#i hope every israeli soldier fucking dies

[horrificgoth]

in lebanon, over 3,000 people have been killed by israel already. i cant fucking believe we live in a world where this stupid fucking western military project can just keep killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and face no fucking consequences or punishments. and world leaders and politicians are useless as fuck. i hope to see the death of the united states and israel in my lifetime and i hope every iof soldier fucking dies.

[corsairlafitte]

Seeing Palestine enter the news cycle again is always weird for me. To be clear, I always care about Palestine. A lot. Even when it's not in the news, even when I'm being accused of being an antisemite for criticizing Israel, and even when it inconveniences me in little ways (look, I love Wonder woman from the comics, but I will NEVER watch a movie with Gal Gadot in it). I stand with Palestine even when their rockets lead to the death of an innocent child. I'm not glad the child died, but fuck you if you use that turn on the Palestinian resistance. IDF soldiers murder far more children, knowing for sure they are doing it.

But until I was around 20 (In 2002, when the truth took far more effort to find), I had no problem swallowing the Israeli story. Those poor holacaust survivers needed a home, after what Europeans did for centuries, and it's their own homeland we gave back! Those mean, sexist Muslims were trying to murder them to appease their insane god!

But in college I gravitated to Post-Colonial studies, being the wannabe hippy I was, fascinated by other cultures like they were zoo exhibits, using them as a crutch in my own search for an identity outside of White-American, because I knew it was evil bit I barely understood why.

And in a class we started talking about the Israel-Palestine situation, and I was put in a group project to present on it. I knew nothing. So my partner and I decided to present the opposite sides of the issue as a bit of a gimmick, and I did service to the project. But I felt awkward the whole time, reading only pro-Israeli sources but feeling something very wrong in them. The feeling that this wasn't right, like the patriarchy or white power structures in the US.

Then my partner presented his side, and blew me away. The horror at what those Israeli sources hid, lied about and justified with flimsy excuses shook me. I researched more and found out it only got worse the further you read.

Even the basic narrative is a lie. The Jewish people were still in fucking Palestine before Israel was even formed! And their extremists were the terrorists killing innocents, back when Zionism was a terrorist movement instead of a colonial government that got lucky with daddy England.

I was embarrassed. And I was radicalized. That day Palestine's liberation became important to me. I can't do much, except refuse to give in and educate anyone that will listen. My parents always push me to hide my real feelings on issues not popular with US mainstream society, to avoid suffering for those beliefs, but I won't be that kind of person.

And then every couple years Palestinian liberation comes up again, and all the leftists talk about it, and each time it gets a little louder.

God I hope this is the time that finally makes a difference.

[omfgtrump]

The Tale of Two Viruses- Part 6

This is OMFG’s 200th piece and I am hoping to write only 32 more. Election Day is only 32 weeks away. If we have any chance of “Making America Function Again,” The Don must be defeated resoundingly and then vanquished (and then tried and convicted for a laundry list of things!)

With Covid-19 already interfering with primaries and the rescheduling of the Democratic Convention from July to August, the challenge of a robust and fair election is threatened. It is no secret that Republicans see their path to victory in suppressing the vote. To ensure that Americans do not have to make a choice between their health and voting, a bipartisan effort to ensure that every state develops the capacity for mail-in balloting is being mounted in the Senate.

We can bet every tax-cut to the rich dollar that Republicans will do whatever they can to block this: they know that a large voter turnout favors Democrats. Let’s be real here: We live in what we like to tout as the “greatest democracy on earth,” yet one of our two political parties has been systematically blocking black and brown people from voting since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act in the mid-sixties.

As warped as it is to say, there are Republican’s in power who see the current pandemic as a way to consolidate power and ensure a second term for The Don. Who needs poll taxes, Voter ID registration, decreased poll sites, shortening of early voting, propaganda scare-tactics and misinformation, when you have a killer virus preventing people from going to the polls? Case in point: Despite a stay-at-home policy in Wisconsin, the Republican controlled legislature is supporting on site voting, as the low turnout enhances their chances of winning important statewide elections.

Just the other day on Fox, The Don, true to form, made it very clear what his thoughts about the pending election are:

“It shouldn’t be mail-in voting. It should be you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself,” claiming the Democrats had a plan “that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

Yes, those evil Dems have a plan to make it easier for every American to vote. Damn fucking evil Dems!

  Now on to this week’s piece.

With the prospects of 100,000 to 200,000 deaths looming from Covid-19, The Don’s daily reality show of “Survivor” rolls on.

No matter how sobering and grim the information from scientists, the federal government’s inability to mount a centralized response boggles the mind.

The U.S., under The Don, has not only become “not-great again,” but has lost credibility all over the world and in many places has become a laughing-stock. The Don’s callousness and incompetence during this pandemic is having devastating consequences that will result in the unnecessary death of tens of thousands of Americans. We’ve gone from laughing-stock to “crying-stock.”

And the lies and distortions keep on rolling.

I know I have said this before, but how is it possible that the “greatest” and most powerful country in the world is incapable of getting the necessary amount of ventilators, masks and other protective equipment to hospitals. That doctors are being forced to use the same mask over and over is abhorrent; it denigrates and threatens the very people on the front lines who are fighting this war. It’s like sending soldiers in to battle with a saber while the enemy is using machine guns.

The Don, the Survivor-in Chief had this to say about Andrew Cuomo’s plea for more ventilators. “You know what, he has a lot of ventilators.” That is then followed by some random innuendo suggesting maybe Cuomo is stockpiling them and selling them for huge profits on eBay.

What he should say is that “The government will get you as many as you need and as fast as possible.” Instead, Mr. Whiner- War Time president went to his tried and true grievance playbook.

“The problem is, with some people, no matter how much you give it’s never enough.”

No Don, the problem is that you are child trying to do an adult’s job. The problem is with you: even a killer virus ravaging our country is not enough for this to not be about you; everything is always about you and your need for attention and admiration. You are a despicable soulless man who will watch hundreds of thousands die and have no connection to the pain of it all. You are concerned about your ratings. Let me say it: You are a murderer and should be tried and convicted. You are like a parent who hears his child wailing in the next room, but is too busy preening in front of the mirror to care. Suddenly, the wailing stops and you are relieved. It stops because your child has just died.

Your narcissism knows no shame, no humanity. Who would think of saying: “Did you know I was No. 1 on Facebook? I just found out I was No. 1 on Facebook. I thought that was very nice for whatever it means.” What does it mean when someone is leading a nation through a pandemic and has time to mention his Facebook popularity? It means you are amoral. People are dying and you are promoting your “likes” on Facebook.

Despite the scientists supporting mask wearing to mitigate the spread of the virus you said you weren’t wearing one because it would be a bad look when meeting “prime ministers, dictators, kings and queens.” Not a good look, certainly not when meeting dictators! Any dictators out there planning on making a surprise visit to the White House during the pandemic? Kim Jong-un, Putin, Victor Orban, come out come out wherever you are.

The Liar-in-Chief went on to say that the government has “done a job the likes of which nobody’s seen” in delivering needed supplies quickly.

Yes, Don, you have “done a job the likes of which nobody’s seen.” The wartime president has pitted states against each other in a competitive bidding war for ventilators. To add insult to injury, the states are competing against the federal government for these same ventilators. This is what a few governors said about this sinister and sick game of ‘Survivor.”

“You now literally will have a company call you up and say, ‘Well, California just outbid you,’” Governor Cuomo said in his daily news briefing. “It’s like being on eBay with 50 other states, bidding on a ventilator…We are on our own.”

Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican, said that his state was “flying blind” in the fight against the Coronavirus because officials did not have enough tests. When asked during an NPR interview about President Trump’s comments suggesting that a chronic lack of test kits was no longer a problem in the United States, Mr. Hogan did not mince words: “Yeah, that’s just not true.”

Then Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, who barely two weeks ago became the head of the administration’s supply-chain task force (Doesn’t it give you comfort that  this guy has been on the job for two weeks?), defended the government’s decision to send the supplies, governors are pleading for to the private sector first. “I’m not here to disrupt a supply chain,” the admiral said. Bidding war begin! May the craftiest, or better yet- the more ruthless win.

Cut to Jared Kushner, Mr. back-channel, Mr. federal government is just a “back-up,” Mr. we-ain’t-got-your-back, the great problem solver, taking on a leadership role. Jared, who dresses for success and knows nothing, an imposter after his father-in law’s heart, has been ineffective or failed outright on the numerous missions he has been appointed  to lead. Michael Koplow of the centrist Israel Policy Forum described Kushner’s plan for the Palestinian economy as “the Monty Python version of Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

Kushner’s debut at the White House’s daily Coronavirus briefing underscored The Don’s talking points: “People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.” In other words, don’t listen to the governors, who are listening to the doctors, who are screaming that they need more.

And then right out of the Survivor Playbook: “And the notion of the federal stockpile was, it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” said Kushner. “It’s not supposed to be the states’ stockpiles that they then use.” I thought the states were part of the United States of America?

Before ending I need to give a special shout out to Mike Lindell, the CEO of “My Pillow.” You know, the guy. The “best pillow you will ever own” guy.

For some reason, The Don thought bringing him to the podium during his pandemic briefing would be what? An antidote to the millions of Americans who were having sleepless nights? Or how about a way for The Don to make some money. The great business man called up his supporter and said “Mike, what a time for national exposure for our pillow, I mean your pillow, I mean ‘My Pillow.’ I mean people can’t sleep because of this virus thing. Me, I sleep like a baby. But you could sell a lot of pillows my man and we can share the profits. You can do your God talk about me. You know, that we are a nation that “turned its back on God,” and I that I am America’s savior. Remember how many MAGA hats we sold. Nothing compared to the sales of “Our Pillow.” The demand will be so huge I can ask General Motors, or whoever is making masks, to stop production and start making pillows. Just remember Mike: Misery is a great money maker.

“America, say goodbye to sleepless nights. Just call 1-800 AMERICA!”

Good night America and sleep well.

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[witchofeindor]

hi! i was wondering if u have any recs for israeli shows/youtube channels/any spoken content really (and maybe where to find them??) i'm fluent in oral hebrew but my reading/writing are awful and it's really tough to look things up. i know this is a kinda weird ask lol i just think you have good taste! thanks!

Hi! Thank you for having such confiance in me, lol

As for things on YouTube, I personally really enjoy Israeli political satire shows? And they upload all of their content to YouTube? But I am not sure whether you’ll be able to get the jokes & the criticism since ya know, it’s most about current Israeli events. But anyways, some political satire shows funny shows are :

גב האומה/מצב האומה - (same show but they had to change their names due to copyright issues) (Lior Schelein’s monologues on that show are my fave thing ever) - It’s all up on YouTube or on their channel’s pages, just google the name + nr. of episode & season and you’ll find it).

היהודים באים - Different bits of Jewish & Israeli history and biblical narratives told from a humouristic and satiric pov. Sometimes they bastardise history really badly to fit their political agenda, but it’s still HILARIOUS, even if I get annoyed by the brainwashing sometimes.

ארץ נהדרת - is another hilarious political satire show. A+++ songs.

All of those are left-leaning political satire, if you want some right-leaning satire, you should try out Latma, their episodes are all up on YouTube and they call out right wing bullshit too so.

As for TV shows with a plot:

הפיג’מות - A hilarious Israeli sitcom about a struggling band from Natanya that moves to Tel Aviv in order to succeed. They constantly break the 4th wall and it’s a cult show on Israeli tumblr and it’s a must, tbh.

תאג”ד - My personal favourite omg. It’s a show that follows a medic unit within a closed military base trying to figure out who is spiking the combat unit for whose health they are responsible for. 

It has a canon wlw couple!!! WHERE NEITHER OF ONE THEM DIES. One of the girls is a lesbian and the other one is bi and it’s wonderful. And it has a Jewish guy who’s dating an Arab Muslim girl? And beautiful, wonderful, meaningful friendships all over the place? And while canonly only two characters have been confirmed to be lgbt, so many of the other characters have said and done enough things to be considered canonly bi too lol. You can find more about it on my tag for it.

Edit:

שמש - An Israeli sitcom that’s a must watch like הפיג’מות, also contains a canon 3-way relationship.

האחיות המוצלחות שלי -  rec’d by a fellow Israeli here, it’s listed as a comedy and it revolves around 3 (not so successful) sisters who are trying to make it in life after their parents went on pension and left them to fend for themselves. One is a lesbian teacher who is struggling with her relationship and coming out. The other is a 27 year old who lives in her parents’ home and can’t hold a job. The third one is a soldier with no friends at her base.

Another funny TV show is שנות השמונים, it revolves about living in Tirat HaCarmel (=periphery) in Israel’s 80′s, and it’s a great laugh as well, even if full of stereotypes.

פרופיל 64, omg how could I forget, that show so is so underrated AND IT’S SO FUCKING HILARIOUS. (And it’s all up on YouTube).

It’s a sitcom about a too highly-motivated field commander ( =1st lieutenant) from the Paratroops Brigade who’s been dismissed from his position and moved to command over a spoilt jobnik unit in the Intelligence corps who have never been on the field and can’t even hold a gun and let me just tell you. I watched all 8 episodes within one night and I could not hold my laughter oh my god, there’s this scene, for example, where his new soldiers get him high on nitrous or smt to calm him down (long story) and he just goes:

יש לך דיבור עם הרמטכ"ל? יש לי פתרון בן-זונה לסכסוך!רק עירום יביא שלום! *מתפשט *

It’s been half a year since I watched it and I still crack up every fucking time I think of this scene (it gets funnier when you get to know his normal OVERLY serious character).

And there are so many silly puns in there oh my god??? Like there’s this one scene he asks them to bring him a מאג and he’s shocked when they tell him their base doesn’t have one (open jobnik base, remember?) then one of the soldiers goes ‘Wait, I might have one. But it’s mine, please take care of it’ and then proceeds to give him…wait for this…a fucking MUG.

I think I’m the only one on Israeli tumblr who has watched this show which is a terrible shame bc honestly??? it’s so fucking silly and hilarious??? and also nice bc #friendships. You should defo watch this lmao, so many puns, hilarity and silly shenanigans.

Movies -

זוהי סדום, rec’d here, it’s a satire, but it happens in biblical times and overall its one of my favorite movies and a GREAT laugh

 הלהקה האחרונה בלבנון - A comedy about 3 musician reserve soldiers who were left in Southern Lebanon after Israel’s withdrawal from it, they try to escape both Hezbollah and the rightfully-angry SLA while trying to get back home and solving a crime. Hilarity ensues. One of the best comedies I have ever watched and most certainly the best movie I watched this year/

I don’t really watch TV let alone local TV so that’s what I have, if any of my Israeli followers have Israeli shows to rec, feel free to do so.

I didn’t add links for shows other than Taagad bc they are all up on YouTube but if you have any trouble finding those, do let me know and I’ll hunt down links for you^^

Hope this helps? And sorry it took me so long ha ha

[ramrodd]

WHY ARE THERE NO ROMAN RECORDS OF JESUS?

COMMENTARY:

donwharrison

Like Jesus, Cornelius and me, you know Yaweh, Queen of Battle. If, in the line of duty, you have ever run to the sound of guns, you were responding to Yaweh, Queen of Battle. It's the nature of duty: Instant obedience and self-discipline. The sacrifice of Isaac is a study in the nature of obedience.

Everything Jesus does is in the context of dudy "For I, too, am under authority. I tell my soldier "Go!" and he goes. I tell his buddy "Come!" and I tell my Gunnery Sergeant "Do this thing" and it is done".  Authority = duty.

Jesus is totally a "Be All You Can Be - Semper Fe! Do or Die - Ranger: Lead the Way" kind of guy. You have far more in common with him and Cornelius than you do with wimps like Richard Carrier or candy-ass Christians like John Piper, as a proxy for all the Salvation-Prosperty Spiritual-candy-ass-Pro-Life/Creationist Christians. And that is exactly the theme, tone and emotional quality of Hebrews: Jesus is the real-deal, the process theology He represents is the best religion of all religions and, well, it could get you killed, but get one for the Gipper.

I have been in a sky filled with helicopters and my recon platoon was ordered to secure the LZ until the next larger until began to flow in and begin to enlarge the perimeter so that more than one slick at a time could get in underneath the triple canopy. Another day in Paradise.

I was in the third slick. I wanted to get an intact squad on the ground before I got into the mix and that took two slicks with Charley Funk's squad and "Preacher" the shake-and-bake lay minister squad leader and his RTO and a crank and maybe a thump gun from his squad. We were hot and high about a month after the 4ID got back from Cambodia and everything in Vietnam was wearing out and everything we were going to leave behind would be scrap metal, but that was a bit in the future and on this particular day, some of the slicks could barely get their crew off the ground with a running start and the loads varied. I was in the third slick to see what was going on from the air before I got my nose into the mud and had to everything by sound. I had me, my RTO, my 4.2 FO and his RTO and a medic. That would put two medics on the ground and my medics could fight their way in and out of some incredible shit to get their guy doped-up, plugged up and on his way to dust-off. My squad leaders didn't need me if the shit the fan and I got to shot all the wounded prisioners we couldn't back haul and couldn't wait to turn over to our relief. My morphine was for my men and if killing prisoners was to be done, that's why they paid me the big bucks. Rusty Calley was being courtmartialed for wet work at the time and if anybody was going to be court martialed for battlefield management, here am I.O Lord: Thy Will be done. Dying by the sword beat dying by the cross, any day.

Do you remember how rifle fire from out of the swadows of the tree line looked like fire-flies on a soft summer evening? Or how the NVA tracers came up in a lazy slow motion arc until they whip past your toes, looking like fat green beer cans in the center of a green haze. Did it ever make you think of Jimi Hendrix? Fire a burst of six, right Gunny? Fire a burst of six  and spit a little spear of fire every 5th round.

Getting shot at makes me crazy. It opens a little door of white hot rage in my consciousness and it doesn't go out until everybody shooting at me is dead. Combat was everything I hoped it woutd be. After I got back to the World and left the Army, I played rugby just for a taste of the intensity an hour a week.

Now, that's an example of a  war story.

We've done some of the same stuff, you and I and you just got to do it longer. It is impossible to overstate how fucked up the Army was between Tet 68 and 1973, when Gen Sullivan authorized Task Force Delta which produced the "Be All You Can Be" slogan. I'm in the same business as the guy who coined the phrase and was the Army's Organization Effectiveness guru. He and I are the only people in the world doing what we do and he's dead. He was a Green Brreret and one of the writers of The Port Huron Statement, which was the organizing manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society. If you were in Vietnam in 71, you would remember the SDS, a Trotsky-insurgency process in action. Frank Burns was in his senior year in ROTC and almost got thrown out. Frank and I were both Army brats and, growing up then, Counter-insurgency was the sexy career path and Frank just wanted to see if it worked as advertised. Remember the Police Riots in Chicago '68? That's how it works. Newt Gingrich was an army brat Frank's age and he copied the tactics of the SDS to become Speaker of the House and I've been dealing with that shit since I got back in 71 while you got to play USMC Gunny, and I'm trying to cut through some of the crap in the civilian world that is fucking with all combat vets to the tune of 22 suicides a day but if you'd rather cop an attitude because it feels so good to roll out your best Full Metal Jacket tap dance on any handy Jesus freak, you've earned the right. Just take your Richard Carrier anti-theist apologetics and Jesus-as-myth drivel to the Chaplain because I'm not interested.

The Gospel of Mark is a war story by a guy who was there and was a very skilled observer and intelligence network manager. Cornelius. Like Theophilus, Cornelius is probably an operational name. You know, a British general used the Bible to mount an infiltration of an army in a sneak attack and T.E. Lawrence refered to the Bible for similar clues throughout his career against the Turks. That's where Paul wandered around for thrity years or so. Richard Carrier ever mention that?

In your resonse that this post actually responds to, you compain that I called you out as an anti-theist without you mentioning it and tried to slander me as a psychic. Fuck you. First of all, I am, in fact, a little psychic. I learned to read cards from a Richmond psychic, Wray Parks Pearman. Before the crypto-Nazis who came to town with Reagan fucked things up, there were a lot of gypsies in DC and a huge wicca population in Northern Virginia and I just sort of picked this stuff up from some of the women I was partying with.

But that's another story. I couldn't major in ROTC, so I studied English and German Literature and Epistemology to fill the time between Leadership Lab and rugby pracice. Content analysis is the essence of Literary criticism and psychology the basis of character development. Looking at what someone writes and considering the texture of communication involved is all you do. "

So, when I run across an asshole statement like this "This apologetic is so flawed as to be almost laughable" in a forum generated by the content of of that video, bells and whistles go off. Just scanning it left the impression of an autodidact with an attitude I associate with evangelical anti-theists schooled in the apologetics of Ken Humphries and Christopher Hitchens and the sermonizing of Richard Carrier. I wasn't even guessing. I was interested if you would continue to try to disguise your orientation. You're the first jarhead lifer I've ever flushed out but it don't mean nothing.

Richard Carrier likes to brag that he can match SEALs with stories of sleeplessness. I'm an Army Ranger and I can't match their stories of sleeplessness. Sleeplessness is a design feature of SEAL training. It is merely a consequence of Ranger training. Carrier's essential tool of protocol for historic veracity is, basically, "Fake News" for anything that doesn't fit his narrative.

For example, you dismiss Tertullian as a 2nd century Christian apologist because he completely out-flanks Carrier's historical protocols on about three things and, well, vitiates Carrier's entire library.

The most interesting to me is how the lable "Christian" got to Antioch when it did. Like Slope, Gook, Dink, Slant-eyes and the other names we called the Little People, "Christian" was an invention of the Roman soldiers, referring to the organizing principle of that group of people as they saw it, in the same way the Roman soldiers call the Israelis "Jews" because they were from Judea or you called Arabs Ragheads and Camel-Jockeys when you were in the sand box. The followers of Jesus didn't call themselves "Christians" because they didn't think of themselves as Christians. They saw themselves as People of The Way. So, it was a very local slang for the amusement of the troops in the two legions stationed around Caesarea patrolling the trade routes in and out of Africa across the Gaza land bridge. And the Jews probably ignored the soldiers as much as possible and the soldiers spoke in Latin, tactically, and in pidgen Greek like our "beaucoup dinki-dau" Vietnamese we used to do business with the little people.

But the intelligence report that came out of Palestine and caused Tertullian to propose Jesus as a legal deity included the catagory "Christian" to differentiate these people from the rest of the Jews in the world. So the term "Christian" gets to Rome sometime between 33 and 37, when Tiberius dies and Pilate is recalled. Now, Pilate could have taken the term back with him Rome when he was recalled by Caligula, but the important thing is that the term was created by the soldiers in Palestine and it became current in Rome before it becomes current in Jerusalem, because, according to Acts, it doesn't show up for Christians and Jews until 45 or so and it shows up in Antioch, which is a very cosmopolitian city not unlike Tel Aviv, today and it isn't, yet, a common term among Christians in that region. And doesn't gain much currency any place but Rome in Roman records and not the Book of Acts or the letters of Paul. They term, Christian, is extra-scriptural, and the way it gets there is through Roman military channels.

In terms of Hegelian dialectical processes, that's pretty compelling history. Amen.

[horrificgoth]

everyday I wake up and there's another fucking atrocity being committed for the sake of imperialist genocide-addicted dickheads I hope every israeli & u.s. soldier fucking dies