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As a news aggregator, I thought Twitter was best. Now it's broken beyond repair. Major news insights were replaced w/ fever swamp conspiracies & hate. My feed is 70-90% far right trolling, including Elon. Twitter may not die but, for me, this product was destroyed.
Trump just said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" and vowed to clear it of leftist "vermin." It's probably culturally predictable that American fascism is so low brow and lazy it recites Hitler and Mussolini without even reaching for a thesaurus.
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.@HouseGOP members praying on the House floor offends both our Constitution and the New Testament, which denounces public displays of devotion.
The blasphemy of the new Speaker, who says God ordained him, is just as disgusting.
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Hamas does not = Palestinians. Thus, calling Hamas’s actions terrorism is not anti-Palestinian. Israel does not = Jews. Thus, calling Israel’s actions genocidal is not anti-Semitic. You can disagree w/either claim I suppose (though it’s absurd to do so), but neither are hateful.
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If cutting all food, water, fuel and medicine to 2.2 million people for 18 days, while pulverizing Gaza and killing 5800 people, including 2100 children, is “saving innocent lives” I’d hate to see what the alternative looks like.
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Our analysis does not answer what actually did cause the blast or who was responsible, but it does undercut one of the most-publicized pieces of evidence used by both American and Israeli officials.
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Three days before the blast, a 155mm illumination shell, commonly used by the Israeli military and not in use by Palestinian militias, was fired into the Al-Ahli Hospital. Hospital administrators said that they had received warnings from the IDF telling them to evacuate.
Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder of civilians... The overarching, heartbreaking through-line is this Jewish State, in fewer than 100 years, now shares so much in common with the beastly and indefensible fascist State from which it fled.
"Civilian deaths would have no impact on our decision."
These are the things people say when they abandon their humanity and righteously take their place beside the most evil villains of world history.
Hamas committed war crimes. Israel is committing them in greater frequency and scale. If you have the moral clarity to believe war crimes are bad, you'll be accused of not being sufficiently pro-Israel.
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But Hamas’s attack did NOT take place in a vacuum. We have to be able to discuss the context of endless occupation, repression, and apartheid without suggesting that such Israeli abuse excuses Hamas’s unjustifiable atrocities. Civilians should never be targeted.
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Why don't Palestinians embrace non-violent resistence?
You've probably heard this question asked a lot over the past 2 weeks.
A short response. A🧵.
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Regular reminder that The Spectator Index is just some guy with a Twitter account, and Walter Bloomberg — even though he tweets like a wire service — isn't Bloomberg, he's just some guy named Walter Bloomberg.
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5/ The lives of Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs are of equal worth. Their rights and dignity are too. Neither Hamas's actions or history, Israel's response to them, the treatment of Gazans for years, or the laws of Israel itself act as if that is true. That's the problem.
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4/ The point being, to claim Hamas's actions were unprovoked is historically nonsensical. Two things can be true at once: an action can be morally and strategically awful, and yet stem from other actions that were also morally and strategically awful...
