Comments on: Open thread 10/14/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703092 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:53:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703092 Over the past week, the Left’s overstepping in support of Hamas is a strategic opportunity for the Right to roll-back the Democrat coalition of the fringes.

This is the recent opinion of Chris Rufo as well as a Palestinian-American pundit who both agree.

Here’s Rufo on X: “Conservatives need to create a strong association between Hamas, BLM, DSA, and academic ‘decolonization’ in the public mind. Connect the dots, then attack, delegitimize, and discredit. Make the center-left disavow them. Make them political untouchables. 2:10 PM · Oct 13, 2023”

Here, we’ve all heard of Rufo and many of us admire his work against Woke radicalism. But I’ve never heard about this man, Richard Hanania, before — yet here’s his post on X making a related if not very similar post:

“Everyone on the right agrees that the establishment is anti-white now, but that it’s tactically more acceptable to criticize them for being anti-Semitic.

“Regular conservatives are being smart, understand that whenever you can hurt BLM and campus radicals, it’s generally a good thing. Anti-whiteness and anti-Semitism and socialism all come from the same source, philosophy of losers.

“Anti-semites on the right though prioritize their dislike of Jews, so sit around sulking, even take the Palestinian side.

“Sulking is bad and doesn’t get you anywhere. Calling out anti-white discrimination on the right has never been more acceptable, so things are moving in the right direction. But it’ll have to ride the coattails of philo-Semitism. This is just reality.”

There is definitely something of substance to chew over, together with the fact that the Genocidal Pali-Left are now seen as so risible and disgusting.

For once “virtue signalising” could exact real, politically influential costs upon the Left’s coalition of the too-willing to conform!

If this story gets repeated airings and thought pieces, it could spread. SHAME THE BASTARDS. Reap the political rewards…?

The investment columnist at Zerohedge.com walks us through this in greater detail, HERE https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-10-15/lefts-misstep-hamas-rights-opportunity

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703032 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:29:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703032 Open Thread Saturday:

A change up the Israel-Hamasite/Gazamite (Iran) war

Israel’s Defence Strategy & the IDF – Doctrine, Mobilisation, and Recent Lessons – Perun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xbkakrwmFo

Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Israeli Defence Strategy & The IDF
00:00:48 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:10 — What This Video Is Not
00:04:06 — History
00:13:51 — Strategic Position
00:20:23 — The IDF Today
00:26:27 — The War-peace Continuum
00:30:58 — The IDF, Mobilised
00:40:46 — Nuclear Ambiguity
00:45:17 — International Relations
00:51:19 — Budgets And Military Industrial Complex
00:57:41 — Events As Context
01:00:49 — Observations
01:05:42 — What Next?
01:09:59 — Conclusion
01:10:47 — Channel Update

]]> By: Cornflour https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703026 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:02:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703026 Whoops, I should have done a more careful search. Many mainstream news sources are now reporting that Israeli officials have accused Iran of attempting to move strategic weapons into Syria.

]]> By: Cornflour https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703021 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:11:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703021 I haven’t read this anywhere else. For most people, this wouldn’t be an unexpected development, but we still need to wait for confirmation from other sources.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1713424262139154685

(please note: to view tweet, must login to X)

OSINTdefender tweeted:

“A Senior Israeli Official has announced that Intelligence has been received which indicates Iran is attempting to move ‘Strategic Weapons’ into Syria in order to Open another Front against Israel.”

(1:19 AM · Oct 15, 2023)

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703016 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:27:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703016 But what is her handicap?

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703015 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:20:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703015 Explains a lot of the driving I see on the road.*

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERTrOwEb5M8

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2703000 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:25:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2703000 @ huxley mostly, but any foreign language learner should get a laugh out of this.
Subtle traps in learning English.
https://accordingtohoyt.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/img3.png

That problem goes the other way also. I have a couple of books in the “false friends” subgenre which point out phrases in (French, Italian, German, etc) which don’t mean what they appear to say.

]]> By: sparkee https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2702985 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 01:19:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2702985 huxley:
“Time Enough for Love” was published in 1973 and your theory is a fine one.

Snow on Pine:
Exactly what I was thinking after watching the video.

]]> By: Philip Sells https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2702980 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:35:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2702980 I’m glad some of you have been able to see the eclipse. It was rather overcast here at the time, and anyway this area is right on the edge of the 20-percent zone, so I think it was not much noted locally.

In poking around to see the news on it, though, I picked up that there’s a total solar eclipse scheduled for next April, which will be passing through upstate New York! That will be a great opportunity. Even as close as Syracuse will be in the totality band of that one. It’s going to be on a Monday, so I’ll have to make plans to take off work that day.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/open-thread-10-14-23/#comment-2702979 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:30:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129555#comment-2702979 Jefferson was just another target of the all spectrum Gramscian Long March, in this particular instance, of the Left’s campaign to diminish, if not destroy, the reputations of the Founding Fathers, as part of the Left’s demolishing of the the Founder’s essential goodness and righteousness and, thus, also, of the underpinnings, the foundations of American History.

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