Hampton
@hamptonstevens.bsky.social
inventor of finger guns
Boy, you and I disagree on this. I'm not a fan of that at all.
Wait a minute. You were doing that thing where people say a statement but actually mean the opposite!
I don't know about "usually." That's an exaggeration, but there's definitely a horseshoe.
I appreciate that. Genuinely. If you see it on here, maybe jump in because it's not productive.
No, that's not true. There's a lot of misery, anger, and vitriol. It'll never change if you keep denying it exists.
Man, I'm telling you my experience. I literally have people call me a fascist because I'm going to vote for a Democrat. It's toxic AF.
But the subject of this thread is how leftism itself is so often grounded in misery, anger, and purity testing. That's one reason why different voices get heard more.
Not everyday, but a lot. I'd suggest it's not good for them to do that.
Okay. In this instance, I'd call that editorializing. Do you think their might be any long-term drawbacks to the Times editorializing in a news headline?
You think the New York Times should have said that they were "ethnically cleansed" from a neighborhood?
It says the Israeli military ordered them to leave. How else would you have phrased it?
It absolutely isn't. But I was just trying to answer your question. People are desperate for attention.
There's definitely a lot of that. On the other side of the equation, progresses never let themselves get caught up in performative bullshit that feels good, but doesn't really do much to improve people's lives.
He's saying "I want permission to be mean to people and pretend that it's idealistic." It's just like the right-wingers who claim that rudeness and cruelty is "just being honest."
Yes, and more to the point, there has to be a distinction between late stage consumer capitalism and the idea of free markets.
That's more of a metaphysical problem. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Correct. In a very weird way, it mirrors the worst puritanical impulses of the religious right.
Aaand block. I'll never understand what people think this kind of thing accomplished.
It's pretty troubling. I think it's the sort of thing that gets solved over years, not weeks.
That said, were I advising the Palestinians, I'd suggest negotiating for a state as quickly as possible. In the realm of realpolitik, the opportunity to have a viable nation on that land is dwindling.
I know nothing about you beyond what I read — which I found jarring. That was my reaction. If you believe your heritage exempts you somehow and you choose not to self-reflect, that's your decision. I'm going to move on from this thread now. Have a good night.
I maintain that for you to look at cops beating protesters and have your mind immediately jump to "attack AIPAC" is a strange, fixated reaction. If you choose to mock that or be dismissive, and believe yourself to be somehow immune to any sort of unconscious bias, that is your choice.
It's unsettling. AIPAC opposes Bush because she, for instance, voted against the purely defensive Iron Dome system, not because of her position on police brutality.
I always like it when they try to argue which one is worse. It's a disease. I don't care which symptom is worse.
Whatever the protesters' cause, be it Palestinian rights or BLM, police brutality in the United States is a deeply American problem. Somehow finding a way to make AIPAC the villain struck me as an odd and very unfortunate choice.
Thanks, yes. I would respectfully suggest that when you look at police brutality in New York, and your immediate thought is "What about a political action committee trying to unseat a House member in Missouri" you might be a little fixated.
you can tell a lot about a person by these categories:
eggs: Faberge
steak: through the heart of a vampire
milk: of human kindness
alcohol: isopropyl
warm drink: isopropyl on fire
you can tell a lot about a person by these categories:
eggs: scrambled
steak: as close to raw as possible; order Black & Blue; charcoal grilled perhaps 20 seconds per side at home
milk: none
alcohol: rye Manhattans before my wife went into recovery and I stopped to support her
warm drink: espresso
I don't get it. Not being snarky. Genuinely trying to understand.
Hi. Police brutality in the United States predates October 7th. It actually predates the founding of the State of Israel, and it's not AIPAC's fault.
I mean, when someone can call you a fascist for recommending that they vote against an actual fascist, how much logic is really being applied?
I like it when they accuse me of sea-lioning, which — in this context — means "being polite."
