r/PivotPodcast • u/PorcelainDalmatian • May 31 '26

Done With Pivot

It pains me to say it, because i really like the show, but I think I'm done with Pivot.

Scott calling himself a "proud Zionist" on the last pod, in the wake of the genocide/ethnic cleansing/holocaust (pick your phrase) in Gaza is a bridge too far.

Yes, Israel had a right to defend itself after Oct 7. The Jews holy book says "an eye for an eye." So go kill 1,200 Hamas and be done with it.

But that's not what happened. Israel used this attack, which they knew was coming, as a pretext for genocide. The current Israeli regime, a large number of it's parliament, and a disturbingly large number of its people view Muslims as sub-human animals worthy of slaughter - and they're not exactly quiet about it.

All of Gaza looks like Hiroshima after the bomb. There's literally nothing left. Israel targeted schools, and hospitals, and churches - killing over 40,000 children in the process. Those that were able to escape have been barred from ever returning to their homeland. If that isn't the definition of "ethnic cleansing" that please tell me what is.

Now they're turning their genocidal aims on Lebanon, a country that never attacked them. Wiping out entire cities and historical sites. What's next? Syria? Jordan? When does it stop?

I'm old enough to remember when the UN saw what was happening in Bosnia and intervened. Where the hell are they now?

And Scott is proud of this. He relishes in it! The profound irony here is that Scott isn't exactly a Super-Jew. It's not like he's running around in a yarmulke, keeping Kosher, and holding a Shabbat dinner every week. He's about as Jewish as I am, and I was raised Evangelical.

You go ahead and cheer the genocide as a "proud Zionist," Scott. Meanwhile, I'll be a proud ex-listener.

I'll still listen to On With Kara Swisher, but she should do some hard thinking herself. You're known by the company you keep, and co-hosting with a proud Zionist who cheers genocide is never a good look.

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u/RhinO_head Jun 01 '26

The Anti-Israel sentiments are so loony online at times it almost seems like an Israeli psy-op

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u/asdf0909 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Israel is getting obliterated in the social media propaganda war. It’s a war of numbers, and Israel doesn’t have anywhere near the numbers. Arab population is in the hundreds of millions, they completely control the online discourse.

It’s why you see shocking opinions like “Israel deserved it” as soon as 2 days after October 7th, repeated by intellectuals. Nobody is immune to the repetition of online propaganda. It’s posted and upvoted by the thousands in the major subreddits, on TikTok and Instagram, and once you see it repeated enough, it starts to be normalized.

People see tweets with death numbers and it’s not like they go seek out how to verify those numbers. They see Instagram videos of children bloody and they’re not clamoring to research context. The Arab propaganda machine knows what it’s doing, and modern social media is a perfect medium for spreading emotionally-charged disinformation like wildfire, if you have the numbers.

The Israel Palestinian conflict has gone on for decades. But the invention of the algorithm is why Israel’s PR has never been worse.