US Troops Need To Start Disobeying Orders In Iran, And Other Notes

0:00U.S. troops need to start disobeying orders in Iran, and other notes. The President of the United States has a bat-shit crazy post on truth social, once again threatening to blow up civilian infrastructure in Iran, saying, Tuesday will be power plant day, and bridge day, all wrapped into one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. First watch, praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. At this point, if you're in the U.S. military, you have a moral obligation to start refusing orders. Dessert, become a conscientious objector. Ideally, get everyone together and launch a full-scale military coup. We're in mad king territory. Those gotta do what needs to be done. Promoters of this war told the world it was about liberating the Iranian people from tyranny

1:05to bring them freedom and democracy. Now that they got their war, it's about bombing them back to the Stone Age, stealing their oil, and blowing up their bridges and power plants. The only people dumber than Americans who bought into Trump's ending the war's schtick are the Iranians who believed the United States was going to bring freedom to their country. The Jerusalem Post just ran an opinion piece on Zoran Mamdani, which includes the sentence, it is time for the mayor of New York City to stand in solidarity with Muslim leaders who issue anti-Semitic tropes, such as genocide and occupation, and are committed to a new broader regional alignment in the Middle East. It's been fun watching Israel-apologists invent anti-Semitic tropes in real time. The words genocide and occupation are anti-Semitic tropes now, apparently. According to pro-Israel groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Benebrith, the phrase

2:09is Epstein Class and Operation Epstein Fury are also recent additions to the No No List. In reality, these so-called anti-Semitic tropes are just effective talking points used to highlight facts that are inconvenient to Israel and its allies. Every relevant human rights group on Earth agrees that Israel is an occupying force in the Palestinian territories. Every relevant human rights group on Earth has accused Israel of genocide and Gaza. The phrase Epstein Class makes the rich and powerful people who rule our society look as creepy and suspicious as they should look. In Epstein Fury, highlights President Trump's place in the Epstein Files, which a majority of Americans believe played a role in his decision to attack Iran. We see this all the time. Effective pro-Palestine political slogans like Globalize the Antifada and From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free are labeled anti-Semitic, not because they express hatred toward Jews, but because they are effective.

3:13That's all it ever is. Political apologists see a phrase or slogan hurting Israeli information interests and go, uh, okay, so you can't say those words anymore, those words make Jewish people feel unsafe. And the phrases get banned. Here in Australia, we just saw the state of Queensland ban the phrase from the river to the sea on penalty of two years in prison, for no other reason than because it's something people chant at pro-Palestine protests. Anti-Semitism isn't the target of these laws. The protests themselves are the target. They're designed to shut down pro-Palestine demonstrations by making so many speech suppression laws that nobody would attend one without a lawyer present to advise them on what they may and may not say. The very first time someone told me from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free was a hateful genocidal chant. I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard. And to this day, I still feel that way. It's a completely counterintuitive claim that makes no sense on first hearing it.

4:15It is only by the constant repetition of the assertion that it's an anti-Semitic slogan that people begin accepting this transparently absurd idea. They just say it over and over again in an authoritative tone until people start to buy it. Nobody actually believes these words and phrases are hateful toward Jews. They're just pretending to believe that to promote the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state. That's all we're ever looking at with this nonsense. This fuel crisis really looks like it's going to hurt. From a big picture perspective, it's probably a good thing for Westerners to feel some sting from their empire's wars and for US allies to start re-evaluating their relationship with Washington. But from a selfish perspective, damn this is going to suck. I'm done trying to convince people not to use generative AI. You want to kill your critical thinking faculties? You want to lose the ability to write and create art?

5:16You want to make people like me look special and amazing because we can create things with our minds? Be my guest.