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GrannyC's avatar

I feel no pity for these barbaric monsters. Oh, does the smell of death bother them and interrupt their meal? Does the knowledge that they might lose 1000 Israeli soldiers cause fear? These soldiers are committing war crimes repeatedly. The true death toll in Gaza is over 200,000 now. Maybe even higher. The IDF soldiers? May they all rot in hell and may their memories haunt them every day of their lives. Death death to the IDF.

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Ron Chism's avatar

Also, from what I understand from the context of that "We're not the same people anymore" piece, the narrator is NOT referring to the smell of dead Palestinians. I read it carefully and I also listened to the 16-minute audio. And it became clear to me that he was talking about the smell of dead IDF soldiers.

Okay, I might be wrong about that, but that's how I heard it. Anyway, here's my short Substack article giving my view of that "We're not the same people anymore" piece:

https://ronchism.substack.com/p/how-many-more-friends-do-i-have-to

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

And that's how we keep this ball spinning around and around. Today's monsters are tomorrow's heroes.

War criminals have monuments, holidays, statues, buildings, schools, airports, medals and awards named after them. To me, the glorification of war is the problem. We have countries bragging about their militaries with parades and airshows. We have countries racing against the clock to produce the most lethal weapons to kill other humans. Yet, the "soldiers" on the ground, the brainwashed "order-followers" are merely fodder for the banksters war machine.

Today it's death to the IDF, yesterday it was "death" to the Western military forces in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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denise ward's avatar

Yes. Notice the number of monuments dedicated to soldiers and generals and then the number dedicated to women. It tells the story of who bosses humankind. Women can speak up, women can stop having sex with killers.

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

Hello, Denise, I take that personally, LOL.

I didn’t know that my husband was a killer till way after I had 2 children by him. So there’s that!

But I get your point, they did try to do that right after Trump got elected. There was a whole internet meme around that, women deciding to be celibate or not have sex with any man who voted for Donald Trump. Guess that was a start. It didn’t snowball too well, however.

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denise ward's avatar

Men are making it hell on earth. What they describe is utter hell. Nobody cares for anyone. Of course if you're killing your own kind, don't expect any sympathy for yourself. What is it about men that they want to bomb people and kill? Can anyone figure this out? Can men tell us what the heck is going on in their dark hearts? The fact that men do this is never broached.

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

They are frustrated because they have been robbed of their feminine principle and it has been replaced with a vengeful vindictive God-head. Just read a few passages from their Holy Book and see how masterfully their God wipes out legions of human beings who don't do what he "says." If a man identifies with this archetype, then in essence he will personify it.

Instead of having a balance of archetypes in the pantheon of human consciousness, we have a prevailing theme of a vindictive Killer "T" who will take you out a the simplest provocation.

Men are not nurtured in a healthy way. They are not allowed to have or express feelings other than anger or aggression. If sensitive feelings are encouraged, then the whole "homophobic" trope starts and they quickly flock away into the comfort zone of anger and aggression. That's what I think has happened to the male principle in this eon. It has become so out of balance because of the suppression of its feminine principle that it has caused a dangerous distortion towards violence.

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denise ward's avatar

That interpretation makes a lot of sense. What can we women do about it? We are powerful but in subtle ways. We are the mothers who bring up these men. What aren't we doing that we could do?

I had an online woman friend who was very smart. One day she posted that her son was going to military school. She couldn't have been happier. I challenged her on this and she was nasty as heck towards me then blocked me. Women need to engage in debate not shy away from it. It can be done "the woman's way", it doesn't have to be nasty or aggressive. We could be showing the way. Half the population was left out in all those male writings. It's strange to me that so many women follow it religiously and defend it. The children really need to see the mothers speak up now. Children are being bombed to pieces and being sexually tortured and raped. Women need to light a fire in the belly of the world now. Salute to you and your sound rationale.

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

Yes, I think we women get caught up in the hype of the "Macho Male" icon. We slobber at the mouth and feel oh so protected when men go off to military school or the military services. We wait for them to come home and get a medal. We cry when they die, or come home permanently damaged. We never connect the dots that the so-called "toxic male" is made at home by the way we raise them. I also challenged someone who was hell bent on the "toxic male" meme. She did not want to face the fact that she helped create that "toxic man" in her own home.

Men become toxic because their feminine principle is repressed and suppressed. They are told to be this "ideal" of a man that does not lead to them having a healthy self-image. They are not allowed to cry. Ironically, even I wanted my sons to go to military school. As a single mom, it felt safe that they would get the discipline and training that would help them navigate this crazy world.

Fortunately, they were not accepted, while one of my sons did choose the Navy. They both do cry though, I did at least teach them that it was okay to cry. One of my sons cried a bucket of tears at his wedding.

We live in a society that is not geared towards men being healthy and balanced with a comfortable attitude towards their feminine side. More often than not, the men who are sensitive, beat their female side by beating or abusing women.

The way our planet is treated, our mother Earth, is a strong indicator of how the male principle is at odds with its female side. Just look at the weapons, they are all shaped like phallics (penises).

It's too funny, most often when they depict an alien ship, it's often oval shaped. And when it arrives, what do the men do??? They shoot their phallic shaped weapons at it. It seems we are in the eon where the male principal is in an all out war with the female principle.

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Ron Chism's avatar

Hmmmmm. Well, okay. But here's my 2 cents:

https://ronchism.substack.com/p/how-many-more-friends-do-i-have-to

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