Mark My Words

Once Trump steals Greenland he is going to look at a map with the mercator projection of Greenland, Alaska and the continental united states and he will think ‘Canada is just right there in the middle; wouldn’t it be beautiful if they were all the united states.’ He will then commence serious moves to take Canada.

Before I start, I just want to say that this opinion is based on what I think will actually happen rather than what I think should or wish will happen. Anyways, there are two parts to this prediction.

Part 1: The ICJ will find Israel not guilty of genocide.

I firmly believe that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), is going to rule against South Africa's claims because Israel has a very good defense case. There are few reasons why I think this is the case:

1. The ICJ exists to resolve disputes between nations. In this case, there's no dispute between South Africa and Israel, therefore, Israel could, and probably will, argue that the ICJ has no jurisdiction over the Gaza war.

2. They could argue that South Africa cannot prove intent, since that's a very big part of what makes a genocide, well, a genocide. In order for something to be a genocide, there needs to be clear policy that shows there's an intent to exterminate. Like the Turks wanted to do with the Armenians or ISIS with the Yezidis or the Nazis with the Jews. There's no such policy in Israel. Unless, South Africa somehow managed to get hold of some secret Israeli documents unknown to the public, then they probably have nothing more than random statements of random fringe politicians who don't make decisions on the war. South Africa could, and probably will, provide proof of the Israeli government's negligence, but not genocidal intent. If there's no intent, then there's no genocide case.

3. They could acknowledge the high death toll, but also argue that it is the result of Hamas using civilians infrastructure to launch attacks. They don't need to prove it to be the case every single time, but if they could prove it to be a systematic pattern, then it could offer grounds to disprove the claims of genocidal intent while at the same time explain why the death toll is high.

4. Israel could make a strong case that it is complaint with international law, at least within the context of Gaza. Since Israel was attacked first, Israel could point out that it is fighting a war of self defense in according with the UN charter (chapter 7, article 51), and therefore is not actually breaking international law. Not only that, but Israel could also argue that it has been complying with the provisional measures asked for by the ICJ by allowing for humanitarian aid to go in, launching vaccine campaigns to prevent disease, sending them reports, and so on. If they can show that they are largely complaint, even if the results are questionable, then it'll take a lot of air out of South Africa's case.

5. The ICJ preliminary report had a small, but potentially powerful clause, that demanded that Hamas and other armed groups to immediately and unconditionally release all the hostages... which they have not done until very recently, and they still haven't been able to return the bodies of some of the dead hostages. Israel could use this clause to demonstrate how Hamas and the other Palestinian groups in Gaza hold contempt for the law and their agreements which led Israel to conduct more military operations and therefore prolong the war.

Whether you agree or disagree with any of this is irrelevant, the point is that this case isn't as lopsided against Israel as people think it is. Just as a reminder, Israel usually doesn't participate in international tribunals. If they knew that they were in the wrong, then they simply wouldn't participate... like Russia. Russia knows what it's doing in Ukraine is wrong, and therefore they straight up refused to show up to the proceedings against them. Israel agreeing to break their norms and participate should signal that they're confident in their chances of getting a favorable outcome. Therefore, I'm betting that there's a very good chance that ICJ will favor Israel. Which brings me to...

Part 2: There is going to be a big meltdown from the ruling.

For whatever reason, everybody who's anti-Israel and/or pro-Palestine thinks that the ICJ will rule exactly the way they want it to, which is that the ICJ will rule in favor of South Africa and find Israel guilty of committing genocide. They're all eagerly waiting for this outcome as if it was inevitable... but what if it never comes?

Now this is going to be controversial on Lemmy, but I see the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine crowd as being very MAGA like... which is ironic because MAGA tends to be pro-Israel but I digress. The similarity that I see is in how they both react to seeing results they don't like. MAGA has a fun philosophy to dealing with losing. Whenever they win a court case or an election or whatever, then they will accept the results and their prior proceedings as legitimate, fair, and accurate. However, whenever they lose a court case, election, whatever then they'll reject the results and cry that the prior proceedings were unfair, corrupt, and rigged against them. I expect a similar reaction from the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine crowd.

If the ruling comes out as I expect it to then we're going to witness a 180 from the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine crowd. They're currently very pro ICJ and argue in favor of its authority and legitimacy because they think it'll provide them with the outcome they seek. When that doesn't happen, they'll immediately going to reject the results and call the ICJ corrupt, rigged, incompetent, and compromised by Zionists. I cannot imagine ANY scenario where these people will actually accept the results of the ICJ ruling if it comes out in favor of Israel regardless of validity. You can be sure that they'll meltdowns of cataclysmic proportions on the internet, you'll see frequent acts of vandalism on the court itself in the Hague, the judges who served over the case being attacked, and so on.

Now you could argue that the same could happen the pro-Israel/anti-Palestine crowd if the ICJ rules against Israel, and you would probably be right. I expect similar reactions either way, however, I just doubt that the actual ruling will be in favor of South Africa.

It is profoundly depressing, to have to write those words, btw..

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Trump's leverage will cross the totalitarian-dictatorship point in 2026, .. & right-then, begins rampaging on the Americas, backing his annexation of Canada, Panama, & warring-on Mexico, Venezuela, etc..

.. which means Putin ( with China's backing ) can immediately begin rampaging all of Europe: no help's coming!

Taiwan will have no help, so China's rampaging of Asia begins, then, too, & Modi's India, which bet on Russia saving them from China, when Russia's now a kind of economic-vassal-state of China, .. India's days are numbered, now, & that clock is ticking. The whole region will be Chinese Empire, by the end of this-stage of our current century, given strongarm-process's inevitable results, in the early 2030's.

The rampaging in the Middle-East ( & later throughout all of Africa ) begins then, too.

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The Christian bible has a prophecy, which was rejected, because it didn't make any sense:

"1st is the time of Conquering"

( the 1st horse's man, of the Apocalypse ),

"2nd is the time of WAR"

( this is why the 1st was rejected: isn't war including conquering??

Therefore, Christian tradition rejected what the prophecy actually said, & tradition substituted-in "Pestilence", for the 1st one..

which now is provably wrong: Conquering's beginning in 2026, as "all the pins get pulled, at once, from the crane holding-up the world-order, & that established world-order all comes down at once", reducing the entire planet to a military survival-of-the-expansionist-fittest, with dictators gaining all of the planet that they can, for their kingdoms. )

Scientifically-Testable-Predictions, no matter whom they were made by, are Testable.

That "1st horse of the Apocalypse: Conquering" one, made 2-millenia ago ( a "day as a 1000-years & a night as a 1000-years" ago ), by John of Patmos, .. in 2026 will begin actually coming true.

Notice that the West ( Except for the US of A ) will have NO source of IC chips, so we're all going to be technologically-helpless, in this, to too-great a degree.

No CPU's, no memory, no microcontrollers, no new cellphones, no new artillery-fuzes, no new missile-brains, no new computers, no new appliances, no new cars, no ability to replace parts in our power-grid's control-system: we're fucked by our own absence-of-responsible-governing, allowing our countries' survivability to be undermined, for sake of private-profit's "managing" of our world.

No matter: IF any of our countries survive, THEN probably they'll understand that autonomous-capability is a REQUIREMENT among a world inhabited by dictatorial-psychopaths who deem one to be their rightful carrion..

This won't end, though, until the 2080's-ish..

Deathmatch is deathmatch, & when there are about 9-billion people in absolute ideological contention, then .. it's going to take decades, for this all to complete its enacting.

That 1st horse, though, of the Apocalypse, releasing Conquering..

As much corruption as there is, among the Abrahamic-religion's identified-as-scripture, like the Genesis part which was adulterated to change it from

Women ate of Moral-Understanding ( of Mothering ), & shared that with Men,

to women "committed original-sin, downfalling all our species, unchangeably, forever" ( blatently-contradicted in the Stainless Doctrine that is captured in the Gospel of Mary, btw ) ..

That piece in their book of Revelation, is spot-on accurate.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6%3A1-2&version=CJB

Note, though, that other traditions have other renditions of the same period in our unfolding-history:

in the American-Indian tradition, this same period is called the "White-Serpent Time".

Calling it the White-supremacists' Time, would be accurate a rendition, since that's the nature of what's turning-out-to-be-true, now. ( confederates, nazis, putin, etc, all white-supremacists, it seems )

The Red & the Black follow, in the American Indian traditions, .. exactly as they do in the Christian bible's Rev

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6%3A3-6&version=CJB

( red-horse is WW3, absolute, for multiple decades,

& black-horse is both terrestrial & marine food-webs, broken: gone )

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Different cultures, different roots, but still seeing the same future..

Scientism can contempt that evidence, all it wants, but the evidence is backing both of those, as becoming true.

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No matter how depressing this is, it's obvious that ignoring/denying it will only multiply the butchery it holds on my/our future, so .. the more-competently we adapt-to what's actually unfolding, the better, right?

People who get up & move out of the way of an oncoming partially-derailed-train that is about to wipe their village off the map, are much more likely to survive, than are those who remain in bed, or in the cafe, right?

Putting our lives in-order, now, is called-for, by this.

Our governments, too, but our-selves have to come 1st.

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Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, & may you earn surviving & honest-living, in this unfolding of the inevitable "Great Filter" that all immature world-species undergo, when they've owned mature-adult grade industry/technology.

This process, The Great Filter, is what weeds-out the world-species who're too addicted-to-ignorant-nonresponsibility, to be viable among their own homeworld, from infecting anywhere else.

I expect it to be pretty-much universal, for species as monkeybrained as our unconscious-minds are.

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This is something that I have been saying for a long time now. I, from the very bottom of my heart, believe that the moment Trump dies, MAGA will die with him.

Why? It's simple really, movements generally need to be practical, coherent, and flexible to last a long time. MAGA has none of these traits. MAGA currently stands for nothing. As a movement it has no values, no platform, no morals, and no leadership outside of Trump. Everything in the movement starts and stops with Trump. Whatever he says goes no matter how insane, nonsensical, or contradictory. Trump is the movement.

It wasn't always this way, back during his first term, MAGA did have some ideological diversity that forced the movement to have internal discourse which kept it somewhat balanced. There were evangelists, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, moderate Republicans, and so on. However, Trump has purged them all. In fact, he has purged everything and anything capable of independent thought leaving only blind loyalists and slimy opportunists.

Without Trump acting as their de facto prophet, these yes men will immediately leech on to the first self proclaimed successor they see. MAGA will fracture and split, and the different factions will spend most of their time fighting each other. This will lead MAGA to become ineffective, and because of this, it will fade into irrelevancy with time.

Similar to the ones that already happened to the heads of Nijisanji, VShojo, Idol, Wactor and so on.

I think this is pretty self evident given how only 34% of Americans have a favorable view of the Democrats at the moment (source). Considering how the Democrats over the past decade have a history so dysfunctional, incompetent, and corrupt that they always somehow manage to under perform, even in the best case scenarios. The 2026 midterms are not going to be any different.

Think about it, the Democrats have completely imploded after the 2024 election. Trump was and is so evil, stupid, incompetent, and corrupt that he's a basically cartoon villain. That should have been the easiest cakewalk of an election in this history of this country, a landslide victory so crushing it would collapse the GOP, but instead the opposite happened, and they fucking botched it... again.

Since this election, they've done nothing and they will continue to do nothing. The party is in shambles. They currently have no platform, no principles, no values, no leadership, no policies, no vision for the country, nothing. The old Democrats won't step aside and let new blood rise, the establishment and the progressives are going at each other's throats rather than working together, and there's barely any attempt at even pretending to act like opposition. They're just letting Trump do literally whatever he wants with zero consequences.

In anything, they'll actually go out of their way to screw themselves by infighting, doubling down on bullshit, and ignoring what matters. They'll also think highly of themselves where they think it's inevitable that they'll win only to end up either under performing or straight up losing. We saw this every single election cycle starting in 2016, a decade later, the same thing is going to happen in the 2026 midterms. They will fail to retake congress in a meaningful way, if at all, and Trump's grip on power will be further solidified.

Oh it's coming, and it will happen even if nobody wants it. The movie industry has already gone downhill the past decade or so where most of the industry has sacrificed good storytelling, originality, and art for formulaic storytelling, overproduced effects, and oversaturation. Why? Because the former produces culture while the latter produces profits, and guess what the shareholders who own and control the industry want?

Just like how we went from having creative, original, and culture defining movies being produced on the regular to having nothing but endless sequels and remakes now, there will be another step in this process that further ensures profits, and that's automation.

Not only will AI cut corners and ensure mass production, but it could be a new revenue stream for some big company. I guarantee that over the next few years, we're going to have one of the tech giants like Amazon develop a powerful AI model that can generate full blown movies on its own. It'll generate the scripts, visuals, and audio, and the end product will only require review and maybe some minor tweaks.

They'll put out an experimental AI movie in theaters, and they'll pay all the major media outlets to hype it up and talk about it nonstop for months. The movie, regardless of quality, will generate profit because people will be curious, and these companies are going to use this success to start selling their AI models to movie production companies for rates much lower than it would cost to hire writing staff, production staff, actors, animators, and HR departments... and they'll all flock to it because all they'll see is $$$. It'll be the new standard for the medium whether people like it or not, kind of like microtransactions in video games.