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🌈 Volgens de 2e kamer ben ik een terrorist. (Antifascist.)

Het jaar 3069
Joined February 2012
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ā€œSo Poisoned I Wouldn’t Use It’ – The Man Who Drafted the Antisemitism Definition Slams Its Use in Schoolsā€ In an exclusive interview, Kenneth Stern warns against David Bell’s recommendation that schools adopt the IHRA definition, saying it could encourage antisemitism and lead to teachers being ā€˜hunted’. zeteo.uk/p/so-poisoned-i-wou…
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If you govern like Obama (no punishment for Bush admin war criminals/Wall Street), you get a Trump. If you govern like Biden (no punishment for officials complicit in J6), you get Trump again. UPHOLD THE LAW. QUIT LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING
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generational reaction video, thank you sam seder for your service
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Here we go. He’s been waiting for weeks for this. His first and second choice Michigan Dem candidates both got beaten by AES, then the Republican who he said AES would struggle to beat, got beaten by AES by 7 points, and so now he’s tweeting about margins the morning after.
It’s great that all kinds of Democrats who El-Sayed and his supporters have spent years demeaning dug deep to put him over the top but I regret to inform you that quibbling about margins of victory is very relevant to assessing the viability of this style of politics.
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This is the definition of bad faith, sadly. Yglesias reluctantly conceded in his interview with me that it’s not a fair comparison between Michigan and North Carolina - given NC didn’t have AIPAC spending, Islamophobia, presidential interventions, Dem ratfucking, former incumbency, etc - but then he goes just straight back on Twitter, waits for the election, and then reposts the same tired partisan talking point. Sigh.
Replying to @mattyglesias
Winning Michigan by seven is just a lot less impressive than winning NC by 20 or Ohio or Kansas (!) by 5 or Iowa and South Carolina by 4 or Texas (!) by 12 and you should not trust people who can’t acknowledge the plain truth about this. He does look good compared to Flanagan!
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ā€œI am glad Abdul won butā€¦ā€ lol
Replying to @O__V__P
I am glad Abdul won but Talarico and cooper outperformed him in more conservative states. And Abdul won in part because Slotkin, Whitmer and kind of the normies - Obama - campaigned for him. These are facts. This was a normie election. But I am very very glad he won
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So glad Ta-Nehisi said this: it is one of my bugbears that everyone gets that McCain moment wrong; even card-carrying anti-racist liberals praise McCain for that remark that was unambiguously and obviously racist. I remember Ben Affleck rightly calling it out on Bill Maher’s show years ago.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Haley Stevens and anti-Arab racism: vanityfair.com/story/ta-nehi…
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Working class people’s lives are on the ballot on Tuesday—their healthcare, their rent, their bills. Haley Stevens just betrayed them by endorsing the very Republican she said she wanted to run against.
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
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I did not and would never consent to this administration running my fanart through AI and posting it. Can’t even believe I’m saying these words.
There’s Magic in Learning šŸŖ„
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This image is an AI recreation of an artwork done by @DevinElleKurtz and Devin further stated they did not give the U.S. Department of Education permission to use their artwork. x.com/DevinElleKurtz…
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ā€œWe’ve built software to track Wikipedia editors,ā€ says the head of the ADL. We have an investigation publishing soon about pro-Israel manipulation of Wikipedia, and he just blurts it out
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: "I have 45 people at ADL—full-time analysts—45 full-time intelligence analysts tracking the bad guys across social media, across AI, across video games, podcasts, crypto, you name it." "[We've built] software to track Wikipedia [editors]…"
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Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing. She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.
NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973. The sheriff was then unable to locate him to serve him a summons in the county and nothing further happened in the case. Donna Arthur, featured in Vivek Ramaswamy's still-running campaign ad, married Cledith the next year in a neighboring county.
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Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid" All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watchšŸ‘‡) Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power). This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties). Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks. Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us". They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid! Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!
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We can’t give the poor money, otherwise they won’t have an incentive to work. However, we need to give the wealthy as much money as possible, otherwise they won’t have an incentive to work. And people actually fall for this scam.
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So you don't view Arab citizens as Israelis? Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Ambassador.
Today is election day in Israel, which is a national holiday. All voting is in person, ID required. No mail-in or absentee ballots. Arabs vote same as Israelis. Contentious process, but it's a democracy-not many of those in this region!
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The Arab voters are Israeli citizens. Listing them in contrast to Israelis is misconstruing the facts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citi… cfr.org/backgrounders/…
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Im sick of everyone calling Israel an apartheid state!!!
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knowledge is power, Mehdi Very smart.
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Haley Steven’s: DONT UNFAIRLY DEMONIZE ISRAEL Israelis:
This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days. Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.
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Norman Finkelstein responding to pushback on saying there were only 100,00 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust
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