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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1h

Print the legend. Surely that applies to poets.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

It's technically true that Al Capone evaded taxes.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22h

Sir, as someone who has donated more to your re-election campaign than some might consider legally permissible, I sense that we are nonetheless a bit snakebit. Surely this can be blamed on Joe Biden.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22h

Nope. It is more than the curreny charging documents. Most everything I have read from ICC veterans in interviews and essays are on the spectrum in support of war crimes. I am good standing there, especially given the history of the last century and this one.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bringing the cases. Charge what is evidenced. Not what isn't.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He is certainly more capable of dismissing the claim of a genocide and holding that rhetoric up for contempt before an Israeli electorate that knows this war began with the butchery of 1200 people by a cross-border attack. Accurate accusations of war crimes in the Israeli response? More problematic.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Preaching to the choir now. His and relevant ministers and military commanders -- along with any surviving Hamas commanders -- should be in the dock at The Hague. Charged with war crimes up to and including charges of crimes v. humanity. Genocide, no. Or all modern wars are then genocides.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i agree as to what's important. Maybe then the unnecessary, ahistorical and extralegal reach for genocide is the distraction when the crimes once could and should charge are already profound is a distraction. One that allows Netanyahu and Co. in this election to tar all criticism as illegimate.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

War crimes. Up to and including: Crimes against humanity. These things are very very bad. If you think those who are making this distinction are apologists for Netanyahu and the conduct of the war you've arrived on this thread in absolute ignorance.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The tell is in your shitbag labeling "every non-Zionist genocide scholar." Ergo any scholar that says else is...wait for it...a Zionist! An now no need to debate. You know who don't need to be categorized as either/or. ICC and international law veterans who have dealt with this for decades. Yup.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does anyone have eyes on the pope tonight? Is he in public? Hope not. I want imagine Leo on a sofa, beer in hand, watching that Murakami moonshot in real time.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

By standards of how I more often address them, rubes is a term of endearment.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our hearts are in it. Your hearts are elsewhere.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Make them crawl. This is now our American republic. We are the shithole nation.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Distribution, as a word, doesn't even qualify as a euphemism. This is a smash-and-grab.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You're in the slot? Then we are probably arguing about whatever butchery you are attempting to undertake on my lede.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And of course Milton Berle in drag was camouflaging a very, very, very big secret.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You could do another take on "The Aristocrats" just by having various comedians tell that joke in their own way.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have been informed that we shall soon own everything in duplicate.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Autonomous Systems Command." Have none of these mooks watched Strangelove?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now that I am laboring for Skydance, I am told that I will receive a complimentary light saber and if I concentrate, The Force will guide my scriptwork and keep my productions under budget. Also, when network execs read rewrites I can make them think I took their notes.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This shitheel never misses an opportunity.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It screwed up Elmer Fudd. That poor fellow was, as I recall, deeply conflicted.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The '49ers panned for gold. The '69ers were searching for else.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very emotional. Self-righteous as well. No need to wrestle with else. Bye.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The forcible displacement of people, depending on scope and intent, is specifically classified as a crime against humanity. Not as a genocide.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shorthand? A lie is lie. It is a powerful truth to accuse Netanyahu and allies of the crimes as evidenced. Unless you just want to hurl provocations. In that case, use the Protocols and shout about Israelis drinking the blood of Palestinian babies and be done with it. Show some fucking integirty.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who the fuck said that? How is the capacity for consuming words and using them to achieve thoughts brought you to this moment? The point in all of this has not been to defend Netanyahu or his allies from charges that are profoundly appalling. The point is that a genocide is a genocide.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...singular future than Arabs, or that they haven't proven as complicit in denying a share of the future to Palestinians when they've had the upper hand. The point is that cunts like you, who can only manage one half of the narrative, are what consign Jew and Arab alike to more generations of hell.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...arming the fedayeen and declaring not merely that a Jewish political state was unwelcome but that Jews, even those with no statist ambitions at all, were unwelcome and needed to be run off the land. Ethnically cleansed, if you will. The point is not that the Jews have any more claim to a....

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry, shitheel, but bringing half the story of the tragedy in the Levant to this feed is like bringing coal to Newcastle. You're useless to any solution if you can't be full-throated about the complicities on both sides. Before ben-Gurion, there was Jerusalem '18 and Hebron '20 and the Mufti...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...The longer that some of you people maintain your rhetorical headings without regard to what is or isn't true, the more likely it becomes that you evidence your core dishonesty.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...integrity and make a rightful argument for Palestinians based on what affronts have actually occurred, and even on what actions Israel or the settlers may be undertaking as evidenced? Those charges are profound and appalling enough without crying genocide because you like the effect? ....

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If these cries of genocide are all just propaganda and predictive theorizing why not cut to the fucking chase and reprint the Protocols. You can have Israelis drinking the blood of Palestinian babies or controlling international banking? How about instead, you show some fucking....

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again, the critique of genocide as hyperbolic, when war crimes and even crimes against humanity can be accurately applied, stands regardless. It's wrong on its face. The fact that it gives Netanyahu political cover and ballast for his governing coalition is just an extra dollop of hollow stupidity.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Specifically, much filmwork is being done elsewhere.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It would seem. It would also mean all wars of any scale in this century or the last, including the Allies in WWII and the Americans in Vietnam, were genocidal violence. Which means genocide as one of the most profound crimes in human existence has been utterly cheapened.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...clear that the loosening the construct of what a genocide is in such ways results in almost every modern war of any scale being labeled a genocide. It cheapens a profound act of evil when frankly the charge of war crimes and crimes against humanity are appalling enough. I'm good where I stand.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...in this stuff prior to 2023 when I was writing scripts for "Generation Kill" that involved the rules of engagement in war and the definition and gamut of war crimes and genocides. And lastly, I am where I am because having read those who argue that a genocide is occuring in Gaza, it becomes....

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am where I am on the spectrum between war crimes and genocide not simply because of the ICC charging document, but because I've read essays and interviews with ICC veterans and other international law experts about the intent of the statutes and their history. Further, I got interested...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you can't abide an answer, perhaps an answer more detailed than your own less-considered rhetoric, this was probably the wrong thread on which to engage.

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