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Sep 21, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Democrats have never understood how much their Senators undermined their own norms, and norms of civility, on Kavanaugh.

That fact, maybe more than any other, is why Dems have no standing of higher moral authority with the GOP base.
I know more than a few Never Trumpers and other non-Trump voters that are still livid about Kavanaugh's treatment.

The fact that Feinstein and Kamala Harris likely openly lied during the testimony doesn't help matters.
Of course, Democrats compounded that by showing their own gross hypocrisy on #MeToo when a woman with more credible evidence than against BK came forward against Biden....

...and they then made him their nominee.
When we talk about norms, and abuse of power, and incivility, Trump is an expert.

But the Democrats that attacked Kavanaugh literally were at least as bad for those few weeks...which is an incredible accomplishment when you think about it.
After Bork, then Thomas, then Kavanaugh...you'd think they'd have learned that lesson.

But nope.

And after Clinton, you'd think they'd at least hold their own people up to that standard.

But...nope.
So even if Dems make promises about adhering to norms, rule of law, civility, yada yada yada...who in the Democratic Party has the credibility to be believed?

Yeah. Hypocrites all around. None of them should be believed.

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Dec 17, 2023
I think one thing a lot of people don't realize is Palestine isn't alone as a British protectorate that was never an independent country before the Brits left.

India ALSO DID NOT EXIST BEFORE PARTITION IN 1947. There was no 'India', in any real terms.
India was divided by numerous British protectorates or provinces. There was no 'India', as a nation. This was basically true of Palestine as well...there was no independent Palestine before division. Image
Lets note that Jinnah, the father of Pakistan, opposed the name India all together. “He [Jinnah] was under the impression that neither state (India or Pakistan) would want to adopt the British title of ‘India’."

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Nov 17, 2023
I think this article largely misses the point. The reason that they are struggling is that this undermines what they've taught about racism and bigotry for 50 years.

Why Colleges Are Struggling To Crack Down on Antisemitism via @politicopoliti.co/3ucgtsE
Reality is that it was always easy: Whites and those in power were the bigots. Those that were 'Almost White' (Jews, Asians) were lumped in.

But in this episode, its largely 'brown' people like myeslf that are the bigots, and their targets are Jews (who are viewed as White).
In short, this up ends half century of liberal/progressive theology on racism. And colleges, run by those that run that theology, are struggling to face the fact that they've largely been wrong for 50 years.
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Oct 31, 2023
Again, if you are destroying other people's posters, then you are trying to suppress those people's free speech.

At that point, if you get shamed in public, and your family and employer know who you are, I have ZERO sympathy for you.

You want to go and protest, go ahead.
I would never hire anyone that acted like this. Neither should you.
What is funny is if they were protesting, I might make fun of them, but I wouldn't be doxxing them. But they have to be fascists, trying to stop others from getting their message out.

Sorry, no sympathy for fascists.
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Welcome to my TedX talk.

Understand this:

"SCREAMING 'FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA' IS CALLING FOR THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST...AND IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN NAZI OR KKK CHANTS."

Thank you for coming to my TedX talk.

And no, we don't have to accept the Palestinian narrative on this, anymore than accepting KKK's narrative on stuff.

Palestinians have a right to their own country. They have been denied that right for too long.

But what they absolutely don't have a right to? ETHNIC CLEANSING.
When people like @AOC are silent on this, they are basically tacitly approving of ethnic cleansing. And we hear their silence loud and clear.

They are fine with it, as long as Jews are the target.
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Oct 13, 2023
Christians did a huge amount of colonizing over the Millenia, no question.

But the next biggest group to blame? MUSLIMS.

Their colonization in Northern Africa, Europe, India and the rest of Asia as colonizers had huge repercussions.
I mean, if you want to talk about colonizers, then most of Northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan (which was Hindu at one point) etc needs to be under discussion.

How stupid would that be?
Indonesia is the largest Muslim Country on the planet...and was colonized by Muslims, as they took over after Hindu empires ruled there for centuries.

So...kick them all out?

You have to be exceptionally stupid to even start this line of thought.
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They did let Hirohito remain in power.

That said, unconditional surrender of both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan allowed the America to build a better World for the future. We are better off for it.
@VanWagoner "Hirohito portrayed himself as a powerless monarch who had no say in how the war was conducted. Scholars regularly debated the issue, with many agreeing he was innocent. Experts today, however, largely believe he played a sizable part in Japan's role during World War II."
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