Ab_smith24
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With the obligatory caveat that large media layoffs entail firing good reporters and create personal hardship: It's so striking how these events never produce any professional introspection at all about why so many news outlets fail (beyond blaming others or external factors).
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Genuinely beyond satire: "Nobel Peace Prize winner gives her medal to U.S. President to thank him for bombing her country" The Trump presidency is basically a dare to put The Onion out of business.
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Greenland is shaping up to be another masterclass in self-fulfilling prophecy and stunningly incompetent Western foreign policy. That's the sequence: 1) Trump says he wants to annex it because otherwise "Russia or China will take over Greenland", which is entirely bullshit (see
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Moving the goalposts from “Iran can’t have nukes” to then boxing Trump into a red line of the protection of protesters has really been incredible to watch. You almost have to hand it to them
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There's a long history showing that countries which fight constant wars -- which require endless dehumanization and the denial of the inherent value of life -- end up far more violent domestically. It's thus now routine to see Americans celebrating other Americans' deaths.
Tucker Carlson on ICE shooting of Renee Good: “How come so few conservatives are viewing this story through a human lens? And why, when something similar, like the killing of Charlie Kirk, happens on the other side, did many on the left celebrate because they thought his
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This is a perfect illustration of how, ever so subtly, mainstream media like the NYT actually enable and normalize US aggression. So the question the NYT ask Trump (src: https://t.co/7WH9GO3hMj) is whether he doesn't think his actions in Venezuela set a dangerous precedent for
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The vultures are circling
NEW: Wall Street is already at the ready post Nicolas Maduro's capture by U.S. forces. About 20 business leaders, including those from some of the top hedge funds and asset managers, are preparing to go on a March trip to Venezuela to look at investment opportunities there incl
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Trump sets his military operation in Venezuela to the soundtrack of "Fortunate Son," a song about how the people who start wars are not the ones who pay its costs, it's ordinary working-class Americans who fight and die and pay the price
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The newest war or regime-change operation is always the one good one. It's the noble one, and the one that will work this time. It's natural that people want to believe this, which is why war propaganda in the first few days and weeks is always so potent: breeds triumphalism.
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Lindsey Graham doesn’t understand why Pope Leo won’t get behind an ultra-super-Christian regime-change war in Venezuela being sold on a false pretext. He’s simply baffled.
Without a credible threat of the use of military force, nothing changes in Venezuela. When it comes to Maduro, the time for talking is closing. The time for action to end this reign of terror in Venezuela is upon us. I would urge the Holy Father to be on the right side of
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More racial stuff please, it’s so refreshing
MAMDANI: "I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas!" "Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses!" "Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties!"
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@jaketapper @yashar Here comes the defenders of Big Pharma brigade. We’re about to see why the pharmaceutical companies spend so much money propping these people up. Get ready for an onslaught of propaganda!
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Bill Maher just made the Emmys crowd look like absolute MONSTERS for not saying a single word about Charlie Kirk after his death. “Would it have killed someone to get up there, since they all want to talk about their politics… just to say we had a political assassination this
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It’s long past time to seriously address the plague of leftist extremism and violence in this country.
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The American media is getting people killed and justifying it.
Matthew Dowd on MSNBC suggests it's CHARLIE KIRK'S FAULT HE WAS SHOT: “[He is] constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which often then to hateful actions.”
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This is completely demented.
Matthew Dowd on MSNBC suggests it's CHARLIE KIRK'S FAULT HE WAS SHOT: “[He is] constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which often then to hateful actions.”
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This is indeed horrific. It’s long past time for the left to do something about the violent radicals it has spent the last decade cozying up to. Expel the Luigi Mangiones and those who celebrate him from your movement. Stop using insanely hyperbolic language against those with
This is horrific. Pray for Charlie Kirk
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MSNBC just speculated the Charlie Kirk shooting could have “been a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.” I have no words for how awful these people are.
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