In 2010, when the Nobel Peace Prize went to the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Navi Pillay, then the UN’s top human rights official, stayed away from the ceremony in Oslo. Beijing was pressing governments and institutions to boycott it, and according to Foreign Policy, she gave in. Liu never walked free. He died of liver cancer in 2017 in a hospital in Shenyang, still under guard, after the regime refused to let him go abroad for treatment.
Now the same committee is giving Pillay the same prize. I think it’s fair to expect that anyone with a shred of decency will do for her ceremony what she did for Liu’s: stay away.
This explains why Texas separatists, with their totally coincidentally identical “Veteran, Christian, Father, MAGA” bios, have suddenly gone awfully quiet today, right alongside their Quebec counterparts, conspiracy whackos, and Polish anti-EU eurosceptics
If I have to choose between Israelis who call for an end to genocide and apartheid while acknowledging Hamas's crimes, and the segment of pro-Palestine supporters who carry photos of Sinwar and Nasrallah, the choice is clear: I stand with those Israelis and will fight alongside them to end apartheid and genocide.
Sorry, it is against my Catholic beliefs to call Artificial Intelligence by any other name, as the precedence has already been set by Pope Leo XIV via the promulgation of Magnifica Humanitas.
This has been the dynamic for three years now: the bulk of pro-Palestine protesters are normal people who hate the atrocities they’re witnessing in Gaza, but the organizations leading the protests are helmed by people who are absolutely bonkers. And as protest fatigue has set in, there are fewer normal people protesting and a higher proportion of people with poisonous politics and / or serious personality disorders.
2024 was the litmus test. If you didn't vote for Kamala Harris and push your peers to do the same, you're not really on the team.
You're certainly not entitled to be a thought leader of the left. These people's input is just grifting or concern trolling for different interests.
These pro-Palestine voices who think Mamdani is committing genocide are irredeemable.
Palestinians are cursed with having these idiots speak on their behalf.
Western boomers with 5 years left to live would forcefully throw their 18 year old grandson into the reactor so they could spend their remaining years gambling their inheritance on slot machines.
I see the "far left" negging strat and I've decided to raise.
Mamdani's critics are center-right at best.
The DSA is literally a far right organization.
Hezbollah slaughtered their way through Syria and starved women and children until they turned into "walking skeletons," all in service to prop up Bashar al-Assad, who murdered 500,000+ people.
These people are celebrating terrorism and murder. They are sick in mind and soul.
Kamala wasn't forced on anyone, she was picked by Biden to be his running mate. So when we voted for HIM in 2020, we also voted for HER. Then 75+ million of us also voted for her in 2024.
So stop telling us we didn't want her when we did.
One of the biggest media criticisms that reporters can’t accept is that they’re more explicit about Democrats’ supposed failings than they are Republicans.