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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It must burn you up that he's so popular with black voters. I wonder if Bidrn did anything since the 1970s that might make people think differently about his legacy? For all your talk about dems being stuck in the 70s, it seems like you're the one who can't acknowledge how the party has changed
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nah it's still a stupid statement. If they were still trying to win the 1968 election, they'd still be extraordinarily racist and not, you know, relying on black people as the base of the party. Everything about dems strategy in 2026 is different. Idk how you can even make a comparison
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He hasn't, but they're big mad over on twitter that he started campaigning with Obama. You know, the single most popular politician with the demographic that AES is struggling with the hardest. They're mad about that
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are you saying you want to go back to the pre-68 electorate? That is.... certainly a take
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Man born in 1876 has bad views on race. News at 11. Wait until you hear about FDR's views about Japanese and Jewish and Mexican and Black people. They'll blow your mind
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can cherry pick images however you want, but the reality is that polling exists in Israel same as it does in the US (including polling by the same firms). Sephardic Jews are generally way more conservative than Ashkenazi. Idk why you desperately need to see them all as white
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The Demographic Characteristics of Voters
The data reveals that Israel’s political system is split by many overlapping divisions - along identity and status lines – making it is far more difficult to change voters’ positions and further contr...
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Likud is ~70% jewish people who come from the middle east and north africa, but very progressive of you to ignore the brown and black populations of the country
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So it was all about starting negotiations. Like, kidnapping, torturing, and raping hostages was a negotiation tactic? Sounds very unconditional
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So they claim they didn't want anything, but then they also claim they wanted A) A prisoner swap B) Sinwar to remain in power (ie no retaliation) C) To negotiate the end of the blockade This hostage release was heavily contingent, despite what Medhi Hasan has to say about it
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else – the release of soldiers and officers in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and then the issue of the blockade on Gaza."
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He doesn't because he's not even getting the propaganda right. The story was that Hamas wanted to exchange the prisoners if Israel agreed to a mediator. That is, they wanted to murder and torture civilians and then have Israel go through a mediator instead of retaliating
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, I see, Oct 7th was just a little oopsie on their part. If they were such good guys then that just wanted what was best for the hostages, maybe you should go tell the ICC that because the ICC is under the impression that they tortured and raped the hostages they didn't kill
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The Prosecutor v. Yahya Sinwar
Case Sheet · ICC The Prosecutor v. Yahya Sinwar Situation ...
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why did they take hostages if they didn't want anything in return? They could have simply A) not taken them or B) returned them at literally any time
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No they're not lmao. Every single dem (including Fetterman) voted against ICE's $80 billion expansion. And every single one voted for an amendment to try to claw it back after the fact. Parties like the DSA can't even attract POC at the same rate as Republicans let alone dems
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's fair. Sorry I had just responded to someone who was not as introspective and was way more aggressive with you than I should have been. Hope you have a good day, friend!
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can't believe that this is still hard for people to understand. Platner knowingly kept a nazi tattoo for a decade. That is nazi shit. That fact in itself is racist as shit. He is a nazi. My local skinhead never did anything as bad as Susan Collins. Is that guy not a nazi?
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're both nazis. What are we doing here? You don't knowingly walk around with a nazi tattoo for ten years if you don't fetishize it. Susan Collins? Nazi. Graham Platner? Also a nazi. Janet Mills? She's old I guess but not a nazi. Idk why this was a hard choice for anyone
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Idk, man, I feel like someone knowingly walking around with a nazi tattoo for ten years is a nazi. No intuition needed.
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nah, man, it's because you can only explain to someone sealioning about how something that caused a national controversy was racist so many times before you just gotta throw up your hands and say antisemites gonna antisemite. But, sure, every jewish organization is wrong, but you see what they don't
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Speaking to the audience at the SparkassenPark stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany, Macklemore said: “The atrocity that was the Holocaust, there will never be reparations for that." Idk if you know who the main target of the Holocaust was, but that at least is something you can look up yourself
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because you don't get to flippantly tell a group who has experienced an atrocity to get over it for political points about something else. Imagine a white person saying, "You'll never get reparations for slavery, so the best way to make up for it is to stop the current slave trade in the MiddleEast"
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Like when he told a crowd in Germany that there would never be reparations for the holocaust, so the should make up for it by freeing Palestine? Centering the worst atrocity the world has ever known around an ethnic group that was not a victim of it? Clearly he's concerned about Jewish pain
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm not a trained seal for a bigot defending antisemitism. If you're actually interested and not just using this as some kind of weird gotcha, you can google it yourself
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you or Macklemore don't know enough about it to understand why it could be considered antisemitic, maybe don't present yourself as an authority on what's antisemitic or not. It's really not that hard to say, "I don't understand antisemitism, so I'm not going to argue about it."
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The bowl cut, the specific beard style, the hooked nose, the suit style, etc could be lifted straight from nazi anti jewish propagnda. He put on a jewish caricature outfit to go onstage to sing a song about being cheap. If you're keeping track, that's two antisemitisms. And his "apology" was lacking
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The irony of thinking it's only about the nose and not literally the entire outfit, then calling me misinformed. Yet here you are, excusing antisemitism. You know that excusing racism is racist too, right? But, sure, you're not antisemitic, you're anti zionist 🙄
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Anyone who does an ounce of research into the man in blackface realizes he's not racist" type reply
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I didn't say anything about nuance. Sorry you can't be bothered to read anything longer than the back of a cereal box, but that really is a you problem
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TIL providing context makes me a ghoul. Gotta love the willfully ignorant for keeping the earplug industry in business
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Isn't this Beit Hanoun? There was ongoing battles between Hamas and the IDF for ~20 months including a couple where Hamas took out Israeli tanks. It sucks, but, unfortunately, this is what war torn cities look like in the 21st century. Damascus and Derma were similar 🙁
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmao. I can't wait for this
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're also on a panel speaking about black maternal healthcare. What exactly is she supposed to talk about if not black maternal healthcare?
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a panel speaking about black maternal healthcare. What exactly is she supposed to say if not something about black maternal healthcare?
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmao. How are you gonna say "Palestine doesn't even have a military" and then post a screenshot CLEARY showing they have 56k active troops? Like, you haven't been ruhht once and now you're even undermining your own points
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gazans invaded Israel with 6,000 people on Oct 7, including ~3,600 from the Nukhba forces, which Hamas considers to be the special forces of their military. Having 3,600 special forces implies a decently sized military
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hamas fired 20,000 rockets into Israel during the war. Would it have been better or worse for Gazans if Iron Dome stopped working and Israel got hit with them? Do you think it would have been better or worse if all they had were cluster bombs? War sucks. Idk what to tell you
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes. If you'll notice, I accounted for 5/6 of the total. 2/3=4/6 on Iron Dome. 1/6 on precision kits and other precision weapons (of which Hellfire missiles and many of the other bombs are). That gives us 4/6+1/6, which, I'll bet if you think real hard, you can add those together
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Y'all really out here thinking that Trump personally meets with every member of Congress whenever there's a part of his agenda he wants done? Not any other of the 4 million people working for the executive. Not diplomats, not aides, not economists; ONLY Trump and his cabinet? That's so dumb
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lol. Little bro over here thinks Trump personally meets with representatives to get his agenda passed, and all those four million people who work for the executive branch just sit around. That is hilarious
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kushner is a special envoy in the Middle East. He has an official position
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I ran through the numbers at one point, and Biden's White House had spent 2/3 of the money on Iron Dome replacement missiles and Iron Dome/Beam upgrades, and 1/6 on precision conversion kits for bombs. Mfer was out here trying to prevent unnecessary civilian deaths, and people still gave him shit
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The only two organizations that can legally call it a genocide, the ICC and ICJ, have not called it one. The ICC explicitly refused to pursue charges of extermination or genocide on any Israelis due to lack of evidence. Idk what whole world you're a part of, but it's not this one
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To Gavin's credit, he's been putting in the work with black Americans in a way that most other candidates never do (looking at you Bernie). But Harris already has massive support there, and he knows that foul shit might not even work to break off that support
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I genuinely don't understand this. If someone has a counterpoint that's reasonable, I tell them that's a fair point and drop it. I'm a very loud person, and why would I want to continue being loudly wrong?
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You know if you don't have a response to a question, that is also letting the other person control the narrative, right? Paxton has made his whole campaign an anti-trans campaign. By not commenting on that, you're allowing whatever they have to say about being anti-trans become the de facto truth
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So this is okay with you?
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah, but, like... if you do that level of antisemitism, you don't get another benefit of the doubt
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I saw it live, and I also saw the shots getting replayed endlessly on cable news for the next five years. There is not a single person over 10 in 2001 who hasn't seen that one clip at least a dozen times
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I honestly do not get why they're circling the wagons here when the woman who said it issued a statement saying it was racist and apologizing. Given that, they're not even defending their side anymore; they're literally just defending using racist slurs.
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Orwell Whatever @orwellwhatever.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is especially wild because Rula already apologized saying it was racist (not that I trust her apology), so Ana isn't even defending Rula. She's literally just defending the use of slurs
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