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I have one question for Pro-Palestine supporters: Why should Israel withdraw from the West Bank to “bring peace”, when withdrawing from Gaza in 2005, destroying all 21 former settlements, only led to 4 Gaza wars?
When we were preparing to go to Iraq in 2005 we had an Iraqi who had fled Iraq, and ended up in the employ of the CIA briefing us on culture, and Ramadan came up.
One of the senior officers in the auditorium spoke up quickly, and started to say we should not drink, eat, or smoke in front of Iraqis during Ramadan, to respect their culture.
This CIA dude immediately locks eyes with this officer and asks very loudly
“WHY?!”
The officer was a little caught off guard, and before he could answer the CIA guy started explaining.
“You are American, you are Christian, you DO NOT celebrate Ramadan, and if you don’t carry on as an American during Ramadan it will be seen as weakness. It reinforces their idea that their god is the only true god, and that all others will bow before Islam.
If they don’t offer you a drink when you come to their home, ask for one, during Ramadan!
Make them respect you, or they will attack you more because they see you as weak.
They are asserting their dominance, and if you falter in the slightest they see you as less than them.”
That stuck with me, and it was true.
You could see they didn’t respect the guys who went out of their way to accommodate them, both in the way they acted towards American troops, and in the number of attacks on US Forces in the areas.
Eat, drink, and be Merry, even during Ramadan.
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The Holocaust is singular. Nothing in history equals it.
A modern, industrialized European state decided that every single Jew on earth (man, woman, infant, elderly, disabled, convert, atheist, even war heroes) must be hunted down and murdered for the sole crime of existing.
Not for land.
Not for resources.
Not for political control.
Not as a byproduct of war.
The annihilation of the Jews was the point.
Even while the Germans were being crushed on the Eastern Front and the Allies pushed in from the West, the Nazis kept diverting trains, fuel, manpower, and industrial capacity away from the battlefield just to keep the gas chambers running.
Mere traces of Jewish ancestry were enough for a death sentence. Conversion didn't save you. Assimilation didn't save you. Intermarriage or loyalty to Germany didn't save you. Jewish blood itself was treated as a permanent, irreversible stain.
This extermination of Europe’s Jews was planned and carried out by university professors, engineers, architects, chemists, and bureaucrats. Ordinary, educated citizens of one of the most advanced societies on earth. They clocked in, murdered with industrial efficiency all day, then went home to listen to Beethoven and read Goethe.
No other atrocity combined all of these elements at once: (1) total biological targeting of an entire people with no exemptions; (2) industrial-scale factory killing; (3) continent-wide reach; and (4) a sophisticated modern state treating murder of a people as a war aim equal to military victory.
The crime was so unprecedented that Raphael Lemkin had to invent a new word for it: genocide.
That word has since been stretched, emptied, and turned into a political weapon against the very people who actually experienced it.
The Holocaust stands alone.
Richtig, die Nazis bauten keine „Marktwirtschaft mit Hakenkreuz“ auf. Sie bauten Sozialismus mit deutscher Effizienz.
Ludwig von Mises hat es in Human Action unerbittlich klargestellt: Es gibt zwei Wege zum Sozialismus. Den bolschewistischen: Alles verstaatlichen, Eigentum vernichten. Und den deutschen "Eigentum bestehen lassen", aber jede Entscheidung, die Eigentum überhaupt erst zu Eigentum macht, dem Staat überlassen.
Unter Hitler blieb „Eigentum" auf dem Papier bestehen.
Aber der Staat diktierte:
was produziert wird,
wie viel,
zu welchem Preis,
an wen,
mit welchen Rohstoffen,
zu welchem Lohn,
mit wie vielen Arbeitern.
Der „Unternehmer“ war kein Unternehmer mehr. Er war Betriebsführer – ein staatlich bestellter Verwalter fremder Befehle.
Wer widersprach, riskierte Enteignung, Konzentrationslager oder beides.
Der Vierjahresplan 1936 unter Göring war die totale Planwirtschaft mit Preiskontrollen, Zwangskartellen und Investitionslenkung. Preise durften nicht steigen. Löhne wurden eingefroren. Arbeit wurde zugewiesen. Kapital floss dorthin, wohin der Staat es brauchte – nicht dorthin, wohin freiwilliger Tausch es gebracht hätte.
Sobald der Staat über Produktion, Preise, Mengen und Arbeitskraft entscheidet, ist der Eigentumstitel eine leere Hülle. Dann ist es Sozialismus.
Ob der Staat die Fabrik enteignet oder den Fabrikanten zum Befehlsempfänger macht – das Ergebnis ist identisch: Keine freiwillige Kooperation, keine Preisfindung durch Angebot und Nachfrage, keine Verantwortung für Verlust. Nur Zwang.
The language sits in the Morocco assistance section alongside the directed $40 million in funding. Its classic appropriations report jargon. signal political preference and encourage the State Department to keep talking, without actually changing any legal status or borders.
It’s still dumb and unnecessary, but it’s not a secret transfer plot. It’s signaling favoritism toward a preferred partner while funding them. Massie turned “we like Morocco and want talks” into “GOP greenlit giving away Spanish territory.” That’s the oversell.
It means exactly what it says: non-binding committee report language (not the bill text) that notes Morocco’s claim and says the committee “supports efforts by the Secretary of State to encourage diplomatic engagement” between two sovereign countries on a longstanding dispute.
That’s it.
• No transfer of land
• No change of borders
• No recognition of Moroccan sovereignty
• Zero legal force
• Congress has no power to hand over Spanish cities anyway
Calling Spanish cities “located in Moroccan territory” and talking about their “future status” is dumb and provocative report language. It is still not “greenlighting the transfer.” Report language is not law. Massie knows the difference and is stretching it.
Why stop there? Let’s just turn over anything the government has ever done and pretend it’s identical to a random blurb in a subcommittee report. WTF. We’re talking about one specific thing: non binding report language that has zero legal force and has never transferred land or changed borders. Stop trying to change the subject to save face.
It’s okay. We fell for the Massie “small government” act. Turns out it was a con. He only ever cared about himself, his brand, and his dumb pet projects.
Name one single time a note buried in a subcommittee appropriations report has ever had any binding effect on anything that actually mattered, let alone transferred territory abroad. You’re talking like a low-IQ Massie conspiracy nut. Be specific and intentional. What exactly are you claiming this non-binding report language has done or will do? Cite a concrete instance where report language like this changed sovereignty, borders, or facts on the ground. No “people like you are the problem” vague retardo grandstanding.
You’re conflating things. Yes, stuff has been snuck into actual appropriations bills over the years that actually mattered and became law. Never has anything been buried in a subcommittee report on appropriations in this way that has ever actually mattered or transferred territory.
I agree the wording is inappropriate and has no place in the paperwork. Also, Massie is a disgrace and he’s spinning this into something it isn’t. Two things can be true.