@JonDArsen @demsocsean its easy to defend. his point was that oct 7 didn't justify the genocide on gaza, even though war crimes were committed then, and that doesn't change if you posit some extra war crimes
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mr. dang sunshine
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a special twitter account with that optimism right out in front. with that fine, fine optimism totally predominant
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@demsocsean You guys just prove time and time again that you're incapable of actual rebuttal. You can't respond to the actual comment or argument at hand.
If it's so fucking defensible, than fucking defend it.
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My main takeaway from this was the revelation that Sarah has a book coming out on how to defeat MAGA when Kamala lost following her exact game plan (down to campaigning with Liz Cheney). Tim Miller is only Never Trumper who has actually truly thought about what happened in 24.
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
"I could think of 1000 other things I would rather Democrats pick fights about now. Like, why him right now?" "Because he's making their life harder." @Timodc and @SarahLongwell25 spar over one of the biggest questions facing Democrats right now: what to do about Hasan Piker?
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@EldarMamedov4 i was very pessimistic about the biden administration but this was one good thing i thought would happen. he was obama's VP of course he'd restore, as much as possible, obama's iran policy. but nope lol
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Genuinely puzzled as to why aren't Democrats forcefully defending Obama's Iran deal? It was a legitimate, legacy-defining accomplishment. Instead, they're letting Trump's wreckage define the terms. Makes no sense.
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@GrassiAbel @MargBarAmerica @kajakallas @YvetteCooperMP the death of the two state solution is why oct 7 happened dumbass
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@MargBarAmerica @kajakallas @YvetteCooperMP You know what else died in Palestine, Mohammad? The Two-State-Solution. It was strangled to death by the Gazans, just like they strangled the Bibas boys. There will always be only Israel on the map in the Levant because of that. #NEVERFORGETGAZA
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Thank you @YvetteCooperMP for convening a call of over 40 countries on the Strait of Hormuz.
This waterway is a global public good. Iran cannot be allowed to charge countries a bounty to let ships pass. International law doesn’t recognise pay-to-pass schemes.
Today, we looked at diplomatic, economic, and security measures to restore safe passage, alongside working with the shipping industry.
The EU’s Aspides naval mission has already assisted 1,700 ships in the Red Sea and must be scaled up. We cannot afford to lose another critical trade route.
We support work by the UN on humanitarian corridors in the Strait to get food and fertilisers out. The EU has tools to track and facilitate transit that could help with that.
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@ajts1877 @gerardtbaker UK initially refused then acquiesced when pushed. Clearly a country of principle. Other countries refused overflight rights. Enjoy being spiteful. You will need us again one day, and we'll enjoy giving you the middle finger.
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The casuistry here is remarkable. This is the simple reality: Like most Americans, most Europeans think this war is a bad idea.Their governments are being asked to take a huge risk by a man who has proved unreliable, volatile and intemperate over and over. Who would do that?
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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@nagz_the_dog @AaronBastani its relevant because it makes you look stupid and hypocritical
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Relevance?
American imperialism is good and the efforts of forcing nations to adhere to the americanized bill of rights/republic school of thought should be redoubled.
Although, i don't think iran should have been the first nation to fall to american expansion, its a welcome end of an evil nation.
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Rather amusing seeing these weasels write this stuff when they were threatening to annex Greenland ten minutes ago.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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@nagz_the_dog @AaronBastani is iran a part of north america?
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@AaronBastani Greenland isn't part of europe any more than Australia and NZ are.
It's part of an entirely different continent and is naturally aligned with it.
The euro empire has been dead for a long time and should act like it.
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@BazzaBazra @JamesSurowiecki Here is a person who knows nothing about international relations
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If every president since Clinton has gotten the same intelligence briefing that Iran was on the verge of acquiring nukes, and yet it still hasn't acquired nukes, that suggests our intelligence on Iran has not been very good.
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@ashlee_leeee @kkondik yeah they were so hysterical to think trump's nominees would lead to them losing an important right
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@kkondik “His first-term appointments were all judges any R president could/would've nominated.”
Appreciate the acknowledgement that Dems lost their gd minds over totally normal appointees. Remember the sit ins? The Handsmaids Tales costumes? The 50,000 FBI tips called in on Kavanaugh?
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in re: hypothetical SCOTUS vacancy, another wild card is whether Trump makes an absolutely off-the-wall nomination. His first-term appointments were all judges any R president could/would've nominated. As we have seen in many other ways, this term is... different
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@handsomocity @CoreyWriting she's not using it in the colloquial sense, she's temporarily humoring the government's attempt to use it as some kind of term of art in their attempt to squirm out of the way of the 14th's plain text. if it sounds stupid that's because the argument they're making is very stupid
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A.) I doubt KBJ really cares what internet IQ obsessives think of her.
B.) This is "Obama should release his birth certificate" all over again. Even if she got a 178 on the LSAT, people would claim its fake and still call her dumb.
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman
Ketanji Jackson has taken multiple IQ tests in her life (SAT, LSAT, etc). It would be easy for Ketanji to disprove her hates by releasing her scores.
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@tarkinness @AFpost she knows what 'jurisdiction' means and you don't
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I don’t feel any obligation to even entertain that possibility, considering the fact that she accomplished all that she accomplished while the United States of America was handing out DEI jobs like M&Ms; handing out scholarships to ethnic minorities like M&Ms, etc.
Biden merely threw the most radically leftist judge he could find into the Supreme Court to counterbalance what was a large conservative majority.
If you think she’s there because she deserves it, then you are an idiot.
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@_carlbeijer @MattBruenig Why do they “have” to do that? Because you, Matt, and 10 other people who dont watch the sport either way are whining about it. The players know the fights are possible ahead of time, why do they need your permission to make millions of dollars?
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@tarkinness @AFpost she's definitely much smarter than you
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@AFpost That fact that is it even possible for someone so stupid to be a Supreme Court Justice implies how flawed our system is.
Dangerous and naive.
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@ibrahim14706 @mattyglesias the plan was "don't do it"
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I have a question: How is that the US military (the strongest and the best in the world) did not have 'good' plans and contingency plans for the execution of this war of choice/aggression? How is it that our military did not account for the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and never came up with plans to reopen it?
Do you know the answer?
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Now that Trump has given up on regime change as a goal and also given up on negotiating a reopening of Hormuz why not just stop bombing?
His big political asset is that nobody in conservative media or advocacy will hit him from the right for TACOing.
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@gearboxphilly @jkimballcook and the english civil war also crucial context, the desire to avoid sectratarian miliitias
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@gearboxphilly @jkimballcook imo you're not even a little wrong. you ever read 2nd amend equivelent in the george mason VA state constutution?
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I'm probably one of a very small number who thinks Heller was right that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, not a collective right, but wrong to hold that "a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" has no substantive meaning
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@mr_ooptimistic @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital Glad to see a leftist agree that the SCOTUS can get it wrong. Don’t worry… next time they rule against you though, you will claim we need to pack the courts and that these are all “Trump’s judges” like the pathetic sack of useless shit you are 🤷♂️
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It might come down to Amy Coney Barrett…
She’s going to decide the future of America’s sovereignty in the modern world.
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@KingBob_______ @Is_Not_Brian the first spanish colony on the american mainland encountered sophisticated agricultural chiefdoms with a population possibly as high as 2 million, and, after ten years, wiped them out so completely that their wikipedia page has 55 words in it
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@mr_ooptimistic @libdunkmedia @Geiger_Capital Ok. I didn’t read this when I realized you didn’t actually have a point
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@AdamT_Brown @jkimballcook all you have to do is compare and contrast it to the 1776 VA Constitution it was ineptly copy-pasted from. here the structure and operative clauses are straightforward compared to the jumble of the 2nd. there's a reason it took 224 years to decide it!
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@jkimballcook @mr_ooptimistic Agreed — not incoherent. The question is simply whether the first half is meant to carry any legal weight, or whether it’s irrelevant dicta.
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it's a little different, because the conservative approach to the second amendment was to substantively read that phrase out of the amendment altogether, while the traditional view of the 14th amendment is that "subject to the jurisdiction" actually does have substantive meaning
Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D.@neoavatara
The constitutional phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is the right wing's equivalent of the Left's use of "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." to try to twist the original meaning of the Constitution.
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@AdamT_Brown @jkimballcook the difference is the 2nd amendment doesn't have a plain meaning, its grammatically incoherent. very easy to make the case for erring on the side of caution because its in the bill of rights but if that's your principle the 14th of course becomes even easier
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@jkimballcook Think you generally supported the original point — of picking and choosing when the plain meaning of the words actually matters.
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