ergopraxis

Everything is awful, but there is something grimly amusing about the xenophobic nationalist begging foreign governments to bail him out of the disaster he created.

The thing about Democrats complaining about how Israeli politicians don't respect them and don't believe they'll ever impose consequences is that, in order to render this view no longer tenable, you actually have to impose consequences. Which is still verboten among most Democratic politicians.

doing propaganda

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

This would have been vastly more unfortunate if he didn't spend his last year equivocating about a genocide. At least one who has died has been set free from sin.

Clinton complained "who is the superpower" and then rubber-stamped the most absurd proposals ever written by an Israeli PM at Camp David. Bush II wrote the Roadmap and then undermined it himself two years later by recognizing the settler blocs. Obama blocked French recognition of Palestine.

Well I mean the problem is that every single president since LBJ, under both parties, has ultimately backed down from their threats to meaningfully alter the relationship to Israel. The evidentiary record favors their assumptions.

Israel and war as the only prospect EDITORIAL. Israel shows no willingness to ensure that its military victories are accompanied by genuine political and diplomatic plans for the future.

English editorial version

In Israeli discourse, all wars are presented as existential. In reality, they are becoming less and less so for the Jewish state and more and more so for its periphery, because the hegemony that Israel has been trying to establish for more than two years recognizes only rights and no duties.

In this "pax hebraica," which is neither peace nor justice, a ceasefire is merely the continuation of war in another form, and every opportunity is used to increase Israel's control of territories, for its own benefit, with complete impunity and with the active support of Washington.

The center-right Le Monde editorial board this morning:

let's fucking goooo

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

It's actually very easy to legally reopen the strait of Hormuz. All the US has to do (which doesn't even require it to resort to the use of force) is cease its ongoing acts of aggression and desist from future such acts, pay reparations, accept Iran's right to develop nuclear energy and apologise.

She should be naturalised immediately

Unbelievably german-coded. The soul of Prussia lives

Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon

The extension of the Gaza genocide to the whole of the Middle East

Starmer was completely unprepared for the Ironjawz meta and Zack's 'ardboyz and brutes just absolutely crushed it.

I tend to think Islamophobia is functionally just racism in the American context since Muslims are on the whole pretty clearly racialized and almost all of the rhetoric about Muslims are completely unrelated to Islam as such.

How do the natsec libs feel about the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil just for the sake of waging forever war in MENA to the benefit of basically only one country

An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable

I think I may have cracked it

Democratic leaders failed to rise to the occasion and condemn the police brutality on display against protestors expressing their first amendment rights. It more than likely cost them the election. Stop crying about it and learn to win an election.

Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.

Abortion used to be the issue where the fact that the party's elected officials represented its voters was always seen as a huge scandal by pundits.

The hardline pro-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has been experiencing the biggest dog catches car moment ever over the last couple of years and they're still mad

evergreen question

These people got exactly what they wanted, the war they begged for, but are mad at the obvious consequences?

So much for a big Democratic tent. NEW @J _Insider via @GSDeutch: "Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Dems who support Iran war"" HE WHITE HOUSE SASHUNGTON Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Democrats who suppo...

Yeah well I mean, >85% of Democratic voters think this is a stupid fucking idea, >75% think negatively of Israel, and even >80% of Democratic members of Congress weren't stupid enough to vote against the WPR.

Sorry but you're a sucker if you think you can just cry and appeal to "the big tent".

I feel threatened with the best of times