Compost Mentis

Maldita. Opinionated emmerdeuse. Ungeek. Always hungry. At home in the unknown.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

"Don't politicise this," is the racist, misogynistic, homophobic, gun-waving bigot's new way of saying STFU. Fuck that, and them.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@TsiaMiller @WearThePeaceCo But you're okay with Israelis genociding an entire people?

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

Oh, so your masters told you it was finally safe to stop burying your head in the sand after 19 months of total silence. You are a fucking disgrace, Malala.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

It makes me sick to my stomach to see Israel’s cruelty and brutality in Gaza. I am heartbroken seeing thousands of starving children, demolished schools and hospitals, blocked humanitarian aid and displaced families.

Our collective humanity calls for global and immediate action. I call on every world leader to put maximum pressure on the Israeli government to end this genocide and protect civilians.

If you can, please join me in supporting humanitarian organizations like @AneraOrg,@INARAOrg, @thePCRF, @KinderUSA, and @UNRWAUSA whose heroic workers are putting everything on the line to save lives.

https://t.co/2ckWk1ijjH

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

Exactly my experience with Israeli tourists in the Philippines over decades. Obnoxious, arrogant, crass, shitfaced on drugs & alcohol day and night, always trying to rip people off no matter how cheap things were, and unbelievably loathsome to the locals. And they stank.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.

They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.

It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.

Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.

My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.

When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@mudlarklives I'll share this with him. Thank you! xx

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@JaneyGodley Love you, Janey. Xxx

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@JaneyGodley Love you forever, Janey.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

So what the fuck are you waiting for?

Oops, sorry, I forgot American public school teachers can't have a raise because you've spent all that money genociding with your pals in Israel, you depraved old git.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

It's time public school teachers got a raise.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

From the river to the sea, Melon Husk is a toerag and Palestine will be free.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Good morning!

Who dresses better? Alpha males or little dogs? Let's explore. 🧵

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Netanyahu could drag a Palestinian onto the White House stage in the middle of them answering questions to the press, skin the Palestinian alive and wear their skin as a flesh suit, then look dead at the camera and smile, dripping in blood, punctuated by the screams of his dying victim, and the US spokesperson would still argue they have no evidence Israel has committed any crimes, and the US press would run with this like the complicit little cowards they are.

This blatant lying should not only invalidate Israel (that was done a long time ago) — it should also invalidate any remaining authority the United States clung to in the minds of its own citizens, as well as citizens and heads of state the world over.

They have completely broken every single law in the book to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing. They are the great evil of the day, and the sooner we begin to have this conversation, at scale, the sooner it will be revealed more and more until it will no longer be possible for them to maintain this charade.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

.@BorisDilliès, Zionist mayor of Uccle, stood behind police cordon, goading peaceful student protesters w/ smug gestures. Utterly contemptible behaviour in a public servant. One student seriously injured by water cannon now in hospital requiring surgery. Hold Dilliès accountable!

[Boris Dilliès @BorisDillies]

Manifestation illégale et propos haineux aux abords de l’ambassade d’Israel.

Évacuation en cours.

Si manifester est un droit, le faire sans respecter les règles d’un état de droit est inacceptable. Merci à nos forces de police @zp5342

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@ashtonpittman What a beautiful boy your Jackson was. I'm truly sorry for your unexpected loss.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

Keep it going, Belgium!

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

I cannot get over this, said by an eye-witness at Al-Shifa:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Many high-profile Israel supporters have been circulating a fake screenshot of a Reddit account run by Bushnell saying "Palestine will be free when all the jews are dead." The fact that they're doing this illustrates two things: that Israel supporters are unscrupulous liars, and that they are freaking the fuck out about how much damage Bushnell has done to their cause.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@gregjstoker is an absolute gem.

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

Another ICC/ICJ submission for the Feb 29th aid site massacre by Occupation Forces.

Operational Security is an alien term for the IDF. They literally leaked drone footage of a massacre the day it happened. Not even surprised anymore… brace yourself for apologists and zealots in the comments section.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

I love this little ornery country I live in. 🇧🇪

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

🚨BREAKING:

The government of the Belgian region of Wallonia cancelled two arms exports licenses to the zionist entity, citing the International Court of Justice's ruling. The cancelled gunpowder contracts, which were granted to PB Clermont in early 2023, had been set to arrive at the occupied port of Asdod.

Four days ago, Belgium summoned the zionist ambassador after a Belgian development agency building in Gaza City was bombed by the IOF.

Belgium has also refused to suspend UNRWA funding, and its major trade unions have refused arms exports to the zionist entity since the end of October. Liège, a city in the Wallonia region, also suspended ties with the zionist entity in October.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

And the Pulitzer for Islamophobic racism goes to

[Thomas L. Friedman @tomfriedman]

How the Middle East is like the natural world.
https://t.co/cUWn1LixdJ

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@mudlarklives Every 2 months or so, Cole's film lab do a community photo exhibition featuring some of their customers' work. Last night's vernissage on the theme of "Street Photography" drew one heck of a crowd.

[Compost Mentis @megatonlove]

@mudlarklives On a recent photowalk Cole's film lab organised (Mori Film Lab do one every 2 months), so many people attended that police and onlookers stopped them to ask if it was a protest march and what were they protesting.