Joas Haster @joashaster

Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years. This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption. Thread

How sick must you be to be 'triggered' by kids' drawings simply because they are being massacred by a state you support?

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It sounds inconceivable. But it’s the truth. Israel is taking deliberate, coordinated action to destroy the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Explicit statements by Israeli officials, combined with a consistent policy of destructive attacks and other practices of annihilation, prove beyond a doubt that Israel’s target is the entire population of Gaza. Entire cities razed to the ground; medical, educational, religious and cultural infrastructure systematically destroyed; 2 million Palestinians forcibly displaced with the aim of expelling them from Gaza; and, of course, mass starvation and killing - all this amounts to an explicit attempt to destroy the population of Gaza and impose living conditions so catastrophic that Palestinian society cannot continue to exist there. That is the exact definition of genocide. The report we are releasing today is a warning: The ideology driving the Israeli regime is not confined to Gaza. The same regime, the same army, the same leaders and the same commanders are implementing extremely violent practices against Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and within Israel. We are already witnessing the spillover of practices Israel is using in Gaza to other areas - on a different scale, but guided by the same logic. In the West Bank, this is taking the form of airstrikes, demolition of refugee camps, mass evictions, and the deliberate destruction of Palestinian economy and society. No Palestinian who lives under the genocidal Israeli regime is safe. There is no justification for genocide – not “self-defense”, not “security”, and not the heinous acts committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which triggered profound existential fear among Israelis. The international community has not only failed in its duty to stop the atrocities, but the leaders of the Western world, particularly the United States and Europe, also share responsibility by providing support that enables Israel’s acts of destruction. It is the duty of the international community to stop the genocide Israel is carrying out in Gaza. On social media, we are seeing footage of people buried under bombed-out buildings, displaced persons’ camps on fire, children starving, people desperate for water, and hospitals left unable to treat the injured and the sick. As a human rights organization it is our duty and responsibility to say the truth: Genocide is happening, right here and right now. This is our genocide, and we need to stop it. Read the full report, “Our Genocide” >> btselem.org/publications/2…

How about we sing something we’ve never sung before? @MarkoHietala_ , will you be my Phantom? For the first time since 2018, it was an absolute pleasure and blast to sing with you, vanha ystävä! After all these years, we reunited on stage like it was yesterday. Kuopio, how was it? :) Photo: Jaakko Manninen instagram.com/mannisenjaakko/

Sorry for the excessive cussing but this needs to be said about Israel, the IDF, and Glastonbury

Young working class & immigrant American kids: don't go and die for Israel & US billionaires. Your life is precious. They're going to sell you the lie it's for freedom, but it's really for bondage. Bondage to crooks who view you as fodder for their mercenary goals of further power & privilege. To resist is to exist.

What Iran is allowed to do, according to Israel’s own rules of engagement in Gaza: If a single Israeli reservist or Likud member lives in a high-rise building, or if a single pistol is nearby, knock down the whole thing If an Israeli reservist is being treated at a hospital, bomb the sh*t out of it Since Netanyahu is hiding in an unknown bunker under a densely populated city, drop a bomb every 5 meters indiscriminately until you hit the target. Even if you miss, it’s okay, it’s the intention that counts. (Israel “tried to assassinate” Ezz al-Din al-Haddad 12 times, each resulted a massacre. He’s still alive). Israelis huddling at a shelter? Surely one of two of them must be Khamas… I mean IDF-linked; so level those places at random, & claim you were aiming for any reservist whose name shows up among the victims. It’s an inevitability if you killed 100 people in one strike, that at least one of them would be a rank & file member of something! Issue an evacuation order to 80% of Israel, then bomb at will. Anyone who complains, yell at them “we told Israelis to move south” Bomb journalists, they’re “propaganda operatives” (serious Israeli pretext). Bomb humanitarian workers & doctors to starve the population & collapse their health system, then claim they got in the way or were being used as human shields (or that they are Likud members themselves). Every time you kill a lot of civilians, keep repeating “they voted for a convicted terrorist (Ben-Gvir), therefore they are all guilty”. Keep saying “there was a ceasefire on June 12” & “all of this can end now if Israel surrenders and releases the khostages”! Bomb power plants, seaports, airports, water stations, sewage plants… & claim they all benefited the IDF, since soldiers are humans who use electricity & water (works for Israel every time!) Shoot anyone with a white flag, & shoot hundreds of kids in the skull, then call the doctors documenting this “Khamas”… I mean “Likud”! Use only bombs that splinter into ten thousand pieces & kill people in a radius of 500 meters at random! Those are literally Israel’s rules of engagement in Gaza & this is barely scratching the surface. I can go all day! PS. For idiots & dingdongs, this post is sarcastic, I don’t approve of violence against civilians under any circumstances. If this post triggered you, blame your darling Israel not me. These are their rules!

Millions of people are worried about paying their rent, feeding their kids or losing vital disability benefits. If the government cared about people's security, it would reverse cruel cuts, end child poverty and pursue an agenda for peace. Let's fund welfare, not warfare.

Persian Poetry and the Conquest of Istanbul

'Let me tell you what happened on the first day of aid distribution from the Israeli-American company GHF. The people who received messages went at 12 noon, saying: “Let’s try our luck, let’s see if there’s really aid or if it’s just another one of their tricks.” At first, there were just dozens—maybe at most a hundred people. Of course, Israeli media lost its mind, filming them standing in queues, saying: “Look how Gaza is running after aid!” Word spread that there was no organisation. Whoever took aid once could come back again, and no one was keeping track. Thousands stormed in. You have to understand—this is after 90 days of siege and hunger. People were barely hanging on. They stood for hours under a burning sun, without any order, without any dignity. There was shoving, shouting, and systematic humiliation. But Gaza does not tolerate humiliation. It flipped the table. People stormed the distribution point, took control of the aid packages, and when they finished, they dismantled the tables, chairs, fingerprint scanners—took everything that could (and couldn’t) be carried. They even cornered the company’s employees and their local Gaza assistants. The occupation couldn’t do anything—so they sent a helicopter to disperse the crowd by firing live bullets! The Israeli media— Just hours earlier it was thrilled and triumphant— Now turned on its leadership, saying: “You’ve failed miserably.” Even Channel 12 said it outright: “The Gazans stole the tables, chairs, testing devices, and iris scanners!” That’s what happened on the first day. They wanted to humiliate us with a box of food. Yes, Gaza went hungry—but it never sold its soul. Attached are some photos for entertainment.'

To every soulless cretin writing 'release the hostages' under literally everything I post. Firstly, I live in Cork in Ireland. I have no hostages in my shed. Secondly, read carefully what your maniacal leaders are saying.

Happy international women’s day! Let’s celebrate all the amazing powerhouses out there, the mild women, the caring women, the hormonal women, the mothers, the mothers to be, the women who chose not to become a mom. The thin women, the round women, the pretty ones and the beautiful ones. Let’s celebrate us! Let’s keep the fight to equality alive. We are not there yet. It’s up to of all us grown ups to make sure the next generation knows only of unequal treatments from history books. All us grown ups, all over the world! This video is 7 years old. Has there been progress since the release of it? Tell me a positive story

Trump Goes All-In On Stealing Gaza For His Zionist Owners Article with supporting links. caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-goes-a…

Very symbolic of two competing visions of religion... At the exact same time you had: - In Rome: Pope Francis inaugurating a nativity scene displaying baby Jesus in a Palestinian keffiyeh, and pleading for "no more wars" (the nativity scene was built by artists from Bethlehem: vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…) - In Paris: Notre Dame's reopening ceremony, filled with many of the world leaders responsible for the very wars Francis was decrying... Religion either as a legitimizing instrument of power - a crown on its head - or religion as a thorn in power's side, standing with the powerless. It's not even a religious matter, it's a contradiction intrinsic to our humanity: do you fight for what's right and confront uncomfortable truths, or do you comfortably align with power? My Bible reading might be rusty, but I seem to remember Jesus having some pretty clear opinions about this particular matter...

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@HaraldDoornbos Helaas. Je hoopt als burger toch op zoveel beter. Visieloos en geen grammetje geopolitiek bewustzijn buiten de VS/Europese bubbel. En maar klagen over omgangsvormen, terwijl er nul komma nul inhoud is. Zie ook het (opzettelijke?) onbegrip re: multipolariteit.

Wil niet de wijsneus uithangen maar toch...op 25 oktober heb ik al precies voorspeld wat er nu gebeurt in N-Syrië : Door Libanonoorlog en vanwege airstrikes Israel op groepen in Syrië die Assad helpen, is Assad zo verzwakt dat jihadisten+pro-Turkse rebellen weer aanval inzetten.

Harald Doornbos @HaraldDoornbos

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Sommige tweeps melden i/d comments: "Maar Denemarken heeft Syrie al lang veilig verklaard!" Klopt, maar laat me uitleggen hoe situatie in Syrie is veranderd. Lang verhaal kort: kans aanwezig dat Syrieoorlog weer begint, incl opkomst IS, AlQaeda etc. Laat me hier beginnen:

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We will be observing the national two-minute silence for Armistice Day at 11.00 today, Monday 11 November. #ArmisticeDay

We zijn trots op onze universiteiten en wetenschap. Ze maken jongeren klaar voor hun werk in de toekomst. En hun onderzoek laat ons land economisch groeien. Wij zeggen daarom: stop de bezuinigingen op universiteiten en wetenschap! #universiteitenhelpenNLvooruit

Vote For Six-Headed Zombie Hitler To Stop Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler Jack: So have you given any thought to who you’re going to vote for in November? Jill: Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it a lot actually. I think I’m gonna sit this one out, or maybe vote third party. Jack: What?? Don’t you know democracy is on the line this election?? Jill, this is the most important election of our lifetimes! Jill: Jack they say that every election. Jack: But this time it’s true, Jill! Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler wants to commit genocide and take over the world! Jill: So does his opponent, Six-Headed Zombie Hitler. Jack: Look, I’m not saying Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is perfect, but come on! He’s obviously WAY better than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler! Sometimes you just have to vote for the lesser evil. Jill: It’s not even clear to me that Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is meaningfully more evil than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler, Jack! I mean, Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is really, really evil! What about all that genocide and imperialism he’s been supporting? Jack: Okay but do you want all that genocide and imperialism to be perpetrated by a Zombie Hitler with even more heads? Just imagine how much worse it could get with that extra Zombie Hitler head added into the mix! Jill: But Jack, doesn’t it feel kind of silly to even be debating this stuff anymore? At some point don’t we have to stop acting like the election results are the problem, when the real problem is clearly a system that’s so corrupt and undemocratic that it now forces us to choose between being ruled by undead Nazi hydra monsters with six heads or seven heads? Jack: Jill, now’s not the time. Let’s just focus on getting Six-Headed Zombie Hitler into office, and then we can pressure him from the left to enact the policies we want! We can have our little revolution after we’ve stopped Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler. Jill: That’s what you say now, but next election cycle they’ll roll out another Zombie Hitler with even more heads and you’ll be saying the same thing. Jack: There’s a Zombie Hitler with even more than seven heads?? Gosh, Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler doesn’t look so bad anymore! Jill: See that’s exactly what I’m talking about! This keeps happening! We keep finding ourselves in situations where we have to keep voting for a “lesser evil” who’s more and more evil each election cycle. When I was younger they told us we had to choose the least bad of two corrupt warmongering oligarch puppets who want America to rule the world, then at some point they started telling us we have to choose between two candidates who both literally support genocide, and now we’re seeing presidential races where it’s just a bunch of mad scientists creating Zombie Hitler monsters with more and more heads! Jack: But Jill— Jill: Where is the line, Jack?? Where is the line of evil you won’t cross beyond? At what point do you stop supporting evil monsters to defeat other slightly more evil-looking monsters? At what point do you say “Nope, that’s too much evil for me, it’s the system itself that needs to be defeated”? Jack: I’d definitely never go higher than twelve heads. Jill: Gah!