Recent content by padraig (u.s.)

I think I'm pretty much done with dissensus, but just bc I posted about it already, the Palestinian Red Crescent released a more extensive of Hind's call with the ambulance dispatcher I could say 1000 things about the endless stream of IDF Tiktoks gleefully celebrating prisoner abuse and...

And sure enough, just after Hind's story breaks and on the eve of a looming massacre in Rafah, here comes one of the worst Twitter hasbara accounts (of big accounts I'd probably put her second for callous vileness, after Oren Barsky) with a UNRWA style "allegations, no evidence" smear...

that voice is going to be burned into my brain forever there have been 1000s of terrible stories but this one I will remember on my deathbed

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/2/10/body-of-missing-palestinian-girl-hind-rajab-found-in-destroyed-car be warned: the audio clips of her terrified pleading for help are one of the most difficult things I've ever listened to look, fuck Sinwar and Deif and Haniyeh and the Hamas...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68261286 this little girl bled to death, terrified and alone, trapped in a destroyed car, surrounded by her dead relatives, because the IDF wouldn't let an ambulance thru, then once they did let an ambulance thru, shot up the ambulance and killed the...

Don't have time to get into the actual topic rn (tldr: toxic masculinity reactionary backlash vs. women liking, yunno, actually having rights) but here's a more in depth thread on S Korea The money shot "This largely explains why young men have turned right in recent years. Their...

Oh also, the IDF admitted to running a gruesome psyop Telegram channel aimed at whipping up Israelis into a fervor of war support

https://www.channel4.com/news/israels-evidence-of-unrwa-hamas-allegations-examined So to review, Israeli intelligence leaked a dossier with no actual evidence against UNRWA, which was then dutifully laundered by the WSJ, via a literal former IDF officer, and the U.S. govt, and on the basis of...

my point was more that if things get that bad in re climate change refugees, the breakdown of social order will probably be so widespread and severe, and the police state reaction against it so harsh, that no one is going to care much about singling out Israelis for moral reasons. militarized...

if your point is that if Israelis outlive their usefulness they'll be abandoned by the same govts that support them now, then sure. I seriously doubt this war or anything that preceded it will be the reason, though. if climate change refugees reach that level, any state in a relatively secure...

anyway subvert is correct I may stop by here occasionally if there's some overwhelming piece of news but like, half the U.S. is stripping trans people of rights at breakneck speed, I could not care less about biscuit's stupid otherkin bullshit or whatever

I saw a tweet a couple weeks ago actually about the amount of casual cruelty not only trans people but anyone who doesn't conform to the gender binary is just expected to endure on a daily basis, a problem that has only become worse as rampant transphobia as expanded the reach of...

it's just the blithe ignorance and total lack of basic empathy that define TERFs, or GCs or whatever name they want to call themselves for people whose social media bios almost invariably list bullshit like "reality enthusiast" or whatever they almost always practice intense selective blindness...

if you're primarily looking at legacy media and billboards then I can see how it would seem that way. the pro-Israel operation is enormous and sophisticated and has always dominated traditional media. one of the most notable things about this war, though is how badly Israel has lost the...

I know this is said in righteous indignation to racist (and thuddingly unfunny) Israeli comedy - and I guess climate change - but I still strongly disagree with that kind of collective dehumanization, especially with its obvious overtones of countries refusing Jewish refugees before and during...