#7 oct 2023

[proudzionist]

💔💔💔💔

[prickly-porcupine-memes]

[tiredgirlvent]

Heartbreaking 💔

[secular-jew]

[lostinsidelostoutside]

My heart breaks for D his testimony sheds light on the men who we're raped on Oct 7th.

It's not talked about and it should be.

What Hamas did on Oct 7th was pure evil

They have absolutely no humanity in them

They are not freedom fighters 🚫

They are rapist , murderers and kidnappers .

They use there own people for death 💀

They disgust me .

Male rape victims should not be forgotten or swept under the rug .

They matter too 💔

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

October 7th Fact Check:

This site is an excellent centralized resource for tracing where the stories of Hamas atrocities originated and whether there’s any merit to them, and whether those reporting them are reliable themselves.

Considering that two of the biggest sources of sexual assault allegations are a “charity” called ZAKA - who have no forensic training and whose founder was himself implicated in decades of sexual abuse - and professional racist May Golan, I’d say they are decidedly unreliable.

https://www.oct7factcheck.com

[gamer2002]

Next on BBC, "Hitler: Gas chambers were efficient and humane"

[unsolicited-opinions]

You might have read about the new report from the IDF on Oct 7.

It is obviously good that the IDF is acknowledging its failures openly, because that's the first step to avoiding similar failures in the future.

I suspect that Eylon Levy is voicing the view of most Israelis:

We will never underestimate our enemies again. We will take their threats deadly seriously. And this means we won’t take the suicidal risks advocated by those urging us not to assume the worst.

The cost of correcting these errors will be high, varied, and complex.

[prayalwaysblog]

[noaluvs]

What happened on Oct 7th was an actual acts of genocide!

Not the fake one in Gaza but real genocide!

They went out to kill Jews

Israel we're after Hamas ( rightfully so ) who used their own people to hide behind .

They are literally responsible for deaths on both sides .

[imnotkosmic]

A year later, bring them home now. 🎗️

Am Yisreal Chai 💙🇮🇱🕊️

[tiredgirlvent]

Liri Albag gives us a first hand account of what she and agam berger went through as they were held hostage by psychopaths!

Basically they were treated like servants for Gazans !

They slept on the floor and were only allowed to go to the bathroom twice a day .

She experienced violence , verbal , emotional and mental and physical abuse.

Gazans played a part on Oct 7th and most of the hostages were held in Gazan homes at one time.

I don't want to hear about " innocent 'civilians" ok ?

Liri Albag is a survivor and she gives a powerful testimony of what it was like under captivity.

Never forget

Oct 7th 2023

[secular-jew]

Truth

[amyisraelchaiforever]

To all the pro-pals:

Today does not mark 1 year of "Israel attacking Gaza" (as y'all say). Today, oct 7, marks the day that HAMAS infiltrated Israel's defenses and attacked hundreds of innocents at the Nova Festival and in their homes and took hundreds of captives.

Israel retaliated on oct 8, not 7th.

Today is our day to mourn the dead and the 121 hostages still held by HAMAS and similar jihadist groups in Gaza

A sibling woke up and showed me this:

[a post about how it's oct 7 and there were people at a uni with israeli flags] "bless the guy that started to lead a “free palestine” chant"

thankfully, this wasn't on tumblr. (still...why was this on a website about WRITING, not politics...)

But on tumblr, in the twenty minutes i've been on here this morning, i've seen more than 4 posts stating stuff like "it's been a year since israel started the genocide...blah blah blah" or, "don't stop boycotting & protesting until palestine is free smth smth smth"

and even just posting "Free palestine" on jewish posts.

it's bad.

some of them were from blogs i didn't know where antisemitic. (i guess a lot of blogs will find themselves losing follows, idk, this is a hard time for all of us)

if you care about the palestinians dying, that's fine, but that shouldn't be in the expense of jews and judenhass/antisemitism.

c'mon. this is the 21th century. let us not hate.

also:

We don't really care about you (since you are, you know, humans capable of caring about urselves), but you are making us care, making us hate.

let us mourn.

let us live peacefully.

let us ALL live peacefully.

[lostinsidelostoutside]

💔💔💔

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

New Rule: Dear Chappell Roan... | Real Time with Bill Maher

And finally, New Rule: To mark the October 7th anniversary, we must launch a campaign to educate young Americans about the Middle East. And the way I'd like to begin that process is by addressing an open letter to Chappell Roan.

Now, to those viewers who aren't watching this while also looking at their phones, let me explain. Chappell Roan is not the name of one of Tru.mp's golf courses, she's actually a great new recording artist who, like a Hezbollah pager, is really blowing up. In just a few months, she went from a struggling artist to getting three billion plays on Spotify. Netting her almost 11 cents.

But here's what caught my eye. She seems like a Gen Zer who can be reached, because I saw her on TMZ say: "it's like, obviously, fuck the policies of the right. But also, fuck some of the policies on the left." That sounds like something I would say!

She also said, "I think it's important that people use critical thinking. I think it's important for me to… question myself… question my algorithm, question: is some person that tweeted something about someone else even true?" Preach, queer ally, preach.

But then we get to Israel, and Chappell, this is where we must put to the test your pledge to use critical thinking and to question whether what you're reading on social media is true. Because it isn't. There's a whole history of the Middle East that you and your fans aren't hearing about. So, why don't you let me be your spirit guide through this?

But before I do, let me tell you a little about myself, since you may have no idea who I am, considering that when this show went on the air you were barely old enough to be told you were in the wrong body. So, my name is Bill Maher, I'm 35. I've been to all of Diddy's freak-off parties, and I work at the same place as Euphoria. In fact, she's right down the hall. My TikTok handle is "B-Nasty" and I go live every Friday night with the anime filter on, and I once won a smoke-off against Willie Nelson, Woody Harelson and Snoop. Okay, that one's true.

But, no, look the truth be told, I'm a baby boomer, I remember phone-booths and cars with ashtrays and vaginal sex. And I didn't learn about the Middle East from TikTok, which is a Chinese company whose totalitarian government would just love to have America's youth hating America. That's some of that algorithm stuff you say you want to look into.

Now, first off, the fact that you don't know much history isn't your fault. You live in the United States where the schools stop doing that whole "teaching facts" thing a while ago. But getting all your history from TikTok is like getting all your calories from Hostess.

I know you're moved by what you see on there, we all are. The dead Palestinian bodies. But it's odd that your generation didn't seem nearly as moved by the Jewish bodies on October 7th. You killed at Coachella this year, but when Hamas kills at a music festival it's a whole other thing. Doesn't the sight of so many young women raped at a music festival make it a little personal? My guess is that Gen Z hearts are hardened by the propaganda you see on TikTok, which likes to call the Jews "colonizers." But colonizers are intruders who have no history in an area, like when Spain conquered the Mayans. Or when your mom took over Facebook.

When the Dutch took over South Africa, they had no history to the land, they just wanted it. But Israel is the Jews homeland. And Jews have always lived there, I cap you not. You can look it up. It's in this book called The Bible, which is horribly wrong about sex ed, slavery, science and cooking, but the archaeology checks out. It says the Jews built a temple with a really big wall seven centuries before Muhammad or Islam ever existed, and sure as shit, you can still go there and touch it. Calling Jews colonizers in Israel is like calling Native Americans colonizers here. It's ridiculous.

Chappell, did you know that for 2,000 years, Palestine was like an Uber driver with a three star rating? Nobody wanted it. And there was never any Arab country called "Palestine." It was an orphan province, and if you ask people what they thought about it back then, they'd say it gave them the ick.

But after World War II, and after the Jews were very nearly wiped out by an actual attempted genocide, they decided it was time for their historic homeland to be an actual country so that for once they could defend themselves.

And the UN - we like them, right? Yeah, they agreed, and voted a country for each of the indigenous peoples. One side agreed to that. But the Arabs had a slightly different proposal. They said, "how about we keep it all and wipe you out?"

Chappell, if you think it was repressive growing up queer in the midwest, try the Mid East. You're a female drag queen and you sing, "I fucked you in the bathroom when we went to dinner, your parents at the table." Yeah, that wouldn't fly in Gaza. Although you would, straight off a roof. The same goes for, "knee deep in the passenger seat and you're eating me out." Yeah, my guess is the morality police would figure out that one's not about the drive-thru and kill your featherboa wearing ass. You know when you sing that LA is where "boys and girls can all be queens every single day"? You're welcome, but offer not good in the West Bank.

Chappell, you're not wrong that oppression is bad or that Palestinian and many other Muslim populations are oppressed and deserve to be freed. You just have it completely ass-backwards as to who is doing the oppressing. Hamas is a terrorist mafia that took over Gaza. The Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist mafia that took over Iran. ISIS is a terrorist mafia that took over Iraq. The Taliban is a terrorist mafia that took over Afghanistan. These are the oppressors and when you make it all about Israel, you take the pressure off of them. You enable them.

The Iranian regime has killed 600 protesters after a 22-year-old woman died in police custody following her arrest for the crime of wearing her head covering incorrectly. Just to be clear, that's your team. Iran is who sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah. Are you sure this is who you want to throw down with?

Meryl Streep spoke at the UN recently and said this about the Taliban, who are only slightly more conservative than your heroes in Hamas. She said, "today in Kabul a female cat has more freedoms than a woman. A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face. She may chase a squirrel into the park. A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today… A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not." You're a singer and you're advocating for a place and a culture you would never want to live under.

Gender may not be binary, but right and wrong kind of is.

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https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ushistory/results/achievement/

Baseline: NAEP Proficient

And this is just US History. Now consider proficiency in World History.

Having watched the full video, I've come to the conclusion that Chappell Roan is a window-licking weapons-grade ignorant moron. What's more concerning is that her fans will uncritically parrot her ignorant, ahistorical politics just because they like her music.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/black-sheep-empire-actors-actresses-ancient-rome-0010292

The ancient Greeks loved the theater and ancient Greek actors enjoyed a position of eminence and respect. In contrast, although entertainment and drama were similarly adored in Ancient Rome, theater performers were often demeaned by the upper-class society and also perceived as morally unclean.

We need to go back to this.