Western governments' support for Israel is the biggest threat to free speech in our society today. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to protect Israeli information interests, and speech is being suppressed in support of Israel more aggressively than with any other topic. We're not seeing this level of all-out warfare against free expression on any other frontline"not Russia, not vaccines, not "election security", not on any kind of ideological front. The west's support for Israel is the number one threat to free speech in the west today, and nothing else comes anywhere close.

I predict, due to increased demand, the prices of torches and pitchforks will rise dramatically as 2025 progresses.

What's worse? Republicans being owned by Russia or both Republicans and Democrats being owned by Israel?

Or maybe one sellout feeds directly into the other?

Among the 17 countries that joined the U.S. in opposition to the non-binding measure were Israel...

Know your true enemy, the one that stays closest to you.

"naturally the whole story is somehow lost."

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I guess if you can understand why the Gulf of Mexico ought to be renamed the Gulf America you might be really, really close to understanding the essence of why those given a birth name of Dennis sometimes want to rename themselves Denise.

Then again, enough about gulfs- or sounds or creeks or oceans or bays or ponds or seas or streams. In MAGA world there are only TWO types of bodies of water- rivers and lakes.

For the old-timers:

America has been given a long overdue gift. A gift from all of the people around the world it has used, abused and threatened- injured and maimed for the past 180+ years. A gift from the Native American indigenous tribes, the Mexicans, the Cubans, the Palestinians, Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghans, Syrians, Panamanians, Libyans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Chileans, Iranians, Somalians, Yemenis, Sudanese, Angolans, Lebanese, Cambodians, Haitians, Paraguayans... The gift is a mirror. A special mirror to reflect the stark moral ugliness and ideological brutality of what America now (and perhaps forever) represents. A mirror angled inwards in such a manner as to inflict some of the intense pain and suffering that for so long America has inflicted upon so many other peoples of the world.

The mirror is Donald J. Trump.

Wouldn't be the first time a Blackhawk killed a bunch of innocent people for no good reason.

So, what very important person(s) was that helicopter carrying?

China's Pearl Harbor moment. No human casualties but massive financial damage reported.