Thursday, 19 March 2026

Israel fights the Brandolini principle


Hamas literally livestreamed a pogrom and still ended up with large parts of the world on their side. That isn’t an Israeli PR failure, it’s a failure of the West to be able to distinguish good from evil. 

This impairment will manifest in ways far more serious to them than this. 

Israel could have more quickly countered the bullshit but it’s hard to outrun the Brandolini principle

Aka: The bullshit asymmetry principle. “The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

Aka: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. 

About Israel: It’s easy to say “genocide”, “apartheid”, “settler colonialism”, “Gaza is the biggest open air prison in the world”. But it takes whole articles to debunk these lies about Israel.