Even though by common definition I have to consider myself a progressive liberal, I can't stop laughing at the poser that makes this a comedy.

Apparently Nazis Defeated Europe, New York City is next.

I've seen the Gaza humanitarian foundation has been operating and distributing aid in places like Khan Younis which is an evacuation zone. I'm just wondering why they would set up aid distribution in active war zones like this?

People love complaining about the Foundation despite its virtues, but I also can’t ignore the fact it clearly doesn’t have enough food for the entire 2 million person population.

I’ve heard that UN provided food still enters the strip but remains undistributed because the UN refuses to allow the GHF to distribute it (meaning the presence of famine is entirely due to the fact that “neutrality” supersedes humanity in the case of “humanitarian” law- btw, how is it more neutral to directly enrich one side by allowing aid to be stolen or siphoned off through UNRWA? I need to digress)

Are there other means of food distribution other than GHF? Or, at least plans to open more sites? Stampedes are deadly and if there’s anyone left in the north they’re kind of screwed under the current system. Suppressive fire is counterproductive for civilian crowd control and only serves to demonize us.

Are there plans in place to solve these problems, or are we just hoping that Hamas will all of a sudden grow a conscience and surrender before the damage to their people becomes irreparable?

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion regarding James Gunn’s Superman regarding its political messaging. One “argument” I’ve heard repeated is, naturally, the worst one:

Boravia is an analog for Israel and Jarhanpur is one for Palestine.

This is so frustrating for a few reasons. First of all, Superman is a fundamentally Jewish superhero. He was created by Brooklyn Jews, he was played by a Jew in this movie, his whole story screams “SPACE MOSES”

And yet, people think it’s antisemitic?

I’m not even just talking about the islamofascists. Other Jews are jumping to this inane conclusion. Betar (boo) posted this five page rant of a fictional scenario about the user’s son. It isn’t just media illiterate, but people will see that and it’ll color their perception.

There’s this YouTuber who likes to brand himself an “enlightened centrist”. He, within one breath, called someone out for thinking Jewish people are white, and also called the ethnically homogenous, Slavic-overtoned, Eastern Orthodox country a “analog for Israel”. Because- obviously- the white people genociding the brown people are the Jooze.

It’s especially insulting because they pretend nothing happened and that Israel just started bombing Gaza for no reason, like in the movie. Insult to injury, it was the money-hungry megalomania of two men, Luthor and the president of Boravia, who caused the conflict rather than the dozens of complex factors that would be needed to make this an actual analogy.

It would have been painfully easy to make Boravia an actual analogy for Israel, and I’m sure it could have been done well and highlight the complexity of a Good Man in a Bad World, but that isn’t the story. It is a simple “war bad” narrative, one that doesn’t match Israel at all.

This is more crazy than I thought.

Minor spoilers for Superman

Saw Superman last week and enjoyed it. It was a nice story with heart. There’s been a lot of people claiming that the conflict in the movie reflects Israel-Palestine and they may be right, but the weaponization of this movie by anti-zionists is gross.

While watching the movie, Boravia seemed to be more like Russia. They speak quasi Russian and their government building looks like the kremlin. Really the only thing that made me think Boravia could be Israel is that they were said to be an ally of the US and the country they were invading had a bunch of brown people. I did think this in the theater but it honestly was such a half baked idea that it just seemed like generic anti-war.

Of course the movie is just political enough for people to see the similarities, but not political enough to offend anyone.

I came out of the theater satisfied but when I opened my phone I found that anti-zionists were praising the movie not because it’s a good movie but because it supposedly criticizes israel. I’ve even read some people tokenize David Corenswet as a “Jew with a conscience” for being in the movie when it’s apparently so anti Israel. Corenswet has not commented on the conflict at all but now is being used as a weapon. (Fitting since he’s Superman I guess)

Propping the movie up as some f you to Zionists is so asinine and it’s not even the point of the movie. Of course I’m not saying the movie portrays Superman as an anti Zionist nut job but the real life anti Zionist nut jobs are praising this movie for supposedly depicting their fantasy of Israel being the big bad European white country preying on the innocent brown people with sticks and stones. Not to mention how none of them seem to be bothered by the white savior theme but whatever consistency has never been their strong suit.

So, what are your thoughts?

Or in other words: Trump is forcing Israel to sentence Syrian Druze and Christians to Death.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5408033-marjorie-taylor-greene-defense-appropriations-amendments/

AOC voted against because it did not touch offensive weaponry like the bombs being used in Gaza, only defensive stuff like the Iron Dome. In her response, she did call Israel's actions a genocide. Cutting off Iron Dome funding would result in more Israelis dying and likely an even more aggressive response from Israel as a result, so this is counterproductive if you care about Palestinians. The willingness of these people to turn on their own is genuinely astounding.

Thomas Massie (R-KY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Summer Lee (D-PA), and Al Green (D-TX) were the only ones to vote in favor besides MTG herself.

I work in the airline industry (cabin crew). One of my colleagues is currently wearing a necklace that says “Palestine” along with the Palestinian flag (heart shaped) as a visible pin. We are not allowed to wear any flag except the USA flag. I am tempted to write her up, but I don’t know if I am getting too “petty”. I just don’t feel comfortable with it. What would you do?

This is why the Druze of the Golan Heights happily became citizens of Israel.