Eli Riddle

Pediatric ER Nurse. Former Teacher/ Construction Worker. Ohio- Indiana- New Mexico- New Jersey- Wisconsin -Michigan. Married Dad. 🏒 and 🥏⛓️ Detroit Sports.

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@austokel Faulk

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@NewbySports21 Faulk

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@sockibomb13 Do you have a mantra or phrase that you repeat to yourself on the course?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

He isn't wrong...Most of the world understands this. It's Americans who mostly do not.

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@Milajoy Gestapo sympathizers sounding off in the comments. Remember Anne Frank? Remember the Underground Railroad? Y’all are simply on the wrong side of history. Thankfully your tweets are saved, so your grandkids can see you stand with the oppressor. You will be remembered in dishonor.

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@2021_willitend @danmelsonauthor @RBReich Gee, I wonder why he chose not to respond.

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@danmelsonauthor @RBReich So it’s not about policy; it only counts if they use the term ‘trickledown.’ I have a timesha— uhhh I mean a vacation property rental opportunity you’d be interested in.

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@Ninoox14 @Jakelang Don’t use the ✝️ if you don’t read the gospels

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I took the liberty of translating this Tweet of an Israeli explaining why the country is going down the tubes and he is leaving. A must read for what is going on there:

For two years I’ve watched my country commit one atrocity after another, and I’ve seen how everyone around me disappoints, stays silent, takes part, buys the lies. They refuse to oppose in any real way. It’s not the right-wing that broke me, not the Bibi supporters or the settler Judeo-Nazis. They’re monsters, but I already knew that.

It’s all the people I thought were on my side who have shown me that actually we live on a completely different planet of values, faith, and perception of reality. The macho-ism, militarism, and Jewish supremacy run so deep. Collective psychosis, it’s impossible to really talk to anyone, we have barriers. In language, in the way people speak, there are obstacles.

“What do you propose” is a good example. It’s something people say every time someone tries to offer any alternative to violence. In every situation, scenario, violence is the only solution, the only way. Iran wants nukes? Fine, we have to bomb, no choice. Hamas has hostages? Bomb, no choice. Yemen is shooting at us? Bomb, no choice.

And if you just say “maybe it’s bad,” people ask “what do you propose instead.” That question is amazing. It contains so much. Mainly, it hides agreement. “What do you propose” means “violence is the only solution and for me to abandon it, I need an alternative solution.” And now the burden of proof lies on me, the one opposing violence.

Anyone who’s been on that side of the conversation knows the pattern. Everything we say they reply “pfft” or “you’re naïve.” It’s not a dialogue, it’s a test, a critique. We, the ones opposing violence, have to prove ourselves. We can’t have a single flaw; we have to provide a full operational plan and prove every detail and flaw. But them? They don’t have to.

For Israelis, violence doesn’t need proof, explanation, justification, or evidence. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it’s the foundation. It’s the way. “What do you propose” is also recognition and acceptance of violence as normative, it also shifts the responsibility to the side of non-violence. In a normal world, it would be the opposite.

There isn’t even the ability to recognize that the problem itself is the idea that violence is the only way. Which is, by itself, completely insane. There’s no such thing as living forever by the sword. There isn’t. You don’t live forever by the sword, you die by it. But this framing locks us out of having this conversation under the disguise of “okay, I’m open but what do you propose.”

It sounds so innocent and natural and “reasonable.” But it’s like a trap. It’s a word minefield, fake politeness, a pit that pulls you down and basically neutralizes the conversation. Instead of talking about how to solve a problem, we have violence taken for granted, and we’ll doubt it only if there’s some perfect magical proof beyond all reasonable doubt.

(And while we’re demanding from you a perfect magical solution, we’ll tell you that you’re the one living in La La Land and we’re the “realistic” violent ones “who understand reality.”)

We have a million such verbal barriers. Sentences, words, expressions, ways of talking that shape how we speak about reality and channel us not to listen, to be numb, and to be part of the evil machine we built. And to see that slowly all around you, to see how far you are from everyone, unable to talk at all.

And every conversation is full of them. It’s not just one barrier once in a while, no. They get unleashed one by one. I can start analyzing people’s tweets here and show you how one tweet contains like 4-5 such barriers that shut down the brain. You respond to one? They reply with 5 new ones. You can’t keep up, just dismantling one requires a whole focused conversation.

I can’t talk to you. You’re not capable of listening. The only ones who listen are those who have already gotten out of the pit, either by chance access to knowledge and openness of mind, or literally people who left the country. When I meet people who left, you immediately see how leaving our toxic space allowed them to be human again. It’s obvious in their speech itself.

There are still lots of family, friends, and people I love here. But it’s become impossible to talk. I hope it will be easier there, even though I don’t have many illusions. I don’t know how I’ll ever lower the mark of Cain of being Israeli at all. I’m ashamed of us, all of us.

But at least maybe it will be a bit easier to breathe. And maybe also to truly fight effectively. We’ll see. That’s my late-night rambling because I’m not really sleeping and apparently need to vent.

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@JaneDeaux87 @AtlasLimin10089 @briebriejoy Oh, her followers. You mean people with a conscience and moral compass. Got it.

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@jakelang @FordFischer You guys are not Christians. You would kill Jesus if he was walking amongst us.

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@FordFischer This guy does not speak for Michiganders. He speaks for a hateful sect of *actual* parasites under false guises of Christianity and national pride. They hate America because America is free. The real ones who need to GTFO are him and his pals.

[💊 @catboyseider]

I love living in Michigan but one thing I think we’re missing here is more road closures. There’s so many times when I’m driving and I think to myself “you know what, I really wish two of these lanes were closed for no reason for an undisclosed amount of time.”

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@sydn3yfink Go Giants

Sincerely,
Lions fan

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@mazemoore Who is defending Clinton? Send him to prison with whoever else committed sex crimes. Your cult leader is desperate.

[Eli Riddle @EliRiddle]

@DittyWhitney @RoKhanna You haven’t looked into the federal discretionary budget and it shows. Educate yourself.

[a.mann @AlphaOmegaMann]

@mrddmia

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@C_3C_3 @Grok where you at to verify these claims dog?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

77% of Americans can’t afford a median-priced home of $495K.

70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

140 million Americans are poor or low-income.

100 million Americans have medical debt.

Socialism is surging in popularity because our lives under capitalism are miserable.