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Not sure I said it would be easy or not a struggle. Just that if we can get rid of MAGA and Hamas, the world has a chance of being a slightly better place
I believe that a good deal of the talk about unprecedented starvation in Gaza is hyperbole. Ask Ukrainians about the Holodomor or Chinese about The Great Leap Forward or North Koreans or the people in the DRC or Yemen now.
That’s not to say it’s not bad in Gaza now, but words have meanings. The problem is the same with using genocide to describe the situation or calling people you don’t like Nazis. It causes powerful words to have their meanings diluted, their impacts lessened, pointlessly in service to a battle on social media
My point actually is that Gazans and Israelis have a common enemy in Hamas. Once they get rid of that terrorist death cult, all the people in the region can get on with their lives. Everything else can be negotiated
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/07/three-videos-by-tom-gross-on-food-in-gaza/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-seizing-food-aid-meant-for-gazans-selling-it-on-black-market-at-exorbitant-prices-report
https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/gazans-say-they-are-buying-apparent-usaid-donations-videos
More Zionist b.s.?
"Terrorists are stealing food meant as humanitarian relief, they are attacking and shooting food-truck drivers (see below), and they are hijacking entire trucks."
Yeah and remember when they attacked those kids at that music festival? They simply respect no boundaries, my panties are in a twist. I see that your blinders are still in operating condition.
Hint: Israel isn't going anywhere. Hamas just rejected a cease fire deal. Put on your big boy pants and put the blame on the fuckers who started this shitstorm. And who now hide out behind women and children in the attempt to get teenagers around the world to take up their cause on social media.. Ceasefire now! and fuck the hostages and let Hamas rebuild for another attack!
I saw that moron Kushner talking about the potential value of Gaza beachfront property. He is surely noxious (although you'll probably write I support him), but the thing is, that he's partners with Saudia Arabia, too, and they haven't said shit to shut him up about it. You should realize that only Palestinian wannabees, like yourself, are lining up for Hamas. Those in the neighborhood want them to shut up and go away, so the rest of the region can get back to business.
What percent of Gazan casualties were combatants? Funny how Hamas doesn't distinguish and you're fine with that. Maybe half? So killing 15K people out of 2M in a war that Israel didn't start is a genocide? Grow up.
More Zionist b.s?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html
(The Intercept know that this didn't happen because women like her didn't go to rape crisis centers after they were attacked)
I stand by my use of the word, your boldface type notwithstanding. Did you actually read what he wrote about me? I think slut is a mild insult in that context.
My experience is that those who are quickest to want to go outside to settle something are those least able to actually settle things in their favor. Real tough guys don't need to threaten barroom behavior.
Ok, but the poster who wrote that about me is “an ignorant slut” no matter who used to say it on SNL.
I think that’s actually the point, no?
I’m an American, what the fuck is my “nationalism”?
You think American Jews owe their primary allegiance to Israel? Nice. You and Trump
Guys like him are the reason that Jewish day schools in NYC, full of American kids, have had to beef up security since the start of this war.
I thought I put this link in last time, here it is again:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/06/03/australians-should-know-apartheid-still-happening-today
Google is your friend.
From today's NY Times, you might ask someone to read it to you:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/opinion/gaza-israel-war.html
"In other words, in this war, Hamas is often underground, the Israelis are often aboveground, and Hamas seeks to position civilians directly between them. As Barry Posen, a professor at the security studies program at M.I.T., has written, Hamas’s strategy could be “described as ‘human camouflage’ and more ruthlessly as ‘human ammunition.’” Hamas’s goal is to maximize the number of Palestinians who die and in that way build international pressure until Israel is forced to end the war before Hamas is wiped out."
And this, by another author today:
"For decades, Israel’s northern towns and villages were targets for militants based in Lebanon. Armed Palestinian groups infiltrated the border in the 1970s and 1980s, entering homes, hijacking buses and taking schoolchildren hostage."
What Indian tribe was killed and / or kicked off the land you currently occupy? I put up with insults from Sortagreen and Fuagf because they each have at least half a brain, something you do not have. As Gilda Radner used to say, "you're an ignorant slut"
I’m gonna try one more time, you cannot be this dense. I’ve never written that I support Israel’s overreaction.(granted, not the word I would use) My point has always been that it’s suspect that Israel continues to get singled out as the worst actor in the world.
The insanely disproportionate numbers of resolutions against it at the UN, for example, where an Iranian official is on the Human Rights Council. Or by the large numbers of protesters against Israel during this war, closing down access to roads and airports. People who have expressed much less interest about far worse situations.
People who want to BDS Israel while buying all sorts of shit made in China. How does that make sense, please? People who don’t want their tax dollars spent there but who express no concern for government subsidies to the fossil fuel or pharmaceutical industries.
I’ll let you explain it.
But you seem to be wanting to argue with me about some straw man
100%. I lived in the East Village in the bad old days, late 70’s early 80’s. Shooting galleries, muggings, people openly hawking heroin on street corners, blocks that you had to avoid at night, my slum dwelling didn’t have a locking front door or intercom.
Now those same blocks are full of cafes, nice bars and families, the rent on my old place has gone up about 25X. I wasn’t born here, came after college looking for an adventure, 50 years ago. I’d never bet against NYC
Maybe in your parallel universe NYC. In the NYC I live in, I see increasing recovery from covid with a lot of small businesses opening , new high rise apartment buildings going up, kids moving here in droves after college and tons of foreign tourists.
The Whitney Biennial opened this week and will draw record crowds to a venue that could only be here. Try to get a reservation at a decent restaurant on a Friday night, I’ll take a decline like I’m seeing any time
Why is it, do you suppose, that rental and sales prices of apartments keep rising? Hint- supply and demand
I’m traveling so can’t look up source material, but ISIS and Hamas are both violent Sunni terrorist organizations , so maybe not as much difference as you propose. Didn’t ISIS just pull a Hamas in Moscow?
I believe there were credible widespread reports of Hamas killing political opponents before that infamous election , which the writers didn’t note, which is why I derided their’ point.
They’re better credentialed than either of us, yet when I posted a link by that military historian at West Point, I believe you described it as “Zionist b.s”
Also, I saw that Israel is facilitating some aid getting into Gaza. Do you think Russia is doing the same for Ukraine or China is doing for the Uyghurs?
At the end of the day, you're simply tiresome. Honestly, I feel bad for anyone who has to deal with you in real life, you seem 100% insufferable.
That photo certainly proves that war is destruction on a massive scale, thanks for the info.
Yup, both too lazy and too gutless. I might ask you a similar question, why aren't you over there trying to help your Gazan brothers, trying to get aid to them? Volunteering for an aid agency to get them medical supplies and food. I'm guessing you don't put your money where your mouth is, ever.
In conclusion, it's ok for you to do no more than spout bullshit but you expect others to put their lives on the line to prove their dedication to a cause?
I've never seen a post of yours where you state that you're anti-war, like a Quaker, you're just anti-this war. Because your tax money is being spent on aid to Israel. So, by that "logic", are you demonstrating, er, I mean telling the truth, about federal subsidies (your tax money) to the fossil fuel and chemical industries? They're killing more people (and destroying eco-systems) than Israel has, right here at home.
You continue to demonstrate that you're a hypocrite, but whatever floats your boat.
Wait, I thought they were Nazis. You're funny.
Sorry, I must have missed your answer to my question about what you're actually doing to help Gazans other than running your mouth and wearing your keffiyeh.
Also curious if Hamas ever responded to your letter asking them to release the hostages.
I worked with her and her father one day some years ago, lovely people.
It was not that long ago, on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan, you could see a plaque on a building indicating her ophthalmology practice was located inside.
Why won’t Hamas allow the Red Cross to see the hostages?
Let me see if I understand this. You don’t have actionable concerns about Chinese oppression of minorities because your tax monies are not being spent in support of their policies. You have no interest in BDS-ing China, for instance.
But you object to Israel’s oppression of minorities because your taxes are spent there.
So, to you, oppression isn’t so much a matter of morality or ethics, it’s about tax revenue allocation. This is actually what you’ve written. Repeatedly.
Can we conclude then that if America stopped giving Israel money, you would no longer give a shit about the Palestinians? It appears that’s where you’ve headed with your “logical” analysis of the situation
Otherwise differentiating by taxes spent, or not, your fallback position, wouldn’t matter. Right?
I won’t invest in Chinese (or Israeli, but for a different reason) companies either. Pro tip: when you’re looking at something at Walmart and it says “made in China” on it, don’t buy it
Got it, so you’re not boycotting Chinese goods because you don’t care if your money is used to support that genocide. Did you major in situational ethics in school?
You should know by now that I don’t approve of this Israeli government but you keep setting up the straw man that I do so you can disparage me about it. You seem to have very little besides hysterical name calling, you refute nothing in a fact based manner
What an irony that your entire post is a whine and you end it by telling me to stop whining
Simple question: are you boycotting Chinese made goods knowing that your money is going to aid a genocide? Seems like a simple answer would suffice, yet you won't give one.
Or is this maybe a selective moral outrage of yours, applicable only to Israel?
Not sure who the bully is here, but people like to see rank hypocrites get their comeuppance, too.
To refresh your memory, I never equated anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, but clearly some people do. Otherwise, how do you explain why there's been beefed up security at Jewish day schools in Manhattan since 10/7. When you get older, maybe you'll come to see that not everything is black and white.
More late-breaking Zionist b.s. (check out his bio at the end of the piece)
https://www.newsweek.com/my-fellow-palestinians-stop-blaming-jewshamas-starving-our-brothers-sisters-gaza-opinion-1875962
But again, although you won’t answer, you spend your money buying cheap shit made by slave labor in apartheid China, doncha? And that money is used to kill Uyghurs, right? But you only want to hold accountable how your tax money is spent? How much more of a hypocrite can you possibly be?
You’d like to see a portion of Israel reduced to rubble but I’m a sadistic bastard? I don’t enjoy seeing what’s happening in Gaza and that appears to be a difference between us. You are as much a sadistic bastard as the Hamas cowards.
You are unmoored from decent behavior, your moral compass has gone missing.
SLM (Sudanese Lives Matter)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/opinion/sudan-famine-humanitarian-aid.html
Come join us as we protest the genocide in Sudan! Bring your Sudan flag scarves as we try to shut down MOMA and access to the JFK Airport. We plan these and several other childish stunts that are totally ineffective but do inconvenience innocent bystanders.
Oh, wait, I see Israel is probably not at fault (unless it's pulling strings behind the scenes), so never mind.
It's war, genius, name one where this hasn't happened. And when Hamas frees the hostages and surrenders, this ends. As you know. Have you researched how many of those civilian deaths are due to misfired Hamas rockets? Or how many were Hamas fighters? I didn't think so, it might ruin your narrative
How many more Gazans is Hamas willing to sacrifice to win their war on social media? To have naifs like you wearing your kaffiyehs around and disrupting museums and airports?
The thing that first set off red flags about your story was your ignorance of Satmar Hasidim. They are the most famous anti-Zionist group of Jews in the world, photos of them at Pro-Pali rallies are ubiquitous. They have just about taken over the towns of Monsey, NY and Kiryas Joel, NY and have been written up in numerous national publications about the effect that has had on housing and school issues in those towns, the separation of church and state. And they're both about, what, a 1 1/2 hour drive from you in central CT. and you never heard of them? Something doesn't add up, I'm not buying your act, as humorously juvenile as it is.
Or, I already knew it?
I'll pit my knowledge of the complexity of the situation against yours any time, that article is for beginners.
Sorry, I take back what I wrote about you being obtuse, you’re actually just not the sharpest knife in the drawer
First, haven’t I written repeatedly that I think both Netanyahu and the WB settlers all belong behind bars? So why is it “my” government? Oh, I get it, another cheap shot that you think is clever
Second, I’ve never claimed that anti- Zionism equals antisemitism. I don’t put words in your mouth, why is misrepresenting my posts your fallback rhetoric?
Mostly I don’t think the rest of your post (any of it actually )merits a response, you either won’t get it or will lie about what I’ve written. Life is too short and I have enough assholes to deal with in real life.
Which is why no other Arab countries are welcoming refugees from Gaza. Their perception, as is Israel's, is that way too many of them are committed to Hamas principles.
I claimed all the reports are fake? Link please, I claim reports of the numbers of overall casualties are dubious, as do many other non-Israel haters around the world, but that's hardly all reports of the conflict. .
If you have to lie in order to feel justified in expressing your juvenile rage, you are indeed a stooge of social media.
But seriously, folks, what are you doing to aid your Palestinian bros other than venting on anonymous bulletin boards? Are you sending money or maybe working with a group to get them medical supplies? Maybe you have a trip planned to help a humanitarian non-profit or two with the fallout of the war? Volunteering to house a few refugees when this is all over?
You've never mentioned a single constructive activity that you are engaged in to help them, or anyone, for that matter. You remain a gas bag with no substance. And yes, Zorax, I'm aware that this is insulting language.
Since you are citing Hamas reports of numbers of casualties, how many of those killed by Israel do they note were Hamas fighters? They don't distinguish and you don't care, it's just another sophomoric notion of something to hold against Israel. Aren't you embarrassed to be so entirely clueless, to be such a dupe?
At least I think about things and try to form somewhat reasoned opinions, admittedly not to everyone's taste. You don't do much more than the equivalent of spouting tv commercials.
And, by the way, I do like your nickname for Trump, hewhoshitsinpants. It was actually pretty funny the first 3000 times.
It's a little hard to parse. Since Hamas was an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood it would seem that Egypt would be sympatico. So why aren't they giving aid to their brother Sunni terrorists?
I have no idea. Maybe they've evolved beyond the idea of a permanent war footing as a way to a better economy and lifestyle? There's clearly no money in that.. Egypt and some other countries in the Middle East, like just about all of them, apparently value a working relationship with Israel over one with Iran, which has zero to offer except the exporting of terrorism.
Egypt and Israel have been at peace with each other for decades and maybe Egypt doesn't want to rock to the boat to come to the aid of unrepentant terrorists? Similarly, Jordan has shown no inclination to aid Hamas and they also have been working it out with Israel. As I noted once before, mining operations in the Dead Sea have roads running between Jordan and Israel which have no checkpoints (been there seen that).
Hamas instigated this war on the eve of the beginning of a possibly somewhat normalized relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Say what you will about Netanyahu planning this to avoid jail, Iran's stakes are so much higher.
Hamas has used the hundreds of millions of dollars, billions, that it has received in aid for Gaza to, instead, build the infrastructure for permanent war. Who wants to partner with that?
One thing to keep in mind in any discussion of the Middle East is that Israel is a net exporter of desalinized (fresh) water which will be of increasing importance as climate change continues along its merry way.
"I mean, you claim to be a photographer, I think that was you, do you also take photos literally in the age of AI?" - to you, post #466375
I get it, you're being funny snarky by claiming Netanyahu is my President, even after I've repeatedly written I think he should be in jail. You probably didn't see those posts either
My point, which I thought was pretty obvious, was that photos can't be believed any more, whether of wars or naked women, sorry it went over your head.
So you have no opinion on the effect that AI, or generative fill, has on the perception of "reality" in photographs?
I thought I was asking you as a photographer, I think I specified that, it seems you are so eager to dispute me that you don't even bother to read my posts.
For the record, I'm pretty good with Photoshop (for stills, not video or special effects) and have been working on different aspects of GF. The problem with generative fill used to be that if you enlarged the final picture enough, you could see a difference in resolution between the original and the add-on. Not too long ago, they developed a hack to get around that ,so it's extremely difficult to tell the difference at this point.
Basically you can't trust photographs any more, as was lately seen in the fake nude photos of some actresses generated by A.I. - this is all way beyond Photoshopping someone's head on a naked body.
But you probably know all this, I could post some photos to show you what I mean, but I don't think you'd be interested.
I don’t believe I’ve ever called you any names, but it’s heartwarming to see that you feel a need to fight others fights for them. In a way, though, that’s more insulting to them than calling them names.
In your mind, is calling someone, say, narrow minded, on the same par as calling them a genocidal thug?
How about answering some of those other questions I proposed? I mean, you claim to be a photographer, I think that was you, do you also take photos literally in the age of AI? Why isn’t Egypt allowing aid into Gaza?
That’s the sort of studied reasonable response you’re know for.
If it’s your money are you boycotting the cheap stuff made by slave labor in apartheid China? Maybe starting a movement on college campuses to BDS them? I can’t wait for you to not answer.
A couple more questions: why isn’t Egypt letting supplies into Gaza? And why have they reinforced their walls between the 2 countries?
In the way that other European countries are helping to arm Ukraine, which other Middle Eastern countries are helping to arm Hamas? Also in the way various EU countries are taking in Ukrainian refugees, which Arab countries are welcoming Palestinians?
Bonus question: do you feel more manly when you call people names or were you just raised poorly?
dude, you're obtuse or not trying. My point has always been that Israel is being held to a standard that applies to no other country anywhere. Where are the protests about the Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs, or example, or the hellscape they've created in Congo (you probably don't even know about that).
Millions have been killed in the DRC during 2 civil wars in the past 20 years, I must have missed the protests about that.
Were you wearing your cute kiffeyeh scarf and screaming about this?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/gaza-palestinians-tortured-summarily-killed-by-hamas-forces-during-2014-conflict/
I guess the murders of Palestinians only matters to you when Israel does it.
Of course, two wrongs don't make a right but I can smell the scent of your hypocrisy from here.
I find it odd, or maybe not, that you seem to be entirely incurious about how much of this devastation has been caused by misfired Hamas rockets.
From what I've read, and I'd be interested to see if you have any contradicting info on this, about 5-10% of the 15,000 rockets fired by Hamas have misfired, with many (many) of them falling back on Gaza. Of course it goes against the narrative but if you want to assign actual blame for this mess, it could be interesting to find out.
Also, you know you're old if you continue to take photographs as the literal truth. Look into AI and Photoshop's generative fill and you, too, will be able to produce photos like these in the comfort of your living room.
This is not to say that these aren't literally true and all the damage was caused by Israel, but to not doubt them, at least a little, is to believe what you want. Facts, schmacts, amirite?
Honestly, I looked up “insufferable “ in the dictionary and there was a picture of you.
Yes, it’s true about the black communities. Have you not read my numerous condemnations of the settler movement? You’re like a Trumpist, just throwing shit up against the fall, facts are the real fake news.
I object to your calling the Israelis “your” in reference to me. It’s an asshole move
Your post insults the intelligence of almost all sentient beings.
Some men rob you with a gun and some rob you with a fountain pen. And whomever robbed you of clues.
It’s the disparity in sentencing and the police violence I mentioned, not general principles of maintaining law and order
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-
shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
Compare them as a percentage of those populations as a whole. Name a white George Floyd or Breonna Taylor.
I’m a middle class old white guy and have been treated poorly by the police on a few occasions. I don’t even want to think about what the police do in poor and minority neighborhoods.