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28 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I'm willing to believe that stage was a mistake (or not), but y'all can't support politicians who believe Jewish people are running a global child-murdering cabal then turn around & clutch your chests & proclaim, "Nazi symbols? Us? Impossible!" You lost your plausible deniability
If the Nazi insignia had occurred at a beauty pageant or awards show, wondering about its significance would be conspiratorial. It's not actually conspiratorial to ask questions when we're talking about people who "stumble" upon this imagery while supporting politicians like this
"How dare liberals question whether we used Nazi insignia?! Now let me recommence tweeting about how a Jewish man masterminded & funded all of our political opposition in a grand scheme to destroy 'society,' which bears no resemblance whatsoever to 1930's Nazi propaganda."
My point is not whether or not I believe the stage was intentional or not. It's that the GOP should stop advancing anti-semitic propaganda & uplifting anti-semitic politicians before they can clutch their pearls over liberals questioning why their stage looks like an SS tattoo

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2 Mar
Please recall that our society has always "cancelled" people &, in the past, this cancellation was often for bad reasons. Rupert Everett famously said that coming out ruined his career. Being openly LGBTQ is still perilous for actors. "The Chix" were cancelled for being anti-war.
I'll repeat what I've said before: that "cancel culture" is an amorphous euphemism that encompasses all kinds of disparate phenomena. In the case of companies "canceling" a creator, conservatives have always been fine w/ it when this "cancellation" fit their ideology.
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2 Mar
One interesting thing about pieces on this issue is that they rarely mention whether the Iraqi government was consulted about the U.S. strikes & whether that would change anyone's calculus about justification. The government certainly wasn't happy about the militia strike Image
The Middle E. is really hard to talk about & one could take a maximalist position that the U.S. should just leave entirely. However, there are also positions requiring we address how to best fulfill our responsibilities to Iraq, given how we ravaged the country & region
However, regardless of which position one is inclined to take, it seems curious to me that we argue a lot about what the U.S. should do that would be best for Iraq while rarely discussing what the Iraq government thinks about the same issue & whether that informs our position
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1 Mar
There are a number of legitimate debates to be had re: the recent airstrike, w/ various possible left-leaning positions to take, yet so many have landed on a "say their names" approach to militias, as well as a conflation between these militias & the civilians they terrorized.
It sounds a bit tinny to my ear to hear, over and over, "Biden bombed Syrians," when actually the U.S. struck 22 Iranian militia members. Whether or not you think the strike was justified, Iranian militia members are not the same as Syrian civilians.
In any case, there are legitimate debates to be had here, like I said. These include, but are not limited to: executive strike authorities & restrictions that should be placed on them, whether there can be exceptions, proportional response, LOTS of sovereignty considerations, etc
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1 Mar
In the next sentence the staffer told the Post, “I object to this invasion of my privacy with the use of personal texts. . . These statements are taken out of context and completely misconstrue my relationship with Neera. We had a very close working relationship.”
It's an interesting choice by the @washingtonpost to first publish the texts against the best wishes of one of the participants' & to then go on to promote those same texts w/out citing her objections on social media

What would a journalistic ethics class have to say about this?
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These allegations are well-corroborated and fit a pattern of alleged behavior. I think Cuomo should resign.
If he's gonna wait for an investigation, ok. But I don't see how an investigation is going to show something different than we've already seen. There are contemporaneous text messages about his behavior.
Look, I liked Cuomo during the initial stages of the pandemic too, though it looks like he mishandled several things (nursing homes) in retrospect. But my primary concern here is to principles re: sexual misconduct + the fact that I don't want the Dem party to have this baggage.
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27 Feb
I don't know if the CPAC stage being an exact replica of SS insignia was a mistake, but I would like to say: 1. they should explain it & 2. they lost their plausible deniability card a while ago. We're talking about people who made the "ok" sign into a white power symbol
Again, could it be a mistake? Even with the exact same serifs? Sure. But I don't want to hear one peep about "liberals see racism in everything!" from the folks who adore a guy who literally said, "Some of them are good people" about men who shouted, "Jews will not replace us."
If liberals see racism & anti-semitism in everything the GOP does it's b/c much of what they do is racist & anti-semitic. You can't be like, "Oh, soooo hysterical" when you elect people to Congress who believe Jewish people are directing a global cabal whose members eat babies
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