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Yeah that seems like it should be the case, right? This particular event does look like just an indie film fest that should’ve gone ahead to me.

But plenty of chinese dissidents are right wing lunatics. A lot are fundementalist christians or say, explicitly pro fascist meditation cults who fund trump and orban and claim to levitate, like the falun gong.

If you look at the damage the substantially far-right cuban expat community have done to politics in florida and pressuring towards bad policies and war nationally, id be more careful about which anti-china voices to empower.

Maybe he should stop raping children, aiding genocide and supporting climate deniers instead of treating philanthropy like a pre-reformation nobleman buying indulgences to get into heaven?

I gave you the benefit of the doubt with your last trolly comment because we’ve had good exchanges in the past but i’ll bow out of this conversation now.

I’m just pointing out that poll doesn’t support your argument. Prioritizing hostages is just not the same as opposing genocide.

From 5 months ago: 82% want to expell all palestinians in gaza and 47% want to kill every man woman and child

From june: 64% believe they are no innocents in gaza, which justifies killing even children.

That seems to me to be about hostages, rather than the genocide.

One in five still think killing palestinians is more important than saving the lives of hostages, but that doesn’t mean all of the other four in five oppose having killed all those palestinians.

People are upset about netanyahu prolonging the war and killing hostages for the sake of his career, but that’s not the same thing as opposing genocide.

how unpopular Bibi and his genocide is…

Netanyahu would likely get voted out because of his mishandling and killing of hostages and his corruption but the genocide itself still enjoys widespread popularity in israeli. If there was an election, a slightly different right wing zealot would likely win.

dem want to tax the rich, repeal citizens united, and give healthcare coverage to all.

That’s just not true though. At no point have dems taken concrete steps towards any of those goals.

Obamacare is the closest they’ve got to any of that and it was explicitly to prevent medicare for all.

he’s still a progressive

Newsom isn’t even a liberal, he’s just a sucking void of ambition. There’s no room for ideals or ethics. He’s a politician and only a politician.

Today it benefits him to troll trump on twitter so he does that. Tomorrow, if trump dies and miller offers newsom the presidency, he’d join the regime in a heartbeat.

Throughout the lifetime of states, whenever they feel threatened it’s very common for rulers to turn to or ramp up human sacrifice.

Since the state is nothing but a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, shouting that violence to the world is a way to project the image of power and strength.

After the panel voted 2 to 1 that deploying the national guard was a “measured response”, that one dissenting, non-trump-appointed judge…

not only urged an immediate review of the majority’s decision by her colleagues on the 9th Circuit, but also asked those “watching this case unfold” to “retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer.”

Even judges are willing to admit that watching this is enough to lose faith in the judicial system.

Trinidad and Tobago challenged Venezuela to provide proof of the alleged false-flag operation and said the joint military operation with the United States “aims to bolster the fight against transnational crime and build resilience through training, humanitarian activities, and security cooperation.”

That is confirmation from T&T, that’s the diplomatic equivilant of “lol bitch what are gonna do about it”.

When the story was just ‘suspect and agent shot as suspect rams ice’, the top comment of every post here was some version of “bullshit”. And that was correct.

‘Ice open fire on journalist known for documenting their crimes’ is closer to the truth. Give it a week and ‘Ice shoot, falsely arrest and torture journalist’ is very likely to be true.

Immigration agent rammed car, then shot partner and driver is equally likely.

Yeah “died after struggling with officers while being detained” is overly-complicated-gymnastics-routine-meme version of killed by police.

Even the guardian is saying “purge the military of leaders who support diversity and equity” instead of the truth: “purge the military of anyone not straight and white”.

J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years.

As far back as the 50s their scientists showed that asbestos was present in their talc. Back when the story broken I read that some of their internal research even associated talc itself with cancer. In the 70s they lied to regulators, saying they hadn’t found any asbestos recently, they had of course. Even after most other companies stopped using actual talc in baby powder, J&J refused to change and insisted it was safe.

Definitely not true.

This is bullshit in the technical sense. It’s not a lie, in the sense of hoping to deceive another with a known falsehood. It’s speech uttered without any regard to whether it’s true or not.

This just some bullshit nazis are spouting because they think they’ll benefit by saying it.

Bootlicking cowards

Hey now, you’re forgetting about peacefully carpet bombing Cambodian villages or peacefully encouraging Marco Rubio to bomb your own country’s fishing boats.

There’s a lot of people you can bomb to win a Nobel peace prize.

Yeah I think so. I didn’t catch his name but they mentioned he wrote the book Dying to Win, which seems to be authored by the same Robert Pape from that foreign affairs article.