Fellow Unbelievers,

A fantastic video interview by Michael Shermer with Einat Wilf (Down, boy, down! Heel! It’s just a name! 🐕‍🦺)

How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

It’s one year old, but still timely and timeless in it’s insights on scapegoating, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

If Netanyahu isn’t a war criminal, how high has the bar been set?

So here’s the irony/unfairness/cognitive dissonance in my current but potentially changing belief: Sometimes war crimes are necessary to thwart other war crimes.

Sorry, I really can’t land on a conclusion that honors a more humanistic perspective. Wait, except p…[Read more]

Pope,

” I don’t want to just write off Palestinians or Palestine, but if Hamas is the disease, how can the disease be isolated from spreading beyond Palestine? ”

Hamas is an insignificant excrescence of a disease. It is not THE disease. The disease is Palestinianism. The patient is as good as dead. The disease has metastisized to all of the v…[Read more]

If Netanyahu isn’t a war criminal, how high has the bar been set?

jakelafort wrote:

I am not going to waste my time debunking all of the BS that Unseen continues to forward

Followed by 3100 words attempting to debunk the facts.

I am not going to waste my time debunking all of the BS that Unseen continues to forward. The sources are garbage in and garbage out. Yes lefties have corrupted institutions to the point of worthlessness and exhibit blatant racism. Congratulations on being pawns for the Islamists. You are as intelligent as sun baked rocks. Useful idiots. More apt…[Read more]

Several organizations and bodies have issued statements or reports characterizing Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza as a genocide or a war crime. It is important to note the specific legal terms they use, as there are distinctions in international law.

Declarations of Genocide or Acts of Genocide

International Court of Justice (ICJ): In a case…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

The U.S. should declare “A plague on both your houses” and stay out of it.

I’d be really happy if Iranians can defeat their theocracy, which would (imo) likely defeat major support for hamas, hezbollah, and houthis in the long run. And it would keep nuclear bombs out of the hands of terrorist, apocalyptic servants of their pur…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Some serious FAFO going on in Trump’s base.

Gawd I hated forcing myself to listen to that very long list of anecdotes copy/pasted from social media as if they’re meaningful, statistically. I generally skim youtube comments to get a feel for the room, where the idiocy in comments can be horribly tribal and angsty, but I won’t ever d…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

@Pope Beanie Don’t be naive. Trump has a pathology. Psychopathology? Sociopathology? or a toxic blend of both? I think that’s for sure.

Pathology or whatever, he’s a wannabe authoritarian, with enough minions to support that dream/fantasy. I said some time ago that his erratic behavior could come in handy one day, and maybe the cea…[Read more]