Because there is a point of no return in the worlds perception of you, the U.S. has been protecting Israel from that, but every time someone asks difficult questions of Israel and isn't silenced or hurt the powers of fascism lose respect from other evil people because they look weak.
More eyes on Greta means Israel has to make a choice it doesn't want to, de-escalate. The IDF is trained in committing genocide with military weapons, they are utterly untrained in fighting an actual war at this point, they really have very little leverage to continue the genocide of palestinians now, though of course "too little too late" is the necessary refrain.
The ICC should just get cooler and become the ICCC which would be a totally different entity with no continuation of sanctions from one legal entity to the next.
If you pick a gun up to stoke your ego, you have already admitted you shouldn't have picked up the gun in the first place since ego does nothing for your accuracy, ability to judge whether you have identified a target, or to reframe your perspective on an unfolding conflict in order to best respond.
Can you imagine what those range idiots who are all jacked up on anger and fear ready to start a fight at a.... gun range (where everybody has a gun...?)... would be like in an actual war? Either they wouldn't be able to handle it or they would get the creepiest fucking smile on their face. Either answer disgusts me because it points out the damning fact that these people are obsessed with violence itself, not the tools and history that surround it, the violence and power trip at the heart of it is the drug for them.
Notice those people and make sure you are always more skilled than they are at whatever they are doing :).
My personal conspiracy theory (here is a dumpster full of salt to take with it, take it as you will) is that a major PR operation was underway to rationalize committing genocide against arabs "in defense of the jews", drive up wealth inequality in the empire by hollowing out the social safety net and when it reached a breaking point in the empire turn around and say "We have been betrayed! The jews said they needed to be saved in Israel and we had NO idea they were committing genocide!!! Look what they did to our economy too they stole it and gave it to billionaires!!!!" and hopefully trigger a world wide conflict where a violent line could be drawn between reasonable people.
The thing is, it didn't work, the U.S. public was, before the start of the palestinian genocide, perhaps arguably in a place where the structural ability to shape the narrative in the media coupled with ownership of ALL major social media companies by rightwing conservative billionaires who are ideologically onboard with this plan whether they know about the plan or not could have sealed the deal... but now? Now the truth has gotten to too many people with hearts.
Given those conditions imagine you are a middle level player in a plan like that and suddenly it has become apparent that your side has existentially lost? What would the behavior of someone look like in that headspace? I think it looks a lot like what is happening right now, very very very scary plans being enacted in a rushed haphazard way almost like they didn't have all the pieces in place to make it work and were starting to realize they were only going to have less pieces in the future, not more.
Yeah, I used to carry around pocket knives when I was a kid as a sort of power trip thing but then I thought about whether it would be worse to win or lose a knife fight and decided if someone did attack me unless I thought my life was truly in danger (or someone else) I would NEVER pull the knife out...
...like seriously, the movies make it seem like it wouldn't be terrifying, awful and traumatizing for anybody involved no matter how it went.....
Don't take my word for it, wear some shitty clothes you use to do chores, get a friend, get two sharpies and have a fake knife fight with the sharpie as the stand in for the knives and then look at all of the sharpie marks over both of you no matter who "won". You will never desire to get in a knife fight ever again after that point.
Yeah nope, a knife is an awful weapon for the wielder, the victim and the observer. Much better to get a leatherman and have a whole set of actually useful tools along with a knife that doesn't scream "IM DANGEROUS" but rather "Im your uncle who loves woodworking's favorite multitool".
If you threaten somebody with a lethal weapon in a context where they are defenseless and the surrounding context/society does not place a massive red flag on you for doing so, both the person with the lethal weapon and the society are condemnable.
The point of a weapon is for when you have decided that in order to protect others you must take action, when people use weapons like this to threaten it is an admission that they should not be allowed the responsibility of handling such weapons by the adults around them.
I remember one of the first things I learned about gun safety scared me with a jolt the first time I heard it. It was "don't point a gun at someone you don't intend to kill" .... which I think is wise advice and it enrages me that U.S. media not only is so casual with weaving together guns and hero worship, but that the casualness extends to making casual lethal threats which are one of the scariest things you will ever see because they promise a future you will never want to see if they can continue to thrive out in the open while people ignore them and go about their day.
I didn't understand immediately that part of the wisdom of not pointing a gun at someone you don't intend to kill is that someday (already even?) you will find yourself in a situation where you believe you have decisive power over someone when you are only being lead to believe you do, and in that moment how you choose to use that decisive power, whether you let it reside calmly as an almost trickster spirit or whether you rip it out of the holster and brandish it like a baby having a tamper tantrum (how characters use guns in US media mostly) decides whether the far more powerful observer will intercede and snuff you out because it has seen behind your mask.
Trust isn't a plan, it isn't a geometry or particular formula, it is the spontaneous improbable (yet oh sooooo probable) coordination of elements that saw a new fork in the road and took it.
Periodic reminder for any children in the room, being jewish and the religion and history of judaism are "one" concept. Israel as a specific country with laws, streets, courts etc.. is a second concept.
Don't laugh at this, it makes you look condescending to scared people who aren't experts in this stuff which is exactly the intended outcome.
This is a naked threat to science, meet it with fury.
Hurricanes can do far worse than kill, their impact can level communities leaving layers and layers of trauma, and we have a solemn duty to treat their threat as serious as any other.
kinda uncomfortable this ignores concept of consent?