JRuec

he/him, 2020 Bernie Iowa precinct captain

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@iznaut @priceline That sucks, I hope you 2 are holding up well

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

We urge all warring parties to allow humanitarian aid to move across borders into Sudan & across front lines. Deliberately obstructing or delaying humanitarian cargo is putting the lives of thousands of children at-risk as they are cut-off from receiving life-saving treatment.

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

There is only enough therapeutic food to treat malnourished children in #Zamzam camp, #Sudan, for another 2 weeks. As a result, today, we have sadly been obliged to cap the number of children who can receive this treatment, because the RSF have blocked our supply trucks.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

NEW VIDEO: Jill Stein staffer violently thrown to the ground by cops.

This is my friend Kelly (@GaiaTribute), who is part of Jill Stein's senior campaign team. Imagine this were a Biden or Trump staffer. It would be front page news.

https://t.co/2UFBhX2tkK

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@peterdaou No

[Jordan @JordanChariton]

🧵I know there’s a lot going on, but I want to remind folks what the govt & media are covering up—the latest sacrifice zone. Jenna is an 18 year old East Palestine OH resident. Before Norfolk Southern unnecessarily detonated toxic cancerous chemicals over EP, she was healthy….

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@senortalone @IanMWolfe @jen_keesmaat Personally, I like driving those concrete and steel poles at least around the intersections so people can't drive down the bike lane without paying for their stupidity

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@senortalone @IanMWolfe @jen_keesmaat The photo from op just has painted fake bumpouts not real bumpouts which I'll agree is better, but not every city has money to redo concrete when they're not already redoing the intersection as a whole, as far painted bike lanes, that's just cause drivers HATE bikers...

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDF’s Lavender AI system that’s not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians because Hamas uses “human shields”.

If you missed this story, a major report from +972 revealed that Israel has been using an AI system called Lavender to compile kill lists of suspected members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which have been carried out with hardly any human verification. One automated system, psychopathically named “Where’s Daddy?”, tracks suspects to their homes so that they can be killed along with their entire families. The IDF has been knowingly killing 15 to 20 civilians at a time to kill one junior Hamas operative, and up to 100 civilians at a time to take out a senior official.

+972’s Yuval Abraham writes the following:

“Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called ‘Where’s Daddy?’ also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.”

(Another +972 report by Abraham back in November revealed that IDF AI systems ensure that the Israeli military is fully aware of every child it’s going to be killing in each airstrike, and that it deliberately targets civilian infrastructure as a matter of policy.)

When questioned about these systems by +972, the IDF Spokesperson responded that “Hamas places its operatives and military assets in the heart of the civilian population, systematically uses the civilian population as human shields, and conducts fighting from within civilian structures, including sensitive sites such as hospitals, mosques, schools and UN facilities. The IDF is bound by and acts according to international law, directing its attacks only at military targets and military operatives.”

The “human shields” narrative that’s become so popular in Israel apologia insists that the reason the IDF kills so many civilians in its attacks on Gaza is because Hamas intentionally surrounds itself with noncombatants as a strategy to make the innocent Israelis reluctant to drop bombs on them. But as The Intercept’s Ryan Grim recently observed on Twitter, this is soundly refuted by the revelation that Israel has been intentionally waiting to target suspected Hamas members when it knows they’ll be surrounded by civilians.

“Israel’s argument that they kill so many civilians because Hamas uses ‘human shields’ is torn apart by the revelation that the IDF prefers to attack its ‘targets’ when they are at home with their families,” tweeted Grim. “It is not Hamas using human shields, it is Israel deliberately hunting families.”

“A human shield is only a shield if your enemy values human life and seeks to minimize civilian deaths,” Grim adds. “Israel deliberately maximizes the number of civilians it can kill by waiting until a target is with his entire family. Palestinians are not shields to Israel, they are all targets.”

This is such an important point. Advocates for Palestine like Abby Martin have for years been presenting compelling arguments against Israel’s “human shields” claims, and common sense shows that the presence of civilians is clearly not a deterrent to Israeli airstrikes, but because of these +972 revelations the lie has now been thoroughly, irrefutably debunked. Civilians aren’t getting killed because Hamas hides behind them, civilians are getting killed because the IDF waits until suspected Hamas members are around civilians to target them with high-powered military explosives.

A popular quote attributed to former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir says “Someday we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill their children.” You see this quote pop up all the time in varying iterations, shared approvingly by Israel apologists around the world as though it’s something wise and brilliant instead of a horrific defense of murdering children. But it turns out this morally depraved quote isn’t even true by the most generous of interpretations: Israel isn’t being “forced” to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to.

The “human shields” narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer. They lied about beheaded babies so that they could get away with murdering babies. They lied about mass rapes so that they could get away with committing rape. They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could kill civilians. They lie about being victims so that they can victimize.

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@iznaut Such a fun game

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@iznaut Congrats 🎉

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@peterdaou Container*

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@peterdaou More precisely it's all about keep the contain absolutely clean, which yes is difficult

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@peterdaou @jordanbpeterson @mehdirhasan Please don't give him attention, if nothing else his ego feeds off it

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@Yllipolly @wooble @factoriogame The recent switch release is probably the culprit there

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@jacksontwitr @latstetter @peterdaou @DrTomFrieden Personally I've no particular clue I just felt like pointing out that it was the flatlined they were referring to

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@jacksontwitr @latstetter @peterdaou @DrTomFrieden I believe they're referring to when it flatlined in 2010 not the actual dropoff that was covid

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@justanyone @benigma2017 Biden has approved more drilling permits than trump

[JRuec @SirRucTheRandom]

@Direwolf20 Either mechanical mastery or create arcane engineering