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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There aren't many arguments for supporting Biden that I can respect, but his pledge to end US support for the mass atrocities in Yemen while Trump vetoes congressional attempts to do so is one of them.
Irrelevant. The one who says he'll stop facilitating the single worst mass atrocity in the world has an innately superior position in this area than the one who openly vetoes attempts to do so. Maybe he will, maybe he won't, but he's better on Yemen.
At the very least it's hard to imagine Biden being WORSE than Trump on Yemen. I have a hard time imagining him vetoing a congressional attempt to end US backing for Saudi butchery there.
Aso true.

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New social media platforms can't become large unless they collaborate with existing power structures. When they collaborate with existing power structures they begin censoring. The whole system is rigged to funnel human communication en masse into censorship by the powerful.
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one by one.
Free Assange,
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