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Unf. Orgeh. Table.

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obama beat the hell out of mccain in 2008

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goddamn that is A Post

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#Metoo ruined lives: the womenโ€™s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Fordโ€™s memoir โ€œOne Way Back,โ€ the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

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not really, although it's extremely weird for you to shrug at it as the cost of doing business

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this post contains all falsehoods except one half-truth about Hamas's massacre

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just another way he's out of touch with the desires of the electorate

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just does not really match up with my experience! it's possible some outlets are not mentioning this and i'm not noticing because i already know the context, i guess?

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a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public โ€” including reasonably engaged people โ€” think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand

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beats the hell out of anti-gaza, i suppose

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didn't he write that storyline right after hurricane floyd

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Excellent and must read interview of Rashid Khakidi for New Left Review

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Nothing balances genocide. The people who try to suggest that people are "complicit" in their own genocide, that genocide is a crime that can be mitigated, are rightly called neo-Nazis. Laying the groundwork and carrying the water for another generation of genocide. That IS the full reality.

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I just said I find "people who try to redirect to 'but Hamas' when [Israel's ongoing genocide is] brought up" distasteful. As if anything anyone could do would make Palestinians deserve to be starved and killed and chased from place to place by bombs and shells and tanks hot on their heels!

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no, they literally cannot buy building materials without smuggling them in. israel blockades the strip.

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It boggles my mind that the only national newspaper opinion columnist to say the truth about the president's complicity in the intentional and criminal starvation of over a million people is fucking Nicholas Kristof.

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false, obviously, trust issues are not the problem, israel has not made major efforts are you kidding me, and it's LNG not oil and its presence is speculative not confirmed so basically all of this is wrong

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israel doesn't allow building materials to be imported into gaza except as part of international charity projects

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This is completely not my experience reading or watching the news. Nobody calls it "Axis of Resistance" but every story seems to mention it's related to Gaza.

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This resolution was not initiated by the Netanyahu coalition but instead by the right wing of the opposition in the Knesset, by the way. For those who think getting Netanyahu out will solve the central problem of Israeli rejectionisism.

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The Israeli Knesset is set to pass a resolution, with support from a significant part of the opposition voting alongside the ruling government coalition, that will oppose a Palestinian state "of any natureโ€” at any time; under any circumstances" as an "existential threat" to the State of Israel.

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you are a weird crank, do not bother me with whatever this stupid garbage is

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you should be ashamed of posting racist garbage though

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nixon in 1973, carter in 1979, reagan in 1981 and 1982, elder bush in 1992, just off the top of my head not all of these were part of an overall good israel policy, mind. reagan gave israel cover for everything up to and including rwanda-style house to house genocide.

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you suggested palestinians were grifting aid based on nothing, then launched into the bog-standard anti-immigrant rant. both of these are racist and also just fundamentally stupid and incorrect.

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no, it is not the n-word for white people, what are you even talking about

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you do not understand anything correctly israel has blockaded gaza since 2007, bombing it every couple of years, and is displacing palestinians in the west bank basically continuously this is all after israel abandoned the oslo peace talks (and holding up their promises in those talks)

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this is racist garbage and a complete non sequitur

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nah. wasn't convincing when it was "anti-racist is anti-white" either.

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Another problem is that people overcomplicate things, losing perspective and drawing false equivalence, particularly between oppressed and oppressor.

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btw i can provide evidence of any of these, feel free to pick up to three at random

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hamas is "embedded" there because it is where they live. there's nowhere else to go.

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