Old Gods

There was a house here in town, plastered with BLM signs and rainbow flags. Today I was driving by and saw that they removed all the BLM and rainbow signage and put a Palestinian flag instead. The old gods have been discarded to make space for the new one.

9 responses to “Old Gods”

  1. el Avatar
    el

    Just read that “The EU foreign minister said several European countries are expected to recognize a Palestinian state by the end of May, which will be hailed by the Arab world as Hamas’s greatest achievement in the war.”

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Spain’s news and the Spanish parliament have been dedicated to this goal like their lives depended on it. There’s literally been no talk of anything else in Spanish media for weeks. It’s like symbolically expelling Jews is the favorite national pastime again.

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    2. cliff arroyo Avatar

      “recognize a Palestinian state”

      What a stupid idea… Palestinians are no more capable of running a state than I am of flying to the moon under my own power…

      Back in the late 90s they had a state on training wheels and completely blew it. Many returned from abroad to contribute but where pressured to make payments to PLO figures and they left very quickly and then Arafat ended up calling a second Intifada which ultimately convinced Israelis that they don’t need cheap Palestinian labor (which is why there were thais and filipinos being taken hostage or killed on Oct 7…

      Given Gaza with infrastructure intact the first thing they did was to destroy a bunch of stuff…

      Palestinians don’t want peace – they want to kill all the jews and that’s all that motivates them and westerners treating them liek rational actors (like they tried to treat russia) just makes things worse.

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  2. el Avatar
    el

    Interesting post (reposted the paragraph that stood out to me):

    Пропаганда и судьба маленьких стран

    Один из моих друзей четверть века назад был на постдоке в Канаде, потом вернулся. Тогда Канада для многих русскоязычных израильтян выглядела как Земля Обетованная, особенно если первая версия Земли Обетованной не приглянулась. Никаких проблем в отношении евреев еще и в помине не было. Много людей из моего круга знакомых туда уехало навсегда.

    У друга был знакомый серб. А тогда был какой-то очередной блудняк на Балканах. Уж не помню, о Косово или Боснии шла конкретно речь. По телевизору канадцев интенсивно просвещали по этой вряд ли ранее им привычной теме. Понятно, в каком ключе. И этот самый серб взял сербский флажок и поперся на автобусе на просербскую демонстрацию. К нему в автобусе простые канадцы довольно жестко отнеслись. Атаковали и из автобуса выкинули. Мой друг проницательно заглянул в будущее, которое теперь уже настоящее, и сказал по поводу этого канадского инцидента что-то вроде: «Бродит в людях злоба и напряжение, даже когда все хорошо. А будет не так хорошо, может многим достаться, включая евреев». И не остался в Канаде, кстати.

    https://sergeyoho.livejournal.com/200834.html

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      I cannot begin to imagine Canadians attacking anybody on a bus. Were these recent immigrants?

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      1. el Avatar
        el

        \  Were these recent immigrants?

        I do not know and don’t think the attacked Serb knew himself

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        1. Clarissa Avatar

          Canadians are so exceptionally calm that you can do pretty much anything to them without eliciting a response. We saw that during COVID when they tolerated things Americans refused.

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  3. el Avatar
    el

    Loved this literary joke:

    “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he <s>found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect</s> had been extremely lucky.”

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  4. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Saw a video where people were chanting “From Ferguson to Palestine” LOL. I’m sure all the children of Gaza really saw themselves in Trayvon Martin.

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