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@ZaidJilani
Apr 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
An MSNBC host claimed that independent journalist Matt Taibbi lied to Congress, a federal crime. What's more likely is the MSNBC host has no idea what he's talking about.
leefang.substack.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi… Image
Having worked with Mehdi, this is a pattern. He learns very little about a topic and then goes 100% full throttle with no nuance. He plays to a partisan crowd but frequently makes elementary errors. Like claiming black people can't vote in Georgia:
Which by the way had higher voter turnout in 2022 than New York did. Where's the MSNBC segment on New York's oppressive voter laws?
Going 100% into a partisan or tribal ideology with no nuance, always seeking to demonize the other side is why Mehdi fell for this Islamist stuff as a 20-something. True change would be listening to the other side not preaching at them.
An avowed Afghan foe of the Taliban decrying Medhi describing Americans as analogous to them. Of course to Mehdi this is just partisan banter to get the MSNBC job he was seeking.
Mehdi Hasan has perfectly adapted to the pathologies in partisan cable news: seek out conflict, not facts. Play to your base, never challenge them. And polarize the country because it's good for you, even if it's bad for the country.
By the way I was working with both lee and mehdi at that time, and this *never happened.* What happened was they were just arguing about politics on twitter and the managers wanted them to chill so they both did. Why is Mehdi lying about this during *Ramadan*? Image

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Jul 7
The culture war is really getting played out if now we have to pretend we are mad about James Gunn stating that Superman is an immigrant who preaches kindness. Yeah, that’s kind of the whole point of the character since the two Jewish liberals who created him originally.
The Snyder version also had Superman as a Jesus-like figure who battled aliens who believe in eugenics, it wasn’t subtle.
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Jun 28
What specifically has he said about the Jewish people?
Every day someone on here accuses me of supporting Hamas or terrorism or similar. But they can never point to an example.
Andrew Cuomo took a photo with Benjamin Netanyahu. Does that means he supports sniping children or starving civilians? This isn’t answering the question.
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Jun 25
This is also not going to happen
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First time they try bagels or pizza in Miami they will come running back to Brooklyn
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Jun 22
Trump promised to end two wars America was funding (Ukraine and Gaza) and they haven’t ended in some aspects they’ve gotten worse. I expect they will retcon this and say his promise was no boots on the ground. But that’s not what he said, he vowed to “stop the killing.”
The only place in the world his administration can claim any credit on this is India/Pakistan and really only some credit as their nuclear weapons did a lot of the lifting.
Technically if there’s a nuclear exchange in Ukraine or Gaza is turned into ethnically cleansed territory I imagine at this point Trump-Vance would claim victory and say they stopped the killing.
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Jun 22
In 2003, opponents of the war in Iraq chanted no war for oil but it was pretty unclear why America acutely went to war there.

But why did America attack Iran, a middling regional power that is no threat to America? America did it at the behest of Israel.
For most boomers, Israel may forever be represented by the 1967 war and post-WW2 guilt. But for millennials and zoomers across the West, Israel is now synonymous with occupation, expansion, and dragging America into endless complicity with wars. Clocks ticking.
All the pointless killing in Iran is on Netanyahu and Trump, and all the pointless killing of Israelis and Americans in response will also be on their hands. As will promoting nuclear weapons proliferation across the world which starts now.
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Jun 11
This tweet itself seems like an IQ test because we have a substantial population of Haitian Americans here in the U.S. and they have for the most part prospered. Never can accuse genetic racists of being smart though.
Median Asian income is above median white income (quite a bit actually). If we deported you and kept me, would America be way better off? I mean what kinda point do you think you're making lol.
Backfilling in your "brown people are gross" with selectively grabbed stats, come on, it's transparent.
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