Hate And Blame Along With Fear And Loathing, In Gaza And Beyond

Although these can be seen as isolated events in which the west’s involvement is indirect and limited to the ties that bind good, pro-Democracy allies to one another, this normally implying a weapons-based co-dependence, the two conflicts amongst many that are at the forefront of people’s attention, hence, are prominently discussed by the mainstream media, are so not for what they actually are, but for what they represent, this perspective laying clear the connections that involve the West very directly in what's actually very linked events.

Both of these, the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, showcase the type of perception control that's been imposed on Westerners for so many years, which provides a contrast with younger generations who not only haven't been submitted to the same levels of propaganda, but who now also have access to the Internet along with wide ranging views and sources providing a better view of the "other side". Of course, it's easier to label these as "Woke" and "Commies" and to treat them as terrorist sympathisers and Putin Lovers. 

Albeit easier to spin Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to launch an SMO into the actions of an expansionist, authoritarian madman, the pushback against the mainstream version and any opposition to that on the scale witnessed would have been unthinkable, perhaps a decade ago, but, certainly, absolutely so 20 years ago. The Palestinians' situation also underwent a clear shift, 

What's been revealed is a stout level of Russophobia and Islamophobia that justified and insane level of condemnation whilst refusing to look at any hard facts if not instantly identifying these as "Russian propaganda" or "info from lying, murderous jihadists". 

One really odd aspect laid bare by this is the West's willingness to support and cheer for the embodiment of all that Western institutions have constantly demonized and told us they were fighting against... for Democracy. Not only are Westerners shunned for pointing out that Banderitic Nazis play a crucial role in Ukraine, these having done their best to spark a Russian intervention due to their treatment of ethnic Russians in Donbass, but the Zionists and the IDF have demonstrated an attitude and behaviour that ranks right up there with the very worst and vicious monsters that now serve as exemplars of pure evil.

Ironically, a fact that barely got any of the attention such a facet would have garnered not too long ago, it has been reported that “Nazis and white supremacists were at CPAC", the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Although the popularity of this event is fading, seeing less attendees every year as it’s being overtaken by the conferences held by groups like Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, CPAC still retains a symbolic importance and it helps to set the tone for what’s to be expected from conservatives.

Perhaps because they foresaw the cries of "hypocrisy" that were sure to come were they to mention Nazis at CPAC, this also opening up a discussion they'd prefer to avoid, but hardly any outlets mentioned the extremist elements present despite the anti-Trump spin that could have been applied. Only small, hardcore pro-Biden or fringe leftists outlets brought it up.

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Having an important change in your media diet and habits thrust upon you is sure to result in the kind of deep irritation that surfaces whenever certain comforts are taken away, upsetting one’s routine and leaving one with no choice but to adjust and adapt. 

However, these moments also provide an opportunity—usually a much needed one—should one embrace the detachment that’s forced on them rather than attempt to preserve, no matter how diminished and annoying a version one may muster, any semblance of those wonted daily cycles that provide a structured sense to a day.

Anyone doing anything that qualifies as content creation with a focus on current events, especially politics, are sure to spend a large part of their days immersed in news, probably researching the particulars of an event, accessing the websites of several outlets simultaneously, and doing so whilst at least one info outlet broadcasts its news in the background. 

The goals concealed in algorithmic purpose combined with any personal failings expressed as bad biases, and one’s info diet turns into a negative force once one’s media consumption is defined by a clear habit that’s set in deep enough to turn any change imposed on these as a deep irritation. Yet, without that break in one’s routine, it’s unlikely that one will see that negative for what it is. 

This is true whether a fan or hater of any and all particular outlets and/or of their hosts that form one’s habits. And it’s equally true whether an outlet’s focus is on factual or fake news, for, from a viewer’s perspective, what differentiates the two isn’t the verifiable accuracy of the info they serve up; all has to do with which party an outlet’s news so happens to benefit best.

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Sadly, "Woke" still isn't viewed, examined, and discussed as it should be, which, devoid of any political weaponization, should entail, simply, avoiding any discussion of Woke and mostly ignoring any mention of the term, Unfortunately, whenever it's mentioned, it's being tossed around with no real aim other than to convince one's clan that the other tribe has gone mad, since, after all, go Woke, talk Woke, and impose Wokism now defines the insane and globalising radical Dems, right? And they're not gonna stop until the whole world is Woke! 

To be more accurate, in terms of ignoring, I'm speaking about the very behaviour itself. Rather than establishing it as a threat to an American way of life by amplifying its fictions and converting the behaviour that lies at the root of what's identified as "Woke" into a core element of today's iteration of the bipolar Culture War, the whole Woke thing could have been easily snuffed out of politics and daily demands by, simply, refusing to feed the crazy—as I'd previously discussed, those who actually embody the Woke mentality are far and few, representing, at best, a small fringe group, with 8% of the population belonging to that group being a high estimate. 

Unfortunately, as a conservative weapon used to acquire votes via a taxing Culture War that pits citizens against each other, turning simple identity issues into national-identity issues, usage of the term is abundant, always linked to a negative, and done to implant an impression and elicit an emotion, and very rarely is it ever used to identify a well-defined element in order to have a productive discussion on the matter, either from the perspective of fair, adequate policies or through an investigation of the underlying fundamentals or of the natural shifts that these may signify, or of the mostly positive parallels that exist throughout all of history—and not just  negative ones and WWII—and the broader contexts that may help explain such shifts and attitudes, etc. Any of that would be preferred and far more beneficial to all than the brainwashing-bubble-fed, gross over-generalizations used to deepen a synthetic divide through a twisted vilification of human aspects that have been stripped of any humanity in order to paint some vague other as "evil", for, without such an evil, how is one to make sense of any of the natural changes that occur in any society, this since the dawn of time up until tomorrow, but the day after that... who knows? 

Trump knows. Vote for him. Maybe. (Or, perhaps, vote third party, I say.)

Some are using Woke to let out that queer-hating, bigoted racist they've wrestled to keep under wraps, thus openly voicing the atrocious acts they wish upon these demons, praise the Lord.

Some are using Woke to broadly target anyone likely to be a Biden supporter, for the Dems are cons and heathens and destined to be conDemned in hell, and MAGA be to all.

Some are using Woke to pander and banter, but also to dodge, denounce or deny, doing it desperately or deceitfully, but always oppressively, for they are the victims of those calling an end to some forms of oppression, an injustice that must be met with a call for pro-anti-anti-white oppression, also known as a pro-white law-and-order mindset, or what some call "white supremacy".

Either way, that border must be shut!

And that's why, per some rightists, Elon Musk didn't just sue OpenAI for a breach of contract, seeking to make a profit, he sued it for "profit making and wokeness". 

Woke. It's become what, currently, "full-scale" and "unprovoked" now means to liberal media or neocon-serving media on either side of the political aisle. It's what "anti-Semite" is to Zionists. 

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In June 2022, or around then, when I'd immersed myself in Destiny videos in order to get a better understanding of him once I'd sensed he was sure to gain considerable momentum within the political spectrum, I'd written more about him than what I did post, and part of that was for a post on the tribal divisions

While reviewing footage of his nemesis, Vaush, Steven "Destiny" Bonnell opined on in-fighting occurring within a leftist segment that includes Vaush’s, explaining what “made Nazism possible”:

First you get rid of the blacks and browns so you see only white people. But you don’t see just white people, you see people with brown or black or red or blond hair, so you get rid of people with brown or black or red hair. But then… etc., “you’re always gonna divide on these differences, and that’s what happening in the fortress. They got rid of all the outsiders and now they’re slowly whittling down what’s left.”

Funny thing, then, that just this week, Bonnell, not too pleased with a slew of comments he’d apparently received in reaction to an issue he’d discussed, decided to split his audience between the “normies” and “streamers”, stating that he was gonna start banning anyone who assumes he’s wrong and sends him anything he may consider to be lengthy and pedantic comments and, you know what, he’s sick of all the piles of useless comments from normies and thinks he’ll ban any normie who comments, but not streamers; streamers are OK.

A crusader against divisions who only values and wants to hear from those who identify with an exclusionary label that typifies a certain mindset? Shouldn’t someone have reminded him that… oopsie, he was banned from Twitch and now relies on a “normie” platform? That bit of hypocrisy combined with the injection of tribalism that underlies it… why should he receive anything more than a heartfelt “Go fuck yourself!” from any self-respecting non-streamer, either before or after shooting some “manchild” insult his way?

However, if all our lives were recorded, we’d all offer moments and comments or beliefs that oppose more recent ones, especially if context is of no concern. Hence, I give very little weight to such criticisms unless they offer a way to understand current and relevant behaviour or comments and their public impacts, but, in this case, I make the attack nonetheless given the importance of the fundamental facet ignored, the relatively brief timeframe involved, as well as the example it provides regarding the subtle dynamics of hate and division, the responsibility for disharmonious relationships being far from limited to some others and never the me. 

As arrogant and prejudicial as he can be, seeing Bonnell veering into such territory and the ideologically-motivated demarcations they rely on not being acknowledged—invariably ending up being aggressively defended as not being so—hence, providing the basics that fortify tribes, and for that reason I almost permanently flushed him right there and then. 

Certain displays of pretension resting on a lack of self-awareness provide an unmistakable sign that one doesn’t deserve my time… The ability to face a camera is no reason to value anyone, as I often offer, this being so regardless of one’s level of charisma.

These can be eliminated from one’s info diet but still accounted for.

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On a related aside: I've been encouraging people to pay no attention to the Oscars since the 90s. Why so many are finally doing so now has little to do with "Wokeism", in my opinion, though this aspect must figure in any proper, carefully-arrived-at explanation.

Blaming "Woke" for anything and everything is definitely a problem, but it's not a new one. It's simply the same old tactic under a new name, the Commie label still in use but currently far less effective, as with Woke's precursor, "Social Justice".

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"How many pro-Palestinian people still bring up that hospital bombing, saying that Israel purposefully bombed the hospital, killing at least five hundred innocent civilians, which isn't even remotely close to reality; people just gobbled up the what the Hamas, a bunch of hate-filled, murderous jihadists   wh 

Bonnell is referring to the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion

On Saturday 14 October, according to a statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, an Israeli rocket had damaged the upper two floors of the hospital's cancer treatment center, which contained the ultrasound and mammography wards, and injured four staff members. 

In a recent interview with Fox News, Israeli Genocidist-in-Chief Benjamin Netanyahu drove home the fact that he wasn't going to 'step off the gas' and, anyhow, the monster proudly offered, claiming to have seen the recent polls, "82% of Americans support Israel's fight against Hamas."  

CNN's Frida Ghitis, offering her usual bit of stupidly-outdated and hawkishly-predictable White House PR, had mentioned a Harvard-Harris poll  

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/opinions/us-election-voters-foreign-policy-ghitis/index.html

When the cursor hovers over the link ("82% of Americans support Israel"), the browser displays the link's address in the bottom-left corner. When one visits that link, however, a blank page telling us "link not found" is what one gets.  

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Last week, Canada reinstated its funding to UNRWA, having instantly halted the vital help once meaningless charges concerning the organisation had been made public by Tel-Aviv immediately after the ICJ had delivered their conclusion, calling the possibility of a genocide being underway in Gaza very plausible. 

I qualify the Netanyahu government's attempt as "meaningless" as they could only identify 12 individuals said to be UNRWA staff who are alleged to have taken part in 7-Oc events; within two days it was confirmed that at least six had been killed, and locating the other six wasn't all that easy, given the non-stop bombing runs, and all. 

At least 13,000 people work for UNRWA, which functions as a social layer within the current government rather than as a simple aids organisation. 

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Biden’s State of the Union Address quickly turned into a combination of stump speech, marketing for the MIC, and tough-guy talk from a non-chill, near-stiff, bureaucratic warrior trapped in Cold War mentality, delivered with all the bravado he reserves for a House filled with warmongering peers. Showered

His whole speech was little more than meaningless blah-blah. Plus, viewers were offered an intense example of the “cheering whore” problem, as I’d discussed it in the context of Nazis and the Canadian Parliament.

As far as his mental state goes, one can either continue to live in denial or envy those working for the White House given the awesome drugs they seem to have access to. But they only work for so long, and distractions help, too, one may surmise, seeing the delay in getting things rolling and all the standing ovations offered, which could only be because the Dems were real proud of Biden for having finished a sentence and expressed a clear thought?

So, how is the Union? What state is it in?

Who knows? Not much concrete info was offered through that speech, with which much of the observable reality doesn’t jive with anyhow. But, in these modern times, what’s reality, anyhow, but the whims of a party and their supporting outlets?

I'm glad someone went through the work, establishing that lazy speechwriters armed with Copy & Paste and a tired, uninspired Biden preferring to stick with his classics are behind that strong sense of familiarity one was apt to feel

YouTube’s system occasionally cancels one’s subs without their knowledge, but it’s a habit I also have, as every six months or so—or whenever the moment seems right fo such—I unsubscribe from all the politically-focused channels. Several positives for doing so, but without listing them all, it boils down to not being bound within the emergent mindset forged out of the repeating patterns that solidify what one finds acceptable, and to break the expectations we form, unconsciously building these out of the habits we allow to be set by recommendation systems, and to avoid the limits inherently arising from the self-confirmation  and bias-fortifying nature of these systems, as well as the narrowing effects of social media.

Starting with a fresh slate, there are channels I eagerly return to, and, at the other end of the spectrum, there are those I completely forget even exist, albeit I may have watched them regularly at some point and have no negative opinion of them.

As such, my YT homepage tends to offer an eclectic selection… for a period. The programmatic Internet, based on the ads I get, doesn’t quite know what to make of me, it seems, but I think I finally managed to have the algorithm ‘get’ that, to make me happy, it better filter out “rap”, “house”, “dubstep”, and “techno” music tags from my Internet profile and to never serve or recommend any of that. Way too much there that’s synthetic for me to consider all but the first iterations as art, or to want to make it a part of my culture in any way whatsoever. Sorry. My tastes.

I mention all that because it relates directly to the subject at hand: destructive, self-centred views and the bubbles that reinforce them. The problem isn’t a rightwing or leftwing, or a black or white one. It’s bubbles—or echo chambers—and the mechanisms that blind one to the politically-constructed membrane bubbling them in, and, with no proof required other than knowing they are right, provide justifications for an urge to militantly defend that self-imposed ignorance that does society harm, being at the root of it all and kept alive through other forms with the same effects.

Palestine matters more than any other conflict. This is so on the political end; all victims of any conflict matter equally.

Events in Gaza, however, lay bare a hypocrisy, attitude, and mindset that too many seem happy to overlook if it concerns any other conflict, the US' and the West's involvement to go

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"CHAOS IN HAITI As CANNIBAL Gangs TAKE OVER Proving Trump Right"

Live viewers attained 39,748 roughly one hour in.

The video sprung to life with Pool's beannied mug announcing "Haiti is descending into chaos. There is a cannibal gang led by a guy named 'Barbecue' that, apparently, is now in control of the country."

"It matters because of what they said to Donald Trump several years ago after he said that Haiti and El Salvador were s***hole countries."

Pool tells viewers that Chérizier is not a sustenance cannibal, he's a shock cannibal. This is a point that he's placed heavy emphasis on Thursday, after  

But why should Americans care?

There's been an estimated 100,000 Haitian migrant have been allowed in unvetted, through the southern border. There's also 700,000 Haitian refugees, "and this makes sense, because they're literally fleeing a guy named "Barbecue" who eats people, so you're gonna find refugees, right?"

His nickname appears to be related to his mother's fried chicken street vending job, which left Cherizier smelling like 'barbecue'. There's no evidence he burns his victims, and even less that he eats them. In the few interviews in which he appears, he comes across as the complete opposite of the savage that the West has painted him to be.

The video was everywhere, and now it isn't; all copies and articles that presented it have been taken down, claimed hosts of prominent rightwing outlets. 

Turns out the video is two years old, according to Hindustan Times, the rare outlet still mentioning "cannibal" and "Haiti" and, as Pool points out, it's a NewsGuard certified site, because Timcast and gang care about being factual, getting to the truth of things.

I'm guessing he's not all that familiar with the NewsGuard backstory and its CIA, NSA, Pentagon, and NATO ties, which, if mentioned at all, are now downplayed rather than kept under the surface, like they originally were. One more tool in the Western establishment's belt with which they try to steer public opinion, especially in relation to voting matters.

It's a good and well-executed idea—tons of funding behind it—but it's who, ultimately, possesses control over such a tool that I've a problem with, this being based on their past, not on current conspiracy theories, thank you.

But, as Pool guides viewers to the politics of it all and why Haiti matters to Americans, he pulls up a 2018 NBC News piece with the headline "Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as 's***hole' countries".

Susan Brandon, Conan O'Brian, Bill Mayer

On 10-Mar-2024, the X account, End Wokeness, reminded all how insufferable all leftists are when telling the world: "I'm thinking of the time Trump called Haiti a s***hole and then the propaganda regime pretended it's the best place on earth".

That post had received 1.7 million views and 36,000 likes.

So, "Trump was right when he criticized that country; he was right to question whether or not we should allow people from Haiti into the United States considering the degree of violence, and, more importantly, they mentioned that they called El Salvador an s***hole nation, well..." Pool then pulls up an NPR piece with the headline, "El Salvador's popular but authoritarian president declares election victory" and draws attention to the "authoritarian", thus proving how right Trump was for calling it a shithole, too.

In both instances, Pool and others who are taking this opportunity to promote to 

One of Tim's guests brought up some of the nation's past history, albeit focusing on just the Clinton's despicable involvement in the country. 

But the big takeaway that Pool wants viewers to be clear on: Make sure to tell your friends that Trump was right; he called Haiti a nd El Salvador "bad" and now El Salvador's new president says the nation has to take care of gangs. And liberals told you all was fine with Haiti, and now gangs led by people-eaters are ruining the place, destroying the country. A bit like BLM, right? I'm surprised that wasn't brought up, but New York was, because is so rampant in NYC that a lady lost her feet.

I'm taking a general jab at rightwingers with the mention of BLM, as well as with the mocking way I relay Pool's mention of NYC crime. However, both for NYC, LA, and other major US cities, it's clear that whatever side of the black or white arguments one sits on  National Guard   

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Steven Crowder, Matt Walsh, Tim Pool, and others have been propagating the "cannibal" idiocy that's pure BS, obstinately pushing this lie and hyping fears of Haitians while affirming how right they are after NBC "smeared" all three and others—surprisingly, in a way—for promoting what was initially put out as propaganda to vilify 

Oe video that was circulated on X recently and seen almost half a million times showed what looked like bodies "being cranked over what looked like open flames by a person just out of view."

A Community Note attached to one instance of the video explained that the footage was from a Halloween party at a Chinese theme park in 2018. The note linked to an article from the Chinese-language newspaper Sin Chew Daily, which operates out of Malaysia and is circulated throughout Southeast Asia.