UnbotheredModerate

Recovering savior. This is how I use my Political Science degree. Feminist, Anti-Racist, Queer-Ally, white guy. Get money out of politics. Do your part.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

Moderates resolve political conflicts.
If you give up on persuading them and kick them out of your coalition then you are choosing coercion over democracy.
Nothing good comes from using the militant fringe to overpower the rest of the country. #AntiPartisanModerate

[Traveling israel @travelingisrae1]

What the West Gets Wrong About Jihad

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

We have been an easy target for immigration fraud and aid fraud for far too long.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It’s all coming out

We just figured out how Minnesota has been taken over by Muslims

“Nearly half of all immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Twin Cities were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud”

This is an INVASION of illegals

“Over the course of the operation, our officers found indication of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in nearly, a little less than 50% of the cases interviewed.”

“Focusing on a list of over a thousand target cases involving more than 900 individuals, our officers encountered blatant marriage fraud, visa overstays, people claiming to work at businesses that can't be found, forged documents, abuse of the H-1B visa system, abuse of the F-1 visas, and many other discrepancies.”

It’s a Muslim takeover

The Twin Cities have one of the largest Somali populations in the US concentrated in Minneapolis. Somalis are predominantly Muslim

These are the most common violations found

- Blatant marriage fraud
- Visa overstays
- Forged documents
- Claiming employment at nonexistent businesses
- H-1B
- Abuse of F-1 visas
- Fake death certificates

These immigrants aren’t here to assimilate, they are here to scam us for everything we have and then takeover our country

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It’s all coming out

We just figured out how Minnesota has been taken over by Muslims

“Nearly half of all immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Twin Cities were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud”

This is an INVASION of illegals

“Over the course of the operation, our officers found indication of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in nearly, a little less than 50% of the cases interviewed.”

“Focusing on a list of over a thousand target cases involving more than 900 individuals, our officers encountered blatant marriage fraud, visa overstays, people claiming to work at businesses that can't be found, forged documents, abuse of the H-1B visa system, abuse of the F-1 visas, and many other discrepancies.”

It’s a Muslim takeover

The Twin Cities have one of the largest Somali populations in the US concentrated in Minneapolis. Somalis are predominantly Muslim

These are the most common violations found

- Blatant marriage fraud
- Visa overstays
- Forged documents
- Claiming employment at nonexistent businesses
- H-1B
- Abuse of F-1 visas
- Fake death certificates

These immigrants aren’t here to assimilate, they are here to scam us for everything we have and then takeover our country

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Does Norway support terror? Walking through downtown Oslo, I came across a disturbing mural – apparently sponsored by the Oslo National Academy of Arts, a publicly funded institution – glorifying the iconography of violent extremism. The display featured Hamas’s inverted red triangle, a rifle, a keffiyeh, and the image of a Lufthansa civilian aircraft placed in front of a Marxist militant from the PFLP, a group responsible for multiple plane hijackings. Behind it all: smoke plumes meant to evoke an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. This was not “solidarity.” It was a celebration of terror against civilians, presented as if it were synonymous with the Palestinian cause. It is a perfect snapshot of what has gone wrong in parts of Western Europe: the normalization, and even celebration, of grotesque symbols that collapse Palestinian identity into plane hijackings, rifles, and failed communist militant fantasies from the 1970s and the contemporary Islamist disasters from the present.

Who benefits from repeatedly associating Palestinians with plane hijackings, AK‑47s, and washed‑up extremists? Why would a major Norwegian arts institution choose to elevate these images when countless Palestinian humanitarians, thinkers, and community leaders embody a far more compelling vision of dignity, freedom, and a future beyond blood merchants who have sold “armed resistance” as a path to liberation? Instead of recycling sick, dehumanizing symbols that reinforce the stereotype of Palestinians as terrorists, imagine highlighting the humanity of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond; their love of life, their desire for peace, opportunity, and relief from decades of failed “resistance” narratives that Western radicals and diaspora Arab and Palestinian voices refuse to let go of.

Oslo is saturated with “pro‑Palestine” stickers, flyers, and signs. But if “solidarity” manifests as the glorification of terror and the reduction of Palestinians to violent caricatures, then this support does more harm than good. In that case, Norway’s sympathy is not solidarity at all; it is a disservice to the very people it claims to champion.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@thestustustudio @ncri_io Even if these people are just "useful idiots"
The country at war with us would clearly want to fund the anti-war movement.
We need to monitor this obvious vulnerability.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@Saul_Sadka 100% this.
It was a catch and kill story.
NY Times has lost all credibility.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@RachelMoiselle Ireland is morally confused.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 House Oversight Task Force hearing reveals that essentially the ENTIRE Bhutanese population in Ohio is on taxpayer funded Medicare or involved in fraudulent Medicare home health care companies

It also expands into multiple states

15,000 Bhutanese people were bussed in on Medicaid vans by Bhutanese Medicaid companies

“I would say the majority of Bhutanese people are either on Medicaid home health care or are providing Medicaid home health care services. They had recently 15,000 people. This nonprofit group, this advocacy group, which is actually founded by a home health care guy, they had 15,000 Bhutanese people come to this party in Ohio, and they'd bussed in all the participants on their Medicaid vans, because everybody there has their own Medicaid company”

“Bhutanese people are systematically using Medicaid, not only in Ohio, but also in Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, and New York, and in other states where they perceive that they will pay the family member, and they will pay for non-nursing services. And those are the two big vulnerabilities

— it's not just the Somalis, it's also Bhutanese, it's across multiple states. They're coordinating with each other. There's a network of foreigners running criminal fraud rings within our government, within our country, I should say defrauding our federal government”

I found out they’re using shell companies

Shell companies with empty offices and shared addresses with names linked to Somali, Bhutanese and other immigrant communities

You’re not going to believe this, Democrats have already responded. Democrats and community advocates call it stereotyping entire ethnic groups rather than targeting individual fraud

It’s not stereotyping, it’s pattern recognition and having more than 1 brain cell

Send them ALL back and block all their visas for life

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@GAZAWOOD1 Found this video in 2023 shortly after 10/7
I realized that Israel cannot make peace by herself.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

Good point.

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

Platner being a grifter who takes a 100% disability check from the government while obviously not being 100% disabled railing against "billionaires" is the least surprising revelation of the year.
Yes, it's entirely plausible he's legally entitled to the check because of the screwed up disability rules. But if you are able to run a vigorous campaign while complaining about *other* people ripping off the system, maybe he shouldn't be taking the money.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@Justinhead1982 Sounds like organized crime.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Zohran Mamdani just endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress.

On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, and hunted across southern Israel, she attended the "All Out For Palestine" rally in NYC.

Some clips:

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@chalavyishmael October 8th.
Before Israel responded to the invasion, massacre, and kidnapping of her people.
This is not an organic movement.
These are people with an agenda.
Antizionism is a hate movement.

[Zach זק @ZachLewis3187]

Hey Ireland,

Israeli-American Jew here. For the past 2.5 years you have lambasted both of my countries, accusing both of genocide in Gaza, a result of Hamas’ act of genocide against Israel on 7 October, 2023.

I have been incredibly disturbed by how willingly you not just accuse Israel of something, but how antisemitic you have become. Your entire cause is Israel bashing. You ran to the EU to try to convince them to cut off relations with Israel, imposed unilateral sanctions, did everything you can to harm the standing and image of Israel.

Meanwhile, your Irish Jewish community has been targeted, attacked, harassed, threatened with rape, violence, etc. Your antisemitism has been on full display all based on a baseless claim.

At the same time, you are literally helping facilitate Russian genocide against Ukraine. Your sale of alumina to Russia helps their war efforts, their genocide. You might ask, “What genocide?” Well, according to the Genocide Convention, one of the acts of genocide is, Article II (e): Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Russia has taken over 35,000 Ukrainians and forcibly transferred them to Russia, an act of genocide.

Your sale of alumina is helping them do this. Well, where it gets more interesting is that the same Genocide Convention says the following: Article III: The following acts shall be punishable (e.) Complicity in genocide.

You, Ireland, the accuser of Israeli genocide that does not exist, are in fact complicit in a genocide that does exist. Do you care? Of course not. In fact some of you call this a “Zionist conspiracy.” I assure you it’s not, it’s just evidence of how callous and antisemitic you are.

You are not the good guys. Every accusation is a confession. You are complicit in genocide.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@lyndseyfifield You did the right thing. Thank you.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

The story of Graham Platner, the abuser, the narcissist, the manipulator.
This man is unfit for office.
If you didn't see it before, now there is no excuse.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Reporter: How do you feel about the Iranian Foreign Minister accusing the US and Israel of genocide?

Marco Rubio: The Iranian? He's an expert in genocide. They've killed thousands. Every problem in the Middle East is Iran. Hezbollah? Iran. Shia militias destroying and threatening Iraq? Iran. Hamas? Iran. Houthis? Iran. Assad in Syria? Iran. Everywhere you turn, they're behind all of it.