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Lover of learning; Can’t resist a good argument. Still takes notes on pen & paper Co-Host of Elevated Thoughts Podcast A bipartisan podcast interviewing experts & making more informed citizens New Episode Wednesdays! (https://linktr.ee/elevatedthoughts)

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14.05.2025 18:00 — 👍 107    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

Just because you repeat, it doesn’t make it true

14.05.2025 19:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nobody writing a book today expects a huge payoff. Not trying to defend Jake Tapper, just saying what every author knows.

13.05.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

You don’t care one bit for the homosexual community if that’s your stance

09.05.2025 11:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a fucking hypocrite you are to put LGBTQ rights on your bio and support Hamas, who routinely murders homosexuals. You are the definition of a fucking ghoul.

09.05.2025 11:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Again, I’d like to reference the fact that the Palestinian gay person I know lives in America and cannot tell his parents for fear that they will be persecuted and murdered. Whereas Tel Aviv has a world, famous gay pride festival.

09.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now, instead of creating more moving targets because you know how wrong you are, go ahead and focus on South Africa and how they’re such a moral arbiter of the world

09.05.2025 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s a world apart from protests which are allowed in Israel versus brutal murder if anyone who dare speaks against Hamas. Your false equivalency is pathetic and disgusting.

09.05.2025 11:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have, but they weren’t stoned to death and thrown from building like any gay person in Gaza has been

09.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

5. Prison conditions: Overcrowded and unsanitary prisons have led to inhumane conditions, along with reports of abuse by guards and fellow inmates.

The facts don’t agree with you go ahead and cite South Africa again

09.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

4. Corruption and service delivery failures: Corruption at all levels of government has led to failures in providing basic services like water, housing, and sanitation—violating the rights to dignity, health, and education.

09.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3. Gender-based violence: South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape and femicide in the world. Women and LGBTQ+ individuals face widespread violence and discrimination.

09.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2. Xenophobic violence: Waves of violence against foreign nationals, particularly African immigrants, have occurred since 2008. Attacks have included beatings, killings, and looting, often with little accountability.

09.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1. Police brutality: The South African Police Service (SAPS) has been repeatedly accused of excessive force, torture, and extrajudicial killings. A high-profile example is the Marikana massacre (2012), when police killed 34 striking miners.

09.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa made major strides toward democracy and human rights, but serious violations have persisted. Key issues include:

09.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am debating you’re just ignoring tons of facts. You posted an opinion article from the Harris and I posted research citations from human rights watch.

09.05.2025 11:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

South Africa is not the moral arbiter of the world

09.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Again, your little photo doesn’t include the wars launched against Israel which it one. The spoils of victory include lands from those who attempted to genocide them

09.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hamas and other terror groups have launched thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians, used schools and hospitals as shields, and murdered families in their homes—most recently on October 7, 2023, in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

09.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you not find it interesting that the people of Israel can criticize their leaders while anyone who does the same under Hamas is killed?

09.05.2025 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Israel’s Legacy is complex like every country, but they’re surely much more staunch defender of liberal values than Hamas. Get fucking real. Where would you want to live? An authoritarian Islamic fundamentalist nightmare? Or a state that invests in its own people and ensures civil rights

09.05.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sure only focus on Hamas though as a “liberator” when they use their own people as human shields. Don’t you find it interesting how her mass is able to smuggle in fighters weapons and missiles and yet they don’t seem to smuggle in a to help their own people?

09.05.2025 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Notice you’re only like is from a literal terrorist supporting terrorism. A female who under Hamas has only the right to be breed sow. Notice women’s rights in Gaza vs Israel. Notice gay rights in Israel vs Gaza. There’s a reason why my gay Palestinian friend lives in America & can’t tell parents

09.05.2025 11:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Israel is not an occupier. Jews have lived in the Middle East, just as long as any Arab and certainly longer than the Palestinian ethnicity. They were granted statehood and defended themselves against several genocidal wars, which is the whole reason why they have the territory they do today.

09.05.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

More than 1,000 persons, mostly members of Fatah or the PNA, were illegally arrested or detained in the first months of Hamas rule. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Amnesty International documented many instances of people being abducted and tortured by Hamas militants.[48]

09.05.2025 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These attacks by both Hamas and Fatah constitute brutal assaults on the most fundamental humanitarian principles. The murder of civilians not engaged in hostilities and the willful killing of captives are war crimes, pure and simple.
Sarah Leah Whitson,
Middle East director for Human Rights Watch[45

09.05.2025 11:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that at least 161 people were killed and more than 700 were wounded during the fighting.[1]

09.05.2025 11:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights has found that over 600 Palestinians were killed in the fighting from January 2006 to May 2007.[19] Dozens more were killed or executed in the following years as part of the conflict.

09.05.2025 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

but they are considered as crimes against humanity under international law.[338][339] In a 2002 report, Human Rights Watch stated that Hamas leaders "should be held accountable" for "war crimes and crimes against humanity" committed by the al-Qassam Brigades.[340][341][342]

09.05.2025 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hamas have committed massacres targeting Israeli civilians. Hamas's most deadly suicide bombing was an attack on a Netanya hotel on 27 March 2002, in which 30 people were killed and 140 were wounded.

09.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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