Screen shot of the cover of Ethel Cain's album Preacher's Daughter Preacher's Daughter is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter and record producer Ethel Cain. It was released on May 12, 2022, through her independent record label Daughters of Cain. The album was entirely written and...
A recent entry that gives it a run for the money:
Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.
Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement.
@weatherwar
Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006.
"I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".
and here I thought I couldn't hate golf more
The number one reason for Israel's public perception crisis is Israel's behavior
It is not something that will happen on this website
simply due to the structural limitations of it being 90% English speaking Americans but it would be good to have someone publish a comprehensive assessment as to why so many people were wrong about Hezbollah being "permanently crippled"
Mamdani simply being a successful municipal socialist mayor and orthogonal to that also a normalizer of the non-American perspective on Palestine in US liberalism is really just the ideal scenario for a guy who can't run for the national executive office
Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
I understand -- I just want to avoid the reverse, as well. There was no good excuse for Iran or Guatemala or Vietnam or... Saying the USSR was *the* implacable/aggressive side until Gorbachev gives the US way too much credit.
I think there was plenty of implacable aggression to go around!
Once again, the question is not "where is the Palestinian Mandela?" but "where is the Israeli John Brown?"
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
field was more complicated because the public arena was not controlled from above. Nonetheless, the dominant narrative -- school curriculum, movies & TV, etc. -- when I was growing up was very uniform: we were good guys who did things for defensive reasons, while the USSR were implacable bad guys.
Yeah, so this is the thing: the US was a more open society, and so there were bastions of counter-hegemonic thinking on public affairs. Soviet openness to the US was esoteric -- elements in the Party that favored detente and coexistence -- but not for public consumption, whereas in the US, the...
There were dissident voices in popular culture, but news media and official discourse when I was a kid were not nuanced at all. There could be a sense that *individual* Russians were just human victims of an evil regime, but the USSR was pure threat.
Welp...
Maria, I think this impression reflects only the fact that you grew up in Bulgaria, and not in the US. Trust me, as someone who grew up in the US, we were bombarded constantly with the message that the godless Society Communists want only to kill or conquer us.
I just don't see a problem with anything Omar says here, and I don't hear anything credulous.
2) In talking with people like that we need to make clear that we also have different ideas, and are opposed to Trump's view of the world.
Yes, she shows a lot of "grace" to MTG, but MTG really did vote with Talib & Omar against arms for Israel, and stood up against Fine.
I have now had a chance to listen, as well, and... I really don't understand why you are upset by what she said. I hear her saying two things: 1) that people like MTG & CO seem genuinely disillusioned about Trump the man, which is good.
You got fooled by a former Breitbart writer.
She didn't, that's the thing. She said we have to get our arms around a project of beating Trump. She did not say "embrace" and was not referring to MTG.
Counterpoint, Andy: Omar is not talking about embracing MTG -- that is an interpolation by the writer -- but about embracing the idea ("the thing") that we have to figure out how to beat Trump and take back America. bsky.app/profile/katz...
It's indisputable honestly. A lot of laypeople on here have literally inverted the causality of the circumstances and now think that Israel is less reliant upon the US than they were in 2022, but the more bellicose Israel is the more it is reliant upon immediate replenishment to maintain posture.
*Professor* gutless sewer rat ...
Sorry, Jacob.
Maybe find an example of a country that did submit under these kind of pressures and attacks first? Even one? Because the general pattern seems to be that these campaigns cause tremendous human suffering and then fail, over and over and over again.
www.wsj.com/world/us-ene...
An interesting statistical presentation which makes the case that the nature of Israel's assault on Gaza most closely resembles the massacres in Rwanda, Cambodia and the El Mozote Massacre in El Salvador.
Presenter says this isn't itself proof of genocide but is of indiscriminate killing.
I hope Tisza gets in the constitutional reform business ASAP. There are a lot of rats that have to be driven out of a lot of nests.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...