Wow… I didn’t realize that got posted.
I wrote it out (mostly - I didn’t finish it), but then thought better of it, but I didn’t immediately delete it. Then later when I opened my screen, there it was, still. And I actuslly thought “Lucky I didn’t butt-post that.”
Apparently not.
Ah well…
Of course.
The overall dynamic surrounding Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is simple and obvious - Israel’s actions are entirely indefensible, so all the efforts of the people responsible for it and of the many more people enabling it are directed not toward countering criticism, which is impossible, but toward silencing it.
This is such a bizarrely evil timeline.
The Israeli mass slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children has made me wish, more than anything else in 50+ years on this Earth, that the Old Testament God actually existed.
Imagine the fire and brimstone He’d rain down on those patently evil motherfuckers.
And bonus points if He kvetched while he did it - “Here I went ahead and made you My chosen people and this is how you repay Me? If I’d known this was what you were going to do with your lives, I would’ve left you in the desert.”
80 years of greed, hatred and lies has created a nation of psychopaths
That’s what he’s always done.
He has the attention span of a toddler. He latches onto ideas, and specifically things that will satisfy his ego, his greed or his lust, with a laser focus, for exactly and only so long as they manage to hold his attention.
And at the same time, he has essentially no conception of objective truth. It’s not quite that he lives in a fantasy world as that his need to satisfy his ego, greed and/or lust is so much his focus that everything else pales in comparison, including truth.
So he essentially sincerely says whatever he thinks will serve to accomplish whatever it is that he’s focused on at the moment. It’s not so much that he lies as that he doesn’t really make a distinction between truth and lies. The only meaningful measure of a claim is whether or not it will serve his goals.
And all of that means that a smart, canny and manipulative man - Putin, for instance - can get him pointed in whatever direction he wants by feeding him the right bait and the right bullet points to go along with it.
He’s not “surrendering” to them - he’s actively working for their benefit, as it’s been clear all along he intended to do.
If America is going to continue to be not Trump, it’s going to have to move fast.
With Musk threatening 60 Minutes staffers with prison and Trump taking over the FCC, it’s already moving into the official government-controlled media stage, and when (if) significant protests start happening, it’s going to quickly move into the gulags and mass graves stage.
And then, for all intents and purposes, the US will be Trump, like it or not.
I quite sincerely believe that the long term goal is for the US to formally ally with Russia in a war against the EU.
I’m not kidding.
I’ve been looking forward to this actually.
As far as I’m concerned, automatically avoiding Reddit just by avoiding Google (which I already do) is a welcome bonus.
Clearly he exemplifies the qualities the IDF values most, including brazenly engaging in indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed innocents.