Sunday "From the Rivers to the Seas and the Oceans" Funnies

Most of Israel’s weapons imports come from the US. Joe Biden is rushing even more arms to them:

As (Secretary of Defense) Lloyd Austin told the Senate, “We are flowing security assistance to Israel at the speed of war.”[...]

“The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said last month. [...]

“It is not in the US national interest to engage in arms transfers where we assess that they are likely to be used in human rights violations”, Christopher Le Mon, a senior State Department official, said in March. “It does not advance our national interests, it does not advance our national security.”

George Orwell's 1984 gets invoked a lot these days, but what happened to the word 'woke' is exactly what was intended with Newspeak. Per Wikipedia, "Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterized by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning." With 'woke' we see the entire project of humanism reduced to a stupid insult. Shamefully, many political commentators not on the authoritarian right still use this lazy shorthand to belittle activists or anything vaguely socially conscious, invoking the right's pejorative framing.