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The latest Gaza flotilla was a propaganda bonanza for the pro-Hamas crowd.

The reason? European elites are looking for excuses to bow to pressure from radicals in their own population, and many have become willing participants in hoaxes that make Israel look bad and the radicals in the flotilla—many of whom are directly associated with Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations—look like victims of Israeli abuse.

The flotilla's strategy was simple: put on a performance where fake "humanitarians" make a show of breaking Israel's blockade on Gaza, claiming to bring vital supplies to a starving population.

It's a farce. The war in Gaza is, for all intents and purposes, over. Nobody is starving, luxury bars and restaurants are open and thriving, and in most parts of Gaza, life is back to normal. There was never a genocide, and most civilians had evacuated the areas where fighting took place. Where they hadn't, Hamas had prevented it.

The blockade exists for a simple reason: to prevent the flow of weapons into the Gaza Strip. Food and supplies flow into Gaza just fine.

As has been documented extensively, the flotilla was a big party/sex cruise for the participants until they arrived at their destination.

Israel stopped the flotilla, arrested the participants, and expelled them.

Several European countries condemned the Israelis for mistreating the participants, based solely on the "testimony" of the propagandists. They loudly condemned Israel as barbaric after tales of rapes and beatings were spread.

LuckyCharms (23,165 posts)

LuckyCharms (23,165 posts)

I'm freaking out a bit.

Taking Xanax and pot gummies on alternate days to try to calm myself down.

I don't want to scare my wife...she has enough on her plate. She gets scared when I'm sick.

Woke up the other day mostly blind. Dumped "Systane" eye drops in my eyes all day...eyes eventually cleared up to the point of tolerability. My floaters are ridiculous. Straight lines are crooked. Letters of the alphabet all run together like jackstraws.

I have 3 doctors...a retina specialist, a regular eye doc, and an optometrist. All 3 of them are so ******* busy, that they spend about 3 minutes explaining this shit to you before running off to the next patient. They skirt around my question "Am I going blind". Retina doc says it's the front of the eye causing the problems. Regular eye doc says its the retinas.

I get Eylea eye injections. They help for a bit sometimes.

Here's what the report from my last visit to my regular eye doc says:

Established patient. Type 1 with ocular complications. Severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy OU. Dry eye syndrome OU. Meibomian gland dysfunction all 4 lids. Macular RPE changes. Diabetic Macular edema OS. Vitreous floaters OU. Posterior capsular haze OU. pseudophakia OU.

The above is from the regular eye doc...not the retina doc. I don't have a write up for those problems.

I've been posting here either way too much, or hardly at all. That's because I'm scared shitless.

I have some real-life shoulders I can cry on, but those that I can cry with depend on me, so I don't want to scare them, so I type out my fear here.

I'm scared, and this sucks so bad. no response needed, I'm just venting. I'm going to get off the computer and go work myself to exhaustion so I can get some sleep.

Thanks for reading.

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