US willingly or forcefully being removed from its obviously dominant position.

Assuming the world even agrees upon having a “UN” in some form or another, the only “fair” way to do it would be a system not representative of nations but rather of people. Unfortunately this would result in the third world having all of the power, and we can’t have that of course! For reasons! So, the US is highly unlikely to surrender the power and no one can really do anything about it for the time being… what a wonderful world… the non-western aligned nations can either suck it up as they have been doing and maintain whatever sliver of protection and legitimacy the UN provides. Or leave the UN and have nothing.

I’ve considered before the possibility of the big countries leaving, like China, India, Russia (and other smaller ones) and forming a new UN with their first resolution being to condemn the old, fake servant of US imperialism. If every nation on earth did something like that, minus the EU and US for obvious reasons, I guess it doesn’t really solve the problem but it would… do something? I dunno. The last year has proven the total meaninglessness of the UN ultimately. It’s basically just a way to “legitimize” US policies abroad and give other countries a small chance to yell at the US… but the evil shit is still happening regardless. This was always the case and always clear but holy shit has the past year really really shone on a light on how bad it actually is.

Fuentes is that guy. He openly discusses and jokes about how the death camps couldn’t have existed (using terrible “logic” of course). That’s why he was banned from every relevant social media… until Elon unbanned him (hmm)

Spencer is no less of a Nazi though. He just better understands what you can and can’t say publicly while maintaining the thin veil of plausible deniability. He does all the Nazi saluting and support for a white ethnostate… but usually not right out in public. His public persona is more dogwhistles and coded without directly saying the things all the time.

Red Son has a movie too in which Superman (the USSR version) basically does make the world a lot better. Fucking Batman ruins everything as usual if I remember correctly… rich boy billionaire Bruce always shows up to ruin things. I’m not sure what lesson we’re supposed to take from that arc. Melt billionaires with your laser eyes?

Indeed…

I was listening to Ethan discuss how he met Hila and even he centers it around his “birthright” trip to Israel and the state intermingling IOF members with the visiting people in an obvious attempt to get them to marry and move there permanently. He talked about it like it’s weird that the state does this… and yet he married his wife! And I’m not intending to do like a dumb “wow he married the honeypot” or whatever. I don’t think that’s the case. But it probably should set off little bells in your brain if you’re aware of all this stuff, as he apparently was, and you find yourself doing what the state quite literally vocally says they want people to do. Maybe if they get people to do weird stuff like that… maybe they’re not honest actors. Maybe their entire media and collaborating medias should be highly suspect. I guess he’s never connected these things in his brain or he’s afraid of waking up to the reality that his wife and her family are all fully bought-in on the bullshit and he’s been eating the same bullshit, despite claiming to know it’s bullshit!, for at least a year but if we’re for real here it’s way longer than a year. Just more quiet before this past year.

It’s incredibly obvious that Ethan has just been isolated in a bubble for a year and has done zero critical thinking about Israel or why everyone shits on Israel. He very clearly wants everyone to reach his starting position (from which HE refuses to budge no matter the piles of evidence) of “Israel MUST exist as a Jewish-majority ethnostate.” And that’s basically it.

If you challenge that, he takes it (weirdly, imo) personally. As if a state all the way across the world existing changes his life in any fucking kind of way. The dynamic is different for his wife, still not justified, but it’s different. For him though… why? Why are you continuing to gobble this racist shit?

It’s incredibly interesting and depressing really seeing people come out of the woodwork who claimed for years to “hate Israel” and not be Zionists now chirping endlessly as it appears the Zionist state is teetering towards collapse. I guess it’s easy to hide your true beliefs when there appears to be no danger for your ethnostate project of choice.

It’s also very clearly a weird intertwining of him “not wanting to be wrong” (but he is… objectively so) and “taking it personally.” The former is just petty, typical insecure man-baby stuff. The latter is petty, typical Amero-brained stuff (or I suppose Westoid more broadly) where every perceived “attack” on the foundations of a nationstate is taken personally by people who identify as patriotic citizens of the state. Typical bullshit nationalism that I thought(?) we all found out was bad in the last 100 years… certainly I think Ethan would find German or Turkish nationalism weird and problematic to say the least. But when it’s America or, dumber, a foreign country that he has no ties to except he moved there and married a woman from there… it’s ok to him. Or he fails to recognize he is engaging in braindead nationalistic tendencies despite being told what he’s doing for a year. So, back to him being stuck in a bubble.

Especially when the punishment for refusing conscription is well known and talked about.

Spending multiple back to back prison sentences in Israeli prison, as an Israeli Jewish person (the state’s designation since they differentiate between Jewish and “Arab”) not subject to the rape and abuses that are done to Palestinians, for potentially years vs going along with the social norm of participating in personally murdering or helping murder dozens, hundreds, maybe 1000s of innocent kids, women, men, anyone else. The choice is so clear.

“Ok, you can join the SS and help round up and shoot Jews every day until you’re successful in extermination, we lose the war, or you dome yourself. Or! You get sent to a German-run German-prison for Germans. Not the concentration camps and definitely not any death camps. Up to you!”

Nobody except Nazis excuses the men who wore the uniform and did that despite all of them obviously knowing it was horrific what they were doing. They justified it too by saying Jews wanted to murder them or otherwise destroy society. The same way Israelis are doing towards their victims. It’s just pathetic anyone even tries justifying this genocidal rhetoric. I prefer when they just admit how disgusting they are.

Well, it’s spread like a virus because people seeking to monetize their content (not making a value judgement there) found that TikTok and maybe YouTube, etc. will demonetize or limit monetization if content contains certain phrases and words. Which is insanely fucked up dystopian shit. If it was in a movie people would recognize how absurd it is that Google essentially has banned the words suicide or rape or Gaza and even words like Zionist… solely for their own desire to sell maximum ads to maximum advertisers to run on endless Mr Beast copycat content. It’s beyond a farce at this point. I can’t even call that accurate description of reality “clown world.” I mean, what the fuck…

I guess the point is… if you aren’t making money off social media, which is most of us, your censorship is probably not necessary. And if it is necessary in order for you to post… probably past time for a new platform. But if people do choose to stay at such platforms all I can hope is they keep the censorship stuff there too. It feels sort of disrespectful in an intangible way to call a rape victim a “victim or grape.” Even though I know the reasoning behind doing so… like, come on…

Depends if you mean fake news or “fake news”.

One of these results in you being a sort of shadow chief of staff (Bannon style until he felt out of favor).

One results in, well…

Extremely unlikely purely due to the optics and inevitable pushback. Simply isn’t worth it for any government to go far because it will explode in their faces.

What they will do is what they’ve been doing. Make protesting more and more illegal and then when people go from rhetoric (which they don’t care about… they just don’t. Everyone here chirping is powerless) to actual action and get arrested under newer more draconian laws, the prosecutors won’t have anything to pin most people with, but oh oops look this guy posts two years ago he thought it would be funny to bring soup cans to a protest. If you have a shitty lawyer… might just be fucked. Probably get charged with some bullshit about attempting to incite a riot. Maybe Stephen “Adolf” Miller will get some executive orders pushed through instructing the FBI/ATF/NSA (whoever else) to broaden the definition of terrorism to include being vocally anti-Israel or anti-police so when you get picked up protesting your life gets stamped out.

As far as some sort of goonsquad Gestapo going door to door arresting the best posters… never say never, etc. but that’s one of the most unlikely events, imo. The feds love and have a history of “let them cook…” then they throw everything you ever said ever in your face in court. Make some prominent “examples”, the chirping quiets down, they got what they wanted.

Truly one of the worst crimes alongside hating Sabra hummus

So… not much has changed? (Semi-joking obviously)

Americans (can’t speak for others) seem to use the word to signal basically they support the Democratic Party but also want them to be “less corporatist.” Which is a pipe dream.

They generally are pro “good things” domestically (free healthcare, education including college, making housing more available to end homelessness, etc.) but are ignorant of or, imo, actively refuse to acknowledge foreign policy aka USA’s genocidal 8 decades long policies towards the third world and total commitment to not actually letting humanity progress. Also, the domestic policy is nebulous ranging from a Bernie style “everyone is covered, no exceptions” to… whatever fuckery the insurance companies tell Obama or Hillary, etc. to push on any given day/year.

Some sort of vote for Kamala outreach to influencers being done by Bernie it seems. No idea why Luke Skywalker (who had a horrific pro genocide statement if people forgot/didn’t know) is there. Maybe the Kamala people felt that Bernie wouldn’t sufficiently promote genocide.

I do remember thinking Ethan was probably going too hard over nothing… he gets in these very personal beefs that everyone else and the audience is eye rolling and muttering “come on, dude…”

That’s definitely a let them fight situation for me though. Won’t catch me defending either side

Wait- I haven’t watched any H3 for years now. I did watch the leftovers show but even dropped that too once Ethan decided he was would come in weekly and read Destiny’s “debate” talking points at Hasan and then refuse to actually respond with a counter point… and also refuse to concede that he’s a dumbass.

But did he lose that suit? Never have I felt simultaneously happy and yet disappointed at the same time. Because that guy kinda legitimately sucks… but so does Ethan. Hmm.

I dunno. Not a lawyer, etc.

I would say it’s probably relevant that she and Twitch are in California which to my knowledge has not adopted that insane, ironically antisemitic “antisemitism definition.”

Also that law was for specific purposes relating to funding by the US gov to people and colleges specifically. Ie if they are ruled antisemitic (a college, etc.) they are disqualified from federal funds. I understand you were asking, not suggesting or whatever, so, I’ll just leave it at that. It would depend upon the judge and any appeals that came (writing this from the POV of Frogan, main target here)… assuming she even won. I would say in my understanding of the law, it would be brought up by the defendant, 100%, but if the judge is a state judge and actually being “fair” and following the correct procedures… then they’d be seeking out like “is she specifically saying antisemitic things? Is she holding up known symbols? Like what is the basis for calling this specific incident antisemitic?” On the other hand, she would be arguing she did nothing to lead to that assessment by the defendant. That they knowingly, falsely spread this narrative despite immediately being pushed back on by the involved parties with explanations, that they did not retract the statement and they did all of this with clear, stated, malicious intent to have her livelihood cutoff. (Maybe I should’ve been a lawyer… nah, kinda hate lawyers)

But, I concede, this all does hinge on people being fair. I think this case is so far beyond the pale, so egregious, that even a hardcore Zionist judge would find that it was defamation if only to preserve their own reputation… such that it matters. But, again, who knows. People have gotten away with far worse and people have been successfully “punished” for far less.

I don’t know enough about Hummus to make a judgement on its flavor, etc., but I can say it’s on the BDS list, so, good enough for me.

And just in case the lack of context made things confusing here: Right wingers (“liberals”) recently dug up some clip of literally a bunch of minorities (Arab Muslim, Arab Jew, and a Christian, may also be Arab not super sure on that) doing a joking discussion that included ranking people by “if they can say habibi.” Sabara hummus was the “no, you’re too white” tier. Obviously all stupid jokes that Arab-Americans of various faiths were making.

They falsely claimed it meant “Jew tier” based on, I dunno, very normal Zionist delusions. The Gestapo, I mean ADL, assclowns got involved it seems and did some light arm twisting to get the Arab streamers banned. Meanwhile, advocating for genocide is fine. As long as you don’t say the victims of genocide are subhuman directly at the camera… but everything minus that is fine.

Well, Zionists are already successfully getting minorities banned from social media for… not liking Israeli hummus.

They didn’t “ban” Israel - that was another half-cocked Diverocelli lie. Twitch put out a statement on it, but basically they turned off the ability to signup via email in the days following Oct 7 last year because they didn’t want people uploading, you know, all the shit going on. They said they forgot to turn it back on for some segment of the region and have now fixed it. Also, they turned off new account signups for not just Israel Israel but the entire region occupied by Israel. So, another point against the dumbass Bonerelli fans thinking they had a point. If anything it sounds like Twitch is anti-Palestine as in they hate the land and anyone living there. They don’t care who lives there, just ban the region (sarcasm, obviously)

There’s 100% a life-destroying defamation suit to make against Ethan and Stephen “grandpa owned slaves” Bonnercelli opening here. Ethan especially, stupidly, has been lying openly repeatedly. Obviously Amazon and the Twitch CEO specifically can now be roped into a civil suit and also maybe defamation if their internal reasoning for this is literally “because Arabs.”

The first two could be sued by “normal” people and extract ass-destroying settlements. Unfortunately due to Hellscape and all that, Amazon could only be taken on with a chance at winning by ACLU or some other free speech organization with millions to throw at causes. The chances of actually successfully extracting a win from the company is probably not high enough (even though they did clearly cause undue harm and their TOS wasn’t even breached- not that TOS even matters) for them to engage. Nor are the consequences high enough. As in, they aren’t going to prison (yet… let the Nazis keep chipping away).

But I do hope Ethan is sued into oblivion. I haven’t seen anything from Nazielli because I don’t watch his dumb shit. If he’s said anything even 1% as defamatory as Ethan in the last month or so, rope his ass in too along with any other of the pro-genocide dumbasses. The case would be pretty straight forward. Nothing to do with actual pro-Palestinian sentiments just a pure factual look at “Was this anti-semitic… no, clearly not, Ethan, bend over, reach into deep asshole, pull out cash. Steve, you’re next.”

Pennsylvania: “Hey, we aren’t Georgia!.. yet”

Georgia: “Hey, we aren’t Florida!”

Florida: “Hey, we… uh…”

I do hope they get properly counted though. It would be funny to hear the libs melting down if like 1000 PA voters write in PSL and the news channels show it at the very bottom. Then Harris loses by like 900 votes.