Thocast

[Camille @K1000Journalist]

Deux jours de prison pour avoir eu un exemplaire de 1984 chez soi, et parce que des flics israéliens ne savent pas lire. C'est ça la "seule démocratie du Moyen-Orient".

Au passage, même si c'était un livre sur la Nakba, en quoi la détention aurait-elle été justifiée ?

[Ben @nouchinhos]

J’ai failli mourir de rire de bons matin ils sont trop fort 😭😭😭😭😭

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Israeli press have published three significant revelations about the Gaza holocaust, reporting (1) that Benjamin Netanyahu concealed advanced knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7, (2) that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to release all civilian hostages immediately after October 7, and (3) that according to an IDF drone operator, the Israeli military was intentionally firing on civilians throughout Gaza during its operations in the Palestinian territory.

The first two come from a Haaretz article titled “Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn’t Brief Israel’s Security Chiefs”, which was released ahead of an upcoming Haaretz book about the hostage standoff in Gaza.

Haaretz describes a call between Netanyahu and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, citing three foreign senior sources:

“A week and a half before October 7, 2023 the Emirati ruler called Netanyahu from the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes. In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel. Bin Zayed expressed concern that the event in question would not only lead to bloodshed but also destabilize the entire region and undermine the Abraham Accords.”

Haaretz reports that rather than pass these warnings on to Israeli national security officials, Netanyahu chose to sit on information which an unnamed Shin Bet official said could have “changed our entire assessment picture.”

Haaretz also notes that Israel had received similar warnings about a coming Hamas attack from Egyptian intelligence, which had been reported earlier. These are just two items in the mountains upon mountains upon mountains of evidence indicating that powerful people in Israel knowingly allowed Hamas to inflict as much damage as possible on October 7 2023 in order to advance the murderous ethnic cleansing objectives we’ve seen rolled out in the years since.

Nothing will turn you into a conspiracy theorist faster than learning basic facts about what happened on October 7. But even without knowing those facts it already strains credulity to believe Israel had no advance knowledge of a complex attack which would require extensive open-air training in one of the most heavily surveilled strips of land on our planet. Especially when you look at all the pre-existing military agendas Israel was able to push forward in the aftermath.

Later in that same article, Haaretz quotes a Palestinian politician named Samir Mashharawi describing what Hamas leadership told him during his mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas after October 7:

“He told me that in the first stage, they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in return,” Mashharawi recounts. “I swear, those were his exact words: all civilians, without anything in return. They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else.”

Mashharawi said Israel rejected the offer. A senior Israeli defense official corroborated this, telling Haaretz:

“The release of the hostages did not even enter the list of war objectives formulated by the government on the night of October 7. Could the proposal have been properly discussed and a decision reached? In substantive terms, the answer is yes. But the prevailing mood was like after Pearl Harbor: We had just suffered a brutal blow, we were in the midst of war, who had the bandwidth to talk about stopping the fighting and starting negotiations now, even if it was to save the lives of dozens of people, whose final number was still unknown?”

So all that hasbara about the hostages and the Bibas kids and how Hamas needed to be destroyed because they were refusing to release innocent civilian captives was complete bunk from the very beginning. Hamas offered to release them with no conditions but the opening of communication lines. Israel refused, because what they wanted was to steal more Palestinian land. It was never about the hostages, and anyone who said it was is a liar.

Lastly, a separate report in Hebrew from Haaretz quotes an Israeli air force reserve major describing how IDF policies and culture ensured the deaths of large numbers of civilians. Here are a few quotes, translated by Israeli-American political analyst Shaiel Ben-Ephraim:

1) He was involved in the March 23, 2025 paramedic killings in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah and said, “You could clearly tell these were rescue vehicles even as fire was opened on them from the ground. For no apparent reason, the force on the ground charged the convoy. They shot the first vehicle, the medical personnel got out, hid behind the ambulances and begged for their lives, and the soldiers shot them one after another.”

2) On how the yellow line was used as an excuse to kill innocent people: “The Palestinians didn’t know it existed, and the Air Force wasn’t always updated either. From the perspective of a farmer walking onto his own land — he has no idea he’s stepping into an area the IDF suddenly decided is a fire zone. And then all kinds of retroactive justifications started coming up. ‘He came for an arms deal.’ ‘He touched the ground, maybe he’s planting an explosive.’ To me it looked like they were trying to incriminate people with no intelligence and no proof.”

3) On how all morals were lost in Gaza: “”The feeling was that something tore, everyone had already become cynical about death, you can’t understand it from the outside. It’s not just fatigue, it’s an erosion of morality, of responsibility, of the sense that someone is still managing the event. Very quickly this whole business of ‘collateral damage’ disappeared from the considerations. They fire on anyone they see. The atmosphere started to be like the stands at a soccer match. The way you shout at a player, ‘Yalla, score,’ that’s how they shout at a soldier, ‘Kill him, strike him.’”

Like the other revelations, this report further discredits the lies the public was sold about Israel’s reasons for its atrocities in Gaza. All those lies about how Israel is taking extraordinary measures to protect civilian life in Gaza and only kills civilians because Hamas “hides behind human shields” has been thoroughly discredited by copious amounts of evidence that Israel was going out of its way to kill noncombatants throughout the course of the onslaught.

The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust, just like it was lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the US involves itself in. Please carry these lessons into the future.

[Camille @K1000Journalist]

Expliquer à un droitard qu'une consommation occasionnelle et raisonnable de LSD, de MDMA ou de cannabis n'est pas pire qu'une consommation occasionnelle et raisonnable d'alcool, et que la principale différence, c'est la législation, c'est comme parler à un mur.

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[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Nathan Cofnas' race science is bubbling up again so it's a good reminder that his entire research project is looking at contemporary social differences and then coming up with just so evolutinoary stories based on zero evidence whatsoever. He admits this! 1/n

[Gintoki Sama @Sht_dono]

Lors des révoltes à Beaumont-Sur-Oise en 2016 après le meurtre d’Adama par la police. Des jeunes ont tiré à la carabine à plomb vers des véhicules de GM; Aucun gendarme blessé, 90 constitués partie civile: 12 ans de prison.

Cet homme a tiré sur des enfants de 6 à 11 ans, sursis.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions.

We can all see everything getting worse and worse before our eyes in real time, but our government officials don’t talk about it. Our mass media outlets don’t report on it. Our education systems don’t recognize it. There’s a giant elephant in the room with us at all times, and normal people are acutely aware of it, but the talking heads keep speaking as though everything’s going to keep ticking along normally into the foreseeable future.

We can all see the summers heating up.

We can all see that there are fewer insects and less wildlife around than when we were young.

We can all see that the western empire is on borrowed time.

We can all see that younger generations are having much more difficulty affording housing and life expenses than their parents and grandparents.

We can all see that technology has stagnated as capitalism’s innovation-for-profit model hits the limit of how far it can carry us as a species.

We can all see the apps, search engines, social media platforms and tech services getting shittier and shittier year by year.

We can all see AI making everything worse and turning everyone into cognitive infants who can’t do anything for themselves while consistently failing to deliver what its proponents say it will deliver.

We can all see the people around us getting dumber, crazier and more miserable as we are pushed into dystopian conditions where everyone gets more and more alienated and must pay a monthly fee for the experience of connection.

We can all see that state authoritarianism is escalating in proportion to public discontent with the status quo.

We all know we’re in a completely unsustainable situation. We all know we are riding a bus with disintegrating wheels.

But it doesn’t get acknowledged by anyone at the top. The news reports are still about the latest celebrity gossip and whether the economy arrow is pointing up or down. The movies and shows are still about wacky and witty characters for whom capitalism is working perfectly fine. The politicians are still talking about culture war issues and the Evil Dictator of the Day.

It is taken as a given that our grandchildren will be living in more or less the same kind of world we are living in, when we all know there’s no way this is true.

The wheels on the bus are coming off, boys and girls. The ride is near its end.

I’m not saying we’re all going to die, I’m just saying this civilization as it presently exists cannot possibly be sustained. Immensely drastic changes are coming up around the bend whether we like it or not, either by a deliberate transformation or by some cataclysmic event occurring against our will.

Life in the 2020s feels so spiritually dissonant because we all know this is the case, but all the sources we’ve been trained to look to for information and context are acting like everything’s perfectly fine. They’re painting a cheery picture over reality while every normal person is staring at the giant black cracks that keep appearing in the paint job.

Which tells you all you need to know about the competency of the people who are steering the bus. The people in charge are just going to keep driving this thing into the ground until there’s nothing left to save. If there’s going to be a world-saving revolution, it’s going to come from we ordinary people who are willing to acknowledge reality, not from the oligarchs and empire managers presently steering things who have been blinded by the pursuit of profit and power.

We either find some way to get their hands off the steering wheel and take control, or we find ourselves confronting the future horrors they’ve been discouraging us from thinking about while they drive us to our doom.

[Maître Pandaï @Panda31808732]

"Le changement climatique se manifestera comme une série de désastres vus à travers des téléphones avec des images de plus en plus proches de l'endroit où vous habitez/allez en vacances, jusqu'à ce que vous deveniez celui qui les filme."

[Esteban. @Esban_]

La grosse dinguerie.

Il y a un rapport sur le burn-out réalisé par une mission d'information à la suite d'auditions de chercheurs, de médecins, de scientifiques qui devait sortir, 200 pages, 5 mois de travail et tout ça balayé par le centre et la droite.

Un rapport jugé "trop orienté" parce qu'il décrit "une irrésistible crise sanitaire" (cest vrm le terme exact) pour dire que c'est pas quelques individus mais que la souffrance psy au travail est présente de manière structurelle et massive..le rapport parle du fait que c'est lié à la dégradation de tous les facteurs liés à l'environnement, d'intensification du travail, de pratiques managériales verticales et hiérarchiques etc etc

39 recommandations portées par le rapport, aucune n'est retenue et le rapport enterré.

Attends mais c'est pas la plus grosse dinguerie, auditionné par la mission d'information, littéralement le ministre du Travail a déclaré sur ce rapport (vous êtes pas prêts)

" Il n'y a pas de consensus sur ce sujet-là...les organisations patronales, vous l'avez bien senti, ne sont pas très favorables à l'évolution de ce sens-là donc cette condition du consensus n'est pas réunie "

traduisons-le : "Les patrons veulent continuer de détruire la santé mentale des gens donc on ne peut pas les en empêcher vous comprenez."

et le "y a pas de consensus parce que les personnes qui y trouvent leur compte ne sont pas d'accord" c'est quand même fort

Le ministre du travail qui reconnaît en 4k qu'il n'est pas là pour améliorer les conditions de travail des travailleurs, mais pour servir le patronnat.

https://t.co/051fAO7Lu6
https://t.co/aOwcHRIwxH

[Domhnall @CogitoEdu]

When the USA invaded South East Asia the region became the largest heroin producer on earth. When the USA invaded Afghanistan it became the largest heroin producer on Earth. Probably a coincidence.

[Viri Ríos @Viri_Rios]

The world hasn’t noticed yet, but Mexico’s recent drop in homicides may be showing that there is an alternative to Bukele’s model.

Very happy to share my first piece for @ProSyn

https://t.co/lzPT2xFj2x

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

It’s probably fine that vast swathes zoomers and younger millennials exist in a kind of permanent internalized panopticon in which all actions are assumed to be (and interpreted as) performances for a viewer

[madison @madison_tayt]

going to my niece’s 3rd birthday party and reminding all the toddlers that white joy is apathy

[Mohamed Awad @Awad_Mohamed_]

Il est allé interroger des habitants « blancs »dans l’espoir de recueillir des témoignages confirmant ses thèses racistes et xénophobes. Il est reparti à poil.

[Grace @gracecamille_]

“One day, he was instantly killed in a horrifying way by forces vastly in excess of anything he was ever designed to experience, for no reason, to no ones particular surprise or upset. In this we are more like him than different”

[Bruno Gaccio @GaccioB]

Il n’y a en ce moment personne de plus important à écouter que Yohan Chapoutot pour décrypter le monde dans lequel on est en train de mourir de bêtise. #blast