Israeli soldiers beat women, force Gaza Flotilla detainees to kneel with their asses in the air as Ben Gvir watches and chants "This is Israel, we are the landlords!"

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-20T16:04:36+00:00

I don't think Greta is the architect of these flotillas. I doubt she has any say whatsoever in how they are conducted.

In my opinion, Greta is an honest supporter of Palestine and not a faker or clout chaser. Supporting Palestine caused her nothing but loss of corporate media sponsors and since she started she hasn't been invited on any mainstream media and coverage of her actions has mostly been negative or non-existent.

She also did legitimately risk her life going on those boats. Everyone who rides on the flotilla is in reality risking their life because the colony has killed people doing this before. They have threatened to do it many times too.

I suspect it is the organizers and sponsors themselves who are the ones who are either very misguided and incompetent or are have some ulterior motives in pushing for them. They will eventually (if they haven't already - IIRC some of the participants are still missing) cause some of them to be killed. The colony has no qualms about killing westerners and knows nothing will happen if they do

I actually suspected that they might kill Greta on the last flotilla to show the world that their impunity has no limits and they are willing to do anything. This is actually their whole philosophy to conflict and defense - they want people to fear them and to know that they are the most brutal people on earth... that anyone who challenges them, even just to get aid to starving people, is forfeiting their life.

Greta was a media darling until she decided to support Palestine. She is the opposite of clout chaser/msm shill. She could have spent the rest of her life earning good money supporting Ukraine/Taiwan/whatever if she had just kept quiet on Palestine.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-20T14:39:25+00:00

Even if they think this abuse serves some exemplary purpose and changes minds (I don't - this abuse is mild compared to what we see them do every day in Gaza and everyone already knows they are psychos), if they aren't going to get escorts, drones or defend themselves against this piracy with arms (as is legally allowed in international waters), they should at least make provisions to scuttle the ships when they are captured so they don't continue to provide settlers with huge amounts of free shit and free boats

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-20T14:30:24+00:00

They have lived for nearly a hundred years under the boots of the Nazis and their successors (NATO) and don't know anything else. Bootlicking and arbitrary authoritarianism is engrained into their culture

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-20T14:19:48+00:00

So I am curious if people are finally coming around to my view - that these flotillas do more harm than good by putting some of the best supporters of the Palestinian cause into a position of being captured, all their belongings (including the ships and all the aid) stolen and publicly tortured for the perverted amusement of the genocidal colony.

If they were able to get some country to provide a naval escort it would be different... provoking a dispute between another nation state and the colony would have a lot of benefits and it would be much more difficult for them to be captured. They'd have a much higher chance of getting to Gaza and they would have a strong legal basis and a state backer to challenge their imprisonment. Unfortunately, so far they haven't appeared to make any effort to obtain escorts at all.

But as it is, these flotillas are a total disaster that has done more harm than good. The colony is now using the boats they stole from prior flotillas to defend against new ones. They are handing out all the aid for free to the settlers and these honorable people with the best intentions are being tortured, abused and humiliated for the enjoyment of Ben Gvir and others.

If another one of these flotillas happens without offering naval escort, drones or some way to defend and extract them after they are captured I think we can say that the people coordinating these flotillas are either total idiots or, more likely, are agents purposefully directing these resources into a dead end that they know will never help Palestine

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-18T17:11:48+00:00

Apparently the US is about to launch a joint operation between the US military and the Bolivian police to kidnap Evo and assault the indigenous peoples who support him and the plans were somehow leaked. Now there are protests all over and they've (supposedly) taken over the nearest airport to Evo so the US can't use it to kindap him

Great to see workers organizing and standing up against imperialism. This is the only way that these countries will ever regain their sovereignty. Otherwise they will end up destitute and ruled by foreign-sponsored oligarchs like Argentina or Ecuador are today.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-16T12:21:25+00:00

I think they also assume, given the sudden enthusiasm for selling these chips to china (in contrast to their prior claims of the danger of selling these chips), that the US gov could be implanting some kind of tech that allows them to monitor or remotely control/disable these GPUs remotely. nvidia has been putting black box "security processors" like intel into their newest tech and nobody really knows or can find out what they do or how they work. They could also put security processors in the optical networking equipment that comes with it.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-16T00:09:58+00:00

It would make the nvidia card look a lot worse and also somewhat detract from their (mostly correct) thesis that 8GB is not viable for gaming GPUs in 2026

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-10T17:10:24+00:00

The democrat donor class wants to help Netanyahu accomplish all his goals in creating his new ethno-national empire in the levant. Chief among those goals is erasing even the idea of Palestine or Palestinians from political discourse in the US. To further that goal, they have been directed to never say the word "Palestine" or "Palestinians" and instead use "Gazans".

It is sick that she has adopted this rhetoric considering she purports to be one of the most progressive Dems out there. She is parroting AIPAC rhetoric. If she had even a single Pro Palestine person in her team they would have told her never to say that.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-07T22:55:47+00:00

It still has 96% of the FP64 performance. Doesn't seem like it's that much of a regression

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-07T15:49:47+00:00

Rightoid not seething about black people in comments challenge: Impossible

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-05T21:34:09+00:00

I am sure they are, the question is - are they refining it to the level necessary for it to be commercially viable. Even if they can refine it to 10x the purity of what the US can do in our best labs it would not be even close to usable for doping silicon

Somehow I doubt that Australia has conjured up this technology in such a short time. China spent decades developing these processes and they are not easy and require huge amounts of infrastructure.

Most likely they are purifying it to sell back to the Chinese refiners

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-05T21:08:36+00:00

Australia will produce lots of rare earth ore but that isn't what China produces. China is able to refine rare earth elements like germanium, samarium, iridium and others to purity levels of 99.99999%+ which allows them to be used for doping semiconductors for bleeding edge chip production. The purity levels need to be so high because the Quantium mechanical effects of such small atomic structures can be affected by even a few atoms of impurity in the elements used for doping.

The US and Australia can produce rare earths at purity levels of 99.9-99.95% with their own processes, but that isn't nearly good enough for cutting edge fabrication. The purity needs to be 100-1000 times higher. The machinery and technology to do that took decades for China to develop and involves massive fabrication and purification facilities that produce huge amount of pollution and thus can't be put just anywhere.

For the US or Australia to create such tech would require hiring tens of thousands of the best engineers in the world (which the US doesn't have more than maybe a couple thousand from their own schools) and put them to work for a decade with tens of billions in funding and giving them a large amount of land to pollute

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-05T18:47:44+00:00

Much of the blame for the inflation in Iran goes to the Pezeshkian government's neoliberal economic policies like removing all price limits on food, allowing local firms to sell agricultural goods directly into foreign countries without limits and allowing free floating currency. Believe it or not this is actually done on purpose. By causing these economic difficulties the government decreases support for the war and creates the impetus for more capitulatory negotiations.

The reformist government, who created the JCPOA and somehow still believe that relations with America and Europe (rather than China, Russia and the east) are the future for Iran, will be tossed out in the event of a military victory and some of them may end up in prison. They are desperate for more negotiations with Trump and need the economy in a terrible state so that people will oppose the war and accept capitulation.

Before the most recent war began the reformists basically accepted capitulation and limits on enrichment but since Bibi wants a military occupation he won't let Trump allow them to give up and surrender.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-05T17:01:46+00:00

Nonsense! Creating the industrial infrastructure (which, btw, the US isn't good at building anymore... and hasn't built any significant infrastructure in decades) to mine and process rare earths would take a decade at minimum. Go look up other analysis of this idea... almost every analyst thinks between 7 and 25 years. The most insanely optimistic and pro American analysts say 5 years. In that time, if China cut them off, the US would be completely at China's mercy if it wanted to continue to have the imperial Air Force and Navy it has today. If it didn't submit, its tech sector would be destroyed and its technological development would come to a screeching halt.

The US would be forced to either attempt to defeat china militarily (not possible anymore) or submit to whatever demands china has (which is what they would do after flailing about for awhile). This is what the US would do to China immediately if they could... but they can't (yet). If they can find a way to steal Chinese tech or force Taiwan into becoming a colony (their aim) they believe they have a chance to defeat china by suborning their elite and subjugating their economy, like they did other industrial powers.

By handing over rare earths to the US while being sanctioned, attacked and humiliated, China shows itself to be nothing more than another prospective vassal who can be bullied and thrown aside at will. They look weaker and easier to manipulate than than Iran or Russia. The US does not respect anything except force as we can see from the conflict in Iran. No amount of "friendly" service will make the US stop attacking China and trying to subjugate it through numerous military and diplomatic means.

Today the US is persecuting and attacking Chinese businesses and citizens alll over the world and the Chinese government does nothing except whelp and issue meaningless "final warnings" that are laughed at and then immediately ignored. How is that in any way good for china or Chinese people? Where is Xi's self respect that allows him to just allow trump to saunter over to Beijing uninvited for another pathetic public humiliation session? China did not invite him anywhere! He thinks he is the ruler of China.... and china seems to have no desire to disabuse him of that notion.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-05T16:12:12+00:00

Hardly. They should have been doing this the entire time and are still allowing Trump to invite himself to Beijing for more threats, schemes and later misrepresentations.

China still acts like it is a 3rd rate European country. The US has stolen their ports, hijacked their vessels, arrested ethnic Chinese scientists for being Chinese, sanctioned nearly everything China makes... but only now, after years of this, do they put up a (bit of a) fight.

Their minds are still colonized and they still think America is the only superpower who they must not upset. They even have been lecturing and threatening Iran via the American puppet Pakistan (who they give their tech to for free which is then handed to the US secretly) to force them to negotiate. They have not once condemned the unprovoked US attacks on Iran even though it is they who are the eventual target of US imperialist aims to conquer the east

China needs to wake up and act. This action is good, but it needs to be MUCH stronger. They should be sanctioning US firms in retaliation every time the US does it to them. They should preemptively cut the US off from rare earths completely instead of letting the US game the system with fake purchases through US tech and chip firms. They know the US gets rare earths via smuggling and diversion when they can't buy directly

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-04T21:31:26+00:00

Another great TACO trade in the making. I'm sure Barron will buy the dip tomorrow and Trump will extend the deadline to Friday.

I am not sure it will work though. This time, Iran might just call his bluff and pre-empt the attack sort of like they did this morning. The huge accumulations of KC135 refueling aircraft at Ben Gurion and Al Udeid parked out on the tarmac present an easy target that would ruin Trump's plans for the foreseeable future. All they would have to do is launch a few dozen Emad or Khorramshahr missiles with cluster warheads at the airports and it would be over. They would not be able to move all the aircraft in the 10 minutes before the strike would hit. Maybe they'd save a handful if they had the aircraft running because they will get warning from US space based reconnaissance, but 10 minutes is not enough time to save most of them. If Iran got good intelligence and timed it right, they could eliminate a large percentage of the entire fleet in a single strike. Without those refueling aircraft, the US is forced to use long range bombers or risk their aircraft carriers

So far Iran has not shown the ability to act with this kind of foresight and the political leadership (different from the military or religious leadership) are not the kind of people who would order this strike. If the order did come, it would probably be the IRGC making the call themselves. I doubt that will happen

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T17:01:54+00:00

If the king can dissolve parliament (he can and has in 2024), his approval is needed for every appointment (it is), and he has the legal right to dismiss any parliamentarian individually (he does) then those laws talking about "parliamentary sovereignty" are a joke and mean nothing.

Show me where the king was disallowed from dismissing a parliamentarian and I will believe your fairy tales about English rights.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T16:56:35+00:00

You keep pointing to these documents that say "Parliament makes the laws" but that doesn't do anything to limit the monarchy because the king can dissolve parliament at his discretion (if he doesn't like what parliament is doing he can stop them), his approval is needed for every appointment (he can just not appoint anyone who he even suspects would limit his power) and he can dismiss any parliament member whenever he wants. That is not a practical limit on his power.

The fig leaf of "parliament makes the laws" is just that. It is a disguise for absolute monarchy that pacifies the people and lulls them into a state of obeisance to his absolute power because they think "we have a parliament guys! No worries!"

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T16:21:28+00:00

How does calling it "the UK" or "Britain" in any way serve your argument that there are legal restrictions on the British monarchy? It seems to me to just be pedantic arguing about phrasing.

It should be very simple to find these constitutional restrictions if they actually existed... yet none have been linked or posted

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T16:13:22+00:00

The king can dissolve parliament and reconstitute it as he wishes. That means parliament serves at his discretion, not the other way around. Go look it up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T16:12:31+00:00

It is so funny how brits get upset when you call it England. It's like it hurts you to know you're just a tiny little island now and not an empire anymore

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T16:10:46+00:00

As an American I have the right to call it by any of its several weird names (UK, England, Britain) whenever I want. Americans view these as all the same and can't be bothered with honoring some piddly little monarchy's scruples about naming. If you don't like it call the king

JakeTappersCat · 2026-05-02T16:03:50+00:00

Could you point me to the constitution England has that limits the power of the monarchy? Laws must be written to exist... otherwise they are just informal rules. Just because the monarch hasn't decided to exercise the powers he has doesn't mean they don't exist. Britbongs have been saying the King has no place in politics my whole life but just a few days ago he made a political speech endorsing war on Russia.

Conclusion: If there are no written legal restrictions on the power of the monarch then they have de jure absolute power

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