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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 19, 2024, 05:23:52 pm »

Olbermann finally hints we have been openly calling for since 2017:

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 20, 2024, 04:17:19 pm »

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hitting-trumps-pockets-only-first-110006467.html

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The unfortunate reality is that Friday’s 355-million-dollar judgment against Donald Trump (and the E. Jean Carroll verdict for more than 80 million dollars before that), as well as his still upcoming criminal and civil trials will only serve to fuel his followers’ fantasies of persecution – which means they will further embrace even more political violence, terrorism, and thuggery as necessary means of self-preservation.

On Friday, a certain cable news networks was broadcasting the equivalent of a block party (or as my mother would say, “it was like Christmas in July!”) in how it covered Judge Engoran’s decision against Trump. I found this network’s celebratory and breathless tone to be troubling, as it was representative of a much larger pattern of premature exuberance among the professional centrists, institutionalists, and too many liberals and assorted hope peddlers who have long proclaimed that “the walls have been closing in” on Trump. Recall the embarrassment of “It’s Mueller Time!”? And "We have Trump's tax returns!" Yet, Donald Trump is still walking free, controlling the Republican Party, leading or tied with Biden in the polls, and all the while escalating his threats of violence
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There is rich white man’s justice in America and there is justice for everyone else.
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    And if you think Trump at least faced the music in his New York civil fraud case with Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling ordering Trump to pay $355 million in penalties, think again. The case is far from over. Trump will stall the case, diddle the docket, drag out the appeal, appeal from the appeals court, and, if he becomes cornered resort to another trick he has considerable experience with—he will declare bankruptcy.

    It doesn’t have to be this way, but deeply engrained formalism in court plays right into Trump’s hands.  When in doubt, judges delay. When there is a claim, however frivolous and intentionally dilatory, it must receive the same slow service as every other claim at the courthouse window.  While the idea of due process is the constitutional promise of a meaningful hearing at a meaningful time, too many judges prefer the appearance of fairness that long delays promise but don’t deliver. Too many times, justice delayed is justice denied, but judges in our contemporary system simply aren’t set up to do it any other way, and Trump and other courthouse cognoscenti know how to exploit it.

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The announcement today that the trial of Donald Trump for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels will begin on March 25th means that the only Trump trial that actually matters—the one in which he’s been charged for inciting the January 6th insurrection to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election—cannot begin until late spring at the earliest.
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As Trump campaigns for a second term, his personal finances are becoming increasingly relevant, especially now that he has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the two civil lawsuits.

And with his criminal cases still looming, things could get even worse for him. His debt “makes him prime for corruption and really exploiting his office for his own personal gain,” Canter said.
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pathocrats want us to surrender to learned helplessness and be in awe of their power. We must not surrender to it.
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Ultimately, Donald Trump is not the problem; he is a symbol of much larger forces and problems in American society and life. 400-million-dollar plus judgments, prison sentences, and/or elections will not solve those deep cultural and institutional problems. They can, however, be a start —if we the Americans are willing to do the hard work that comes afterwards.

The hard work that comes afterwards involves physically exterminating all 75 million 2020 Trump voters. There is no other way to end MAGA.
Posted by: rp
« on: February 07, 2024, 08:41:43 am »

https://x.com/meghaarunodayam/status/1488654967091384320?s=20
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Megha Arunodayam
@meghaarunodayam
Umm... About that (good) muslim friend. That's not gonna work.Gau mata jokes & extreme hating on sangh can't be tolerated anymore. Since when is referring to cows as "beef" funny?
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 25, 2023, 12:58:21 pm »

Posted by: rp
« on: December 06, 2023, 08:26:10 pm »

This is not the W this guy thinks it is:
https://twitter.com/_amitbehere/status/1635343712233594880
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Amit Behere
@_amitbehere
Repeat: (1/n). India is the greatest social experiment in history.

Never in the history of humankind, have such diverse people, different religions, different languages, different ethnicities, different values, different diets,

lived as one nation, one tribe. And thrived.

https://twitter.com/_amitbehere/status/1635343715983323137
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Amit Behere
@_amitbehere
NEVER. EVER.

Think about it. Not in millions of years.

And we made it work, for over 150 years or so. 70 before independence, and 70 after.

Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Kashmiri. Beef eaters, vegetarians, Jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians.

It's insane.
Posted by: France
« on: November 22, 2023, 01:52:00 pm »

French opposition leader on Israel: ‘We must stop funding a state that refuses to listen to us’
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“There’s no reason to continue providing financial support to a country that refuses to listen to us and persists in the Gaza massacre. We bear responsibility for the lives lost in Gaza,” stated French opposition leader Jean Mélenchon during his participation in the “Do Better!” conference in Paris on November 20, at the La Boétie Institute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Ch3cIN2Os
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Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɑ̃twan pjɛʁ melɑ̃ʃɔ̃] ⓘ; born 19 August 1951) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône from 2017 to 2022. He led the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2021. Mélenchon has run three times in elections for president of France; in 2012 and 2017, and a strong third in the 2022 election, where he narrowly missed continuing on to the second round in France's two-round voting system.

After joining the Socialist Party in 1976, he was successively elected a municipal councillor of Massy (1983) and general councillor of Essonne (1985). In 1986, he entered the Senate, to which he was reelected in 1995 and 2004.[1] He also served as Minister for Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002, under Minister of National Education Jack Lang, in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin. He was part of the radical-left wing of the Socialist Party until the Reims Congress of November 2008, when he left the party to found the Left Party with Marc Dolez, a member of the National Assembly.[2][3] Mélenchon first served as party president before becoming party co-president alongside Martine Billard, a position he held until 2014.[4] As co-president of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European Parliament election; he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the South-West France constituency and reelected in 2014. He became the Left Front's candidate in the 2012 presidential election, in which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the first-round vote.

Mélenchon founded the party La France Insoumise (LFI, "France Unbowed") in February 2016. He stood as a candidate in the 2017 presidential election "outside the frame of political parties", again coming in fourth, with 19.6% of the first-round vote. He became a member of the National Assembly for La France Insoumise following the 2017 legislative election, receiving 59.9% in the second round in Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency, located in Marseille (France's second-largest city).[5] Mélenchon stood again under the LFI banner in the 2022 presidential election, coming in third with 21.95% of the vote, just over one point short of qualifying for the second round.[6] After this, he led the newly-formed New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) alliance of parties to a second-place performance in the 2022 French legislative election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon
Posted by: action
« on: November 12, 2023, 02:21:20 am »

Now is the time for action not words. Jihad is imposed on all Muslims, now is the time for all out Jihad.
Posted by: Comments
« on: November 11, 2023, 03:16:15 pm »

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Israel, a state that has only existed in Palestinian lands for 70 years, is bringing its existence to question with its own atrocities, says Turkish President Erdogan.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxwpjtIDwuaWpvdQCaLPkfcLzBUy_2386m



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"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."- Nelson Mandela
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Can Muslim leaders ever take action instead of saying “oooo they’re really testing our patience next time is the last straw I swear” over and over again
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Muslim countries should help Palestine with medicines,food,water,clothing etc. but they choose to remain ignorant.Praying to Allah for the peace and happiness of Palestine. 💔🇵🇸
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Shame on arab leaders
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all of them talk.. But Lebanon, and Yemen and Iraq are doing whatever little they can.. Although it's not much, but they are helping.. Yemen is 2000 kilometers away.. Imagine that. Yet they are trying their best with whatever little they have...
But the rest are just full of talk..
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Couple days ago Egypt 🇪🇬 sent a truck of water to Gaza and Israel 🇮🇱 blew it up.
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Action speaks louder than words
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We want concrete action against occupation, not speech.
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It's time to take action, it's already too late to only condemn ongoing genocide...
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We muslims are to blame for this.We have turned away from the Quran and the Sunnah and have followed the footsteps of the west. We have normalized major sin in our societies and adapted western ideologies. How can we expect glory?
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They've already crossed all the limits. Action must be taken asap.
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Stop condemning without actions!
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Our patience is also at the end from hearing your empty words
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 02, 2023, 08:43:52 pm »

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A Democratic effort to in turn censure Greene was called off in response.

Bad move. Just because some Reds helped to prevent censure of Tlaib, who doesn't deserve to be censured in the first place, does not mean Blues should reciprocate by not censuring Greene, who really does deserve to be censured (actually she deserves to be removed from office and executed for her participation in the Red Coup alone).

This is like agreeing to a meat-eater's offer to stop criticizing you for being vegan if you stop criticizing them for being non-vegan! Ceasing ethically justified criticism in exchange for the other side ceasing ethically unjustified criticism is a victory for the unethical side.
Posted by: US
« on: November 02, 2023, 08:31:33 pm »

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2/israel-gaza-war-us-house-rejects-effort-to-censure-rashida-tlaib

Israel-Gaza war: US House rejects effort to censure Rashida Tlaib

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The US House of Representatives has rejected an effort to censure Palestinian American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat who has been advocating for Palestinian rights amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

The measure, which was introduced by far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, was halted in a 222 to 186 vote on Wednesday, with 23 Republicans joining the Democrats in opposing it.

A Democratic effort to in turn censure Greene was called off in response.

Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, had rejected the measure as rooted in bigotry.

“I will not be bullied, I will not be dehumanised, and I will not be silenced,” she said last week. “I will continue to call for ceasefire [in Gaza], for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid, for the release of hostages and those arbitrarily detained, and for every American to be brought home,” she said in a statement.

She also called Greene’s resolution “unhinged” and said it’s “deeply Islamophobic and attacks peaceful Jewish anti-war advocates.”

Greene has not commented on the resolution to censure her but criticised the dozens of Republicans who voted against moving the Tlaib measure forward.

Tlaib also stressed that the collective punishment of Palestinians is a war crime. “See what’s happening. Don’t turn away. All they need to do is see Palestinians as human to see again that these are war crimes,” she said.


Posted by: rp
« on: November 01, 2023, 02:50:01 pm »


 ;D ;D
Posted by: rp
« on: October 30, 2023, 08:58:56 am »

However, I will note that Baathism/Nasserism and Pan-Arab nationalism has been anti-colonialist so it would be anti-Jewish as well, since Jews would be considered "White" and hence colonialists. But I do not know whether this would apply to "non-White" Jews such as the Mizrahim. Would you consider "non-White" Jews to be part of Western Civilization?
Posted by: rp
« on: October 29, 2023, 07:45:21 pm »

Fair point, the Chad does indeed fail to address this.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 29, 2023, 07:32:03 pm »

Then what about Jews who speak Arabic, share the culture and live in the Arab world?
Posted by: rp
« on: October 29, 2023, 07:05:18 pm »

Ok. So Arab nationalism fails to address the Wahhabi's complaint. But is it at least useful in uniting people under a secular Arabic cultural umbrella (i.e. Baathism, Nasserism) instead of a theological one?