Columnist who once defended sharing a post advocating feeding Palestinian children to sharks is helping us “counter the authoritarian threat”. Cool, glad words mean things - ThreadSky

ahjohnson.bsky.social • 46 days ago

Columnist who once defended sharing a post advocating feeding Palestinian children to sharks is helping us “counter the authoritarian threat”. Cool, glad words mean things

Reposted from Ken Klippenstein

Lmao

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classhuggle.bsky.social•45 days ago

It is wild to me that so many people are surprised by this. She was the worst kind of ghoul during the pre-Trump era, especially during Bush.

To see people like her and the Cheneys being rehabilitated -- by liberals, no less! -- is a crime against God and man and none of them will see Heaven.

stephentracey.bsky.social•45 days ago

I can’t read the original post because I am already blocked by said columnist. Oh, well.

trippdinger.bsky.social•46 days ago

Grifters gonna grift.

daughterofwitches.bsky.social•46 days ago

She did what?
Can you post it?

anserdelira.bsky.social•46 days ago

Here’s a link to her blog post from 2011 about the sharks. Warning- it’s absolutely vile. http://badrachel.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilad.html?spref=tw&m=1

daughterofwitches.bsky.social•46 days ago

Jesus.

nullprose.bsky.social•46 days ago

inbthe comments you find two auto-shill for Israel bots with identical replies, the car warranty bot, and the only human replying is holding her feet to the fire.

ahjohnson.bsky.social•46 days ago

andyvance.bsky.social•46 days ago

They hired her with full knowledge of her genocidal predilections. She was a Podhoretz-level goblin at Commentary.

daughterofwitches.bsky.social•46 days ago

And she needs to be called out for it.

shuchancellor.online•46 days ago

Comrade, of course I thank you for your commitment to serving the public, but do you have a hard drive of this shit, or is your brain rotted from incalculable amounts of crap you've had to read and you just know where to look

ahjohnson.bsky.social•46 days ago

My Twitter mostly. It’s an archive of sorts

shuchancellor.online•46 days ago

Thanks Adam, for all you do

daughterofwitches.bsky.social•46 days ago

Thank you!
That kind of charge needs to be supported by evidence, so that it can be better disseminated.

michaelpg.bsky.social•46 days ago

Look I just wanted the imperialist violence ABROAD, I NEVER thought it would return to the METROPOLE

delboylindo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Isn’t this the woman who thirst posted over Cuomo?

willowminder.bsky.social•46 days ago

Hopefully her intellectual rigor and her perfect understanding of the real issues facing the nation will overcome that.

Jesus Christ.

cheflubu.bsky.social•46 days ago

yo wait THAT is the same person??????

pdp2600.bsky.social•45 days ago

She's as good an "anti-authoritarian" as Bari Weiss is a "free speech" advocate.

it's almost a pre-requisite these ghouls getting endless billionaire funding, market themselves fully leveraging the concept of doublespeak to a point that even Orwell would be surprised by it.

dave618.bsky.social•45 days ago

🤡

themerckxproject.bsky.social•45 days ago

I have seen a lot of Contrarian mentions... and even a starter pack here. I think I know how BlueSky is going to get it's funding. And that's going to be a problem.

doughenwood.bsky.social•46 days ago

I’m sure she’s been blessed with oodles of startup cash.

heidireinberg.bsky.social•45 days ago

ahjohnson.bsky.social•45 days ago

heidireinberg.bsky.social•45 days ago

Thanks . . .will read.

heidireinberg.bsky.social•45 days ago

Interesting that that piece was written in 2011.

ahjohnson.bsky.social•46 days ago

I want every “anti authoritarian” expert to answer two questions before I listen to them: (1) are the US and Israel currently committing genocide in Gaza? and (2) do you think genocide is authoritarian?

giromide.online•46 days ago

The Freer Press

headlinesandhistory.com•43 days ago

If you’re curious…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MLmK9k3G0wTEXkSINgOd8?si=HpQBCP4GQiC18VBEUrJTFg

fru-fru-brigade.bsky.social•37 days ago

Okay, no idea which side you take because you veiled that behind a 45 minute podcast like an engagement-baiting grifter, so just gonna point out that nations don't have a right to exist, *people* do. No-one ever wrings their hands about, say, the USSR's "right to exist" when discussing its fall, -

fru-fru-brigade.bsky.social•37 days ago

Even if they believe it should have continued to exist.

headlinesandhistory.com•37 days ago

Thanks for listening but I don’t know if you understand my point clearly. Of course people have a right to exist. I said that. But my argument wasn’t that nations did or did not have a right to exist, just that they DO and therefore need to be dealt with as such.

And I don’t make money on this.

fru-fru-brigade.bsky.social•37 days ago

Toy doesn't understand your point because you put it in a 45 minute podcast she does not have the will or energy or executive function to sit through, rather than putting even a brief outline in the actual post, so all she had to respond to was the title and its choice to echo an inane argument -

fru-fru-brigade.bsky.social•37 days ago

Without knowing where you came down on that argument. She couldn't listen to a random podcast at 3:00 AM or whatever the heck it was when she saw that post for a lot of reasons. That's also why she said it came across as an engagement-farming grift.

nihilism.bsky.social•45 days ago

I don't know if genocide is always inherently tied to authoritarianism but I can't think of a single genocide that wasn't.

adilredivy.bsky.social•45 days ago

Rwanda and California, the whole concept just leaves out colonialism and the broad based violence associated with white supremacy, likely intentionally.

loblaws-balrog.bsky.social•45 days ago

Sorry, California? Could you be specific? No shortage of genocides in US history—Trail of Tears, enslavement, etc—but I’ve never heard of one in California

ahjohnson.bsky.social•45 days ago

Outstanding book. Highly recommend https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300230697/an-american-genocide

loblaws-balrog.bsky.social•45 days ago

Thanks man much appreciated. Love your work

patrickluck.bsky.social•45 days ago

California and its Native American populations in the mid-1800s is probably the most cut-and-dried case of a state-sponsored genocide in the United States.

patrickluck.bsky.social•45 days ago

The book Adam Johnson recommends is highly recommended, but here is an article I've given students about it before: https://fullertonobserver.com/2020/07/07/the-california-native-american-genocide/

nihilism.bsky.social•45 days ago

The genocide was orchestrated by the Hutu-dominated government under President Juvénal Habyarimana. The state was highly centralized, and local government officials played a significant role in mobilizing the population to participate in the genocide.

agusnox.bsky.social•45 days ago

What Israel is doing in Gaza is not Genocide. The use of the word Genocide is cynically pushed by Palestinians to counter sympathy for Jews after the Holocaust, which westerners buy hook line and sinker

There are tragic deaths of civilians and there may be cases of war crimes.

amplifly.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wrong. Also go fuck yourself.

arisito.bsky.social•45 days ago

literally every international human rights organization and genocide expert disagrees with you

adilredivy.bsky.social•45 days ago

I had thought the militias were instigated by the media and encouraged by the state but not centrally directed but I’ll look more into it.

kennywhatgives.bsky.social•45 days ago

Anti authoritarian ™

casualobserver.bsky.social•46 days ago

I was worried for a second that she might be unemployable /s

kenklippenstein.bsky.social•46 days ago

Fascinated by alternate reality these types live in. How is she contrarian??

mattfromchicago.bsky.social•46 days ago

They're going to be fighting the very real threat of left wing authoritarianism

shuchancellor.online•46 days ago

Every time some jonkler gets jebaited by my bio and goes rabid on the spectre of communism, another Bari Weiss type launches a blog with a six figure salary

picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social•45 days ago

Rubin should just eat her spaghett' and stfu

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