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Meanwhile on the other site they're running similar exposes on remote rage-baiting anti-Israel accounts, which you wouldn't think would be needed to augment actual reports. Anyway, the point is this phenomenon appears pretty bi (multi?) partisan, with every camp telling the story from its own silo.

These brain dead leftists should thank MAGA every day for making them look sentient by comparison.

He didn't conflate all opposition to Israel as pro-Hamas:

"I totally respect those... who have protested Israel’s killing of thousands of... civilians as collateral — and sometimes seemingly deliberate — damage in... retaliation/revenge... against Hamas. [They] are a sign of moral health."

This is the dude who went on an unhinged rant demanding Obama explain a comment he made about Obamacare which had absolutely zero relation to the action before him.

"Stranger seeking free legal representation" was confusing. I figured it out by the next post, but I assume you'll agree that compensation for my inconvenience is owing. I prefer Bitcoin, but a credit for future legal representation will do as well. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Well duh. RW antisemitism is naked and racial. LW antisemitism is cloaked in anti-Zionism. That doesn't mean condemnation of Israel is antisemitic. Much isn't. But much is. The challenge is to untangle the good faith criticisms from the antisemitic dog whistles. It isn't always obvious or easy.

The entitled sanctimonious leftists are a very distant second to MAGA in the race for worst people in our body politic. But distant second is still plenty obnoxious.

I'll never stop blaming the purists for giving us POTUS Trump, MAGA Congress, and a 6-3 Vichy SCOTUS. I'd blame them even harder if many of them weren't among the hardest hit by their own sanctimonious pigheadedness.

I'd say the only merited response was #3 if I wasn't phobic about triggering a recursive loop that collapses spacetime.

Ken's screwing with you. "Amateur historian" is a reference to Darryl Cooper.

Our orchestration teacher told us in all sincerity that the most abnormal people in the room were the double reed players (i.e., oboe, English horn, bassoon), consequent to the extraordinary air pressure required to produce the tone backing up and causing brain damage.

I'll say this for the young Republicans; they don't miss a lot of meals.

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If it's not from the London borough of Hackney, it's just sparkling humorlessness.

Is Malden in the desert? No. Are there musculoskeletal afflictions that are more debilitating in a cold, damp, grey, suicide-inducing vortex of misery like Malden than in a dry sunny desert? Many. Where was this guy's defense lawyer?

Mamdani could have Interpol arrest Bibi in the airport duty free shop where the ICC has exclusive jurisdiction.

Just the whole idea of a Riyadh comedy festival.

That's $333.33 for every American killed by illicit drugs.

Every accusation is an admission or an aspiration.

What's the fuss? The name didn't change. They're still welcoming crackers, right?

Taking a few days off from disparaging a recently deceased awful person out of compassion for their loved ones -- yes, awful people have good people who loved them -- costs nothing and humanizes all of us.

She didn't say email or phone you. She said contact and get a hold of you. I think she wants dating advice.

Better hope not. I don't see a jury voting to convict.

The dismantling of USAID was similarly unconscionable, and on a much larger scale. A quibble, but IMO that's still the reigning low.

Also, if the sandwich you throw at the cop includes bacon, that's defamation.

GG is horseshoe theory personified.

That sounds like Kid3, but I was gonna ask how could that be since you just dropped her off at east coast school. Then I remembered telephones and other such newfangled technology are a thing.

"[I]f it really bothers you to be called [Nazi] the lady doth protest too much methinks."

The Nazis executed every living Jew -- my extended family -- in the Belorussian village from which my family emigrated. I don't consider my angry objection to ever being called a Nazi "protest[ing] too much."

I'm equally certain that Trump is an evil, despot wannabe, and that some of his supporters (at least some I've known for decades) are kind and compassionate to their bones. I can't harmonize that cognitive dissonance, but I won't throw good people under the bus any more than I'll forgive Trump.

I'm in wait and see give him the benefit of the doubt mode myself, but the concerns I've heard expressed by liberal Zionist Harris-voting Jews can be steelmanned better than what I'm seeing in this thread or on Bluesky generally.