willietrom

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willietrom

willietrom

@willietrom

Beigetreten Mart 2012
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willietrom@willietrom·
@MaxNordau @chitowngirl1982 @jbarro "I don't see how maintaining the international liberal order of laws and punishments that the US's dominance is sold to the rest of the world on would benefit the US." Do you even hear yourself?
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
The Israelis should be punished for this, and there is no reason for a Democratic presidential candidate to suggest we will lift one fucking finger for them after the shit they have pulled boosting the Republicans and then inducing our idiot president into launching their war
Tim Miller@Timodc

People keep telling me its anti-semitic to say Israel influenced US on Iran war. Now we learn Bibi made a "hard sell" in sit room on 2/11. Think telling people not to believe their eyes will cause more anti-semitism than being honest about Bibi influence. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…

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willietrom@willietrom·
@treeaston The Democrats could easily prove they are different from Republicans right now by unanimously voting on a war powers resolution against Trump's war. They'd rather not prove you right, though. Any idea why that might be? Might they not be as opposed as you expect?
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tré easton@treeaston·
There were many people on here who spent a lot of the 2024 campaign flattening the differences between a potential Harris presidency and a second Trump presidency on foreign policy specifically. There are real costs to that type of rhetoric, and I hope we all internalize that.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

If Trump went to congress to seek authorization for the use of military force, Democrats would vote against it. If Democrats impeached Trump for launching an unauthorized war, Republicans would vote against conviction. There's no magic way to do this after having lost.

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willietrom@willietrom·
@DrewPavlou Conservatives absolutely love being pro-crime and then accusing their opponents of that.
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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
The Australian government just arrested our most decorated veteran from the Afghanistan War for alleged war crimes. Ben Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia after singlehandedly storming two Taliban machine gun positions by himself in order to save his own SAS team. And this is how we repay him. I spoke to an Australian Afghan war veteran who told me that the Australian government literally paid for billboards in Afghanistan offering to pay random Afghans to come forward with war crime allegations. What country on Earth would do this to itself? Tell me: When does the Taliban plan on holding war crimes tribunals into their own people? When do the Taliban plan on holding themselves accountable for terrorism? Absolutely retarded to purge your own men when fighting a brutal barbaric enemy that respects no rules whatsoever. We are a cucked nation. Free Ben Roberts-Smith.
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Olivia Reingold@Olivia_Reingold·
Hasan Piker just claimed that the U.S. pays for Israelis to have free healthcare on stage at Abdul El-Sayed rally. Just closed out with “free Palestine.” Reporting for @TheFP
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willietrom@willietrom·
@JamieMetzl A two-letter typo to turn "be" into "beep" and not correct it despite paying for premium. It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off.
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Jamie Metzl
Jamie Metzl@JamieMetzl·
As a Democrat, let me beep clear: Our party will lose all legitimacy if we do not clearly reject the bigotry, intolerance, and anti-Americanism of the far left.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@2RawTooReal I fully mean this constructively: You could start doing that for just 2 to 3 hours a night after work and see if it takes off enough that they'd be convinced to pay you to do it full-time. That's essentially what Hasan Piker did, except his funding came from fans, but same start.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@RichardHanania You seem like a fascist to yourself as well. You see so little difference between liberalism and fascism that you feel like you can be true to yourself while operating within the liberal movement, appealing to liberal aesthetics, and following the rules of liberal institutions.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@Kafkaesquire @KweenInYellow @ryangrim @SarahLongwell25 Both of these are opposite of reality. Even in the case of just Harris versus Trump, independents on the left overwhelmingly voted for Harris and independents on the middle right overwhelmingly voted for Trump. Leftists turned out even more for *their* candidates down-ballot:
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
In 2021 and 2022 @SarahLongwell25's firm made $950k each year from the Koch network, according to Stand Together's tax filings. This is who is telling Democrats what streams they should and shouldn't go on.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@Interstellar_HG @ryangrim The Pakistan government still has official translators for the English language. Keeping them employed but not using them on this would be silly.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@Interstellar_HG @ryangrim Sending official statements to be translated by teams outside of the government makes no sense when they have their own translators. That would just be a extremely poor security decision for no benefit.
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HAx 🪓🧟⚽️@Interstellar_HG·
@willietrom @ryangrim bro its probably a translation team or some shiz... i very much doubt shabaz even know what twitter is... hes too busy stealing from his own people
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willietrom@willietrom·
@Interstellar_HG @ryangrim No one working in the Pakistani government would refer to their own prime minister as "Pakistan PM". That's the point, it reveals that this at least passed through foreign hands at some point, and it's far more likely it originated in foreign hands than merely was edited there.
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HAx 🪓🧟⚽️@Interstellar_HG·
@ryangrim correlation doesn't mean causation.... im pretty sure the PM passed the message to his team and then someone in the team wrote it down as 'Pakistan PM Message on X' and then they copied pasted it.
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Eitan Fischberger
Eitan Fischberger@EFischberger·
It's long past past time for congressional and DOJ investigations into the foreign ties of Drop Site News. Here's what we know: 🔸️It has at least two "reporters" on the ground in Iran who feed the site regime-approved disinformation and propaganda. 🔸️As I previously uncovered, It has employed at least three Gazan "journalists" with ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. 🔸️It recieved at least a $250,000 grant from Soros' Open Society to launch a middle east desk. 🔸️It's published by billionaire communist nepo baby Nika Soon-Shiong. 🔸️Drop Site frequently flies (or is flown?) to the middle east to interview the leaders of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. And by "interview," i mean massage them for 2.5 hours at a time. In fact, co-founder Jeremy Scahill's first act at Drop Site was a multi-part series of sit-down interviews with senior leaders of both terror groups. 🔸️ Drop Site's MENA editor, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, filed a sympathetic dispatch from the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah after he was killed by Israel. 🔸️ Drop Site is fiscally sponsored by the Social Security Works Education Fund while it pursues its own 501(c)(3) status — an arrangement that reduces transparency and allows the outlet to obscure who its other funders are. Bonus: 🔸️Drop Site’s co-founder, Ryan Grim, has tweeted that "The U.S. is a rogue terror state and a cancer on the world" and called president Trump a terrorist.
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Drop Site@DropSiteNews

Drop Site News reports on breaking events with clear sourcing and careful attribution, distinguishing between verified information and claims made by governments or state-linked outlets. In the post at issue (linked below), the information was explicitly identified as coming from Iranian state-linked media and framed as a claim, consistent with our standard editorial practice. Our coverage applies the same approach across all actors, including the United States, Israel, and Iran. In fast-moving conflicts, competing narratives are part of the story, and documenting what each side is saying is essential to understanding how events are being framed and interpreted in real time. As Drop Site reporter Ryan Grim wrote, “anybody who reads our Twitter feed knows that we regularly report official and semi-official statements… Our readers have enough sense not to believe everything every government says, but they do want to know what they’re saying in real time. Other readers, those not interested in knowing what governments adversarial to the U.S. are saying, have endless options to choose from, but we’re not one of them.” We do not limit our reporting to Western or allied sources. Providing visibility into claims made by all sides, with proper attribution, is a core part of our editorial approach. Regarding the reporting at issue, some have accused Drop Site of “promoting” Iranian propaganda for noting that U.S. forces were reportedly bombing areas where a missing airman was believed to be located. That element of the reporting, which we were among the first to surface, was later borne out by subsequent disclosures. Prior to that, we also reported information from journalist Jack Murphy—a U.S. military veteran—who said the recovery had been successful, with clear attribution. Our role is to provide audiences with the information needed to assess developments as they unfold. We do not withhold information from our audience merely because it comes from a source adversarial to the U.S. government, nor do we tell readers what to think. If this is the kind of journalism you think the world needs, link to subscribe is in our bio.

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Basel Musharbash
Basel Musharbash@musharbash_b·
Just a few months ago, @ezraklein called on Democrats to abandon reproductive rights, @mattyglesias called for Democrats to join Republicans in bullying trans kids, and many more in the Vox/Faux DC Centrism orbit called on Democrats to acquiesce in Trump's mass deportation schemes in order to "do what's popular" and "win elections." Following these recommendations would certainly have made the Democratic Party “a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber” — but no one who has clutched their pearls over Hasan Piker in the last two weeks ever voiced any concerns about these leading lights of DC centrism when they pushed these reactionary positions. What gives? Considering @hasanthehun has never pushed the Democratic Party to adopt such wacko positions, he seems much better than Ezra Klein, Yglesias, and other Faux DC Centrists at keeping the Democratic Party "on the right side of history." I mean, if we win by throwing people under the bus as recommended by these amoral think-piece writers, would it even be worth it? What kind of victory would that even be?
Evan Rosenfeld@Evan_Rosenfeld

.@monacharen: Even if it were true that Dems would profit electorally by becoming a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little friendlier to America’s authoritarian antagonists, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber—is it worth it? What kind of victory is that?

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willietrom@willietrom·
@zachlubarsky @musharbash_b @ezraklein @mattyglesias "Reeducation camps" just for funsies? Or did he explicitly advocate for them as a more humane alternative to our current prison system? Maybe there's an important context that you left out or never bothered learning here.
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Zach Lubarsky
Zach Lubarsky@zachlubarsky·
@musharbash_b @ezraklein @mattyglesias Hasan Piker has in fact pushed the Democrats to adopt wacko positions. He just reaffirmed today that Dems should allow Russia to annex Ukraine. He has advocated for reeducation camps too.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@zachlubarsky @revengeofthese2 @musharbash_b @ezraklein @mattyglesias Piker never advocated that the Democratic Party stop Ukrainians from fighting. What he did advocate was for Biden to push for ceasefire negotiations when Ukraine was winning and was in a position to emerge without any lost territory. Biden opted to let Ukraine and Russia bleed.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@adamwren @playbookdc @AbdulElSayed @hasanthehun Is this supposed to cause us to rush to our fainting couches or something? One politician calls other politicians "garbage" and falsely accuses them of marrying their brothers or committing crimes and then another politician doesn't care when they're called names back. Yawn.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@CantEverDie catturd's tweets are so empty of style and thoughtfulness that the account could have been sold a dozen times between those two tweets and no one would be able to tell
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onion person@CantEverDie·
the way people have absolutely zero principles genuinely disturbs me. they believe nothing and will say anything that brings them their next paycheck. this is no way to live. it’s disgusting. i do not understand how this isn’t a bot and an actual real human being
Political Punk@actingliketommy

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willietrom@willietrom·
@mattyglesias Democrats said for decades that they couldn't get rid of the filibuster because they would need to use it in case a fascist ever got in office. There is now someone they claim is a fascist in office and you are pointing to tweets because they have not filibustered a single thing.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
One problem for Democrats is that left-wing people pretend they aren’t doing stuff that they are in fact doing in order to further fuel the flames of anti-establishment sentiment.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@brianschatz Until y'all publish your calendar of days on which you consider it appropriate to ask for improvement, this will always come off as being opposed to any ask for improvement.
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Brian Schatz
Brian Schatz@brianschatz·
If you are still doing discourse, today, about tactical choices that Democrats should make, you have lost the plot. Time and place for everything.
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willietrom@willietrom·
@nikillinit @maiamindel ...or polling them. You can just do public opinion polls, and the framework for analyzing their connection to consensus opinions are far-better established than prediction markets. Prediction markets have gotten plenty wrong, and arbitrage between markets harms reproducibility.
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Nikhil Krishnan
Nikhil Krishnan@nikillinit·
@maiamindel While I think prediction markets are bad for a lot of reasons, this is basically their argument for why they’re important. The only way to now verify consensus opinions is by forcing people to put their money where their mouth is
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Maia@maiamindel·
we're reaching john stuart mill levels of absurd "thought experimetns are just as good as real experiments" scientism with this one
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