Literature/Composition/Critical Thinking. Poetry, sometimes fiction writer. Political fool, think Jameson. Former PR/Marketing Exec. He/him. #BLM
Oct 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@DAaronovitch @davidfrum Two things can be true at once:
1) The barbarous attacks, murders, kidnappings, and other acts of horrific violence by Hamas cannot be justified and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. The perpetrators must be held accountable and Israel has every right to...
@DAaronovitch @davidfrum defend itself and to punish those responsible.
2) The horrific treatment of Palestinians by Israelis is a de facto imposition of apartheid. The IDF, as well as many Israeli settlers, are guilty of many acts of unspeakable and unjustifiable violence against Palestinians, whom...
Apr 7, 2020 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
Just to think...we had a choice between the failed businessman/reality TV star on the left and the woman on the right, whom @BarackObama correctly described as the best prepared candidate in US history.
I doubt many subjected to the Milgram experiment were pleased to discover they could be inhuman.
Similarly, #GOT fans are angry to discover they were backing a privileged monster, even though she’s been using a weapon of mass destruction to roast her enemies alive for years.
All that nonsense about “sure, but the character arc was too sudden”: what was the character arc like for Churchill when he ordered the firebombing of 200,000 civilians in Dresden, or of Henry Truman when he ordered a second city destroyed by an atomic bomb?
