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One Week In
We're now one week into the Israel-Iran war.
I'm no expert on Israeli political polling, but it was
Isn’t living in 1984 a joy? Everything Trump was, he no longer is and never was, when it has become convenient to change the story. You don’t even need a memory hole today, you can just say something and people will ignore the historical record completely.
The atrocities committed in Gaza aside, the Israeli people want peace. They live in a precarious place, hated by multiple factions. I understand the need to eradicate threats but I don’t know how this ends well, irrespective of whether or not we lend support in a 15 ton bunker buster. The risk of this operation resulting in even more chaos is probably underestimated at this point.
What a species sapiens are. We’ve been trying to eradicate each other almost from the beginning. We are so smart with our big cerebral cortexes, even able to reach the moon and fly satellites around the our solar system, but figure out how to stop offing each other is apparently not possible with our DNA such as it is. While I’m not all in on ancient biblical texts, maybe there is something in the apocalypse concept.