Before he was president, Trump bought an estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. He put up a 50-foot flag pole and flew a U.S. flag on it. The City Council told him that he could only have a 30-foot pole but he refused to take it down. They told him they would fine him $1,000 a day until he took it down. He said fine, that's chump change. When the fine reached $120,000 he went to the city council and made a deal. He would lower the flag to a 30-foot pole if he could donate the $120,000 (write off/help veterans) to the Veterans Affairs, to which they agreed. He took the 50-foot pole down and had a landscape company come in and build a 20-foot hill where the pole was and put up a 30-foot pole. That's why we love the guy.
My dad, who is a moderate Muslim, finally expressed his concern and asked me, 'Why are you supporting this genocide?'
He mentioned that he's stopped looking at his phone because he can no longer bear to watch videos of Palestinian children being bombed by Israel.
I replied, 'I empathize with the suffering, and it's not easy for me either.'
Then I showed him a photo, and we both agreed on the gravity of the situation in Palestine.
I then informed him that the photo was actually of a Yemeni child pulled from the rubble resulting from a Saudi bombing in Yemen.
I pointed out that Israel has allegedly killed 7,000 Palestinians, while the Saudis have killed at least 150,000 Yemeni Muslims. Some estimates suggest upto 300,000.
How can we call the current conflict a 'genocide' when what the Saudis did is hardly even discussed by Muslims? Don’t get me started on 200,000 Muslims killed by Bashar Al Asad in Syria.
He responded that if that's the case, he also disagrees with what the Saudis did. I replied, 'How convenient. Nearly half a MILLION fellow Muslims have been killed by other Muslims, and you didn't even know about it. Yet when Israel retaliates against a terrorist organization that has killed, raped, and maimed 1,500 of its citizens, the whole Muslim world reacts?'
It seems to have less to do with preserving Muslim lives and more to do with a religious fantasy of hostility toward Jews.
It should go without saying that if you think it somehow means less when a Palestinian child is murdered, or if it somehow means less when an Israeli child is murdered, it is likely because the media has transformed you into a monster.
Innocent children should be protected.
I had 2 Moderna vaccinations and a booster and was hospitalized for acute pericarditis last year. I was afraid for my life.
The medical community minimized vaccine myopericarditis in young men early on. This we now know was a serious mistake.
Back in those days, CDC would have still recommended further boosters for me, despite my pericarditis.
Because I wasn't insane, I didn't get any additional shots. But some companies did mandate additional shots, based on CDC advice, even to men who experienced myopericarditis.
Thankfully this advice has shifted. But this did not happen until after innumerable avoidable vaccine injuries to young men.
These mistakes undermined trust in public health. I now trust public health messaging much less. The vaccines were a godsend for older, at-risk people. The data still show that, even if there is an ever-growing controversy about the effectiveness of boosters, which the public health establishment refuses to test using randomized controlled trial designs.
But the CDC's messaging for young adults continues to lack nuance and undermines trust in public health authorities and harms young people. Nowhere else in the world are the booster recommendations as aggressive--and evidence-free--as they are from the CDC.
I don’t know if my pericarditis was caused by the vaccine, but it is suspicious. I continue to read and learn, and I believe that for older people vaccination might be very important. This despite dissenting views by pro-vaccination figures like Paul Offit, who suggests that even older people should not get boosted.
For me, it’s clear that my COVID vaccinations almost certainly caused more harm than good, and I regret having received them.
I am reading to learn whether in healthy young adult men, any vaccination makes sense.
It is incredibly disappointing to learn that the vaccines that I assured people were safe were not safe, and that I was wrong.
When I was told in comments that the vaccine might have been responsible for my pericarditis, I blocked everyone who suggested it.
I was emotional and closed-minded and wrong.
I should have done better and questioned more and I am sorry.
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"When we lose cash and you've only got central bank digital currencies, the computer will know what it is you're trying to do before you even do it"
"If they say you can't leave your house more than 5 miles, you try and buy a bottle of water 6 miles from home, you won't be able to"
This is former Pfizer Vice President Dr Mike Yeadon.
I challenge progressives who have insisted for two and a half years that 2020 was “the most secure election in history” to watch “2000 Mules.” I’m uploading it free on X for one weekend, Sept. 8-10, so they have no excuse not to see it. I’ll be happy to answer their critiques