Frédéric Chano

Nerd, geek, huge X-Men and sci-fi fan. Oh and health care « hero » haha. Out and proud gay queer cis man. he/him

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

Parents clash in Pride protest at US primary school https://t.co/T4W0zfC0fn

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

I've been having conversations with several smart people over the past two days about the Israeli public's response to the life of the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. As far as the Israeli smart cookies are concerned, there is absolutely nothing with regard to this "situation". They are bored with the historical / legal / moral implications of the story.
"Yes, it is the Palestinians' fault. They shouldn't have started a war they are not prepared to lose. Everyone knows that they just want to kill us anyway. We, they and us, would be better off if they weren't here. That is all common knowledge. But how long can you keep repeating these things? This is war. We will keep fighting forever. That is what the PM said and we believe him. Can we move on now? Can we remember it is summer vacation and get on with the business of living? Could you be less of a stick in the mud and let us do just that?"

The smart ones who are not Israeli cannot but ask again and again and again, "now that the Israeli public knows what is happening, now that it is a broad consensus that more than 70000 were killed, is the Israeli public capable of acknowledging its actions? Is anyone in Israel capable of a discussion about what happened and is continuing to happen? Can Israelis, gearing up for a general action, consider or imagine a future that is not perpetual war?"

It is almost impossible to explain, or it may be the easiest thing in the world to explain, but the general answer to all the questions from outside Israel is "no". Israelis know everything, but they don't care and they have no plans for caring. At best or at worst they are talking about delaying "discussion" about these "affairs" to a later date, after the only issue on their agenda is resolved - replacing Binyamin Netanyahu as PM.

There is nothing there. Many Israelis celebrate the death of Palestinians. Many, many more simply don't care and will carry out any and all orders given to them by those in charge. Jewish Israel, as a society, doesn't care. I think any attempts to divine the origin of this sentiment and guiding spirit is superfluous at best. I don't think it matters. What matters (to humanity at large, btw) is recognizing the depravity and the criminality of this condition. I don't know if you can imagine "nothing". It is worse than bigotry at its most murderous. It is a rejection of the most basic human urge, to live.

Ben Gvir and Smotrich, for example, don't share this nothingness. They are full to the brim with malevolent glee. The self-styled "liberals" are where this cult of oblivion begins. All Israelis want is for things "to go back to normal". They support a perpetual war because otherwise they will be "destroyed" (remember: nothing or everything are the only options). They want Netanyahu replaced because he is mad, but also because his perpetual war was not successful enough. . Someone will take care of the "security" while Israel's finest will spend years in the reserves, continuing to kill and bomb. Those who are not will hold Summer Wine festivals and talk about flight prices and real estate opportunities. That is all there is to it.

Nothing. The killing can continue unabated. So can the ethnic cleansing. Nothing will stop them. Once again, this is not a request for pity or for lenience. If anything, it is the other way around. Don't look for extenuating circumstances. Don't look for anything. there is nothing there.

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

@ori_goldberg Wishing you nothing but good things. The world needs more people like you.

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

@guychristensen_ Highly recommend this article

https://t.co/HuG9lUiCgc
Long but worth the read

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

Last week, my YouTube channel was terminated without warning. Instagram was already gone. TikTok had demonetized me. The pattern was obvious. Erase the voice, isolate the creator, and move on. That’s how platform censorship usually works.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

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[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

Ana Kasparian on Piers Morgan show:

Israel's Mossad turned Epstein's island into a blackmail factory targeting U.S. leaders.

They didn't just spy on America; they sexually compromised its leaders to guarantee unconditional support https://t.co/nDTz8qicDi

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Take four minutes and watch until the end. Then share it. Nails it.

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

@DrNikhilMD @PrecisionClinMe Isn’t there a risk of a spontaneous fracture?

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

I have a message for my Republican colleagues: Trump will turn on you, investigate you, and indict you with bogus charges the second he doesn't like you.

That’s not Democracy—it’s tyranny. Your silence won’t make it go away.

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

@DerekNeverFails Nat Turner

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

@the_andrey_x I’m so very sorry to read this, for his family and for you. May his fire burn bright forever

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

I was overcome yesterday. The vileness pouring out of Israeli society shut my mouth for 24 hours. It was an immediate reaction, not anger or sadness. I couldn't speak. I broke out in hives for the first time since I was diagnosed. I think I tried to reject reality. I'm back.

It is impossible to exaggerate the level of dehumanization, lying and intellectual sloth that now pass for the norm around here. And if you hear about growing numbers of Israelis protesting against the genocide and the hunger, that carries an asterisk. Palestinian citizens have begun to speak. Several thousand Jews who have been calling this out for some time may have added a thousand more to their number. That is the "growth".

The final collapse of all morals is intimately linked to the collapse of institutions and of the state itself. Posting about the impossibility of "hunger" ("there's no hunger; there are only hungry people") when "chubby-cheeked mothers" are holding emaciated children ("she must have taken his food") is the result of civil protests focusing on Netanyahu and his government without mentioning the hunger or the genocide even once. A society where everything is personal (which is what the hostages are now, as well) is a society incapable of maintaining institutions setting a principled path. There are no principles.

The broad consensus underpinning this implosion is, I think, expanding. The images from Gaza have rattled something very deep in the collective Israeli-Jewish soul, and it isn't compassion. The Palestinians, expiring so flamboyantly, appear to be suggesting two impossible things:
1. Jews can perpetrate a genocide.
2. There can be two societies who suffered genocide between the river and the sea.

That is impossible. Not only does it shatter our perennial victimhood; it shatters our uniqueness. Like the Highlander, there can be only one. If there isn't only one society that deserves it all, full victimhood and full aggression, there can be none. That is what enforces the consensus among Israelis and enables Israel's descent into hell.

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

@nookyelur Let’s not forget Haim Arlozoroff (who, I believe, was a Zionist who saved tens of thousands of German Jews from the holocaust) and Count Folk Bernadotte

[Fiach Oighir @FiachOighir]

Now is the perfect time to remember Mohammad Mosaddegh. He was elected as Iran's Prime Minister in 1951. He was incredibly liberal for the time - he embraced democratic principles and sought to place limitations on the Shah's power. He was also a supporter of secularism.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The safety of the entire world is now threatened by one violent, racist, colonial regime that is on trial for genocide in the ICJ and led by a deranged lunatic who is indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. Every drop of blood spilled now is the predictable product of those in the West who created this Frankenstein monster and built a wall of impunity to protect it, those in the Middle East who bowed down to the beast in hopes of appeasing it and its ruthless imperial master, and those across the globe who have refused to stand up to the monster’s serial crimes. The world needs to get up off its knees and hold the regime accountable, before it’s too late.

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

History repeating itself…

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

It's both hilarious and depressing that libs think CECOT is the "first American concentration camp".

[Frédéric Chano @ChanoFrederic]

Too bad you won’t have a cause for incompetence and stupidity

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

BREAKING: New evidence presented at the UN confirms Palestinian women are being gang-raped by Israelis who videotape it as they do it. Not a single Western media outlet that fabricated and spread the genocidal atrocity propaganda rape hoax have reported on this actual mass rape