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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Jesus christ how long until they just fire up the gas chambers and skip this song and dance of a trial

    We past that point ages ago. This is a purely procedural motion to legitimize the de facto summary executions and extrajudicial murders already happening in the field.

    IDF thugs have been bombing emergency vehicles, demolishing every source of potable water or edible food, and wounding children in order to lure adults out of hiding with their cries for help going back… straight to the Nakba of 1948 if we’re being honest. But it really took off in 2018, during the first peaceful March of Return. Then it accelerated enormously after Oct 7th.

    Anyone Israelis have captured since then has been brutalized solely for military intelligence and propaganda. Executing them is a matter of course. There’s a case of a one-year-old being tortured in order to extract information from his father, for instance. Palestinians who leave Israeli custody have often been so maimed and abused that they die within a few days or weeks of release. This is deliberate. Their executions would have been a formality at best.



  • You don’t even need to go back 81 years. The post-war Germans were also horrifyingly antisemitic for decades. It wasn’t until the late stages of the Cold War that the German Christian Democrats felt the need to clean up their own rotten reputation and rebrand as zealously pro-Zionist. Curiously enough, this was just about the same time anti-Muslim bigotry was coming into vogue, and anti-semitism accusations could be leveraged to denounce Middle Eastern government leaders sitting on large oil reserves.






  • How many years ago did you conclude we’re all fucked?

    Folks have been waving “The End Is Nigh” placards for a long while. Things change. Systems fail. Societies rise and fall.

    This isn’t the end. It isn’t even the beginning of the end. Life will get a lot worse for a lot of people, so long as the engines of industry continue to be piloted by sociopaths. But tell that to someone in Kiev or Myanmar or Gaza, and they’ll wonder where you’ve been for the last five years.

    Do the best you can with the information and opportunity you’re afforded. Don’t lose sleep over a problem your great grandchildren will be looking forward to if you’re not actually in a position to do something about it.