Hi! I am a new leftist and would like to know what approaches should I use when deprogramming/radicalising people. All my attempts so far at getting rid of the anti-communist/racist/sexist/etc brainworms that my friends/family have, have been completely unsuccessful. I know that not everyone can be radicalised into becoming a leftist, but still, what should I do to at least slightly alter the worldview of the people around me? I'm sorry if this is too generic of a question

the fact that i live in poland probably doesnt help, even saying somehting vaguely positive about socialism here makes people think that you at the very least lost your mind lmao

archive.today • Israel wants to obliterate Gaza to deter Iran, Hezbollah, says Dutch memo - POLITICO

According to media report in the Netherlands, Israeli forces are intentionally using 'disproportionate force' in war on Hamas.

November 14, 2023

Israel is deliberately using "disproportionate force" in Gaza and targeting "civilian infrastructure" in an effort to limit its own losses and showcase its "military force," according to a confidential memo from the Dutch Embassy in Tel Aviv.

The memo, drafted by the Dutch defense attaché in the embassy and seen by Dutch outlet NRC, analyzes Israel's military strategy in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been launching retaliatory airstrikes for over a month straight and conducting a ground invasion, killing more than 11,000 people according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza.

The defense attaché said that the Israeli army is using lethal force in an attempt to limit its own losses and "showcase credible military force to show Iran and its proxies [such as Hezbollah] that they will stop at nothing," NRC reported.

This strategy has the "intention of deliberately causing massive destruction to the infrastructure and civilian centers" in Gaza, targeting houses, bridges and roads, and causing massive civilian casualties, which explains the "high number of deaths" among civilians.

Israel's approach violates "international treaties and laws of war" and increases the chance of regional escalation, the memo said.

The embassy's defense attaché also wrote that Israel is trying to completely eliminate the threat of Hamas, a "military goal that is virtually impossible to achieve." Israel is motivated by revenge, the memo said, as "the emotion and anger reverberate in IDF [Israeli army] briefings."

The memo also accuses the Dutch government of being aware of Israel's "ruthless approach," yet failing to condemn it. While Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel "must show that what they are doing is also proportionate," he has not publicly called for a cease-fire.

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that "not every internal document should be viewed as a policy recommendation."

"We do not comment on the wide variety of documents that are drafted at the ministry or at the diplomatic missions as part of the policy-making process," it said in an emailed statement.

The ministry added that the Netherlands is "highly concerned" about the "severity and scale" of the Israel-Hamas conflict and that "further civilian casualties on both sides must be avoided."

"We call for restraint, and we continue to emphasise this in all our diplomatic conversations," the ministry said. "The situation is highly complex. And that only goes to reaffirm the importance of investigating events on the ground."

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_Presentation

This originates from an annual tradition from the 1940s where the turkey presented by representatives was later killed and eaten. It wasn't until the 70s when they started sparing the turkeys. During Bush Sr's presidency, it became a formal ceremony with a pardon and everything.

It's this big ceremony on TV where named turkeys are brought to the White House to get ceremonial pardons. Some have food-related names like Marshmallow or Drumstick.

Charlie in 1987 trying to finish what John Hinkley Jr. started. He spent the rest of his days at a petting zoo.

The first president on record issuing a "pardon" to his turkey was Ronald Reagan. Reagan had been sending the turkeys presented to him to farms and zoos since at least 1982, and 1987's turkey, Charlie, was likewise headed to a petting zoo. At the time, Reagan was facing questions over the Iran-Contra affair, on whether or not he would consider pardoning Oliver North (who had yet to be tried for his involvement in the affair); Reagan conjured the notion of the turkey pardon as a joke to deflect those questions.

Reagan did not make any pardon references in the 1988 presentation, but his successor, George H. W. Bush, instituted the turkey pardon as a permanent part of the presentation beginning his first year in office, 1989. The phrase "presidential pardon" in that ceremony was apparently inserted by a speechwriter; Bush initially was indifferent to the terminology, saying "'Reprieve', 'keep him going', or 'pardon': it's all the same for the turkey, as long as he doesn't end up on the president's holiday table."

50-80 turkeys are selected based on their behavior from a pool of turkeys up for slaughter. The 10-20 best looking and most behaved turkeys are selected, then two are finally picked and get named by the president.

This year, Jennie-O brand is bringing two currently unnamed turkeys for Biden to pardon.

For those curious about the fates of the turkeys. It's not great. In a fashion that's particularly telling of the US:

For many years the turkeys were sent to Frying Pan Farm Park in Fairfax County, Virginia. From 2005 to 2009, the pardoned turkeys were sent to either the Disneyland Resort in California or the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, where they served as the honorary grand marshals of Disney's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, the turkeys were sent to live at Mount Vernon, the estate and home of George Washington; Mount Vernon stopped displaying and accepting the turkeys due to the fact that they violated the estate's policy of maintaining its own historical accuracy (Washington never farmed turkeys)

For many years, the pardoned turkeys were documented to have very short lives after their pardoning, frequently dying within a year of being pardoned; for comparison, heritage turkey breeds have lifespans on par with those of wild turkeys, at least five years.

Emphasis mine:

The lifespans of the pardoned turkeys have steadily improved in recent years, frequently having lifespans of over two years and occasionally reaching three years of age, an improvement attributed to better choices of homes after the pardons; rather than serving solely as tourist attractions, the turkeys are now placed in the care of experts who make conscious efforts to maintain the turkeys' health for as long as possible.

So yeah, in the spirit of aesthetics, the US president puts an animal on TV, promises it life and then leaves it to survive the machinations of an empire in violent decay. All the while the rest of them are condemned to die away from the general.

It just really makes a mockery of so many things the US pretends to care about.

I saw this door next to the kitchen this morning. Maybe it was always there but I never really noticed it before and I've been more vigilant lately on account of all the Hamas. I look on the other side of it and there's actually a STAIRWAY going DOWN. Like beneath the earth.

So I'm immediately suspicious. I get my gun and I go down the stairway expecting this to be the whole HQ. It appears to be some kind of supply outpost instead. I see lots of cardboard boxes with markings of different dates and rooms, possibly terror plots that I don't know how to get to the Mossad. There's an exercise station which could provide a jihadist with a full-body workout. Before I ran back upstairs I saw an old bicycle, an extensive pipe network/HVAC system leading somewhere above, and a washing machine. I opened a box marked "kitchen" and it was full of KNIVES and other cooking weapons.

What the fuck is Hamas doing under my house? Do their tunnels stretch to Colorado?

Egg harvesting bot when it smells you're ovulating:

gotta be ready for the sperm patrol in case you go out unexpectantly

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Old coworker who can dissolve into fust refusing to work with anyonr thry consjfer too melaninizex, cant fire them because then wrd be old people ohobjc. Complain about BLACK PEOPLE in their stkre becauze in them days you could kill a mexican fkr drinking ant a water dountain.

Super faxism racism 3 coming to you midwestern rusr belt bible belt :meatwad:

"Hehehe hey guys lets wear bug wings and speak in riddles I bet the humans will lose their minds!"

They've been playing us for fools

Really makes you think

Bonus points for including at least one Biden emoji