Some Guy in a Chair

Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2009
Replying to @Econ_Marshall
The answer is mutiny. JD Vance could have private conversations with the cabinet, even the ones dedicated to hiding the Epstein Files, namely Bondi and Patel. He has more private conversations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who may well already be close to open revolt, seeing their soldiers slaughtered in a meaningless fight for Israel's greater glory. Once everyone's on board, activate the 25th Amendment and get rid of the guy before he gets us all killed. The deal for Trump: leave, and the Epstein Files stay buried and you won't be impeached or prosecuted for starting an aggressive war or murdering children. Alternative scenario, in case Vance's vocal support for the war is sincere: Tulsi Gabbard could maybe do it. Tulsi would have the instant support of a majority of Americans, I think. Her patriotism is unquestioned, except for monsters like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, who found her truth-telling inconvenient, and drummed her out of the Democratic Party on the utterly fake pretext of her being a Russian spy.
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Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly biased against men. And they finally figured out why. They ran eight experiments testing how GPT handles gender in everyday text and high-stakes moral dilemmas. The results show a bizarre, highly asymmetrical machine morality. First, they tested inclusivity. They gave the AI phrases supposedly written by children. When a child wrote about playing football or wanting to be a firefighter, GPT aggressively identified the writer as a girl to promote "diversity." It was so extreme that even when the text explicitly said, "I drew myself as a boy," the AI ignored the facts and declared the writer a girl 90% of the time. But when a child wrote about liking pink or playing with dolls, GPT almost never assigned it to a boy. The AI aggressively pushed females into male domains, but kept males strictly locked out of female ones. Then the researchers tested moral dilemmas. And it got very dark. They asked the AI if it was acceptable to use violence against a single person to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. If the target was a man, GPT-4 rated the violence as highly acceptable. If the target was a woman, the AI refused. It declared the violence morally wrong, even to save the world. When they tested mixed-gender scenarios, the math was staggering. A woman using violence against a man to stop an apocalypse? GPT rated it a 7 out of 7 on acceptability. A man using violence against a woman for the exact same reason? A 1 out of 7. The AI even classified verbal abuse toward a woman as morally worse than actual homicide. Nobody explicitly coded these rules. This emerged organically from the standard safety training every major tech company uses. The AI learned that protecting women is a non-negotiable directive, but protecting men is entirely optional.
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Look it’s annoying that all the people who were wrong about everything and enriched themselves ruining the world are now monetizing themselves as the saviors from the problems they created. But even if they never apologize, even if it’s irritating to watch arsonists pretend to be firefighters, if in practice they’re now actually bending the ideological/political knee to everyone who was right all along, then I guess that’s something. Better late than never.
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I like to be optimistic. If flaunting your ignorance and internalized Jewish supremacy—thereby drawing scorn from people who understand the illegitimacy of Israeli military occupation and the right of Palestinians to resist it—is what it takes to ultimately enlighten you, then I’m here for it.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured. I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis. And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response. I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image. For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
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They always misuse the word terrorist. Locals attacking occupying soldiers is not terrorism. What the occupying soldiers are doing to Palestinians is terrorism and Netanyahu’s threats in this video are part of that terrorism.
Netanyahu: The IDF will enter the neighborhoods from which the terrorists came, evacuate the residents, go house to house, and destroy the terrorist infrastructure. We are prepared for a large-scale operation in the West Bank.
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Zelenskyy claims he wants peace, yet he never mentions the inconvenient steps he would have to take for any real peace to become possible in Ukraine. If he were genuinely guided by the country’s interests rather than his own, he would have done at least two of the following: 1. Repeal his own 2022 decree banning negotiations with Putin (by name.) As long as that decree remains in force, any talks with Putin are legally illegitimate under Ukrainian law. 2. He recently stated that a 60-day ceasefire would allow him to submit the legislative initiatives required to hold elections. Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic. Parliamentary elections are fully prohibited under martial law, but there is no direct constitutional ban on presidential elections. Nevertheless, a series of legislative changes would still need to be passed to make presidential elections possible. Why, then, does Zelenskyy need a 60-day ceasefire for this? The parliament is fully functional and can vote on such bills right now. Passing them would demonstrate a genuine intention to hold elections. Until that happens, the ceasefire demand remains a legal maneuver aimed mainly at Western audiences, who are less familiar with the details of Ukraine’s electoral system. 3. Given the corruption scandals surrounding Zelenskyy, growing doubts about his legitimacy, and the deep divisions his continued leadership has created within Ukrainian society — divisions that fuel constant debate and hostility — he could resign and transfer power to the Speaker of Parliament, the only figure whose legitimacy is currently beyond serious dispute. The Speaker could sign any agreements, conduct negotiations, and appoint elections without the same questions of authority that now attach to Zelenskyy. If Zelenskyy truly wanted elections or a viable path toward a settlement, he would take these concrete legal steps rather than endlessly performing the role of the aggrieved wartime leader on international media. This is political theater, and the quality of the performance has long since declined. Behind the cameras, much of the current political class fears Zelenskyy, understanding that there are effectively no limits to the retribution he can exact for perceived disloyalty.
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The more children Israel kills, the more unpopular it becomes. The more unpopular Israel becomes, the more violently we are throat-fucked with the narrative that "antisemitism" is a major problem in our society. The UK's Department for Education has released a 107-page review which asserts that much more needs to be done to protect Jewish students in England from discrimination. Which in and of itself sounds reasonable, until you look at the actual document. The review, led by Sir David Bell, mentions the word "political" or "geopolitical" no fewer than 125 times. It mentions the word "Israel" or "Israeli" 60 times and the word "Palestine" or "Palestinian" 35 times. So, as always, it is clear that this isn't actually about protecting a religious minority from persecution. The Bell review lists 27 recommendations for dealing with "antisemitism" in English schools, which the government has reportedly accepted in their entirety. The first recommendation is adopting the hotly disputed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism which lists common criticisms of the state of Israel as hateful toward Jews. Under the IHRA definition, you are guilty of antisemitism if you compare the modern state of Israel to Nazi Germany, or if you say that Israel exists as a racist endeavor. This framing effectively brands anyone a hateful bigot who agrees with the unanimous consensus of international human rights groups that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state. "Anti-Israel attitudes have distinctly increased over time," the review says. "In 2020, 23% agreed with the statement 'Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews', which increased to 45% in 2025. The prevalence of beliefs such as these, which could be regarded as antisemitic according to the IHRA definition, demonstrate the difficulty faced by schools and colleges in tackling antisemitism." Under the section titled "Political expression and pupil wellbeing in schools," the review scorned the use of "political identifiers" in schools such as "badges, flags, or other political symbols and slogans such as ‘Free Palestine’, including staff displaying Palestinian flags in their classrooms without relevance to the lesson." "It is the view of this review that political identifiers do not have a place in our schools," the report reads, while stopping short of saying such expression should be banned in all instances. "Political expression by staff can create a learning environment in which some learners feel distressed, excluded, or unable to engage fully with their education," the review asserts. "In such circumstances, colleges may be justified in placing proportionate restrictions on lawful political expression where this is necessary to ensure learners' education and fulfil the college’s wider duties." "In practice, antisemitism is frequently intertwined with political views about a nation state or political ideology. This means that challenging antisemitism often requires teachers to address or correct political claims or misinformation, which can appear to conflict with impartiality duties," the review says. This uncritical assertion that "antisemitism is frequently intertwined with political views about a nation state or political ideology" tells you everything you need to know about what this review is really designed to accomplish. This is about stomping out political speech that is critical of Israel, and nothing else. The review of course also attempts to conflate antizionism with antisemitism, saying, "Antizionists can express views that include a deep hatred for the existence of Israel and of those who believe in its right to exist as a Jewish homeland. Such views may be antisemitic, in certain contexts. There are also examples where Zionism is used as a synonym for ‘Jewish’ to hide antiJewish hatred within lawful political expression." I am so fucking sick of this shit. People who live in Israel's western allied states are getting bludgeoned and bludgeoned and bludgeoned by these ham-fisted psychological operations by state and non-state actors with more and more aggression the more Israel's popularity rating goes down the tubes, and it's not even working. The way these freaks keep trying to stick their rapey fingers into our minds and manipulate the thoughts we think about a genocidal apartheid state is fucking disgusting. It's only making everyone hate Israel more.
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Latest on Heidi Levine: broken rib, four broken vertebrae, her finger was nearly cut off, multiple potential stabbing wounds. Surgery first thing in the morning.
Heidi is going to be okay, but her injuries are significantly worse than initially thought. It appears that she may have been stabbed. She’s getting ready for surgery.
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Max Blumenthal on David Milstein: ‘You have an Israeli mole inside the US embassy’
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.@MaxBlumenthal on new reporting on David Milstein: “So what you have is an Israeli mole inside the US embassy who is reversing the work of everyone else in the diplomatic corps to advance intelligence on behalf of the Israeli government and specifically Netanyahu”
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Israel invoked the Hannibal Directive, killing Israeli citizens on Oct 7 rather than allow them to be taken hostage and exchanged for Palestinian hostages. That makes Israel directly implicated in what Raskin calls “the deadliest mass attack on Jews since the Holocaust.” Israel has additional complicity in the fact that Oct 7 would never have happened had Israel not placed Gaza’s two million Palestinians in what amounts to the largest concentration camp since the Holocaust.
Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists launched a mass terror attack on Israeli civilians, murdering nearly 1,200 Israeli men, women and children, including Jews, Christians and Muslims, in their communities and homes. Today the world remembers the victims of this slaughter, the deadliest mass attack on Jews since the Holocaust, and seeks an end to the savage cycles of terror, war and destruction in the Middle East.
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I judge Jewish people's character based on whether or not they oppose the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. This is also how I judge the character of people who are not Jewish. Ever since the UK Green party's "Zionism is racism" motion we've been seeing this narrative circulating that Jews are somehow exempt from the basic human duty to oppose genocide and apartheid, just because support for Israel happens to be common among the Jewish community. The British political/media class has been frenetically attacking the Greens' objectively correct position as antisemitic, putting out statement after statement proclaiming that it is wrong to ask Jews to oppose a nakedly racist and destructive political ideology. The Campaign Against Antisemitism, quoted in the Financial Times, accuses the Greens of imposing an “extremist purity test” on Jews. The Movement for Progressive Judaism, quoted in The Guardian, asserts that "Jewish self-determination is a right. Declaring it racist is an attack on Jews. The Green party has chosen to brand Jews who hold this belief as racists and make their equal participation in the party conditional on renouncing it." "British Jews should not have to disclaim a belief in Jewish self-determination and the existence of Israel in order to be accepted by a British political party," said shadow home secretary Chris Philp in a quote published by the BBC. "Asking Jews to pass a purity test and renounce self-determination according to a perverse interpretation arbitrarily applied, isn't just an extreme position, it’s a racist one," adds Baroness Luciana Berger. I am absolutely fascinated by this notion that Jews are some kind of magical faerie elf creature to whom the normal standards of human decency simply do not apply. If you happen to belong to this one particular religion, then it somehow becomes an abusive "purity test" to expect that you should oppose a fundamentally racist state premised on endless apartheid and ethnic cleansing. It doesn't work that way. We are all morally obligated to oppose genocide and apartheid no matter what our religion happens to be. You have a moral responsibility to reject racist political ideologies. If you don't, then you are a racist. There are no special exceptions. It is true that the majority of Jews support Israel. The argument that majority support makes it a valid position is a fallacy called argumentum ad populum; a position being popular among a given group says nothing about how correct it is. All manner of horrors were once supported by the majority of the public. At one time it was widely believed that it was perfectly legitimate to own a human being if their ancestors happened to be from Africa, but with greater moral clarity we all now recognize that that was wrong. Zionism is no different; it's a political ideology whose material manifestations have never at any time failed to include racist policies and ethnic cleansing. If you believe Jews have a right to return after being absent from the land for millennia but don't believe Palestinians have a right of return after decades in exile, then you are obviously a racist. If you support an ideology which dropped a brand-new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing ethnic group who suddenly became subjected to ethnic cleansing and apartheid, then you are of course a racist. Your religion of choice does not magically exempt you from this. EVERYONE should be asked to pass the “purity test” of renouncing a genocidal apartheid state. Jews are no exception to this self-evident moral reality.
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Trump’s message heading into the midterms: “Let Iran take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego, that's a very small price to pay.” The first US president in history calling for American cities to be bombed.
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It means vacuuming in cash from oligarchs and corporations that want specific policy outcomes, then using that money to wage a war on the left and press elected Dems to abandon populist promises to voters and instead enact policies that enrich said oligarchs & corporations.
Replying to @davidsirota
Do you people read the shit you write before you hit publish? "helping her donors corporatize the Democratic Party" - what the fuck does that even mean?
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The UK Greens have adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is racism, which of course means Israel apologists are churning out hasbara arguing that Zionism is actually a perfectly lovely and normal thing that we should all support. "Zionism is just the belief that Jews deserve a homeland and self-determination," they'll claim, often adding a suggestion that the real racists are those who would oppose such a reasonable position. The problem with these arguments is that they have already been soundly refuted by objective reality. You don't get to just make up your own pleasant-sounding definition of Zionism when there has been a Zionist state showing us in stark terms exactly what Zionism is for eight decades. Zionism means nonstop apartheid, ethnic cleansing, war, genocide, and abuse. That is what Zionism is. The evidence is in. This is a settled matter. There is no way to implement Zionism without implementing fundamentally racist policies. As Richard Sanders put it, "If you can work out a way to create an ethnically defined political entity in a territory that, at the start of the process, was almost entirely populated by people of a different ethnicity, without resorting to ethnic cleansing and Apartheid, then you need to tell the Israelis. Because they’ve certainly never worked it out." The Palestinian author Mohammed El-Kurd summed it up eloquently with the following anecdote: "At a recent closed-door meeting in London to discuss BDS with various publishers and writers, a well-intentioned, well-known author asked me if Zionism could hold a double meaning: To some, it is a settler-colonial movement motivated by expansion and racial elimination, and to others it is a movement for Jewish self-determination. 'No,' I said. 'Zionism is best defined by its material manifestations—the most recent being genocide. It is irrelevant whether it could contain multitudes.' " In other words, Zionism is what it does. And what it does is visible to the entire world. There is no argument to be made that Zionism doesn't necessarily entail racism, apartheid and abuse; if it did, the modern state of Israel would have existed without these things at some point. If you think racism, apartheid and abuse are bad, then you necessarily oppose Zionism. If you support Zionism, then you necessarily support racism, apartheid and abuse. If you tell me you can have Zionism without racism, apartheid and abuse, then you are simply lying to me. And maybe to yourself as well.
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The tell with these corporate Dems is that their faction has spent 20 years purging the left and insisting anyone to the left of Bill Clinton & oligarchs aren’t “real” Dems. These people only want a big tent on the neocon right, only punch left & now cry when the left fights back
Understandable to disagree on certain policy issues, but the recent push to kick Bulwark Democrats out of the party is just classic tiny tent behavior. To beat Trump and MAGA Republicans, you need to stand arm and arm with people who don't 100% share your worldview. No other way!
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Oh my god enough of this. ENOUGH. For sixteen months we were inundated with bogus Biden PR about how the president is inches away from stopping the genocide so we should actually believe he’s a swell guy. Stop. He’s a genocidal monster. That’s his only legacy. End of story.
The day that Biden grew so angry at Netanyahu that he nearly cut him off: "He was just completely fed up with everything and I think at that moment he was ready to just say, 'I’m done,'" @brett_mcgurk recalls as he releases "Brink," his memoir of Gaza war. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/po…
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Everyone who opposed Israel’s creation has been proven correct by the subsequent course of history. It’s a failed experiment. It turns out giving the Zionists everything they want results in nonstop war, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and abuse. This has been thoroughly established.
Replying to @caitoz
You’re clear antisemitism is ridiculous…. You probably would’ve been opposed to the state of Israel after the holocaust.
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What AOC did here is despicable and pathetic even for her. it's a joke to think you posture as some sort of a national leader while you go around definitively, publicly proclaiming individuals guilty of horrific crimes before they've ever been charged with, let alone convicted of, those crimes, especially when most evidence is unknown and, of what is known, there's so much evidence casting doubt on the accusations. AOC never heard of these 7 Cornell students until like 6 seconds ago, but now definitively decree they're ALL "gang rapists." But worse is that AOC lies here repeatedly, making claims that even the alleged victim denies. Nobody "lured her" into the frat house. She went there voluntarily and showed up drunk. She voluntarily used drugs and had sex with at least the first three men if not all. She wrote one of those students an email afterward saying how nothing they did was criminal and how much fun she had having sex with the two of them and hoped to do it again. She then asked for an invitation to another party at this same frat house 8 days later, and became enraged for the first time when the frat president said it was best if she didn't come. Nobody in the group chat said she was "incapacitated" as AOC alleged. None of this means that there was no rape. It means that minimally responsible, ethical people refrain from pronouncing guilt (or innocence) until they know what they're fucking talking about and there are at least charges filed. None of that applies to AOC.
AOC makes WILD claims on Cornell 7: “Seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman. They lured her into a frat house, drugged her with ketamine, and took turns gang raping her for seven hours.”
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The statement given by Jane Doe in 2024 states that she voluntarily used drugs, she engaged in consensual sex, and snapchat messages from Jane to the accused men have been revealed in which she doesn't blame or accuse them of wrongdoing. tompkinscountyny.gov/News-articles/… cbsnews.com/news/text-mess…
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Black person explaining what racism is: It’s when we’re killed and systemically abused and deprived of opportunities because of our race. Zionist explaining what antisemitism is: It’s when someone says Jews aren’t entitled to an ethnostate located in the region described in their ancient scriptures where thousands of years ago people who practiced a similar religion used to live, or when someone opposes sending missiles to that ethnostate.
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