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@_ericblanc Agree, but how is celebrating DAC’s win not an example of insularity and low expectations? Her politics are incompatible with building power nationally and we can do a lot better.

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@DeepDishEnjoyer And that video was a rip off an even older sketch comedy bit https://t.co/E0AbkoCfK7

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@AntonJaegermm Rather than coming up with yet more epicycles to defend the absurd “guard dog” thesis, maybe try opening a book and learning anything about diplomatic and political history of the US / Israel relationship. This faux-radical hasbara is tiresome.

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@AntonJaegermm But unlike South Africa, Israel’s support from the U.S. has nothing to do with imperial rivalry.

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@ettingermentum Think you’re kind of ignoring the charisma factor here. We don’t want a repeat of Tim Kaine. Beshear has zero rizz and Shapiro has negative charisma—really slimy annd inauthentic. Even if he helps you in Pennsylvania he hurts you everywhere else compared to Cooper or Kelly.

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@_TimBarker Philip Weiss had been good on this, e.g. https://t.co/kulqBTHHn3 and https://t.co/y3fHn5K7ru. It’s hard to imagine anyone arguing it’s strategic interests, but I’ve seen some evidence-free ideological arguments from Max Ajl and other “anti-imperialist” types.

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@History__Speaks The whole U.S. foreign policy establishment in 1948 knew that supporting the creation of Israel would be a liability for the U.S. Truman caved to the lobby, everything the diplomats feared came true. Now even anti-Israel people claim that it was all part of U.S. grand strategy.

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@adam_tooze @joshyoung Plus anyone who has a problem with the “from the river to the sea” slogan is a complete crank and completely out of step with basic American liberal values.

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@samhaselby https://t.co/v2OAYIuSEE

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@samhaselby There have been some good debunkings about Christian Zionism from some of the people who know the lobby best. https://t.co/vZgDmrfkfz

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@andrewelrod I guess it comes down to how deceptive the Bolsheviks were being in their 1917 peace slogan, but maybe that isn’t relevant to the argument you are intending to make

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@andrewelrod “The only correct expression of this task is the slogan “Turn the imperialist war into civil war.”” https://t.co/dOUJF0uKhx

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@andrewelrod It wasn’t a peace program, it was explicitly a program for a civil war. Which he got, and it ended up killing more people from the former Russian empire than WWI.

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@BL_Balthaser That’s true, but why would you retweet an open racist like Lorber to make that point? The guy’s ethnic chauvinism is on par with that of Nick Fuentes, which undermines any universalist critique of antisemitism.

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@ChaseMadar Zero influence in the Democratic Party. And their influence in the Republican Party is vastly overestimated. See https://t.co/vZgDmrfkfz and https://t.co/v2OAYIuSEE

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@voices_______ It's actually a conspiracy to deny that Israel exercises outsized influence on the US, because the evidence is completely clear to anyone who has done the minimal reading on the topic. By engaging in this denialism Rooney is complicit in the genocide.

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@ChaseMadar @theotherjude Nasser would have never been a problem had the U.S.-Israel relationship not pushed him towards Moscow.

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@BigMeanInternet Howitzer shells are 155 mm not 185 mm.