ISRAEL DOES NOT NEED TO SUPPLY GAZA WITH THESE RESOURCES
Actually they do under international law! Interesting how Israel supporters seem to think following international law is optional for their favourite genocidal apartheid state!
Israel legally prohibits Gaza from building any water infrastructure without a permit, which must be granted by Israel and almost never is. Additionally, the IDF routinely destroys infrastructure of all kinds in Gaza as a matter of deliberate policy.
It sure would be cool if these obvious, clearly written out facts ever came up in the discussion from the “reasonable practical adults in the room” instead of Palestinians just being a bunch of genetic terrorists.
Like how the idf stated they were going to bomb that hospital right before the hospital got bombed that now liberals are trying to claim never got bombed.
If it meant avoiding uncomfortable thoughts these ghouls would torture us to death for no reason while lecturing us and never even consider the possibility they weren’t perfect moralists.
Hamas, famous billionaires.
Hamas Congress sitting around a big table with charts and graphs, trying to allocate for next years budget. There’s a pie chart that’s like “Water: 0%, Electricity 0%, Food: 0%, Government: 0%, Terrorism: 100%”.
Part of becoming an adult has been realizing nearly every celebrity is a horrible person
Some of them are good. Wallace Shawn and Danny DeVito have good politics, and Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter who responded to 9/11. So the short and ugly ones maybe. Got that hobbit energy.
Tim Heidecker seems like a good egg. Mark Ruffalo seems ok as well.
Also weirdly Seth MacFarlane seems ok politically even though his shows are full of racism and transphobia and etc
Re: Seth MacFarlane. I’m sure his animated stuff fits that bill, but “The Orville” is a super progressive show. Last season featured an episode involving gender dysmorphia and essentially trans-rights (in space of course) that was wonderfully done.
Part of this realization goes in hand with the recognition that, overwhelmingly, nearly anyone who is anyone in media is related to someone rich and powerful.
I don’t even mean kids of movie stars or record producers cause that’s just the standard nepotism everyone knows about. I mean like a ton of famous people are at most one familial step removed from an influential political actor or business magnate who helped fund their career pursuit in some fashion. There’s definitely exceptions and you can find some with good politics regardless but it’s pretty wild to realize how much of our media is created by rich failsons.
Yeah this has been a realization too. Nearly everyone famous is some rich person’s nephew or daughter. It’s all a big country club.
The more famous the comedian, the more they reflect mainstream ideology. Look no further than the popular comedian of the moment to understand where the public mindset is. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get more Jeff-Dunham-racist-puppet acts soon.
I think it’s fun to contrast people like Tom Segura and Bill Burr. Tom for a long time had this outward appearance of a typical lib, riding the lines on acceptable speech. Bill for a long time had this outward appearance of an angry straight, white, male, capturing a similar audience to someone like Andrew Dice Clay. Now, Tom’s persona is full-on rich boy prick status, with direct disdain for the poor. Whereas now, Bill’s persona (especially if you listen to his podcast) is way more “woke” and left-leaning than he ever was. The SWM audience is still there and periodically writes into his podcast only to be laughed at by Bill for being misogynistic and weird. It’s clear he has some level of solidarity with working-class people.
‘Spend billions of dollars on terrorism’ is such a weird and funny sentence, like Palestinians are budgeting for and paying a Terrorism tax instead of supporting local business. Libs really can’t understand how anything gets done outside the framework of money within a capitalist state.
Every time I hear this claim about Hamas spending all of Palestine’s money on… uh… jerry-rigged hang gliders and scrap rockets… all I can think of is Felix coming back again and again to Israeli’s policy of counting how many calories they let into Gaza, explicitly for the purpose of gradually starving the region’s residents
Israel said the blockade was necessary to weaken Hamas. But critics say the blockade constituted collective punishment against Gaza’s population of more than 1.5 million.
A US diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks last year quoted Israeli diplomats as saying they wanted to “keep Gaza’s economy on the brink of collapse”.
Gisha said: “The official goal of the policy was to wage ‘economic warfare’ which would paralyse Gaza’s economy and, according to the defence ministry, create pressure on the Hamas government.”
“Why didn’t the Palestinians use all that time and energy to do X?” is always stated from this blind - seemingly deliberately blind - refusal to acknowledge how much of Gaza is kept running by the continued miraculous blood and sweet and genius engineering skills of Palestinian prisoners.
If not for these folks working night and day to keep their families and neighbors alive, Gaza would have succumbed to the brutality of the Israeli occupation decades ago. What Sarah is ultimately criticizing isn’t Palestine’s refusal to build and innovate and capitalize in the face of adversity. What she casually dismisses is their refusal to die. Their refusal not to preserver. Their refusal to surrender to the tanks and the snipers and the bulldozers.
Sarah Silverman wouldn’t last five fucking days behind the fences of Gaza. She’d be starving inside of a week, while her neighbors were hustling to enact the kind of IRL prison break her washed up ass would have fucking loved to get a cameo in the epic movie retelling of. She watches Palestinians spin straw into gold and bemoans their lack of entrepreneurship? Absolutely shameless.
