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[Zinger @ZingerMagazine]

@piersmorgan Why would Israel be responsible to count their enemies' bodies? This number is for Gaza to provide but since they group military with civilian casualties, we'll never know. Why don't you ask Gazans why they do this? Shame you don't see through their tactics.

[mallen2024 @mallen20243]

@piersmorgan Gee...too bad even the Israel-hating ICC recently destroyed the basic premise of all your pro Hamas propaganda.

[SirTD 🇺🇸🇬🇧 @SirTD_Comments]

@piersmorgan 👎You have accepted the war criminal culture of the regional Muslims who do use the human Shield strategy to MAXIMIZE their own civilians' deaths so they can claim genocide.

[Matt Tardio @angertab]

Piers,
72k according to the Gaza Ministry of Health (which you admit is ran by Hamas, correct?).

Subtract 22k-25k Hamas/PIJ KIA (IDF Estimate)

Subtract 24k natural deaths (latest available data)

Subtract 10k-12k CIVCAS caused by Hamas/PIJ (rockets, mortars, IED's, stray bullets).

You are a smart man, you've also stated that you believe there is a genocide while just admitting that you do not know the actual CIVCAS numbers.

Using your own argument I could ask you the same question... how could you state that without knowing the numbers?

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

@USAP_COG @SkrizzlyIam Oh I'm sorry, does learning who King David and Moses were establish a religion?

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

People sometimes ask me why I believe mass migration threatens to fundamentally transform American culture. And this is a really good example. Hemant’s parents arrived here from India before he was born.

And now, he insists that we may not teach the foundational texts of western civilization and our culture to American students because he objects to it. So he demands that we not teach them about the most important work to influence our nation’s founding.

And that is why I say mass migration without assimilation threatens to fundamentally transform our country.

And that is the same culture that up to this point has made the United States the greatest nation on Earth and is why so many immigrants from other cultures like India want to come here.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Alan Turing was 41 when he died. Two years earlier, the country he helped win the Second World War put him on trial for being gay, then gave him a choice: go to prison, or take hormone injections that would chemically castrate him. He chose the injections. And in those same final years, he was quietly working out the math behind how a tiger gets its stripes.

Start with the war. At Bletchley Park, Britain's secret codebreaking base, Turing led the team that cracked Enigma, the machine the German navy used to scramble its messages so no one else could read them. He built his own machine, the Bombe, to crack the code faster than a room full of people ever could. That work, some historians think, shortened the war by two years. It may have saved as many as 14 million lives. Then in 1950 he wrote a paper built around one question: "Can machines think?" He even laid out a way to test it. We call it the Turing test today, and every chatbot you have ever used goes back to that page.

He did all of this in secret, and the country he saved never knew. In 1952 the police found out he was gay, and back then that was a crime in Britain. He was convicted, lost his security clearance, and was put on the injections. That same year, he published a paper showing how two chemicals, spreading and reacting across a surface, can cover it in spots, stripes, and swirls all on their own. It started a whole new field: using math to explain how living things grow. A codebreaker had just handed science the rules for how nature makes its patterns.

He was still working on that puzzle when he died in 1954. He was 41. Ten more years would have taken him to 51, in 1964, right as the first working computers were being built and the field he imagined was taking off.

He never got to see any of it. The patterns he predicted on paper were not proven in a lab until 1990, 36 years after he died. It took the British government until 2009 to say sorry, and 2013 to pardon him. In 2021 his face went on the 50-pound note, with a sunflower on the back, a nod to the pattern work he never finished.

Turing asked "Can machines think?" in 1950. The field built on that question got its name, artificial intelligence, at a meeting in 1956. By then he had been dead for two years. He never heard the words. The machine he dreamed up now sits in your pocket, and it answers when you talk to it.

[Daniel Golliher 🗽 @danielgolliher]

When I talk about the rent freeze in NYC, or someone asks me about it, my internal process often goes like this:

>> bracket the question of whether or not rental price controls are good or bad, which distracts people from realizing they don’t know how NYC’s system actually works, and that it is a bad system that wiser proponents of rental price controls do not endorse.
>> ask “is” questions we can readily get decent answers to: “What is the rent regulation system? What are the laws that allow it, and under which conditions? Who is in rent stabilized housing, with what family compositions, incomes, etc? What kinds of buildings are stabilized, and in which ways? Who owns them? Do we have access to any balance sheets?”
>> address the inevitable pedantic point about “rent stabilization” versus “rent control,” and what the definition of “market rate” means exactly.
>> remind interlocutors that we are not discussing “rent controls” generally, but those laws specifically in the context of NYC/S, which has a unique regime.
>> internally observe that: NYC’s system of using rent price controls is not what anyone thinks it is; it is a bad system, even if you want price controls on rents; it is hard for anyone to understand the system; the system as it exists is essentially a historically accreted accident, and not a deliberately engineered choice as a whole.

Finally: my points of strongest contention are not with people who are for or against price controls on rents (even though I am generally not for them). My largest contention is with people who: (1) speak about rent control generally without reference to the actual specifics of NYC’s system, (2) defend the system we have, which is kind of the worst of all worlds. It is the system you’d hope your city doesn’t have (no means testing, inheritability, no vacancy reset, applied across buildings of wildly different financial positions, etc). I could easily make my peace with a system that operates more sensibly, and has more reasonable trade-offs. That is not this one.

[Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah]

I was never a practising, observant Muslim.

Yet, even I wanted Islam to take over Europe and the West until I was a teenager.

We are taught that Islam's greatest achievements are conquest and colonialism.

We are taught that the greatest thing we could ever do is enable the invasion and conquest of non-Muslim countries.

This is a fact that only a former Muslim would tell you.

[Jake Novak @jakejakeny]

Calling Brad Lander a kapo is an insult to the kapos... no that's not a joke. The kapos were trying to save their own lives at the expense of other Jews; a very morally reprehensible act to be sure, but their lies were indeed threatened by Graham Platner's favorite S.S. group. Lander pals around with those who murder Jews & threaten to murder more in order to win an election. He's 4-5 degrees worse than the kapos in his moral status.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

AOC appears to be morphing into Kamala Harris: When asked about Democrat Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier's extremist views, she responded: “We have to give people the opportunity to occupy their beliefs within the gravity of becoming a duly elected member of Congress.” Ridley Scott said it more succinctly, "In space, no one can hear you scream."

[Mad Hatter @hamlet2bornot]

@algarcia7 @EylonALevy Lol, that's such bullshit.

[ReichDisruptor @ReichDisruptor]

@amjadt25 Here's why Europe is such a mess. It's on the other team...

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

"Palestinian" is a political construct...they're Arabs

On June 4th 1967, I was a Jordanian. On June 5th 1967, I became a Palestinian.

The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum.

We were Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem.

Then, all of a sudden, we were Palestinians.

We removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

When I finally realised the lies and myths I was taught, I felt it was my duty as a righteous person to speak out.

Walid Shoebat
Former Muslim and PLO Terrorist​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

[Orli Peter @orlipeter]

The anti-Israel propaganda campaign unleashed after October 7 doesn’t spread because it’s persuasive. It spreads because moral righteousness is intoxicating. It lets ordinary people feel morally extraordinary without doing anything morally extraordinary.

“You lost your queer label the moment you started supporting Israel.”

Yesterday, that was shouted at California State Senator Scott Wiener during San Francisco’s Trans March.

Earlier this year, Scott Wiener publicly accused Israel of committing genocide. To most people, that would put him on the far left of the debate. It still wasn’t enough. He was called a “piece of shit,” stripped of his “queer label,” and denounced because he wasn’t anti-Israel enough.

Most of us carry around regrets. We’ve hurt people. We’ve been selfish. Some of us have been cruel or violent.

Now imagine you’ve become convinced that Israel is committing the greatest evil imaginable. Genocide. Deliberately murdering children. Starving an entire population.

You don’t have to become a better person. You don’t have to repair the people you’ve hurt. You simply condemn someone you’ve been taught is worse. In an instant, you’ve morally catapulted yourself above them.

The more monstrous the accusation, the higher the moral catapult. Every repetition gives you another chance to experience yourself as morally righteous.

Then something remarkable happens. Ordinary people become propaganda superspreaders. They repeat the accusations because every repetition reinforces the story they most want to believe about themselves: that they are standing on the side of absolute good.

The bar keeps rising. Yesterday’s ally becomes today’s traitor. Scott Wiener learned that the hard way.

Hamas propaganda succeeds because it gives ordinary people a shortcut to feeling morally extraordinary.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

Tactics cults use that corporations also use:

1. Love bombing at the start
Cults overwhelm new recruits with warmth, praise, and belonging. Corporations do it with onboarding retreats, welcome gifts, and making new hires feel like family before the work even begins.

2. Us versus them language
Cults teach members that the outside world doesn't understand them. Companies build the same wall with phrases like "we're not like other companies" and "outsiders just don't get what we're building."

3. A charismatic leader above criticism
Cults protect their founder's image at all costs. Corporations do the same with visionary CEOs whose decisions are rarely questioned internally, no matter how damaging.

4. Controlling the information environment
Cults limit what members read, watch, and hear. Corporations manage internal narratives through approved messaging, PR filters, and discouraging employees from speaking to media or competitors.

5. Sleep and rest deprivation as a tool
Cults exhaust members to weaken critical thinking. Hustle culture does the same, celebrating 80-hour weeks and treating rest as a character flaw.

6. Confession and loyalty rituals
Cults use group confessions to create vulnerability and dependency. Corporations use performance reviews, forced rankings, and public accountability meetings that function the same way.

7. Sunk cost as a retention tool
Cults make leaving feel like throwing away years of your life. Corporations use vesting schedules, pension cliffs, and identity-building so leaving feels like personal failure.

8. Thought-terminating language
Cults shut down doubt with phrases like "trust the process" and "have faith." Corporations do it with "trust the vision," "embrace the chaos," and "this is just how we scale."

9. Social isolation from outside relationships
Cults discourage relationships outside the group. Long hours, office friendships as the only social outlet, and always-on culture quietly do the same inside corporations.

10. Exit punishment
Cults shame and shun members who leave. Corporations blacklist, bad-mouth, enforce non-competes, and make departure feel like betrayal rather than a normal career move.

11. Redefining ordinary words
Cults give common words new meanings to create an internal language only members understand. Corporations do it with jargon like "family," "mission," "tribe," and "ecosystem" until the language itself creates psychological belonging.

12. Manufactured urgency
Cults create constant crisis to keep members too busy to think clearly. Corporations run on the same fuel, where everything is urgent, every deadline is critical, and stillness is treated as a threat to progress.

13. Gradual commitment escalation
Cults don't ask for total devotion on day one. They start small and increase demands slowly. Corporations do the same, adding responsibilities, expectations, and hours incrementally until the original job description is unrecognizable.

14. Suppressing doubt as disloyalty
In a cult, questioning leadership is framed as a spiritual failure. In a corporation, raising concerns about strategy or culture is quietly labeled as not being a team player, which is just as effective at silencing people.

15. Replacing personal identity with group identity
Cults dissolve the individual into the collective. Corporations do it when employees stop saying "I work at this company" and start saying "I am this company," wearing the brand, living the mission, and losing themselves in the process.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

It’s hard to find something economists agree on more than “rent control is a bad idea”

And that’s because of empirical research results like this:

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

UNRWA: “Over 660,000 children in Gaza are getting back to school!”

So, let me get this straight...

Before the war, there were only 625,000¹ school-age kids in Gaza. And yet, after supposedly being wiped out so hard by an Israeli child-targeting genocide, it somehow resulted with additional tens of thousands more kids?!?

Truly fascinating shit! Gaza is the only place on earth where genocide always comes with perks like population growth. 🇵🇸

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

Archaeologists excavating ancient Egypt uncovered one of the most important confirmations of the Bible ever found: a victory monument from Pharaoh Merneptah that mentions Israel by name-for the very first time in recorded history.

After the death of Joshua, the Bible says Israel entered a chaotic period. The tribes were scattered, leaderless, and repeatedly attacked by foreign enemies (Judges 2:10-15). One of those enemies was Egypt.

In 1208 BC, Pharaoh Merneptah, son of Ramses Il, launched a military campaign into Canaan. To commemorate his victories, he erected a stone monument-now known as the Merneptah Stele.

And carved into that stone are these words:
"Plundered is Canaan...Ashkelon is carried off, Gezer is seized, Yanoam is made non-existent;
Israel is laid waste—its seed is no more."

This single line is explosive. Why? Because archaeology confirms exactly what the Bible describes.

Excavators discovered:
Israel is listed separately from Canaan, proving Israel was a distinct people—not Canaanites.
The word "Israel" is written in masculine form, which in:
•The cities listed (Ashkelon, Gezer, Yanoam) are feminine—standard for city-states
• This proves Israel had no centralized capital yet,
matching the biblical period of the Judges

In other words, Israel existed as a recognizable people in Canaan before kings, before Jerusalem, before a monarchy—exactly as Scripture says.

The date of the stele-1208 BC-places Israel in the land shortly after Joshua's death, confirming:
• The conquest had already begun
• The tribes were settled primarily in the hill country
• Egypt's chariots could not reach them there

This also rules out false Exodus timelines that place Israel too early or too late in history. The Merneptah Stele doesn't quote the Bible. It confirms it.

[Mad Hatter @hamlet2bornot]

@alechenrhin @46nd2 @MatNuclear