Good piece. I don't think anyone who says Israel should exist as a Jewish state envisions merely a state where Jewish holidays are prioritized etc. They envision an inherently unjust state that extends greater rights to Jews. That's precisely why it's good to have them explain what they mean.

country obvs, not county -- the same typo twice.

Well, her candidate unconditionally supports the county committing genocide in the Middle East, but I'd urge Dems to vote for her if she were to win, but she won't win because, among other reasons, she unconditionally supports the county committing genocide in the Middle East.

I did, however, see that she managed to say "Palestinian" for the first time this week, so that's progress.

Pick your poison. Me, I'd take my chances with Platner over the candidate still unconditionally supporting Israel after it's committed genocide.

This is a really great dive into the smear jobs against Hasan Piker, in particular I must thank the author for this clarification around Piker's comments about rape on October 7th, imo the most egregious and prolific deliberate distortions of Piker's commentary--which I was a witness to, live. Here:

things you love to see:

Even better with the pervious lines --

Now who the hell are these federal pricks?
Hiding in the Senate like a bloated-ass tick
Air-conditioned fuckstick loafers
Sittin' in a room full of army posters

Nice. Masters of War has biblical references, so. Next, Leo should pluck from With God on Our Side.

I saw that Platner posted this video, saying that he, unlike her, is willing to call a genocide a genocide. It's a good example of why Platner is crushing Mills, to the consternation of most people on this website.

There are just four Senators who both voted for the Iraq War in the Senate in 2002 and voted for the war in Iran twenty-four years later.

Susan Collins is the only Senator out of those four shameless enough to run for re-election.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Reingold reveals her brokenness so readily that, were it not for her hideous views, which she reveals even more readily, I might have sympathy for her.

Platner discourse on here is batshit. It's not a matter of opposing him, which one can reasonably do, but of treating those who don't - which include most Maine Democrats, who've seen him up close and seem to buy his redemption story - as beyond the pale, w/o principles, tolerant of Nazism etc.

Yeah Netanyahu is a Holocaust revisionist.

But it's no coincidence that there was a surge of activism re. the genocide in Palestine bc it implicated universities' own policies and bc there'd been yrs of campus organizing on this issue spurred by BDS -- that is, spurred by Palestinians in Palestine.

These shitty stories always contain the primary answer to their bad faith question -- repression -- yet frame the issue in such a way to denigrate students and the left rather than denounce the repressors.

Have you spent any time on the internet? You put "China hawk" in the header in an attempt to get clicks, this is the inevitable result.

Would prolly help not to put "China hawk" in the headline.

People in this thread are being exceedingly polite to you, given that you made it quite clear you don't give a shit about Palestinians.

The statement from Pakistan said otherwise.

Mamdani had a great response to this question; Abdul El-Sayed's may be even better

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Israel explicitly stated that the ceasefire didn't not apply to Lebanon. Bc of Israeli attacks there, Iran has closed the strait again.

Whoa

Mayor Mamdani tours the new Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital with DOC Commissioner Stanley Richards and SVP of Correctional Health Patsy Yang.

Promises won't close Rikers Island. Action will.

We're announcing the opening of NYC’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital for people in custody with complex medical needs, including critically vulnerable Rikers Island detainees.

The journey to close Rikers has begun.

"Dual-use" is one of those much-exploited concepts that allow racist war-mongers to lend a patina of legality to the monstrous crimes they support. (Those concepts also expose problems w international humanitarian law.)

I'm largely ignorant about/agnostic on Piker, but I'm stuck by the fact that a bunch of well-funded critics are searching through his thousands of hours of spontaneous commentary and can come up with few, if any, unambiguously awful things he's said.

Anti-semites are ruining "the Epstein class" as a useful rhetorical frame.

See, I asked you for the antisemitic things he's said & you link me to a thread that cites a single alleged antisemitic comment, his saying he likes Hezbollah's flag, not the org, mind you, but the "dope" flag. Sophomoric arguably, but anti-semitic? Nah. I remain unpersuaded of his anti-semitism.