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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   3331 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 14, 2025

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What happened last week? I mean this literally, it's was such a deluge that I feel like I forgot significant things in it. Asking here to sanity-check.

  • Charlie Kirk assassination, world-altering shitstorm, the swings of the manhunt
  • Iryna Zarutska murder, up-to-genocidal frenzy, progressive release of ever-more-uncensored video
  • Russian drone incursions into Poland
  • Nepali zoomer revolution, burning down parliament and beating ministers, Discord election
  • Israel bombing Qatar
  • Greta flotilla drone attack
  • Trump Epstein birthday card

Is that it? Was there some more israel/gaza stuff? Trump admin actions? Some other twitter culturewar flareup that seemed to matter?

Holy shit, didn't even know Israel bombed Qatar. That seems like a terrible overstep by the leadership, as Qatar was kind of friendly to Israel before and in the US pocket.

Qatar was kind of friendly to Israel before

Welcome to our universe, stranger from far away realms! No, not in our universe, Qatar has never been friendly to Israel. Qatar was a major sponsor and enabler of Hamas instead. Qatar has been playing a game where they try to make themselves useful by serving as a middleman to Hamas, but there never was anything friendly in it.

and in the US pocket.

That's another part of the game. They try to be useful, in a hope that this excludes them from the consequences of their actions - such as hosting and supporting Hamas, which is engaged in active warfare with Israel. Turns out they aren't useful enough.

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