Ryan

Always Caffeinated. Mostly a Leftist politics retweeter. Left is Best.

[☭ 🖼️⭐️⭐️🔻 🚩 @mussy03_]

Essentialism is in my opinion the most subhuman belief one can have, if you genuinely believe human behavior is driven by genes you deserve to be taken less seriously than a cow with brain damage

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hasan Piker has now been condemned by dozens of Democratic senators and members of Congress, which must mean that his comments were so horrifying they would shock anyone with a conscience.

According to these fairly scripted denunciations, Piker said that American Jews “deserve” or “bear responsibility” for rising antisemitism. Here’s how Sen. Cory Booker put it: “Suggesting that Jewish Americans bear responsibility for hatred or violence directed against them is wrong, dangerous, and antisemitic.”

Rep. Jimmy Panetta edited it slightly, saying: “The suggestion that Jewish Americans who publicly support Israel bear responsibility for violence against the broader Jewish community is wrong, reckless, and antisemitic.”

So if Hasan Piker’s remarks were severe enough to warrant this extensive round of condemnation, it should be easy to pick them out. See if you can find his below. (The answer is in the reply.)

“You can’t have the kind of policies the government of Israel is engaged in and not expect that there’s gonna be pushback and backlash. The people that say that people that disagree with the policies of the government of Israel are antisemites are frankly full of shit and they need to be told that.” 1

“Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don’t do the antisemites’ work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.” 2

“Look, the anti-Zionist Jews in my community, you have a very tough job ahead of you, where you have to go back to your communities and try to get your elderly relatives to understand that this connection between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these Jewish institutions . . . is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic. And this is a dangerous…mode of propaganda…If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action. Not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews…I don’t know how many different ways I can explain this. I don’t know how people don’t recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews.” 3

“A lot of the actions by [Netanyahu and his] government are making Jews in the United States unsafe.” 4

“Benjamin Netanyahu has made us less safe. He has frankly put Jews in an uncomfortable position across the country.” 5

It is an “obvious fact that Netanyahu is making Jews in America and the world less safe.” 6

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

It's just false that MMT believes "spending has no consequences." The argument they always made was that spending is constrained ONLY by its consequences rather than by any inherent cap on the amount of money a sovereign government has available to spend.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

notice how he's mad about a popular senator making endorsements but not mad at billionaires and corporations meddling in primaries

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

"AOC annoyed at the left." Yeah duh. All of us annoy each other. This is a well documented left wing phenomenon

[Progressive Victory @ProgressiveVic]

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[Acyn @Acyn]

“Basically, lady is trying to warn everyone… telling ICE, hey, you're destroying families…She reversed so traffic can go by…”

“Can you talk about the agent that was stepped in front of the car?”

“He was in the clear”

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Again: I'm not speculating about the shooter. I just have been stunned how quickly people have jumped with certainty to partisan conclusions. Because in extremism spaces, the Charlie Kirk Hater to Nazi pipeline is canon. It's how we got a generation of antisemitic extremists.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

I'm not in any way speculating. But I'm actually shocked how few people know that Charlie Kirk has for years been among the most reviled people on the planet by white supremacists, many of whom were radicalized by sustained campaigns painting him as an anti-white fraud.

[HalalFlow @halalflow]

Didn't expect this...

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This is a political party committed to destroying itself.

[Brian Baez @MentallyDivine]

This is why they want to close the Department of Education. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

oh im going to jail

[Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo]

“Outside the norm of the traditional choice for the post”

NYT is off to a great start.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

1/ Trump's return as president is terrifying for trans people. We know what’s coming—bans on care, escalated violence, attacks on our dignity.

Here are 10 tips to get ready for the hard years ahead. 🧵

[Shane Harris @shaneharris]

When the first thing you say about your CIA pick is what a great job he did going after your political opponents... This is a signal. Get ready.