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@nikhil_palsingh in its effect, that is

@nikhil_palsingh it's a bit like the whole taco discourse centrists love

Professor Pape is a good analyst. Yet, this framing tilts the scales toward ground war, without fully considering the potential costs of that war or its likely failure. I find this irresponsible.

Your twenties are for struggling against the hegemonic culture you've imbibed since you were a child. Your thirties are for communist study and development. Your forties are for revolution.

The level of cognitive dissonance among some Americans is staggering. They have no trouble understanding that when China extends loans to African countries in exchange for opening their markets, it is a strategy of domination and subjugation. Yet they are sincerely convinced that the Marshall Plan was some kind of entirely selfless philanthropic endeavor, and that the subsequent dominance of American corporations across European markets is purely coincidental, owed to nothing but the inherent superiority of their products. Incredible.

Iran is doing the work of God.

@HullLecturer @IsabellaMWeber @grok Thank you!

@cryptotechnocrt @IsabellaMWeber @grok The jump is sellers’ inflation" means that the sharp increase in corporate profits, particularly from 2003 onwards, was driven by firms using their market power to raise prices for consumers faster and higher than their actual costs were rising. (gemini).

This jump is sellers’ inflation.

@maiamindel I say theyre not on the left not because I a leftist do not identify with them but because they have very much continued the Blairite cosiness with corporate power and the financial elite... blackrock, palantir, etc.. and ofc they sound like right wing nutters on immigration

@maiamindel has alienated much of their left-leaning base, who are moving to the greens

starting to think that the anti woke anti immigrant left is actually not an intellectually credible movement

@jessesingal whats the source for the execution vans? I can’t find anything that looks reliable.

SMCP article on Hasan's visit to China. This is a country with mobile execution vans! The state kills people inside the vans with *no* transparency or due process! One out of a trillion human rights issues there and this ultra-outspoken audacious asshat is suddenly the model of humbleness. It's gross is what it is. archive.is/lsGC0

@ProfDBernstein @mattyglesias Do you think you would have been in favour of granting black people civil rights in America? Or do you think their rights are conditional on their supposed leaders saying things you find agreeable

@ProfDBernstein @mattyglesias Israelis brag about this; you equivocate and apologise. I’m not sure if you’re a useful idiot or just cynical and violently racist.

The thing that’s likely to change if Netanyahu loses power is policy toward the Haredi not policy toward the Palestinians.

@ProfDBernstein @mattyglesias Absolute nonsense but even if i were to grant that: a people’s rights arent contingent on their leaders’ actions…. human rights are universal — it’s called liberalism, something I’m sure you delude yourself into identifying with

Unironically, we must reject the parochial third-worldism of Donald Trump and embrace the pluralistic civic values of the western tradition that Zohran Kwame Mamdani is upholding.

@ProfDBernstein @mattyglesias so do you support enfranchising all palestinians living under Israeli occupation? But I assume youre happy with the current state of affairs where Palestinians have next to no rights

There is nothing to change, other than cracking down on lawlessness. There is no Palestinian partner willing and able to negotiate a peace settlement, so there won't be one. Which is precisely why the left is dead in Israel, their political viability was based on "land for peace."

@shabtai_ @mattyglesias @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi I think you may wanna listen to your friends in Israel. Or even Mike Huckabee?

See, they know all the words. They just choose not to use them for Israel.

@FSOBrat @James_Kabala @mattyglesias @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi It’s called an invasion. Also if you think that you cannot ‘take control’ of somewhere without massacring non-combatants, then that’s a you issue lol 😕 moron

@cryptotechnocrt @James_Kabala @mattyglesias @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi Yes lol If you think an army “taking control” of an area is another country during a war is a peaceful process then that’s a you issue lol 🙄

@James_Kabala @mattyglesias @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi I understand what you mean - but do you think ‘take control’ is a responsible way of describing a violent invasion, complete with the ethnic cleansing of the population and the systematic decimation of civilian homes and infrastructure

@mattyglesias @cryptotechnocrt @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi Yes - the first headline makes it clear the territory is already Russian-occupied. Russia "took control" some time ago; now they are trying to annex.

@mattyglesias @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi I think their aim is annexation but even if i were to accept your point, do you not think that ‘take control’ is a fundamentally misleading and bizarre way to talk about a violent invasion and self-admitted ethnic cleansing?

@cryptotechnocrt @AssalRad @Musa_alGharbi I’m saying the reason the Times describes it as an annexation in one case and not the other is that in one case there is an annexation and in the other there is not. The point isn’t to defend Israel, but to defend headline writers who are catching underserved criticism.