'Proportional' Punishment

If only Americans viscerally felt what they were cheering for

I have been ignoring Honolulu Pravda’s coverage of the Godland/Godforce war.

But today I made the mistake of clicking on “41 killed as Israel bombardment pounds Beirut suburbs”.

Reuters photo credited to “Stringer” (surname only?) by Honolulu Pravda

The problem wasn’t the article - I’m not informed enough to judge it - but the comments.

Hawaii is 8,500 miles (13,700 km) from Lebanon.

That distance doesn’t stop commenters here from having strong opinions. And not just anti-Trump ones in this hyperblue state thousands of miles (and km) from the Bible Belt.

Our Diverse!™ state senate in 2018. It’s a bit red now but still MAGA-free.

Genuine Zionists or bots? You decide:

Keep up the bombing Israel! Defeat them all!

Lebannon and Hezbollah need to go. Israel took out their top leadership back in 2024. They decapitated Hezbollah, but the body is still alive. They need to finish the job.

[…] Mr Net[anyahu] is protecting all of them [= Israelis]. Take down the enemy or they will take YOU down! What don’t you understand? The West Bank hates Israel, the whole rejoin hates Israel. Israel needs take them all out. All of them!

Nearly all of that money [to Israel] is spent by strict contract on weapons manufactured in the U.S. and intelligence sharing. Thus the monies come right back into the U.S. economy ,

Yay, military-industrial complex! Money out of our pockets into Israel’s pocket and then goes to MIC pockets back in Murrica. They win, we lose … $900 million a day.

That’s roughly $3 per American per day. All those $3 add up to … death. For the supposed ‘bad guys’. Not us ‘good guys’. Except for our six martyrs.

Glorious heroes all! I don’t call ’em Godforce for nothing. No better golems.

The IDF and the Lebanese government has issued cautions for the civilian population. Those without a dog in the fight leave. Those who stay do so willingly.

[W]hen the civil defense tells you to seek higher ground because a tsunami is possible. Do you stay put, or do you go. Your choice.

So Israel is like … a tsunami. An act of God. Of course. Israel, is after all, Godland. The mostest specialest place on Earth.

Don’t tell that to adherents of Tenrikyo.

There are Tenrikyo believers here. But they don’t matter. They don’t have a special adjective like antiseptic for those who reject the notion that the jiba (illustrated above) is the most important place in the world. So sacred that it can only be drawn (presumably from memory), not photographed. The edge is as much as we infidels will ever see:

Tenrikyo Church-published photo of the edge of the jiba, 1956

Tenrikyo will never get most Japanese, much less Americans, to die for the jiba. They’re just not special enough. They have no equivalent of the sand implant in the brains of 55% of the world’s population.

Baháʼi, Druze, Rastafarians, and other Abrahamics outside the Big Three aren’t visible in the pie.

To those of us in the 45%, the implanted appear mad … to varying extents. The craziest of all are the bloodthirsty cheerleaders like the ones in the comments above.¹

If only those cheerleaders knew what they were applauding.

500,000 in Lebanon had to flee - a tenth of the population. This evening CBS News - a.k.a. The Bari Weiss Show - showed an interview with a cute Lebanese teenage girl who was upbeat about being evacuated. The Zionews message: See, it’s no big deal. Most American viewers won’t wonder what it would be like to be in the shoes of the other 499,999 evacuees.

But imagine if a tenth of the USSA population - 34 million - had to flee because ‘their’ country had to be bombed in retaliation for what Godforce - the USSA military - had done. 34 million is

• more than the population of Ukraine (~29 million) or Australia (~28 million)

• almost twice the population of the Netherlands (~18 million)

• 3 million less than the population of Poland (~37 million)

• more than the population of any American state except California (~39 million)

41 killed in Beirut? Imagine 2,500 Americans killed. The USSA has 63 times the population of Lebanon.

And 3.7 times the population of Iran. So imagine that instead of 1,300 dead Iranians, there were 4,800 dead Americans. Including all of the top leaders in Washington, DC.

Iran's Entire Leadership Was Decapitated Overnight

Imagine the USSA losing its command structure:

It allows you to coordinate large masses of people running around with tanks and with guns. There are bad command structures and good ones. It can be compared realistically to the giant brain of a giant body that is composed of individual organs (battalions) and cells (soldiers). A bad brain means a slow response, a bad strategy and so on. But having your brain blown clean off and forced to fight from there is not an advantage.

Who mourns for Iran’s command structure - Khamenei and his ilk?

Imagine MAGAs mourning for Trump, ♥ANCE, Tulsi, RFK, Jr., Rrrrubio and all their other heroes.

Keep imagining. Because the USSA benefits from asymmetry.

Until the day Washington looks like Beirut.

1. To be fair and precise, I don’t know if any of the cheerleaders in the Honolulu Pravda comments are Abrahamic. And I do know of hardcore war supporters who are not Abrahamic. There is such a thing as secular Zionism. I was a secular Zionist for years even after I ditched the neoCONs. Still, I assume that the vast majority of Operation Epic Fury fans have sand implants.