Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

as a german, I think the way my country's government will handle both a potential provisional measures decision by the ICJ and a potential conviction years later (then likely a differently composed government, but the current actually is the least z°°nist it can get as far as viable parties go, believe it or not) is the most interesting question. on one hand, german politicians, including noteably the green party foreign minister and vice chancellor/economy minister, have been falling over themselves in displaying maximum sycophancy for i-country, without fail outdoing even joe biden. but on the other hand, germany does care much more than the US or britain about upholding the pretense of international law, and respecting UN authority. well, not really in terms of UN resolutions against i-country, but we just pretend that that's not happening, rather than acknowledging it and poo-pooing the UN. and of course our genius leaders, possibly based in a sort of genuine faith in i-country being the good guys (and thus possibly not considering the possibility of the court ruling against them; they may really be that delusional), have in their efforts to outsimp the US and get noticed by bibi-senpai cosigned i-country's ICJ defense, thereby explicitly signing on to gen°°°de denial, and implicitely signing on to the gen°°°de (which in reality they also support with recent weapon shipments)... and if at some point they realize that there is something to the case, and they have signed up germany for both committing and denying gen°°°de, the potential for cognitive dissonance is enormous. I think they have yet to realize how awkward of a position they have put us in, by somehow really believing their own lies. I suppose in practice it will come down to a question of which countries and important people will come out as supporting the allegation. basically germany's leaders have made themselves very vulnerable because they will perceive any individual or institution they respect choosing to support the allegation as a personal attack (and one they can't actually rebuke).
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nobody expects the reverse spanish inquisition!
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I think neta°°°hu has an actual psychiatric issue that produces a compulsion to express disrespect towards and insult his foreign allies, akin to george santos' pathological lying. to one degree or another, it is common among that country's politicians, but I think the fish rots from the head down in that regard, it's probably a matter of netan°°°u having greatly shaped the style of political messaging.
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really? I thought he generally finished getting worse about two years into the panda event.
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1:34 I think the main limiting factor to the reach of TMR is sam's aimlessly rambling disordered speech. he should see a speech pathologist and start making an effort to not waste the audience's time with painfully slow meaningless strings of noises and words.
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I googled about the 2014 g°za war a while back, andI immediately came across an obamna state department statement that not only condemned the d°°ths of a single digit number of civilians in a UN school compound, but fully accused i-country of targeting it deliberately. during thiis sl°°ghter now, the biden administration has not issued a single condemnation of an is°°°li government action, while it has disabled probably 90% of the strip's hospital capacity, ki°°ed hundreds of people inside UN schools, dragged thousands of civilians out of those schools to to°°ure them in con°°°tration camps like that g°°a stadium (including children clearly of primary school age, undressed to their underpants in rather cold weather [10-20°C/50-70°F daily range, now a bit lower, frequent rain]), made a video of a controlled demolition of at least one UN school along with many other civilian buildings, displaced 90% of g°°ans, deprived with explicit announcement the entire population of all basic humanitarian goods fully or mostly for over three months, creating a famine that now has over 80% of the world's starving people in this territory, and ki°°ed over 30,000 people of whom over 40% are minors, and only 30% are adult men, while the share of adult men among the population is just under 25%. assuming that all targeted men are guilty and going by i-country's claim that there are 40,000 "kh°mas te°°orists", they are ki°°ing them at in the ballpark of twice the rate that they would if they were doing it completely randomly. the 10/7 attack targeted primarily civilians, and even that ki°°ed 32% security forces. the percentage of minors among the dead was 3%, compared to i-country's over 40%. the response to 10/7 has killed almost 350 times as many minors as the 10/7 attack. not a single condemnation, absolutely nothing. you can not find any statement of this administration after 10/7 that states something to the effect of 'i-country did this, and what it did was bad'. it's all 'if i-country was to do such things, that would be bad, and we are having very serious conversations, but we see no reason to believe that i-country has done such things'.
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@Marbles471 it's not unclear at all. OP says he fought against "them" in the 80s, and the "them" being referenced is clearly today's ANC government. set back into the 80s, the same "they" is obviously the ANC, not the white government. OP did clearly state that OP "fought against" the ANC. (I'm not implying condemnation, just pointing out that that is worded plenty clear)
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I was particularly fond of the stage of the excuse onion when one of thein charge cops said in effect "well we did not attack because he had already shot at some of us" - just straight up admitting that at least dozens of cops who were there for long enoughto understand the situation did not want to risk their lives for two classrooms worth of children, who unlike them had no guns, ballistic shields, body armour, or training. and the fact that they tried to claim that they assumed everyone inside was already dead was absurd even before they got 911 calls from kids inside the room - because they know very well that when an unprofessional gunman as svhool shooters tend to be attacks a group of people, it's almost certain that many of those wounds will take quite a long time to be fatal. they 100% knew that there were dying kids inside.
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@trapadvisor what threat to society real AS is there and how do you know? I don't think a relatively rare and relatively mild form of r°cism constitutes a threat to society. what I do expect is that some minority of those people who take note of and disapprove of the control the c°l°ny and its minions exert in many countries will attribute this, much like the c°l°ny promotes, to the religion or the people too broadly. but while the repression absolutely is a threat to society, I don't see a backlash plausibly of similarly large societal impact as plausible in any country. I do think that the c°l°ny's despicable actions, and the fact that °°°ish organizations abroad almost all voice only support (protest groups formed for the purpose of dissent from it and the few who have always rejected the c°l°ny as incompatible with religious scripture being the only exceptions) have made °°°s less safe around the world. but the fact that no major attack against them has occurred in response yet proves how small of an issue that still is, and there certainly is no threat to society of that kind, that's really ridiculous.
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@Blair338RUM but he does it clearly counterproductively. I highly recommend that you listen to the trump interview audio section about i and p that was released I think in late october, it's extraordinary how stupidly net°°°ahu mishandled trump's need for powerful men to flatter him and make him feel like he's one of them. trump feels deeply disrespected by him, to the point that I consider it extremely likely that trump would actually be better than biden on p&i in his second term (not saying he'd be good, I'm just saying he'd clear that super low bar), because bases that sort of thing on personal sympathies formed out of flattery towards him, and he strongly personally prefers abbas to net°°°ahu now because abbas was nice to him ("warm and fatherly", don't ask).
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invite ben gleib to tell us all about it 👍
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dana bash and jake tapper moderate the first presidential debate? well that answers the question why they're having one this early - it's because i-country demands a shiftingof the public debate sooner rather than later, and they want the candidates to have a public bidding war that makes biden take some grandiose step afterwards to prove that he's the most z°°°°st.
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saagar is far from an obvious fas°°st, he seems to be just a weasely centrist with some nutty conservative mixed in. well, on breaking points he is, how the f°°° should I know what happens on twitter or whereever?
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that's not a biden-specific thing. is°°el and specifically netanyahu have a really deranged habit of disrespecting their allies. netanyahu even made trump hate him by doing that, in spite of how obvious it is that flattering trump was an ectraordinarily good investment. it's pathological, netanyahu can't help himself, he feels an urge to express disrespect like george santos feels an urge to lie.
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yeah no sh°°.
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@jessejordache1869 oh no, ursula von der leyen hasn't been a representative of germany for a few years, she is the president of the european commission, that's the EU's highest office. she took it upon herself to proclaim her german default view of the situation to be the EU consensus. that's definitely going to cost her the office after this year's EU elections, since some countries did not find her stance agreeable at all (mostly ireland, spain and belgium, but I think france wasn't happy either, and I think everybody would have wanted to hold some kind of meeting first to decide a message for her to deliver). if you want to see a german villain, it's looking terrifyingly likely that a guy called friedrich merz from the most right°rded part of the christian democrats will be thenext chancellor, either after the 2025 election, or we may get early elections since our governing coalition is very fragile(they just all don't want to because the polls say they'd all lose seats in parliament). on the plus side, the guy looks very much like mr. burns (and he is a fittingly sinister rich a-hole, basically blackrock's main guy in germany). oh, and despite still relatively steadfast denials, it is a very strong possibility that the christina democrats get their majority in a coalition with the new fascists of the AFD. because they'd makeperfect coalition partners in terms of policy alignment, much closer to mr. burns than any other major party.
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@AFSOC2 not just nordstream 2. both pipes of nordstream 1 and one of two pipes of nordstream 2 were blown up. so one half of the never used nordstream 2 is still intact. I'd say the responsibility of the sabotage is unclear enough that it's just treated as a matter of ideological belief. people more supportive of putin and importing more russian fossil fuels are likely to assert that they know that it must have been either ukraine or the US (german media and law enforcement are strongly pushing a story of ukrainian agents but plausibly rogue or commanded by a part of thr state security apparatus making plans independent of the national leadership, because we wouldn't want to accuse zelensky). people supportive of ukraine generally also think that we should manage without all that much russian energy anyway, and they're likely to refuse to attribute the sabotage to anyone. there is one thing that could unite germans in condemning the sabotage - if it could somehow be pinned directly on andrij melnyk, ukraine's anti-diplomatic former ambassador to germany. melnyk's existence is the only reason why even the most sympathetic germans believe that there is such a thing as a bad ukrainian. ^^
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she could move to germany and still pass for a leftist here, as far as what she said there goes. 🤢
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@sandrajones1609 words hold power, but those words don't.
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@Fink02 to what AS occurrences are you referring? the thing is that the biggest current day authorities on what AS is have all unironically conspired to include most or all of what one might call ant°z°°°ism, because almost all °°wish organizations and all AS-focused hate-monitoring groups are run by z°°°ists who believe that the most important thing for °°°ish security is i-country, and who are willing to bend the truth to provide support. the most relevant definition, officially adopted by the US, UK, germany and several other countries in recent years, known as the IHRA definition (international h°°°°aust rem°mbrance association) includes among other ways to target i-country critics the very straight-forward claim that "delegitimizing" i-country is AS. but the perceived legitimacy of this country is founded on ignorance of its history and continuing criminality, as a c°l°nial aparth°°d state that was founded on the exp°lsi°n of 750,000 nat°ve people - 80% of those then living in today's commonly recognized territory, without the lat%er added east jer°s°lem and the syr°°n gol°n heights, where btw. they exp°lled 95% of the 100,000 inhabitants, that's why there is little trouble in the g°lan today). the g°°° strip has been a gh°°to filled since its creation in '48 with ref°g°°s from what is i-country, and it's been a closed gh°°to under siege for almost 20 years. thr w°st b°nk is de facto ann°xed, i-country citizens can freely live there under the exact same laws as in the official territory, but the nat°ve non-citizens who can't vote live in an open gh°°to network under a separate set of laws administered by military tribunals. they'renot even allowed to use many of the roads. do you think those facts delegitimize i-country? if so, according to the IHRA definition, those are ant°°°°°°ic facts. personally I think it's wrong and extremely dangerous to °°°s to define AS to include facts, but that is what i-country demands - because z°°°ism and AS are two sides of the same coin. more AS means more legitimacy for the state, which means allied support for more land theft and oppr°ssion/exp°lsions, and it means more °°°s from around the world move there.
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no, sam. the chinese governmentdoes not own part of tiktok. it's a private company, those just all by law have a lot of political oversight in china and are required to hand overany data the government requests. the bill targets private companies based in china, or maybe also other states.
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7:25 I think the colonial military releasing that drone footage actually is a very sinister sign of the pervasive deh°m°nization of the native people - they think the video of crowds swarming aid trucks makes them look good because the people in the video look like ants and behave in an uncivilized manner. this is the same way how starvation and deprivation of hygiene products and sightly clothes in gh°ttos and in camps were all used by the n°z°s to gradually transition the public perception of their targeted populations, and particularly the view their guards held of them, into non-personhood in order to make their eventual k°°ling not count as h°mic°de. the pr°°°ganda would present filthy and deranged people, and the desperate conditions imposed on them in their containment areas would actually reduce people to a primitive state of mere survival. I haven't read many books so I guess I can't really compare, but primo levi's two books about surviving ausch°°°z 3 describe this is much detail. he was extremely adamant about centering the experience of starvation as largely shutting down people's higher social and intellectual functioning, and pitting inmates against each other in competition over unsurvivable food rations.
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@hendrikbanhardt4700 I'd say 30% support, 60% disinterested or not touching that (mostly paying very basic lip service to support for i-country), and 10% opposition. the more interesting matter than to what degree some support a fairy tale version of i-country is the very high acceptance rate of dehum°°ization of pal°°°nians and extreme devaluing of their lives in public perception, because that's very present in the full 90% who don't profess to take issue with i-country.
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@darklysparklingdownthestream gibt es überhaupt deutsches linkstube? wobei sowas jetzt anzufangen auch unsinn wäre, man kann ja noch nicht mal mehr ansatzweise normal kommentare schreiben auf youtube
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"PAUSE IT" - sam seder hey why doesn't he have a button when he is the one with the pause it authority, and wants to use it all. the. time.? in fact, you should make it a big round red button like they use on TV quiz shows, or a machine shop emergency-shutoff button.
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7:50 sorry not sorry, that needs to be clipped
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tulsi already had a record of being a rightoid in politics and in private before she pretended to be a leftist and some including apparently emma believed her because she was broadcasting platitudes like a leftist... well, more of a centrist liberal really. her 2015 wedding was attended by the general secretary of the BJP, delivering congratulations and a gift from prime minister modi. she had publically met modi a year earlier on his visit to the US, and gifted him the copy of the hindu scripture bhagavad gita on which she had sworn her congressional oath of office. btw. modi had been banned from entering the US by congress a decade or so earlier, holding him responsible for instigating and aiding huge anti-muslim pogroms in his position as state governor - the ban became unenforcible when he became PM. speaking of toolsi, I wish american leftist pundits would finally look up what populism is, and discover that it's a communication strategy, not a policy platform.
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legitimate AF
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