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@somepumpkins123

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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
13 days
Americans have been conditioned to perceive war, and the carnage associated with it, as normal. Israel exploits this fact by deliberately manufacturing situations that allow it to systematically murder Palestinians under the guise of fighting a “war.” That’s why Israel wanted
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
2 months
Hey remember that time you told @ScienceMagazine that “even if 100% of the population were vaccinated and the virus hadn’t evolved at all, vaccines would do very little to stop transmission,” and then turned around a few months later and wrote a Substack piece where you declared
@DrPaulOffit
Paul Offit
2 months
The "lab leak" theory has been clearly refuted.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
2 months
The only fascism worth worrying about in the year 2024 is the fascism we already have. Trumpian pseudo-populism isn’t going to turn the U.S., or any other Western country, into a 21st century version of the Third Reich. That’s a liberal fantasy, just like the looming threat of
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
1 month
The “ongoing pandemic” is going to be ongoing for the rest of our lives. If you expect people to stay in emergency mode until the day they die, you’re an unreasonable clown. Make your own decisions and respect the right of others to make theirs.
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@somepumpkins123
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3 months
@LegendaryEnergy Interesting to hear him use the phrase “I don’t know if I’m explaining it right.”
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
25 days
I’ve been asking myself a different question. It’s the same question I asked myself when Ralph Nader pulled this shit. (It’s a real question, btw. I’m not just saying this “for effect.” 🙂) The question is basically this. “Why does everyone with any degree of influence always
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Jesse Ventura
25 days
Ask yourselves this question... How bad can Donald Trump and his cult of Republicans be if they can drive a true independent like me to endorse the Harris/Walz ticket? Take a moment to think about that.
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@somepumpkins123
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3 months
Now might be a good time to ask if there are other possibilities that you’re guilty of being too dismissive of, right at this very moment. For example: Is it possible that basing our entire pandemic response on the universal adoption of an experimental mRNA drug was a little
@NickKristof
Nicholas Kristof
3 months
I don't know what caused Covid-19, but I do think @Ayjchan makes a strong case for a lab leak in Wuhan. In retrospect, many of us in the journalistic and public health worlds were too dismissive of that possibility when she and others were making the argument in 2020.
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@somepumpkins123
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4 months
This is the rhetorical maneuver of choice for when you believe in something ugly and stupid, but are unable to cogently defend it (because of how ugly and stupid it is). You just whine about the most commonly used word for that thing, and pretend that you're making a point.
@ConceptualJames
James Lindsay, anti-Communist
4 months
Pretty much everyone who uses the word "Zionist" these days should be ignored entirely. Just completely ignored like they didn't say anything at all. Very useful heuristic.
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@somepumpkins123
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3 months
@ryangrim @SxarletRed The idea was that by electing people like Jamaal Bowman we could move the Democratic Party left, not that we could elect people like Jamaal Bowman and then move them left. They’re supposed to already be on the left.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
1 month
You’re a sick fuck. Much sicker than the Rob Reiner types who are content to bury their fat heads in the sand and ignore Gaza altogether. You’ve seen the light but you choose to look away from it when it matters most.
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John Cusack
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On planet earth- trump must be defeated first -
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
9 days
Sam Harris (who used to spend every other podcast whining about his persecution at the hands of “bad-faith actors” like @ggreenwald ) has never seen fit to do a conversation with someone who disagrees with him on Covid (e.g., @DrJBhattacharya ), or Ukraine (e.g., @robertwrighter ),
@MakingSenseHQ
Making Sense Podcast
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE Sam Harris speaks with @TheOmniLiberal (Steven Bonnell) about politics and public debate.
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@somepumpkins123
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1 month
You can’t argue with the logic here. You can scream “disinformation” or “Maduro puppet” or “whataboutism” like a child, but you can’t explain how the point @aaronjmate is making is substantively wrong. Because it’s 100% right.
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Aaron Maté
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Ahead of Venezuela's election, John Bolton admitted to the Washington Post that he knew that the Trump admin's crippling sanctions and coup attempt against Venezuela would destroy its economy and force millions to flee: “There was no doubt the sanctions, along with the general
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@somepumpkins123
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8 days
You’re fake and she’s fake. You’re pushing a fake progressive worldview, she’s pushing a fake populist worldview. You’re silent on Ukraine, she’s silent on Gaza. You’re manufacturing consent for one side of the duopoly, she’s manufacturing consent for the other.
@KyleKulinski
Secular Talk🎙
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Tulsi supports Israel's genocide in Gaza and just endorsed Trump. She's part of the cabal of neocon elitist warmongers. Total fraud.
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@somepumpkins123
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1 month
Both sides are exactly the same in every way that matters and that’s never more clear than when stupid shit like this happens.
@ThisIsKyleR
Kyle Rittenhouse
1 month
Over the past 12 hours, I've had a series of productive conversations with members of the Trump's team and I am confident he will be the strong ally gun owners need to defend our Second Amendment rights. My comments made last night were ill-informed and unproductive. I'm 100%
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
28 days
I remember when @KyleKulinski was a free speech advocate who couldn’t support Andrew Yang because of that creepy “News and Information Ombudsman” policy. Now he carries water for this guy and talks about how his DUI is a selling point because it makes him more relatable. Ugh!
@ggreenwald
Glenn Greenwald
28 days
That Tim Walz falsely believes the free speech guarantee doesn't include what he considers to be 'misinformation' or 'hate speech' will bother almost no Dem supporters, since the vast majority of them want the state to be empowered to censor dissent.
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@somepumpkins123
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“If Trump picks Nikki Haley, I’m so done with him, wait OMFG he picked JD Vance, what an encouraging sign for the populist agenda!!” “If Kamala picks Josh Shapiro, I’m so done with her, wait OMFG she picked Tim Walz, what an encouraging sign for the progressive agenda!!”
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
1 month
You’re going to vote for a pro-genocide cunt (or at least urge your followers to do so if they aren’t in a “safe state”). STFU.
@KyleKulinski
Secular Talk🎙
1 month
You're a pro-genocide cunt. How many dead Palestinian babies is enough for you?
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@somepumpkins123
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9 days
As far as anti-Israel sentiments are concerned, I think it’s more about all the stealing and murdering than the IQ stuff.
@Jerusalem_Post
The Jerusalem Post
10 days
Review | George Gilder points out that the proportion of people with an IQ of 140 or more is about six times higher among Jews than any other population - making an excellent case for how antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiments are born from jealousy.
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@somepumpkins123
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2 months
TBF, there isn’t a non-shameful way to go about shilling for a president (or a party) that unwaveringly backs genocide. It’s an inherently shameful activity!
@SxarletRed
barbarism critic 🇵🇸✨
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This is a such a shameful way to go about this. Jesus.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
1 month
Accidentally sending a couple hundred million dollars to a country that you’ve spent the past 20+ years wrecking for no reason is good actually.
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Edward Dowd
1 month
No words.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
30 days
Moderately 🔥 take: we should be much, much harsher on drunk drivers.
@GrageDustin
Dustin Grage
1 month
Since Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is officially being reported as a favorite to become the VP pick for Kamala Harris. Here he is pictured from his DUI arrest where he was going 96 in a 55. He then lied to police about being deaf in an attempt to avoid his arrest.
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@somepumpkins123
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23 days
The one thing that gives me cognitive dissonance re: my ultra-cynical view of Covid is the possibility that these people are actually getting all these shots. If they are, it becomes much less plausible that it’s all just a scam (which is what I tend to believe). There would
@nataliegwinters
Natalie Winters
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"I got infected about two weeks ago. It was my third Covid-19 infection, and I had been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times." 🤡🤡🤡
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
3 months
Until the ethnic cleansing is done. There might be a few more pauses between then and now, but it’s hard to imagine them not finishing the job. Over time there will be a full narrative shift and everyone (including Israelis) will agree that what happened was atrocious. But it
@peterdaou
Peter Daou
3 months
How long will they keep killing children?
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
2 months
I would get banned if I said what I think should happen to them (and our government, and the billionaire class, and all the rest of the ruling elite), so yeah I think I probably hate them enough. 🙂
@SarcasmStardust
Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy
2 months
However much you hate mainstream media, trust me, it’s not enough.
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@somepumpkins123
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2 months
He was president for 4 years and we absolutely got fascism, but it was the kind of fascism that existed before him, exists now, and will continue to exist whether he wins again or not. You’re unserious clowns who care more about decorum than dead Palestinian children. Fuck you.
@newrepublic
The New Republic
2 months
We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all,
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@somepumpkins123
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He isn’t “battling” the UK and EU. He literally endorsed the Digital Services Act and goes on and on about “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.” He’s a transparent phony and is no doubt complying with many if not all of the censorship demands being made by those governments
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
20 days
NEW: While Elon Musk battles the UK and EU over social media censorship, Israel is jailing citizens for Instagram posts
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
3 months
I believed it for a good 20 or so years. Then started to become a little more open-minded, if not particularly hungry for the truth, a few years ago. Since 10/7, I would say l've become a full-blown “9/11 truther.” It’s not that I think I know precisely what happened. (I
@danhanley4
Captain Dan Hanley
3 months
Stop and think about how silly the official 9/11 narrative sounds. They must think that we are stupid! It goes something like this: "A man living in a cave in the mountainous region of Afghanistan near death on dialysis suffering from kidney failure armed with a laptop and a
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@somepumpkins123
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2 months
John Kirby exists, so unfortunately yes.
@tnega74
🇵🇸🇮🇪🔻☭Long Live James Connolly ✊🏼(he/him)
2 months
Honest question has there ever been a more punchable face?
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Ashley
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It was in the wrong aspect ratio, there was nothing joyous about it. 😒
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A.A. Dowd
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Ten years ago today, FXX began airing every episode of THE SIMPSONS, round the clock, for 12 days. I wrote about that marathon — a last gasp of communal TV joy in the streaming age.
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2 months
A couple things I don’t understand about the “Free Assange” movement… 1. Why preventing extradition was so fetishized. As @ggreenwald argues below, the government had no interest in proving its (nonexistent) case in court. That would have been nearly impossible and totally
@ggreenwald
Glenn Greenwald
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The most sickening part is the US Govt never wanted to bring Assange to the US to stand trial. All they wanted was to destroy him for the crime of exposing their crimes.👇 He's the most consequential, and courageous, journalist of his generation:
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@somepumpkins123
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2 months
Yeah antisemitism is gross, I had to unfollow a number of people after 10/7 because they were spewing overt Jew hatred. You know what’s grosser though? Mass murder, which is what Israel is doing and what I see grisly images of every time I open this app. I’m more tired of that.
@BasedMikeLee
Mike Lee
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Who else is tired of seeing blatantly antisemitic rants on social media?
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
14 days
Romans 3:10
@KentKSmith
Kent Smith
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My friends @ShontelMBrown and @ninaturner together on stage because the stakes are too high and the opportunity is too great to not come together for Harris Walz in 2024.
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@somepumpkins123
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2 months
Nope! I’ll decide what is and isn’t antisemitic, what is and isn’t anti-Arab, what is and isn’t anti-black, what is and isn’t anti-white, and what is and isn’t every other form of bigotry. And you can do likewise. Fuck your standpoint epistemology. 👍
@acailler
Adam Cailler
2 months
This shouldn't be controversial, but it's Twitter, so I'm sure it will be: Please can non-Jewish people STOP trying to tell everyone what is and isn't antisemitic? You wouldn't do it to other minorities, don't do it to us. Cheers.
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You’re supposed to blame this type of thing on “partisan gridlock,” or some deep-seated cultural aversion to progressive economic policies, or white supremacy, or anything else apart from the real issue, which is that our government is basically an organized crime syndicate.
@ahouse4all
Housing 4 All is Hot
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Today, I witnessed a woman being ticketed for living outside. She is 42 years old and has cancer. She has been on low income housing wait lists for 3 years. SSDI doesn't pay enough for a room, and she has an eviction that happened during a long hospital stay.
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I don’t think “harm reduction” is a valid concept when you’re dealing with genocide. (Maybe if things were as cut and dried as you’re pretending they are, and we really had a concrete choice between 50,000 murdered Palestinians and 100,000 murdered Palestinians, I would feel
@JamilahLemieux
Jamilah Lemieux
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I have a sincere question for everyone who doesn’t see a vote for Harris as a means for harm reduction: you don’t think Trump’s support of Israel won’t be substantially worse?
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
2 months
Guy who did a whole podcast series on how the CIA couped the president 60 years ago thinks we’re in danger of losing our democracy.
@robreiner
Rob Reiner
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If the Convicted Felon becomes President, this will be the last Independence Day that we will be independent.
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Ashley
4 months
I’m actually fine with someone not taking a view on Israel-Palestine. It’s a loud, messy, chaotic world, and people have a million things to focus on, many of them having nothing to do with politics or current events. Agnosticism can be a fine (albeit suboptimal) position. The
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Ashley
3 months
Rich assholes like Bradley get the chicken no matter who wins. The poor and the working class (and little babies in Gaza, and fighting-age Ukrainian men, and Afghans living under starvation sanctions, and the list goes on and on) get the glass-filled shit no matter who wins.
@BradleyWhitford
Bradley Whitford
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“Nice, this person is calling out the genocide in Gaza! Oh wait, UGH, they’re still pro-Kamala.” “Nice, this person is calling out the genocide in Gaza and they’re anti-Kamala! Oh wait, UGH, they’re inexplicably pro-Trump.” “Nice, this person is calling out the genocide in Gaza
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Most people with anti-establishment or populist leanings understand the concept of “professional wrestling” as it pertains to the two parties, but when you get into the realm of establishment vs. “anti”-establishment, they just can’t imagine such a charade might be occurring.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
1 month
“Jews with trembling knees.” I fucking hate identitarian jargon. Doesn’t matter which group is using it, it always has the same weird, off-putting, poisonous ring to it.
@ForeverIsraeli
💙🇮🇱💙🇮🇱
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@EylonALevy We are no longer Jews with trembling knees. We now have a nation with a strong army.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
4 months
As you know, opposition to the current Israeli government ≠ opposition to the genocidal policies thereof. Many people in Israel (a majority?) favor the continued razing of Gaza, regardless of how they feel about Netanyahu, his legal troubles, the optics of having a guy like
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Britt Hadar
4 months
All Israeli academics I know, including myself, are strongly opposed to Israel's current government and are doing everything in our power to replace it, aiming for a better future for everyone in this region. Boycotting us would only benefit the extremists.
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Ashley
2 months
If you’re rooting for either half of this evil, genocide-facilitating regime to “grow some balls” and beat the other half, something is deeply wrong with you. Fuck the duopoly and fuck every influential voice who is still manufacturing consent for it, *especially* those who know
@johncusack
John Cusack
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If the Dems grow some balls they can beat the Trump/Vance/Carlson ticket.
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Ashley
3 months
Kudos to @jimmy_dore for continuing to advocate single-payer healthcare despite having many people in his audience who feel differently. If he’s a “closet libertarian” like his critics allege, he’s a very bad one!
@jimmy_dore
Jimmy Dore
3 months
@Elonmuskjuni all of this happened without Medicare for all, so all the people who are now vaccine injured go bankrupt paying for their medical care. This is a backward argument you’re making, it’s the profit motive that gave us this horrible vaccine and the mandates from the government and
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Ashley
2 months
I’m moderately pro-choice, but the liberal obsession with abortion (not unlike the right-wing obsession with abortion) is grotesque. If you value protecting (or restricting) abortion rights more than any other political priority, your soul is warped.
@reviewjournal
Las Vegas Review-Journal
3 months
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Nevadans to vote for President Joe Biden in November and warned that former President Donald Trump would be a danger to abortion access if elected.
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@somepumpkins123
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I like everything about this clip except the "how many more kids have to die for you to call it a genocide?" part. Don’t make this about words. That’s a shitlib trait. We don’t need AOC to jump through rhetorical hoops; we need her to quit the Democratic Party, endorse Jill
@HotSpotHotSpot
HOT SPOT
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AOC gets confronted at a restaurant over her stance on Palestine
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Ashley
4 months
NYT: “[Biden] is still allowing most other weapons to be sent to Israel, and in fact officials emphasized that no final decision has even been made on the bombs that are currently in limbo.” You’re a sociopath and the blood of the people who are soon to die is on your hands.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
4 months
Biden has not “lost his mind.” He is upholding the word of the US. There are 1.3 million people in Rafah. You do not need to slaughter them to go after Hamas. Biden stated the US red line was Rafah. It would make us weaker & the world less safe to let Bibi, or anyone, cross it.
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Not sure about "pro-Palestine" per se, but growing up I heard a lot of pro-Israel rhetoric (e.g., at church) and I always found it viscerally annoying. It seemed over the top and fake, even though I didn't know what it was all about. Eventually I learned the basic details of the
@Naila_Ayad
Naila Ayad🇵🇸
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How long have you been pro-Palestine?
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Ashley
3 months
I love this quote, and I love that it came from her.
@nadeneghouri
Nadene
3 months
So very true
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Ashley
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People like to cite this kind of thing as evidence that appointing Lina Khan was some earth-shatteringly radical move on the part of Joe Biden (which in turn is used to bolster their fundamentally pro-duopoly worldview). “If billionaires are this desperate to get rid of her, she
@TheProspect
The American Prospect
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Billionaires are pressuring Harris to fire Lina Khan from the FTC, claiming she's anti-business. Harris now has a choice: support strong regulators or yield to wealthy donors.
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Ashley
2 months
I have no remaining patience for boutique leftists telling me to vote for Genocide Joe and I have no remaining patience for corporate populists telling me to vote for President Warp Speed. You people disgust me!
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Ashley
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@A_refusenik It took me a while.
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Ashley
3 months
I believed it for a good 20 or so years. Then started to become a little more open-minded, if not particularly hungry for the truth, a few years ago. Since 10/7, I would say l've become a full-blown “9/11 truther.” It’s not that I think I know precisely what happened. (I
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Ashley
2 months
Erlanger liked this post. That’s the second time a NYT reporter has liked a post in which I sarcastically congratulated them for their amazing journalistic prowess.
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Ashley
2 months
“Mr. Putin frequently feigns interest in negotiations to end the war he started.” NYT reporters like @MarcSantoraNYT and @StevenErlanger have apparently developed the power of mind-reading. They truly are the best in the business!
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Fair, but it is possible to be somewhat reactionary and also pro-Palestine. Not everyone is “cosplaying,” some people just have a mixture of genuinely-held shitty views and genuinely-held good views.
@TameeOliveFern
Tameem | تميم
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If you regularly tweet about Palestine, there’ll be some followers of you who’re white supremacists cosplaying as pro-Palestine. I strongly advise that you purposefully tweet against white supremacy every while to flush them out. I do it frequently & it works.
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“Mr. Putin frequently feigns interest in negotiations to end the war he started.” NYT reporters like @MarcSantoraNYT and @StevenErlanger have apparently developed the power of mind-reading. They truly are the best in the business!
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@mobydickenergy @ContraPoints is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, which means that she doesn’t oppose the genocide (except rhetorically, which means nothing). So no, she isn’t “on point.”
@mobydickenergy
Talia Lavin
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@RSF_inter needless to say this only applies to people who *already* oppose the genocide
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Ashley
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Yeah, “peace in Gaza” (i.e., Israel no longer executing a fully U.S.-backed ethnic cleansing operation) is more important than just about any priority you could mention. This is only a controversial point if you’re a morally bankrupt sociopath. Also, her answer was perfectly
@merissahansen17
Merissa Hansen⚡️
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AFT union member finds that peace in Gaza is more important than 50% of children not being able to read or do arithmetic in HISD schools.
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Ashley
4 months
Agreed. Free Palestine from Zionist oppression. Free the Zionists from their soul-rotting ethnofascist delusions. And free celebrities like Kim Kardashian from whatever demonic cabal they belong to that prevents them from moving through the world with a modicum of integrity.
@PopCrave
Pop Crave
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Kim Kardashian reacts to protester shouting “Free Palestine” at OMR business festival in Hamburg: “Free everybody.”
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I think Gaza and Ukraine stand a roughly even chance of triggering WW3, so I would prioritize ending the genocide over ending the proxy war. But your premises are false. Kamala would not end the genocide, and Trump would not end the proxy war. Both would continue both.
@KimIversenShow
Kim Iversen 🇺🇸
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Let's say Kamala is anti-genocide and will end the war in Israel. Let's say Trump, with the help of his son in law, will give Israel whatever they want. Let's say Trump will end the war between Russia and Ukraine but let's say Kamala will continue it for "democracy". Who do you
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Ashley
4 months
Any candidate who wants to continue lavishing huge amounts of public resources on a foreign country that can easily afford to pay for its own genocides is not a “true populist." (And if, when pressed on that point, his response is to invoke the economic and geostrategic leverage
@judymorris3
judy morris
4 months
Why RFKJr? He's ELECTABLE, he's antiwar, he's passionate about medical freedom and civil liberties and he's rocking it on the issues that the American people care about. RFKJr is the true populist. Unlike @realDonaldTrump and #JoeBiden , he never sold out to Big Pharm and was
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Ashley
2 months
Watched “Oppenheimer” last night. I don’t understand what all the fuss was about. The Trinity scene was good, and the ending was kind of poignant, but overall it was very formulaic and predictable. I think people just wanted something to get excited about.
@TheCinesthetic
cinesthetic.
2 months
1 year ago today 'BARBIE' and 'OPPENHEIMER' both released in theatres.
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Ashley
4 months
This is a very “Follow the Science”-ey type argument. “Look! This expert who works for a captured institution said X, so therefore X must be true! Your readily defensible claim is hereby DEBUNKED.”
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Toby Young
4 months
Under no definition is Israel committing genocide. According to John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point, "Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history".
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Ashley
8 days
Yes, but whatever you do, dear leftists, don’t allow yourselves to consider that this corruption might extend to the vaccine divisions of the FDA and the CDC. Or that it may have permeated academia. It is strictly confined to certain approved areas. Don’t you ever forget that.
@BostonJerry
Joe Shōgun
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There's no better example of how completely our government is totally controlled by major corporations than the fact that there isn't a single politician in either party who's trying to build a national profile by going after Boeing.
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Ashley
4 months
Did the establishment send out a memo informing hacks like @KyleKulinski that it’s OK to abandon Biden and go third party, or is there an authentic backlash occurring?
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Ashley
15 days
2 things are true here: many in the pro-Palestine movement are prone to using the term “settler colonialism” in a very ideologically loaded way (which is counterproductive), and the term “settler colonialism” is just a straightforwardly accurate description of what Zionism is.
@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
15 days
“For the ideology of settler colonialism, actual political conflicts become symbolic battles between light and darkness, and anyone found on the wrong side is a fair target,” Adam Kirsch writes:
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Ashley
4 months
“As a sitting president, Mr. Trump was shielded from prosecution; he faced only a hefty report by Mr. Mueller.” The fact that he didn’t do the thing he was accused of doing probably helped.
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Ashley
3 months
No, I don’t support guys who get their own people killed in droves to no discernible end. I don’t know if he’s a legitimate fanatic or a willing Mossad asset (both seem plausible), but either way he’s been nothing but helpful to Zionism and nothing but deadly to Palestinians.
@Voice_of_yemen
Voice of Yemen 🇾🇪
3 months
Do you support him?
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Ashley
3 months
George Harrison’s “Piggies” is an underrated Beatles gem. Manson twisted it into some idiotic race war bullshit, but it’s really just a nice little passive-aggressive ode to fat, over-privileged fucks who could use a little more pain in their lives. I think of it a lot!
@dom_lucre
Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives
3 months
🔥🚨BREAKING: Actor Jack Black just dramatically announced his endorsement of President Biden and he brutally lashed out on President Donald Trump. Black is accompanied by George Clooney, Julia Roberts, President Obama and Joe Biden plus other Hollywood stars. If you ever
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Ashley
3 months
So we’re funding Jewish quasi-Nazis in Israel and we’re funding anti-Jewish literal Nazis in Ukraine. We got the whole Nazi spectrum covered!
@MaxBlumenthal
Max Blumenthal
3 months
According to Azov founder Andriy Biletsky, Ukraine's national mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against the Semite-led untermenschen.” Biletsky now commands the 3rd detached assault brigade, which is also authorized to receive US weapons
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4 months
@RtrnSanity You’re too open-minded to be a shitlib.
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Ashley
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@JonasFornaro
Jonas 📱⚡🦺 🇵🇸 🔻
12 days
@jimmy_dore And Trump dropped more bombs and more drone strikes than Obama. The empire continues to get worse and worse because that's just the trajectory of the establishment as a whole. There is no such thing as a lesser evil. Get that through your head
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Ashley
2 months
I noticed him doing this in a different interview last year. I was already pretty much off the RFK Jr. train at that point, but it was one more piece of data in favor of my growing conviction that he’s a two-faced POS who can’t be trusted.
@HotSpotHotSpot
HOT SPOT
2 months
RFK Jr. praises Former CIA Director ‘We lied, we cheated we stole’ Mike Pompeo, dubbing him “a man of principle”
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Ashley
3 months
Chomsky’s “obsession with focusing only on American evil” is rational in a world dominated by American evil, which is the world that we live in. There are anti-imperialist voices who act like they're on the Russian/Chinese/Iranian payroll, but he’s never been one of them. You
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Josh Ellis
3 months
I have immense respect for Chomsky in many ways, but his obsession with focusing only on American evil without acknowledging the fuckery of other superpowers and primary movers of evil always seemed deeply blinkered to me. Same for a lot of other lefties I know.
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Ashley
2 months
This impulse has been around for a while (note the 2009-era libs who thought “teabagger” was the sickest burn of all time), but it definitely reached a new level of prominence during the Trump years. I don’t know how to describe it other than “performatively juvenile.” Like they
@a_newsman
a newsman
2 months
@lwoodhouse Not sure you’ve been paying attention the past seven or eight years as left liberal humor/wittiness has been destroyed. This will absolutely slay with the people who still laugh hysterically when you capitalize the “R” in tRump
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Ashley
3 months
I feel like there should be a Vietnam War movie that ends with this recording playing while the main character bleeds out staring up at the sky or something. Like a big loud chaotic battle scene, and then just him in his dying moments remembering the words of Hanoi Hannah.
@davenewworld_2
Fifty Shades of Whey
3 months
During the Vietnam War, "Hanoi Hannah" became famous among US troops for her English-language broadcasts that were intended to frighten and shame the soldiers
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Ashley
3 months
@NathanJRobinson You should bring back those fake slogans (e.g., “The Magazine for Moms”), those were hilarious.
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@somepumpkins123
Ashley
3 months
@DavidWarschauer I go back and forth on the “which one is the client state?” question, but definitely more inclined to agree with you.
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Ashley
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@steve_haitch I’m so sorry. 100% agree.
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