I think Nichols' schtick can be described as 'weaponizing technicality': when people who are addressing a real threat or atrocity overshoot the mark, he's all too ready to focus on the overplay and in the process recklessly abet those who want to discount the threat/atrocity.
Come on. It's called an opinion. Don't be so emotional. There is always going to be an opposition. Better to have the Tom Nichols of the world then MAGA.
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You're doing the MAGA thing where you just feign it being stupid without saying why, because you have no reasonable analysis. We all see it. It's just no one wants to tell you, because we know what a waste of time it is.
You’re just projecting. You sound like Trump when he accuses everyone else of what he’s guilty of. However, I appreciate you proving my point. There is no cure for stupid.
I don't know if you saw in the other comment, which I'm not going to repeat, but nobody born and educated outside of America takes serious anyone from inside America calling them stupid.
Have you studied history, military tactics, poly-sci, Russia or have a ph.d?
Appeal to authority? How quaint
I’m not going to drop my education because I don’t provide data for Feds. But I studied at a top tier university, in a sought after graduate program in a real discipline.
Yeah. I almost feel bad for him. His culture is dead. He's an old school republican. His world is gone. And so he has to come to bluesky and share his silly ideas here. I feel the same way when I think about the city I organized in getting gentrified beyond recognition. Sad man. No excuse though
Not attempting to gaslight you in any way as I know where you are coming from. My defense of Tom is this: he knows how to play the game to win elections and he is sharing that knowledge imho. Yes,he sometimes can sound like a know it all, but I think he is trying to help end Trumps Terror. My2cents
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.
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
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
Not where voters are.
"Nah, we just need better messaging about it. Organize a focus group!"
I am one of the 92% and I agree that his 2nd take is complete bullshit. All I am saying is that he is trying to stop Trump as well in his come across as pompous way. I do not agree with a lot of what he has to say,but I do agree when he gives what I see as helpful intel to stop Trump.
The Genocide in Gaza will NOT have a solitary chance of stopping with #OrangeJuliusCeaser at the helm. And tte Democrats are in dire need of somebody to stop the weapons flow to Israel that are being used against Civilians. Hamas needs to be stopped,NOT the Palestinian people
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.
$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.
It has been his plan all along.
It has been the American foreign policy for nearly a century. Stop with the cult The dems are complicit. They had the opportunity to stop this. And they chose to send 2000 lb bombs instead. For months after it was clear that this was a whole scale slaughter.
The American government under both dems and republicans has been vetoing UN resolutions on Israel's barbarity for decades
It really is cute how they think there's going to be fair and free elections...
You mean the democratically elected government of the Palestinian people in gaza that are resisting an illegal apartheid colonial occupation? It's not hamas dropping 2000 lb bombs. Try to think
And the dems had 4 years to change course with Israel. The genocide didn't start on oct 7th. It goes all the way back to the Nakba. Open a history book.
They wanted the genocide.
Really try to put yourself in the shoes of Palestinians. You have no airforce, no jet plans, no heavy weaponry. You have makeshift rockets, you have ak47's, the weapons of a "terrorist". Israel is a proxy state for the America - the most powerful nation in the world....
I think Hamas would happily trade their desperate tactics that result in civilian casualities to have your fighter jets and then they could fight "war" like "civilized" people.
He knew how to win elections. Why can't blue Maga read the room? You want to win the election? Do overwhelmingly popular things: public single payer health care and stop the genocide. Wouldn't need a single other policy. You would win. But the dems don't want to win. They want to fundraise.
Like did the dems learn literally nothing from Luigi? Your AUNT was reveling in Thompson's murder. Not just weirdo degenerate communists and anarchists. If the dems keep going down this road, it's going to be CEO murder that becomes popular instead of single payer health care.
Neither side learned from Luigi by design,as soon as Working people from both sides started to agree about it,Luigi disappeared from the headlines. Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro both lost their minds when their fans sided with Luigi.
First thing I agree with. There was another such murder in August which the media didn't broadcast because the elites learned their lesson from Thompson. We don't care. In fact, "good".
This comment is proof there’s no cure for stupid
I don't take Americans that call me stupid seriously. You guys took the word and ran away with it and never came back.
No one cares what you take seriously. Facts are still facts. Enjoy the best part of this app. The mute button.
You should use it. Back to your echo chamber with you.
You guys are so breathtakingly stupid, I sometimes refuse to mock some of you because I feel mocking someone that dumb is cruel.
The only one being mocked here is you. Because you’ve proven you are dumber than a box of rocks
Again, can't even take this seriously.
Ugh. Have some dignity and delete this.
I'm sorry that you view having compassion for someone as undignified.
Apology accepted.
OMG yes, the nonsense is staggering
Much like a living fossil, the last of his breed! But why shouldn’t he be here, silly ideas or not? I feel like I’ve learned something from him.
More power to you. I think we all learn something from each other if we're open to it.
JHFC. Get some self-respect, bro.
It's sis actually. I'm sorry you find compassion a disrespect to myself. I actually love and respect myself which is why I find it easy to have compassion for others.
ewwww You proudly build weapons? Is that what the comment in your profile means? Gawd, how far have the dems fallen.
You could have built tree houses for children, MRI machines, invented a new medical diagnostic technology, could have engineered something fun, even a sex toy. But instead you build things that murder children? And you're proud of it? Sick.
Crazy people get blocked. Grow up.
Back to your echo chamber then.
👆Why Dems don't win. "coalition building."🤦
The LOL says it all…..
What is there to say with something so demonstrably false. Liz Cheny wasn't enough for you?
LOL