From a journalistic perspective, this article is kind of meaningless.

The context here is that Randy Fine is an outspoken bigot. He is proudly extreme is in his endorsement of violence, threats, and genocidal rhetoric towards Muslims, Arabs, and really antifascists too.

Fox News is a propaganda outlet that monetizes conservative paranoia and hate by supplying stories to an addicted audience.

This event is newsworthy in that it’s good for us to be aware of what figures are producing what content to what audience, but other than that it’s not shocking or specifically meaningful that Fine went on Fox and said the things that are routinely said by Fine and on Fox News.

As far as I can tell, this article could’ve literally been written by having an LLM review transcripts of Fox primetime interviews, find the most outrageous comment of the day, clipping it, and then giving a summary to try and keep liberals clicking through their site.

I think all news should be viewed through the questions, ‘What is this providing me?’ and ‘How does this guide my actions?’ In this case, the answers are, ‘It provides a check-in on Rep. Fine and Fox’ and ‘We need to continue to support the people who are doing the work of uplifting alternatives to fascism.’

Oof.

I remember when reading this story this was something that had confused me. The articles reported the IDF killing an entire squad of medics, and then the article had this one guy saying, ‘We had our lights on! They knew who we were!’ And I was wondering why and how there was an entire group of medics slaughtered, and just one survivor somehow speaking to the press. It was never really mentioned in the articles I read why or how this guy wasn’t decomposing in a shallow grave with the rest of his group.

I guess this is why. He pleaded convincingly, and they weren’t certain if he might be an Israeli citizen, so they arrested him instead of executing him. That is fucked all to hell, but at least now I have the answer. Shit.

Oy. I really don’t want to see what happens when we’re faced with an actual challenge. This is… yikes.

The words and actions described in this article are so bewilderingly, shockingly evil that I had to check them against the sources in Israeli news. I already know Dropsite News is credible and reputable, but I still couldn’t believe that Netanyahu and Smotrich would just say the quite part out loud like this. This is so, so, distrubing.

I guess the silver lining is that Netanyahu has acknowledged that there is some kind of red line. Apparently, if he put on a swastika armband and started shouting ‘Gas them all!’, there are senators in the US who would actually apply some kind of sanctions on Israel. I wonder who they are. Lindsay Graham, for instance, would cheer like a banshee. Fetterman would surely jizz his dirty gym shorts. But Schumer or someone called him and actually said that there’s something he could do that would cost him an actual price.

It’s… it’s head spinning. Yesterday, I returned from a quick grocery run, and my five year old son ran out giggling to see what I’d brought home. He was just filled with effervescent joy that I’d gotten blueberries, blackberries, and rice crispy treats. And it just broke my heart because I couldn’t not think about children dying from starvation who are fundamentally no different from my son. There but for the grace of god go all our children. It’s like drowning in slow motion. It just haunts me that these people are capable of exterminationism of this kind.

But yeah… apparently, they’re only allowed to exterminate the Palestinians if they don’t say overtly ‘We will kill them all with starvation’. They still need to say ‘We are fighting a war of defense’ in order to get permission from their US backers. Good to know, I suppose.

Keep up the pressure. Even they know that they can’t achieve their final solution if the world rises up and stops them.

I just want to give credit for the excellent writing in this article:

The demonstrations took place following the announcement earlier this month that Israel would launch a full military occupation of the entire Gaza Strip and impose the mass internment of the population in concentration camps under armed guard, as a prelude to forced marches through the desert or deportation by sea. This is backed by US President Donald Trump, who concluded his Middle East tour in Qatar Thursday by reiterating his administration’s plan to annex the Gaza Strip.

Every newspaper should be using the words annexation, forced displacement, genocide, etc without qualifiers.

Thank you!

Also: this article omits serious context about what the IDF does with the information Microsoft is describing!

Over a year ago, 972 wrote an explosive expose on IDF ai targeting. It’s all pretty blunt. A general name Yossi Sariel wrote a book describing how AI could automate industrialized killing, and these plans were put into practice to deliberately target civilian infrastructure when entire families were sitting down to meals. The tools included Lavender, which composed target lists that pretty much included any male over 14 and Daddy’s Home, which tracked targets generated by Lavender and generated strike plans when it determined that the target was at their home.

There’s no good reason why the Independent left this out. A general literally wrote a book about this, and it’s been a year since this information came out.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

To be fair, that wasn’t really her primary issue. Her primary principle was catering to donors and trying to protect the Democratic party from socialism. Which she did.

Enabling the genocide was just a means to that larger end. But the result it’s the same.

Yo I self host a Nextcloud server and I don’t know what an apk is. Please stop being a gatekeeper. Grandma Ruth deserves alternatives to big tech just like the rest of us.

All freedom to all the people. These tools aren’t supposed to be some special privilege for 1337 hackers. They should be ubiquitous.

Ditto.

Wtf, man. Hit “Publish” when you’re ready to say something.

Also, I think a lot could be done to improve this problem just be recognizing the existing institutions that were serving this role that have been severely hampered.

Trusted local news can do a lot. We should find subsidy models that support those.

(I wonder if that’s there brilliant idea. Either that or a superintelligent LLM that magically provides an infallible source of indisputable truth.)

Did you find fault with their sourcing after watching, or just dismiss it unseen because of its platform?

For most it’s about the money. Biden is a Zionist true-believer, though.

He covered up their crimes because he believes deep in his soul that their conquest of the religion is an unassailable right, no matter how brutal. It’s a very fucked up belief system, but that’s where he’s at.