Sound like the question you’re asking is “What was the Nakba and what happened during the Nakba?”

The very short version is that Zionist militias and paramilitaries used massacres and terror tactics to drive three quarters of a million Arabs to flee from their homes in to an exile that is ongoing to this day.

The person’s statement that the people who left wanted to leave is completely untrue historical revisionism and genocide denial. Zionist military forces very deliberately enacted genocidal tactics to force much of the Arab population in the region to flee for their lives, generally with nothing. Massacre, rape, torture, property destruction, poisoning of wells, and all the other classics were used as tactics in pursuit of this goal.

It must be remembered that, especially by the forties, few Zionists had any intention of peaceful coexistence. Starting with Theodore Herzl, and stated very plainly by Zionists throughout the late 19th and 20th century, Zionism is a colonial project premised on the removal of the indigenous population. Zionist thinkers, writers, and leaders have generally been very frank about their goals and methods.

It needs to remembered that Zionist military forces had been engaged in terrorism and sabotage in the Levant, fighting against both the British occupying forces and indigenous Arabs (among others) since the 20s. The Nakba was not the first time that Zionist military forces had engaged in mass violence against Arab Palestinians. Also needs to be noted that, prior to the Holocaust, Zionists operating in Palestine generally did not have the support of indigenous Jewish Palestinians. They were a self-consciously outside group of mostly secular colonial invaders spreading terror in the region in pursuit of their own goals, and were recognized as such by everyone. Prior to the Holocaust giving them an entirely unearned veneer of legitimacy pretty much everyone - Jews, Arabs, British, everyone, viewed them as a terrorists. Sometimes useful terrorists, for the British, but terrorists none the less.

Look up early Zionist paramilitaries like Irgun, Haganah, LEHI, the Stern Group.

Yeah, sounds about right. I’ve never been able to grok the “martial arts is about defense” or “martial arts is about self development”. Martial arts is about rendering your enemies unable to fight efficiently.

Have you tried Lies of P? It was apparently very good.

Technically God killed those ten people, Satan was just like “idk man do you think that guy really worships you, even when shit’s not going his way?”

Find something that allows you to feel hate. Become acquainted with it just like a person you are trying to befriend. Learn to gaze into the waters of rage and see the contours that form the Eddys of hate.

I would personally advise against this. I have found it very helpful to approach violence impersonally, as a tool, rather than as something pleasurable to indulge in. I find hate and anger lead people in to fights they can’t win or that won’t lead them to victory. I fight my friends for fun, for the joy of battle. When I’m fighting enemies I just want to neutralize them as efficiently as possible and move on towards victory.

I hadn’t really thought about this, but I think part of it came from being bullied. I don’t recall regarding my bullies as people that I wanted to hurt, just obstacles to be removed using overwhelming, terrifying violence, once. Hatred would mean acknowledging them as a person worth having feelings about. When you truly dehumanize someone they stop being worthy of hate, and are just an object to be manipulated to achieve your desired ends.

I really cannot get over hiow directly responsible Biden is for every bad thing happening now. The man is Satan’s emissary to earth, except Satan never did most of hte bad things attributed to him so Biden has no excuse, he just chooses to be like that.

is “Tatanka tachanka” anything?

On the one hand, having a weird chemical engine that can turn dead stuff in to atp is pretty cool, but on the other hand why doesn’t it work better?

Mao directly calling you out from beyond the grave.

Yes. No. Maybe. Idk the details but I bet the news mega could explain what we know so far. idk how they’d know this guy was delta, but I guess if they got him and managed to check his tags or wallet they could get his name.

@whyesseff is always on the prowl for new and relevent emojis.

Yes but consider - Countless millions of people victimized by Kissinger would have remained young, virile, healthy, and capable of carrying out unlikely political assassinations. Imagine a world where every old, broken communist could bench their own weight and run a ten minute mile and would bring all their hatred, rage, and sorrow to war with all the vitality they had when they were 20?

Whenver I see a Bernie ad now it’s just like “Bro, I supported you when you were at the height of your power and we ate shit miserably and pathetically and we have nothing to show for it at all. Your path has been revealed as a completely unqualified failure, why would I support you now in your pathetic fallen state when I have seen you defeated at your greatest?”

Utter bullshit. Just utter bullshit. Aging is criminal and we should abolish it.

idk if this is even remotely comparable or helpful, but back in the day I did a lot of larping and we found that many women are heavily, heavily conditioned not to throw a punch (or, in this case swing a sword) under any circumstances. Made it very hard for them to learn to fight. So a big part of onboarding women, among others, was helping them break through this cultural indoctrination that they couldn’t hit people. We had hte advantage of using foam bats, and the general thing was “This thing is built so safe that you literally cannot harm me with it as long as you’re hitting me in the torso and not the head. Just keep smacking me until you don’t have to think about it.” Like in our case we were trying to break down this idea that physical aggression was both impossible and, idk, like, a lot of women (among others) had this internalized idea that any physical aggression, sometimes any physical exertion, was “wrong”, like a societal expectation that women must be passive and shit, but extremely internalized.

So a lot of it was like “look you physically can do this, and we’re going to help put you in a safe, controlled environment where you can practice until it starts to feel natural.”

And, honestly, a lot of people, once they started to break down and discard that conditioning, they loved it. Fun fact; Many women, once they throw off the burden of societal programming, turn out to be barely controllable berserkers who need to be politely reminded not to try to actually kill their sparring partners.

So I guess my advice would be to try to find a context that feels safer, and practice until it feels safe, until it doesn’t feel like an internal contradiction with your self image. Like, idea, get a rattan stick or a shinai and practice clean, controlled strikes on a soft target like a bag or a sand bag or something. Just do it over and over again, like you’re chopping wood or cleaning a rug, and focus on being mindful of the motion, on control and follow through and hte mechanics of twisting your hips and dropping your arms to put power in to the swing, be mindful of that and try to remain present and away from the past. All much easier said than done, but that’s the best I’ve got based on my experience.

I guess another part of it was creating a positive, supporting environment where the idea that everyone could be a warrior, and that was cool and good and supported and respectable, that probably helped too. Like people were in this place where all these weirdos wearing armor or painted green or whatever were being positive and supportive, and it created this space outside society where, for once, you didn’t have to do what society expected because society was out there and we were in here making our own world. Idk where to go for that kind of departure from the “real” world though. Well, actually, maybe if there’s a LARP group like Amtgard or Hearthlight in your area you could look them up, see if there’s anything that clicks. You’re gonna find people int hat environment, people who have endured abuse, who can relate to your situation and have gone through similar things. A lot of people end up in combat larps specifically because they’re trying to work out how they feel about past abusive situations. That said, if it doesn’t feel right bail, there’s plenty of shitheads in LARP groups and not every group is chill.

Word. That’s a gross thing to say on numerous levels Good on you for yelling at her. : p

If a young person tells you “I can’t wait to be old” look them in the eye and say “Being old is awful in ways you cannot imagine because they are so internal and personal that until you have experienced them you cannot fear them. Whatever it is you idealize about old age; Wearing gross sweatpants to the grocery store, metamucil, prostate exams, farting; you can do it now, while you’re young, while life is still something to be enjoyed rather than endured”

(my tummy hurts and I am mad about it)

I haven’t had that issue but yeah, pretty much everything is harder to recover from and takes longer to recover at 38 than it did at 30. Age is real and it sucks and people who say “:I can’t wait to be old” are extremely strange people.

George “literally hitler 20 years ago but I guess that never happened” “I murdered a million people and sent the world in to decades of chaos and war” W Bush.

, but I take no pleasure in it.