Joshua Futterman

Business developer, social media marketer, digital strategist.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

Whenever I spend 1 minute looking into the facts, the truth always turns out to be totally different than what anti-Israel obsessives imply.

The headline is painting a narrative that Israel has perhaps intentionally sabotaged Trump's negotiations by attacking Iran.

Israel—boo! They're controlling us!

But I found it odd that the headline didn't say Israel attacked Iran, but merely began a "fresh bombing campaign." Smells like potential narrative manipulation by omission.

Turns out that my intuition was correct. Israel did not bomb Iran, they bombed Hezbollah in Lebanon. And they did it because Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets and drones at Israel on May 30-31. So it makes total sense why Israel began a "fresh bombing campaign."

In other words, the Daily Mail manipulated a story about Israel responding to attacks by Iran's terror proxy into a headline designed to make people believe Israel purposefully decided to sabotage Trump’s diplomacy with Iran by attacking them unprovoked.

It's a perfect example of how a headline can be factually correct in a very narrow sense by omitting context to serve as reality-inverting propaganda.

"Oh," you fell for a psyop that takes 1 minute to debunk?

Congratulations.

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

So instead of documenting the "mass grave," they removed the zip ties... removed the bodies... somehow put the zip ties back into the exact original position they were locked in... then took the pictures?

[James Maslow @jamesmaslow]

I’m Jewish. I have family history that makes what’s happening in NYC right now impossible to ignore. This past week, mobs targeted synagogues in Brooklyn. A child was attacked. This is not politics, this is hatred, in plain sight, and too many people are scrolling past it. I made this video because silence has a cost. History has proven that. “Never Again” is not a slogan. It’s a responsibility. And that responsibility is yours too, whether you’re Jewish or not. Watch this. Share it. Say something. #neveragain

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

BILL MAHER: “If there’s one issue which makes me say to the far left, ‘Stop asking me why I make fun of the left more than I used to’ — [Israel] is it. This is why.”

“You’re morally goofy. You’re ignorant. You don’t know history. You don’t know the present either.”

“They put that whole thing out for the longest time about how Israel was starving the Palestinian people… People were starving because Hamas stole all the food!”

FETTERMAN: “Exactly!”

MAHER: “Because Hamas wants the people to die. First of all, they love being martyrs. Let’s just not gloss over that.”

“That’s part of the whole religion-dominated culture — martyrdom is good… That’s why they strapped bombs to children. Okay?”

“So again, you’re morally goofy if this is the team you want to be on.”

“And Israel didn’t starve them… No other nation on earth at war would ever be even asked to feed their enemy.”

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Horrific.

"They seized my baby and sliced him in two with a knife.

My second child woke up. They split his head with a machete."

This is the reality of what Muslim extremists are doing to Christians in Nigeria.

The MSM and the UN are silent.

[Joshua Futterman @joshfutterman]

@DefiyantlyFree 👏

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

The current anti-Israel and even anti-Jewish sentiment online is a social contagion, no different than transgenderism or autism before it.

Of course, there is actually a condition known as gender dysphoria. But every family in Hollywood didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with gender dysphoria at the exact same time by natural processes.

And of course there is actually a condition known as autism. But every family in Manhattan didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with autism at the exact same time by natural processes.

You aren't an Israel skeptic, and you didn't start "noticing." You were told, and shown by interested parties, and you were rewarded with attention and dopamine by the tellers and showers.

And as with every social contagion, what you have been told and shown is an overwhelming quantity of selectively chosen half-truths -- or full-truths with half-context.

You believe you are a free thinker, but when every "free thinker" arrives at the same conclusion at the exact same time... well, the thinking isn't as free as you believe it is.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

Israel signed peace with Egypt in 1979.
Not a single Israeli bomb on Egypt since then.

Israel signed peace with Jordan in 1994.
Not a single Israeli bomb on Jordan since then.

Israel signed peace with UAE in 2020.
Not a single Israeli bomb on UAE since then (not that it did before).

Israel signed peace with Bahrain in 2020.
Not a single Israeli bomb on Bahrain since then (not that it did before).

Israel signed peace with Morocco in 2020.
Not a single Israeli bomb on Morocco since then (not that it did before).

Israel signed peace with Sudan in 2020.
Not a single Israeli bomb on Sudan since then (not that it did before).

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

He's not wrong.

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

This is what they do, guys.

This Turkish account posts a random video of masked whoever’s attacking another person in a shop and they frame it as “Zionists” attacking Palestinians for being Palestinian…

The problem is that this was actually in Hebron where the Palestinian Authority is in control and there are no Israelis.

This was Muslim on Muslim violence and Jew hating propagandists from Turkey posted it so that Jew hating propagandists from America, enter @MaxBlumenthal and @scotthortonshow, would repost it to further the grift and profit off of lies.

The PA even arrested the three who attacked the shop. This is public information anyone can go look up, but they know most won’t.

This is the cycle of nonsense these people push, all in an effort to divide America and disrupt our strategic alliances.

Know propaganda, and the slimy traitors in our midst that push it, when you see it.

[Mersen @mersen]

On a recent @joerogan episode, @ComicDaveSmith talked about misinformation on Iran, but ended up spreading several misleading and one-sided claims. As an Iranian, I fact-checked just 3 minutes of what he said and it was already disappointing. Here’s a breakdown 🧵

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is the guy the NYT described with a sympathetic “family members killed by Israel” headline.

After he attempted a massacre at a synagogue and preschool.

Wow, the American press is really bad at this.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Addressing Zoomerslop.
A real Gen Z quote:
"Of all my friends, Israel is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to America First. I, in fact, have not talked to one Gen Z conservative that has been pro-Israel. Everybody I've talked to is questioning Israel."

Listen, kids. Doesn't that seem really f--king weird to you? The main thing your whole cohort cares about is another country, one that is allied with us and kicking ass in the most Top Gun way you can imagine? Doesn't it seem weird that everyone in your generation is focused on another country that isn't even attacking us?

It should seem weird because it is weird. The reason it's happening is not because Israel is relevant to all of your lives. The reason it is happening is because you're being propagandized.

Let me repeat the quote in words that hit your big brothers and sisters right in the assholes ten years ago:
"Of all my friends, privilege is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to Social Justice. I, in fact, have not talked to one Millennial liberal that doesn't question our privilege. Everybody I've talked to is questioning privilege: white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege."

Do you think that was normal? No, it wasn't normal either. Every Gen X or older person can tell you that the young people in their generations had many, varied, and diverse interests. There was no top of mind for everyone in a generation. But the Millennials got it with privilege and Social Justice, and you're getting it with Israel and "America First."

Kids, listen to me.

This is not normal.

This is not natural.

This is the result of dedicated propaganda campaigns.

You are being propagandized.

The method of propaganda being used is primarily something called "reflexivity," which is a method developed by George Soros to create mass movements of belief around deliberate lies that he called "fertile fallacies."

He called them "fertile fallacies" because they are lies (fallacies, errors, differences between what's believed and what's really true) that can take off (fertile) in a population. They're "lies with legs," it has been said.

The method of "reflexivity" is to get everyone believing the same erroneous stuff in an increasing way at the same time. This is accomplished through local media saturation: everyone is talking about the same thing in the same way at the same time, and eventually so are your friends. Then the ideas "reflect" all around you creating a sense of social consensus and widespread belief.

Reflexive campaigns are everywhere now. On the Left, we call them the "Current Thing." We have rafts of memes of the NPCs all changing their tune or saying the same thing or being reprogrammed or being hypnotized into the newest Current Thing, which changes when the media does.

That's you! Now! You're being Sorosed!

The reason everyone in your generation is suddenly talking about Israel is because propagandists in your midst have made Israel your "current thing." It is a reflexive campaign, and you aren't just a victim but are playing your part.

The framing for that reflexive campaign is "America First." The propagandists are exploiting your love of country and frustration with bad actors in our governments and their "global partners," which are increasingly being exposed, to get you attached to a bunch of fertile fallacies about Israel, all of which play upon your fears, anxieties, frustrations, and love for your beautiful country.

Here are some:
"Israel is not really our greatest ally. It isn't even an ally."
"We can't afford things at home because Israel gets aid money."
"This is Israel's War, and I'm not dying in Israel's War."
"Israel attacked the USS Liberty and isn't our friend."
"Jeffrey Epstein was working with Israel."
"Israel is too weak to exist on its own so it manipulates America into supporting it."
"Israel is a settler-colonialist project that is doing a genocide of the indigenous Palestinians." (OOPS MY BAD THAT'S THE ONE THEY'RE TELLING YOUR FRIENDS ON THE LEFT)
"Israel is a warmongering vassal state under with US protectorate status that is seeking to become a regional power by starting random wars that it drags the US into and doing genocide." (AHH THAT'S YOUR VERSION OF THE SAME LIE!)

None of these (or dozens more) is accurate. They are all fallacies (lies) designed to take off in the social and emotional environments you find yourselves in, driven by media and political propagandists who have their own agendas but need your help (just like the NPCs on the Left).

The reason you are so obsessed (and, yes, that's obsession) with Israel is because you are being targeted by reflexive propaganda campaigns designed to make you all fixate on this object that can be alleged to cause most of your problems. In fact, it causes few, if any, of your problems and is actively solving many problems you are blessed enough not to even know that you have.

Friends, you are being propagandized. You are being led to focus and fixate on these things because it serves dark interests that are not your own.

The same Soros techniques that work on the Left are being used on you, and you're helping them work.

How do you stop them?
1) Stop listening to propagandists. This is actually really important.
2) Seek out the opposite side of what you're being told and try to understand the truth.
3) Use critical thinking.
4) Ask yourself if you're being asked to think about issues or asked to feel about issues.
5) Be skeptical of something that appears suddenly in the news or on platforms that everyone is repeating all the time all at once. That's how Soros's reflexivity works.
6) Understand, just like how it was true with CNN and other trusted news sources, that trusted sources can be bought, at which point they are not trustworthy anymore and are using your trust to manipulate you.

The biggest anti-America operation that's happening right now is the sudden skeptical-to-hostile fixation on Israel. Notice that it's only been a thing since October 7, 2023, exactly the same time the parallel propaganda wave began on the Left. What you're participating in is the side of that same campaign tailored to your values, your anxieties, and your frustrations. No different.

This campaign is rapidly turning people against not just Israel and often Jews (against your values, I'm sure), but against MAGA, Trump, the United States and its role in the world, and the Republican Party. Who benefits from that? Not you. Not us.

Isn't it weird to you that so many people suddenly believe exactly the opposite of what they believed in 2022? Isn't it weird to you that everyone considers this such a big issue?

It should be weird because it is. That's the signature of a propaganda campaign, and you are its primary targets.

[Michael McNair @michaeljmcnair]

China looked at the lessons of 20th century great power conflict and drew the conclusion that military power alone doesn't determine outcomes, upstream industrial capacity does.

The Allies won because of overwhelming industrial might. Japan and Germany lost because they lacked critical industrial inputs. Starved of oil, they were forced into gambles that cost them the war…Japan attacking Pearl Harbor to seize the oil in the Dutch East Indies, Germany marching to the Caucasus to take the Baku oil fields. Input scarcity doesn't just weaken you. It steers your decisions. It pulls decisions away from the optimal plan and toward the necessary plan.

China learned this lesson and decided to be the one holding the chokepoints. By embedding itself so deeply into the upstream supply chains that feed American military production, a conflict would trigger Western industrial paralysis and neuter its ability to fight a long war.

But the chokehold only works if the West doesn't rectify its supply chain vulnerabilities before China is ready to move on Taiwan. So China's central strategic requirement was to delay Western recognition of the threat for as long as possible.

Thus, China's entire foreign policy posture becomes oriented around appearing non-threatening. And it works because it aligns with the economic incentives of Western elites who benefit from cheap inputs and profitable trade. The cost of denial is kept artificially low. Raising the alarm looks like paranoia or protectionism when cheap goods keep flowing and no shots are being fired.

The administration is now racing to unwind its supply chain vulnerability before the conflict window opens. But that takes years, and they face significant inertia, both domestically and among allies who remain naively blind to the risk.

China knows this. So their strategy is to keep the West sleepwalking. Which means they can’t show their hand. If China comes into direct military conflict with the US in order to defend a proxy, the West wakes up. The inertia collapses. The reshoring and remilitarization that China spent decades trying to prevent happens on an emergency timeline.
But the US finally realized it could use this against them.

Since China can’t show its hand until it's ready to move on Taiwan, the US realized that it can turn China's greatest strategic asset, the pacifist disguise, into a structural trap.

They cannot take overtly aggressive action without triggering the Western industrial mobilization their entire strategy depends on preventing.

So the US can eliminate their proxies and China can’t respond without destroying the disguise.

Maduro removed. Cuba strangled. Now Iran.

Beijing must decide if defending the proxy is worth waking the West up? And the answer keeps being no.

Until China’s window to move on Taiwan opens, the pacifist posture that enabled its chokeholds constrains their response to US actions.

Everything the US is doing right now is a race to be ready before that moment arrives. Clear the proxies. Arm the allies. Break the chokeholds. And build new ones of its own.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Seeing a plethora of low IQ “Israel FORCED the US into war” takes. Xi thanks you for helping to unwittingly launder CCP propaganda btw.

The US strikes come down to Iran and China having engineered a mathematically unwinnable war of attrition for any purely defensive strategy. In other words, they can replace missiles faster than the US can replace the interceptors needed to stop them.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated this week that Iran is now producing over 100 ballistic missiles per month, while the US can manufacture only 6–7 relevant ballistic-missile interceptors per month (the high-end systems actually capable of reliably knocking down Iran’s advanced threats).

Even the broader Patriot PAC-3 MSE line is only at ~45 per month today and THAAD/SM-3 production is even tighter at under 10 per month before emergency surges. Surely you can see how this is a giant problem.

And what is China doing? China is deliberately supercharging this imbalance. Beijing has been caught shipping dual-use propellant ingredients, planetary mixers, and components that let Iran rebuild its munitions factories at breakneck speed.

Reuters released a report on Feb 24 revealing that Iran was days from sealing a deal with China for CM-302 supersonic anti-ship missiles capable of evading defenses, sinking US carriers / destroyers from a distance of 290 km, which turns the Strait of Hormuz into a lethal kill zone. If this doesn't strike you as a red line that should galvanize action now rather than later, then you are unable to handle the reality of geopolitical survival.

Why is China doing this? Because a cheap, endless Iranian missile barrage that forces the US to expend $4-million interceptors against $20K Shaheds (or $200K ballistic missiles) is Beijing’s perfect trap - keep America’s navy, aircraft and industrial base tied down in the Middle East burning through stockpiles. Basically, keep America busy and out of the West Pacific.

The imminent arrival of a Chinese-backed “gamechanger” would have rendered America’s naval supremacy obsolete and provide an anti-access shield over the Gulf, Iranian nuclear sites, and every proxy from Hezbollah to the Houthis. This is why the Gulf States are also aligned with US action.

The US needed to restore deterrence against a regime racing toward nukes, and send an unmistakable message that the United States will never cede the Gulf to a Sino-Iranian nightmare.

I highly recommend listening to the latest episode of @triggerpod and @havivrettiggur. These guys provide the best analysis of the situation.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

@Telegraph @DanielleFong Al Ahli hospital all over again

It’s impossible for you to know at this point:

1) who was killed

2) who did the killing

You’re repeating an IRGC talking point

Shame on you

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The statue of Chiune Sugihara in Los Angeles was vandalized with red paint yesterday.

He was a Japanese diplomat working in Lithuania during WWII.

Despite many Jews, desperate to flee, not meeting the requirements for a visa, he decided to issue the visas anyway. He saved an estimated 6,000 Jews from certain death.

To protest him is beyond despicable, and has nothing to do with Israel or Palestine, and everything to do with hating Jews.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

It's all so tedious, melodramatic, and grasping. People on both political parties striking the pose of the "brave truth teller" and engaging in hysterical emotional displays about a conflict—and no other conflict, among many choices—thousands of miles away, when it is obviously an attempt to chase the algorithm and "build a digital brand" on the backs of Third World click farmers and the most gullible, broken, and resentful people in the West. "The goyim are waking up" is an adolescent fantasy that pretends to be politics, just like Andrew Tate promising young men that they can "defeat the Matrix" through his new digital playas academy. It's all junk.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

These accounts need to be suspended.

Every single time there is a tragedy they use it to incite violence.

It’s absolutely ridiculous.