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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use" Kierkegaard

Cenk Uygur on the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza. “They hit the car that her family is traveling in, and everyone in the car is dead except a six-year-old. She calls in, and she’s begging, ‘Please send someone to help. Please. They’re all dead, and I’m so hungry and I’m so scared.’ The Israelis finally give permission for the ambulance to go get her, and then they bombed the ambulance and killed a six-year-old.” @cenkuygur @TheYoungTurks

@MercuriusFilius 500

How would you answer this common BlackRock interview question?

@GurkaynakGonenc Relatable

Saunada ne kadar kalacağımın süresini saunaya girdiğim anda içeride olan kişilerden sonuncusunun ortamı terk etme anına göre ayarlıyorum. "Herhangi bir insan ne kadar kalabiliyorsa o kadar kalırım" gibi bir mantık. Bu sefer, herkes gitti ama 60'larının başında görünen bir ağabeyimiz kaldı. Gitmiyor adam. Rus mudur Kazak mıdır diye düşündüm önce; zira Türkler genellikle saunada uzun kalmayı sevmiyor, ama halı gibi kıllı ve bizden görünen bir adam. Ikimiz de arada sırada birbirimize dik dik bakıp şıpır şıpır terliyoruz.  Bir noktada, aniden, "senin derdin neyse, gel dışarıda çözelim" dedi. Zaten sıcaktan nabzım 150 olmuş; saunada kalış süremi sapıttırıp gözlerime kan oturtan adamdan böyle kabadayı bir cümle de alınca, "pişman olursun, otur oturduğun yerde" dedim. En olgun ve aklı başında an değildi. "Yok kirvem, yanlış anladın, dertli gördüm seni, oflayıp pofluyorsun, ondan kaldım, gel dışarıda sohbet edelim" dedi. Yerin dibine geçtim. "Sizin çıkmanızı bekliyordum, siz benim için mi kaldınız, normalde kalacağım sürenin çok üstüne çıktığım için sıcaktan oflayıp pufloruyordum ben, bir derdim yok, şükür" dedim. Saunadan çıkmak için ayağa kalkarken, hayretle gözlerini açarak, "yarışıyor muydun?" diye sordu. "Evet" dedim. "Hep yapıyorum bunu. Her konuda. Havaalanında pasaport okuma cihazına girerken bile denk zamanda beraber girdiklerime bakıp ilk kim çıkacak diye yarışıyorum. Bana şöyle bir baktı ve "derdim yok diyorsun ama belki de derdin budur" dedi, yanımdan geçerken. Ben "yok ben bunu seviyorum aslında, zararsız bir rekabet hali" filan demekteyken kapıyı kapatmıştı bile. Mahcubiyetle biraz daha oturdum saunada. Dert midir bu acaba diye düşünerek.

@CMouroutis Or help deter a very serious situation that would already happen if it was up to some on power in Israel currently.

The new military base of #Turkiye will create a very serious situation with #Israel. This is my feeling.

Dear costas, a deliberate distortion of facts indeed is absurd. So I’m guessing you’re either extremely ignorant and have no clue about the trillateral guarantee of Cyprus, the Annan plan or the local referendums for reunification. So you’re Either extremely ignorant or bad intentioned. Take your pick :)

Dear Charles, if you were ignorant, I would understand your statement. But such a deliberate distortion of facts in favour of an occupier of EU territory in Cyprus is absurd.

We are on the cusp of WW3 because jews want to steal land. They refuse to stop attacking their neighbors or honor cease fire agreements because the goal is the Greater Israel project.

@elonmusk @HumbleFlow Relax Elon take it down a notch. What about Iran ? Lebanon ? Gaza ?

@HumbleFlow Dirty Sánchez is guilty of high treason

This is the worst betrayal in European history.

I have now watched this 137 times and I still can’t scroll past it without watching it again

The country committing the most war crimes by far in this war is not Iran, not the U.S.. not the Gulf, not Hezbollah, not the Houthis It is Israel

TRUMP IS CRACKING THE WHIP ON NETANYAHU, AND I'M LOVING IT!

@ClearReason About 5 percent of those were killed in 1 year. So it’s normal the focus is on the genocide.

Two million Muslims live and coexist in Israel. Strange how that never makes the headlines.

About time someone PROHIBITED netenyahu.

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@elikowaz you're wrong. it's not only in the democratic party...it's across the world and in America also with the republicans deservedly collapsing.

80% of Senate Democrats just voted to restrict arms sales to Israel. The resolutions failed. But two years ago, only a fraction of them supported this. This is the new normal. Israel's support in the Democratic Party is collapsing. timesofisrael.com/us-senate-nixe…

@BarakRavid finally, America is waking up

🚨40 out of 47 Senate Democrats voted tonight against supplying bulldozers to the Israeli military 🚨36 out of 47 Senate Democrats voted against supplying bombs to IDF 🚨Not one Democratic Senator considering running for president voted tonight in favor of arms sales to Israel

I’m not going to follow this argument in causality which clearly seems to think hamas and Iran were there for thousands of years before 1948 just patiently waiting for their moment for Israel to be founded by the UN so they could finally attack :) It all had nothing to do with Israeli expansionism. It’s just those crazy Muslims who have been prosecuting the Jews since the Roman Empire trying yet one more time. I’ll let you have the last word since some people just need to have it.

Agreed, so why would you support policies that produce more of it? Again, *why* is there a war, an occupation, death etc…because Iran, Hamas, and the Islamists openly say they’ll jihad and terrorize as long as Israel exists. Any pro-Palestinian plan or advocacy requires addressing that fact to find a practical solution.

Alright let's run with that. There are 525,600 minutes in a year and the 'Holocaust' occurred over c. 3 years (early 1942 to early 1945) which gives you 1,576,800 minutes. That means that the Germans were allegedly murdering a jew every c. 15 seconds. Sound plausible? No.

The 1947 partition required consent of the people already living there. It didn’t have it. It was a decision made by third parties sitting in a room far away, atoning for crimes the people of Palestine didn’t commit. that’s the unresolved question. And the Quran and Bible and Torah say many things but we don’t draw borders or pass laws based on those in today’s secular world. Unless you want to go back to the days of Deus vult You seem to think I’m taking sides. I am, but only on side of people being displaced in their millions, losing their homes overnight, their children being killed. Not in simplistic terms. You might see that as naive I see that as the only thing that actually matters. I’ll leave it here and hope for peace soon.

Putin has said many times he intended to reassemble most of the Soviet Union as a cultural and kind of sacred Russian right. And yes for defensible borders too, but in many speeches he talks of Russian expansionism proudly. No…Palestinians were given a state for the first time in 1947 with US and Israel agreeing. That was after centuries of ottoman and Arab imperialism, and ofc after the ethnic cleaning of most of the actual natives…even the Quran says the Jews were there first. So why isn’t there a Palestinian state? Who told them no? Arab league and the Islamists over and over who keep starting each and everyone one of these conflicts.

You think Putin believes he’s fighting an offensive war ? Or protecting against nato expansion? Germany and Japan were defeated armies on foreign soil. Palestinians are civilians on their own ancestral land being told there is no such thing as a Palestinian people by a sitting Israeli minister. That’s not postwar reconstruction. That’s erasure dressed as victory. And ‘far less evil hegemon’ is a curious standard to defend with pride. My point is every atrocity in history had a logic its perpetrators found compelling. That is precisely why conduct, not narrative, is important. But seems you’re interested in whitewashing and finding causality rather than objectivity. Let’s leave it at that. Hope we find peace and more children aren’t slaughtered at the hubris of a generation of leaders whose time has clearly passed.

Why the trolling? “Just stop killing women and children”? …yes indeed. Ukraine is reacting to Russia massacring their children in their offensive war. Same with Israel dealing with Hamas, Iran, and Lebanon all openly attacking and murdering and kidnapping their children. And yes, as with the Nazis and imperial Japan, they say openly their goal is colonization and expansion. Indeed, none of it is about the Jews. Nazis, imperial Japan, and Islamists all openly say they’ll colonize and subjugate the world. As for the US, indeed it’s a far less evil hegemon, how can you even dispute that? Look at what we did to Japan and Germany after they lost WW2. Look at what Israel did after defeating Arab league in their genocidal war. The victors made peace with and helped the losers thrive and grow. Plenty of spots where US hegemony had worse and even evil outcomes, but trivial compared to the alternatives. Contrast that with anywhere the Islamists, Nazis, or imperial Japanese conquered…

Let us reject the logic of violence and war, and embrace peace founded on love and justice—an unarmed peace, not based on fear, threats or weapons. This peace is disarming, because it is capable of resolving conflicts, opening hearts, and generating trust, empathy, and hope. I strongly reiterate: The world thirsts for #Peace! Enough of war and all the pain it causes through death, destruction, and exile! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

If you think nazis or Japanese were after world domination you have no understanding of history. They both had their reasons for the war and it wasn’t about the “Jews” and they were able to convince their own people. Just like Israel does today. If you’re looking for causality in any argument or ideology it’s easy to find one. Versailles ? Hyper inflation in Germany ? Oil blockade In pacific ? CIA coup against mussadiq ? Assassination of ytzhak rabin ? Tbe USA isn’t a global dominator ? Does that make them evil ? Also it’s Netenyahu wet dreaming of being a regional hegemon. Not the Palestinians in their tents in refugee camps in their own land. Also what list ? Why are we making lists of who killed the most. Just stop killing children and women. Looking for lebensraum in Lebanon and Syria.

How can or should Israel defeat and remove Hamas from Gaza and Hezbollah from Lebanon differently? IMO if all the parties to blame for those conflicts, Israel is pretty far down the list. The common denominator behind the death in every location you listed was that one party openly sought global domination. Nazis, imperial Japanese, Islamist fascists. Blaming the US or Israel for retaliating doesn’t do much good nor does it address the root problem.