My rule of thumb for judging public figures has been since 2015 and my personal experience. I was a dumb ass college kid that grew up South of Atlanta. That time is when I realized that Israel was an apartheid state similar to South Africa. If some idiot redneck like me can come to that conclusion then; well, I judge harshly anyone with more privilege and wealth that couldn’t come to that same obvious conclusion. I was able to understand it as a kid with little more than basic Christian morals and a bit of Atheism for perspective.

This is not to say I don’t accept public figures or average joes that change their minds later. I do. And will still be accepting of people that realize this in the future.

But, Ozzy was doing concerts and promoting Zionist talking points in 2018. I will judge that the way I will. Off my standard. Because this idiot redneck (me) that grew up in evangelical indoctrination (Christian Zionism) was able to do the right math and understand what Israel was.

I have absolutely learned much more since 2015. But I will not respect any public figure that decides to make a point to defend an apartheid state. I lose all respect for them. This is my litmus test and I won’t respect anyone in any opinion politically or morally until they pass it.

And unfortunately for Ozzy he died being a piece of shit Zionist.

You can disagree. I can respect that. But just giving some personal perspective of where I’m coming from.

Yeah but the CEO was a women and therefore “woke”. /s

I’m glad our “mental health problem” is finally at least putting the crosshairs in the direction of people that actually hurt others.

I really hope this is the new Meta. Anything to protect our schools.

And then he and his wife spoke in favor of (denial of) Israels genocide in Gaza. He can rest in piss as well.

No. It doesn’t. You rewrote one sentence I said and then pretended like that was the thesis of the comment.

The comment was talking about the use of force and military towards protests. I was pointing out the material difference between “weekend protesters” collecting in mass for a few hours and other people actively preventing ICE from leaving their facilities and being met with violence.

It wasn’t a “bash” on liberals. I want them to go out and do their mass protests. It does help them become radicalized to do more.

It was an explanation of WHY you won’t see high levels of police violence at these large “No Kings” style protest.

Because they don’t threaten the ability for ICE to hurt people. Are they good in other ways? Absolutely. But that wasn’t the point of my comment and it wasn’t what was being asked in the comment I replied to.

It’s the difference between a person holding up a sign that says “save the Forrest” and another person chaining themselves to the God damn tree.

That was my point. So, nothing you have said in response is at all being critical of what I actually said. You’re just straw manning.

This is acceptable to Israel. People in the west watching BBC or CNN seeing images like this is not though. It’s why they are now repeating the cycle of “letting in aid” that we are seeing now.

Any seemingly “moral” action that Israel takes is literally to ensure they can continue doing their genocide. Giving the west just enough coverage of aid trucks so their media can pretend that it’s no longer happening.

I am ashamed to live in this time of human history that we allow the people causing these images to remain in power and not have their heads placed on a spike (metaphorically of course).

I think Trump was pretty heavily involved. But from the evidence I have seen he did actually cut ties with Epstein earlier than most public figures we know about. This isn’t a defense of Trump but more of an analysis.

I think what leaks will be heavily weighed towards anything after he stopped actively being involved with Epstein. So, there is little risk to his involvement being exposed.

My guess, Trump is a petty little b****, and had a falling out with him for one reason or another. He’ll likely use this as a reason to say “he felt something was wrong and thought Epstein was creepy” so he cut ties. When in reality he probably cut ties because of his ego on some issue or another.

Now, this is not to say there is definitely not significantly more to this. This is a massive sex trafficking ring that involves many in the ruling class. Trump could absolutely still be involved (even today) but just stopped directly interacting with Epstein.

My guess is this type of sex trafficking is still being done to the same degree by another “Epstein”. These types of things don’t die with one pedophile as everyone in power wants us to believe.

I realized reading her name in this article that I’ve been saying her name as JizzLane this whole time.

This is one of those cases where I wish we had old time “punishment fits the crime” laws.

Don’t get me wrong. If we’re gonna have a systemic and capital punishment conversation I am absolutely for systems that rehabilitate and work towards reintegrating criminals into society. Failures like this are systemic failures that should really not be only blamed on the individual idiot that did this. We shouldn’t have a system that can literally lose a kid for hours. There should be no way for this to even happen. Even IF the person that did this specifically meant to kill the kid (which I hope not).

Having said that. My monkey brain wants the person that did this to have to sit in a hot car until they die.

Yes. Because that’s all I said in my comment and that’s the only thing you should take from it. /s

Replies like yours are why I fucking hate the internet. Engage in the actual substance of the comment maybe; instead of just straw manning what I said for the sake of disagreement.

Oh you sweet summer child.

My parents generation got the Black Panthers. My generation gets “I’d be at brunch right now if you just voted for Harris” signs in our protest.

These types of protest. While large and making national news are very unlikely to have that type of response.

These protest are liberals going out and feeling like they did something. Which is obviously better than liberals not going out at all.

The protests that get physical response are the ones that have the potential to build into larger and more active movements. Protest with simple goals like “prevent vehicles from leaving the ICE facility”. As someone that’s been to protest with that goal. 100-200 people with a real material goal are much more likely to have police response than a planned parade.

These “no kings” style protest are essentially just that: planned parades. And are directed through the city in very much the same way. Again, I am not against them. But they are not serving the same purpose.

The military is NOT being used because the size of protest are large. The military is being used as a political tool to form a narrative that justifies more use of violence against civilians.

They wont attack these “protest parades” filled with large amounts of people that are not directly effected by negative effects of their fascist policies. It is much better to keep them as once a month parade members than to risk radicalizing large amounts of them into full time activists if they ever felt the sting of tear gas.

Was “chaining themselves to trees” not clear?

Giving me PTSD going from XP to Vista.

https://youtu.be/o8WriJgy8RY

What is the reason? Honest question.

Like, obviously we can have restrictions. Basically Id say shift the age requirement to time as a citizen instead. But I really don’t see why a kid born in Uganda and moving to America at 7 years old (Like Mamdani) and running for president at 42 is really any different than a kid born in America and running for president at 35.

I don’t know when he got his citizenship. But shift the age X years to whenever he got it.

The plan of having a 35 year long sleeper agent living in America is fantasy. That’s significantly too much work when you can already buy our politicians right now and not wait 35 years. (APAIC comes to mind first)

I feel like all Citizens should be able to run at some point. I really don’t care what patch of dirt you were born on.

China is the king of those.

We don’t like this. But we like trade so we literally won’t change anything.

The west is falling. I pray history will bring justice for Palestine. Stay strong comrade.

Only if the world makes them regret it. I wish I could say that with the mountain of documented evidence (mostly by IDF soldiers themselves) that the history will bring justice for Palestine.

But, I didn’t think we could be 655 days into a genocide and still have the New York fucking Times running articles saying “it’s totally not. Because not enough babies have died yet. Israel could kill so many more babies if they wanted to”.

The one thing that will be true with time though is that Israel will collapse. Fascist Ethnostates are by their very nature self destructive and cannot maintain themselves.

I just want to live long enough to see it fall and the children of Palestinian today be able to serve out the justice to the western world that they deserve.

I want everyone from Israeli officials all the way to New York Times writers to be brought to justice and answer for their crimes.

One day; everyone will ‘have always been against’ this.

And those people that today still spread genocide propaganda will pretend they were always against. It is important we don’t let those demons get away with it.