My reaction upon reading this was simply that things worked the way they should; heavily brainwashed person makes threat of violence against someone for exercising their free speech, that person then suffers the legal consequences.
As long as that’s always the case whenever people try to undermine speech with violence, I sort of don’t have much to add aside from good riddance.
And Hamas is not actually representative of Palestinians. The majority of people in Gaza are literally not even old enough to have voted last time there was any kind of election.
What Hamas actually is is a group that was funded and propped up by Netanyahu to create an intractable boogie man that Netanyahu could then point too and say “look, Palestinians don’t want a solution, nothing Israel can do about the situation, guess we have no choice but genocide.”
The IDF said it had received a report regarding an “off-duty police officer and a civilian who fired toward a Palestinian individual suspected of hurling rocks” in the area. It confirmed an IDF soldier was also in the area and said it was investigating a claim that the soldier fired at the Palestinian.
Jesus. The lying and gaslighting is insane, the paper thin justifications. Absolute scumbags.
Ironically, I think censoring these kinds of innocuous influencer types is probably a counter-productive move by the CCP (as far as their fascist goals go) compared to silencing actual out-and-out political activists.
I think it’s easier for people in China to accept the silencing of active political dissidents and shrugg them off as “probably extremists”, but censoring a popular entertainment figure forces people in China to ask the question “Why?” which only really leaves the one conclusion; that they’re living in a techno-fascist state. That’s the question the CCP doesn’t want people asking.
I’ll believe it when Biden takes even the most modest of practical moves to pressure Israel to stop.
Not speeches about Hamas, or “hiding behind civilians”, or lamenting how bad Israel feels about killing kids, but actual pressure.
Yup, onward to unfettered exploitation of individual labor.
The thing is, Project 2025 is something that has been signed onto broadly by the GOP, Heritage Foundation and their think tanks. Trump is bad, yes, but it doesn’t really matter which conservative gets in office they will implement the same fascist shit.
The GOP is a fascist party, there is no “moderate” wing unfortunately and we’ve reached the end of the rope in terms of being able to pretend that there is. They must never be compromised with for this reason, compromise with conservatives is what’s brought our democracy to the brink.
This is kind of an absurd take, Americans didn’t invent mass killings. There have been shootings and killings far longer than the US has even been around. Whatever problems the US has you can’t just lay every problem at their feet. It reads more like you’re trying to force some kind of political narrative than anything else.
Czecholslovakia already had a significant far-right demographic, I don’t think this is something that can be blamed on the US, this is just the result of conservativism anywhere.
Yeah, thought the same thing, sounds low. Though, there’s plenty of Russian and CCP trolls too, so maybe they’ve pushed out corporations for the lion’s share.
Yea, until we see him actually with holding aid under the condition they end the genocide his words don’t mean anytjing.
Especially since he just doubled down on the quote that’s dogged him where he said he was a zionist earlier in his career. A few days ago he just re-affirmed bluntly that he is and believes Israel is “the only safe place for Jews” as a justification for Israel to continue murdering children.
I’m envisioning a future where Facebook is using these as a creepy data collection tool to further create shadow profiles for people who aren’t on FB.
I just envision introducing myself to a stranger and they’re just like “Oh, yeah, I know.”
Yes, “impending” kind of implies it hasn’t been happening for the past 40 years.
Yup, the right has been shifting the Overton Window for decades. It’s why you see absurdity like people being “nostalgic” about war criminals like GWB. Unfortunately a lot of people need to actually see the worst thing happen to believe that it’s coming down the pipe.
This is how fascism advances, they eat their own, it’s part of the life cycle. People like McCarthy think they’re playing the game and that they’re going to always have a seat at the table, only to realize that they’re just keeping the seat warm for whichever next-level extremist stabs them in the back. Rinse and repeat until MCarthy seems tame by comparison to whoever is there in the end.
This is about access to the polls. What on earth is the point of a democracy where the people aren’t voting for candidates? The process of democracy matters, to say it doesn’t works entirely counter to the goal of maintaining people’s faith in that democractic process, which is in crisis at the moment if you hadn’t noticed.
As Marianne Williamson points out in the Humanist Report video, these “little” trangressions are where the line needs to be drawn especially for the party that claims to be the the ones defending democracy.
Defending it by eliminating the voters ability to participate in choosing their candidates? That’s not democratic, it’s quite literally authoritarianism. It doesn’t matter that Joe Biden is going to win, it’s the worst message to send at the most critical time in our democracy’s history where it’s on the verge of literal collapse due to these same little compromises with authoritarians.
Yes, conservative Dems are also complicit, but you’re not going to achieve anything by finding a middle ground between extreme conservatives and slightly less extreme conservatives.
No. The GOP are actual fascists. This is not bothsides
It’s incredible that he’s willing to lose his re-election over this. To plunge the entire country into fascist dictatorship all for the far right-wing in some other country.
It doesn’t make sense even from a monetary position, Mossad has to have something very incriminating on him it simply makes no sense that he’d be this blind to reality, to his own political self-preservation.
That set of political beliefs is what has lead us to where we are though.
We’ve voted for the best worst option for 40+ years. None of them have been willing or able to stop us from getting here where we are right now. So what does that say about that strategy?