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Davina's avatar

These politicians were bought cheaply, you couldn't a decent holiday for the top few, or a night out for the lower end.

I don't which media you watch, but I would hate having those buy me ads during between, before or after the heartbreakings scenes of murdered Palestinians lying in the rubble of their homes.

Of course I cancelled the usual media when they skipped over the genocide and continued the lies put out by Israel, even when pointed out several times that Israel was putting what they do and did to Palestinians onto Hamas, who are not out allowed to do such things, so they were making actual confessions with each claim. Some are still using the 1,200 killed by an Israeli pilot to blame Hamas no matter how oil often people write in with the truth.

If I do not read media liars I can save my anger for the zionist Jews because that is where it belongs.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Agree with all you say. When I talk about the rapid switch of images, I mean on much of social media - not necessarily adverts, but instagram itself, even if you have a predominantly pro-Palestine feed like I do, does throw up all kinds of images. The point is that we are constantly exposed to too much, and I belive that plays havoc with our emotions, nothing seems quite real - including the images of suffering. There's no easy way around this, it is our job to be gatekeepers to what extent we can, of our own psyche's and consciousness and endeavour to be careful how we consume. Most don;t have the will or responsibility to care about doing this. Even thinking seems to have become too much hard work.

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Davina's avatar

Yes, it is so much about whatever the latest series of non-entrtaining nonsense that we have seen for decades. Anything to stop educated thought processes, just keep 'em dumb.

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Guy Schell's avatar

Wow! I don’t know what else to say…

Every paragraph methodically compacted with words that intricately define our self-sabotaging behaviors and exposes their nefarious sources that invaded our conditioning, often while were too young to consent. Your precision in laying out the tools of Convenience Capitalism, and their sterilizing affects that rob us of our agency, and stealthily triggers us to flee from legitimate freedom so that we can seemingly escape the inherent responsibility that comes with it. This is stellar work, Sobia, so prescient, so apt. Wow!

Those who control the levers of power make complicity too easy to embrace, while convincing us that in doing so, we are somehow playing our part in saving the world. These ‘controllers’ are the princes of lies that every bona fide moral tradition throughout history warned us about.

On a related event that expresses some of what you alluded to above; I was on Twitter/X this morning. I have not been able to spend much time there lately due to other commitments. For 30 minutes or so I scrolled through the topics being displayed. Although these topics were important, I was becoming exasperated because I found little that focused on what I consider to be the paramount issue. Then this post appeared in my feed from a lady with the handle 'Sunny Singh':

Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza…

I graciously thanked her for her repeated insistence, and copied and pasted her post with this added heading:

This is the Headline story! All the rest is just bullshit!

Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza.

Israel, USA, Uk, and EU are starving Gaza…

And then I logged off. Do people realize that if we could resolve this one extreme violation to our humanity, then many of these side issues would quickly be concluded?

I would like to re-post this on Medium and WordPress with your permission. This need to be spread far and wide. Full credit to you, of course. Peace, G

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Hello Guy and thank you so much for your comment and unwavering faith in and understanding of my writings. You are so, so right about the messages and fluff there to override the real truth. Distraction, distraction - again, a type of "sleight of hand" - when we think about how the magician does his tricks in full view, it is always through the mechanism of distraction.

"Do people realize that if we could resolve this one extreme violation to our humanity, then many of these side issues would quickly be concluded?" THIS, 100%

Yes please, you have my full permission to share anywhere you like, and thank you for doing so.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Thanks for your today's "sadness-booster" post !!!

Only widespread, long-lasting, severe famines with strong pangs of ghrelin and the stench of seared human-flesh whiffing through their European noses on a daily basis will switch-on some parts of their brains again ...

Anybody currently drumming for war with the Russian Bear is laying solid foundations for the above.

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Thank you again Klaus! I wonder what will switch on their brains - especially the parts that handle empathy and moral judgment - they seem missing entirely...

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...I wonder what will switch on their brains...}

The specific kind of human-shaped creatures understand only the stuff I mentioned before: thirst, hunger, cold, stench, sex, greed, hate, destruction and the sight of its OWN blood.

They're basically extremely dangerous retards without fully developed cerebrum that could make these naked apes human-like ... 🤣🤣🤣

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Sobia Quazi's avatar

Yes - they are the lowest of low.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

so-to-say ... حطالة جافة

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I Know Nothing's avatar

Yes. I appreciate that. Strong stuff.

The only hope is people start seeing through this whole ridiculous charade.

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Guy Schell's avatar

Yes. Sooner than later. Losing 100 Gazans on average each day!

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