They're going to make it illegal to even mourn dead children. Its comical how evil this is.

The whole point of the bombing campaign was to break the will of the population and it doesn’t appear to have accomplished that.

20th century is officially over.

Just to recap, a week ago there was an H-1B discourse that put Musk in an uncomfortable standoff with his far-right supporters, so to change the subject he started randomly redirecting people towards hating Muslims qua Muslims using whatever kitchen sink approach was deemed.

Feels like the Gaza war was the event that finally put an end to the 20th century. Liberalism was the last grand ideology standing and now it finally looks unsavory and ridiculous too.

Biden was evidently in favor of a completely pointless slaughter with no political objectives whereas Trump thought it was something that should at least come to a conclusion and not continue under his watch. Its clear whose position was more moral on balance.

I strongly recommend liberals abandoning this patronizing form of commentary. Not just in this case but in general it is gradually alienating everyone. Focus on actual positives in your own record and material promises of improvement instead of sneering and fearmongering.

For a year people have been making meretricious arguments about the precision and lawfulness of Israeli operations in Gaza, meanwhile Biden openly says they were carpet bombing and deliberately killing thousands of civilians. No different from Russian or other propagandists.

I’m very familiar with what Eitan is doing because I saw the same thing done with assassinated Syrians by Russian government operatives during that war. They would kill Syrian reporters, then deploy their media assets to retroactively character assassinate them in order to.

On the same day that he got rid of Iran hawk Brian Hook, President Trump appoints a restraint-focused supporter of diplomacy and critic of Israeli excesses in Gaza to head Pentagon Middle East policy. An interesting potential shift:

Pro-Israel groups are going very hard to stop the appointment of a Pentagon official who holds the view that the Middle East does “not really matter” to U.S. interests. These groups are a powerful force keeping the U.S. mired in the region.

Never thought it’d be possible but I was very honored to attend jummah prayers at Ummayyad Mosque in Damascus recently. I’ll share some observations later but I was humbled by level of devastation in Syria as well as the indefatigable kindness and resilience of the Syrian people.

Rather than becoming digital ephemera these videos should be stored, documented, and displayed in physical museum built in the region devoted to memory of Gaza where people can read accounts of survivors and see physical artifacts from there. The Holocaust Museum can be a model.

We will have to see what happens with implementation and enforcement of this agreement. But this situation has really made the Biden administration appear very evil and incompetent.

IQ is not real. Its a bogus metric that is heavily manipulable by repeat testing or through modifying short-medium term environmental factors. I have tested IQ with score of 137 and it gives me no pleasure to report this.