At the end of empire, the actors always lack self-awareness, they increase in hubris, isolate themselves even from their allies and generally bite off more than they can chew.
Ultimately, however, they tend to implode from within.
@RupertLowe10 You should count yourself fortunate that your report, most strangely, hasn’t been properly exposed for the opportunitic, exploitative disgrace that it is!
There is absolutely no excuse and no justification for attacking people simply for where they’re from.
But there are reasons which explain it, and to stop it, it needs to be tackled at source.
Israel is making Israelis unsafe everywhere.
Two Israeli women beaten to a pulp in Ko Pha-ngan in Thailand. A mother and her daughter.
The mother said, “A guy who was also on a motorcycle stopped behind us and started asking how we were,” the mother said. “We were busy buying a coconut. He asked my daughter where we were from, and she said Israel.”
The mother said, “I never thought something like this could happen to me here in Thailand, where people are so friendly toward Israelis. I am always careful and usually do not say I am from Israel. But here in Thailand, I thought it was safe.”
There is no excuse for attacking innocent people, ever. Violence begets violence. Israeli cruelty to Palestinians, manifests into Palestinian cruelty to Israelis, global cruelty to Israelis. We have to stop this madness.
@RestoreBritain He doesn’t fare well in interviews because he hasn’t understood the concept of having to actually answer the questions put to him!
Instead, he seems to think that he can get away with repeating his formulaic X posts which Musk artificially boosts to the dregs of global society.
@GoodwinMJ@Politic56721677@bbcnickrobinson@RupertLowe10@FraserNelson So the protected class for you is anyone with a British passport who is white, even if they are first generation born abroad.
But a second or third generation Jamaican or Pakistani British- due to their skin colour- are to be classified below the white person born a foreigner??
@GoodwinMJ@Politic56721677@bbcnickrobinson@RupertLowe10@FraserNelson So the protected class for you is anyone with a British passport who is white, even if they are first generation born abroad.
But a second or third generation Jamaican or Pakistani British- due to their skin colour- are to be classified below the white person born a foreigner??
Trump denied reports that depleted U.S. weapons stocks affected his Iran strategy, claiming the U.S. has “massive” munitions reserves and threatening prosecution and “long -term jail sentences” over the reports.
CNN says nearly 80% of U.S. THAAD interceptors have been depleted, and the Washington Post reported that the news of shortages enraged Trump at Camp David last week.
A fascinating interview in Haaretz today with an IDF artillery soldier, part of the crew that fired thousands of shells into Gaza. She has been discharged and now suffers from PTSD, partly due to trauma from combat in Lebanon and partly due to the realization she has been part of and responsible for severe war crimes:
1) She was responsible for targeting. Not picking the targets but making sure they were hit: ""My job was to calculate firing data, prepare targets, and send them to the soldiers on the guns."
2) She explains how innacurate artillery is and how its use is inherently killing civilians even in cases where the target is military: "In the army they told us we only kill terrorists, but that's a lie. Artillery fire isn't accurate — a hit within a 50-meter radius is considered a good hit."
3) She did not process all the people she had killed until after discharge. The IDF atmosphere is designed to protect you from that realization: ""I left the army and saw the number of children who had been killed, and I was shocked. I started searching obsessively. I looked up the neighborhoods we'd attacked, the villages. I saw that a lot of innocent people were killed in those places. I saw photos of dead children."
4) The guilt ate her up: ""In my head I see the children dying, the mothers crying. I imagine them pulling out the bodies. The guilt doesn't leave. How is it possible? I killed an innocent girl. I'm the one who fed in the targets. It's on me."
5) It changed her political opinions: "Before the army I was far-right, the kind who says 'death to Arabs.' But after the war I understood there's a difference between Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians who want peace, who want life."
6) She wants to atone but does not know how: ""I understood that I want to help as many people as possible — to atone for everything I did, for all the dead babies."
This person is a war criminal. But she is also a victim of a society and army which raises you to be a war criminal. Her story is a reminder that these soldiers are human beings. Maybe they can be reached and their minds changed. But it is also a reminder of how the genocidal system that produced her creates criminals and manufactures consent for crimes.
"What is the evidence that, in your words, we are 'hurtling towards' being an Islamic country?"
@bbcnickrobinson presses Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on a recent claim he made in a social media post.
"Do you think the monarch of this country is a white Briton?"
@bbcnickrobinson asks Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe about a report he quotes, that defines a Briton as someone with two white British-born parents.
One of the most terrifying realities we live with in Gaza one that almost no one in the world talks about is the presence of more than 100 military towers, each standing over 30 meters tall, surrounding the Gaza Strip from every direction.
Each tower is equipped with an automated machine gun that fires remotely without a soldier standing behind it. It makes no distinction between a child, a woman, or an elderly person, nor between civilians and anyone else. It can open fire at any moment, turning the simple act of moving into a potential death sentence.
These machine guns are capable of firing more than 6,000 rounds per minute, with a range of nearly 3,000 meters enough to cover most of the small area of Gaza where the population has been confined.
We are not only living under bombardment; we are living under constant surveillance by machines that know neither mercy nor hesitation. Gaza has become completely exposed to these weapons, and fear follows us with every step. Even leaving to search for food or water can become your last journey.
This is not science fiction. It is not a scene from a movie. This is the reality we live every single day in Gaza.
We are literally living inside Squid Game.
🚨 “Friends” allegedly got a Black girl with epilepsy so drunk she blacked out — they brutally beat her and threatened to kill her.
According to the victim, the girls invited her over knowing she had epilepsy and mental health issues.
They got her extremely drunk until she blacked out.
She says she has no memory of the night and couldn’t press charges at the time because there was no proof until this video came out.
They called her a friend while using her vulnerabilities against her.
How do you call someone a friend after this?
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It’s no longer Republican vs. Democrat.
It’s not even common sense vs. crazy.
It’s America-loving vs. America-hating COMMUNISTS, and today’s Democrat Party has shown us who they really are.
Democrats want to destroy America. Republicans LOVE America and will FIGHT to keep the United States the greatest country in the history of the world.
It’s only been a few hours since the first viable Muslim
Senate candidate won a primary and his GOP opponent is already running ads featuring Osama bin Laden and 9/11.
The Islamophobia over the next few months is gonna be vicious.
@ZiaYusufUK So your proposal is that the UK will directly and repeatedly violate French sovereignty with its military forces despite understandably stern warnings from the French advising against this?
I mean, what could go wrong??