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all boats floating creates a rising tide. #equality #energy #environment #slaveryabolitionist #greenpilled

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

Don’t stan,
Don’t stan so,
Don’t stan so close to me.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Basically you have two choices: either you believe Israel is a genocidal state that is morally comparable to Nazi Germany, or you believe there's a giant global conspiracy of mainstream western institutions and media outlets dedicated to making Israel look bad.

Believing the second option is the only way to get around believing the first. That's the only way to believe mainstream outlets like The New York Times are committing antisemitic blood libel with their reporting on the systemic sexual torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. It's the only way to dismiss the fact that every relevant human rights group on earth says Israel is guilty of genocide, while zero comparable human rights groups say it isn't. You necessarily need to espouse a wild conspiracy theory. You need to believe the conspiracy goes all the way to the top, with its tentacles in mainstream institutions all across the globe.

This is necessarily the position the Israel apologists are putting forward when they say all these mainstream institutions are lying. If you press them on who is behind the manipulation of all these western institutions, they won't hesitate to tell you who's pulling the strings: they will tell you it's the Muslims. They'll say it's Qatari influence operations and Hamas propaganda. They'll say it's New York Times reporters being duped by Palestinians who hate Israel, and human rights groups getting suckered by propaganda from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. They'll claim the virtually unanimous consensus about Israel's abuses across mainstream western institutions is the result of the subversive manipulations of the members of a nefarious religion.

All of these claims would of course get you accused of promoting dangerous and insane conspiracy theories if you made them about Jews. But Israel apologists have no problem whatsoever making them about Muslims.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is ridiculous. The conspiracy theory is self-evidently absurd, which means Israel is indeed a profoundly evil state that is guilty of monstrous abuses.

[Hot Take Appreciator @IHateNYT]

anti-big govenment types who want the government to ban arthritis medication in case 8-year-olds use it to induce an abortion, free-marketers who want it to be illegal to boycott Israel, antiwokes who get offended when the Starbucks holiday cups aren't religious enough

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Uganda discovers gold deposits worth 12 trillion USD

[DrRose @FamilylifeGuru]

Unacceptable and convenient. Why Jan 5th & 6th messages deleted? Why can't the be recovered like in other investigation. Not buying this.

U.S. Secret Service deleted texts sought in Jan. 6 probe, watchdog says https://t.co/iG3Rd6BBDG

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@TonyJFalcone then every new car appears to be improperly aimed

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

I want public space that allows for things to happen that haven't yet been imagined by me or anyone.

I want space so someone can saunter outside, sit and reflect, recline, daydream, meditate, get inspired, write a poem, perform it and sell copies of - all in public space.

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@ChristianK101 @KeeangaYamahtta police were holding the door open

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@KeeangaYamahtta @JoshuaPotash holding the door open, classy

[Rebecca Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh]

Akron Ohio police shot Jayland Walker *90 times* and, after they killed him, they handcuffed him and left him lying on the pavement.

Jayland was just 25, unarmed and they were pursuing him for a traffic infraction.

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@HoneyTongueMuse a crafted jewel cannot be undone

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@aidan_smx It looks as if they were trying to get the elevator closer to the bus stop as was initially proposed by the city

[All Along the Fair Play For Cuba Committee 1963-68 @DoItForMaMa]

https://t.co/fc2wtRopt3

[All Along the Fair Play For Cuba Committee 1963-68 @DoItForMaMa]

NYT Approved Nazis of The Warren Commission!

[Electronic Intifada @intifada]

"The decision of the German federal prosecutor not to investigate the death of our family members, despite the evidence of war crimes, is politically motivated," says Ramsis Kilani, whose father and 5 young siblings were killed in an Israeli bomb attack. https://t.co/lUYVTDDBbn

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@MarioBrosLC @Gritty20202 @NoLieWithBTC ARPA funds could have done just that

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

kind of absurd to applaud yourself for the rebound from historic job destruction via a pandemic

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

This is quite the graph.

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@samswey @NiggaTheory but… all it takes is a good guy with a gun?

[Ramzy Baroud @RamzyBaroud]

An excellent and revealing article by @joshruebner. A MUST READ https://t.co/ESFGvcHbIQ #Palestine #Palestinian

[Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli]

Drive to San Diego at 6:30am, don't leave LA till midnight. I'd never have it any other way. https://t.co/mAy7tErGvR

[immoderate @MichaelWasmer]

@PaulCogan a captive market economy