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Zaid Jilani
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Sep 23 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
19,000 Likes then someone asks for a source and he’s like well I heard it one time Image
Image The executive who used this language was named Chris Zimmerman. Sound like an Indian name to you? theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
Sep 20 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Ezra is right. In 2010, 1/4 of the House Dem caucus was pro-life. Without those votes Dems cannot build a strong majority. When I say pro life they don’t have to support total bans on abortion, but doing the Stacey Abrams thing of not being able to name any abortion anywhere that should be prohibited is a loser in the South. There’s a reason she couldn’t draw blood on Kemp on this issue.
Sep 18 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
The GOP is declaring a Total War on freedom of speech.

Now's the time for Democrats to reclaim their historic mantle as defenders of free expression, but it requires them to jettison bad progressive ideas about speech that proliferated in the 2010s.

theamericansaga.com/p/the-gop-is-d… Like any other millennial, I grew up in the Bush years. Those were the years where John Ashcroft was covering up nude statues and the Dixie Chicks were forced off the air for criticizing the war in Iraq while our troops were in a war zone. Image
Sep 12 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
This is going to expose me as a gamer but both the arrows and the fascist reference they mention for the shooters ammo are direct references to the video game Helldivers 2 and are common memes. Meaning extremely online gamer type, less so political manifesto.
Sep 10 • 26 tweets • 7 min read
NEW: Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) was one of the writers who inspired me to go into journalism in the first place. But increasingly, his rage against the machine has transformed into pandering to it. And we're all the worse of for it.

theamericansaga.com/p/matt-taibbi-… I first encountered Taibbi's writing when I was a kid myself. He was part of a crop of what are called Gonzo journalists.

Not only did they report about politics, they had a novelists' flair for giving you a first-person perspective of the story. Image
Aug 29 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Brian Kemp privately tells donors that the GOP legislative record right now is so toxic that a Congressman can’t win statewide in Georgia Image This is one of the most blatant admissions that the Republican ideology is unpopular, thats why Kemp wants a football coach with no record.
Aug 22 • 37 tweets • 9 min read
NEW: The Israeli governments campaign of denial about the starvation in Gaza echoes some of the worst deceptions used to deny the Holocaust.

I reviewed the history, and there are eery similarities between the tactics of deception in both cases.

theamericansaga.com/p/israeli-deni… Today, famine was officially declared in Gaza by the IPC, the international body that monitors food crises everywhere in the world.
Aug 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The DOJ says it will investigate an American citizen for saying “fuck Israel” to a guy wearing an IDF tshirt.

Meanwhile JD Vance will deliver another lecture to Europe about how they don’t respect free speech like we do. This is the most anti-speech administration of my lifetime, they make John Ashcroft look like Abbie Hoffman.
Jul 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Taibbi gonna spend four years of Trump ignoring the people who control the White House, Congress, state legislatures, Supreme Court, half of cable news, and most of the Fortune 500 to write the same post owning the libs over and over, eh? I’m not against owning the libs as they are easy to own. But if that becomes your sole beat while Republicans have so much power, what are you doing? You’re just a court jester.
Jul 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jun 28 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
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.
Jun 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is also not going to happen 💯

Jun 22 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jun 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jun 1 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Glenn is a very doting father to his children. If you’re going to accuse a man of being a bad father then do it with your chest out Matt. Address him directly. This is cowardly. You sure you’re from the South? No sense of honor. Is Matt celibate or something of course not. What does that have to do with his children?
May 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
VP Vance reportedly played a real role in the India-Pakistan diplomacy that led to the ceasefire.

This made me wonder, did Kamala Harris ever do anything similar? I’ll take that one as a no
May 13 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The website set up to help white South Africans come to the United States boasts about how much government assistance they can get and how you don't have to prove anyone persecuted you at all. Image
Image This whole website is a hoot. Here's what it's like to be a janitor in America, if you're interested, Afrikaner. Image
May 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The last week has been the most nativist I’ve ever felt. Because when I saw Indians or Pakistanis in America or Britain cheer on a stupid war — and to be clear many didn’t — I did think those people aren’t integrating well and are fixated on old world ethnic hatreds. Me and Stephen Miller finally found something to agree on.
May 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pakistan should stop. What will killing some poor Indian soldiers do for Pakistan? Just save face? Both countries should work on basic literacy and development for their countries. Their problems are not their neighbors. Pakistan shot down their prized fighters they spent hundreds of millions on. Thats deterrence enough.
May 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Contrast Louis Theroux with Douglas Murray. Both have beeeeeen to Israel. Murray "reports" from government-funded and guided junkets where his words are indistinguishable from Benjamin Netanyahu's. Theroux goes into the occupied territories and has soldiers train guns on him. There's a reason Theroux is seen as one of the greatest documentary filmmakers in the world and Murray is seen as a lapdog who had to self-deport to America to accrue an audience again.