Wanna go back to 1880? We can go back there. Or how about 1905 when policies were enacted to ban Arabs from being employed? I’ve read significantly more about this conflict than you have and my confidence in that is quite high.
Wanna go back to 1880? We can go back there. Or how about 1905 when policies were enacted to ban Arabs from being employed? I’ve read significantly more about this conflict than you have and my confidence in that is quite high.
And then again you probably have nothing to say about the military annexation incursions into the West Bank during (in a massively expanded capacity) this war and before it. Who rules the West Bank? It’s not Hamas.
The Khan Yunis massacre of 1956 for one being the catalyst for Hamas according most history books and other horrific events like Sabra and Shatila. I urge you to look those up and then resume your delusion tirade of how you “end this war” by butchering everyone alive
You seriously don’t understand the full scope of this conflict or the fact it has been ongoing for 75 years. Open a history book buddy. I can recommend several on this conflict. Groups like Hamas didn’t just spring out of a vaccum. They sprung out of mass atrocities against civilians.
And he is also fearful that if he doesn’t annex Gaza and ethically cleanse it he’ll lose his grip on power since his government coalition is literally held together by two overtly genocidal ethno supremacist psychopaths (Smotrich and Gvir)
It’s pretty much just objective reality at this point that Netanyahu doesn’t want this war to ever end.
Why would they disarm when Netanyahu was promising during the ceasefire to break it before phase C? Yes no military in the world would be dumb enough to disarm when your adversary is promising members of their cabinet that they shouldn’t leave government because the attacks will resume in a month?
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Killing Irish people trying to figure out why they kept rising up and resorting to violence generation after generation. Doing stuff like what we are doing to Gaza (indiscriminate killing) is jet fuel for groups like Hamas and the IRA
October 7th having largely been eliminated. Those ranks are being filled by orphaned kids and parents who lost their kids. You will never “get rid of Hamas” so long as conditions like these exist. It’s at its core is a national resistance ideology not just a group. The British spent 800 years
Also we’re just recreating conditions that lead Hamas to be formed in the first place (look up the 1956 Khan Yunis massacre and then read about who some of the kids who witnessed it grew up to be and what group they would found) which is replenishing their ranks despite most of the combatants on
Hamas already offered to give up governance of Gaza almost a year ago. Netanyahu has made it clear that even if they returned every remaining hostage that the war would continue until every last person in Hamas is dead. Which based on their rhetoric is everyone in Gaza
$5,000, a “redeemable token that gives you an apartment in Gaza 10 years from now” (who know from 1948 and 1967 anyone who voluntarily leaves never is allowed back) and a bus out of Gaza… or stay and die with Trump beach resorts and settlements being built on the rubble.
By the time we have elections to replace Trump (which I’m not even confident will happen or at least happen in any legitimate manner the way things are going) Gaza will be totally depopulated. I mean that the current Trump plan.
Not where voters are.
The only people still tip toeing around calling it what it is (Ala the Pete Buttigieg on Pod Save America) are unaware that the ground beneath them has shifted completely which is why he put out a statement after his appearance basically backpedaling because he knows that’s
I mean J Street the liberal Zionist organization conceded that it’s no longer deniable that what Israel is doing is tantamount to Genocide. There’s no real sugarcoating at this point that will obfuscate what this is. People are overwhelmingly disgusted
Only 8% of Democrats and 25% of independents support what Israel is doing in Gaza. The shifts in public opinion on Gaza and on Israel itself have been seismic almost entirely due to how obviously reprehensible what is being done there is.
Also Israeli leaders and the Trump administration are literally broadcasting they intend to ethnically cleanse Gaza so I’m not sure why there’s still this delusion that they don’t mean what they say.
Usually respect your takes but number 2 will not age well.
Point number 2 coming on the same day the worlds largest Genocide Scholar association announced that it has concluded that Israel has met all the legal quandaries to label what is happening in Gaza a genocide outlined in Article 2 of the 1948 UN conventions on Genocide.
As you can see I would concede you are right about everything and I would still think you’re arrogant.
As for the Kudos. I conceded I was wrong well before you responded to other comments but see how I replied to them versus go I replied to you. What did they do differently?
And after reading all I wrote and that’s the only thing you seemed to fixate enough onto respond kinda confirms that you probably do have a somewhat inflated view of yourself.
In a manner that doesn’t for one treat the person as operating from position of bad faith and doesn’t in turn make that person assume you’re an asshole. Food for thought.
Oh no the part i found so egotistical is where you came out with the assumption that people subconsciously know your job description and secondly decided to engage in a condescending manner appealing to your job description to shut the conversation down. You could’ve easily approached this
Well I admit that I spoke from a place of ignorance about what 18F did (which might be a part of the reason why people are praising this is that they are unaware that the government was already doing something like this). You’re right to compare it to destroying municipal infrastructure my bad
Thank you for being the first person to actually respond with something informative rather than reflexive condescension. Good article
Thank you that’s very specific and informative. I have a Much better understanding of what I’m wrong about now.
Also look up what the phrase “arguing with” means. Not what was occurring in the tweet you were responding to. We could’ve had (and can still have) a respectful discussion without the seeping condescension in the the introduction. Best of luck
Maybe just point out your corrections in a straightforward manner rather than making a personal addendum and pointing to your own superfluous job description that supposedly gives you insight into a government agency that I am supposed to instinctively know you have. Not cool
Do you always just resort to condescension and an appeal to authority to shut down any discussion whatsoever? Or is that just an online behavior thing you do?
“Not argue with actual designers” as he talks to an actual designer
Well I’d say as someone who does design for a living I wouldn’t have made you scroll for 30 seconds to read a 150 word paragraph lol. They might have trouble recruiting the “best designers” in the nation because most designers tend to be left or central leaning in my experience.
They’re talking about the User Experience and interface design. This is the only positive thing this administration is doing. I know just paying a traffic ticket online is a nightmare of bad design that makes it extremely unclear if it’s paid or not.
“Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won.” The result in New York City, if it holds, is a seismic event not just for the city but for the Democratic Party, making the 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani the clear frontrunner heading into November.
Sticker for 1932 Detroit #MayDay parade. Printed 5 years before the @uaw.org formed and in the aftermath of the Ford Hunger March massacre, it speaks to the violence autoworkers endured to unionize their industry. From the Joe Brown Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I had legit completely forgotten this.
Fuck man I was wrong, should have been this guy.
I hope Democrats learn from Merrick Garland’s mistakes and the failure of Obama’s “move on” strategy vis-a-vis Bush era war crimes, and understand that all these people ultimately need to go to prison.
Ignoring a court order on the grounds that “ah-ah-ah, the law doesn’t apply once you get to international waters!!” is absolutely sanctionable. 8th grade-ass lawyering. Completely unserious.
If you attack the Capitol to overturn election results and to overthrow democracy on behalf of a criminal, you’re a hero. If you attack a Tesla dealership, we’ll throw away the key.
Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
YES, IT IS.
I mean the unions for Federal Workers literally told you to vote against it so don’t pretend you care. You’re an embarrassment.
Somebody should primary this slob.
You’re a literal clown. Voting to cede Congressional authority to Elon Musk. The history books won’t remember you well Senator Fetterman. Fish Hook Theory on full display. Coward.
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
AOC clearly has more balls than most of the old guard centrist Democratic leadership and an actual vision for the party resisting Trump.
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
Resign
Yes I’ve seen the onion the thing is things are so ridiculous that their bits don’t actually seem far fetched. Far fetched would be “Senate Dems grow a spine”
Well if it’s a joke it sounds awfully like the cringe shit Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would do.
Senseless pain is about to be afflicted to D.C., a place that has no congressional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
Should’ve told him to resign
Or how about on your next podcast you ask him to resign and hand over Senate leadership power to a person who has a spine? Then I’d give your podcast a chance.
Yeah Chuck is a coward who should not be leading the party. Hard no to any podcast where he’s offering his “wisdom” on anything. Sorry buy you should rethink your podcast to maybe include somebody else who isn’t a human version of a door mat.
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
CHUCK SCHUMER HAS TO GO. He’s way past his best by date and I’m not talking about age, I’m talking about usefulness. Senate Dems need to step up and have some courage.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
The lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil, at today's hearing, said that she has been unable to speak to her client once since his detention. Does any of this sound like the America you were taught about growing up? A legal permanent resident kept incommunicado with no charges specifically for his speech
He is so confident in his stupidity lol
“If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom simply because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened [to Mahmoud Khalil], then no one is safe,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/87FfKC8B
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.
Of course we all know that some problems like maybe wanting to live under a system that allows freedom to choose who governs you or a reduction in working hours or higher wages would be a problem that would be met with militarized violence since I doubt unionizing would be a thing in this “utopia”
That would eliminate all crime by basically ending all privacy whatsoever but we would all be “happy” because they would know exactly what was bothering every single one of their citizens and could come up with more “efficient” solutions than any legally restrained government could
Is basically a city ruled not by a government but an all seeing corporation known as cis corp
I mean Curtis Yarvin who Vance and all these Tech oligarchs keep citing as their ideological leading star is the ultimate GOP Milton Friedman dream of a country so deregulated that corporations gradually replace the state themselves. His thought experiment about what San Francisco could look like
Carving up their economic backwater impoverished oligarchical fiefdoms. It’s more of a modern form of feudalism.
I don’t even know if fascism is the right word. This is different from 20th century fascism. This more like late capitalist mafia states with no coherent ideology besides financial self enrichment.
With a strategic geographic barrier taken out of the equation. Not to mention that Russia wants Ukraine to demilitarize which would be awfully convenient if a third invasion were to occur.
I ears somewhere but can’t verify that the deal being proposed includes Ukraine giving up territory that Russia does not yet occupy on the East Bank of the Dnipro River (which Russia hasn’t been able to pass) which if true leads me to believe that Trump knows the war will resume
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
Mark Warner is 70 years old and should face a primary challenge from a federal employee fired by Elon Musk who actually grasps what we’re dealing with right now
I’m honestly a bit disappointed that we’re getting goofy smelly alcoholic uncle protein powder fascism and not the slick Hugo Boss runway Fascism. If my face is going to be kicked in by a bunch of Nazis I want them to at least look good while doing it.
When are going to replace this incompetent clown as minority leader?
Also it’s not advocating for doing nothing. It’s just realizing what you can and cannot control.
Stoicism emerged as a result to cyclical bouts of totalitarianism in Greece. His philosophy would be the same. It’s the philosophy of finding ways of being happy when everything is sh*t.
l'etat c'est moi
The Trump administration’s actions toward federal employees may be part of an effort to “resurrect a government-wide political-patronage system, something the First Amendment forbids,” write John Langford and Erica Newland:
If Canada really wants to snub Trump with a brain drain, if they relaxed citizenship requirements, they'd likely get a large number of new professional expats from the USA without becoming the 51st state. LOL!
“The most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome” -George Orwell
Do you just not believe them when they say they want to be autocrats? Autocrats don’t leave power.
That is not the issue. The issue is the precedent this sets telling the judiciary it has no jurisdiction over the executive when it comes to enforcement the law. If he gets away with it he will in essence have dictatorial power. Which his OMB director admitted is the objective.
Planned to do.
And btw. We know this exactly the reason they’re doing this outside of Congress because the current OMB director Russ Vought (the architect of Project 2025 while Trump pretended not to know) literally admitted it to journalists he thought were Heritage Foundation donors this is exactly what they
He’s circumnavigating it because he wants to have autocratic authority.
Countries when that happens) so he can set the precedent of overriding the constitution to do whatever he wants. He has a majority in the house and senate if he wants to end funding to USAID he can go to them with evidence of what needs to be cut.
That directly affects every day Americans (like targeting Social Security or Medicaid programs which will definitely do if they get away with this. Americans will be wishing USAID existed when there is an uncontrollable Ebola outbreak that the agency is largely responsible for assisting
The argument isn’t about government bloat (which is legitimate to want to fix) it’s about checks and balances so we don’t have a Hungarian Orban style autocrat who can just do whatever he wants. He chose USAID quite obviously as a test case to challenge the judiciary because it’s not an agency
Idk murdering children for simply being the estranged children of a terrorist and then having the press secretary defend the actions of their airstrike as “blame the father” who had been long dead is just as evil imo. I have no love for either of the Cheneys btw. But they’re not more evil.
Actually Elon Musk is in violation of several laws including the disclosure of private information such as the privacy act of 1974 (5 U.S. Code 552 a) and his access to the Treasury systems without authorization from Congress is in violation of the Internal Revenue Code section 6103.