I can't even imagine the amount of grief and trauma the Palestinian people must go through
2 months ago | 261
Well I appreciate you making a community post because guess what? Youtube hid this video from my feed entirely. Will watch it soon, thanks again!
2 months ago | 242
Jesus Christ. That man just tried to get over what they did to him and build himself a life and then they went and tore that apart.
2 months ago (edited) | 54
I cannot imagine the kind of grief that losing that last child, assuming they were at different times, must’ve been like. Of course the loss of all children and everyone is a horror but I just cannot fathom the moment every piece of my family, everyone I wanted to protect, the people that I loved with all my heart and those who were literally made half by me—I cannot imagine the grief of losing every single little child that I wanted to see grow up into a lovely person… I cannot imagine.
2 months ago | 10
You did such a great job. made me cry at several points...your voice and thoughts are impactful, thank you for sharing them. Power to the Peaceful.
2 months ago | 10
I have a close friend who I do a lot of creative writing work with. A little bit after October 7th, he made a stray comment or two that sounded... worrying. At the time, I tried to push back, but I'm not exactly a skilled orator, so I just let it lie because the only seeming alternative was for me to start screaming at him. The worrying comments tapered off, and over the following year-plus, I convinced myself that he must have come to his senses. Yesterday, we were discussing possible alt-history nonsense for a story, and he happened to touch on Israel. I made a fairly simple comment. To roughly paraphrase, "Oh, well, it looks like X historical figure IRL was creeped out by the colonial aspects of Zionism even as far back as the 1910s. Is your line of thought that the alt-history idea of him emigrating led to him being radicalized rightward by the Israeli colonial culture?" He immediately asked me to drop the matter, since otherwise he felt like we'd end up arguing. I did so, quietly suppressing that sinking feeling in my gut. This morning, while we were chatting, he offhandedly said something like, "By the way, seems to me like X historical figure would have seen the Naqba as 'that time a bunch of Arabs fled the region so their friends could roll in and try to kill him and his' ", and I mentally bluescreened. This is shit Ethan Klein says! This is... How the fuck can this person who I've known for years, who's done so much to help me with my creative work, who I've had so much fun working with, be saying this!? I'm supposed to meet up with him on Thursday, but my guts turn to ice whenever I think about it. What am I supposed to do? What can I do? The genocide in Gaza has been steadily eating away at my soul all this time. Keeping it from choking off my creative work (which is pretty much all I have and all I'm good for) has become one of the major struggles of my life. Now, I'm going to have this sitting in the back of my mind whenever I see him. If he's capable of looking at visions of death and horror stretching back generations and still say, "Yeah, Israel is justified", then... do I even know him at all? I can't reconcile the person I've known for years with this kind of... this I know this is self-indulgent, but I can't say this anywhere else, and I can't keep holding it in.
2 months ago | 116
Only thing is I don't know how to feel about TLOU now because I really like the games, especially TLOU2, and you don't technically have to read into the story this way, one can just take it much more literally. But also, it's a bell that can't be un-rung.
2 months ago | 42
I live in West Virginia all the way west, right on the border of Ohio. Yesterday I took my kids fishing. There were dead deer everywhere. Right now they are dying of EHD, I think it's called. Well anyways, when we were getting back to the car I heard a rustle in the bushes. I looked over the hill to see a Bambi trying to suckle from his dead, bloated mama. It really disturbed me. I'm glad my kids didn't see it. It hurts my heart. It really made me think about suffering. And about how many humans are in situations that would absolutely disturb me. Why can't we get it together. We could really make this world better and take care of each other and the planet. The hate greed and fear takes so much from us. I do pray. For us all
2 months ago (edited) | 67
That hurts so much to read. I can't help but cry when I think about how terrible it must've been for him to go through this, knowing he has nowhere to go to for help. I hope one day all this suffering ends.
2 months ago | 2
We are monsters for not doing more. Humanity is stained with the blood of the oppressed yet again.
2 months ago | 5
oh wow YouTube has not shown me your channel in years, congrats on the newborn! I'll be sure to check out the new video and the backlog I missed out on
2 months ago | 3
With Contra and Philosophytube I feel like I’ve lost two of my favorite creators. Glad you’ve got your principles at least.
2 months ago | 2
Personally, still not a fan of TLOU2, but I lm glad I watched as I now realize how cliche it was for Druckmann to make the Seraphites the bloodthirsty savages, and now I’m checking out Spec Ops: The line as well ❤
2 months ago | 4
People should read about the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Yasser Arafat working with the KGB, the PLO pay for slay, and the swiss banks in ww2. A must read.
2 months ago | 0
Jack Saint
Hey folks - first off wanted to say thanks so much for the outpouring of support about the new video, especially to anyone who has shared it around. Putting this project together has been an extremely emotional experience, no doubt in part due to having a newborn looking up at me half the time I was researching and writing about these atrocities. At a time when it feels like a lot of people are just exhausted with this topic, I hope I've made something freshly engaging and informative.
I also wanted to make a note about the Muammar brothers, victims of IDF kidnapping who I mentioned in the video. At the time I noted the fact that frankly I found it hard to source reliable information on what happened to them (especially in comparison to Gilad Shalit). I have now been informed that, while Osama was later released without charge, Mustafa was held for ten years in an Israeli prison. He has since been released and became director of the Jusur Alamal school for special needs. Alongside this, he wrote a deeply harrowing account of his experiences, which I'm sharing below (fair warning, it is a very sad read).
Will probably be doing a post-release Q&A stream in the next few days after people have had a good amount of time to watch the video. Wishing you all the best. Love and peace ❤️🇵🇸
electronicintifada.net/content/i-tell-my-story-not…
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