political tweets

This guy is worth a Follow on Tweeters.

THREAD. I noticed something fascinating: many of the reporters concocting the new hysteria over "retail theft" are using the *exact same* words and patterns in each story. It's pretty wild. Let's take a look:

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) December 12, 2021

And this one. On what is “news,” and what isn’t.

A thought experiment: Imagine if every day for the last 25 years every newspaper and tv station had urgent “breaking news” stories and graphics about the *thousands of deaths the night before* from air/water pollution, climate change, or poverty?

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) November 26, 2021

Notice that this New York Times article only quotes one ordinary person. And the person they chose is pro-police. One good way to mislead wealthy readers about what ordinary people want is to carefully choose whose voices are inserted into stories. https://t.co/CENsBmmFcm

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) January 27, 2022

A thought experiment: Imagine if every day for the last 25 years every newspaper and tv station had urgent “breaking news” stories and graphics about the *thousands of deaths the night before* from air/water pollution, climate change, or poverty?

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) November 26, 2021

You probly didnt know this but “the left has  taken over sports”

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US ‘non-profit’ ‘aid’

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The org that Thomas Dooley started in the '50s was active throughout the Vietnam War and eventually made it's way to Central America — prime example of how the CIA works with private orgs to achieve US foreign policy goals.

From @CovertActionMag #25https://t.co/2ngf6wMxAO pic.twitter.com/zvrMApCLWe

— Our Hidden History (@OurHiddenHistry) November 11, 2018

Waterfield,

Not sure what you’re referring to, but if it’s the tweet about inequality and pollution, the tweet is obviously correct. More than 21,000 people die each day from inequality alone, per Oxfam’s new report*, and more than 7 million die per year just from air pollution.

Our media are owned by conservative multinationals. They have no desire to remind Americans daily about our environmental and inequality crises. Their own hands are too bloodied for that. They’re responsible for the majority of it. Notice how rarely our MSM cover corporate chicanery in general, and how the vast majority of their coverage is directed at horse-race politics, intra-party bickering, and the latest culture war fight. It’s incredibly rare that our media do deep dives into corporate malfeasance, or deal with the fact that we live in an oligarchy.

See Jason Hickel’s The Divide, for a comprehensive look at global inequality, and climate change.

*https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/inequality-kills

Liberal outrage perfectly distilled in one image pic.twitter.com/BQU7d3zoCb

— Michael Parenti’s Stache 🚩☭ (@Karl_Was_Right) February 28, 2022

WTF is wrong with this guy?

Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?

The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.

You would be doing your country – and the world – a great service.

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 4, 2022

Gotta clarify my comment a bit. It makes me think of the trolley dilemma:

https://www.thoughtco.com/would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-five-4045377

Proactively ordering the death of someone is one thing, passively accepting it is another, navigating between those choices (and the unforeseen), still another. The effects of doing nothing, doing X, doing Y, etc. etc.

To boil this all down: it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest if there were a Brutus in Russia. The US, however, shouldn’t be involved in any way, shape, or form.

In that sense, Graham was wrong to make that public statement. He’s a person with some degree of power. He should have left it unsaid.

Zooey wrote:

It’s not a good look to call for somebody’s assassination publicly, especially if one is a prominent politician oneself.

Agreed. As mentioned in my follow-up. American politicians need to shut up about that and anything remotely like it.

Zooey,

Looks like Graham is taking fire from all sides after his comments:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/04/lindsey-graham-putin-assassinate-ukraine-crisis/

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) was sharply criticized by fellow lawmakers on both sides of the aisle Thursday after saying that the “only way” to end the crisis in Ukraine is for Russians to assassinate President Vladimir Putin.

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The White House on Friday rejected Graham’s call for an assassination.

“That is not the position of the United States government and certainly not a statement you’d hear from come from the mouth of anybody working in this administration,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at the daily briefing.

Members of Congress also criticized Graham’s tweets as reckless, including members of his own party.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said, “This is an exceptionally bad idea.” Sanctions and boycotts of Russian oil and gas are solutions, along with military aid for the Ukrainians, Cruz said.

“But we should not be calling for the assassination of heads of state,” he added.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said calls for Putin’s assassination from U.S. politicians “aren’t helpful.”

“I really wish our members of Congress would cool it and regulate their remarks as the administration works to avoid WWlll,” Omar tweeted. “As the world pays attention to how the US and [its] leaders are responding.”

Norman Eisen, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama administration, said such comments would only raise tensions.

“Now Putin can say ‘one of the most senior U.S. Senators has called for my assassination,’ ” Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said. “Why would you want to help him?”