@hecubian_devil Implying he was bad faith through your entire essay was ultra cringe. Reading though his response made me realize it way you who was on the motivated reasoning bandwagon
@StochasticStat1@steady_drumbeat The land of israeli has been central for greater then 2000 years. The exact content of modern Zionism maybe not but the idea of a Jewish state in the land 100% has
@MappingFL Two things this seems to be literally a rumor that she has deigned.
Second this argument is fucked
Does it become ok to engage in weird sexual attacks against women because they have been unfaithful? If we learn AOC cheated on her partner does that make that R attacks ok?
@steady_drumbeat It's possible to be a Catholic while hating the pope, there are whole churches that do this, but the pope is still core to catholic identity
Not everyone who criticizes to pope or even calls for the abolition of the papacy is anticatholic
But there are ways to do this that are
@ghostrunnerblog All of the reporting on him seems to not appreciate the degree to which what makes him unique is that he is the standard barer of a factional movement that will talk his book no matter what he does.
That's not an easy thing to replicate
@ghostrunnerblog I think we should spend more time on how this comms strategy is possible.
Anyone could try this. Almost no one could do this.
Mamdani has an huge activated online base that loves him for reasons related to Israel, these people praise for him and attack his opponents
@ArmandDoma It's so they can paint you as biased when they need to and say "look even the centrists think he is doing good" when you agree with them.
Classic op behavior
@bettyajz@Claire_V0ltaire This is a standard liberal thing to blame the gov not the people even when it's kinda memes.
Same with blaming Putin and not Russians even though most Russians supported the war.
He also does in this tweet talking about "Israeli gov" even though those strikes have 80% support
@loganb Maybe I am wrong, but this seems like a straightforward case of Link canalizing bus riders + remote work.
Idk why it's an argument against building more Link. If we need less buses because Link works that seems good?
@SwannMarcus89 If you want to say "Loeffler had scandals/was weak" ok but how much weaker?
Maybe that was worth 2-3 war and RW loses by a point by I legit don't know how you are getting to R+6.
Did you literally just impute the Kemp vs Abrams delta onto the Senate race?
@SwannMarcus89 What is the argument for Warnock losing by six without Walker?
He had a D+5.1 WAR in 2020 against a normal Republican. His WAR verse Walker was D+6.2.
He won 2022 by 2.8 points so if he is running against the "normal republican" he still wins just by less
@zroob2@LordActonAFool@Claire_V0ltaire I would also object to the emphasis but there is no lie here and there is no contradiction between praying for the safety of the hostages and the safety of Palestinian civilians.
I feel this whole thread is tilting at windmills. The idea he want's Jews dead is insane
@LordActonAFool@Claire_V0ltaire He seems to be saying the population of each country is not responsible for the (in his view wrong) actions of their respective governments.
If he was denying the slaughter of civilians he would not have condemned it in the next sentence