out all the children who are being injured and killed and all that to which I say I really really do care about children like you know I have the same instinct you do which is for some reason they seem more valuable I guess because they have more years of life or something but they do seem more valuable. Like I have the same internal feeling about it that children are special more valuable. It's just built into us.

However under the very special condition that the parents have weaponized their children to kill me I don't care what happens to those kids because the damage is already done. If you turn them into murderers of people who look like me I don't care if they get murdered. I don't care if they get blown up in a bomb at all. Not even a little bit. I think you could have extreme empathy for children of all types and still make a distinction for somebody who's been weaponized to kill you. No I want them all to be destroyed as quickly as possible. I don't care how you do it. You could commit a war crime for all I care. I mean if they're coming to kill me do whatever you need to do. Kill them. I'm just saying it out loud right now.

You don't want to say those things out loud if you're Israel but it's certainly how I would feel if I were an Israeli citizen. I wouldn't give a about the Palestinian children at all. Not even a little bit. You know why? Because those children have been taught to grow up and kill me right. So I'm just being honest. I think you can have I think you can be a good person with full empathy for life and for children especially and still say this is really a special case. This is not like anything else we've seen. It's not like World War II. It's not like Vietnam. It's not like anything. I'm not going to say this about the children who died in Vietnam. I have full empathy for that for example in Iraq yeah but this is a whole different situation.

I love Glenn Greenwald talking about the disinformation industry. You really need to be following him about this stuff but he tells us that the so-called disinformation industry all these fake entities who were trying to get rid of the disinformation it was manufactured after the 2016 election. And the job titled disinformation expert is a fake credential says Glenn and its only purpose was to justify censorship of dissent from neoliberal orthodoxies by masquerading such partisan censorship as neutral science.

And he calls out Ben Collins and Philip Bump as two who have completely left any pretense of being news. They're just disinformation people at this point. Yeah and they're really obvious about it.

All right Wall Street Journal is reporting the Palestinian number estimates for how many people have been killed in Gaza since the war started. And for the NPCs I would like you to come in as always and say but Scott you can't really trust you can't really trust the Hamas estimates. So since we all know that it would be important for the NPCs to say it so make sure you say it out loud the thing that we all know to make yourself feel like you're alive. Go.

All right you can do it while I'm talking. But I had predicted early on and I think it's going to be right that 20,000 was going to feel like a magic number even though it's not a reliable number. Once it gets into the consciousness it becomes magic. And what I mean by that is that when the war first started I said all right just imagine how you'd feel if a thousand people were killed in Gaza. And I'd said well you feel bad for the thousand of course but you'd say okay that's roughly what they killed in Israel. Okay that's about comparable. If you could get the war done at a thousand deaths well that would be amazing like tragedy thousands of people you don't want to die but amazing if you can do it.

And I thought well what if say 5,000 people? 5,000 dying in Gaza compared to the I guess 1,200 or so in Israel you say well there is a historical precedent for that right. Israel does seem to kill 5 to 1 you know when there's a cause. So I'd say all right I could live with that as sort of baseline. But what if it's 10,000? 10,000 would feel above baseline but 10 to 1 wouldn't be so far out of the ordinary they would necessarily change everything.

But what if it's 20,000? Now again that's based on the unreliable reports from one side that's losing but what if it is or more importantly