I guess I’ll link this and ask for specifics, because I’ve observed quite the opposite.
Given you seem to have taken your quote about personally getting Biden into office seriously, I think it’s pretty reasonable for anyone to be questioning your take here.
Travelling interstate to grab a gun and put yourself in a position to shoot others with the flimsiest of legal (definitely not moral) pretexts isn’t self-defence.
He travelled interstate to get a gun and went to that protest because…?
He put himself in that position, killed two people, maimed another, for his sins, he’s now being paid as the right’s posterchild for killing you political opponents - you’ll have to forgive me for not feeling too bad for him.
While true, he spent the bulk of the interview on softball questions because his show was on Musk’s platform. I think toward the end of the interview he realised that Musk was still butthurt enough to blow things up, so he got slightly more antagonistic.
Musk being the idiot pissbaby he is, even a friendly interview triggered him and made him look like a fragile moron. His ego makes him incapable of just shutting up and spending his money, but his fragility and erratic bullshit means he’s incapable of the faintest hint of public scrutiny.
The context is the HD video footage of the IDF drone striking obvious unarmed civilians.
Where’s the context showing these people were enemy combatants deserving a death sentence by drone strike? Do you always take the “guilty until proven innocent” line, or is this a race thing?
By all means, tell me what their position is. Failing that, what’s the charitable assumption to make here?
As far as I can see, the likely options are:
They support the genocide
They don’t care about the rule of law
The former is more common in this context, but it’s both weird and worthless of you to insert yourself into the conversation to defend someone’s positions that (unless you can confidently answer this question) you don’t understand. Just like that, you’ve derailed the conversation into this irrelevant shit - what was your complaint again? Oh…
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Rittenhouse isn’t some random dipshit that got cornered (ironically, a favourite of the likes of Crowder and Shapiro until they realised even students embarrass them) - he’s the Daily Wire’s spokesperson for crossing state lines to manufacture a situation to murder your political opponents. He chose to speak in front of that crowd, chose to field questions, and chose to run (presumably because he didn’t have a gun to kill those he disagrees with).
Do you consistently defend people that you admit are unqualified for their job and incapable of doing it - even when it’s as essential as bragging about crossing state lines to procure a gun and manufacture a flimsy legal pretext to kill your political opponents, or is this an outlier for you?
Everyone does that - unlike you, most people are also capable of progressing to conclusions from straightforward situations or answering simple questions.
This has strong neo-Nazi-style “just asking questions” energy. If you’re capable of drawing conclusions, own them. If you’re not, you’ve got nothing to contribute here.
It’s also a hell of a lot easier than explaining your political position from first principles. There’s a good, simple reason we have and use labels - they’re useful.
As of December 2023, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has received 59 allegations that Donald Trump or his committees violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. In 29 of those cases, nonpartisan staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) recommended the FEC investigate Trump. Yet not once has a Republican FEC...
…in the most verbose way possible, with bonus points for referencing people out of context, cherrypicking their worst takes, or just deferring to lunatics in a ghish gallop too exhausting to be worth challenging.
I can imagine seeing Rudolph Jitler commit a genocide as the world’s larger powers run cover for him would fuel the kind of desperate anger that drives jihadis.
That, and it was a good story set in the Star Wars universe rather than a Star Wars story where entire universe is the same 3 characters and their friends - every. goddamn. time.
Russia, China, and the US are all problems in similar ways, but different scales - in much the same way that the US has a deeply flawed, democracy while China and Russia are plain old autocratic.
The US would absolutely fuck us over for their own benefit (again), but what’s in their best interests is generally much more in line with our best interests than China or Russia.
I work in cybersecurity, and we track state sponsored threat actors (mostly, but far from exclusively China and Russia) - people suddenly rush to change the subject when I ask why we don’t track US threat actors.
This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what's actually going on.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes (lemmy.world)
Toy soldiers and Nixon coming... (midwest.social)
Elon Musk Basically Throws Tantrum on Camera (futurism.com)
'Everyone in the World Needs to See This': Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans (www.commondreams.org)
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (www.vox.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse storms off stage after being confronted by students (www.newsweek.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
This is the way (lemmy.world)
Gambit gets to the bottom of this shady organization (lemmy.world)
New Zealand economy shrinks, country in technical recession (www.newshub.co.nz)
Anybody who thinks the best way out of a recession is austerity measures needs to have their heads examined.
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
Republican commissioners have single-handedly blocked FEC action against Trump 29 times (www.citizensforethics.org)
As of December 2023, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has received 59 allegations that Donald Trump or his committees violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. In 29 of those cases, nonpartisan staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) recommended the FEC investigate Trump. Yet not once has a Republican FEC...
Just a little friendly compromise, what could go wrong? (lemmy.world)
Like surely you must have acquired a clue by now. (lemmy.world)
Europol: Israel-Gaza galvanising Jihadist recruitment in Europe (euobserver.com)
Star Wars: The Acolyte. Trailer drops tomorrow (19th) (feddit.uk)
Australia to resume funding to UN Palestinian aid agency UNRWA (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Australia will resume its funding to the primary aid agency operating inside Gaza, UNRWA....
Voters don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be (www.inquirer.com)
This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what's actually going on.