It was more a reference to Latimer's racist dog whistles. Stuff like claiming Bowman has an "ethnic advantage" and accusing Bowman of representing Deerborn, MI because he criticizes Israel.
He's continually tokenized black people, his response to criticism over his racist remarks has been that he can't be racist because there are black people who've endorsed him. Literally the "I have black friends" argument.
Latimers just another racist old conservative with AIPAC funding shoved up his ass.
This behavior is more a response to the notion that a work day should be 100% productivity at all times, but that's not how most jobs work nor how human beings do work.
I get paid to do a certain job, if I'm given 6 hours to do a job and finish it in 3 and then do nothing for the next 3 hours that's not me being lazy or taking advantage of my employer.
It kind of puts things into perspective when you realize that Ronald Reagan withheld munitions to strong arm the Israeli regime into stopping their bombing of Lebanon. Biden is to the right of Reagan here, that's how far the Overton window has been moved and why Biden is struggling to get the Democratic base to vote for him even against a convicted felon; he's not a Democrat in any meaningful sense of the word.
No, the point they're avoiding is that the word "war" is pretty obviously being used to make it seem as if these are two equal sides fighting it out. That's why the media continues to use the word "war" to describe what's happening, to make it seem like Israel is somehow justified in what they are doing and that the Gazans have some kind of agency here. It's an attempt to normalize genocide.
In reality it isn't a war, it's a slaughter in a territory where Israel controls everything already and where they are indiscriminately killing civilians, decimating civilian infrastructure (hospitals, schools, bakeries, bulldozing cemetaries etc.) and choking off aid with the deliberate aim of inflicting as much death and suffering on the people of Gaza as possible.
If I have someone tied up and am pummeling them in the face that's not a "fight", just like bombing fish in a barrel is not a 'war". It's just right wing propaganda-speak and it needs to stop.
Yeah, the Germans and the jews were just two warring factions, same as the UK and Germany or the US and Japan etc. The jews weren't experiencing a genocide, they were just experiencing a war like everyone else. Right?
Could be, but I don't think it really matters honestly. The message is still righteous, the books are still readable, no one was hurt. So it's whatever.
I'm using your definition of war. You just don't like it when you realize it can be used to literally erase the holocaust the same way you're trying to erase the genocide in Gaza.
Yeah, totally, the victims of the holocaust were just civilian casulties on the jewish side, that's just war, you know? Civilians are gonna be systematically targeted and killed, civilian infrastructure decimated intentionally etc.
The irony of you saying I'm twisting the definition of war when Israel has total control of Gaza, controls any food, water, electricity has bombed 70% of infrastructure and driven the entire population into a tiny square of land is too much. You can't actually be serious.
Gaza is an apartheid state controlled by Israel, there is no functioning state that they're overthrowing, there is no standing army or opposing military industry, they already 100% control Gaza. If the government blows up an entire block of apartments because a terrorist is hiding there that's not "war" that's indiscriminate slaughter.
The vast majority of deaths are innocent civilians. It's not a war, no.
There were holocaust survivors that armed themselves and fought back. That makes it a war by your definition. Germany and the jews of europe were just fighting a war.
Same thing they did when the NRA tried to play bothsides; create party rules to ban party members from taking money from them.
AIPAC is the single biggest donor of GOP money into Democratic races, they are spending millions right now to unseat people like Jamaal Bowman and replace them with right-wingers like George Latimer. It's in the party leadership's interest to put a stop to that. Allowing this right-wing influence into the Democratic party is how we end up with conservative obstructionsts like Manchin.
Hamas is not demanding the destruction of the Israel state in these negotiations, no. They don't have the power to do that whether it's what they want or not.
You don't have to be on the side of Hamas to understand that they're not the ones holding up a resolution to the genocide in Gaza. They've been at the table for all these negotiations and the only demand they have for release of the hostages is withdrawl from Gaza and a permanent cease fire. Israel's refusal to accept that means they have no intention of stopping the genocide or stopping their pursuit of the total destruction of Hamas after a temporary ceasefire.
Yes, it's true that Netanyahu is avoiding a resolution to the genocide in order to stay in power, he's doing that by making the only terms he will accept in the negotiation to include further annhiliation of the other negotiating party. Which is obviously impossible to accept, thats not a negotiation, Hamas are not going to agree to just off themselves or w/e.
Cruz out here acting like Democratic leadership hasn't been allowing AIPAC to dump millions into primaries to unseat pro-palestinian Democrats, lol. I dunno how he's survived so long while being so bad at spin.
I guess how I feel about this depends on what they consider influencers and content creators.
Something like the Majority Report is just a youtube channel, but they do a better job of reporting news than a lot of actual traditional media outlets and I'd be interested for them to actually have someone there with access.
Honestly, I do have most major news outlets blocked whetever I can, whether it be Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc. I just can't be bothered to wade through all the corporate spin to get to any of the actual substance that might appear. So it's a smart move probably by the administration to embrace social media even if it exposes them to a less controlled media environment.
They're in desperate need of turn out since they've alienated huge swaths of their voting base. It won't fix their main problems (Israel support) but might scrape in a few more votes.
It was more a reference to Latimer's racist dog whistles. Stuff like claiming Bowman has an "ethnic advantage" and accusing Bowman of representing Deerborn, MI because he criticizes Israel.
He's continually tokenized black people, his response to criticism over his racist remarks has been that he can't be racist because there are black people who've endorsed him. Literally the "I have black friends" argument.
Latimers just another racist old conservative with AIPAC funding shoved up his ass.