Slog AM: Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Pro-Palestine Protesters, Sonya Massey’s Family Makes Demands, Harris Leads in Swing States

1. your
   
   crocodile
   
   tears do Nothing to
   
   erase your full-throated
   
   Support for bibi’s Massacre.

   keep
   
   Digging.

2. fwiw the charges were not dropped against the airport protestors, they agreed to a plea deal and if they complete the terms of that deal the charges will be dismissed. The terms include attending all court hearings, having no further criminal charges for three months and no stepping on airport property except to travel. They can also complete 10 hours of community service. So if any of these people participate in another blocking protest the charges will be reinstated. Personally I think there should be a monetary fine as well but its a start.

   For a different look here is how SF is handling the protestors who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge a couple months ago: https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/10/goldengatebridge-protesters-criminally-charged-over-gaza-demonstration/

   From the article “The San Francisco district attorney’s office announced the charges against 26 protesters early Saturday, saying the April 15 demonstration went beyond an exercise of free speech and endangered members of the public. Eight of the protesters stand accused of a count each of felony conspiracy, trespassing, obstructing a thoroughfare, refusal to disperse a riot and failure to obey a lawful police order, and 38 counts of false imprisonment. Eighteen others are charged with misdemeanor versions of the same charges.”

   @46 here’s a couple of the moral monsters. They should be so ashamed of themselves

   “The affidavit cites one woman who missed a pre-op appointment for brain surgery to remove a tumor in her temporal lobe. Another woman told investigators she ran out of water for infant formula and missed a pre-surgery doctor visit for her baby.”

3. @55

   nonsense
   
   d13r.

   ‘moral monsters
   
   guiding America
   
   enabling genociders
   
   making America a country
   
   chock full [of] monsters like themselves’

   was not an indictment
   
   of those Affected By
   
   Anti-genocide
   
   protesters

   what
   
   Wormtongue
   
   has so skillfully done
   
   in so claiming is to Deflect
   
   my words away from Himself

   the actual Target
   
   of my ‘moral
   
   monsters’
   
   post.

   see what he did there?
   
   and you fell for it
   
   hook line &
   
   stinker.

4. @57 my apologies then. They are not anti-genocide protestors however since the cause they support and the slogans they chant call for actual genocide.

5. omg
   
   another
   
   Wormtongue, jr.

   well-played
   
   d13r. well-
   
   Played.

6. @59 are you seriously trying to pretend the protestors aren’t out chanting genocidal slogans and advocating for the elimination of the Israel? You can be against the war but at least be honest about what is happening.

7. I Encourage ALL of the
   
   Protesters — I do Not
   
   Endorse Elimination
   
   of Israel nor the
   
   Genocide of
   
   Either side

   but only
   
   ONE SIDE
   
   is Currently
   
   Genociding
   
   the Other side
   
   speaking of Elimination

   & being
   
   Anti-Genocide
   
   does NOT make
   
   one an Anti-semite
   
   NOR Pro-Hamas as you
   
   insidiously repeatedly like to claim

8. @61: If you’re encouraging the Pro-Palestinian protestors, then you are also endorsing their eliminationism against Israel.

   “but only
   
   ONE SIDE
   
   is Currently
   
   Genociding
   
   the Other side”

   You’ve stated repeatedly that by your definition of “genocide,”(whatever it is) that you could not say whether or not Hamas’ actions on 10/7 and afterwards (e.g. firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel from Rafah) constituted “genocide.” Now you’re saying you’ve made that determination, that Hamas killing of Jews, for being Jews, on land Hamas has vowed to cleanse of Jews, is indeed not “genocide.”

   Thank you, that clears things up considerably.

9. @51
   
   @42 So women punching women in the head is perfectly OK?

   “Boxing is an intrinsically brutal, barbaric activity that has no legitimate place in the modern Olympics or civilized society at large. It is not a sport and cannot be made “safe” for women or anyone else. Obsessing over the sex or gender of individual participants serves no purpose other than to obscure that essential truth.”
   
   Congratulations, for giving an answer to a question that was not asked. The issue here is not boxing. It is women’s sports, as a category, being preserved, OR NOT, for women. Are you OK with weightlifting as a sport? Well, in the last Olympics, the misogynists in the IOC welcomed Gavin “Laurel” Hubbard, the 41 year old white male son of a millionaire New Zealand politician, into the women’s weightlifting competition. He displaced a teenage Pacific Islander woman. You OK with that? Or how about track? Does that sport meet your tender sensibilities? We already had the episode of Caster Semenya and two other males with DSD taking all three medals in the Olympic 800 meter race; the first actual woman is listed in the records as coming in fourth. And now we have this prick, a 51 year old man, who is about to compete in the women’s category in the paralympics, after winning championships for years in the male category, where he belongs.
   
   https://unherd.com/newsroom/trans-paralympian-is-another-blow-to-womens-sport/ Were you alright with “Lia” Thomas, who swam on the U Penn men’s team for three years, ranking something like 450th nationally (i.e. mediocre) declaring himself to have woman feels, and the NCAA permitting him to compete against women? Where he somehow, miraculously, was defeating actual Olympians, and threatening women’s national and world records? Nothing about him changed, except the sex of his competition.
   
   Wake the F up: this is an assault on the rights of girls and women. It’s an assault on gays and lesbians, too: you can’t protect same-sex rights in law and society when you can’t define sex.
   
   So, go back to my original question, and deal with it on a broader basis: are you alright with men punching women in the head? With men stealing spots in the races and weightlifting competitions that are supposed to be for women? With men spiking volleyballs so hard that women are hurt so badly their careers are ended? Do you think women are deserving of their own category, or not? Choose!

10. @57: I stand by my interpretation of your statement @46, because in it, you sneer that all persons inconvenienced by the protestors “are the Real Victims here.” But maybe I’m attributing to your writing a clarity it normally lacks. Let’s say you were not referring to all persons inconvenienced by the protestors. To whom did you refer?

    Perhaps your ‘moral monsters’ are not persons inconvenienced (or worse) by “[the protestors’] self-indulgently
    
    obstreperous posturing,” but rather those persons who complain about “[the protestors’] self-indulgently
    
    obstreperous posturing”? If that is the correct interpretation of @46, then the persons referenced @55 are indeed your ‘moral monsters,’ because they’re not merely complaining about “[the protestors’] self-indulgently obstreperous posturing,” they’re complaining about it in a legal document, as part of an effort to prove felony charges against the protestors, for the “[the protestors’] self-indulgently obstreperous posturing”.

    Such monsters!

11. @wormmy

    your mirror
    
    is actually thee
    
    best place to look
    
    for those moral monsters

    twist that
    
    however
    
    you Like.

12. @65: I never claimed the protestors’ self-indulgently obstreperous posturing had ever inconvenienced me in the slightest, so your sneering reference to “moral monsters” who are “are the Real Victims here” could not possibly have referred to me. That you’ve now ham-handedly declared it did — but only after you got called on sneering at actual victims of the protestors’ self-indulgently obstreperous posturing — just adds to the humor value you provide here.

    On the topic of “moral monsters,” well, the SF protestors trapped a small child in a car for hours without food. Yet you don’t seem to have any words of condemnation for those protestors, not even after their self-indulgently obstreperous posturing recklessly endangered a child. Perhaps your own moral sensibilities aren’t as worthy of respect as you seem to believe they are?

13. omg

    your
    
    brainworm’s
    
    burrowed too Deeply:

    @66:

    irony
    
    personified;
    
    an “argument”
    
    from a Fool . pass

    with extreme predjudice.

    adios,
    
    Wormtongue.

    Best of
    
    Luck!

14. @67: Still not a word of criticism for the protestors’ self-indulgently obstreperous posturing having recklessly endangered a child, eh?

    Your actual commitment to preserving innocent human lives has been well noted.

    Congratulations?

15. “Your
    
    actual
    
    commitment
    
    to preserving innocent
    
    human lives has been well noted.”

    yet more Irony from bibi’s
    
    Favorite propagandist.
    
    keep digging,
    
    lad

    perhaps
    
    you’ll discover
    
    a Genocide victim
    
    buried under the rubble

16. @69: Yeah, bibi’s paying me by the hour. (When all you have is sneers and smears, that’s all you can use.) Meanwhile, I’ll continue with the facts:

    Keep posting. Sinwar may someday appreciate your support. (You can always hope!)

17. “… bibi’s paying me by the hour.”

    FINALLY.
    
    looks like
    
    we were right
    
    all along. have you
    
    registered as a foreign agent yet?

18. @71: Nah, we Secret Agents of AIPAC don’t ever have to register, because we control your government. We control you. (We’d even control your brain, in the ludicrously unlikely event you could ever possibly have hoped to have had one.) We’re everywhere, all the time, and no one will ever believe you when you tell them about us. Go ahead, try!

    Our absolute control of your “thinking” can be seen in this very thread. We caused you to sneer at the suffering of a young child, who was trapped by the self-indulgently obstreperous posturing of Pro-Palestinian protestors. Why would we want to make you look like such a hopelessly depraved ghoul? Because we Secret Agents of AIPAC want you to exemplify all that is wrong about the Pro-Palestinian protestors in America, that’s why.

    In many other threads, we’ve easily forced you to do Hamas’ bidding: blame Israel for all casualties in Gaza. Treat every causality there as an innocent civilian, ignoring all the Hamas terrorists killed. Shout the word “genocide” like you could ever possibly hope to know what it means. Shout the word “genocide” at Israel and only at Israel, even as Hamas continues to kill Jews, for being Jews, on land Hamas has vowed to cleanse of Jews. We have forced you to express all of these thoughts, and many, many other depraved thoughts, and even to believe they were your ideas — as if you could ever possibly hope to have such a thing! So fully do we command America. And you.

    Now run along, and continue to do whatever we Secret Agents of AIPAC tell you to do. (It’s not like you could ever possibly have had a choice…)

19. “Our absolute control of your “thinking” can be seen in this very thread. We caused you to sneer at the suffering of a young child, who was trapped by the self-indulgently obstreperous posturing of Pro-Palestinian protestors.”

    another Lie:
    
    that suffering young child
    
    you placed into an ambulance
    
    is/was nothing more than your
    
    very own Strawman (Strawchild?).

    you’re one
    
    twisted sistah
    
    but Thanks! for
    
    Finally admitting
    
    you ‘work’ for the
    
    nutnyahoo. that makes

    sense. not on This planet
    
    but maybe Somewhere,
    
    I suppose.

20. you keep selling
    
    us that phrase:

    “obstreperous
    
    posturing.” I believe
    
    it’s burrowed into you
    
    so deeply not even Science
    
    may extract it now. good luck!

21. speaking of “obstreperous
    
    posturing” against
    
    our collective
    
    Inhumanity:

    one comment on the nyt’s

    Democrats’ Unity Convention
    
    Has One Giant Exception:
    
    The Gaza War

    Harris campaign officials and Democratic leaders have stepped up outreach to Arab and Jewish voters before the event, but large protests are still expected.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/politics/dnc-democrats-israel-gaza.html

    that Stood Out to
    
    (not just) me:

    “It’s disgraceful that our nation is not just allowing another country to do to an ethnicity what we did to indigenous American, genocide, ethnic cleansing, expansionist settlement colonization, segregation, and other war crimes, crimes against humanity, and violations of international [laws] without any consequences, but we are also arming and funding those racist motivated violent crimes and doing it against our own export laws.

    It makes our national leaders complicit in all of those crimes, proves their violent racism, and proves that we haven’t fundamentally changed since the 19th century.”

    –Christina; Los Angeles, CA

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/politics/dnc-democrats-israel-gaza.html#commentsContainer

    fucking Bravissima,
    
    Christina.

    now, explain to us just
    
    how Wrong she Is,
    
    wouldja wormmy?

    and don’t Forget to worm a little
    
    obstreperous posturing into
    
    your response pretty
    
    pretty please?

22. @73: “another Lie:
    
    that suffering young child
    
    you placed into an ambulance
    
    is/was nothing more than your
    
    very own Strawman (Strawchild?).”

    WTF? The quote and URL are @55. Here’s the quote again:

    “The affidavit cites one woman who missed a pre-op appointment for brain surgery to remove a tumor in her temporal lobe. Another woman told investigators she ran out of water for infant formula and missed a pre-surgery doctor visit for her baby.”

    The Pro-Palestinian protestors’ ‘need’ to prance, preen, and pose their purity in public meant an infant had to go without food, and miss a medical appointment. For someone always moaning about children in Gaza, you certainly do not seem to care about a child here in the United States, needlessly endangered by the self-indulgently obstreperous posturing of Pro-Palestinian protestors.

    (And, all joking aside, your lack of expressed concern is your decision, not anyone else’s.)

23. “you
    
    certainly
    
    do not seem
    
    to care about a child
    
    here in the United States”

    you moron
    
    your strawchild
    
    is Your creation &
    
    YOU Own it your-Self.

    Kindly
    
    Fuck
    
    Off.

    you
    
    and your
    
    little “proofs.”

    Also: your
    
    vile projections?

    here’s my
    
    “Girlfriend”
    
    who can diagnose
    
    pathologies (like yours) blindfolded:

    “The phrase ‘every accusation is a confession’ has been thrown around a lot since October, and for good reason. People who are deeply messed up and dysfunctional inside don’t typically have the internal resources and creativity to come up with accusations out of thin air, so they tend to just accuse people they don’t like of whatever they have going on inside themselves.

    If you ever have to deal with a malignant narcissist or sociopath in your personal life, you can often understand their behavior a lot better by mentally reversing the accusations they level at people and interpreting them as confessions about themselves.”

    –@Caitlin Johnstone

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