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The Based Chicagoan retweeted
Israel's Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, sat with 21 New York Times editors.
He brought numbers: how many aid trucks entered Gaza every day, and how IDF soldiers risked their own lives to spare civilians.
They brought feelings. "Ambassador, everybody can't be wrong."
His answer: not everybody thinks it's genocide. And if it feels like everybody does, maybe that's because of you.
Remember the NYT photo of the emaciated Gaza toddler? The boy had a genetic disease and cerebral palsy, and his perfectly healthy brother was cropped out of the frame.
That's not journalism. It's a blood libel.
And blood libels cost Jewish lives.
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The Based Chicagoan retweeted
Multiple things can be true without this statement by Alonso being true.
We can, and should, acknowledge that Palestinians are suffering in Gaza. And we should do what is possible to alleviate that suffering.
Hamas can, and should, have agency for its actions that have exacerbated such harm such as not adhering to their agreed upon ceasefire requirements to disarm, stopping the taxation of shelters, stealing the materials for shelters, digging up the pipes meant to drain the excess water, and their overall desire to harm Palestinians.
For some reason Alonso only ever talks about Palestinian suffering while ignoring one of the main causes of that suffering as a means to demonize the Jews. Why is that?
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
If your VERY FIRST reaction to watching a horrific Learjet crash is “That looks fake,” “It was a missile,” or “Where’s the debris?” then congratulations. You’ve just identified yourself as the perfect mark for every conspiracy grifter on the internet.
It’s the same breathtaking stupidity that gave us the 9/11 Pentagon “missile” and “missing debris” conspiracy theories.
A horrific tragedy unfolds before your eyes, and before you know a single fact, your first instinct is to invent a conspiracy. STFU & GTFO!
You’re not “just asking questions.” You’re broadcasting your ignorance, your gullibility, and your complete inability to distinguish evidence from bullshit.
And the people exploiting these tragedies know EXACTLY who you are. They know how to manipulate you, outrage you, and keep you coming back for another helping of manufactured mystery.
They turn human suffering into conspiracy content, and you eagerly spread it for them.
You think you’re exposing a cover-up. You’re actually exposing how easily you can be played.
The grifters have a product. You’re the customer.
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
This is what I mean when I say the Democratic Party is a mafia and similar to MAGA in this way. Years of dedicated service, relationships, and now she is persona non grata.
Two of our most sacred rights aren’t actually ours. Our voice and vote is meant for the party. This regardless of how much we disagree with, or how much we actually love our party. We need more real people in politics and Haley is one of them. I figured I’d become an independent, now I’m certain.
It is so clear why independent registrations are rising.
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
Telling the story of what happened in my last years at the BBC has meant being honest about something I have found even harder to talk about.
After I raised a grievance about antisemitism, I was gradually isolated and denied more and more of the job I loved so much. The loneliness of that took a serious toll on my mental health. I became ill with anorexia, a recurrence of an illness I had when I was younger, but this time it came back with a vengeance. Each time I thought I was taking a step or two forward, something would happen at work that knocked me back.
I was ashamed, and at times I am not sure I was believed. I kept trying to explain that I was struggling. More than once I was told I wasn’t the only one. I felt like colleagues thought I was making it up.
Since February last year I have been admitted to hospital four times. The most recent admission, and I hope the last, was for three months over the summer. The NHS staff on that ward saved me.
I’m sharing this because if I was going to tell my story honestly, I had to tell all of it. Shame keeps people silent. Anorexia is an illness, not a choice and not a weakness, and no one who is this unwell should have to prove it.
Swipe for some of what I was told along the way.
@HadleyFreeman has also struggled with anorexia, and in her brilliant piece in The Sunday Times she writes about our shared experience. Thank you, Hadley.
If you are struggling, or worried about someone, @beatedsupport
helpline is free on 0808 801 0677.
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The Based Chicagoan retweeted
Missing some context here.
There was, in fact, a political party in Israel that long embraced the possibility of a Palestinian state. That was the Labor Party. But then the second intifada happened, the Palestinian Authority abandoned any pretense of democracy, and Hamas was elected in Gaza, killed off the opposition — and then, well, attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering more than 1,200.
Had the Palestinians, at any step along the way, accepted the Jewish state, and embraced self-rule, they would, no doubt, be in a very different place today. They might even have a state.
But because Palestinians can’t push past their hatred of Israel, because so many of their “supporters” insist on viewing them as toddlers and encourage that hatred (financially and otherwise), they remain confined to a quasi-permanent liminality. Which is awful for Palestinians but very useful for those who wish to use them as a cudgel with which to bludgeon Israel.
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
BREAKING:
The leader of the democratic opposition in Venezuela María Corina Machado has just returned to the country from exile.
¡Hasta el final! 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado announced she has returned to Venezuela after nearly ten months in exile, posting on X:
"I am here. With you."
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
There is absolutely room for a hockey culture that values and honors the history and tradition of the game above all else while also being accepting of and accommodating to new fans and refusing to tolerate abuse.
I believe that this is the best way forward for the game we love.
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
Yes. The definitions matter. The ICJ must not be allowed to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a finger against terrorists that hide behind civilians.
This is not a good talking point, though it is making the rounds. @michaelgwaltz is not saying the ICJ should not conclude their was or was not a genocide in Burma - he is saying they shouldn't use the opportunity to smuggle in a downward definition of the crime.
The Based Chicagoan retweeted
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