The Donald vs Big Tech

[astfgyl]

Leaked recording of the man who was intel chief of the IDF until 2024. It gathers together in one place almost every shocking facette necessary to see the whole situation clearly:

"For everything that happened on October 7, for every person who was killed on October 7, fifty Palestinians must die"

"They need a Nakba* every now and then to feel the price"
*Reminder: Arabic term, meaning 'catastrophe', given to the 1948 murderously enforced expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from land taken from under them for the new Israeli state.

"Hamas is good for Israel — that's [Finance Minster] Smotrich's argument. Why? Because if the entire Palestinian arena is destabilized and crazy, it is impossible to negotiate with."

"Why does [Netanyahu] want Hamas, a terrorist organization, to take over from the PA? He wants Hamas, which is much worse than the PA. Why does he want Hamas? Because the PA has international status. Hamas is an organization that you can fight freely, it has no international justification, it has no legitimacy, you can fight it with a sword."

This is in reference to Netanyahu, and Sharon before him, actively intervening to ensure that the Palestinian Authority was undermined in Gaza, in favour of Hamas.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-idf-intel-chief-oct-7-was-much-deeper-than-an-intelligence-failure/


When are you getting those Israel t-shirts done up astfgyl? Maybe you could do a run of Black & Tans merch at the same time.

#bothsides

I'm really impressed at how you didn't bring your politics to the main page.

Well done man

I'm staying out of it thanks

Edit: :p

[astfgyl]

Except to say that calling a lad out for thinking there might be more than one side to something is not exactly the sort of flexing of the intellect that one might perceive it to be in their own one-sidedness....

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The point isn't that there's more than one side. There's always more than one side. The point is being fed up with tediously repetitive insistence that #bothsides are morally equivalent, and therefore meriting of equal consideration, in situations where that is very clearly not the case.

[Ducky]

All in a day's work for the Republicans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/texas-democratic-rep-remains-locked-inside-house-chamber-after-not-signing-slip-for-a-dps-escort/

[astfgyl]

The point isn't that there's more than one side. There's always more than one side. The point is being fed up with tediously repetitive insistence that #bothsides are morally equivalent, and therefore meriting of equal consideration, in situations where that is very clearly not the case.

And I said this where?

[astfgyl]

I see Netanyahu is being interviewed on Triggernometry this evening.

Can't imagine that being terribly popular...

[open face surgery]

3 stupid cunts. How that fuckin tyrant has been doing the rounds on podcasts while being a wanted war criminal is beyond me. Old Donny's recommendation no doubt.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

3 stupid cunts.

 

Succinct and accurate.

[astfgyl]

Anyone watch it? I didn't even see the highlights

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Highlights, lol

[open face surgery]

Started it and Konstantin goes straight in asking Benji to describe his 7th of Oct to the viewers. I think I lasted about 10 minutes. Excruciating.

[Eoin McLove]

I watched a few minutes of it but felt it was pointless and listened to Trepaneringsritualen in the car instead.

[astfgyl]

Highlights, lol

     fair point

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or "probably dead", a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Trump White House rooting out "Woke" museums.

Reading Richard Evans's "The Third Reich in Power" and the parallels with that regime when it comes to culture and so-called "degenerate" music/art/artists is pretty obvious. As is the preemptive compliance which (spoiler alert)... did not work.