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"The other day Tony Blinken posted an astonishingly obnoxious tweet fretting about how “This has been an extraordinarily dangerous year for press around the world,” as though his own administration had not directly facilitated the lion’s share of the deadly attacks on journalists in 2023. The utter gall of these freaks still surprises me sometimes."

Like a man who murdered his parents in cold blood crying about being an orphan.

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>>It is right and good to aggressively scrutinize claims about mass rape on October 7, but it’s also important to stress that even if every single one of those claims was true it would not justify anything Israel has been doing in Gaza.<<

Exactly and precisely correct.

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If the likes of John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Hilary Clinton, Lindsey Graham and so many others had their way there would be nothing left of this planet. As it stands now, we have Genocide Joe and his sick minions which are equally as bad or maybe even worse because this horrific crime against humanity is happening and made possible by him and his administration. Made possible by the other terrorist, the United States.😢☮️

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There's a great 5-syllable noun in Italian that describes this situation - La Vigliaccheria: the Cowardice. Cowards like Bolton — who puff themselves up with fanatically deranged armchair visions of dying empire reconstituted by more violence — are but one example of this breed of sociopathic coward. But anyone who falls back onto religion as an excuse for modern action is a perfect example, particularly those maniacs who ply the tenets of a biblical text like the Old testament, in which the references to slaying enemies are everywhere. Love a demanding god, and slay, slay, slay in that god's name: yeah that's truly healthy stuff on which to build cultural relationships, thank you very large.

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Re: Bolton and the war on Iran he so desperately craves - "You made me do this!" is a favorite excuse of abusers.

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I met someone last year who had ended up sitting next to John Bolton at a dinner during a conference. He kept asking Bolton what he thought US foreign policy should be towards various different countries, each one less tangentially significant to US interests than the last. Without blinking, the answer was the same: ‘bomb them to kingdom come!’

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It all boils down to "Some Humans Are Just Special"!

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The very suspicious attack and response of Oct 7 in Israel is like the attack and response two step of 9/11 in New York. Very convenient opportunity to mow down the evil enemies...

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anti-Semitic phrase became almost useless and has no meaning...they will call you anti-semite even if you are Jewish but against Israel. Brain left the room long time ago...

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You are right, indignation and disgust are the correct responses to the massacre in Gaza. Support for Israel's response is lacking any rational or moral analysis of an honest mind. Thank you for your work.

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Jan 2·edited Jan 2

You are “antisemitic” if you complain about genocide carried out by those who claim they are chosen people to rule over us all: the zionists who are cloaked in American Exceptionalism and Israeli exceptionalism.

It totally makes sense: how dare you oppose god’s will, which according to the zionists is for 1% of the world to lord over a massive state of global apartheid - and for the other 99% to be serfs and slaves serving the the chosen ones.

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Thank you Caitlin🙏

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I nominate John Bolton to hand deliver the first 2000-lb bomb dropped on Iran. Just straddle it Johnnie and ride it down. Or do you expect to be in a deep bunker like Dr. Strangelove, with a 10:1 female to male ratio of survivors?

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"They changed the way we think about gender pretty much overnight..."

It's a new religion. They abandoned reality. No one is born in the wrong body. By believing in gender fairy tales they persuaded themselves that men who think they're "real women" are entitled, for example, to share changing rooms and showers with women and girls, even in prisons. Nothing to celebrate here. It's the same old story of invasive men trampling all over women's rights and protections.

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Why, at THIS point, do we even give a fuck if we're labeled "antisemitic"? I don't any more. But then I'm old...so rich Jewish people cannot ruin my life by killing job prospects. It's now my badge of honor. And now, yes, I AM antisemitic .... toward any Jewish person who supports this....madness, atrocity, depravity, inhumanity, insanity, ad infinitum because there is no word now that describes my rage...and yes, at this point, my searing hatred. (However... to be clear, I don't plan to act out this hatred in my heart...by bombing, slaughtering, starving, torturing (e.g. children's limbs amputated without sedation)anyone into oblivion.

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The last gasp of the empire is to try and turn reality inside out and upside down. They are the cowards incapable of contrition, the sociopaths suffering their termination.

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