it's really fascinating how flat the lies and denials coming from the US are falling. The time when this stuff worked is over. Now it just reads like someone telling you that you hate kittens. It's just a nonstarter and they look unhinged.
It would be to their advantage to think about how this makes them look, day in, day out. But they don't seem that concerned.
There's a lady who used to be Biden's spokesperson, and nearly got the press corps job. She says "The statements from some administration officials about not being able to verify what’s happening in Gaza are absurd. We can all see the pictures. It’s horrific."
They're saying it because it's their job to, not because they believe it.
The only people who say they believe it would believe anything bc they already made up their minds
Every couple weeks I see some story about how Russia or China is stoking voter cynicism with web ads or bots, but nobody worries about how openly lying about killing kids affects how we feel
@InternetEh I boosted some posts honouring BIPOC soldiers who lost their lives for a country that still treated them like lesser thans, after their brave service. They deserve to be remembered.
I just signed my family's phones up with the county emergency notifications system bc we had been reading about the Camp Fire and apparently a lot of local governments don't necessarily have you signed up automatically
So, check for your state's emergency notification system to see if there's one to sign up for at that level.
Here in Oregon, each county has their own, or can anyway. So you may have to sign up at county level
what is something you can do a good impression of? Anything, no matter how specific or obscure. Even if it's a noise or sound effect. Boost for science and progress
The word hafrada is Hebrew for "separation," and this is what they call their policy of physical and legal separateness between Palestinian and Israeli civil society
They didn't even make the word mean a different thing
legally speaking, I wonder what gives people the right to put their hands on someone who is interrupting an event as part of a protest. They always do it and I don't know that anyone ever raises this question.
In most situations, putting your hands on someone is a legal line that you need some kind of reason to cross, like imminent physical harm. Not someone holding a sign and yelling.