Most of the population has been correctly identified as "pigs"
There has been a lot of buzz on social media about the supposed US plan to resettle approximately one million people from the Gaza Strip to various sites in Libya. This is, we are told, to make way for Donald Trump's other plan to turn the Gaza Strip into a new Riviera.
The Gaza-to-Libya resettlement plan (AKA ethnic cleansing plan) is based on an NBC new story, which makes it all seem very real and also shows how gullible journalists can be:
The actual amount of frozen Libyan assets is $34 billion.
There are also fears on social media that Libya would only be an intermediate stage for a renewed wave of mass migration of Palestinians into Europe, possibly with the actual connivance of America as part of some dastardly plan to stir up populism nationalism and division amongst the EU states in a deft move to weaken the it vis-a-vis the USA.
This all sounds rather far fetched for this obviously short-sighted and increasingly erratic US government. Of course, it's quite possible that members of the Trump administration have been discussing such a plan with elements of Libya's leadership, but that doesn't actually mean that there is any serious intention to follow through with it. It's much more likely to be a case of just the Trump administration attempting, in Steve Bannon's words, to "flood the zone with shit" again, or in other words "slop politics."
"The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said. In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said."
The actual amount of frozen Libyan assets is $34 billion.
There are also fears on social media that Libya would only be an intermediate stage for a renewed wave of mass migration of Palestinians into Europe, possibly with the actual connivance of America as part of some dastardly plan to stir up populism nationalism and division amongst the EU states in a deft move to weaken the it vis-a-vis the USA.
This all sounds rather far fetched for this obviously short-sighted and increasingly erratic US government. Of course, it's quite possible that members of the Trump administration have been discussing such a plan with elements of Libya's leadership, but that doesn't actually mean that there is any serious intention to follow through with it. It's much more likely to be a case of just the Trump administration attempting, in Steve Bannon's words, to "flood the zone with shit" again, or in other words "slop politics."
In an earlier article I defined slop politics, noting its similarities to the kind of garbage that social media algorithmically targets at you to gain your fleeting attention. I also made the distinction between such political slop and "old fashioned" politics that sincerely tried to address issues and make a difference, whether that difference was for better or worse:
The people behind the Trump Administration are completely cynical at amoral about the way they manipulate the news narrative. They are also deeply ignorant about many of the issues that they weaponize as "slop bombs."
The fact is that there is simply no possibility of a Gaza-to-Libya resettlement plan happening, but the point is that almost nobody except for a few experts on Middle Eastern politics or well-informed people of high IQ will realise this. Everybody else is too ignorant about political realities to know that this plan is pure, unrealistic slop. In short, they are effectively easily manipulated "pigs."
Nowadays, with the new cycle you have to be increasingly adept at filtering out the garbage and sluicing off the slop. If you don't, your brain will increasingly be occupied by political and geopolitical spam that will waste your time, deplete your energy, and pollute your thought processes, with the end result that you will disconnect from politics.
This is entirely the objective of slop politics. It is in a tool of depoliticization used by elites, in this case the Trump Administration, to place you in a relationship of passivity to reality and power.
"Real politicians look for sensible, solid, workable solutions that can be processed into actual laws, and then enforced. It's hard work and it unfortunately takes time and requires building consensus. It's also kind of boring. Slop politicians, by contrast, throw everything up in the air and shoot off a few performative gestures that are just good enough to grab your incontinent attention and make you feel like something important is happening..."
The people behind the Trump Administration are completely cynical at amoral about the way they manipulate the news narrative. They are also deeply ignorant about many of the issues that they weaponize as "slop bombs."
The fact is that there is simply no possibility of a Gaza-to-Libya resettlement plan happening, but the point is that almost nobody except for a few experts on Middle Eastern politics or well-informed people of high IQ will realise this. Everybody else is too ignorant about political realities to know that this plan is pure, unrealistic slop. In short, they are effectively easily manipulated "pigs."
First of all, the plan itself remains unconfirmed. Despite the story , the administration has directly denied its existence:
Of course this doesn't mean that the administration has not discussed such a plan, but it shows that the it is mainly interested in using it as slop rather than has something more substantial. But even if the US government got fully behind the plan, it is still not going to happen. Why?
Quite simply because Libya is a basket case and the entire Middle East is and Europe would be against such a blatant case of ethnic cleansing. In fact, this is just a case off earlier political slop hinting at relocating Palestinians to Sudan, Somalia, or Somaliland, Which completely went nowhere.
Right now Libya looks like this:
“These reports are untrue. The situation on the ground is untenable for such a plan. Such a plan was not discussed and makes no sense.”
Of course this doesn't mean that the administration has not discussed such a plan, but it shows that the it is mainly interested in using it as slop rather than has something more substantial. But even if the US government got fully behind the plan, it is still not going to happen. Why?
Quite simply because Libya is a basket case and the entire Middle East is and Europe would be against such a blatant case of ethnic cleansing. In fact, this is just a case off earlier political slop hinting at relocating Palestinians to Sudan, Somalia, or Somaliland, Which completely went nowhere.
Right now Libya looks like this:
There is no clear, unified government, and even if there were, it would face massive pressure diplomatically and from its own people to resist the plan.
The supposed party with which the plan would deal, the Government of National Unity (the orange bit), has previously rejected using Libyan territory for deporting small groups of migrants. It would hardly welcome one million Palestinians even for the $34 billion of its own money that is on the table ($3400 per migrant).
Also, the plan would have to incentivize Palestinians, by offering them sufficient incentives and accommodation to relocate. None of that would be cheap, and the no-one would finance it, especially those rich Gulf States that Trump has been sucking up to in recent days.
All of the Gulf States and Egypt are already on record as defining the removal of Palestinians from Gaza as ethnic cleansing, and if Trump's recent visit to the Middle East has proved anything, it has proved that America's leverage over the Middle East is sharply in decline and that the leverage has now started to flow the other way; this is why we saw Trump doing a deal with Hamas that bypassed Israel, while also lifting sanctions on Syria, etc.
The supposed party with which the plan would deal, the Government of National Unity (the orange bit), has previously rejected using Libyan territory for deporting small groups of migrants. It would hardly welcome one million Palestinians even for the $34 billion of its own money that is on the table ($3400 per migrant).
Also, the plan would have to incentivize Palestinians, by offering them sufficient incentives and accommodation to relocate. None of that would be cheap, and the no-one would finance it, especially those rich Gulf States that Trump has been sucking up to in recent days.
All of the Gulf States and Egypt are already on record as defining the removal of Palestinians from Gaza as ethnic cleansing, and if Trump's recent visit to the Middle East has proved anything, it has proved that America's leverage over the Middle East is sharply in decline and that the leverage has now started to flow the other way; this is why we saw Trump doing a deal with Hamas that bypassed Israel, while also lifting sanctions on Syria, etc.
Even far-right hard-liners in Israel’s government, like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who believe in "relocating" Palestinians, think it should be done "voluntarily." Whatever they privately think, this at least shows the limits of their position in terms of realistic policy.
So, forget about this absurd plan.
So, forget about this absurd plan.
Nowadays, with the new cycle you have to be increasingly adept at filtering out the garbage and sluicing off the slop. If you don't, your brain will increasingly be occupied by political and geopolitical spam that will waste your time, deplete your energy, and pollute your thought processes, with the end result that you will disconnect from politics.
This is entirely the objective of slop politics. It is in a tool of depoliticization used by elites, in this case the Trump Administration, to place you in a relationship of passivity to reality and power.
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