It's funny and revealing, isn't it?
If you're a leftist seething over your own guys Piker and Cenk getting banned from the UK, the logical move would be to hammer the government's broader censorious bullshit on speech.
After all, they've pulled the same crap on conservative, right-wing voices not that long ago. Free speech is either for everyone or it's selective tyranny. Easy target, right?
But nah. You didn't go there. Instead, you sprinted straight to the conspiracy, that it's all "at the behest of Israel." That's Piker's line, and plenty of others are parroting it. Greenwald too.
Are you guys actually dumb, or just so deep in the fever swamp you can't see how this looks to normal people? Even if you believe it's true, tactically, it's political suicide because anyone normal with EYES can see that:
- Antisemitism and hardcore anti-Zionism aren't just tolerated in the UK right now - they're celebrated in the streets, week after week.
- Jews are getting stabbed in broad daylight, like the recent Golders Green attack. Synagogues and Jewish sites are targeted
- Labour just banned a bunch of conservative, pro-Israel American and European activists and speakers from entering the UK for Tommy Robinson's march
- The Home Secretary behind these decisions, Shabana Mahmood, is a Muslim critic of Israel, hardly a Zionist puppet. She's the one issuing these bans
- The UK has sanctioned far-right Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, threatened to arrest Netanyahu if he shows up, restricted arms sales to Israel, and pushed toward recognizing the State of Palestine.
Yet according to Cenk, Piker, and the usual crew, this Labour government is somehow beholden to Israel? Give me a break.
This is clearly a mind virus at work, a toxic fungus that reduces every issue to one agenda item - that Israel controls everything; that Israel is behind everything.
Everything defaults to this one script, even in the face of overwhelming counter evidence.
Overplaying your hand this hard just exposes the infection to everyone watching. Normal people see the contradiction immediately. You can't gaslight observable reality forever - it only makes the rest of your movement look completely unhinged.
If you actually cared about free speech, you'd call out the UK's pattern across the board. But you can't because the mind virus won't let you.
.@elonmusk says the innovators he admires the most are Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Henry Ford:
"Henry Ford is more awesome than people realize. He basically invented mass manufacturing of complex objects."
" Ford created the automotive industry of Earth, really."
" He pretty much started what became General Motors and then he got kicked out of that or something. And then started Ford Motor Company and really developed mass manufacturing of complex objects."
"And then everyone pretty much copied him."
Via @forbes
Ayrton Senna holds the record for the best Qualy H2H in the entire history of Monaco, with a 10 - 0 record
0.863s faster than Johnny Cecotto in 1984
1.015s faster than Elio de Angelis in 1985
4.651s faster than Johnny Dumfries in 1986
5.179s faster than Satoru Nakajima in 1987
1.427s faster than Alain Prost in 1988
1.148s faster than Alain Prost in 1989
1.368s faster than Gerhard Berger in 1990
0.878s faster than Gerhard Berger in 1991
0.616s faster than Gerhard Berger in 1992
1.442s faster than Michael Andretti in 1993
El día anterior había perdido Nadal con Soderling y toda la presión cayó en sus hombros.
Tommy Haas estaba haciendo un partido perfecto. Roger sacó 0-2 en sets 3-4 30-40 y lanzó una derecha invertida impresionante que tocó la línea.
El resto es historia
It's just all so exhausting.
Three weeks ago, the UK Home Office cancelled the ETAs of a bunch of controversial commentators on the right. That included Ezra Levant (explicitly pro-Israel), Joey Mannarino, Valentina Gomez etc.
The cited reason was that their presence in the UK would not serve the public good.
There was no outrage. No claims they did it for nefarious reasons. No concerns for free speech. No news articles.
Then Shabana Mahmood's office does the same thing to Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker for the same justification. They rush out to blame Israel. And suddenly, it's widespread outrage and non-stop stories pushing their claim while explicitly and intentionally ignoring the context above.
It's just tiring and dishonest.
There is a dark undercurrent of rage and violence emerging within with the far-left "tax the rich" movement.
Luigi Mangione isn't the only example of this. The Democrats are playing with fire, and unfortunately a lot of people have already been burned.