Carbon market is open for business: Well, Washington’s carbon market has been open, but it’s now bustling. With the Climate Commitment Act intact after a failed repeal effort on the November ballot, prices for carbon allowances have shot up. Polluting companies must reduce their emissions or buy carbon allowances if reduction isn’t in the cards. At the first allowance auction after the election, the state raked in nearly $272 million. According to the Seattle Times, the state sold “5.3 million 2023 and 2024 allowances at $40.26 each and 2.2 million 2027 allowances at $26 each.” An allowance accounts for one metric ton of emissions from a respective year. Polluting should be costly. Reduce your emissions or pay the price before the planet makes us reap all that we’ve sown.
This about sums up the state of things: Donald Trump was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2024. Sigh. I’d seen a lot of people rooting for France’s Gisèle Pelicot for Person of the Year. Pelicot discovered her husband had been drugging her and inviting strangers to rape her for years. Instead of keeping the case and her privacy under wraps, Pelicot made her trial public. She did so to shift the shame from her to her rapists. But how could a woman’s standards-altering bravery triumph when we could heap a convicted rapist in more laurels?
President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s “2024 Person of the Year,” the magazine announced Thursday. https://t.co/rbBIbYRzrB pic.twitter.com/41XLmP1BDS
— ABC News (@ABC) December 12, 2024
Biden goes big: On Thursday, Biden commuted the sentences of around 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others of non-violent crimes. The 1,500 commuted sentences were all prisoners who were sent home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus and made to serve the rest of their time at home. Republicans in Congress have threatened to send those on home release back to prison.
It’s a deal! Seattle Art Museum’s security guard union reached a deal with the museum on Wednesday after more than two years of negotiating and striking for 12 days. The contract sees wages increase from $21.68 to $23.25 per hour plus 4% wage increases from 2025 through 2027. Yay! Go kiss someone next to a Thaddeus Mosley sculpture.
BREAKING: After 28 months of contract negotiations and a 12 day strike, the Seattle Art Museum and @samvsounion have reached a tentative agreement pic.twitter.com/w2NPcFIayv
— Guy Oron (@GuyOron) December 11, 2024
Sex trafficking sting ensnares assistant principal: Yuck. The Renton Police Department conducted a sting operation in September where they posed as 14- and 15-year-olds and connected with potential offenders on social media. One of the seven men arrested in the sting was Alex Diaz Rios, an assistant principal at Seattle Public Schools’ TOPS K-8 school. SPS placed him on leave when they learned of his charge. Diaz Rios has since resigned.
Hold on to your panniers: There’s a new bike bridge in town, baby. The new bike bridge in Montlake that crosses Highway 520 will open on Saturday. With the bike bridge comes a pedestrian pathway, too, and the 3-acre Montlake lid. Years of construction and congestion in that hellscape of an intersection may finally pay off. There will be opening ceremonies on Saturday at 11 am.
The weather will be wet.
Yeah, okay, buddy: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his decision to declare martial law last week, saying he was trying to “prevent the collapse” of democracy. He said he won’t resign, vowing to “fight to the end.” Critics want Yoon impeached; they say his martial law order was a sign of insurrection.
Shocker: 2024 will likely be the hottest year on record, continuing the trend of every year becoming the hottest year on record.
CEO hit list: The New York Police Department warned US healthcare CEOs about a heightened risk to their lives in the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s top executive. As suspected killer Luigi Mangione wrote in a notebook seized by police, “What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.'” The NYPD’s bulletin warned of copycat attacks, citing social media posts highlighting the names of CEOs and their salaries. Additionally, physical “wanted” posters featuring information about different healthcare CEOs have been spotted around New York. Since the killing, corporations have been beefing up security for their top dogs. Critics have suggested that if they wanted to really be safe they’d stop the predatory practices which have enraged the public.
Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference.
“Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique. pic.twitter.com/vPZCanaPx7
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) December 11, 2024
Overdose deaths are down: Overdose deaths in the United States fell by 17% between July 2023 and July 2024 according to the Centers for Disease Control. White House Domestic Policy Council Advisor Neera Tanden said that “it’s the largest decrease in deaths ever seen in the United States,” according to CBS News. Many moves by the Biden administration have played a role in the decrease such as “making treatment more accessible… cracking down on drug cartels and drug production” and expanding access to naloxone, the medication that reverses opioid overdoses. While this is progress, there will still be around 100,000 overdose deaths this year.
Drugs and CEOs: “I want to experience ego death.” “I want to get my company through a public offering.” “I want to find God.” Read all about the CEOs paying for a guided shroom trip to make them better executives and, maybe, better people. The guy who runs the retreat, a former oil and gas CEO, has rebranded his personal definition of CEO to mean “conscious, empathetic, and open.”
Something for your Thursday: Hey, why don’t you chill out and watch the Grateful Dead Yule Log for an hour or seven?
What? Nothing from The Stranger about a poor homeless man being shot?
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/seattle-police-investigating-shooting-lake-city-neighborhood/SP6LR37GJRB2VBJWJXTJYKDR3Y/
hell.
even
Hitler
once graced
the lofty cover of
Time magazine. it did
Not bode Well for Germany.
@1 what if he’d
been Knifed, mr
magoo? would
That’ve made
you less dis-
pleased?
@2: “even Hitler”
Not twice! 😆
@1, Did you watch the link?
The homeless woman who was shot and survived is being charged with assault. The police want to find the shooter, because they will need a victim to facilitate her prosecution.
The homeless man who died from being shot, would have been charged had he lived.
The person who did the shooting suffered serious physical injury, or would have suffered serious physical injury, or even died, had they not shot.
I thought The Stranger was obsessed with reporting on the plight of the homeless as well as the topic of gun violence.
@4 Did you just reply to yourself and ask yourself if you watched the link you posted or do I not understand how these numbers work?
@2 The story also touches on the plight of a gig worker, whom The Stranger also supposedly cares about.
Their lack of mention of this story, when it hits all the normal areas that they usually emphasize is weird?
Not nearly as weird as being obsessed with finding all the legal loopholes to kill people without going to jail or paying restitution
I watched it and all I saw was a bunch of assholes with guns fucking around and finding out. That altercation could have ended with a few lumps but now someone is dead because they thought their gun made them invincible.
“Polluting should be costly. Reduce your emissions or pay the price before the planet makes us reap all that we’ve sown.”
Just a reminder that these companies are not the ones “paying the price” its the rest of us via the costs that are passed through. With the defeat of the initiative the prices in the market are soaring which will translate to higher prices at the pump. Do you remember when we briefly passed CA as having the most expensive gas in the country. We’ll see that again in 2025. For those of you who think, I don’t drive much so I don’t care, well all the groceries and other stuff you buy is delivered by truck so be prepared for increases there as well. Of course all this extra cost will be great for the environment and we can look forward to reductions in climate change. The state just has to figure out first how to even measure our impact because right now they have no idea.
I’m also looking forward to Ashley’s Bad Apples columns about educators later today since there was also a North Shore teacher picked up for attempted child rape.
Person of the year 1939: Adolf Hitler
Person of the year 1940: Josef Stalin
Nuf said…
@1 – Best to enjoy Slog AM as a buffet of items the staffer puts solely by what they feel is important, interesting, or entertaining. You read about those other items elsewhere, so why complain that you’re not reading them here?
Don’t complain when Nathalie doesn’t serve oatmeal.
@10,
Dude has been on here for well over a decade posting under literally at least 60 or 70 different and now banned user names whining that the paper doesn’t cover every single story that he demands. It’s been pointed out to him repeatedly that they’re under no obligation to cover every such story, though this hasn’t deterred him because he’s an compulsively obsessive idiot and an asshole.
@5 @2, Sorry. Meant @2
@7, Legal loophole? It’s no loophole!
Much homicide explicitly, intentionally, and specifically made non-criminal by the legislators you vote for. If it bothers you, why have you not donated money to a legislative candidate that would repeal those laws that de-criminalize most homicides? Have any of the legislators you have voted for ever even tried to repeal them?
Oh wait, you just want people to be ignorant of the laws on the subject. You want to be kept willfully ignorant, so you can keep your head buried in the sand. You think people who understand civics (all this was covered in my urban, public high school civics classes – only seven states still require civics classes) and the outcomes that it generates in the function of our society, are not normal. If your willful desire to remain ignorant on the civic and legal issues that are in play every time there is a homicide is typical, I think I have to agree with you on that latter point.
I don’t care what people do or don’t know about their legal right to kill people. Legal homicide is not a thing most people like to think about at all, but yes I understand you took civics in high school so you’re just built different. I hear they only require it to be in the curriculum in 7 states! That means most Americans weren’t taught as high schoolers when they’re allowed to kill somebody and the steps they need to take so they aren’t on the hook for a civil suit.
Time is a husk of its former self.
Of course they picked MFer. That fucking clown has been in our faces every fucking day for 9 years, and now he’s triumphed. He’ll be in our faces every fucking day until he’s buried, and then the MAGA party will start building giant statues along the interstate to keep him in our faces in perpetuity.
99% of America has never even heard of the French rape lady. France has.
did Someone
step out in Front of
Someone Else’s bus at
some point & now they’re
here, @tS, searching for Catharsis?
tell Us: we’re
Here to
Help.
@15
the Former,
now deceased
the Latter, insufferable
@10, I am complaining that they are not being intellectually inconsistent in what they highlight here.
They, as has this specific reporter, constantly put up stories about the plight of the homeless, gun violence, and the plight of gig workers. So why not in this case?
@11, See @ 12. If you, and The Stranger, care about those three topics, which I assume is the case, since you have been known to comment on them, then why would you want this case, and the civic and legal issues that drive it’s outcomes, not discussed and debated?
If you object to most homicides being made explicitly non-criminal by the people you elect, wouldn’t understanding that the people you elect have explicitly de-criminalized most homicide be important? Wouldn’t understanding those laws, so you can debate the letter and outcomes of them here, as well as with candidates and legislators, the manner in which they should be amended, be important?
Civics.
Kudos to Max Solomon who engages in exactly that kind of debate. Multiple comments from him about how a cars hitting people in a crosswalks (e.g. Parkland vehicular homicide he has commented on multiple times, and others) not being defined as a crime by the Legislature, you, he, and I elect.
In the duh department:
“Claims about the presence of Hamas fighters in hospitals in Gaza under siege by Israel’s military have been “grossly exaggerated”, a top prosecutor at the international criminal court (ICC) has said.”
Andrew Cayley, who is leading the ICC’s Palestine investigation, questioned the reliability of claims about military activity in Gaza’s hospitals which have been made to justify Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities in the territory.
[..]
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has repeatedly justified operations against medical facilities in Gaza with claims that they were being used by Hamas militants.
Cayley said the ICC faced “great difficulty assessing” the level of Hamas militant presence in hospitals “because clearly there are lies being spoken, but that is really something we do need to get to the bottom of as a prosecution office”.
He added: “I think that has been grossly exaggerated, but we need to be able to demonstrate very clearly what the level of military presence was, if at all, in these hospitals because I think we’ve been misled about that in the press.”[..]
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/11/claims-of-hamas-fighters-in-gaza-hospitals-may-have-been-exaggerated-says-senior-icc-prosecutor
@14
hmmm.
combustible
Statuary. it could
be A Thing. Effigies,
wherever eltrumfpster turns.
I kinda Like it. great idea, Max!
well,
Other than in
Wildfire prone
areas. Obviously.
@17: Intellectual inconsistency is unavoidable, even for the New York Times.
Think about it. If all media were to be “intellectually consistent”, we’d be in real danger.
@17, You make a lot of assumptions about what people believe and the motives behind those imagined beliefs.
It’s not the self-defense laws I have a problem with so much as the proliferation of guns and how they embolden people to make dangerous choices. I always vote for people who support gun control but it’s a hollow gesture because the gun lobby has a stranglehold on our national politics and even widely supported policies like universal background checks cannot be passed.
I also don’t feel the need to map every news story onto a good guy / bad guy narrative because real life is not a tv show. Sometimes everyone involved is the bad guy and they get what they deserve. I don’t like that they’re engaging in behavior that puts innocent people at risk and add expenses to our law enforcement and healthcare systems but I’m not losing sleep over someone getting shot in an altercation they either provoked or didn’t run away from because they were armed.
@18: Wow, a top prosecutor believes a defense strategy may not suffice.
I can understand why you believe this to be news.
But why Male Models?
https://youtu.be/0iyEkIsjVhY?feature=shared
Yeah, well, fortunately for you, not too many people I know…read your little Time magazine, or whatever it’s called.
Nathalie… Love your point about Trump’s POY award. Time magazine has always sucked. They have that POY award and it is the only thing that makes it a notable publication. Otherwise their stories are blah, predictable and copies of whatever is already in the news. And because your point is SOOOOO GOOD, they celebrate rapists. One more time today for good measure… FUCK TRUMP, FUCK THE GOP AND FUCK YOU!
@18, So just to confirm, there are no warrants for arrest from the ICJ or ICC on charges of Israel’s leader unlawfully having the IDF attack civilians or civilian infra-structure.
From your own post: “Cayley said the ICC faced “great difficulty assessing” the level of Hamas militant presence in hospitals “because clearly there are lies being spoken, but that is really something we do need to get to the bottom of as a prosecution office”.”
Your own post shows that Prosecutors have not proven to the ICC that there was no military presence, the IDF knew there was no military presence, and targeted the hospitals anyway. The post seems to suggest prosecutors haven’t even come to that conclusion themselves..
Again from your post: “I think that has been grossly exaggerated, but we need to be able to demonstrate very clearly what the level of military presence was, if at all, in these hospitals because I think we’ve been misled about that in the press.”[..]
So based on your own post, no gross exaggeration or misleading by the press has been demonstrated. His office has yet to demonstrate the absence of military presence to the degree that they can even bring the charge.
So the ICC prosecutors, with regard to unlawful attacks on civilian hospitals in Gaza, are where Giuliani was at with regard to the 2020 election, ‘We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence.”
@22, It’s worse than that. The prosecutor is acknowledging they don’t have evidence to show that particular crime. They have, “lot’s of theories,” they “just don’t have the evidence.”
@14, Statutes are fine. They are monuments to something behind us.
I am more worried about MAGA regularly electing (assuming we even have elections in the future) a successful successor to Trump to continue the MAGA agenda.
@20, At the NYT it’s bug, not a feature.
At The Stranger, its a feature not a bug.
You think “inconsistency” is a feature at the stranger because you’ve decided this story was a homeless rights issue; that supporting basic rights for homeless people means you believe homeless people are always victims and never perpetrators; that this is a gig worker issue because an uber driver caught this on dash cam (???); and that the stranger is unable to cover this story because the dead homeless person may have been the instigator not the victim and that the killer may have been acting in self-defense, and you’ve somehow arrived at this incredibly elaborate set of conclusions not based on any evidence but for the complete lack of it. Every last premise behind your argument is something you made up.
@21, You wrote:
“Sometimes everyone involved is the bad guy and they get what they deserve. I don’t like that they’re engaging in behavior that puts innocent people at risk.”
Unpack that for me. Who do you mean by “they?” The unlawful aggressor, or the person responding in self-defense?
If it’s the latter, how can they be a bad guy, if they did specifically what we the voters, explicitly told them they could do? I.e. Committed lawful homicide. Why would you begrudge someone lawfully defending themselves?
In the Lake City Case, it appears the guy who killed his attacker, was not himself attacked with a weapon, but by multiple people using fists and feet. In that scenario he was no less at risk of serious injury or death. Should he be prohibited from having a weapon that can correct that mismatch, so he can avoid serious physical injury, a felony against him, or death? Should he, be required to refrain from defending himself to protect people behind his attacker? Do you expect him to involuntarily be required to refrain from using means that could defend him, to protect other people not subject to the attack?
You correctly identify the correct issue. It’s not the means or objects, its the “dangerous choices.” Ignoring gun assaults and gun murders, we still have assault and murder rates in the U.S., two to eight times those of our European counterparts, depending on the European comparison country. So its not the weapons causing the problem its higher rates of dangerous choices in this society.
Firearms aren’t even discussed in our self-defense statutes. The construction of those statutes is essentially this: If you face a felony, serious physical injury, or death you may lawfully use deadly force for self-defense, until the threat stops. The statutes do not specify the means by which the threat is imposed, or the mechanism or mode of deadly force in response.
Your preferred policy choices deny the law-abiding the most effective self-defense tools, but does not deprive those that attack them the most effective weapons for attack. It’s one-sided and requires the innocent to take one for other innocents not being directly attacked.
The way this country feeds Trump’s malignant narcissism is so fucked up.
I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their lives, because more people in this country will die than ever before. Over a million killed because Trump botched COVID? Wait until he destroys the entire country and people have no health care and are starving and dying in the streets because the cost of everything has increased tenfold, while all of the tax money that still exists goes straight to the billionaires.
We are about to find out what it’s like when you allow someone as sick as Trump is back in power (thank you Democrats for doing ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING TO MAKE SURE THIS DIDN’T HAPPEN AGAIN)!
And the people that voted for him, all of the white supremacists and woman haters and in their dreams think they’re gonna be billionaires but live in trailer parks? They are about to find out what happens when you fuck around and find out.
It’s absolutely fascinating how everyone is just going about their days like everything is totally normal.
You need someone to explain to you why a bunch of armed people who got involved in a street fight resulting in injury and death might all be bad people who were up to no good, even if the killer may have been acting in self-defense? I don’t know that you are capable of taking in information that contradicts the elaborate stories you’ve already written in your own head, but the fact that he fled the scene and still hasn’t contacted the police might be your first clue. But sure, he could also be a law-abiding citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am just speculating about the circumstances leading up to the shooting but it doesn’t change my opinion about these kinds of events or our stupid gun laws.
The Stranger should commute Raindrop’s sentence and let him come back. We can then see whether Raindrop and Phoebe in Wallingford are indeed the same person, as some have speculated.
@31: 3rd para is right on. It would have taken an alpha personality from the early primaries onward to beat Trump. Biden was tremendously selfish to run again.
@33: I’d rather see COMTE reinstated.
@26: “So just to confirm, there are no warrants for arrest from the ICJ or ICC on charges of Israel’s leader unlawfully having the IDF attack civilians or civilian infra-structure.”
lol, you’re the only person here worse at international law than Average Bob! 😁
First, the ICJ doesn’t issue warrants at all, so an absence of ICJ warrants is hardly something to crow about.
Second, the ICC did issue warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for attacking civilians, among other crimes. The warrants themselves are secret, but we can read what the ICC said to the press about the issuance of the warrants:
“Finally, the Chamber assessed that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population of Gaza. In this regard, the Chamber found that the material provided by the Prosecution only allowed it to make findings on two incidents that qualified as attacks that were intentionally directed against civilians.”
As for your boasting that “Prosecutors have not proven to the ICC that there was no military presence, the IDF knew there was no military presence, and targeted the hospitals anyway,” of COURSE prosecutors haven’t proven that. The trial hasn’t started yet! No one has proven anything, lol!
As for your observation that, “prosecutors haven’t even come to that conclusion themselves,” that, too, is a normal part of criminal procedure. The prosecutors have not yet filed the charges which will go to trial. (That filing will occur at an Article 61 hearing.) So of course they don’t have solid evidence and firm conclusions at this stage…they don’t even know yet what the criminal charges will be.
The only person leaping to conclusions is not the ICC prosecutors but you! Even Average Bob managed to avoid most of his usual erroneous editorializing @18. 😉 You know you’ve messed up when you make Average Bob look like the reasonable participant in the conversation. 🤣
@31 Xina, you gave up all of your right to complain about anything Trump does when you spent the whole campaign attacking and criticizing the only opponents who could stop him from being President. You helped him return to power, so you share some of the blame for everything he does.
Was COMTE banned? I didn’t notice. For what reason?
@37 I don’t think so. They just posted a comment a few days ago. I don’t think they are very active anymore but they pop up every now and then.
@29, Nope. It’s inconsistent because they report on most shootings with the “Oh gosh, gun use bad,” reductionist line.
Amazing how they skip over a story where it saved a homeless guy from serious injury or death.
So they report gun use, good bad, and ugly, or they don’t do that consistently.
Are you suggesting that because the victim was homeless they were up to no good? Are you suggesting that the homeless are more likely to be perpetrators of predatory violence?
Assuming they are all up to no good, are you endorsing vigilantism, and whatever lead to the violence was appropriately handled extra-judicially, or that its better that these folks don’t have the skills to not let the conflict get that far? Assuming they are all up to no good, does that mean the shooter should lose protection in law from being assaulted and attacked? Legally they don’t now. Do you want to change that?
BTW, Crime victims aren’t obligated to contact the police. Many crime victims choose not to, for a whole host of reasons that have nothing to do with potential criminal liability. It’s their call, not yours, or the state’s call.
Someone who committed a non-criminal homicide is not obligated to contact the police. They committed no crime.
If The Stranger had their calls heeded, there would be no police to contact. The way this matter was handled by the killer, would be the normal way to handle crime. Police it yourself. That is probably the ultimate inconsistency in their ignoring this story. The story will be the expanded normal without police.
@37 & 38
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like to stir up Fake
‘controversies’ to bask
in the reflected Glory of a
good argument over the trivialest
of reasons. there are more overlaps
than I’d suspected but perhaps dewey
Did have that Masters Degree in psychology
they were Always bragging about. suspicioning
I may have been ‘incorrect’ in my sockpuppet dismissal.
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@38
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speaking out against
sub-par Pols does Not
automatically Disqualify
one for Commenting on the
Outcome til the next fucking Election.
what.
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just gotta
STFU whilst
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@38: COMTE had a distinctive black and orange Android-ish avatar.
@36 I did not help him return to power. I live in a state that voted for Harris. I live in a county that voted for Harris. I live in a rural town that voted for Harris.
I have absolutely ZERO power in the context of this country, from the top down. The Democrats did NOTHING. The DOJ did NOTHING. Trump was indicted of 91 felonies and tried to overthrow the government in 2021 (treason).
You can rail at me all you like, I bear no responsibility in Trump’s reelection. None.
Every single Democrat who had the power to end this on January 21, 2021 is responsible.
Every single idiot in this country who voted for Trump (whatever their deluded and deranged reasoning) bears responsibility.
The media in this country bears responsibility.
The billionaires who bought the election bear responsibility.
I will suffer, probably more than most given I am disabled and live with my elderly, retired mother, but I bear no responsibility.
Expecting those in power to do the right thing and stop this from ever happening is not the same as abdicating my right to as you put it “complain about anything Trump does.”
It must be deafening to live in the state of cognitive dissonance in which you exist.
“Someone who committed a non-criminal homicide is not obligated to contact the police. They committed no crime.”
You’re just a total and complete piece of fucking shit as a human being.
I shouldn’t have posted that and apologize. Probably should’ve just reported his profile to be banned. For the six or seventh dozen time.
39, Are you drunk? It’s your story and it’s not even complicated but you’re still getting the details wrong. Try to keep up.
The homeless guy is dead. I’m assuming the person who shot him isn’t homeless but I have no idea. Both sides of the fight had guns. I am assuming everyone involved is problematic because they were fighting in the street, someone got shot, and the shooter fled the scene without notifying authorities that he shot multiple people in apparent self-defense, but I have no idea because I’m working with limited in. I just know it’s a messy situation all around.
This is not a “guns are good” story unless your brain is fried from watching too many TV cop procedurals and think every shooting has a good guy and a bad guy. Multiple people were shot and someone is dead over an altercation we still don’t know the details about. This is very much a “guns are bad” story. This is as a tragedy that probably could have been avoided if no one had guns or the cloak of invincibility they think it gives them.
You really need to learn how to stick to the information you have and not fabricate entire arguments in your head from whole cloth. You have a habit of making ridiculous assertions about what you think people believe and expect them to answer for your straw men. You’re doing it right now. You throw out so much bullshit it’s impossible to address all of them. Your time has to be more valuable than this. I know mine is. Enjoy the rest of your day.
*limited information
@35 “The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) strongly condemned Israel’s extensive military operations in Syria in a press conference on Wednesday, emphasizing that these actions following Bashar al-Assad’s downfall constitute serious violations of international law.
United Nations (UN) experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Ben Saul, also condemned Israel’s conduct. Saul stated that “[t]here is absolutely no legal basis under international law to preventively or preemptively disarm a country. […] This is completely lawless.”
Israel has conducted around 350 airstrikes in recent days across strategic locations in Syria, including Damascus, Homs, Tartous, Latakia, and Palmyra. These operations aim to dismantle critical infrastructure, targeting weapons production sites, anti-aircraft batteries, and airfields. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have reportedly managed to dismantle 70-80 percent of Assad’s strategic military capabilities, with a particular focus on destroying weapons stockpiles to prevent them from falling into the hands of various groups. In addition, Israel has bolstered its presence in the Golan Heights buffer zone along its border with Syria.”
https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/un-experts-reject-israel-strikes-on-syria-as-egregious-violations-of-international-law/
@48: Bwah ha ha ha! The human rights experts at the UN crying over Israel’s destruction of Assad’s navy, ballistic missiles, air force, and chemical weapons! I love it! 😂🤣😂🤣 This may be their best one yet! Yeah, by all means, human rights experts, let the salafist militiamen get their hands on some chemical weapons and an air force! Great idea, human rights experts, so glad you’re here to give the world your advice, ha ha ha!
As for the legal aspect, Israel and Syria have been in a continuous state of war since 1948. The 1974 Agreement on Disengagement, which the human rights experts are furiously waving in the air, explicitly says, in its final paragraph, “This Agreement is not a Peace Agreement.” If the Syrians wanted their chemical weapons and ballistic missiles not to be bombed, they could have asked Israel for a peace treaty anytime in the last, oh, 76 years, ha ha ha! Israel would have signed it, too, and I know this because Israel did sign treaties with Egypt and Jordan…neither of whose air forces are now being demolished on the ground, ha ha ha!
I am tickled pink by this latest complaint from the UN human rights experts! 😆 “Israel bad, strong Israel very bad” is as far as their expertise ever extends! 🤣🤣🤣
Xina, I forget what is your stance on transgender women are real women? I seem to remember posts of yours being removed/deleted and you being labeled a transphobe/terf. You haven’t mentioned a thing about the Trump campaigns advertisements, “kamala is for they/them”. Curious on your thoughts of the effectiveness of those ads? Did you vote for Trump?
“Critics have suggested that if they [greedy “healthcare” industry CEOs] wanted to really be safe they’d stop the predatory practices which have enraged the public.”
nah. it’s
Vastly more
Profitable to just
Surround them with
24/7 Security. besides
when Cruelty is the Point*
where’s the Joy
in seeing people
get Good Outcomes?
nope.
Not in
the Cards.
maybe try
Venezuela?
“2024 will likely be
the hottest year on record,
continuing the trend of every year
becoming the hottest year on record.”
Bart Simpson: this is the
Hottest Summer
of my Life!
Homer: this is the
Coolest Summer of
the Rest of your Life.
like ten or so years ago.
our Comedians get it
Right more Often
than our weath-
ermen (or
women).
*right,
wormmy?
@31, @43: So, how did your repeated calls for elimination of Israel help prevent Trump’s election? How did manic obsession with Gaza — a terrorist-infested flyspeck with no real relevance to American voters — help the Democrats? Do tell.
@49 So you went from posturing as an international law expert to defending the unlawful actions of a rogue state. Beware of whiplash, don’t hurt yourself.
Israel is still occupying since 1967 (and even annexed) Syrian territory (2/3 of the Golan heights), which it doesn’t want to let go against the will of virtually the entire international community of nations so expecting Syria to forget about it is a tall order. Surely an auto-proclaimed Mideast history expert would know that. But do keep on amusing the peanut gallery
@9
Time Person of the Year 2008: Barack Obama
Time Person of the Tear 2012: Barack Obama
Nuf said…
@52 Only a racist POS would resume Gaza to a “terrorist infested flyspeck” while literally condoning on a daily basis the murder of its inhabitants. Your disdain for the American voter is also very apparent as very many do care about the lives of innocents wherever they may be and many have expressed concerned for the people of Gaza so it likely played a significant part in this election. Xina has a 1000 times more ethical fiber than you’ll ever have, which is admittedly not very difficult since you are just a terrible person
@50: In case xina doesn’t see that, I’ll correct the matter by saying that none of that is true. She only debated whether “cis” was a slur or not. No transphobia and she clearly didn’t vote for Trump.
@46 The guy who shot him is also homeless according to some of the reporting.
“I am I am assuming everyone involved is problematic because they were fighting in the street.”
So if you are attacked in the street, would you not defend yourself in the street? So you are asserting the right to defend yourself ceases when you step into the public and if you are attacked in public you just have to take a beating until you are seriously injured or die.
Voters like you would join the attackers of this man in victimizing him a second time. You impose upon him the legal duty to not effectively stop the attack upon himself, until he was seriously injured or dead, by denying him the right to use deadly force against his attacker if attacked in public.
Absent the gun, the guy who was attacked lacks the means to engage in self-defense that rapidly ends the threat to him before he suffers serious injury, suffers serious injury, or dies. That is particularly true given that he is outnumbered and taken to the ground. So yes its a guns are good story. Without that tool, the attackers kill the victim, not the other way around. None of the outcomes here were good, but the outcome we got is less bad than the one that would of occurred without the man having a gun to defend himself.
.
@53: lol, it’s Syria’s war. If the Syrians are tired of losing it, they should sue for peace.
Unfortunately, peace will mean Syria has to abandon its decades-old goal of obliterating Israel. 😄 That’s a pretty ask of the Syrians…imagine NOT wiping out a whole state full of Jews right next door, the mind recoils! 🤣🤣🤣
Something tells me the new governors of Syria are going to struggle with the idea of peace with Israel just as much as the old ones did! 😂😂😂 The militiamen at the Umayyad Mosque are already promising to march on the Aqsa Mosque. Sadly, they’ll have to do so without the benefit of an air force, ha ha ha!
(They’ve also promised to march on the Quba Mosque, so watch out Saudi Arabia! Might want to set up an alliance with Israel sooner than later, ha ha!)
@50: https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2023/06/14/79035827/slog-am-trump-indicted-local-trans-woman-harassed-by-far-right-cormac-mccarthy-died/comments/31
Rich (remember him) closed down the comments. He actually closed the comments, which then spilled into the next day. Her deleted statement/screed was anti trans, just like Raindrop is/was. But you are intimately aware of that, aren’t you?
@35, “The ICC did issue warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for attacking civilians.”
Not according to the former U.S. State Department officials that handled human rights cases in international tribunals for the U.S. that was interviewed on PBS’s Amanpour and Company at length. He stated he had read the case and that the charges related to the warrants were all related to allegations of starvation, not use of force.
If the Prosecutor hasn’t filed and indictment, then wouldn’t that be because they have not factually established a basis to indict? You can’t file a charge unless you have first developed facts to support what you file, unless you want to get run out of court.
You can’t have a warrant without an allegation of an arrestable offense.
@53, Absent a peace treaty that specifies a warring party must give back captured territory, there is no obligation in international law to surrender captured territory.
So Israel is still legally occupying the Golan, which they took in a defensive counter-attack, AFTER Syria ATTACKED THEM, lawfully, until a peace treaty in place where the parties to the treaty specify something different.
Maybe the new government that emerges in Syria, if one emerges, will offer terms that will induce Israel to sign a peace treaty. Those terms may, or may not, involve Syria getting the Golan back. Likely not, since it would be strategic and tactical madness.
@60: Well, we won’t know the contents of the warrants until they are unsealed. The court may do so upon motion by either party or sua sponte. In the meantime, the best source of information about the contents of the warrants is most likely the court’s own press release, which identified two suspected instances of civilian targeting as one of the bases for the warrants. As for your former State Department officials, it’s highly unlikely they have read the warrants either, unless they have joined the court and are spilling its secrets 😉 MOST of the suspected crimes relate to starvation, but it is not accurate to say that direct targeting of civilians is off the table.
As for the absence of an indictment, that is a normal and unsurprising feature of ICC prosecutions. Your instincts as an American are steering you wrong here. The ICC is an inquisitorial court, not an adversarial court like you are used to in America. The court itself participates in the investigation of possible crimes. That is the stage we are at now. We will learn the results of the court’s investigation as part of the Article 61 hearing, when the charges will be unveiled alongside the evidence to support “substantial grounds to believe that the person charged committed the crime.” (Actually, if you want to be pedantic, we will learn the charges shortly in advance of the Article 61 hearing, per Rule 121(3)).
@55: Gaza is physically twice the size of Seattle, hence “flyspeck” on the global scale. It has spent the past year being known primarily as a haven for an armed gang, which had abducted civilians out of a neighboring country, and held them (and/or killed them) there. Hence, “terrorist-infested.”
See? My description neither mentioned nor implied any race, ethnicity, etc. at all. You added that yourself, presumably because you lack any valid basis for objecting to my description, and partly because you regard name-calling as the most classy of the (very, very) few argumentative options available to you.
“…Gaza so it likely played a significant part in this election.”
While I have it on good authority that “Gaza Isn’t Driving Votes,” if you want to take responsibility for another four years of Trump, go right ahead; I certainly won’t try to stop you.
xina has repeatedly and explicitly called for the elimination of Israel. I’m guessing you secretly admire her for saying the quiet part out loud?
@’avaragebob”
you cannot
shame the shameless
just like you cannot shame a neocon
in one eye and
right back out
the other one
cuz the Cruelty
IS the whole
fucking
Point.
a short conversation
from Kurt Russell’s
‘Tombstone,’ one
of thee Best of
All Westerns:
Wyatt: “What makes a man like Ringo, Doc?
What makes him do the things he does?”
Doc: “A man
like Ringo has got
a great big hole, right
in the middle of him. He
can never kill enough, or steal
enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.”
Wyatt: “What does he need?”
Doc: “Revenge.”
Wyatt: “For what?”
Doc: “Bein’ born.”
@52
so how did
your Endorsement
of Genocide pan out?
did you get the donold
Elected? talk is, he Won.
congrats.
@57, https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/2003/72910-7-1.html
The State Supreme Court, that voters elect, found when Renaldo Redmond was attacked in a public school parking lot where he had a legal right to be, “the jury should be instructed that the law does not require a person to retreat when he or she is assaulted in a place where he or she has a right to be.”
So the right to self-defense does not end in public. The State Supreme Court does not even require retreat when attacked in public. A democratically driven right via the way an elected legislature has written the law, and the way our elected courts have interpreted them.
57,Not sure how many times you need to hear this but I think the presence of guns on both sides of this altercation exacerbated the problem and have negatively impacted the lives of everyone involved. American gun culture is a blight on our society that makes everyone less safe. I understand that you disagree and I’m ok with that. I don’t need to argue endlessly about it.
@64: According to Bernie, I have not endorsed genocide. Please refer any such questions to him.
“Israel is still legally occupying the Golan”
False. Respecting the territorial integrity of any state is basic international law as mandated by the UN charter.. UN resolution 242 also told Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied in 1967.
this said I have many other things to do before correcting the litany of false statements uttered by CompletelyBlind
@68: lol, the resolution also instructed the Arab states to recognize Israel’s right to exist. 😉
Egypt and Jordan both did and they got their territories back. Syria never did, so they don’t get to go crying about their territory now, ha ha ha!
It’s like I told you at @58. Syria can quit anytime they get tired of losing. They just gotta leave that pesky little Jewish state alone, ha ha! It sounds like such a small thing, but I guess for some people it’s really, really hard! 😉
@50 I most certainly did not vote for Trump and my stance re: trans women is that feminists are not trans women (or men)’s problem. Feminists are not putting anti-trans legislation in place. Feminists are not murdering trans people. Feminists simply believe that women, born women, who identify as women, have the right to call themselves women and pregnant women and lactating women and to fight for the rights of girls and women and none of that is anti-trans. Thanks for playing.
Demanding that Israel stop committing genocide and that the United States stop arming and funding said genocide and that Israel is not a state because it exists on stolen land where Palestinian people already existed when Israel was “gifted” by Britain (who had no right to gift it) has nothing to do with Trump getting elected.
I am still 100% against the genocide and all of the hundreds of billions of AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS used to carry it out. We are not the United States of Israel. If the United States did not arm and fund Israel, Israel would not be able to eradicate everyone around them. AIPAC is an illegal organization buying our government. Israel’s lobbying PAC should be a foreign entity, not an American one.
Israel selling off Palestinian land in illegal settlement sales in the United States (see New Jersey and elsewhere) is serious bullshit.
But hey, why give a shit about genocide, am I right?
Why give a shit that hundreds of billions of AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS that could be used the help natural disaster victims in the United States, that could house the homeless in the United States, that could feed the hungry in the United States, that could do any number of things for the people IN THE UNITED STATES PAYING THE TAXES is being given to Israel to slaughter and starve millions of people, am I right?
Fuck you.
@56 thanks you.
Xina: you are a transphobe and an anti-semite. Try as hard as you like to rewrite history with your unhinged word salads.
It seems old Rich did you favor by deleting all “said screeds”. I guess it’s just a case of “she said, they said” now.
@70: “Feminists simply believe that women, born women, who identify as women, have the right to call themselves women…”
Do persons identified at birth as male have the right to call themselves women?
@73: Xina is what you get when progressives forget to sanitizetheir bigotry 😂
@73 — the Patriarchy
Appreciates you as do
bibi and his fellow War
Criminals. whatever you
can do to further unbend the
moral arc of the Universe the fuck
Away from Justice will be Appreciated by
your fellow pro-Genociders, Neolibs and Cons
gathered here to
usher in the
Demise
of tS.
whoa the trolls are busy today.
yes a person born male who is trans and identifies as a woman can call themselves a woman.
why do trans people insist on erasing girls and women by demanding EVERYONE call themselves a “pregnant person,” etc.?
girls and women have already been erased for centuries and they don’t need to be erased by trans people. girls and women born with vaginas and who are female at birth have a right to exist as girls and women and need not be told that referring to themselves as such is transphobic.
TERF is a slur. feminists are not responsible for the problems trans people are facing. just like girls and women, the biggest threat to trans people are cis heterosexual males. but keep on with your bullshit.
and it’s fucking hilarious how anyone believes anything that is said in the SLOG comment section affects anything or anyone outside of this echo chamber. i never asked for any of my comments to be erased. how would you even know if they were?
i am firmly anti-zionist and i stand with all jewish people who are also anti-zionist. the largest number of zionists in the world are CHRISTIANS. that’s fucking fact.
i’m going to go enjoy my weekend now. buh-bye.
@77: “i am firmly anti-zionist”
Anti-zionists are bad people. 😃
@77: Thank you for answering my question. I’m still unclear as to whether you allow “feminists” to advocate for the rights of trans women or not. Going on a multi-paragraph rant about the supposed perfidy of trans people didn’t do much to rehabilitate your reputation here on trans’ issues, though.
“i never asked for any of my comments to be erased. how would you even know if they were?”
Um, if you go to the URL @59, you can read commenters discussing the erasure of one of your comments, and the Stranger then abruptly closing the thread in which you had made your comment. One of those commenters describes your deleted comment as having consisted of “… a list of TERF talking points.”
I also find it really, really hard to believe that you had a comment deleted, and yet you neither noticed nor cared.
Have a nice weekend.
@78 sure. what’s
Wrong with a little
Massacre cum Land
Grab cum War Crimes?
Nothing! and you
pro-Genociders
are Marvelous
role models
for future
Fascists.
🛴
🛂
🛑!
🚍
thumpf
thumpf
🆘
🚓
🚑
🚔
🎄
👍
@79
“I
also
find it
really, really
hard to believe
that you had a com-
ment deleted, and yet
you neither noticed nor cared.”
–@our Master
Projectionist, pro-
Jecting, Masterfully.
well
done.
p.s. so
Sorry re
your wee
sockbott 🛴.
@80: I’ve never had a Slog comment deleted, so I’m not exactly sure how my statement about xina’s deleted transphobic comment is my “projection.” I’m guessing you just like to accuse me of projection. (Perhaps your long-expressed desire to have all of my comments deleted has caused you to engage in projection?)
You either didn’t notice — or have decided to ignore — that xina’s comments in this thread didn’t actually provide any support for trans’ persons’ rights. That puts your hyperbolic reaction to @73 into a very interesting light.
@80
word on the
Street is🛴Pulled
thru somehow — some
chabotts’re Indestructible
tho may need Reprogramming
we can only Hope.
🔕🔁🔄😥🤬👻⛷
@81 — weak sauce but
perhaps you place more
Value on your words be-
ing indelible than she
your little
“Gift” for
Invective
being so
innately
fatuous
btw — you’re Still projecting
b. there ya Go
Again, wormmy!
ALWAYS with your
fucking Purity Tests!
give it a Rest
Oh, and What
about Kashama!?
you haven’t mention
her in like maybe
an Hour or two.
you
runnin’
a little Late?
uh-oh.
cover your
Eyes wormmy: it’s
that damn G word again!
from The Chris Hedges Report
Enduring the Trauma of Genocide
(w/ Gabor Maté)
While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self.
Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately on the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report through attempting to make sense of the psychology, trauma and reason behind the actions of Palestinians, IDF soldiers, WWII survivors, Nazis and even himself.
Hedges begins the show by asking Maté to describe the trauma that Palestinians currently face, as they struggle to survive the constant shelling and murder delivered by Israel for over a year now.
But even Maté struggles to make sense of it all: “This weekend, 40 members of a single family were killed. So when that child is orphaned, it means that their whole support system is gone. So you know what? I can’t tell you. I can only extrapolate from what I’ve seen and imagine something unfathomable.”
Hedges and Maté do not only reckon with the psychology of the victims of genocide, but also grapple with how “ordinary men” become willing, ruthless, executioners under the rule of totalitarian regimes.
Hedges, not sure if these seemingly normal people commit atrocities as a result of trauma or because they are not “morally sentient,” is asked by Maté, “Well, why would somebody become morally insentient?”
The doctor goes on to describe how humans achieve a healthy moral compass. Rather than be taught morality or indoctrinated into it, people gain moral sentience “because [caretakers] treat you well, because they see you, they understand you, they love you, they embrace you.
They promote the development of moral faculties, which is a natural human process given the right conditions. So the lack of moral sentience is actually a sign of trauma.”
Maté’s analysis connects back to the Palestinian resistance itself, and the atrocities they often commit in pursuit of liberation from their occupiers.
Hedges, who knew the co-founder of Hamas, Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, tells Maté that when he pressed al-Rantisi on the act of suicide bombing, the Hamas leader justified his stance with statistics as a way to “morally evade” the subject.
Maté simply, yet wisely, explains that Rantisi, who witnessed the Israelis execute his uncle at the age of 10, did not receive the aforementioned “right conditions” that would have equipped him to recognize these moral contradictions.
“I think what happens is that one of the impacts of trauma is it can close your heart, and when your heart is closed, you don’t see the humanity of the other. And this has happened in a big way in Israel now.”
–by Chris Hedges; Dec 13, 2024
Oodles more on the horrors
of PTSD & missing or disappeared
parents aunts & uncles Families Homes
Any kinda support systems, w/famine disease …
and the generational
perpetuation of Violence
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/enduring-the-trauma-of-genocide-w?
@73: She is neither. Mere discussions of the trans related topics, terms we use, experiences we share are not “phobic”. I’m perplexed by your hostility. We’re all good people here.
@72: my pleasure!
@83: If you want to quote from persons who disagree with Bernie on the use of the word “genocide,” please go right ahead. It doesn’t bother me at all when you stridently disagree with Bernie, even on the topic you’ve chosen to comment upon more than any other.
What do you think of Bernie’s criticism of your use of “genocide,” specifically that you’re encouraging anti-Jewish sentiments by so doing? Does Bernie’s criticism of you on that point mean nothing to you?
@84 — see: @83.
@85
so Bernie’s
Infallible?
on what
fucking
Planet?
only on
Uranus.
see
also:
@83. so
Sorry you
had to en-
Dure it. don’t
Know if there’s
hope/Salvation or
Not, but I’m pullin’ for
ya, wormmy! hell, we All are.
good luck!
p.s.
Nice
Twist/
Deflection
on your Culpability
get Better
so’s you won’t
Need To anymore.
again:
good Luck!
@85: “so Bernie’s
Infallible?”
You’ve copypasted far more material from him here than I ever will. I do not recall you ever having questioned the validity of so much as one word of it in the past. Therefore, your sudden decision to start questioning his judgment comes as quite a surprise. He’s a widely-published author, yet you’re completely ignoring his guidance on the use of words.
As you have yourself repeatedly raised the possibility the Israeli war in Gaza may incite anti-Jewish actions worldwide, I thought you might have an interest in Bernie’s concern that use of the word “genocide,” to describe that war might incite anti-Jewish actions here at home. Yet, you have not addressed his concern. At all.
Why do you suddenly not value his opinion?
like the
Opposite
of the proverbial
Stopped Clock, Bernie’s
got my A-okay to be Incorrect
your
dogged
Demands
that my Fealty
MUST Extend to
Bernie’s EVERY Po-
sition is as Laughable
as your claims of Infallibility.
now bugger
Off & have
a nice day
wormmy.
(I think I see
an Apple over
there with Your
Name upon it! en-
Joy!)
@88: I never claimed Bernie was “infallible,” and in fact, I have questioned the apparent disconnect between his words and actions more than have you. Nor have I ever claimed anyone should show “fealty” to him — although, again, you’ve never disagreed with him in the past, not even once, not even a little, so maybe that word does accurately describe your (former?) attitude toward him.
I was merely wondering, given your own self-described “Fealty” to him on absolutely every other issue, why you seem to have completely ignored his judgment and guidance on the very topic which consumes so much of your commentary here.
And again, if you want to completely ignore a published author’s guidance on the use of words, and a Jewish American elected leader’s worry about inciting anti-Jewish sentiments and actions via (what he considers) intentional misuse of words, that’s fine by me. It just seems odd, somehow…
@89 too tedius
didn’t Bother
ttdb
oh
wormmy
you’re Still here?
speaking of
Progressives
nyt:
The Texas Millennial
Trying to Rebrand
the Democrats
“We can’t bring a policy book to a gunfight,” said Representative Greg Casar of Texas, the incoming chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Ever since they lost big in November, Democrats have talked about how much their party needs to change.
Representative Greg Casar is living it.
Last week, Casar, a 35-year-old Democrat from Austin, Texas, was elected as the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, becoming the youngest person ever tapped to lead the group of liberals at a moment when his party is struggling with younger voters. He’s also the first leader from Texas, a state Democrats find perennially vexing.
Casar, a former union organizer, will be tasked with leading progressives through a challenging period, one that has some Democrats blaming them for tugging the party too far to the left.
He believes it was centrists like Joe Manchin, the former Democrat and departing senator from West Virginia, who caused the party to water down policies that could have galvanized working-class voters. But he says progressives need to shift their message, too.
We should be clear that the Republicans are playing a game by targeting and scapegoating a group of vulnerable people in order to make it sound like, in Middle America, that is all the Democratic Party works on and cares about.
Instead of fully diving into the culture war fight with the Republicans, I think we should be more clearly calling out the Republican game and connecting the dots for the everyday voter.
–by Jess Bidgood; Dec. 13, 2024
lots more
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/politics/democrats-texas-greg-casar.html
so
there
Is hope.
Til
The
‘d’nc
Puts its
Arse on the
fucking Scales
no more Algores
no more Hillarys
no more Kamalas
we need
a Fire-breathing
Dem telling Us Truth
Not capitulating to corporate Am.
with Every breath ~ carpe fucking Deim
or deim fucking carpe.
@90: I already replied to that comment, in the thread where you first posted it. Please do try to keep up.
While you’ve declared Bernie to be 100% correct on everything you’ve voluminously quoted from him, but 100% incorrect when he says we should not use the word “genocide,” to describe Gaza, because it could incite anti-Jewish actions here at home, what if you’re wrong about his last point? What if your constant abuse of the word, “genocide,” has a chance of inciting anti-Jewish actions here at home? What does your constant abuse of the word, “genocide,” accomplish which justifies the risk of encouraging such anti-Jewish actions?
Or do you just not care if your words get innocent persons hurt?
“Or
do you just
not care if your words
get innocent persons hurt?”
so
sayeth
the commentator
justifying the ‘Genocide
that Ain’t!’ exposing Jews
PLANETWIDE to Backlash A-
Gainst bibi’s ‘little Massacre’ of
100,000 Palestinians his Landgrab
and your
(and your sockbot’s)
[‘Thumpus’? Truly, worm-
my?] utter Glee re the matter
and your
Denial that
that might Ever
BE. ‘it’s just anti-Semi-
tism!’ you beseech seem-
ingly ignorantly but really
’tis just the World’s reaction
to bibi’s keep-outta-Prison gam-
bit. refusing/denying Justice has its
Costs.
but keep
Spinning re-
ality, wormmy
it’s
truly
All’s
you
Have.
I could just throw up over how fucked we are that the Orange Turd is Person of the Year in Time Magazine!
And that its Turd Reich of the Billionaires, by the Billionaires, for the Billionaires is out to hurt, economically destroy, and murder everyone who is NOT all of the following:
1.) Insanely wealthy
2.) Corrupt as fuck
3.) White
4.) Republican
5.) Male
Hundreds of millions of us will be dropping like flies soon, thanks to the Orange Turd and its MAGA tools.
Like a page out of Stephen King’s 1978 bestseller, The Stand, ‘those who died quickly’ will be the lucky ones.
I predict that WWIII will strike the dystopian hellhole that USED to be the United States soon.
Our benighted country’s allies are likely to say ‘fuck it’ and point all nuclear warheads at US for being so destructive, greedy, and stupid overall as a nation caught up in hateful ideological propaganda. And wildly celebrating RepubliKKKan voters batshit for the Turd’s return to the White House will be feeling it, too, when their social safety nets are gone. The Church of MAGATurd and “thoughts and prayers” aren’t going to save their ignorant asses.