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Enough!
If there was ever a red line in world history, we are here.
It really doesn't matter if you are liberal or conservative, or who you voted for in the last election-- there is no way you can be a good American, good Christian, or good person if you support a leader that makes statements like this.
If you try to dismiss this, try to explain it away as "good negotiating tactic", or try to justify it in any way, you are just a bad person. It's that simple. If you don't understand this, you just prove the point.
The American people are not the Mafia or the mob. We don't threaten to kill whole families or civilizations if we don't get our way, especially if "getting our way" means stealing from and killing other people that have not attacked us.
If our elected representatives can't understand this, don't have the moral courage to stand up and represent us the way they should, and reign in this megalomaniac, We The People will have no choice other than revolution.
That's the point our revered founding fathers got to and that is where we are now.
"...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."
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Truly unhinged stuff: Presumptive Republican nominee says he’ll encourage Russia to attack our allies triggering a world war if they don’t “pay” (never mind that Europe is paying more than the US for Ukraine now).
This should be front page, top of broadcast, news.
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Headline draft :
Trump says he "would encourage" Russia to attack Europe.
Sub-hed
Republican front-runner vows: will "not protect" NATO allies from invasion
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Until the last few days, the phenomenon of Western lefties defending barbarism in the name of a desired utopian, egalitarian ideal was a historical abstraction to me.
Whatever the DSA’s high point was, the nationwide refusal to condemn terrorism or see Israelis as victims, even at the worst time, means it is now behind us.
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If the pro-Palestine Left is unable to vocalize in this moment a principled opposition to massacre of Israeli civilians- even as we affirm the right of Palestinians to resist brutal apartheid- we are abdicating the values of justice, human rights & dignity we have long espoused
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The fail whale used to appear when rapid growth and user enthusiasm outpaced a growing business and its scaling architecture . Now the whale is ego, hubris, and absurdly concentrated wealth.
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DSA is calling for the U.S. to halt military aid to Ukraine.
Fuck DSA!
Replying to @dsa_intl_comm
The US has sent over $1B in military aid to Ukraine in the past year and over $3B since 2014. Continued large deployments of weapons from the US/ NATO only further exacerbates the war. We have to call for humanitarian aid and diplomacy to de-escalate. 3/11
theintercept.com/2022/03/10/…
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We owe them our support in every possible way we can to help them and hurt Putin. But we also owe them the support of changing our own priorities, and making this the moment that Ukrainians and their President forced the world to finally take a long-term course correction.
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The forceful response from global public opinion, democratic governments, and above all the Ukrainian people to Putin suggests that this *might* be the moment when the pendulum starts to swing back against the corruption, nationalism, and authoritarianism that infects our world
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Replying to @davidfrum @TuckerCarlson
Both @TuckerCarlson and I live at a far and safe distance from the violence in Kyiv. The difference is that I am horrified by that violence and those who commit it - and he ranks as the the single most important US media advocate for that violence and those who commit it
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If there's one thing to read today on Ukraine, it's this letter calling out Western leftists who fail to name Russia's responsibility by Ukrainian socialist Taras Bilous before he joined the resistance against Russian invasion in Kiev yesterday.
opendemocracy.net/en/odr/a-l…
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Reminder that Sasse and entire Senate GOP refused to condemn Donald Trump for blackmailing the very Ukrainians these senators now claim to want to help—using the money those same senators voted to approve as his blackmail.
Just now, GOP Sen @BenSasse tells me US must sanction the “corrupt jackasses” propping up the Russian regime & provide intel support and arms to the Ukrainian military.
“Appeasement never works with a jackass like Putin,” he says.
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Praying for friends in Ukraine tonight. #StandWithUkraine.
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The implications of countries seizing all or part of other sovereign countries by force or coercion are profound. History is clear: a world without rules is more dangerous to us all.
Is the Texas enforcement scheme the same as the California ADA system profiled by This American Life in Act 3 here? thisamericanlife.org/415/cry…
US media far more comfortable with consequences of starting or continuing war, even for decades, than with those of ending it.
Why haven’t there been any segments on the deficit implications of leaving Afghanistan? Why is budgeting presented as a moral question on domestic policy but not in foreign policy?















