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Will Stancil—fresh off a week calling anyone publicizing Israeli lobby superpac donations antisemitic—says that your (and the international community’s) use of the word Genocide is a little *too* harsh, needs to see way more dead Palestinians before he’ll revisit this matter

Guy who bills himself as "one of the best in DC" "did not know what HHI means" (Huh I wonder why Live Nation sidelined him from their own alleged corruption)

I believe there is a fetishization aspect of these western leftist human safari tours to authoritarian regimes that should not be overlooked. From Venezuela, Iran to now Cuba, western leftists enter these spaces in a privileged bubble, often staying in luxury hotels while being chauffeured around by government minders who only show the best of the country and introduce them to locals who perform an existence the regime wants to showcase. To the western leftist, this only reinforces their already held ideological fantasies of what an “anti-Western or anti-imperialist” utopia is supposed to be, while simultaneously erasing the reality of everyday repression and hardship (something that has been well documented for years). This trip has nothing to do with solidarity or standing with the oppressed, it is simply leftist fantasy play.

When was the last time the Cuba double tapped a school full of children? Because America did that a few weeks ago

Beware the foreign correspondents who have gotten nearly every aspect of this conflict wrong from the get-go stating breezily that Iran will NEVER do this or will NEVER do that. None of them has spoken to a regime figure in 3 weeks. They know nothing more than you.

BREAKING: Trump postpones attacks on Iranian electricity network for five days; says that Tehran and Washington are having “good and productive” discussions about a “complete and total resolution of our hostilities.” Oil and natural gas prices fall sharply.