johntarleton.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief at The Indypendent, NYC's longtime lefty rag. "A free paper for free people." indypendent.org
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...And when we look at other oppressive governments, they often turn to Israel for the latest in repression technologies that have been honed over decades of overseeing the Occupied Territories. Funny how that works out.
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Israel and its backers inevitably turn to the "what about" excuse to deflect criticism. I criticize Israel cuz 1.) What it's doing is morally wrong 2.) It's the world's only practicing apartheid state 3.) My gov't massively supports it. I also condemn other repressive states. Interestingly enough...
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You haven't refuted anything. You just keep calling me names. 14 million ppl live under Israeli rule in the land between the river and the sea. 7 million Palestinians and 7 million Jews. Israel will either continue as a brutal apartheid state or become a single state with equal rights for all.
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His 7th bankrupty will be the U.S. government.
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Dems should have locked onto that anti-Trump argument back in 2016. Plenty of working class people despise bosses who screw their workers. All the pearl clutching about upholding norms was preaching to the Dems' already existing college-educated professional class voter base.
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He wasn't paying attention. And he was most likely a Pennsylvania voter i.e. someone who's vote really mattered, unless he lived across the river in NJ or Delaware. Sad.
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You haven't refuted a single statement I've made. You just fall back on personal smears or a blanket assertion that I'm not entitled to speak on any of this. I don't blame you. There's no coherent moral defense for what Israel has done and continues doing to the Palestinians.
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I support equal rights for all people. You don't. If you did, you wouldn't be able to support or rationalize what Israel is doing. So who's the bigot?
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I don't criticize you because of nationality but your Zionist ideology. I have great admiration for the small number of anti-Zionists who live inside Israel and the much larger number in the diaspora. Their moral clarity in the face of being ostracized by their own community takes great courage.
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Israel is a democracy in the same way that Alabama or Mississippi was a democracy in 1955 or South Africa in 1985. Hardly worthy of the name much less billions in U.S. taxpayer support.
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I also favor cutting off U.S. aid and arms sales to all the Middle Eastern monarchs & military dictators. These regimes have long been puppets of the West and their militaries only exist to repress their own people. U.S. support for these regimes and for Israel = two sides of the same coin.
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U.S. aid often doubles as a form of corporate subsidy. Israel is not alone in this. Most Ukraine edit has gone into the pockets of U.S. weapons makers. When USAID provided food overseas, it came from U.S. farmers, etc, etc. Still, Israel benefits hugely from the military aid it receives.
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I love it when people who support an apartheid state run around calling other people bigots. You've got zero credibility on that one.
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I grew up in the South where anti-Black racism flowed free and easy. I recognize the entitled racist mindset from a mile way. So do plenty of anti-Zionist Jews who refuse to support an apartheid state. As an American taxpayer who helps fund Israel, you're damn right I'm going to criticize it!
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I'm old enough to remember a Feb. 15th when we got millions of people into the streets to oppose a Republican administration hellbent on starting a war of choice. DOGE's mindless assault on the workings of our own gov't cuz "woke" has some of those same vibes.
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3/3: Myrie, a 3-term state senator from Brooklyn, hopes to consolidate support in the centrist lane as a candidate of generational change even as he lags in the polls behind better-known centrists Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams & Scott Stringer each of whom carry lots of baggage that Myrie does not.
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2/3: Goldman snippily denied Israel’s actions in Gaza = genocide and declared the question “off-topic” as if the war isn’t something many New Yorkers care about. When Myrie was asked if he differed with Goldman in any way on Gaza, he stood mute and refused to say a word. As for the horse race,
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Who was repping the children of Gaza?
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Yes, it's coming. This time, Resistance 2.0 should not take its cues or feel any loyalty to the failed and feckless Democratic Party "leaders" who lost two out of three presidential elections to a malevolent clown.
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They are taking actions that are going to negatively impact people's quality of life in really concrete ways. J6 was terrible, but people could shrug it off and say it didn't affect them.