Nathan J Robinson
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Editor of @CurAffairs , former political columnist for the @guardian
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Have been so proud to work on this book over the last few years, and it's finally coming into print. It totally destroys self-serving U.S. mythology about our benevolent commitment to freedom and justice, & exposes the true face of American power. Coming from
@penguinpress
in Oct
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W.E.B. DuBois’ brief note on the life and moral cowardice of Robert E. Lee is one of the single most brutal pieces of writing I’ve ever read
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This landlord just gave the best indictment of capitalism I've ever seen
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"I really feel sorry for the suffering of the people of Gaza, but we should all remember: they elected Hamas 18 years ago."
Half of the population wasn't even alive 18 years ago.
Does Israel hold Gazans responsible for Hamas' brutality? Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations
@giladerdan1
discusses with CNN's
@jaketapper
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headline: Hamas rejects ceasefire
actual article: Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire but Israel refuses to agree, because they will only accept a pause that allows them to quickly resume annihilating Gaza
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actually i do think the issue of safety on college campuses is important
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I realize JK Rowling's new novel might seem a little long at 1200 pages but a good portion of the space is taken up by fictitious mean tweets
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It's kind of extraordinary that there are Israel supporters who think it helps their case to show that Israel arrested UN staff and stripped them to their underwear.
Israel's defenders have no idea how its actions look to anyone who isn't a fanatic.
Hi
@antonioguterres
👋
Your staff are among the Hamas terrorists who surrendered yesterday.
Any condemnation? Or busy invoking Article 99?
You are a disgrace. Resign!
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israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years
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Israel has killed more hostages than it has rescued
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Today I asked the AI to interpret the phrase "Soviet Afrofuturism" and this is what it spat out
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There is a certain type of Democratic politics that succeeds amazingly well at picking the policies most likely to annoy people while least likely to address the underlying problems
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Wolf Blitzer is very pro-Israel, in fact used to be the editor of an AIPAC newsletter. It tells you something that Blitzer sounds totally incredulous, disbelieving, and horrified by the IDF's spokesman's explanation for bombing a refugee camp.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer: You knew that there were innocent civilians in that refugee camp, right?
IDF spox: This is the tragedy of war. We told them to move south.
Blitzer: So you decided to drop the bomb anyway.
IDF spox: We’re doing everything we can to minimize civilian deaths.
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The reason liberals lose debates to right-wingers is that they refuse to defend taxes, government spending, more immigration, etc. as good things. So they essentially concede that conservatives are correct about everything. See Kamala going "No no we love fracking!"
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Editorial board of Haaretz, Israel's leading newspaper, says Netanyahu himself is squarely responsible for the disaster, having ignored the potential consequences of escalating aggression toward Palestinians.
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But what about the fact that absolutely nobody likes them
Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg could agree to run together in 2024 if Biden does not run again, giving the Democratic Party a very strong ticket that would seem like a natural continuation of Biden's first term, writes
@LincolnMitchell
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@CNNOpinion
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Hamas has offered to release the hostages. Israel has rejected the deal.
Sen. Fetterman today:
“To anyone that is protesting or demanding for a ceasefire, let’s be honest here, why aren’t you protesting to bring them all home right now? Why aren’t you demanding that Hamas surrenders as well?”
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Unsurprising, but very sad: conservative "tradwife" influencer Lauren Southern discovered being in a "traditional" marriage felt like being enslaved, she felt compelled to rationalize her husband's abuse, & the "anti-feminist" life was incredibly lonely and made her want to die.
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Having just seen a video of a Palestinian child getting their leg amputated, I'm not feeling particularly sympathetic to a Columbia Business School professor who thinks people being mean to him on Twitter "forgot I'm a human being."
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The reason you can get 1-day delivery is that the delivery driver has to shit in the van. If Amazon was honest, its delivery options would ask if you want:
—one-week delivery and the driver gets to see their family
—prime delivery and the driver has to piss in a bottle at 40mph
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A fun question to ask defenders of Israel:
What country is Gaza in?
They can't say Palestine, because they don't believe Palestine is a country. But if they say Israel, the awkward question "Why don't Gazans have the right to vote in Israeli elections" arises.
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Interesting what people count as breaking the truce and what they don’t
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I think we should at least read what Hamas themselves say they believe
Biden says Hamas is motivated by “ancient desires” to eliminate Jews
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CNN has just published completely shocking before and after satellite images showing the extent of the obliteration of Gaza neighborhoods. Israel was not lying when it claimed to be focused on damage rather than accuracy:
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remarkable Haaretz op-ed by the award-winning Israeli journalist and commentator Gideon Levy
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You sure it's not Netanyahu, the guy who literally declares publicly that he's dooming any hope for a Palestinian state?
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the State of Palestine is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the world's countries, but the West just pretends it doesn't exist because that would mean admitting it was under an illegal occupation by Israel. The newspapers just cut the word "Palestine" from articles!
I always suspected there was an internal directive not to say "Palestine," because it was so strange that the paper only ever says "Palestinians." Turns out there is one!
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There's an interesting shift going on right now where instead of the usual line that Palestinians were "offered" a state and turned it down, Israel is finally telling the truth and saying "actually we never offered them a state and never will"
"Why should they be prohibited from having exactly the same rights as the state of Israel?"
Piers Morgan questions senior advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Reghev, after the Israeli ambassador said that a two-state solution is not possible.
@piersmorgan
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@MarkRegev
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#pmu
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Breaking news: Palestinian congresswoman is still Palestinian
New: Rep. Rashida Tlaib still has a Palestinian flag hanging outside her House Office amid Hamas’ invasion of Israel.
Story:
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A lot of atrocities don't become clear to the world until after they are over and nothing can be done. This is not one of those. In this case, everyone knows what is happening and how it can be stopped but the U.S. is ensuring it continues.
ROME (AP) — UN report says more than 570,000 people in Gaza are now 'starving' due to fallout from war.
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One of the most serious threats to free speech is the silencing of criticism of the government of Israel.
I have now found this out the hard way, having just been fired as a Guardian columnist for sending a tweet about US military aid to Israel
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The fact that the American right is up in arms about employers mandating vaccines but is silent on employers mandating drug tests tells me they do not actually care about people’s freedom
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The US House (only 6% Jewish) is set to declare that anti-Zionist Jews are antisemites. Like, for example, Jewish Israeli professor Avi Shlaim, who sees Zionism as harmful to Jewish people. He, according to the 88% Christian congress, will be declared an antisemite. Absurd.
A new House resolution, which may be voted on as early as tonight, "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism." This comes after a previous resolution hinted at that claim, but did not fully state it. So now Congress wants to leave no question.
But there's an
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Alan Dershowitz's new book contains an appendix reprinting Hamas' 2017 statement of principles. The statement contains an interesting passage, rarely quoted.
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This is an important point. If the British had responded to IRA attacks on civilians by launching relentless air strikes on Irish civilian neighborhoods, it would have appeared obviously psychopathic and deranged. Yet in Gaza this is considered a reasonable response to terror.
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if they only "feel" as if they were forced from their homes, then why can't they go back to their homes?
MSNBC reporter talking about Rafah & mentions the Nakba in which “Palestinians feel, & this is debated, that they were forced from their homes.” 🤦🏻♂️😡
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if someone tells you Hamas is rejecting a ceasefire deal, remember that the main current sticking point is that Hamas wants Gazans to be allowed to return to their homes and Israel is refusing
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when you've lost the Atlantic, who is even left
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Can we all just remember once and for all that "fought against the Russians in WWII" means someone was on the wrong side in World War II
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If a country attacked a US embassy, what would we expect the US to do in response? And would that be legitimate? Are Iranians permitted to do the same when their own embassy is attacked? Or do we adopt one standard for ourselves and another for "enemies"?
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What I don’t understand is why Dems AREN’T pushing for $2000 checks. Yes you can argue that a new payment added to an old payment makes a sum total of 2k and thus “counts” but since we all agree direct payments have been inadequate why not just demand 2k instead?
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The Republican strategy has always been to screw up the government as much as possible so that you hate it and associate it with frustration and bureaucracy, then they can convince a weary population to let them privatize it and they’ll make a bunch of money
NEW: Trump’s postal service is piloting a new program that will take already-delayed first-class mail and delay it further, by ordering carriers to no longer sort and box newly arrived mail in the morning and then deliver it. Instead, they must wait till the end of the day.
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This is so unhinged. Wasn’t even about mandates, just a recommendation to keep your shots up to date. What’s wrong with this guy? Who reacts like this? And he gives life advice???
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Does the food come on the same planes as the bombs or are those delivered separately
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@USAID
and
@DeptofDefense
are teaming up to deliver tens of thousands of pounds of food, medical supplies & warm clothing from
@UN
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America only looks like a free country if you don't dissent. The moment you challenge authority, the clubs come out and the true face of the society is revealed.
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What's strange is that for a long time there was so much denial in Israel that the Nakba even happened. It's been a rapid switch from "They left voluntarily in '48" to "Actually the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was good and should continue."
"We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba," says Avi Dichter, Israel's Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet.
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"genocide requires intent"
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At any given moment some people are having intense orgasms or riding in speedboats and other people are being eaten by rats or running from gunfire. What a fucked up, bewildering, unequal world we live in
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today in "you can't make this stuff up": a Wall Street Journal writer recommends bringing "prosperity" to Gaza by employing Palestinians to build the bombs that kill them
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If Hillary Clinton had made Bernie her VP she’d be president right now. If Al Gore had taken Nader’s agenda he would have been president. Anyone who thinks the Democratic Party will learn it needs the left does not know the party. If Biden loses they’ll run Mayor Pete in 2024.
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"If people saw the justices they would lose all respect for them" is a hell of an argument for keeping cameras out of the Supreme Court
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Its completely outrageous that those who spent the election saying we all had to vote for Biden even if we didn't agree with him are now pointing to his victory as evidence that the voters agree with him.
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Privatizing something doesn't reduce the size of government it just means having that thing run by an unaccountable for-profit private government (what is called a "corporation") rather than a democratic one that operates in the public interest.
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If Seymour Hersh's reporting is correct that US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, it's a major act of international terrorism (and would be labeled as such if Russia did it to us). His account is very specific, down to exactly how it was done:
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As Chomsky once tried patiently to explain to Sam Harris, the distinction between deliberately targeting civilians and treating them as worthless insects whose lives are expendable is not actually very morally significant:
Hamas terrorists *deliberately* targeted civilians, killing as many as they could. This is an important distinction. It is also true that directing large bombs at urban areas, as the Israeli government has done, *inevitably* kills civilians. While different, both are crimes.
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Wait so this means that at any point in the last six months, Israel could have opened more aid routes and Biden could have gotten them to, but both were choosing not to.
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"Israel is a beacon of American values" is true, just not in the way Fetterman thinks
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There's a third choice, which is not voting or voting third party, and a lot of people will probably take it if they are spoken to this way
When asked about US voters upset with the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton says:
"Get over yourself. Those are the two choices."
Really glad to see she's learned lessons from her 2016 defeat then!
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Trump’s agents straight-up executing a protester accused of a crime should be a huge story. Just complete lawless authoritarian behavior. In a second term we could expect to see this escalate. Very scary.
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Remember: the power elite all hang out together and are friends. Their disagreements are kabuki theater. They all share a core vision of how society should operate, namely that they should be in charge and go to galas and you should work yourself to death.
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unsurprisingly Biden's transition team includes executives from Lyft, Airbnb, Amazon, Capital One, Booz Allen, Uber, Visa, JPMorgan
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If Jamaal Bowman can crush Eliot Engel, we need to believe that Shahid Buttar can defeat Nancy Pelosi:
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My special personal hell: two extremely confident men with a sub-Wikipedia level knowledge of U.S. foreign policy discuss it for 2 hours
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it's just extraordinary to me that the right has spent the past half a decade insisting free speech on college campuses was one of the most important issues of our time, and now they're all in favor of club-wielding thugs tackling protesters
Happening now at
@UTAustin
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Biden is going to sacrifice his presidency for Netanyahu, a man who has total contempt for him and wants Trump to win
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Wow, the State Department official who just resigned over Biden's Israel policy has accused the administration of blatantly violating US laws, pointing out that it's hard to condemn Trump for criminality while ignoring Biden's own illegal acts
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americans are subsidizing free college degrees for IDF soldiers but we are told we can't subsidize college for americans
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Sitting down, occupying a space, and refusing to leave is called a "sit-in." It's a very common form of peaceful protest and it has something of a history that you might want to look up.
ok for the last damn time: THE OCCUPATION OF A BUILDING IS A PEACEFUL PROTEST
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In just a few sentences, the Exxon lobbyist caught on tape explains how capitalism created the climate crisis. He admits they deliberately tried to keep the public from stopping the crisis because a corporation has to serve its shareholders even if that means destroying the world
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One thing that leads people to underestimate Trump is they forget that because he has no principles, he can pivot very quickly to a more advantageous position on any issue. He gets that Americans do not share the anti-woke paranoia of DeSantis, so he ditches the word "woke."
Trump: “I don’t like the term woke because I hear ‘woke, woke, woke’ — it's just a term they use; half the people can't define it, they don't know what it is."
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You're a US senator. What are you going to do about it?
This is just so devastating. One of the most careful, caring, undeniably virtuous organizations I’ve ever observed. Their workers deserve to be safe.
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For many reasons, I don't think fact-checks should cite presidents of the United States as arbiters of truth and falsehood.
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ok for the last damn time: THE OCCUPATION OF A BUILDING IS A PEACEFUL PROTEST
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"I am socially useless and yet I make piles of money."
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There is no sense rallying round Joe Biden as long as there is still technically chance to replace him. In fact, the responsible thing to do if you want to beat Trump is to do everything possible to try to stop the disaster of a Biden nomination.
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Joe Biden is a bigger problem than Joe Manchin. If Biden actually cared about his agenda he would have sat Manchin down early on and asked what he wanted in order to play ball. The fact that Manchin is is a loud opponent shows Biden hasn't played politics well, or hasn't tried.
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no-fault divorce is good actually, and the right want to abolish it so that terrible husbands can keep their wives trapped in horrible marriages
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I hate that when I saw this, for a moment I thought it might be a picture of me
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this is what happens when a novelist spends too much time on social media
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It is journalistic malpractice of the worst kind to say a family was "caught up in the bloodshed" when what actually happened was that the Israeli military dropped a bomb on them and blew them to pieces in front of their children. They were not "caught up," they were murdered.
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Biden and Netanyahu should be in the Hague for this
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Everyone on the left should be in serious fear of what will happen if Trump is re-elected. 2nd term will be exponentially worse. We must do everything we can to stop this outcome. I don’t care if I have to vote Biden to do that. This is a planetary emergency. We can’t fuck around
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This is true actually
Critical race theory is an attack on our country’s core values.
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First it was children who were actually Hamas, then it was ambulance drivers and hospital workers, then yesterday it was journalists, today it's UN relief workers
"Many
@UNRWA
workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts"
The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN, UN agencies, UN workers and UN officials
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Genuinely curious as to whether anyone in the Biden administration has considered the political consequences of hitting millions of people with a financially painful broken promise right before a midterm election
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@PressSec
: "In the coming weeks, we will release more details about our plans. A smooth transition back into repayment is a high priority for the administration."
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Reminder that when AOC accused Israel of using collective punishment, their Minister of Foreign Affairs replied: Yes of course it is, we're going to deny water to the whole civilian population until they "leave the world"
Indeed, Madam Congresswoman.
We have to draw a line.
We will Not tolerate murdering children and burning families.
The line has been crossed. We will fight the terrorist organization Hamas and destroy it. All the civilian population in gaza is ordered to leave immediately.
We
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Let's be very clear what the divide on a cease-fire deal has been: Hamas refuses to accept any deal that does not end the war, while Israel refuses to accept any deal that ends the war. That's it. That's the core issue.
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If you follow Shapiro's advice, I would suggest also looking at footage of the aftermath of an IDF airstrike, so that you can see what the pieces of a child's body look like. If you're going to face the horrors of war directly, face all of them. Don't do it selectively.
Force yourself to look at the videos of what Hamas did over the weekend. LOOK. This is what moral equivalence brings. Rape of women. Kidnapping of children. Murder of hundreds of innocents, including full families.
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Biden's offense, ordering the deaths of 22 people in sovereign foreign territory in violation of the Constitution and international law, is much worse than the Ukraine call Trump was impeached over. This is a serious abuse of power and needs to be treated as such.
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The venn diagram of "people who know what Critical Race Theory is" and "people who denounce Critical Race Theory" is two non-intersecting circles
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Remember that once Elon Musk owns Twitter, every tweet you send is performing free labor for him and using your personal free time to increase his wealth. When you write a popular tweet, you’re a writer offering revenue-driving content to the world’s richest man for free.
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Chomsky explains why neither Israel nor any other state has a "right to exist" and it's perfectly reasonable for Palestinians to refuse to recognize such a right
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I always suspected there was an internal directive not to say "Palestine," because it was so strange that the paper only ever says "Palestinians." Turns out there is one!
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The right can't produce a menswear guy because their love of "tradition" is entirely superficial & they actually know nothing about the "culture" they revere.
They get mad at the menswear guy because he exposes the hollowness and fraudulence of the whole conservative enterprise.
Yes the menswear guy is a guy is a lib who makes fun of conservatives a lot, but it’s very funny how mad this makes online conservatives, like shouldn’t the expert on traditional tailoring be a conservative? Why can’t the online conservative ecosystem produce its own menswear guy
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University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who insisted she was not a racist despite praising the superiority of "European" culture, now argues that the US needs "fewer Asians" and we need to be asking "how many" Asians are too many.
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Chomsky has been arguing for decades that nothing endangers Israel’s security more than its policy of occupation, and those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in fact putting the whole population at risk by preferring expansion to peace.
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it's going to take a while for Americans to fully realize the scale of the evil we're responsible for, if we ever do
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There is going to be an attempt to convince you that criticizing Biden’s policies for being inadequate shows your “privilege” because it means your expectations are too high and you don’t appreciate what pittances mean to people with nothing. Do not fall for this.
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