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[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago
[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago
[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Is this my personal "water, you mean like from the toilet?" moment?

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Brawndo's got electrolytes. It's what plants crave.

P.E.Z. refers to a nazi propaganda piece about a made-up cabal of satanic, pedophilic, and cannibalistic Jews who secretly ruled the world or were plotting to take over the world and subjugate every non-Jew.

It was a complete fabrication and total lunacy, obviously. But the nazis used it to instill fear and mistrust of the Jews, blame them for society's problems, and attempt to justify the discrimination, segregation, and eventual holocaust.

And yet... less than a century later we have the Likud, Epstein, Israel bombing almost all of their neighbors to destabilize the region under some sort of eschatological and ethno-supremacist delusions, and with a standing policy to nuke the entire planet if their total defeat is ever imminent.

The "torment nexus" refers to a trope where a guy was talking about some tech bros who invented the torment nexus from the science fiction novel titled "don't invent the torment nexus"...

i.e., the unimaginable horror was fiction, until reality changed suit to match it...

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I was familiar with torment nexus and the nazi lies, but PEZ threw me. Thank you for the exoosition. It truly is mind boggling that Israel has become what the Nazis accused the Jews of being.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

It stands for something, but I'm afraid if I type it out I might get on a list. The first word is protocols, the middle word is what you call people who are older than you, and I think you can guess the z...

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Got it with the first hint. Guess I've just never seen it by initials before.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe it's not that common, I'm just not trying to attract the notice of israeli web crawlers...

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago
[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. A Czarist Russian propaganda piece still popular with paranoid antisemites.

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