As a news aggregator, I thought Twitter was best. Now it's broken beyond repair. Major news insights were replaced w/ fever swamp conspiracies & hate. My feed is 70-90% far right trolling, including Elon. Twitter may not die but, for me, this product was destroyed.
Trump just said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" and vowed to clear it of leftist "vermin." It's probably culturally predictable that American fascism is so low brow and lazy it recites Hitler and Mussolini without even reaching for a thesaurus.
.@HouseGOP members praying on the House floor offends both our Constitution and the New Testament, which denounces public displays of devotion.
The blasphemy of the new Speaker, who says God ordained him, is just as disgusting.
Every possible means we have of assessing the loss of life in Gaza - from journalists on the ground, doctors in hospitals, international NGO's, first person accounts, aerial images of the scope of bombardment point toward an enormous human toll.
Hamas does not = Palestinians. Thus, calling Hamas’s actions terrorism is not anti-Palestinian. Israel does not = Jews. Thus, calling Israel’s actions genocidal is not anti-Semitic. You can disagree w/either claim I suppose (though it’s absurd to do so), but neither are hateful.
If cutting all food, water, fuel and medicine to 2.2 million people for 18 days, while pulverizing Gaza and killing 5800 people, including 2100 children, is “saving innocent lives” I’d hate to see what the alternative looks like.
Saw footage of an eviscerated child still barely alive, his face and legs completely gone. I’m at a loss - not at the depravity of the Israelis and Americans but really at the depravity of those who, especially in earnest, continue to ask “but what was Israel supposed to do?”
Our analysis does not answer what actually did cause the blast or who was responsible, but it does undercut one of the most-publicized pieces of evidence used by both American and Israeli officials.
Three days before the blast, a 155mm illumination shell, commonly used by the Israeli military and not in use by Palestinian militias, was fired into the Al-Ahli Hospital. Hospital administrators said that they had received warnings from the IDF telling them to evacuate.
Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder of civilians... The overarching, heartbreaking through-line is this Jewish State, in fewer than 100 years, now shares so much in common with the beastly and indefensible fascist State from which it fled.
@Acyn It’s a hoodless Klan rally. I can’t get over how creepy that scene is. The hive minded crowd of white identity politicians makes perfect Halloween nightmare material.
@mishtal Yes, Hamas commits Israeli war crimes. Totally logical. You're not a deluded, maniacal monster, you just speak uniquely Jewish truths or whatever.
"Civilian deaths would have no impact on our decision."
These are the things people say when they abandon their humanity and righteously take their place beside the most evil villains of world history.
If Mexicans voted for ISIS as their next president, and then snuck across the border & murdered 46,000 Americans in one day, no one serious in the US would be calling for a ceasefire. We would destroy their govt, and Mexican civilian deaths would have no impact on our decision.