Maybe if murdering Brown people had been a disqualifier, we wouldn’t be here to begin with. Another day, another reminder that much of the American left only seems to treat rape and murder as disqualifying when the victims are Americans & not overseas.
i was okay with graham platner murdering people in iraq and afghanistan BUT SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WHITE WOMAN THAT I CAN’T SMEAR POLITICALLY?? that’s where i draw the line.
How convenient these DSA bottom-feeders will turn a blind eye to Platner doing 5 voluntary tours to slaughter brown people for sport, but the second his crimes affect an American, they suddenly find their moral backbone.
The textbook definition of American chauvinists.
It is a crazy twist in the Ballmer aspiration scam.
I suspect the raptors paid a high trade price in picks because the league is going to punish the clippers and give a few picks to the raptors.
It allows the league to look tough on cap circumventing but not really.
It must be repeated: The people in "Israel" consider themselves a 'master race' (God's chosen) and the regime is demonstrably committed to exterminating untermenschen (Amalek) for lebensraum ("Greater Israel"). Ben Gvir articulates Zionist nazism, unmistakably.
The Knicks, with Dolan, MSG surveillance, Rick Brunson’s history, Epstein class in attendance, pricing out fans are not the good guys defeating evil. And we wouldn’t have to get into this if u were normal about Wemby, who is experiencing the lows of superstardom at 22 years old.
This Wemby shit has gone too far. This is so much projection onto him because of one series and that third paragraph is just fantasy writing. He went to the NBA finals in his first playoff series, beating the defending champs, and he’s not mentally tough?
I love that students are still making statements, still walking out, still talking about this - when it feels everyone, everything has “moved on” I’m glad to see this. Not because it materially changes any realities for Palestinians (and Lebanese, Iranians, etc) but because it forces everyone who witnesses it to remember the on-going, unending crimes of our country against entire peoples.
The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
Journalists in this country are unable to be completely honest about what role Bari Weiss is actually playing and why she specifically is being chosen to do this, even when they share their most intense critiques of her. Her role is simple: to protect and uphold pro Israel narratives and propaganda.
Nothing has been as transparent in intention of the explicit reconfiguring of Zionism’s paramount position in our news media than the placement of Weiss at the top.
Our news media can’t say that, the big name journalists can’t say that, because they are complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians and for most of them, Israel, Jewishness and Zionism are still too sacred of a cow.
Not surprising, but still horrifying, that LLMs like Anthropic’s Claude are reproducing the racism, ethnonationalism, imperialism and classism embedded in the societies that trained them. These systems are not neutral. Digital colonialism, but make it automated.