@mattlieb ”I can’t support a popular policy of the left that benefits everyone because of my specific identity politics” - a perfect encapsulation of establishment democrats.
@pablofindsout@DanSoder Pablo, I love you and Dan but please talk to someone more informed on the current state of gaming. This is boomer nostalgia. Cheat codes have been replaced by mods. And the most popular games in the world have never had a disk.
How is everyone not horrified that if you dare to criticize Israel, a sitting member of congress will slander and defame you as a child rape advocate and face zero consequences? Absolutely fucking insane
Gaza has the highest concentration of child amputees in the world (at the peak of Israeli bombing, 10 kids were losing limbs daily), UNRWA says. And now Israel is now blocking prosthetic limbs from entering Gaza. All this has happened with US support or complicity.
@MrJCLynch@Srirachachau@MarkRuffalo If you are public figure in Hollywood and are not defending Mark Ruffalo from this defamation, you are cowardly genocide supporter. John, you are a man with integrity.
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran.
This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs…
all for Israel.
⭕️ An armed settler incursion into a Palestinian village ended with four Palestinians killed, and PM Netanyahu’s (and the political opposition’s) response is to label a Palestinian disarming and killing one of the Israeli soldier settlers “terror,” punish Palestinian communities collectively, and promise further expansion of settlements.
Netanyahu ordered a sweeping crackdown on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. He said Israel would demolish the Palestinian man’s family home, raid villages he called “terror hotspots,” confiscate weapons, revoke work permits, expand checkpoints and troop deployments, and accelerate the legalization and establishment of new settler farms.
He praised settlers for standing “courageously and resolutely against terror,” as settler “revenge” attacks spread to various Palestinian villages under Israeli military protection, homes were set ablaze, and Palestinians were shot and wounded.