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if your point is that if Israelis outlive their usefulness they'll be abandoned by the same govts that support them now, then sure. I seriously doubt this war or anything that preceded it will be the reason, though. if climate change refugees reach that level, any state in a relatively secure...

anyway subvert is correct I may stop by here occasionally if there's some overwhelming piece of news but like, half the U.S. is stripping trans people of rights at breakneck speed, I could not care less about biscuit's stupid otherkin bullshit or whatever

I saw a tweet a couple weeks ago actually about the amount of casual cruelty not only trans people but anyone who doesn't conform to the gender binary is just expected to endure on a daily basis, a problem that has only become worse as rampant transphobia as expanded the reach of...

it's just the blithe ignorance and total lack of basic empathy that define TERFs, or GCs or whatever name they want to call themselves for people whose social media bios almost invariably list bullshit like "reality enthusiast" or whatever they almost always practice intense selective blindness...

if you're primarily looking at legacy media and billboards then I can see how it would seem that way. the pro-Israel operation is enormous and sophisticated and has always dominated traditional media. one of the most notable things about this war, though is how badly Israel has lost the...

I know this is said in righteous indignation to racist (and thuddingly unfunny) Israeli comedy - and I guess climate change - but I still strongly disagree with that kind of collective dehumanization, especially with its obvious overtones of countries refusing Jewish refugees before and during...

in case it's not already perfectly clear where I stand, I don't want to valorize Hamas at all here, especially its leadership, which is clearly more far more interested in itself and its ideological goals than in meeting its people's needs. I'm just describing the truth that this war looks like...

in a broader sense, those things are also some of the indicators of what a massive failure this war has been for Israel standard "I'm just a guy on the internet without access to all the information" disclaimer here, but firstly, Israel's two stated goals - destroying Hamas and returning the...

This is incorrect. There has been massive and relentless pressure. It literally might be the issue that costs Biden the election. The US and UK govts are both publicly talking about recognizing a Palestinian state, which would have been unthinkable four months ago. Biden just issued an...

For anyone who doesn't know, the Kahanists, ultranationalists, etc just had a big conference about resettling Gaza. The usual suspects; Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Daniella Weiss, about 1/3 of the current Likud MKs...

Recognition is better than nothing but I'd wait to see what they or anyone actually means by "Palestinian state". If it's a chopped up WB mess where Israel retains full military control then it's not much of a step. Having said that, there is an urgent need for some legally recognized...

In re suspending aid, I could also mention that IDF soldiers have been charged with involvement in terrorism i.e. And I don't hear any of the Western govts pearlclutching about UNRWA talking about suspending military aid to Israel

It's probably true. It shouldn't be surprising that militants have day jobs, and that some of them work at one of the largest employers (maybe the largest? not sure) in Gaza. It's also a terrible reason to suspend aid. Something like a million and a half people are starving and you're going to...

"Most moral army in the world" These are just from the last couple days. There has been an endless stream of similar Tiktoks from IDF soldiers, bragging about blowing up universities, ethnically cleansing Gaza, etc.

Bodybuilding is really its own strange cult even within strength athletics. Ofc there's overlap with powerlifting and strongman (weightlifting not as much) but the focus on aesthetics rather than performance takes it to really strange places. That's especially true of modern bodybuilding with...

I have, yeah. It's impossible to be around strength athletics and not have heard about him even if you're not on Tiktok which I think is his main platform. Definitely juiced out of his mind on tren and whatever other compounds, as well as ofc test and hgh. I don't have a problem with it. Unlike...

Also for anyone who doesn't already know, the inevitable Mossad assassination campaign has begun https://www.axios.com/2024/01/02/hamas-saleh-al-arouri-killed-beirut-hamas-hezbollah Solid chance it will be the flashpoint for a more general Israel-Hezb conflict, possibly even the regional...

On the positive side, there are still real Israeli heroes, like this guy

So for those still paying attention, the ethnic cleansing talk, under the truly Orwellian guise of "voluntary emigration", has ramped up so hard that the State Depth had to personally rebuke Smotrich and Ben-Gvir Ben-Gvir, who again is the Minister of Security, specifically said Israel would...

tbh I find this kind of thing much more interesting than arguing about who's going to win the Western Conference this year or whatever basketball is many things, but one of them is a pretty fascinating lens thru which to view the evolution of American race relations. there are like a hundred...