Grumpy South African 🇮🇱

South African Zionist 🇮🇱🇿🇦 - worried about the country of my birth and worried for my people…

[Saxon African @Saxon_African]

Call me radical... But I dont think government should be able to raise another cent of tax without first tying up corruption and wasteful expenditure.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Of course capitalism isn't natural, you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils.

What's natural is theft, robbery, and murder.

What's natural is anarchy, chaos, the rape of the weak by the strong, and nature red in tooth and claw.

The free market, which you call "capitalism", is not called "free" because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Because what a lot of people want to do is steal. You'll know which ones by the hammer and sickle logo they draw on things.

No, the free market is called free because it is freed from coercion and violence.

And of course it was spread by violence, you factory-defective lawn flamingo. Because it was spread by hanging all the bandits and robbers, and if hangings aren't violence I don't know what is.

And of course it's maintained by coercion, you British pub food connoisseur. If you don't coerce thieves not to steal, then they will steal everything you build faster than than you can build it.

You have to use violence to stop the violent, and coerce the coercers not to coerce.

And of course it's maintained by the superficial facade of liberal democracy, you Vogon poetry appreciator. The global average citizen is a mentally retarded third-world savage with less emotional self-control than my cat. If we let them have candidates that truly represented their agenda, then every useful thing humanity has built for the last twelve thousand years would be torn down in a week to buy them more party drugs. Followed by every woman being raped to death, and then uncomprehending starvation as they slowly and painfully learned that grocery stores don't spontaneously spawn food pickups, like in video games.

Jesus Christ, woman, you're talking about a species that evolved to live in hominid tribes of 100 apes, and throw rocks at zebras. In modern civilization, the so-called "average" person is so far out of his depth that the fish have lights on their noses.

And the more complex and sophisticated civilization gets, the more investments in the future that we need to protect, so that the retarded monkeys don't steal them all to buy more vodka and cigarettes.

Yeah, sure, sometimes capitalist systems end up defending property that someone's great-grandfather stole. But so fucking what? You think communism is gonna fix that? You think communism is gonna bring justice?

Communist nations can't afford justice. They can't even manage to feed themselves half the time. Get back to us when you've mastered the agricultural revolution, we've only been waiting since the beginning of recorded time.

The trick is to put the seeds in the dirt, guys.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This your guy?

When he worked for Hamas, was he off the clock or picking up a wage from Al Jazeera while working for a different employer?

Your investors deserve to know. They cut both paychecks anyway.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

What exactly is the Iranian Hezbollah resisting? There wasn't a single Israeli soldier in Lebanon, Gaza, or Iran before October 7. All three attacked Israel and now whine that Israel took the fight back to the aggressor despite being outnumbered 10:1.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

Wait, what?! You’re telling me that the best use of our military is killing people in neighboring countries that export drugs to America but under no circumstances should Israel be killing people in neighboring countries that shoot rockets at them?

[Jonathan Conricus @jconricus]

I have invited you personally several times. Why didn’t you accept?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Karim Khan, who was suspended from his ICC chief prosecutor duties following sexual abuse claims, has now been banned from practicing law in England and Wales by the Bar Standards Board in the UK.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun defends Israel:

“Nothing in war is humane — but if Israel wanted to annihilate Shiites in Lebanon, it wouldn’t give warnings. We’d be seeing 100,000 casualties, not 2,000.”

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Expecting Israel to preserve a deal it never signed is like blaming your neighbor for violating your mortgage.

If Israel’s consent was essential, Israel should have been a party to the agreement. If it wasn’t, stop pretending it has obligations it never accepted.

It’s basic common sense.

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

What an absolutely terrible idea devoid of any actual knowledge of either health economics or the health system itself.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

@sahmetkiz He was protecting the Israeli population in the North of Israel from Hezbollah - who attacked Israel on October the 8th. Does that help?

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

⚠️EXPOSED!! An underground Hezbollah terror tunnel 200 meters long and 25 meters deep, with 4 launch shafts and massive number of weapons.

Share this. The mainstream media won’t.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

@MokTJJJ @ChristianDoche2 @AaronRegunberg The opposite is true - Israel has withdrawn from more area than the entire land mass of Israel. And as for what the Jewish people have the right to be sovereign over, that is a rewriting of history as well. Your knowledge of this conflict is at such a surface level.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

Withdraws from territory that is greater than the size of Israel itself completely disprove conquest as an intent. Again you reframe everything in such a way the it blurs the truth. You also deny Jewish history, ethnicity and culture by perpetuating the lie that an indigenous people can be settlers in their native homeland. It’s insidious, and it’s untrue. You claim not to have a problem with Jews and still you deny us our entire story.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

This is not whataboutism - you are redefining the word. This is about causality and responsibility. Hamas attacked Israel and murdered and kidnapped Israelis. They knew Israel would respond, and instead of building a battlefield to protect the citizens of Gaza - their citizens, they built one that intentionally put their citizens in harms way. They hid below them, in tunnels designed to immunize them for Israeli realization. They are responsible for the terrible devastation that befell Gaza.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

@DiogenesOfTron @AaronRegunberg Because Hamas attacked on October the 7th.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

@jarred_ @AaronRegunberg This erasure of Jewish history, identity, ethnicity and culture is an interesting way of pretending that you don’t have a problem with Jews. Which other ethnic group do you lecture on their history?

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

The problem with this framing is that it ignores Hamas responsibility in embedding themselves between and especially underneath civilian infrastructure. Hiding behind one’s own civilians can’t immunize an aggressor against defense. That civilians died in Gaza is absolutely true and tragic - but the responsibility for those deaths lie with Hamas.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

Or perhaps it has nothing to do with conquest at all… Your conspiracy falls apart when you realize that Israel has successfully (and unsuccessfully in the case of Gaza) given up land for peace in the past. Israel could have retained the Sinai, could have stayed in Lebanon in 2000 and could have not withdrawn from Gaza in 2005.

[Grumpy South African 🇮🇱 @grumpy_African]

@MokTJJJ @ChristianDoche2 @AaronRegunberg It’s interesting how you frame Israel as an ethnostate as if it’s some sort of slur. Israel has a 20% Arab minority, making it one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the Middle East. Why do you only frame the Jewish state in this way?