So I Found This Thing On Xitter, And I Tried Doing My Research To See If Any Kind Of Facts Came Up About

So I found this thing on Xitter, and I tried doing my research to see if any kind of facts came up about it on whether it was true or not. I got a mixed bag, half sources saying yes, and they other saying no, the Samson Option is not a real thing. (Most of the “articles” saying the Samson Option were true were written with many, many antisemitic dog-whistles). As a last resort, I was wondering if you knew anything about this and whether it is true or not, or it is just another “Jews control the whole world” conspiracy theory.

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Samson Option - Wikipedia

Samson Option - Wikipedia

so the ‘samson option’ refers to a deterrence strategy that has never (and is unlikely to) be put into effect. essentially it’s ‘retaliation with nuclear weapons if israel is truly on the brink of extinction’—like samson, the enemy would go down with it.

israel has never officially admitted to having nuclear weapons—this is a strategy known as ‘nuclear opacity’, a form of strategic ambiguity. but it’s also an open secret that they have nuclear warheads.

laughably untrue that israel alone is opaque about their nuclear arsenal. do these people know anything about nuclear deterrence or history or weapons production or the iran nuclear deal or— (no, no, no, and no).

i can find no evidence corroborating the claim that israel has stockpiles of sarin gas, which assad used in syria and iraq used against iranian forces in 1988. that doesn’t mean israel doesn’t have chemical weapons, but this claim in particular is unsubstantiated.

that last tweet is conspiracy nonsense. international pressure has worked on israel before (do you remember when israel had control of the entire sinai peninsula?) and the world is still very much here.

“the world is essentially being held hostage by them” will blow back on all jews, absolutely, even if that is not the intent.

Stop Making Psychosis A Villainous Trait Challenge

wordle and bts may seem like they have nothing in common but both have been cited by redditors as the reason why their elderly relative quit watching fox news and started acting normal again

Republicans intent to repeat history. Banning books will only be the beginning if they win in 2024.

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

i'm sorry, PREGNANCY SUBTEXT??

YEAH! There’s tons of pregnancy subtext regarding the lore of OFA and AFO. I think the most obvious one is AFO’s fucked up obsession with his brother and how he believes Yoichi to simply be a “thing”. But also in the nature of Yoichi’s quirk works. It was empty before, but then AFO “filled” it with his own power (or one might even say seed) which he himself described as an action of making Yoichi “his”. of Afo has also called himself the father of OFA (so I wonder who’s the mother 🤔 Hint: It’s Yoichi) In the original Japanese, when it was described that the OFA quirk was beginning to grow and kick in Midoriya, the same kanji was used to refer to when a baby grows and kicks in its’ mother’s stomach.

Also Midoriya being the ninth and final holder, and how long does it take for a child to grow in its mother’s womb? 9 months.

There are also Greek mythology parallels such as with Cronus and Afo. Cronus, who married his sister, Rhea and had a child with her called Zeus, who then defeated his father. One for all being used right now to defeat its “father”. Another parallel is how One For All sucks the life force out of its users, the same way a child sucks the nutrients out of its mother.

Credits go to @helga-grinduil and @aaawunder for finding these parallels, thanks a lot, now this is all I think about for days.