Israeli diplomacy on this issue has been virtually non-existent. It really cannot be reiterated how badly the Israeli state department has bungled international relations, given that they had an open hand at genocide as recently as a month ago.

It’s genuinely incredible to see how openly evil the Likud/Khanist extremists in charge have acted, and how reflexive and hollow the counter-messaging has become from Netanyahu

Yair Golan, the leader of the opposition Democrats who served as deputy chief of staff for Israel’s military before entering politics, said that after an unjustifiably brutal campaign, much of the damage [to Israel’s reputation] had already been done. “A sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set the expulsion of a population as a goal,” he said.

Netanyahu attacked Golan’s comments as “contemptible antisemitic blood libels against IDF soldiers and the state of Israel”, but Golan later doubled down on his position in a press conference.

I rewatched the broadcast to confirm, Trump absolutely inadvertently stepped out of the shot right as the shooter pulled the trigger. Trump went from standing with a hand on the podium, to leaning forward on it as he turned his head to his right.

The shooter brought a laser rangefinder which suggests he was aware of at least basic marksmanship fundamentals like bullet drop from gravity. He also had an AR-15, with a red dot and was laying prone with no visual barriers between him and the dais where Trump was about 130 yards away. Even a budget AR shooting basic af ammo can expect to shoot a 4 inch circle at that distance- plenty enough for a headshot.

Trump survived through dumb luck.

What the hell is he dragging? It looks too big to be TM-62, MON-200 maybe?

The stupidity never ceases to amaze…

Pure guess, but they might perceive the FPV falling out of the sky as an EW kill/signal loss, which is temporary, leaving an otherwise functioning drone uncomfortably close by just waiting for a clear signal from the pilot.

First guy had the right idea with the long stick to try and trigger the impact detonator, but then picked it up… Russians please continue, I see no issue with hand carrying UXO. Your friends also want to see it!

People were trying that last year already, together with the arms deliveries. Until you came along and fucked with everything.

There must be a specific phrase or stolen-language word for this idiocy, because ‘hubris’ ain’t cutting it. To assume that everyone is wrong for doing it X way that you quickly do a 180 on, only to slowly realize the reality that drove everyone else’s decisions.

And then slowly and very publicly course correct back to ‘the way things were’ while never coming to terms with your mistake.

Not gonna lie, his return to music and most recent two albums are pretty good if you like the Fred Again style of production.

Dubstep is a hard genre to get into, aside from very few album releases (there are A LOT of singles/splits) there’s some big sonic variation. Some of the faster, more frantic tracks sound closer to Jungle, while other artists like Burial bring a lot more of the UK Bass sound, and then you’ll get a very downtempo track, or a flute as the main instrument.

It’s kind of a “I know it when I hear it” vibe lol

The old heads remember what dubstep actually is, before Skrillex took the name and ruined everyone’s understanding of the newest genre from the UK garage/drum and bass scene. All my homies hate Skrillex.

And if this goes on long enough, we’ll have samizdat resistance ‘zines typewritten and passed around at dead drops to avoid ISPs having data any to give up to a warrant/less search, or metadata to trace the authorship

Vladimir Bukovsky summarized the samizdat process as follows:

“I write myself, edit myself, censor myself, publish myself, distribute myself, go to jail for it myself”

I’d rather not find out what else that future entails

Collective trauma is real. The Jewish people, and the world, should never forget the Holocaust. But when “never again” gets twisted into “never again, for us” it changes the attitude entirely:

I will tell you something about the Holocaust. It would be nice to believe that people who have undergone suffering have been purified by suffering.

But it’s the opposite, it makes them worse. It corrupts. There is something in suffering that creates a kind of egoism. And when such monstrous things have happened to your people, you feel nothing can be compared to it. You get a moral “power of attorney”, a permit to do anything you want – because nothing can compare to what has happened to us. This is a moral immunity which is very clearly felt in Israel.

Uri Avery, speaking after the IDF’s massacre at Sabra and Shatila

Uri was a Zionist poster child - his immediate family fled to (then mandatory Palestine) after the Nazis took power; every other relative who stayed in Germany was murdered in the Holocaust. His life story is incredible to read, and it’s a bitter truth to accept that he was marginalized and ignored by wider Israeli society because of his peace activism later in life.

Bruh it’s happened so much there’s an Israeli High Court case that specifically forbids the practice. Hasn’t prevented the practice, there are multiple documented instances, from different conflicts, that the Jewish group B’Tslem has a white paper on just the subject of IDF using human shields:

…soldiers have ordered Palestinians to:

-enter buildings to check if they are booby-trapped, or to remove the occupants

-remove suspicious objects from roads used by the army

-stand inside houses where soldiers have set up military positions, so that Palestinians will not fire at the soldiers

-walk in front of soldiers to shield them from gunfire, while the soldiers hold a gun behind their backs and sometimes fire over their shoulders.

The soldiers in the field did not initiate this practice; rather, the use of human shields is an integral part of the orders they receive.

Marco Rubio suicide watch has been sooo cathartic during this administration. The Zelenskyy blowup especially - after decades of waiting and maneuvering, deal brokering and sycophancy, he finally has the job where he can ‘outshine’ Kissinger… and the wave he’s riding is with these idiotic blowhards.

Came to the comments just for this, was not disappointed

With all the horrible, horrible shit that your priest is pumping into your kid’s head, his dick should be the least of your worries, honestly. That’s just a little mouthwash and a few years of therapy’ll get rid of that. That Jesus shit will torture you for a lifetime

Deadbeat Hero, 2004

What I like about Stanhope the most, is the way he can get you to laugh at an edgy/dark joke, but he immediately follows it up with a thrust of either social/political commentary, or asks so you to think about why you laughed at that. Throughout his career he doesn’t punch down, bits like the ‘transvestite hooker incident’ are on face problematic, but he’s never judging them or thinks he’s better than other people who are often seen as lesser by society.

You wanna feel bad for someone in a down-turned economy, I’ll give you someone…prostitutes. Because a prostitute doesn’t have that same “worst case scenario” B-plan that we all enjoy. No matter how shitty things are going for you on the job. “Danny, if they lay off anymore people, I’m gonna be out on the streets sucking dick for a living. I got nothin’ else. I’m serious.” Hooker doesn’t have that same safety net. Hooker’s already out there, sucking dicks.

Before Turning the Gun on Himself, 2012

Article 13 - Humane treatment of prisoners

…prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.

Vague, and open to interpretation. Which is why the 2020 addendum was added:

It is thus necessary to strike a reasonable balance… [between] making information regarding prisoners of war public, especially given the high value of such materials, and the possible humiliation and even physical harm they may cause to those who appear in them. Accordingly, any materials that enable individual prisoners to be identified must normally be regarded as subjecting them to public curiosity and, therefore, may not be transmitted, published or broadcast.

Imo there’s a big difference from parading PoWs through your towns and cities for your citizens to insult and degrade, to a photo shared of bound and blindfolded combatants freshly captured, versus a dude voluntarily talking to the camera. Intent matters for mens rea, though that’s never an exoneration.

I’d save the smoke for the (reciprocal, but still) strikes against each other’s urban centers. Just like it’s not cool for an Iskander to hit a Kiev train station, it’s not cool for a Foxbat packed with explosives to target an apartment tower Moscow.

True that I’m not likely to get drafted into a trench position - I have sectarian violence/civil war looming instead.

But I’m deadass serious when I say that Europe can beat Russia. Even without US support and their nuclear arsenal on speed dial. Unlike Ukraine, Europe has a bunch of next tier stuff like F35 or domestic built Taurus/Storm Shadow that Ukraine didn’t have/was restricted using that shaped the battle into an attritional land war we know today.

• Lowbrow racism
• Obtuse ‘punchline’ that almost requires explanation

Where’s the laugh to be had aside from “haha Chinese have squinty eye”? Get better material, this is hack open-mic trash.

Be better, do better y’all.

Commit to renewables. I’d advocate for a nuclear powered off-ramp from fossils whilst renewable capacity and infrastructure is built, but I get that each nation has its own history with fission.

Energy security is fundamental for a robust society and economy - otherwise you’re subject to pipeline shutoffs/attacks, oil embargoes/quotas, or another angle for outside nations to influence or control you. For example, if you’re chill with the French and build your economic strategy around buying their surplus energy, that strategy predicated on the French having a surplus to sell you.

That’s American, Jewish voters surveyed last fall. 68% support land swaps, an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, Palestinian return from the diaspora, and financial/population restitution.

A lot of regular people get swept up into the default of supporting the concept of Israel and protecting the lives of the 6-7 million Jews living there, but the topic has so many land mines and risks of misunderstanding that people don’t delve into the topic openly. But if you look for it, there’s a lot of silence from folks who are uneasy about the direction Israel is headed.

Reading the ad’s comments gave me immeasurable hope for the future tho - ain’t nobody except the most lost in the sauce reactionaries/zionists are buying the Likud/Khanist narratives being pushed.