@RnaudBertrand
This is a contrast of systems: The short-term capital dominated US system has become self-destructive and is unable to solve problems, even existential ones. Thank God China has capital and industry under control and therefore can do actual problem-solving and public policy.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Another question along that line is why has Israel been disinterested in negotiating return of the hostages (the main surviving witnesses), to the point of knowingly killing them?
@dorianjharris
@ecomarxi
When I went to Israel, pretty much nobody that I talked to said they had flee for their lives. They liked the idea of a Jewish national project, or living on a kibbutz. Many still have family living safely in the US and Europe. Your claim is bonkers.
@BarrettYouTube
I owned an early Tesla for a few years and it had a lot of bugs. Last month a taxi driver in Dublin showing me how much he loves his BYD, and it is indeed a superior car for less money. No doubt they are scared.
@VikChatterjee
@RaniaKhalek
It's laughable to claim that Ashkenazi and Ethiopian Jews are both of the same ethnicity and indigenous to Palestine, as it is to claim that Israel was not established as a European settler colony, by European Jews who lived in Europe.
@BMarchetich
Wasn't that always the issue, that Tiktok resides at least partially out of the US surveillance and propaganda apparatus, hence all the projection?
@ProfDBernstein
@AsaWinstanley
Well, because Israel both killed them, and by being engage in a violent illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, is ultimately responsible for any violent resistance to their occupation/blockade.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
That anyone could stand next to all those melted down cars and conclude that ak47s and a few RPGs, did this proves that it is really deep rabbit hole they've fallen down.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Now that the US is dialing back their "Rules Based International Order" rhetoric, one wonders if they have decided it is more convenient for hegemony to just scrap international law and institutions altogether now that they are just getting in the way?
@KabbVillage
@AbAb99s
No one should surrender to oppression, to apartheid, to ethnic cleansing, and genocide. And they never will. All that juicy beachfront land and Judea and Samaria won't come for free.
@luckytran
The thing with this one is that people jump to the claim that it was arbitrarily oppressive, when it was really an arbitrarily standard in order to keep business and institutions open, with SOME, if symbolic reduction of spread.
@zei_squirrel
I like a good electronic music party, but it reminds me of the scene in the Man In The High Castle where hippy Germans are having acid parties in the Reich. Even if people have a peaceful sentiment, it's much harder to confront your own complicity in violence.
@CactusAndy
I had a guy sitting next to me get really worried because he was immunocompromised and had only one lung. When I told him I was just being careful, he thought it was overkill...
@mortphis
@yugopnik
I'm trying to decide what is more probable: Continuation of the Tsarist feudal system, a giant Nazi death camp and Aryan colony, or 1800s London-style work houses and cholera.
@Isacb2021
@domitingz
@SpiritofLenin
You control land, air, sea, border crossings, commerce, fishing etc etc and bomb them with impunity, but sure Israel isn't occupying Gaza. Btw, from the looks of things, Israel has very much not left Gaza.
@wrath_776
At this point I'm actually more concerned about the deafening noise and cancer causing soot vehicles like this crap onto the community to rather than the size and posture. But then, it's a whole package I guess and people don't buy them because they care about other people.
@LauraMiers
Government, private capital, and media are essentially one organism at this point, and they make policy in tandem with each other, though only the government part gets recognized as policy. That's why all of this is so coordinated. Same with any issue where big $ is on the line.
@MarvinCori
Same with vaccines and everything else, it is an absolutist position against doing anything whatsoever to control COVID. No constructive criticism or problem thinking, always 100% against any intervention and scrapping what we have instead of improvement.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
They effortlessly switch from liberal "battle of civilizations" language to "might makes right", "total war", "look what you made me do".
@MorHogeg
@DrTedros
Why are the "armed groups" you describe found killed execution-style with zip ties on their hands, and crush under in piles of rubbish under bulldozers? Why do so many of them resemble hospital patients, women, and children?
@Yampeleg
@ecomarxi
Who did they rape? Surely the forensic people know by now, and there are first person victims. Why don't they put up any proof or first hand testimony?
@CovidSolidarit1
I don't think so. This is a linear progression of the public health rollback over the last 3-4 years, and the next logical step. The plan has always been to turn COVID into an invisible externalities that is paid for by individuals. Their job is to minimize costs for capital.
@ChavaProduction
@MyriamFrancoisC
I'm sorry to tell you, but Bibi rejected the ceasefire deal that would have freed the hostages. But perhaps you can put a good foot forward and release the 2 million hostages you are holding at the barrel of a gun in Gaza?
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Pretty wild to see the richest and most powerful countries on Earth utterly trash themselves in fielty to a foreign country, a 30 mile wide rogue state in another part of the world.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
The ICJ case is a Catch 22 for the West. Demolish another significant Western institution, and wreck their credibility former, or risk Biden and Sunpak going to jail. Obviously, they will choose the first, but either outcome is with great damage.
@bennyko
@davidsheen
If the majority of Israelis don't support this, why don't their maps show the West Bank? Why do they say "Judea and Samaria" instead?
@adamjohnsonCHI
Two states was just a narrative holding pattern while Israel gobbled up more land. They never believed in it, just like the "Peace Process".
@chronicallybeee
The problem is that these guys always used flawed political orgs like CDC as proxy/strawman in place of the actual science. I think this is because more conservative people are deeply uncomfortable with the natural world and choose to focus on politics instead.
@JerryTurin
@bradleyrsimpson
Of course the play will always be "Come on we haven't killed ALL of them yet," and if or when they do "Well, it's too late now. Time to move on!,"
@AntFetamine
@AndyofSpades
@BennieDotGay
I lived nearby in Washington. For a couple weeks half of businesses were closed, and then re-oppened at a half capacity and people had to wear masks, but tons of people didn't. I spent a lot of time during the "lockdown" years, where literally everything was normal except masks.
@ghunum
@AliAbunimah
@Terrilltf
If they can't find witnesses, and supposedly buried all the forensic evidence, what reason is there to believe the story at all?
@girlziplocked
A big component is that men's relationships with each other, as well as with women, orient around absolute self-sufficiency, and the stoicism to not ever burden anyone else with your problems or feelings, and if you fail there is shame and social ostracism.
@AsaWinstanley
The fact that the official story was so incomplete, one-sided, and unrealistic always gave me pause about jumping on it. I think the picture is becoming clearer, but you won't hear it in the MSM.
@JillFilipovic
The hostages expressions look authentic and lends itself to theories that either they didn't know of the others who were killed, OR that most of the killing was done by IDF heavy weaponry.
@moorehn
I also think about David Ben Gurion who admitted to having moved to Ottoman Palestine not to escape antisemitism in Płońsk, but for nationalistic creation of a settler nation. The Zionists already had an idea of what they wanted, many decades before the Holocaust.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
At a certain point Jewish collective historical trauma needs to take a back seat to stopping Israel from committing more harm. Process how it feels to be a victim AFTER you stop being the perpetrator.
@caitoz
Funny how racism always comes along with empire and the needs of capitalism to exploit new markets. Dehumanization is a necessary function of the system.
@LauraMiers
What I genuinely don't understand are all these people violently coughing in public and going on as of nothing is wrong. It's like they don't even know they are sick, let alone are they even aware covid still exists. How can a person not be aware of these things?
@SanaSaeed
The choice for the resistance groups was always between the slow death in obscurity, and the risk of a faster one with the world watching. Either way, Israel's goals remain the same.
@brownecfm
Maybe I'm a pessimist, but the missing part of the equation seems to be better vaccines and therapeutics. Since COVID is "over" there seems to be no further investment.
@Helenreflects
What happened was that all these things reflect a change in the balance of power and resources in society, and those who feed of inequality and exploitation did everything they could to claw the status quo back, and then some.
@RnaudBertrand
Even Japan too, historically isolationist, only caught the imperialist bug during the Meije Restoration while they were trying to adopt Western culture. Along with that came the Western centric-ideas of racial superiority that underpined Japanese fascism and empire.
@aaronjmate
@JudithLevine
If these stories are true, why would they be mixed with so many blatant lies, AND rely on social pressure rather than hard evidence and 1st person testimony? Just the lies alone already irrevocably taint the narrative.
@BarryESharp
@luckytran
Symbolic as "Let's do the minimum that works in order to facilitate businesses as usual during a pandemic that could do even greater damage to private business if spaces were perceived as unsafe" The other stuff is your own projection and emotional sensitivities.
@innovatingcrowd
@RnaudBertrand
Maybe Israel isn't supposed to lay seige to all of Gaza to get a single group of people, and maybe they solely responsible for their own actions.
@bunspunabitch
@Jimibib
@tastefullysaucy
You can't peacefully coexist with people you are occupying, disposessing, and killing, because they have to fight you for their existence, freedom, and homes. Maybe Hamas disrupts a fantasy that you can keep the status qou, but everyone plays nice and Palestinians go quietly
@TheGrayzoneNews
@wyattreed13
@AintGottaDollar
The main message is the same as always from the right: My hard work and suffering is caused by useless eaters, immigrants, poor people etc, and anyone below my station, and definitely not my boss, my company, or capitalism.
@EnemyInAState
I haven't being pushing it, but I've been traveling in Europe for 4 months using mostly the carageenan iota stuff and I haven't gotten sick yet.
@RnaudBertrand
@972mag
I was going to say this is Eichmann-level stuff, but even he didn't have this degree of specificity and deliberate intent. It's remarkable to kill tens of thousands of civilians and destroy a whole city based on conscious, individual targeting with foreknowledge of civilian death
@we_are_ssd
The information you rely is not in any way transmitted to the mainstream public. They only info they've had since 2021 is masks dont work and immunity debt. 99% of people are completely in the dark.
@OurielOhayon
@dianabuttu
If we're going there, Israel could also just end its occupation, dismantle settlements, and allow all refugees to return to 48 Palestine and start with reparations, as well as surrendering its nuclear, chemical, and bioogical weapons. No thread needed.
@TheGreeneBJ
They've got a new one stove-piped through someone with an Arab name, Qanta Ahmed, in Newsweek, acting like she witnessed atrocities, and then citing what IDF told her. No surprise the evidence of Hamas massacre she did see was bodies incinerated at 3000 degrees...
@cd_hooks
You do lose weight in Europe from walking more, and sometimes smaller portions. But I also think there is something to this hypothesis, when I go overseas acid reflux is gone, and I lose weight faster than is plausible with just lots of walking.
@lavinia_colzani
@MaxBlumenthal
None of us is going to do your job for you, but you have plenty of friends who seem to always side of the aggressor for sadistic emotional reasons. So there's that.
@RnaudBertrand
"if France gets much of its ideas from the Anglo world anyhow, you might as well participate in the debate there in the first place..." Ouch.
@jeoc42
@Pinko69420
Naw, they used them, and then pull the later up for following generations talking about fiscal responsibility as they pay hundreds of billions for weapons and war on the credit card.
@beachvetlbc
@RaniaKhalek
You are telling me that a bunch of European and American immigrants to Palestine are indigenous, and the people actually living there for thousands of years are not?
@Bloomindraonfly
@MyriamFrancoisC
Believe it or not, murdering and maiming children in the tens of thousands to force the surrender of the resistance that sprung up against your brutal and illegal and occupation does not have any credible moral logic. It's absolutely indefensible from every angle.
@citchmook
@jarvis_best
If prior context matters, surely the annexation of Palestine, Nakba, illegal occupation, and blockade of Gaza are someone's responsibility...