Less a whataboutism, more a don’t be a hypocriteism

That’s what a whataboutism is. It’s not hypocritical to mention one genocide without mentioning another in the same breath

As for the supposed hypocrisy of CodePink: even if you’re right about that, it’s beside the point and as such both a whataboutism and an ad hominem fallacy.

Neither do whataboutisms.

True, but it might become illegal not to be cishet there even before that happens.

What will win the race? Republican bigotry or Republican science denial?

He is, but hypocrisy and fundamental dishonesty are prerequisites for running for office as a Republican.

I mean, there’s a pretty obvious solution here: digitize, copy, and securely store the contents so that the Chinese government can’t erase them and then let his widow have the original, which likely has great sentimental value to her.

Unless the fear of censorship is just a disingenuous pretense for wanting to keep a valuable object…

Now we know why she was telling everyone to learn to code a few years ago: she was trying to recruit people!

So what you’re saying is Japanese cops get free food?

I agree, with one important caveat: in order to work properly, UBI must be paired with price controls. Otherwise, the profiteers will simply raise prices even more, canceling it out.

Combining both UBI and price controls on everything needed to survive and support yourself in a modern society (housing, food, water, electricity, heating and/or aircondition, transportation, internet), though, would be EXTREMELY beneficial to literally all of society!

Yeah, it unironically would be. Nothing boosts a consumption based economy like previously hoarded wealth being spent on actual goods and services.

Which is why MC Hammer and Ringo Starr have both been much better for the US economy than for example Mark Zuckerberg ever was.

Or the CK2/3 goodbye AKA assassinating every heir one by one until there’s none left.

if the hostages are all released it vastly reduces Israeli excuses

They’ll just come up with new ones. Netanyahu is already talking about “finishing the job” more than about the hostages.

and support

Israelis are literally blockading military bases to protect soldiers credibly accused of torture-raping Palestinian hostages. They may well care about the Israeli hostages, unlike the government, but they support the genocide and as a rule don’t consider Palestinians human.

which would reduce civilian casualties to a level that at least is no longer existential.

Nope. There’s zero chance of that happening without a regime change and arrests of some of the key figures in the fascist Israeli government coalition. ZERO.

I said ‘all’ hostages and am still getting presumptive hate from others

Probably because of your own ridiculous presumption that Israel wouldn’t keep murdering Palestinians with impunity after the return of the hostages.

I obviously meant from the perspective of the genocidal apartheid regime, not myself.

The October 7th attacks and hostage taking were beyond atrocious and my heart goes out to the families of the victims of both. The only reason I didn’t say so was because it goes without saying.

They’re not the REAL reason that the Israeli apartheid regime is still committing crimes against humanity on a daily basis 10 months later, though.

running state wide might be in AOC’s future.

Might? I’m pretty sure that the general consensus is that, given her intelligence, political talent, and enormous popularity in spite of all the smear campaigns from both parties, it’s a question of WHEN she will, not IF she might…

Do you mean including the Palestinians held hostage in Israeli military prisons being physically, psychologically, and sexually tortured after being “arrested” on false or no charges?

Because there’s literally hundreds of times as many of THOSE hostages than Israeli ones.

Also, you’re BEYOND gullible if I think Israel won’t continue murdering Palestinian civilians after they’ve gotten the hostages. That’s not what it’s about.

Murdering or driving away every single Gazan so they can steal more land has always been the purpose. October 7th and the hostages are just convenient excuses for them to commit the war crimes they already wanted to.

Why where the hostages surrounded by 120 civilians

Because Gaza is one of the densest urban areas in the world. When you level an apartment complex, you’re GOING to kill innocent people. Especially if you, like the Israeli government, consider all Palestinians Hamas and therefore do nothing to limit civilian casualties.

How many people did they kill this time, in order to recover dead bodies?

Last time, they killed 120-somehing Palestinian civilians to save 2 Israeli hostages and the time before that, they killed over 100 to retrieve dead bodies.

All it took was going to one meeting and signing a form

Sounds kinda scammy. Are you sure they didn’t sell you a timeshare? 😛

Eventually it’s going to be “if you’re not at least a second term member of Congress, you have no right to complain”

Imagine being so British that you import desperate sperm.

No, I don’t know what that means either 🤷