political leadership has a disease of the mind that thinks it can manage the region permanently like the British and the French thought.

America would have been far better off if it diverted from the disastrous path in 2002-2003 on Iraq, embraced the Arab Peace Initiative and comprehensively clamped down on Israel to induce it into resolving the Palestinian question along international legal standards, and actually pivoted to Asia.

Ultimately the problem with "heads I win, tails you lose" as a diplomatic mantra is that eventually someone will just shoot you instead of flipping the coin.

Yeah I've heard the argument a thousand times before, we have to supply Israel and the Gulf states with an unlimited amount of security guarantees and weapons and fighter jets and kisses and hugs in order to ensure stability and the free flow of oil, like we're doing right now I guess?

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