Israel/Palestine

I did see Zelensky’s show on my streaming video service but somehow..

It was the same deal with Mo Amer. I watched his interview on Jon Stewart. He seems pretty cool. I started his show, but then somehow it seemed oddly anachronistic given the last year. I also watched a few episodes of an Israeli comedy show Hashoter Hatov. It was not too bad and it is quite old so less incongruous. But somehow I couldn’t continue with any of the three.

This is not really related to the rest of the thread. It’s just an anecdote.

I haven’t really been following I-P except that it was horrifying. It’s especially dark that it’s fuel for neo Nazis that the IDF responded this way to the Oct 7 attack.

I have decided that I have so many issues with the peacetime activities of humans that war is too much to add on. Anyway it’s not as if allied groups don’t follow that. I am sticking with green and animal issues personally.

But I felt bad that I had not donated as much to Palestinian relief as I should. That’s usually my
way of being part of the human family, which is make at least a token donation if I can’t do much.

But I found it so hard to donate to Palestine. It kept getting flagged as suspicious activity and I don’t thinks it’s so much that it’s pro or anti Palestine as my shitty credit card company doing sleazy shit as “ethical hacking” or some kind of social engineering.

They recently tagged a Dair donation as well. I should see if I can still make donations to The Black Agenda Report. Maybe it was a coincidence, but while all my contributions are in this inane reality “radical left” (absurd..I just dislike stale rot and I am not dogmatic. I only like specific people - yeah they are all on the left. But they are still rare. And I live in a communist state where I outright dislike the ruling party for all that I am on the left) at least they are not giving me grief over my animal rights and green contributions yet.

It’s not my bank so much as my credit card. They have always had a sleazy vibe and I have this feeling they have some underhanded ties to this super creepy movement called Effective Altruism that keeps trying to pile on to animal rights. The last time I was at one of their offices this girl came up and asked me about Malaria Nets out of the blue.

I know that’s a hobby horse with those creepy effective altruists. I should cancel my credit card and get a different one. It was just a meaningless interaction. But one of a kind that I dislike especially. I found it hard to make even one donation to Palestine thanks to their constant flagging of it as suspicious activity. Somehow I feel that tracks ideologically with how effective altruists think. They are creeps. I can see them selling creepy shit as gaming or ethical hacking.

That sounds paranoid but these days there are inappropriate enough things out there which should be reported..