@adamjohnsonCHI@acalce1000 Pearl Harbor STILL lives large in American mind, imagine if that attack came in the middle of peace negotiations and also killed FDR (...and much of his cabinet, a grandchild, and on top of that a school full of children)
(My peon line dying to whirlwinds and then being resurrected as skeletons)
(record scratch, freeze frame) Voice over: You're probably wondering how I got in this situation
@mysteriouskat@Timodc It makes sense to hear the most about the Israel lobby, because not only do they spend the most, there’s also the carnage in Gaza we supported on their behalf and now a war with Iran that Trump waged in partnership with Israel. It’s a lobby that strongly backs war and atrocities.
Tooth was hurting so i stopped in at this old dentist office. when they looked in my mouth they got real quiet at first and then said with voice trembling “you have to leave. I can’t clean your teeth. Keep your money, just go. now!" The throbbing is intensifying
@HoeMcAdams@nise_yoshimi The book provides alternatives. It clearly favors what it describes as Andropov and China’s path: economic reforms first, before any political opening. And btw hardliners did not try to coup him through all his recklessly ambitious reforms until the end of the USSR was in sight
@nise_yoshimi@NotPotBol He was like a wizard, but a blind one. Smart and well read and was just constantly spinning up and pushing through massive reforms, new congresses, new constitutions all by sheer political magic, year after year. And all of it was myopic and ill conceived.
@BMarchetich After a historically massive investigation and PR campaign, they have found NOTHING on October 7. Why shrug your shoulders and say “well, it probably happened??” for them, when they cannot show it did?
The central claim is mass 10/7 rapes and the Amit Soussana claim is not 10/7.
@Emmceebee23@Sehwhatt@KyteasSky@kaefair@MalloryMcMorrow The strategy here is clear: find an apparent strength and attack it to muddy the waters. Swift boating in other words.
He meets the AMA definition of physician, has an MD, a PhD, and worked in public health his whole career.
It's a smear campaign from opponents with nothing else.
@NeilNevins when I was in Hong Kong as a kid I got several Calvin and Hobbes tshirts that would have a whole strip printed on the back (they obviously didn’t care about intellectual property). Felt kind of bad when I learned Watterson was ardently against commercializing his material
@MarlonEttinger He will be remembered in the context of the manufactured antisemitism crisis which will be remembered in the context of Israel’s world altering extremism
@FreeCoffeePods@BergerPosts@jvgraz But when he says “a source tells me” it’s technically true, because well-placed sources are feeding him this stuff.
He just has no interest in investigating whether any of it is actually true because dumping it out there for them is precisely the role he’s meant to serve.
@FreeCoffeePods@BergerPosts@jvgraz It’s not a mystery how he’s getting g stories. They simply tell him whatever they want out there and he dutifully puts it in print. He’ll launder stories about Biden being “fed up,” or serve as a clearinghouse for market manipulation and insider trading. He’s a harmful fraud.
@Lux_Stella_@ryangrim in that context and even ignoring the insider trading, he's a terrible reporter because he so willingly lets himself get used that you can't believe a single thing he reports! He's a nonstop font of bs! He may in fact be the worst to ever do it
@ApolloPegasus7@SeanMcCarthyCom Setting aside that it's nonsensical to shield people violating international law from protest, is it legal under US law to deny entry/sale to buyers of Palestinian descent, as they do?
@Bking78120265@JavierBlas Why so eager to lap up war propaganda? Iran doesn't have nukes, Khomeini (the one we killed) literally issued a fatwa AGAINST nukes, Israel's been selling the nuke countdown story to anyone who will buy for like 30 years. Everyhing was fine until Trump started a war he can't win!