Was that just casually standing on top of his tank to take a fucking video with his phone?? Of rubble??? In enemy territory???

That’s so sick and twisted, only the deranged mind of a clown could come up with an idea like putting a dang cheeto in the White House

The clip that starts at 1:13, with the settler filming from his balcony, seeing a missile hit a couple of kilometers away, then stumbling back into his apartment, pulling back past his telescope, past his enormous TV and into a wide shot of his very nicely furnished apartment…

Firstly, it’s fucking sickening to see the luxury that these colonizers are living in next to the destitution of Gaza, even before it had been bombed completely to rubble. And out of his window is an entire street of high-rises presumably packed with apartments just like this one, every one of them occupied (in every sense of the word) with settler colonists here to live like lords on the back of Palestinian misery.

And secondly, this guy is going the fuck home. He’s here to live an opulent, carefree life, paid for by limitless free capital forged from the sweat and blood of the colonized, or else as a PMC holocaust technician inventing new and ingenious technologies of terror and oppression for the US Empire - being able to see missile impacts from your own front window suddenly changes that equation, by a lot. And every single person in every single luxurious apartment of those tall, tall tower blocks is doing the exact same math as him, right this very second.

From the Jordan to the Pacific, Palestine will be prolific

No more tiktoks at the beach for this one!

I’m sure she’ll be on the next plane home

Their laughable propagandistic ‘special military operation’

Our accurate and reasonable ‘limited ground incursion’

Damn, guess in the end the prayers ran out

Reminds me of that time a royal navy nuclear submarine was repaired with superglue

Have they considered that this would be antizionist, and therefore antisemitic?

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Audio from the Yemeni missile

American hogs are so mouth-frothingly angry all the time that it’s easy to point them out, they wear their fascism right on their sleeve. But there’s a certain type of central European EU-loving neoliberal who presents this soft and friendly facade, wearing sensible business attire and never raising their voice, who is so rabidly anticommunist and anti-immigrant it would give the ghost of Hitler pause - basically Democrats but intensified in every way.

They are the PMC spreadsheet holocaust technician, peloton fascist, health and wellness, mindfulness meditation, concentration camp builders who are so totally immersed into the ‘European identity’ that they’re indistinguishable from Nazis. They’ll explain why Ukraine needs unlimited weapons to deter Russian aggression, but immigrants need to be rounded up and deported or drowned in the Mediterranean, the same way you’d explain to a wayward child that you shouldn’t touch the stove - or even with a tone of righteous indignation, ‘speaking truth to power’ as if they weren’t ‘the power’ and as if they were telling the truth. And then they’ll go for a bike ride along one of their many beautiful publicly-funded cycle paths.

They have completely internalized their existence as ‘gardeners’, the superior enlightened cultural pinnacle of the world (as opposed to the powerful but crude and tacky US), which they earned by just being better than the rest of the world in a way that gives them the right - no, the burden! - to lecture everyone else, especially the people they formerly colonized; after all, Europeans are basically trustworthy and righteous, in a way that no one else can be, because they overthrew Hitler! It’s their duty to warn the naive simpletons in Africa and South America against the predations of the kind of dangerous authoritarians that the Europeans defeated, and so have been immunized against - such as those in Asia, who are all sadly pathological due to their culture but with some tough love and Balkanization could maybe one day be guided into the light of liberal democracy.

All of which gives them a totally unassailable sense of moral superiority and inner peace. The garden is blooming, the jungle is walled out, the dictators are chastised and the ‘children’ are receiving our guidance - all is right with the world. They’re like the Eloi, except they’re the ones eating people.

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My policies are too strong for you, traveler!

My strongest policies would kill the economy of a dragon, let alone a man!

Elon assassinated by Chechens please, god, please

When you reach that point when you should really be going to bed, may I instead suggest a half-hour browsing session of your own posts sorted by top of all time, sifting through them the way a miserly king may scoop up his treasure and let it run through his hands, savoring each coin and jewel as they slip between his fingers one by one

“I’m telling you Joerond, Saruman the Wise is an agent the Morgothian agenda, he’s putting chemicals in the Isen that are turning the freaking Ents gay!”

“Whoa, is that true Gandalex?”

“Yeah, the Entwives are gone man, they’re long gone. And he’s spying on us with the crows, he’s in league with the freaking Crebain of Dunland!”

Boss fight game over screen hints be like:

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.

Man, I’m sure I’ve read it before but I must have forgotten, he really does always cut it right down to the purest truth.

I agree with everything you’ve said, and having read through this other thread about astrology I think I was taking too soft of a position on it, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

I’d also like to link an essay, The Overthrow of Religious Authority and the Eradication of Superstition (1927) which I think is relevant.