Notices by anilmc (anilmc@hachyderm.io)

@AnthonyJK @byteseu i meant of the hebrew tweet, your intent i got very nicely, thanks :)

@AnthonyJK @byteseu can you offer a translation please?

@inthehands <cough>

@tokyo_0 is any of it good advice?

@randulo @dec23k i am not Britpub anymore, and if a significant proportion of those who were politically engaged and or seriously affected by fashcreep generally and brexit specifically, left, there will be less of my sort still around to affect things. So I'm not hopeful for what's left of progressive Britain, let alone little England

@evan i don't see why Palestinian nationality or origin is material to the question

@AnthonyJK @blogdiva

It's quite clear now that many of the dead at Kibbutz Be'eri and the music festival were directly caused by Israeli attack of the hostage situation.

These kibbutzim were dubiously located, obviously, but politically aligned away from ethnonationalism and populated with liberal israelis if not peace advocates. It doesn't surprise that the IDF would want to make sure all those who could be rescued but would be scathing about the israeli govt would be found postmortem.

I'll keep saying this till it is known or they nail me to a tree.

Love is the infinitely fungible replacement for fiat currency we are all dying for. If you wanna abstract, quantify for reciprocity, code for functional convenience, please feel free. There's loads of extant practices to draw on - but be clear that these remain sophistications of something ineffably simple, and as such take us further from the reality.

I get it feels far, intangible & dreamlike but hear me - love is the coin.

@inthehands i like this thread.

There is a continuum from those who see only tragedy in war & inherent good/worth in all people to those who believe might is right and can lead to good outcomes. Mutually beneficial vs zero-sum. Amygdala dominant vs frontal lobe dominant reasoning.

I don't think that people's position on the spectrum is fixed. Environmental factors like trauma, grief, betrayal - or propaganda (which mimics these) move people strongly - a process we know as radicalisation

This is not at all to minimise the obvious suffering for those taken hostage and those who love them, or to whatabout the crime of taking them in the first place. It is to give vital causal and proportional context and to challenge the terminology of Palestinians taking Israeli civilians as "kidnapping" if the word used for Palestinians held for noncrimes or no charge is "arrest" or "sentenced".

199 hostages are held in Gaza by Hamas, according to Israeli govt. (Al Jazeera Live today). There are 5,200 Palestinians, inc 33 women & 170 children, currently in Israeli incarceration, many convicted of civic offenses such as printing flyers and waving flags - i.e. political prisoners as defined by Amnesty International. Children are often brutalised and charged as adults. 1264 Palestinians are held in administrative detention without any due process or charge.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/8/why-are-so-many-palestinian-prisoners-in-israeli-jails

@cstross @tess

Thanks. This sectarian generational carnagefarming algorithm is what has given each powerful postcolonial state its own scapegoat population, keeping the compradore tail wagging the dog of war.

@lhgmk2

This is on point.

Honestly, I like your writing but don't often agree with most of what you post or enjoy the tone, but I appreciate your constant attempt to keep it real.