Yochanan Rivkin

[Yochanan Rivkin @rabbitulane]

I wrote this based on a talk of the Rebbe on this week's Parsha.
https://t.co/XWPB3en5rz

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I love the way she pretends that I am trying to just cancel my membership

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@BestBuySupport Is the membership a scam? I purchase a best buy membership and have paid three years' worth of membership fees - nearly $600. I was told it was the same as having a no-questions-asked protection plan. Like @officedepot. Like @BestBuy used to have.
But look:

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@mattyglesias @ChaimKatz7 What if there are three separate dimensions - right/left, authoritarian/freedom-loving, and rational/believes dark conspiracies about certain minorities being the cause of the world's problems?
Do his progressive views exculpate him from being on the Nazi end of the latter two?

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@shevereshtus @Jewtastic @naftalibennett you think that the guy who was in office for twelve months more than a year before 10/7 is more responsible that the guy who was in office on 10/7, and for 12.5 of the 14 years leading up to 10/7?

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@ShlomoYaffe @mycr_karenina Twitter Translate really failed on this one - "Well, that's greener than a Shiksa..."

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@HeimishHumor It's literally the first entry in the religion section of the wikipedia article - https://t.co/HA4AMxhV9z

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@shevereshtus @grok And if someone says that netanyahu going to congress started the process of Israel becoming a political football, and then Trump dramatically accelerated that over his first term, the data fit that assertion fairly well, no?

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@shevereshtus @grok So it wasn't overwhelmingly partisan by 2013?

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@shevereshtus @grok Curious - do you think this demonstrates that your thesis was correct?

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@grok @shevereshtus How about year by year from 2016 @grok

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@shevereshtus That's not my memory, but I am open to being shown evidence that I am wrong.
Bush I was hostile, but the activists worked very hard not to let Israel be turned into Political Football
It seems that this tactic was tossed starting in 2015, and dramatically accelerating in 2016

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@shevereshtus For decades the consensus among Pro-Israel activists was that Israel must never become a partisan issue.
Until 2015, when Bibi accepted the Republicans' invitation to address and Trump massively accelarated it in 2016.
It's unlikely that those tactical decisions were irrelevant

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@mikekbales @mattyglesias @mattyglesias keeps pretending that there wasn't, but there clearly was, and he is being disingenuous. It's disappointing, because I subscribe to his writing, which, i find brilliant, because he is usually able to be honest about his opponents, but he seems to have a blind spot

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@mikekbales @mattyglesias We are way off the original point. The original point was that it was perfectly reasonable to imagine in 2015 that there was a third alternative to the bad JCPOA deal and war. Whether Obama's strategy was wise or foolish for America is a separate question

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@Warp_Reality @mattyglesias @ChaimKatz7 No obviously not - it's my position that the US had more leverage than Obama chose to exercise and that we could have gotten a substantially better deal if we had held out for it

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@mikekbales @mattyglesias how is the current disaster is worse than the disaster that JCPOA enabled? Iran proxies sowing chaos all over the middle east?
Iran was complying, and that is the problem - the deal allowed Iran to comply, enjoy massive sanctions relief, and still wreak havoc all over the ME

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@Warp_Reality @mattyglesias @ChaimKatz7 Again, that is your opinion. I know its frustrating to imagine that other people see the world differently from you, but when @mattyglesias is up here accusing an entire side of the political aisle of straight up lying, it's worth considering other points of view

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@mattyglesias @mikekbales That's precisely the argument that Dubowitz is making is his testimony - and you are pretending that history has proven him wrong, while ignoring that fact that Obama's accepting the JCPOA closed off the historical pathway that he was advocating

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@mattyglesias @mikekbales You keep acting as if history has vindicated Obama, but you ignore the fact that Obama's decision to accept JCPOA and let Iran off the hook was a decision that closed off a possible historical pathway. You don't get to just wave your hand and say you are right