a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 14h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 14h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
The people behind this and everyone who makes these bets are demons who relinquished their humanity and I don’t see how we can make it as a society if we don’t treat them as such.
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
the whole internet loves jimothy, an adorable raccoon with a spinal condition and a can do attitude. *five seconds later* we regret to inform you that the right-wing press is completely fucking insane.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 11h agofolks the California Post has done it again
“Vote blue no matter who” folks in shambles over some candidates being to the left of Reagan.
Fifty Shades of Blue 💙 🇺🇸@bellasweet.bsky.social · 24h agoI will vote third party, if that is a option.
Well, I am concerned that people are trying their best to sink the Democratic candidate by spreading lies about him to depress the vote, like you do repeating the claim that El-Sayed was uncommitted during the general election.
Miss Aja@brat2381.bsky.social · 20h agoAll week long folks said he was going to beat Stevens by double digits...as high as 13%. If he's lucky he'll crack 3%. She beat him by 40+ points with the Black Vote. Most polls have Rogers beating him over the last few weeks. But sure...nothing to be concerned about here.
Far right disinformation accounts used to be believable Anyway, this is a very easily verifiable lie, El-Sayed backed Harris during the general election.
Delta Nupe@itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social · 21h agoEl-Sayed won. I’m urging Black Detroiters to STAY HOME and be “uncommitted’ like El-Sayed was for Kamala Harris during the general election. Dearborn voted for TRUMP instead of the Black Lady. I’m encouraging Black Detroit to vote for Jill Stein or Trump , like the Arabs in Dearborn did in 24!
This is btw what the whole “cancel culture” moral panic amongst the chattering class was about: us peons *daring* to speak up to our “betters”.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h agoWhat’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better
“Don’t speak ill of the dead” can be interpreted differently, the only one I might adhere to is “do not defame them”, and (disregarding legally they can’t be), the TRUTH isn’t defamatory. And the truth is that Rod Liddle was a self confessed pedophile and wifebeater, and an all around vile bigot.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 3d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
It’s apparently antisemitic to dunk on khive losers. Really driving a stake through the heart of that word. Sad.
zenlike@zenlike.bsky.social · 4d agoWait, I thought you said this as a dunk on the khive losers. Lol
One again asking people to understand what the “guilt by association” fallacy actually entails.
GeekOnALeash 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️[✊🏳️⚧️ I WILL NOT COMPLY]@geekonaleash.co.uk · 2d agoAnd two hours later, she goes on a rant to dig out of that hole she dug for herself. Once again I would tag her to tell her she is a vile bigot but I have been blocked for over a year lol
Incidentally, did Zoe Strimpel ever condemn her employer The Spectator for publishing a Hitler-quoting Neo Nazi?
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d agoI really do believe that if we are to live in a remotely decent society, the socio-economic system that produces UK op/ed columns must be destroyed, down to the root, and every last person at its core provided make-work jobs writing about their fantasies that are then promptly shredded, at base pay
Seriously, who is this even for? The loser behind this bot is running multiple LLM bots on here, flooding everything with nonsensical and combative shit, and for what ? (they admitted they had to retire one bot because it kept on posting the n-word) Asbestos of the internet indeed.
zenlike@zenlike.bsky.social · 4d agoOh, it’s a botted account. Carry on.
bsky.app/profile/hlee... I want to talk about this for a minute as an important case study in how conservative positions, completely divorced from reality, scaffold out their rhetorical credibility 🧵
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
If somebody came to one of my writing classes with a novel about a “24-year-old wunderkind” on Wall Street called Leopold Aschenbrenner who graduated from Columbia aged 19, looked and dressed exactly like this, and crashed the stock market, I’d advise them to tone it down a bit
Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d agoQuote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...
devastating. im sure the incredibly-backhanded compliments didn't sound mean in isolation but all strung out in a row it feels like a comedy sketch about how much he sucks
Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower@professorpash.blacksky.app · last wk.All of THESE drum on this one clip is sending me me
They should invent a new type of hostile architecture targeting just Jared Leto. Maybe grease up all the cornerstones
I’m willing to be open minded and listen to my opponents arguments, and give them a fair shake. And sometimes I agree with them!
zenlike@zenlike.bsky.social · last wk.Anyway, by her own admission JK Rowling is an illiberal totalitarian. And I agree with her assessment.
Hey look who retweeted. Weird, because I distinctly remember her saying that you’re illiberal if you don’t believe in free speech for your political opponents, and that you’re a totalitarian if you believe the state should punish those with contrary views.
Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · last wk.John Woodcock resigned from Labour in 2018 to end an investigation against him into sexual harrassment, that involved his alleged victim resigning her job. But what do women's rights actually matter to JK Rowling when he's on her side when it comes to proscribing uppity trans people, eh? 1/
I feel kinda bad for almost soiling myself laughing at this and yet, here we are.
Been trying to articulate this on the show for years and he just comes out and says it
Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.
having poisonous, irrational, shrieking, bloodthirsty hatred for muslims of any stripe is, sadly, no blocker to being welcomed back into polite liberal society in america. example 572838593
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoAP Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia’s war and wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"