In the House on Tuesday morning, the Illinois Republican Mary E Miller acted as speaker pro tempore to oversee debate on the Republican antisemitism awareness bill.
As a choice, it was not without irony. Miller made headlines in 2021, when as a newly elected member of Congress she was forced to apologise after saying in a speech at the Capitol: “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ Our children are being propagandised.”
So basically the entire US political establishment has decided that saying "Hitler was right" and echoing conspiracy theories of Jewish Marxists corrupting the youth is just a "difference in opinion" whereas pro-Palestinian activists should be shut down without debate.
It's always funny to me when g*mers complain about a company (supposedly) changing something to appeal to "woke" customers because it's a tacit admission that the "free market capitalism" they like so much can, in effect, act as a censoring force.
for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed
They're claiming that a full 40% of the 40,000+ deaths so far were combatants. What a coincidence that it's almost exactly the percentage you'd get if you counted every "military aged male" as a combatant.
::: spoiler CW: Rape I think you could argue that these people view rape not as a violation of autonomy but as property damage. Because they view their children as their property and women who have sex outside of marriage to be "damaged", which is why they force victims of rape to marry the rapist to "fix" the damage. It also explains why they get whipped up in a murderous rage by cases of rape (supposedly) carried out by non-white or queer people, since they view interracial/queer marriage to be even more shameful, so they cannot "fix" the damage. Whereas when it's carried out by a "respectable" white man they can just cover it up.
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My side of history is William F. Buckley ... Martin Luther King
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Buckley opposed federal civil rights legislation and expressed support for continued racial segregation in the South
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Buckley visited South Africa in the 1960s on several paid fact-finding missions in which he distributed publications that supported the South African government's policy of apartheid.
You think that <effective tactic> is good when it's used to accomplish good things? But have you considered that <effective tactic> could also be used by people who want to accomplish bad things?
There are too many instances of capitalist delusions to count, but the fact that he thinks that the stupid line city is the model for an ideal society has got to be the cherry on top.
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