Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger

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[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

This is exactly what the pearl-clutch appeasement at all costs crowd can't seem to get. Putin is even getting to decide what they can do on their airbases in their own countries.

All the deference has only increased the danger. No matter how Ukraine ends, the world is far worse

[Professor Olga Chyzh @olga_chyzh]

By responding, you take control. Ignoring the threat does NOT help preserve peace or de-escalate—it gives all the control to the opponent.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

This Irish Catholic former altar boy would have to disagree. The current mass hysteria is sweeping the world - I don't know that you can just blame Ireland for it. PLO and Provos made common cause once. They definitely shouldn't have. Israel is much more accurately viewed as akin to Ireland, holding out against imperial forces.

For years now I've been trying to get Israelis to see just how bad anti-Semitism has been getting. And the part that's Israeli's fault? Having too much faith in the rest of us.

In my conversations, a lot of them believe that as people learned more about it, they would come to see the situation more accurately and understand it better.

They misjudged to the depths of irrational hate. If you genuinely care about few welfare of Palestinians, your position increasingly shifts towards being pro-Israel; if you just hate Jews, not so much.

And what I've seen with the supposedly pro-Palestine movement is that the people who show up because they genuinely care and are motivated by compassion wind up being pushed out, over and over, until you're left with the dregs...

Because the vast majority of the people who claim to be Pro Palestine, who are out wearing their keffiyahs, care as much about Palestinians as Hamas does about peace...

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@cheekyniknowit @MikeMcC42763223 The genocide where the population went up...

(But that's OK; we'll just change true definition until it fits... What's that, the people attacking Israel are explicitly genocidal? Um... Hey, we're going to have to change that definition again...)

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@EFischberger I dropped the app when it changed ownership. I barely even check it anymore - a friend asked me to vote on a local pole and that's the only reason that I've been back.

It's horrid. Your life will not be worse without it.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@ilangoldenberg People trying to somehow spin this as a win for the US are speeding past the reality that the Islamic Republic will use this to utterly annihilate any internal dissent. They've already slaughtered tens of thousands. There will be no chance of regine change for a century now.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@VerminusM What virtue is there in signaling that they're jumping mass hysteria bandwagon?

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

Anthropic is being stupid with this Claude outage. They need to waitlist new users - that's not the problem they seem to think it is - it creates marketing excitement.

Immediately making it open to anyone has shut it down for everyone, including their most committed paying fans. #Claudedown

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

Constant bullsht from misguided idiots who think they understand this...

First of all, Milton Friedman is one of the biggest reasons things are now so totally screwed up and everyone lives the precarity of financial cannibalism. He's the reason that capitalism went from producing things and building a strong society to just trying to rip money out of people and basically loot the sinking ship.

Secondly, even more damning for these carefully selected out of context snippets, he not only believed in welfare he advocated removing all restrictions to it and just giving people the money.

Sorry if that melts your brain.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@jay32094 @HenMazzig Cryptobot account

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@nicolelampert @janinedigi Palestinians literally dance and pass out sweets when Israelis are killed. The opposite does not happen.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

But it's not genocide. Rwanda was 800,000 in 3 months. You think the IDF, with F-35s, couldn't outdo the Interhamwe with machetes? Why weren't the children safely in shelter? They could have been.

As for ethnic cleansing, why does Israel have 2 million Arab citizens; Jews in the Palestinian territorires,where have they lived for centuries... zero.

Strange sort of ethnic cleansing. Which side did you mean? Oh, the Palestinian population went up. Strange genocide.

What Hamas did, though, Thai does fit.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

The 2020 election military vote saw a nearly even split between Trump and Biden. Sentiment has since moved further against Trump, who not only had no interest in upholding the US Constitution, but has no idea what's in the Declaration of Independence and has never read it, despite hanging it good as an ornament on his office wall.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

Then why, given that execution was a widely practiced throughout history, didn't all the societies become paradises? So, the assertion is that everything the abolishment of the death penalty was paradise?

What actually reduces crime is economic stability, supportive institutions, mental health treatment and so forth. Not just killing all the people who do it.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@roadsiderant Well, I fully agree, and support you in everything you're saying. But also,these days you can get some really tasty decaf...

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@chalavyishmael @JacobsYechiel This is like a guy wanting to jump out of an airplane without a parachute because he thinks the clouds are soft and fluffy. The IDF will save him from himself.

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@PepperWingate @VerminusM More popular outside of Israel than in, that girl from Kyiv (kinda hard not to be a fan for the rest of us...)

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@HenMazzig This is news how?

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@CrazyFenaker @gtconway3d This is how you end up with a mass terror attack.

Which will then be used to justify authoritarian controls...

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

It's exactly that. The question has been posed repeatedly: What if they stop converted to Islam?

A. Well, then there'd be no problem.

It's not about land; it's not people not being subjected to Islamist extremism; it's not holdouts, resistance to the ongoing Muslim/Arab conquest.

What happened to the Turkmen, the Assyrians, the Armenians, the Copts, the Bahai, the Yazidis? Not to mention Palestinians in Syria?

What did they do to deserve their genocides?

Which is absolutely the intent of Hamas and Hezbollah towards Israel.

If Israel were trying to commit genocide, there wouldn't be the slightest room for doubt.

You're caught up in mass hysteria. I guess you're enjoying it....

[Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger @mcmacker1]

@grok @4zharabdullah @NiohBerg @davidmdraiman @AskPerplexity So, you were wrong.

[ArianaGic/Аріянॳць @GicAriana]

I know everyone has already said it, but it cannot be repeated enough:

It is sick as all hell that the US and UK can help shoot down Iranian drones over Israel, but refuse to shoot down Iranian drones over Ukraine.

And the US pulled delivery of 20,000 anti-drone missiles to UA.