@AGHamilton29 Really don't see why they can't apply it to Jewish mass murderers - they lose nothing
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Tom Riddle (parody)
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The UN can fuck right off.
Israel refusing to execute terrorists has been one of the most indefensible and harmful policies imaginable.
I have been a fierce critic of this policy for decades because it has done unmeasurable harm. Many Palestinians and Israelis are dead because of it. You can trace the entire Gaza war and 10/7 directly to the refusal to execute terrorists convicted of murder.
Israel created a cycle where terrorists murder innocent people and then wait in prison for their groups to obtain hostages to set them free. The terrorists behind launching the recent war on 10/7, including Yahya Sinwar, were released as a result of that cycle.
IThat cycle ends if there are no terrorists, like Sinwar, waiting to be traded for hostages. It is specifically necessary for terrorism-related cases where that strategy has been used.
Also, I would appreciate it if the people who support places that have legally enshrined the death penalty for crimes like selling land to someone who is Jewish or preaching Christianity to someone who is Muslim, please skip the lectures on the morality of the death penalty for such cases.
Al Jazeera Breaking News@AJENews
BREAKING: UN says Israel must repeal 'discriminatory' death penalty law 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/p0huh8?update=…
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@HistoryBoomer @Pogojar We also give money to Saudi Arabia but there's 0 commentary. This isn't an honest answer. If aid to Israel went to 0, American leftists wouldn't stop commenting on Israel
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The law was pushed by Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu's hardline Minister of National Security. In pracrice, it will apply to Palestinians, not Israelis who commit murder.
Israel is losing friends by the day. You can explain why this law is totally justified, and then watch the pro-Israel poll numbers in the USA keep slipping.
"Under the new law, Israeli civilian courts — which try both Israeli Jewish and Arab citizens — can apply the death penalty only for homicides intended to “negate the existence of the State of Israel.”
Given that, it would effectively be impossible to execute Jewish extremists like Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli settler who gunned down 29 Palestinians at a West Bank holy site in 1994, said Yoav Sapir, a former head of Israel’s public defenders office."
"Israel’s national doctors’ union has refused to carry out lethal injections, so those convicted will face death by hanging. Some rigpracticeht-wing Israeli lawmakers enthusiastically adopted the noose as a symbol of their support for the law, wearing golden noose-shaped pins on their lapels in the Knesset."
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@ProfDBernstein @HistoryBoomer Fwiw, Israel would lose nothing by also executing Jewish mass murderers. There's no reason to tailor this stuff
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@HistoryBoomer The current war was caused in part by Hamas's desire to take captives so that it could free its murderers in Israeli jails in return. And it was partially successful. That's a good enough reason to execute the murderers.
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@CoreyWriting @Jesse_Leg Death penalty? What purpose would that serve?
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@Jesse_Leg Do you believe that settlers that are caught committing violent acts should face the same penalty?
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This is correct.
Why wouldn’t Israel—or for that matter, any Western country—sentence convicted terrorists who slaughter innocents to capital punishment?
Keeping them alive as bargaining chips incentivizes future hostage-taking and perpetuates an endless cycle of catch and release.
American citizens were butchered and taken hostage on October 7, 2023. The U.S. then had to expend significant resources and political capital to help bring the hostages home.
Part of why so many were taken in the first place is precisely because Israel has recklessly kept large numbers of terrorists alive in prison—only to inevitably trade them for hostages at absurd ratios.
In 2011, Israel traded 1,027 Palestinian prisoners—including Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas chairman and chief architect of the 10/7 massacre, and many others convicted of deadly terror attacks—for a single captured soldier.
In 2008, Israel traded Samir al-Quntar, a Lebanese terrorist who in 1979 brutally destroyed an entire Israeli family and was seen bashing in the head of a four-year-old with rocks, along with an additional four Hezbollah fighters and the bodies of some 200 others for the remains of just two Israelis.
This policy change is long overdue. Israel is taking its security more seriously and becoming less reliant on others to bail them out. Good.
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The UN can fuck right off. Israel refusing to execute terrorists has been one of the most indefensible and harmful policies imaginable. I have been a fierce critic of this policy for decades because it has done unmeasurable harm. Many Palestinians and Israelis are dead because of it. You can trace the entire Gaza war and 10/7 directly to the refusal to execute terrorists convicted of murder. Israel created a cycle where terrorists murder innocent people and then wait in prison for their groups to obtain hostages to set them free. The terrorists behind launching the recent war on 10/7, including Yahya Sinwar, were released as a result of that cycle. IThat cycle ends if there are no terrorists, like Sinwar, waiting to be traded for hostages. It is specifically necessary for terrorism-related cases where that strategy has been used. Also, I would appreciate it if the people who support places that have legally enshrined the death penalty for crimes like selling land to someone who is Jewish or preaching Christianity to someone who is Muslim, please skip the lectures on the morality of the death penalty for such cases.
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@FusaGl @mattyglesias You can tell which side someone is on because that side lacks all agency. They're like automatons responding naturally to your opponents that need to behave better.
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@mattyglesias Do you think Palestinians need to behave more responsibly? Or does this only go one way?
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Something that I try to be consistent about is you need to try to judge the topic at hand without worrying too much about secondhand contamination.
It's true that for any given immigration policy controversy, a large fraction of the people arguing for restriction will be racists. But it's still the case that asylum claims became a bad, abusive loophole that needed closing.
Many of the loudest voices on the trans sports issue really are bigots, homophobes, etc. but the traditionalist side of this is still correct.
Similarly, anti-Israel politics really is full of anti-semites who won't be happy with a more sensible American approach and wouldn't be appeased by more restrained behavior on Israel's part. But it's still true that the US should rebalance the relationship and that Israel should behave more responsibly.
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@mattyglesias Are many of the loudest voices on the trans issues bigots? The issue was only brought to the notice of conservatives recently. Before that it was mostly feminists, often lesbians, who are still the most prominent voices on the issue.
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@MaxNordau @KyleKulinski They will inflate numbers and call them children, aka the usual
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@KyleKulinski Trying to figure out what your reaction will be when your prediction turns out to be completely wrong and all that happens is execution of convicted murderers.
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The nazification of Israel is complete. They’re about to mass murder ~10,000 Palestinian hostages, many of them children. Greater Israel is the 4th Reich.
Mondoweiss@Mondoweiss
BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.
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@shaunmmaguire @Martina yes, but she got 90k likes for fake news
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@devahaz It's really beautiful. I need to follow this guy. I miss these people since so many decamped to bluesky
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@politicalmath Yeah, that's actually just an exit not an entrance
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@TrueSlazac All countries in the world already do this because it's not fun being hostage to international trade in times of war
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The one thing uniting stupid people both on the left and on the right is their irrational hatred of international trade
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@LongZavier @BumpstockBarbie Should be allowed to compete against women imo
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@BumpstockBarbie what about androgen insensitivity syndrome?
(XY chromosome, phenotypically female)
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XO = Turner Syndrome = female
XXX = Trisomy X = female
XXY = Klinefelter Syndrome = male
XYY = Jacobs Syndrome = male
DSDs are not a third sex, and they’re not some weird “in between.”
True hermaphroditism doesn’t exist in human beings. No one is truly both, because no one can produce both large and small gametes. DSD/intersex conditions are *male or female specific disorders.*
These are a bunch of congenital conditions that affect the reproductive system. These conditions, again, are male and female specific.
Angela Ryan-Duncan ~ Gonna Need A Bigger Hague@brookelynn74
@JohnBradfo40995 @SVPhillimore Explain DSDs.
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@SilentSkyZero @BumpstockBarbie There are XY women who have partial to complete androgen insensitivity. These women should be allowed to compete against women because they don't have male advantage. Other DSDs like 5ARD need to be banned from women's comps
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@JohnBradfo40995 @brookelynn74 @SVPhillimore Intersex males with 46XY 5ARD are over-represented by many orders of magnitude in female sports because they're mistaken to be females but retain male advantage. The new rule exists to remove these people from women's competitions.
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@brookelynn74 @SVPhillimore Ok here I'll simplify for you. World pop 8.3 billion time .0128 is a hair over 106 million. With some form, again since you've grouped them all together since it's so rare. You can be wrong all you want. I don't care.
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The moment your dad’s sperm meets your mum’s egg you will be male or female and that is instantly observable in pre birth scans. While you may face the negative consequences of sex stereotypes as you grow, it certainly doesn’t make you a prisoner of them. You may like whatever colours you wish! But you can never change your sex.
V ⁷ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@Vidzyy_
The day you are born , they assign you a gender that dictates your whole Life. Your name, your identity, your rights, the colour you shall like, the clothes you will wear, the way you must behave, the way you sit, talk, smile, laugh, cry and you expect me to never question it?
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@Wilson__Valdez If they had a firm grip on reality they wouldn't be radical leftists though
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The Left just lives in a complete alternate reality, where everybody totally agrees with them on every issue (including their laser focus on Israel, 24/7). They're just utterly delusional.
Tlaib would lose (generously) like 40 states lol
soul khan@soulkhan
rashida tlaib is a much better candidate to reach rightly jaded voters and would have a nationwide zohran effect. and if name rec is a hollow objection, keep in mind that when bernie was really on fire in 2016, he was less of a known celebrity politician than aoc is now
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@jbarro can he code-talk to white guys watching football, fixing their trucks? can he be the permission structure to say, ‘Look, you can do this and vote for this'
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I hear there's this white guy, governor of Minnesota, real man's man, watches football, maybe hunts or something? How about him?
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
AXIOS: Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, White, Christian man. Former first lady Michelle Obama fueled such talk recently, saying the U.S. is "not ready for a woman." Democratic strategists have put it bluntly, with several saying a version of "It has to be a white guy." axios.com/2026/03/29/som…
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@PeterTatchell there's no human right to medal in sports. trans women should compete in the appropriate bio-sex category regardless of the performance penalty they've chosen to inflict on themselves
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Olympic ban on all trans women competing in women’s events is unjustified
They’ve no unfair advantage if they’ve had hormone treatment
It reduces muscle mass, bone density & physical strength & endurance. Their performance declines to that of ‘biological’ women
Individual assessment. No blanket ban
@TransLucent_Org @TransITCUK @Mams4Trans @Transgendertrd @TransgenderNews @TransActionBloc @TransPride @LDNtranspride @TransNewsDesk @Mermaids_Gender @BobbityP @TransYouth @transgreens @RuthDavidsonPC @hillarytaylorvi @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty @rachelmillward @MothinAli @LgbtqIndia @BuzzFeedLGBTQ @lgbtiqa_greens @LGBTIQAGreenLon @LGBTIQRights @LindaRiley8 @DIVAmagazine @glaad @HRC @hilarypepper @CliffJoannou @benjaminbutter
GB News@GBNEWS
'They can go in their own categories!' @Nanaakua1 and Peter Tatchell and Nana Akua go back and forth over the IOC banning biological males from women's sports.
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@mattyglesias @VecchTweets He wants to speed with impunity no matter what the speed limit is
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@VecchTweets But let's say there is some speed that you believe is appropriate for DC streets. Would you favor using cameras to enforce that speed limit?
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The city needs to physically seize these cars and get them off the road.
Dana Hedgpeth@postmetrogirl
D.C.’s speed cameras are catching super violators. Most have Va. and Md. tags. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/…
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@SableHummer @Linahuaa I use it all the time and it seems fine. There aren't that many frontier models and xai is the newest entrant. I wouldn't bet against Musk
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@tomri33le @Linahuaa I like SpaceX and Neurallink
There are problems with Teslas but they're fine and X isn't nearly as bad as X.
Grok is a terrible product
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Elon recruited 11 cracked AI bros, gave each ~1% equity, and asked them to copy OpenAI.
Made them work like slaves and pressed every single drop of juice out of them.
2 years later, Grok is now worth $250B.
Each of the 11 bros left with a $1B bag.
Grok may not be SOTA, but everyone can still be happy with the result of this collaboration..
Grace Kay@graceihle
And just like that, Elon Musk's last xAI cofounder is out. Ross Nordeen has left the company, according to people with knowledge of his exit. If you're still counting, Nordeen is the eighth cofounder to leave this year and the seventh since SpaceX acquired xAI.
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