Grain Of Stan

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[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

@NYTimesPR But you absolutely do "publish speculation or unverified information" and have an extensive record of doing such. So it's not that you don't do this per se, it's just that you become super cautious when it comes to implications for a certain specific side of a political issue.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

Reminder that @KyleKulinski openly endorsed Jill Stein for the last three elections lmao. These people will never criticize one of their own.

[sid 🔆🇨🇦 @lilbabygandhi]

No one in Destiny's community has called me a "Jeet" can't say the same for Hasan's community.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

lol what is he talking about, if you put the rape comments he made in context it honestly sounds even worse; I love how he can just try to rewrite history even though we have all the footage of him saying this insane stuff, but his side (see: @WajahatAli, @mehdirhasan, @EmmaVigeland, etc...) will endlessly sweep for it in the hopes that you never actually go out and see it yourself.

[Pangburn @Pangburnian]

Destiny has proven himself on the Pangburn stage to be a good faith, helpful debater 12 times in a row. @mehdirhasan and @hasanthehun have big opportunities to raise millions for Palestinian children. All they need to do is debate @TheOmniLiberal. Let's work together! Like and repost if you would donate!

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

neo-nazis 10 years ago:

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

>misidentify someone one time on stream

“Oh he must not even know who these people are hahaha!!!”

>hasan constantly engaging in neo-Nazi rhetoric + worshipping terrorists + bragging about soliciting nudes from young Twitch fans and showing them off to other streamers

“UHM ACTUALLY THAT’S OUT OF CONTEXT DUUUUDE!!!!!”

[Anastasiya Paraskevova @UkrainianAna]

OK, I am saying it.
I will never understand the hype over this dude.
Useless and delusional.
Always has been.
Just a strain of slogans and platitudes, for decades.
Just extra visible when he talks geopolitics because he is extra clueless on that 🙂

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

The amount of gaslighting from these losers is incredible.

YOU guys claimed that YOU and your insane pro-Hamas, anti-establishment, pro-Socialism, anti-Democrat position was representative of the base, and YOU guys were happy and excited to throw your weight around wherever you could. You were happy to do it when you were fighting Democrats, but now that the Republicans have gotten a hold of your stupid rhetoric, what do you do?

CONTINUE TO FIGHT DEMOCRATS.

YOU all claimed over and over again that the Dems were out of touch and you had your thumb on the pulse of American politics, so go take your understanding and fight the Republicans! Good luck!

[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

Hi @mehdirhasan, any reason why you left out the part of the Haaretz article that clarifies Sinwar equivocated on the term "civilian" to mean "not between age 18-50 (the vast majority of the hostages)"?

The way you presented it suggests if Israel agreed to the terms then virtually all, if not the vast majority of hostages would be released. But this is simply not true at all. If Israel agreed to such terms, the vast majority of the hostages (and civilian hostages by IHL definition) would not have been released on such an offer.

And that's not even getting into all the facts in dispute here and Haaretz's own journalists having a tendency to blatantly disregard truth in their reporting (happy to discuss this in detail), this is just what Haaretz admits!

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

When it’s Israel, El-Sayed can’t wait to condemn the government and call it genocidal

When it’s the IRGC, whoa whoa whoa, we can’t criticize it because that condemnation might be used for nefarious purposes

Laughable.

[Z.E. Silver @z_e_silver]

We need to have a real conversation about Mehdi’s sympathy for Hamas.

[Moshe Emilio Lavi @MosheELavi]

This is simply false. There was no documented “day one” offer by Hamas to release all the hostages “unconditionally.”

Contemporary reporting describes negotiations over exchanges: Israeli women and children for Palestinian terrorists, and later broader releases in return for pauses, additional terrorist prisoners and other concessions. Nothing was unconditional.

I say this as a hostage family member who served as an international envoy for the hostage families and was privy to some of the discourse behind closed doors with relevant stakeholders. Those conversations concerned negotiations, conditions, categories of hostages and concessions, not the simplistic narrative you now declare “well established and proven.”

Hamas did not even treat many civilian men as civilians. My brother-in-law, Omri Miran, was a civilian father kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, in front of his wife and two little girls. He was held for 738 days, physically tortured, deprived of food and water, and psychologically abused.

Hamas used Omri and other beautiful human beings as bargaining chips: women, children, the elderly, civilian men, soldiers, Israelis and foreigners. Taking civilians hostage is a war crime, and captured soldiers cannot lawfully be held as hostages to coerce concessions either.

There is plenty to criticise about the Israeli government’s conduct, including decisions made during negotiations, even if those were ultimately decisions for a democratically elected government to make. Hostage families have hardly been silent about them, and many of us still demand accountability and the establishment of a national commission of inquiry.

But none of that transfers responsibility from the perpetrators: Hamas and its accomplices, and the state actors that funded and sponsored their activities.

That is what makes your rhetoric so repulsive. You erase Hamas’s agency, recast conditional negotiations as an unconditional “offer to release them on day one,” and shift responsibility from the hostage-takers to the society they attacked.

Hamas kidnapped these people, categorised them according to their value, demanded concessions for them, abused them and held people like Omri for years.

Turning that into “Israel refused to save them because it wanted vengeance” is not an established fact. It is an inversion of perpetrator and victim that sanitises Hamas’s responsibility for one of its most grotesque crimes, a distortion you have pushed in bad faith since the war Hamas launched on October 7.

[Omri @OVisionIL]

Calling Ed Sheeran "Complicit in Genocide" is insane

We are actually witnessing mass psychosis

[Grain Of Stan @Stan21K]

@PokemonStockUK Sylveon, for sure

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

on-brand as fuck

[Isaac de Castro @isaacdecastro]

This is the most reasonable take on Israel/Palestine any celebrity has ever had.

[sid 🔆🇨🇦 @lilbabygandhi]

Everyone’s a better debater than Destiny until it’s time to actually debate Destiny