Over on Daily Kos, I encountered someone proclaiming officially that it is anti-semitism to conflate the actions of Israel with the actions of nazis. I’d like to noodle around that idea a bit, because it makes me quite uncomfortable.
I used to play a lot of Diplomacy with the rest of my high school military history club.
With the number of ecosystems that are predicted to collapse, and species that will go extinct, the future is going to be a rapid-fire drumbeat of “this died” and “that died” and “the other thing died” interspersed with human populations going into panic when the thing that died is something people depended on.
Just a few news clips to illustrate a thing:
I’m sure that there will be many (some?) who argue with Mehdi Hasan’s analysis, that Hamas is at least partially a creation of the state of Israel.
In my previous posting about Israel/Palestine and language, I commented that not enough blame is directed towards Britain. I think that probably needs some support.
In the last week, for obvious reasons, there has been a lot of discussion using words like “war”, “terrorism”, “war crimes”, “human shields”, etc.
A couple weeks ago I was talking with one of my old art buddies, who I used to do a lot of photography with, and mentioned Erwin Olaf.
The legend of the Mar A Lago documents has blossomed like some kind of strange weed, with tendrils everywhere. And, it just seems more stupid the closer I look at it.
Recently, (the previous time) FTB was down for several days because of our hosting service’s response to a DMCA takedown request. The whole story is weird, and has some odd implications. “I am not a lawyer” sort of applies here, but there’s more to it than that.