She resigns on that day to qualify for the lifetime pension that Congresspersons receive.

I thought Stargate Atlantis was a pretty good show though.

Just saw a clip of Stavros Halkias on Late Night with Seth Myers. Wild haha.

Dracula Flow mindset.

I want to like the Netflix Witcher series but I couldn’t make past the first 15 minutes of the new season.

It’s not because of loyalty to Cavill, the books, or the games, but its presentation looks like a 2011-tier CW show and despite being obvious propaganda for the US Air Force, Stargate Atlantis was of similar quality while being better than this.

To be honest I think I just grew out of it. GoT and its spinoffs don’t really appeal to me either anymore.

You should delete this. This isn’t funny.

Great news that the bombs will pause and food & hopefully medical attn will be distributed.

Will this international peacekeeping force in Gaza and ceasefire:

• Allow for an account and investigation of the missing, the dead, or will this be a international cover-up to undercount the amount of murdered?
• Reintegrate Israel back into the international community and renormalize relations? i.e, pretend this was just another “round of the conflict” like 2021/18, etc were.
• Allow journalists to broadcast and validate the devastation

I think liberals clearly want to put this to rest and purge it from their mind as another round of Israel “going to far” to perceived threats to its security. It is likely that accountability for the genocide and slaughter will be dismissed, marginalized, and treated as a natural disaster instead of horrific crimes, I hope that at the very least, humanity just won’t let this go.

deleted by creator

On good faith, perhaps there is still genocide denial and ignorance because of a lack of central authority and unified presentation that spells it out to the incurious, the ignorant, and dissident on why the genocide in Gaza is genocide. The former two categories of people, the incurious and the ignorant, need to have it spelled out to them the way an undergraduate junior in a political science class would make their in-class presentation via PowerPoint.

A large part of the mainstream Western media does not quote Israeli media, government officials, and society and that is by design. They paint genocide dissidents as fringe, as foolish youth, while the media portrays proponents as disgraced victims of anti-Semitism.

Asking Why is it a genocide is obfuscated by lies and misdirection. People do eventually ask this question but it is slowed down by the media.

On bad faith, there is genocide denial because it is in the interest and modus operandi for a genocidal state and polity to escape justice by obfuscating the reality through denial, cover-up, and media mitigation. Because it is Israel that it is perpetuating genocide, they use anti-semitism as a shield from criticism and condemnation. Because Israel is also a US proxy in the Middle East to weaken its neighbors and contain China/Russia, it will get near unconditional support from the US and Europe.

Media figures don’t press against the narrative of Washington or Jerusalem because they value their career and prestige more than they do reporting the truth or exposing corruption; they are courtiers in an imperial court not journalists holding power to account. Which is why the media only shifts narrative when it is safe to do so.

I mean, the media started going against Bush when it was safe to do so but were completely compliant during most of his administration to the point they were really just publishing White House press statements as fact!

“The terrorist in the incubator” line, is she referring to the starved and abandoned infants in the hospital?

I’d like to see a more academic approach to this sort of analysis; Zionists to English-speaking audiences v. domestic Hebrew-speaking audiences.

This video is too memeified. While I can see the purpose behind its satirical approach, it comes off a bit too flippant for me.

deleted by creator

i’ll edit my link too; i forget about spyware sometimes.

The UN Commission concluded that Israel was committing genocide, and Israel responded with denial and a study from one of its universities/think tanks defending its behavior.

I’ll try to finish the PDF throughout this year but this is really difficult to push through.

There was an episode about Tucker on a meager/small podcast called Coexist Inc.

Coexist Inc’s thesis on why Tucker is rallying against Israel - he is still a Zionist - and Trump is because Tucker, like Marjorie Taylor Green, can see where the wind is blowing. Grifters like those two aim to use rhetoric critical of capitalist decline or Israel and funnel it back into the right and away from the left.

The hope is that the restraining of Israel and US empire would rally politically malleable/ambivalent people back into the right and away from the left, away from solutions antagonistic towards capital and white supremacy, and ultimately fulfill the right’s goal to use the power of the state to punish domestic enemies instead of stretching itself thin abroad.

On that point, the right would always use a martyr , authentic or fabricated, to destroy the remnants of the rule of law, liberal hegemony, and the power of activists, organizers, and labor. The ruling caste of US society is admitting openly that they will not redistribute wealth, allow labor to have leverage, and will enable and encourage a deteriorating social, economic, and environmental conditions.

It is difficult to determine whether we are in Lenin’s Revolutionary Moment or just another phase & era of American distress.

I remember Chris Hedges recalling an anecdote of a conversation he, Bernie, and Kshama Sawant had about moving a third party and Bernie responded that he didn’t want to be pushed out like Ralph Nader was. i.e, his career was more important than actually trying to start a movement.

Wow his career really skyrocketed after his departure in 22’. Well done Stavros.

What’s Stavros doing here?

Whatever happened to Bureaucrat?

According to a United Nations special committee,[43] Amnesty International,[44] Médecins Sans Frontières,[45] B’Tselem,[46] Physicians for Human Rights–Israel,[47] International Federation for Human Rights,[48] numerous genocide studies and international law scholars,[49] and many other experts, Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians during its ongoing blockade, invasion, and bombing of the Gaza Strip.[50][51] Experts and human rights organisations identified acts of genocide, such as large-scale killing and use of starvation as a weapon of war, with the intent to destroy Gaza’s population in whole or in part. Other such genocidal acts include destroying civilian infrastructure, killing healthcare workers and aid-seekers, using mass forced displacement, committing sexual violence, and preventing births.

The opening paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide.

“Intent to destroy” is a necessary condition to meet the legal threshold of genocide. Various scholars have argued that intent to destroy is proven by the statements of Israeli officials and by Israel’s policies and conduct,[73][74][75] while various others disagree.

The last paragraph of the introduction.

To add a reinforcement of credibility, I can recall that reporters and politicians asked BLM activists, organizers, and protesters regarding victimizers and brutal behavior of police if they could forgive them.

I learned this tactic used by people of That was in the past or *Can’t we put this behind us/forgive them" really just means “go home”.