955 - Memory (7/28/25)
Will & Felix discuss the dire starvation crisis now gripping Gaza, and the rapidly changing attitudes among certain political & media elites now that this has all apparently finally “gone too far.” We also try to keep up with Trump’s Epstein trouble as the President attempts to drown the whole thing off with old scandals and some showstopping showtunes.
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Invading and denazifying Israel would be the only way to restore our humanity
This is like the most tragic version of the hot dog mobile driven into the lobby skit
one of the best episodes of the year. core Chapo. this is why i’ll keep paying as long as you guys keep making.
End of this episode was giving me flashbacks to watching The Ghostwriter yesterday 😵💫
The simple truth is that the Libs cannot come to grips with what we here all know; the United States of America is an evil organisation. They keep getting right up to that realisation, and then panic and retreat back towards the comforting myths of inverventionism or the like. They keep hoping there will be some sort of moment, where all the Bad Guys realise they are Bad Guys and give up power to the Good Guys. But there are no Good Guys and Bad Guys. The Democrats are just as culpable in the evils of the United States as the Republicans, and they will not engage in the kind of genuine opposition that is required to bring the architects of genocide to heel, because they are all complicit. To the Libs, the idea of burning down the Democrats and building something new is abhorrent; they cannot imagine a world without the Schumer's and the Pelosi's of the world controlling how Americans are allowed to express any kind of opposition to the baby crushing machine. Even criticising the existence or the policies of the Democrats becomes an attack on the very idea that things can get better by simply waiting and hoping they will. Liberals are feckless, cowardly, too afraid to be their own person for fear of it coming back to bite them professionally or socially, they believe in nothing and their only vision of the future is the one presented to them in sloppy science fiction. A future where The Event occurrs that allows us to move on from this interminable moment in history, that unshackles the people from the present from actually having to do something about the world we live in.
This episode was very cathartic. I've been a bit burned out on talking to the libs in my life about Palestine, but recently there's been a lot of weird "Israel would be carrying out this genocide without us, it has nothing to do with the U.S." comments from people who must now acknowledge the genocide but act like we're "powerless" to stop it. Is it just the same old Democratic fetish for being powerless and having their “hands tied”? And the same thing I always say is, "okay, if we have nothing to do with it, then let's cease all military aid immediately" to which they then go on about how evil Iran is and how they would bomb Tel Aviv without "defensive aid". And well, I can't at that point say what I really think about Tel Aviv being bombed...
What has Larry David said about all these accusations against Leon Black? He must've seen something during one of Leon's glampin' sessions
these days you start to understand why Stalin just killed everybody
Amalek speech?
Where one of Israel’s top ministers (or maybe Netanyahu himself, I don’t remember) compared the Palestinians to Amalek, a nation the ancient Israelites fought and wiped out in the Bible.
This is what we get for piling on heaps of rubbish for those that died for our capitalist sins: Stalin, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Allende, Sankara etc… we have forsaken the humanitarian warriors efforts to unmask and destroy the inevitable profit driven Evil of Capital. Yes the servants of capital are not human, Will. They have given over their soul to the embellishment of an algorithm that anoints them above other human beings and justifies evil deeds. We live in the shadow of our failure to defend heroes real heroes, humanitarian heroes. That is why this shit is such a shit circus of stupidity, kakistocracy, and inhumane humans.
I like Maoism but Mao as a person was kinda responsible for like 30 million Chinese people starving to death
Will, I think I can provide clarity regarding Vitour being unable to "turn the corner" in his mind. The glitch in the matrix is he childishly believes the United States to be a democracy. He has children and he doesnt want them (or himself) to find out dad was a functionary of a NAZI party, often directly on behalf of people who trafficked in human flesh as young as theirs. We were almost all bamboozled in 2008 but the Bernie electoral failures brought clarity for us while Vitour is only now piecing this together amidst these ego concerns. obvi a bit of a subjective theory but Will seemed like he was really chewing on this question and this is the type of thing that gets my goat as well
Could yall give a little summary of what the caller said when yall do these episodes? Some of them have such horrible quality I can’t understand anything.
Anthony blinken might spontaneously combust at any point. Or not spontaneously.
I think the solution for what to do with all the IDF monsters and settler psychos is to let them settle the old Nevada nuclear testing grounds. Make that desert bloom, assholes.
Maybe the starvation images are working more because they look like images from the Holocaust. Also, you can't pretend all Gazans are terrorists with infinite resources when you see images of them starving.
Does anyone know where I can find the John Dolan piece about Western audience’s different reactions to mass killing (air strikes vs starvation etc)? Felix mentioned it near the beginning episode
“Vote them out of office,” PodTommy? Tell that to Cori Bush 🤬
Isn’t it absolutely ridiculous how Leon Black has made billions of dollars and yet had gall to plead poverty and crash at Larry David’s house for years ??
You gotta exploit that class, Larry
Great episode
I don’t know if it has been said…but the wexner / bronfman/mega / Jewish study group…is probably the loudest Israeli signal
Remember Slavery? They went with that lie for so long that the invention of whiteness resulted. There has NEVER been accountability for these mf.
Thank you for sharing the donation link. Sending what i can 💙
One of the midtown shooting victims was the CEO of Blackstone's real estate investment division 😎
i believe there is a primal mammalian instinct that awakens in the brain stem upon seeing an emaciated child which is driving this breach of reality into the twisted fantasy of isreal supporters
omg thank god youre back, Will i'll never call you the boring one again
matts still my favorite <3
One of the best episodes ever. The title and thumbnail say it all.
really phenomenal episode, among the best of chapo imo, especially will's line on israel as an enemy of humanity. wish they'd apply their same thought process and arguments to ukraine and russia
Will bricked up this episode 🫡
Chapo should bring on Hunter Biden and get his thoughts on the POD Save guys.
Gaza ended several friendships for me. People telling me I needed to be realistic or that Trump was worse, or that what about gay and trans people? And every time I told them I couldn’t sacrifice Palestinians for those things. The contempt I have for the people that could have stopped this or wanted me to support the people who could have stopped this is ironclad. Like will said, if you won’t say no to this what does any other humanist value you purport to have mean? If you won’t withhold your vote over genocide what is the difference between you and a trump guy
What ABOUT gay and trans people? Kamala Harris threw us under the bus and said trans rights should be left to the states, don’t let them use my community as a cudgel
Another line of defence of the invasion of Iraq I remember hearing from U.S. politicians when the insurgency was going strong was “The Iraqis have failed not us.” This media narrative about Israel’s “failure” in regards to planning could be following that type of thinking. “They just asked us to help them out and we thought they knew what they were doing, they lied to us too.”
I think a significant amount of Trumps base won't forgive him. He talked down to them like an elitist democrat and said what they believe in doesn't matter. A lot of them probably had flashbacks to when their annoying, liberal niece said something similar
From what I recall the Israeli foreign minister's tweets were literally saying "yes we are starving them but hey, they're also disabled so shut up." 💀 demon shit
The “big tent” command from Tommy Pod Boy, that late converts to opposing Israel, need to be welcomed: pretty hard to take that seriously when the extremely recent reality was the very real threat that if you did oppose Israel you could lose your job, lose your livelihood, your citizenship, be kidnapped and sent to prison in Louisiana, etc. The people who have spoken up in the last two years paid a very different price than Tommy, or anyone, will pay for speaking truth from all moments going forward.
you guys are guilty of committing boringcide! nobody who matters cares!
Hold still
Banger episode
Come, you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks You that never done nothin' But build to destroy You play with my world Like it's your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see through your eyes And I see through your brain Like I see through the water That runs down my drain You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch While the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion While the young peoples' blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud You've thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world For threatenin' my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood That runs in your veins How much do I know To talk out of turn? You might say that I'm young You might say I'm unlearned But there's one thing I know Though I'm younger than you That even Jesus would never Forgive what you do Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'll follow your casket On a pale afternoon I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead Masters of War Bob Dylan 1963
Don't engage with the yuppies jazz. They'll call your manager
Trump says “ehhhhhr” every other word. Hurry up and die, dude.
Wow. Ableist much?
felix calling melania trump “malenia” is killing me. imagine her waterfowling a child for being too excited for christmas
Hearing "I am Malenia, blade of Miquella, and I have never known defeat" in Melania's thick accent
This was an eeexcellent episode, big hugs to you guys from MI. Come to ann arbor on your next tour!
Sort of groaned internally at another Gaza and trump Epstein stuff episode, but also what else is there to talk about at this point anyway.
The fuck is wrong with you
Y’all cooked on this one
On Will's question of whether mass starvation has become the tipping point, when the outright mass killing wasn't before: It makes me wonder if maybe the increasingly advertiser-friendly, sanitized social media environment that exists today is contributing to it. If people aren't confronted with actual photographic/video evidence of the death and destruction that is going on over there, maybe it's easier for them to shake their head and say "it's complicated" and not have the same visceral reaction you get when you see a weeping mother holding a dead kid in a bodybag, or any of the other horrible graphic shit that no doubt has taken place over there.
I keep going back every time, when I start to blow a gasket about Gaza and what Israel is doing… This is US policy this is US corporations, US military, This is our 4th or 5th genocide or 2nd post WW2. Capitalism is the true evil here on this planet. I don’t know if communism is correct or if Marx or any left policy is the “right way” but I sure as hell know this is hell… Look at what the smartest people in capitalism want to do now… AI during a climate apocalypse doubling energy and water consumption… its only disappointment.
Watching Britain process grandmothers with signs for terrorism as their government "threatens" to acknowledge Palestine is such a trip. It reminds me of the notion of premature anti fascism and the leftists who were prosecuted in America after WW2 for fighting because of genuine humanist principles
"there's nothing they hate more than an idealist who is proven correct" Bars from Will
I live in Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh and it's hard to express how infuriating it is to walk through my neighborhood every day and see all the luxury houses with "We Stand With Israel" signs on the lawns (usually right next to "Hate Has No Home Here" or "In This House We...")
Utterly insane to think that there's people who are still that enthusiastic in supporting such an obvious genocide. If I speak I am in big trouble
This is gonna sound so cringe but do resist the urge to wonder "are they still human?" I know we have all told a public figure that they are scum floating on a puddle of garbage water but i think when trying to be very serious that there is something important about never genuinely allowing a human enemy to escape human status.
But what soul (in any meaningful sense of the word) could remain in someone like Blinken?
love you guys. the only honest institution this country has ever produced. we truly don’t deserve you ❤️
FYI, I tried donating using Google Pay, and it didn't go through. Visa card worked though. Maybe Google doesn't like Palestinians. Or perhaps it's just the usual glitches.
The Gulf of America guys aren't honest dealers? Are you sure?
I can believe, but also CAN'T BELIEVE this is still happening.
i think the only way the left can actually have power in this country is doing what MAGA did to the Republican establishment, just walk in uninvited and molest them
I do think that the biggest things holding the American “left” back is 1) lack of unity of course 2) an unwillingness/moral aversion to infiltrating the Democratic establishment. Like, you don’t have to and shouldn’t really work with liberals, but you can hijack their political machine and pull some levers until they kick you off. Yes, the Democratic Party is incredibly insular and self protective, but they are probably the weakest they have ever been to an insurgent leftist movement within the party
You can convince yourself and others that Israel is only targeting Hamas with bombs but you can’t convince anyone that only Hamas is being starved. Intentionally blocking aid necessarily implicates all lives so it’s impossible to justify to anyone who isn’t a maniac or has more than one brain cell. I think that’s why the ruling class is starting to turn. If it was really just about the sheer horror of it all this would have ended months ago
I'm confused how Sameer Project can help provide aid when we're also told that nothing gets in or out of Gaza? I want to help, but not just throw money at something to make myself feel better
I've heard from some people with family there that the mafias who do steal aid also smuggle and sell it at huge mark-ups. There are some places completely cut off, but some where people can buy limited amounts at exorbitant prices. If I'm understanding correctly.
I TODASO! I TODASO!
Can the Pod boys name even one major achievement the Dems’ “savvy politics” have ever achieved?
Flattening political possibilities to such an extent that “hey, maybe there is something better than mass sacrificing of life” is disregarded as being impractical and a pipe dream of the “unserious.” The technocrat freaks rule over all “discourse” is the singular triumph of Obummer.
Everyone always bring up Trump forgetting the Camp Mystic name, but the additional context is that it was also a pivot, because his first response was alluding to how great things were because of his genius tarrifs or whatever, but he sort of realized straight away that he was literally in the middle of a press conference about a biblical flood that killed dozens of people, and he pivoted to 'at a time like this' within the same breath.
Bcs there’s no way a guy who likes to blast show tunes while golfing would ever pen a letter to a friend that reads just like some fruity, dare I say ‘provocative’?, theatre scene.
Hoisted by their own retards
How will the real MAGA sickos accept the Epstein shit, if Bill Clinton is not arrested?
I won’t accept it either. Arrest the Clinton’s asap
I can't donate to chuffed cause it's in GBP and my bank won't allow it. What am I supposed to specify it's for in the note if I donate through venmo?
There should be a button next to the donation amount box on the chuffed site that lets you change the currency, I did my most recent donation in dollars (although my bank still flagged it as potentially fraudulent and I had to text them).
a good promo to get people to buy your comic book is that donations to the Samir fund (which everyone should already be donating to) of equivalent value to your comic strips will get you said comic book
Does this big liberal tent that will force real political change include Zionists??? You betcha buddy. Safe spaces, you know...
I crashed out for days watching vietor’s crash out over that tweet
All my friends hate pod save America!
Just wanna comment that a vanishingly small number of Jews in the West oppose this. Interpret that how you will.
Can we throw this *actually* antisemitic shitstain into the airlock please?
"preemptive land acknowledgment" holy shit
I totally forgot about that insane plea agreement. It wouldn't cover doing it again after that, but I can see it creating enough confusion to have her released without a pardon. One of the last things left where they still need some shitty facade, or maybe they don't. Trump can pardon her if he wants to. He's allowed. No ONE has approached him about it yet. He's allowed though. He asked so he knows he can if he wants to. Which he can. If he wants.
the images of starvation are toohard to ignore because they recall holocaust imagery, I remember in school seeing photos of people from the concentration camps so ghastly thin I couldn't believe they were photographed standing and alive, and now we're seeing that IN REAL TIME and there is no fucking way you can justify starving children or pretend it's not a genocide anymore. Starving a population is such a slow cruel process, you can't deny the intentionality behind it, especially when so much aid is sitting right there being blocked from reaching them.
This is so true. They couldn’t relate to women and children having their heads blown to pieces because those photos were not shown in our history books (although it most certainly happened). It’s shameful that a society can only begin to feel humanity for a population when they can “put themselves in their shoes” so to speak. It’s become the most hatful mentality of the “moral superiority complex”.
@ 48:40 Felix says "GHF"? Maybe I'm dumb but I don't recognize the initials. What should I be hearing there?
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Anyway it was great to hear you guys lay into invertebrates like Blinken. I hope they never come anywhere close to power ever again. That goes double for propagandist worms like Ritchie Torres or John Fetterman
RE: Trump's Epstein problem, i feel like his base is only watching Newsmax and Fox at the moment (or worse: getting their news from Twitter and Facebook) so the only things they are seeing are 24 hour news cycles of scary black teenagers and fear mongering about socialists running for mayor. The people who support him are compartmentalizing this story as hard as possible or thinking it's a hoax the way "The CIA overthrew the government of Chile" is a "hoax" until the CIA says it isn't
Thanks, need tear this so I know I am not going insane.
Great cathartic ep.
The kidnapping story you mentioned was in Waterbury, Connecticut
i think if there's ever to be a free, empowered, secular democratic Palestine, israelis who refuse to abide it and/or participated in the genocide, should be sent to Germany. that would be a faltering sort of reparations for two genocides in one. let the germans and the israelis show how much they've changed, what lessons they've learned
Israelis need to be done away with en masse. They aren't fit for organized society.
Can't allow aid into Gaza because Hamas would steal it, but also all Palestinians are Hamas: so who are they stealing it from? The innocent Palestinians that we don't believe are innocent and are going to kill anyway.
Without any context, its a blatant admission of deliberate use of food as a weapon
Any support of Israeli "defensive" weaponry must have equal support for Palestinian defense. We should be flying air to air missions against Israel. We would have our cake and eat it. Fund our enemy and also battle them in an epic show of strength right away. No waiting.
Everytime Epstein Conspirator Leon Black is mentioned I picture Curb Your Enthusiasm Leon Black and it scrambles my brain.
Forgive me if this was mentioned in the episode, I don’t have the constitution to listen to this topic this morning, but is there literally anything an average US citizen can do to help? Are we at the point where sending aid/donating gets you put on a list?
Trust me you on a list if you subscribe to chapo
Until i see Anthony Blinken with his head blown smoove off there won't have been proper justice.
The Due Dissidence podcast has covered somebody promoted by Tucker Carlson as an "amateur" historian, Darrell Cooper, who is just a Nazi/Hitler fanboy. How does this connect to this Chapo episode? In one of his "books", Cooper explains that Hitler really didn't want to exterminate the Eastern Slavs (despite dozens of Hitler and other Nazi speeches saying that was the explicit goal, Lebensraum for them), it was all a big "mistake," for once the Germans weren't well-organized, competent, etc. So they weren't actually culpable for the genocide!! Expect some version of this from Zionist Media spokesman like Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, etc. in the near future. History rhyming again. (Oh, Will and Felix mention Bret Stephens. I don't think he'll even bother; I think he'll consider it a good result, and not worth mentioning.)
oh for now gaza is straving bc the garstly UN won't cooperate with the isareli ghf! ATM the incompetence is someone else. I suspect later we double back to around december 2023 when there were the good jewish people of israel and the evil trickery of the master politican Netanyahu who tricks the good israelis into doing warcrimes.
Trump didn't need to go to Epstein Island because all the teens he wanted to rape were signing up for his beauty pageant, c'mon people this is easy
There were approximately 2.3 million people in Gaza before October 2023. Trump gave it away early on in this term when he said paraphrasing "we have to send 1.5 million people somewhere." That's 800k if that's the number given to him.
I think about this all the time. Anyone saying less is doing holocaust denial
'kill everyone in Gaza!! I want my casinos!! I want my peace prize!! I want my-' *Intern holds a Bluetooth speaker to his ear with the volume on Max AND WE ALL SAY OH WELL I NEVER WAS THERE EVER A CAT SO CLEVER AS MAGICAL MISTER MISTOFFLEES
my partner lives in north gaza and he has a campaign, any help is appreciated and sharing with your friends and families is also really helpful. Thank you for speaking about this always. https://chuffed.org/project/support-suleiman
thank you for the tough episode fellas, i continue to flounder and thrash within the almost entirely ineffective UK solidarity movement currently, whatever is or is not possible in this moment is irrelevant: do not give up, keep fighting, find a way to change this shit
'theyre not dying from starvation they're dying from their chronic disease that takes them more vulnerable to starvation' immediately struck me as the same childish reasoning behind Covid. Oh no, he's not dying from Covid, he's dying from the disease that made it easier for Covid to kill him
'absurd' doesn't begin to describe funding Palestinian gangs to topple Hamas after funding Hamas to defeat fatah and the PLO
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Felix begins speaking at 3 minutes and 43 seconds
When does he begin vaping?
Supporting primary challengers to genocide supporters every 2-6 years is such a low bar for an influential podcast that supposedly opposes genocide, but what are the chances they will even do that when the time comes? We already know what they will say! "Now is not the time", "we need to focus on the GOP" etc
Exactly
Pod Johns Chapo crossover incoming. Never thought I’d see it.
I wonder if their position on Iran’s nuclear program has changed since having Felix on that one time
Trump would love BigTopBurger, it has both Burger and Cats!
I’ve been told by three separate people about how unhealthy my fixation is about Palestine. I admit and say that it’s definitely taken a massive toll on me and probably caused an episode of excessive hair loss for a period last year, but i don’t care. I will never stop caring about Palestine or any country under the boot of this inhuman fucking country and its proxies.
Same! Even the hair loss part.
I think you guys are mistaken about how many of us regular folks on the left treat other regular folks who’ve recently changed their minds. Many people do exactly the “I told you so” extract a pound of flesh thing. I’ve had this conversation with my family and friends many times about how we need to avoid projecting all of the agency and guilt of politicians and media figures onto their supporters and listeners both current and former. I think this self righteous gatekeeping is a significant impediment to the spread of class consciousness in the US. The grandma who listens to Fox News, is not Gregguttfeld. I say this and see this only because I did this for a couple years myself.
It's almost never too late to change, and never a better time than right now. Conservatives and Democratic party loyalists are really pushing to the limit though. If we come through the other side we can never permit apartheid ideology to spread here ever again.
In Austria they wrote articles in most major newspaper until two weeks ago that anyone who says Israel is committing genocide is a vicious antisemite. (Who should be fired) But than one newspaper which frequently colabs with the New York Times wrote about Omer Bartovs article and they said ok maybe maybe if you look at it a certain way you could claim it is a genocide.
I remember explaining to the owners son 17 years ago that the rhetoric and logic he was using was insanely dehumanising and would eventually lead to the point where we are now. He called me an anti semite. In the first weeks after Oct 7 they had the gall to publish an article by a „social democrat“ who claimed he couldn’t listen to Arabs whining about gaza anymore. Fuck that newspaper, I’m never touching it again as long as I live, and neither should any other self respecting human being.
Whoever put Will in position of explaining the progression of starvation in a population deserves the most painful death
?
An anecdote about an average voter: (in Austria) My sister wished for her birthday from friends and family that we donate to Gaza instead of buying her any gifts or throw a party. She is not interested in int. politics but a regular voter. Her news consumption is radio news on a music station, and every other day the regular evening news on state tv(of course extremely pro Israel) Before she announced her wish she talked to me and said: I can‘t have my son waking up at night (he is 5) asking why I cry watching the news. I teach horse riding to kids during the summer holidays, I can‘t look at the Syrian kids learning to ride at my place, eating ice cream after the lesson without crying. On the news they still defend and downplay these crimes. I can‘t take this. I don’t think she is the only one, or the only normie who thinks that way.
Yeah to many people are scared to speak up though, classic cowardice. You can’t even get 20k people to sign a shitty fucking Amnesty International petition in this god damn shit hole of a country. Meanwhile Links is literally still arguing about whether it’s a genocide or not. Fuck those political hacks.
why did any arab countries take the women/children/inform in? like Ukraine?
Because the Palestinians would never be aloud back.
Where’s Jacque?
"Hosted by your own petard." -- Will Menaker
I think in 75 years the descendants of Palestinians should be able to slaughter another group of people as reparations. The arc of history bends towards justice.
Real heads know the Kid Rock tune that Kash Patel weeps to is, “Only God Knows Why.”
The media gaslighting on Iraq left deep mental scars on me the first time around. This time, it's 100 times worse and I just feel numb. The least we can do is take names at this point.
Jezza remains the only real head in mainstream politics
AOC is a heinous cnut
Preach
As a feckless, pathetically inactive liberal subject, I assuage my guilt by donating to the Hind Rajab Foundation because it's the only way I can see to not just offer relief, but to actively hold people to account. The Hind episode is literally the only Chapo episode I've never listened to because the story her death is one of the most upsetting things I've ever experienced. In her memory, I want to see these criminals held to some kind of account
Very true I donated to it for the same reason. In Austria you have all Highschool history : holocaust and why did we let this happen? And were complicit in it? And never again. Then it is live-streamed genocide and what do we do? Nothing helpless protest, and getting in arguments with the bastards in media academia, and politics supporting the perpetrators! All while fearing for our jobs.
Hebrew will be the language of Zionism and genocide just as German was/is associated with Nazism and genocide. A country that cares so much about Hasbara is overpowered by its genocidal bloodlust.
"I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided, will be normal." In retrospect, I'm starting to think Aaron Bushnell probably pulled off the sanest act of mental self-care of anyone who knew one day we would have to live with the shame that our modern society did the Holocaust all over again.
Oh 100 per cent. We should all be doing some Maoist third world shit, anything less is complicity
I need Jacques to wheel in the TV 📺 again
Saying "we should only provide missile defense systems to Israel" is like saying "we should only provide Panzerschrecks to the Third Reich so they can defend German civilians from Russian tanks" in 1943.
it's hard for me to escape the feeling that Gaza was a huge test for the people in charge of our collective future, because they certainly didn't care what any of us cattle thought, and they failed apocalyptically any vague sense I've had that there was anything salvageable about the world we've created has gone, it's all rotten from root to branch because I have watched millions of people try to stop this from happening and they've been stymied at every fucking turn by the institutions, who we've always been told are going to protect the weak and make the world better, at the direction of the same fucking people who told us that
Gaza lays bare that the liberal order of the modern West has no respect for the rights of the individual it supposedly held so dear. If the rallying cry of the French Revolution ever meant anything to the powerful, it has not been the case for a long time.
'One day, everyone will acknowledge that the Gaza ethnic cleansing was bad' We need to identify the collaborators and quislings who made this blot on the record of humanity possible.
If we each put away one before we go the place will be cleaned up in no time.
The established media class deserve to face the wall for the blood of children they lapped up and excused away. The audacity to demonize the form of resistance in Hamas while they in the same breath normalize 21st century fascism and "nuance" a live streamed Holocaust, a thousand Oct 7s. liberal world order got everything it wanted and now completely of its own infantile doing this is how it exits the world and paves a new phase of hell
"Liberal" MSDNC has centered extreme, genocidal child-killing goons like Jake Tapper and Dana Bash as their best "reporters." Fox News of course loves them some genocide as well. "The Atlantic" magazine publishes articles like "when it is acceptable for armies to kill and maim children", nobody has to guess the answer, it is "when they are Palestinian." The stain of this can only be partially scrubbed away by Nuremberg style war crimes of Western Elites, no impunity, execution or lifetime confinement and hard labor.
This mf Barack Hussein Obama really said "release the hostages" in his statement on Gaza before mentioning the ongoing forced starvation and systematic mass murder campaign of Palestinian children.
Triangulation up inside his anus where his head is rammed.
Now that people are getting permission (from the BBC etc) to be angry about how brutal the genocide is we are going to see the book title ‘one day everyone will have always been against this’ coming true in realtime and at such a speed that the public statements of support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians will be found easily. It’s obviously good that people are changing their minds about what’s happening but it’s extremely damming of us all that it took a flood of images of the starvation of babies to get to this point
Is images what it took? Or did it take reaching the point of no return, past which Israel may back down thanks to essentially accomplishing their goals?
Ima cum