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Emily Brontë lowkey defining generational trauma

everyone is so insane

I love how everyone just allows their dogs to attack strangers, including children

I relate to Levin so much

After a long break from fiction, I’m loving this story so far

Unit 8200 of the IDF (Israel’s NSA) employs a surveillance apparatus that catalogs virtually every Palestinian in the West Bank.

A primary goal is gathering data to blackmail Palestinians to inform for the Israelis: “It might be finding gays who can be pressured to report on their relatives… the system of control is complete because any Palestinian trait whether benign or private is leveraged..”

Interview with former IOF Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur:

“‘After the massacre at Avivnim [a bombing on an Israeli bus in 1979 near the Lebanese border that killed twelve civilians including nine children], I had four villages in South Lebanon bombed without authorization.’ The interviewer asked: ‘Without making distinctions between civilians and non-civilians?’ ‘What distinction?’ Gur answered.”

Israel’s old-style ethnonationaolsm and its hard-line treatment of Palestinians, once an international liability, have become an asset

any book criticized on r/Israel is a book i need to read!

Bruh this book is insane 😭 Just read a section on how YouTube’s engagement-driven algorithm pushes increasingly sexualized videos involving children

Reed asked me why I think social media has made politics more polarized, and at the time I couldn’t explain myself. Found this quote tho that helps:

“Each cycle [of moral outrage] further confounded public understanding of a high-stakes issue and made compromise costlier and less feasible for lawmakers whose constituents demanded nothing less than maximalist partisan stances to appease their anger.”

“The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one’s opponent has descended while simultaneously digging one’s own is that eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.”