@mehdirhasan What —I cannot emphasize this enough —the actual F*ck.?! What nightmare movie timeline have we entered?
The post on the top right below is the expanded one Mehdi shared. Bottom left, the profile page of this dude. To the right of that are some comments.
Below, more context /1
@mehdirhasan A foreign military intelligence guy publicly boasting how he led our civil police force to attack our children. (Funded by a billionaire and a Hollywood person, and for some weird terrifying reason “briefing” a TV shrink who may now claim who knows what … but the big deal,/2
@mehdirhasan the really scary thing triggering my patriotism big time and hopefully all of yours, too … is the foreign military leadership.)
Especially since AT THE SAME TIME, different members of that foreign government are on tv falsely claiming our children /3
@mehdirhasan falsely claiming our kids are trained by foreign terrorists - apparently trying to create stochastic terrorism against them. WHILE BOTH PARTIES of our government are working - about to succeeed - to make pointing ANY of this out or complaining about it, some type of illegal! /4
@mehdirhasan This is not ok. And not only is it endangering the Jewish and other protesters - America’s kids! - it is going to create antisemitism that will endanger Jewish people who have no connection to any of this and no power to protect themselves. /5
@mehdirhasan All to what? Show “no one can stop them” from getting rid of as many Palestinians as possible? To steal not only their land but especially their offshore natural gas that they already illegally promised to the West, and build a new Silk Road and maybe a canal and whatever else?/6
@mehdirhasan To add that rumored “secret” US military base? To maybe bomb their neighbors to start a war they want the US to fight for them because their extremists want greater Biblical Israel (which on their maps includes Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Iraq, and Egypt to the Nile)? /7
@mehdirhasan I was mad enough that that government seems to want our kids fighting for their land grab, and both our government parties seem fine to take their funding money and allow that. But to endanger AND actually LEAD an attack on our kids, on our soil?
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@mehdirhasan No. Absolutely not ok.
Hands off our country, and hands off our kids.
And hands off the world’s countries and kids, too.
Mama bears, this is not ok. This endangers everyone.
@mehdirhasan @threadreaderapp unroll please so I don’t have to type this all again on Threads.
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This. Anti-semitism IS rising, scarily so, as reading this app recently makes very clear. Judaism has a wonderful history of nurturing great humanist thinkers & doers. 500 years before Jesus, the great rabbi Hillel defined Torah as the golden rule. Yes, just like all religions /1
extremists cause problems. All humans can be *ssholes. From self-aggrandizement. Not just due to religion. Also culture, ethnicity, politics … Due to any reason one person thinks themselves BETTER or puts themselves above others. /2
Also worth remembering is the effect that BEING “othered” has on all peoples. Any group that is (or long has been) treated as “less than,” such that any member has no path to rise to full acceptance in the dominant society, will lead members to protect & increase their status /3
Y’know, I’m sure the Chinese have as much spyware as they can, and so do we (the US). I also don’t think that’s the real reason our government wants TikTok gone. They want to control the narrative. /1tiktok.com/t/ZTLNe3E9M/
Twitter’s/X’s organizing & instant information capacity was cut way back after Musk bought it & so many attacks on it started getting shared by droves of people basically saying free speech is dangerous & they don’t want to curate their own experience or try to improve content /2
No, they think no one else can be trusted with the power to learn & decide for themselves. So everyone went to Meta. Just as Threads started to become useful, Meta tried to ban political content - within this past month. People are not having it, but /3
So Israel was not allowing the press to have access to the released hostages or their families, which was generally considered not surprising after the first hostage said they were treated well and fed the same as the Palestinians.
Instead… /1
… they seem to have sent government… emissaries? social workers? … to help the hostages reacclimate.
These government representatives, and now others, are now releasing horror stories that sound very different from what the first hostage or the Thai hostage released said. /2
In fact, they sound similar to the stories shared by the released Palestinian prisoners (nothing but a little rice, beatings, etc.)
Those of us who have been paying attention know that basically every atrocity Israel has accused Hamas of these past 2 months has been /3
@POTUS @VP @BernieSanders @AOC @GeorgeTakei at everyone: 1-10 attached. The stages of genocide. And again yes, broken record. Because this is that moment we all wondered what we would do in.
One child every 15 minutes is dying in Gaza air strikes. Before the ground invasion. /1
Not counting the ones now dying of hunger and thirst because food and water (and the electricity to make the water run) have been cut off for over a week, and the aid trucks were stalled 3 days plus 20 of them are not enough /2
for 2 million people and they won’t be able to get far enough to help most.
Literally every second matters. So no I have not gone crazy. There is just no time to waste. We must all beseech our government to stop this, because we have the power to do that.