call me Adaptus the way Pharma lives rent free in my brain

i also condemn Israel's genocide of the Palestinians.

it's very unfortunate that Israel has confused antisemitism with criticism of state actions. now when we hear antisemitism we don't know what it's referring to. what a disservice to efforts to combat antisemitism.

there is no world where criticizing a genocide, and wanting peace and freedom for all, could be antisemitic. everything I read about Judaism is life-affirming and just. wanting children to get to grow up could never be antisemitic. desiring that the geneva conventions be respected is not antisemitic. wanting an end to checkpoints and restriction of movement for Palestinians is not antisemitic. wanting children to stop being sniped is not antisemitic. wanting everyone to have equality under the law not antisemitic. it's not antisemitic to desire women and children and civilians to have medicine, food, and water.

proceeds to engage in a whole lot of antisemitism and disinformation

>look inside bar

No, it’s like asking every Muslim post 9/11 what they think about Al Qaeda. It’s like being suspicious of any person who MIGHT look middle eastern.

Aka, fucking ridiculous and prejudiced.

How the actual fuck did we get from “learn to recognize fascist dog whistles and have a zero tolerance policy about them” to “selectively interrogate members of minority groups you think are suspicious about whether they’re one of the good ones?”

Bruh let’s imagine for a moment that two people walk into your bar:

Person A is not German, but is wearing a literal iron cross. You ask him if the literal iron cross is a Nazi thing. He says that sure, that’s maybe the origin of the iron cross, but obviously he’s not a Nazi, and you need to stop jumping at shadows. The iron cross is really just a symbol of resistance against modernity, and embracing tradition. He wears it because he believes it’s important to preserve ethnic divisions and maintain cultural purity. He thinks stopping modern degeneracy is critically important – in the politics, and also in the arts. There are a lot of sick, evil people out there who are trying to destroy communities, but groups like his are trying to resist that. “We’re stronger together,” he says. “That’s why we need to protect our own.”

Person B is dressed completely normally but he speaks with a German accent. You ask him to clarify whether or not he’s a Nazi right this instant because “all Germans are Nazis until proven otherwise,” and he tells you “fuck off, you racist piece of shit.”

"Jews think you can't criticize them"

"Vile stench"

"Victim complex"

"Global Jewry"

"Parasite"

"The extermination you deserve"

"The world is noticing"

"Clean Jewish people"

I'm sorry. Hold on. I need a little time before tackling this one.

Checks blood pressure.

Does breathing exercises for 30 minutes.

Checks blood pressure again.

Pours two fingers of bourbon and sips it slowly for an hour

Checks blood pressure again.

Returns to Tumblr

I can now offer something more than expletives.

Anon, you're suggesting that Hamas helicopters flew in and launched missiles to destroy the evidence of it's crimes.

There were no helicopters. Hamas came through the fence mostly on the ground, with bulldozers and motorbikes and a few paragliders.

I can guess where the helicopter thing got into your head, because there's a whole conspiracy theory about an Apache supposedly firing on the Nova festival (which is a variation on the Hannibal Directive lie).

It's false (wrong day, miles from the site), but even the fake version is about Israeli helicopters.

You heard a debunked claim, lost track of whose helicopters it was about, and handed the imaginary air force to Hamas.

There is no shortage of evidence.

Hamas filmed it. They wore GoPros and livestreamed the massacre to their own families. The single largest source of documentation here is the gunmen's home movies.

They phoned home to brag about it.

On top of that, the Civil Commission built a war crimes archive of over 10,000 photographs and video segments, 1,800+ hours of footage, and 430+ testimonies from survivors and released hostages. Even Human Rights Watch went through 280+ videos for a 236-page report. A cross-party commission of British MPs put out 318 pages of forensic evidence and open-source footage.

So the people who supposedly erased all the evidence are also the people who shot most of it and posted it online.

There's no missing evidence. There are perpetrators who filmed their own crimes, and there are Western deniers who refuse to witness it, sometimes literally.

~6,000 people including Hamas, other militant groups, and Gazan civilians burned families alive, took 251 hostages, and committed widespread torture and sexual violence on October 7.

We know that happened because they filmed themselves doing it, they livestreamed it, they called their families to brag about it, they celebrated it in Gaza, their leaders praised it and promised to repeat it.

They want the credit for their massacre.

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The Exodus was an American Holocaust rescue ship. She was American funded. She was crewed by American World War II veterans with Haganah leadership. Her mission was to rescue 4,515 desperate Survivors of the Holocaust, unwanted by the world for surviving, trapped in European Displaced Persons Camps. In some cases, the DP camps were adjacent to the Concentration Camps where the Nazis had tried to murder the Survivors just two years before.

Though promised a home in British Mandate Palestine through the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British denied the Survivors permission to enter because of Arab resistance. It was the same before the outbreak of WWII. The British closed Mandate Palestine to desperate Jews and 6,000,000 were slaughtered.

Sam Schulman was a teenager in 1947. He was 18. He wanted to go to Palestine. He, like the other American volunteers onboard the old, worn out WWII surplus ship Exodus, wanted to do what they could to help the Survivors of the Holocaust. All the volunteers understood that if captured, the British could throw them in prison for ten years. They went anyway.

One of the volunteers on board was Bill Bernstein, a Navy Veteran, one of the very few crew members on the Exodus with any previous naval experience. He was the second officer. Bill wrote home about what he saw and felt as the Exodus awaited the arrival of the refugees in open, secret, convoys to Sete, France for boarding. This time, he wrote to his family back home in San Francisco: “Our people have only one burning desire – – – the second deliverance to Eretz Israel. The first migration was supposedly the handiwork of God; the second one, we fight for!!”

Bill did fight. He was murdered by a British truncheon crushing his skull. 22 miles at sea the British ordered the unarmed Exodus to stop and surrender. The Exodus continued running hard for the shallows of the coastal waters where the British could not go with their deep V hulled destroyers. Two destroyers rammed the Exodus trying to crush her hull, possibly sinking her and killing 4,500 Survivors, of whom 1,300 were children.

Boarding parties were sent on board with guns blazing and truncheons flaring. The Jews resisted with everything they had, tin cans of kosher beef, water hoses….

In the uneven fight, three Jews, including Bill had been killed. 147 wounded. It became very clear to the Exodus’ commanders; unless she surrendered the British would kill them all.

The British took control of the Exodus and brought her into Haifa’s Harbor. As the Exodus came into view of the Promised Land, ashore, the sounds of singing could clearly be heard coming from the ship. The refugees were singing the Hatikvah with all their hearts.

The British had prison ships waiting for the brutalized refugees. The prison ships, some complete with cages, took the refugee prisoners back to the land of death – Germany. The British were intent on teaching the Jews a lesson.

Journalists present in Haifa saw the pathos differently. They shared the horrific scenes with the world. World opinion began shifting in favor of the Holocaust Survivors.

Aboard the Exodus was a Methodist Minister, Rev. John Stanley Grauel. He was an eyewitness to what had happened during the British attack. Rev. Grauel was smuggled by the Haganah to Jerusalem to tell the story of the Exodus to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine sent to investigate the Mandate. Before Rev. Grauel told the story of the Exodus, the Committee had refused to consider Holocaust Survivor testimony. After Rev. Grauel, the Committee agreed to go to Germany and take Survivor Testimony.

That testimony proved crucial. The Committee changed their position and recommended to the United Nations to partition the Mandate into two States, one Jewish and one Arab. November 29, 1947, four months after the Exodus arrived in Haifa; the State of Israel was born. 2,000 years of exile and homelessness ended, a Jewish state was reborn on its ancient land.

The Talmud

Zionism

What is or is not antisemitism

The word “goy/goyim”

also, what can and can’t go on a bagel

the 6 genders thing

lilith

hanukkah (under the context of how much they talk about it. IT ISN’T OUR BIG ONE. NOT EVEN CLOSE.)

Bris

Francesca, how does the Free Palestine movement help the local economy for Wisconsins? How does the Free Palestine movement help the sagging economy in Wisconsin and bring jobs for healthcare and manufacturing to the state?

Y'all the hate and misinformation in the pro-palestine movement is off the CHARTS.

A large portion of the stuff I see claiming to support Palestinians on this website that I could reblog is either:

Completely untrue and not based on anything factual

Potentially even intentional misinformation or propaganda by malicious parties

Calls for increased violence or hatred

Zealous, fanatical, fascist, or pro-terror rhetoric

Wildly unproductive and beneficial to absolutely no one. Such as things that are not in the interests of Palestinians while also managing to harm the most Jews as possible

Logical fallacies, false dichotomies, useless or offensive comparisons

Conflating Israeli government with Israeli peoples and Jews on the whole

Absolutely raging blatant antisemitism

Using the term "Zionist" as the justification for their violence, hatred, racism, and antisemitism while still feeling like they can masquerade as pro-peace love and justice without actually being critical of the systems that led to where we are now

It's a major major problem. The things we balked against in the far right in 2016 are becoming main-stays for this movement more and more and it's distressing.

I never defend Israel because...well... I don't personally support its actions. But I also cant sit silent while people seem to blindly and passionately fall for all of the traps above and feel like they're doing the progressive compassionate thing. So I try do what I can- speak out as much as possible against the flaws I see popping up in the pro palestine movement with the hope it doesn't snowball into something monstrous and far warped from its original intention. I want Palestinians to thrive but it can't and won't be through antisemitism.

I'm Jewish, and while I don't always support Israel's actions in the current war, I will always, ALWAYS support its right to exist.

The amount of hatred and misinformation out there is massive and to me it does feel overwhelming and depressing, which is probably why I don't speak out too much. That, and despite the fact that I am reading more and more into the situation, I still feel like I don't know enough to combat misinformation.

During the Delphi episode when he wrote "your friend is upset" to Ratchet through the sound-blocking quarantine chamber, it wasn't about Drift, it was about Pipes.

Drift is standing next to Ratchet at this time, but when Ratchet lets Pharma out of the quarantine chamber, Pharma doesn't stop or even look at Drift at all.

Then as soon as Ratchet let him out, Pharma immediately ran to let Sonic and Boom out of prison, got yeeted, watched as Fort Max killed both of them.

Pharma is paying zero attention to Drift, he is a non-entity, he's just another random guy afflicted by the plague. Drift is on the ground dying and talking to Ratchet, but this is completely on the side because Pharma isn't even looking at him or speaking to him at all, he just immediately pulls the gun on Ambulon.

Shortly after that, Pharma got exposed as the source of the plague and he shot a life support machine and ran down the hidden passage.

From this point on, Pharma isn't even in the same place as Drift until he's hanging on the rooftop about to shoot Ratchet, where Drift intervenes at the last moment and cuts off Pharma's hands so he can't shoot Ratchet.

Pharma has never heard Drift speak because he was in a sound-blocking quarantine chamber or in his secret lab when Ratchet was talking to Drift. He wouldn't know what his voice sounds like. In the heat of the moment (including aiming through his scope at Ratchet), he probably didn't even see that it was Drift specifically who cut off his hands. Pharma's head is barely above the edge of the building because he's slipping off it at that moment, so it's not like he had good eyesight of Drift even if Drift wasn't so fast that Pharma didn't have time to shoot. Everything happened so fast that Pharma probably got a glimpse of him at best before he would've immediately been more preoccupied by the fact that he was literally about to die.

On Luna-1 when Pharma brings up why he's mad at Ratchet, he specifically and ONLY says that it's because RATCHET stole his hands. He doesn't mention Drift at all. He doesn't even acknowledge that it wasn't Ratchet personally who cut off his hands. He's angry at the theft of his body parts (and also probably about being left behind).

Not a single mention of Drift. He doesn't even make a distinction between his hands being cut off and his hands being stolen. Doesn't even mention that it was someone else who cut his hands off and Ratchet only took the opportunity to steal his hands after. He's only angry at Ratchet. Pharma specifically says that he's angry 1. because of Delphi and 2. because he views Ratchet stealing his hands as a violation of his body.

The next time Pharma is at any proximity to Drift is when Adaptus is body-snatching him and the only part of Pharma left is his spark (got his head blown off by First Aid), at which point their consciousnesses are fighting each other for dominance and this individual is simultaneously Adaptus and Pharma, or Adaptus slightly influenced by Pharma's desire.

"But Squiggle, Pharma-Adaptus ordered Drift to be shot! Surely his subconscious bias was influencing Adaptus to hurt him specifically!"

WRONG! WRONG WRONG WRONG!

Adaptus, while piloting Pharma's body, orders his soldiers to stop "THEM" not "HIM" and then multiple of his soldiers fire on THE ENTIRE LOST LIGHT CREW, which you can clearly see because Rewind, Nautica, and Swerve also had to duck/run to not get shot, as there were multiple shots being fired from an entire squad/firefight. Drift is just the only one who happened to get hit. The order was never to shoot Drift and Drift alone. Adaptus-Pharma never even implies through his words or his body language that he identifies Drift in particular among the crowd period.

A few panels later, Adaptus-Pharma even signifies that he's the one primarily in control of their body here, as Pharma is merely "trying to assert himself." So the idea that Pharma was somehow influencing Adaptus to shoot on the Lost Lighters makes no sense. And again, Adaptus-Pharma never shot anyone himself, he gave the orders for his soldiers to shoot, so how the hell could Pharma be responsible for someone else shooting Drift alone in the middle of an entire hail of laser fire?

It's not like Adaptus had zero reason to shoot the Lost Lighters. Bro had no idea who they were and no reason to keep them around if they might interfere in his plans.

Pharma seems to only be capable of influencing Adaptus in small ways, like bringing the prisoners to see him.

When Adaptus-Pharma singled out anyone among the crew, it was, guess what, Ratchet again. Not Drift. We don't even get to see if Drift is standing next to Ratchet in this specific position, but it's not like it matters because he's so irrelevant to Pharma-Adaptus that he's not even looking at him! He's literally only looking at Ratchet!

In conclusion, from Pharma's very first appearance to the very end of the comic, he gave zero fucks about Drift. He barely even knew his name. He never paid him any attention except incidentally. Pharma ONLY pays attention to Ratchet on multiple occasions and explicitly spells out that he's targeting Ratchet either 1. as revenge for stealing his hands or 2. because he remembers him as his beloved even after having his head completely shot off and while bodysnatched by someone else.

ANYWAYS,

Pharma isn't Ratchet's petty ex who hates Drift.

Pharma never once brings up Drift as a motivator for his actions.

Pharma doesn't even know Drift's name much less who he is or that he's a competitor for Ratchet.

*sighs heavily* it would be nice to have a day when every event on earth isn’t turned into this, but alas. seeing this start as a trickle of whining last night and become a deluge of rage today speaks to the place we’re in societally.

this isn’t about the wedding or the bride and groom or opinions about anything else. they simply had a handful of Jewish guests and a Jewish officiant, and that is drawing intense levels of hatred and scrutiny under the tattered veil of “antizionism.” it’s convenient that the guests being eviscerated for this are just Jews.

the underlying desire here is to stop Jews from existing in public. idc if that sounds dramatic, we’re seeing it constantly. pop culture is a wealthy microcosm, but this is no different than accosting Jews on the street because they’re wearing a kippah or banning the Star of David from Pride, no different from painting swastikas on Holocaust memorials. they do not believe that Jews should be able to comfortably exist, experience life, and be welcomed anywhere without being interrogated and forced to endure either litmus tests or slurs and dehumanization.

we saw this same commentary recently aimed at Jews who attended Knicks games. using hating on Jewish celebrities (for nothing more than being in public) to normalize it is part of the tactic to make that discrimination more palatable.

this ire at Adam Sandler and several of the other Jewish guests is the same ire that saw Scott Wiener harassed and thrown out of a Pride March despite his political record, the same ire that sees Jewish businesses vandalized, the same ire that firebombs synagogues, and ultimately the same ire that leads to Jews being hunted down on a beach or at a museum or at a music festival.

believe women. except Israeli ones.

borders are immoral. except for "palestine" which needs borders encompassing all of Israel

nobody is illegal. except jews in judea.

minorities define the bigotry they face, but jews are "white colonizers" so acceptable to attack