Bongo_Stryker
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- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 4 days ago:
We are not talking about association, we are talking about participation. There is a big difference.
Anyway go ahead and explain to me how there were some perfectly normal non-racist people there protesting the removal of a pro-slavery war monument, and that’s who Donald “immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country” Trump was talking about.
- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 4 days ago:
No, I don’t make that claim because it is too general. It seems like a setup for a reductio ad adsurdum argument that I don’t feel like I want to cooperate with.
I’m saying that if one finds themself marching in the same protest in the same street on the same side as david duke the notorious klansman, then one is not in my opinion a “very fine person”.
- Comment on Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted 4 days ago:
Oh you guys. If you come upon someone hurt, do you say to yourself “I must make sure this is a US citizen before I try to help.” Do you check for ID and an insurance card before administering first aid or calling an ambulance?
If you are not religious, fine, it doesn’t matter: be as cynical and xenophobic as you like.
Anyone who says they are Christian or advocates for a “Christian nation” should understand that the parable of the good Samaritan applies not only to individuals but Christians collectively.
Anyone who uses religious language to make themselves seem moral and righteous, but then says illegals don’t deserve healthcare, that person is a hypocrite. Don’t vote for them.
- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 5 days ago:
Yeah I understand the argument here: Somehow, mixed in among those white supremacists and nazis were some very fine people who just happened to find common cause with racists and fascists, but remained morally and ethically seperate from the groups they were marching together in the streets with. I find this assertion unconvincing.
- Comment on Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted 5 days ago:
Well then I suppose thats a good example of why “Christian nationalism” and the whole idea of a Christian nation doesn’t make sense. Every single citizen of the Kingdom that is not of this earth is responsible for following the instructions of the King. Meanwhile here in America there are always excuses why we can’t heal the sick or feed the hungry.
- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 1 week ago:
No. No reasonable person would define “very fine people” as those who venerate someone who fought a war for the purpose of maintaining the institution of slavery.
I have not heard any argument that convinces me that such statues and monuments ought to be kept.
- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 1 week ago:
Yes of course there were. There were also white supremacist and neo-nazi sympathizers.
- Comment on Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted 1 week ago:
Weird. So much talk about “Christian conservatism” and how this is a “Christian nation” from the “Christian Nationalists” and they forgot to read Matt 25: 43-45.
- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 1 week ago:
Snopes’ ruling removes key ammunition from Biden’s arsenal just days before…
Yeah, looks bad for Biden. If he can’t bring that up, then what else can he possibly criticize Trump for?
- Comment on Gun group to defend Trump right to carry 3 weeks ago:
Now this don’t make a damn lick of sense. If we need guns to protect ourselves from gubmint tyranny, and y’all plan to put that feller back in the gubment, then what the hell does he need a gun for?
- Comment on CNN 1 month ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Trump_Tower_wiretapping_allegati…
The CNN report also stated that the Manafort surveillance began after he became the subject of an FBI investigation in 2014. Some commentators cited this report as vindication for Trump’s claims, while others noted that it did not confirm the accuracy of Trump’s original tweets, and that it is still unknown whether any surveillance of Manafort took place at Trump Tower.[6][7] Manafort owned a condominium in Trump Tower from 2006 until its seizure by federal authorities following his 2018 convictions.[8][9
I don’t think this is saying what this community want to believe it’s saying.
- Comment on UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported 1 month ago:
- Comment on Fulton County 2020 election problems, now confirmed, challenge media fact-checkers 1 month ago:
I think a relevant point to add to this subject matter is that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams if you know what I’m saying.
- Comment on Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes painful cuts to close California's growing budget deficit 1 month ago:
So far, Newsom has not gutted some of his splashiest policy advancements, including free kindergarten for all 4-year-olds
Is kindergarten not already state sponsored in California? How is this a “splashy” policy? Was the age lowered? Is that what makes it “splashy”?
- Comment on 'No choice' but to impeach Biden over delayed Israel aid, GOP senator says 1 month ago:
WOAH WOAH WOAH did Biden cut off bombs to Israel because they wouldn’t dig up dirt on Barron? Then yes, I don’t see any other course of action possible.
Edit: I am told it may be because members of the democratic constituency are demanding an end to the indiscriminate bombing of unarmed noncombatant civilian baby-children.
If there was no favor or quid pro quo demanded in return for these bombs, but instead the move is actually a half-assed attempt to reduce civilian casualties then it’s not the same thing at all.
- Comment on Red state governor signs bill cracking down on squatters: 'Best dwelling' for them 'is a jail cell' 1 month ago:
But New Hampshire is full of damn yankees!
- Comment on ICE Responds After Sanctuary City Releases Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Child Molestation 1 month ago:
From: ice.gov/…/ero-boston-apprehends-guatemalan-citize…
On Feb. 28, 2024, Providence police arrested him on domestic assault charges and the outstanding warrant. The charges remain pending with the Rhode Island Sixth District Court.
Following his arrest and booking into custody at the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston, ERO Boston officers in Warwick lodged an immigration detainer against him.
On April 10, despite the active immigration detainer, the Guatemalan national was released onto the streets of Providence…
So the story is that he was arrested on Feb 28, at some unspecified time later a detainer was put on him, and over a month later he was for whatever reason released. The Immigration detainer by law only lasts 48 hours. They were holding onto this guy for over a month and ICE is all mad they wouldn’t hold him for another 48 hours? Why not swing by and pick him up at some point during the 4 weeks previous?
Was there some reason ICE could not have taken this guy and deported him sometime in March? I don’t get it.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 1 month ago:
EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY
Best advice in the whole thread.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 1 month ago:
Foolish Bongo, you will never receive any admission of wrongdoing by Israel from those who adore her. They demand to hear the condemnation of hamas.
Therefore, yes ok, I condemn Hamas. Fuck hamas! Let them all be separated from this world and sent for divine judgment.
But this isn’t enough. You must also agree that Israel should expand her borders.
You must also agree that there is no such thing as a Palestinian, it is a media invention.
You must agree that a two state solution is unthinkable, can never happen, at any cost.
You must agree that the lives of any non-jewish person in east Jerusalem, in the west bank, in Gaza are worthless.
You must agree they should all be killed, men women and children because they are all hamas.
You must agree that anyone who does not accept these prepositions as absolute truth and fact is antisemitic, is a nazi, is also hamas.
Well that’s going too far for me and I can’t agree with that.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 1 month ago:
Ok, I will admit to some hyperbole.
But what about this: I have read here and there that Netanyahu has for years supported Hamas. There were accusations of leaked secret military plans and suitcases of cash being delivered to Hamas. Of efforts to curb the activities of the palestine authority but no such effort to disrupt hamas. Of course I don’t know if any of these accusations are true or not. This is the kind of stuff one reads in Haaretz, which admittedly, as all media, has a bias.
Still, could these allegations be true? And, if so, how striking that when Netanyahu was in both political and legal trouble, the pogrom of Oct 7 preserved his position. The suspicious and conspiratorial minded among us might try to make something there, however I don’t want to make any suggestions like that.
- Comment on Biden's economic advisor 1 month ago:
Neat how his hand jumps from one place to the other in the blink of an eye. It makes me wonder how much editing this clip received and what was the context. It’s possible he’s as dumb as he appears.
On the other hand, I have seem plenty of people speak with both eloquence and confidence about both monetary and economic policy that seem very intelligent and convincing but later turned out to be shoveling out a load of bullshit.
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 1 month ago:
For months, any criticism of Israel’s government was met with accusations of antisemitism, accusations of being “pro-hamas”. Now that I am pointing out there is criticism of Israel’s government coming from Israeli citizens inside Israel, the discussion I see generated avoids the actual topic and goes like: Well Hamas is very bad and has committed terrible atrocities and the IDF may have made a few regrettable mistakes but ackchyually white phosphorus is not illegal…
Why is it so hard for anyone to admit there could be valid reasons to be unhappy with Israel’s government - reasons that are not antisemitic or pro-hamas, neither marxist nor nazi, but practical reasons relating to good governance not only for Palestine but Israel itself?
- Comment on Israelis critical of the government 1 month ago:
Well what could be going on in Israel, if people are unhappy with Netanyahu’s handling of the war ( killing Israeli hostages, for example) and unhappy with Israel’s extremist right wing government in general? Do you suppose this criticism is coming from hippie leftist antisemitic hamas supporters? My conservative friends tell me any criticism of Israel’s a government is certainly hippie leftist nazi antisemitic hamas-loving woke transgender propaganda.
If I understand the timeline correctly, in September, Netanyahu was unpopular, in trouble for corruption, and people were demonstrating in the streets. Suddenly, there was an attack and all dissatisfaction with Likud and Netanyahu vanished.
How could Israel’s security forces have blundered so badly to allow such an attack, resulting in a long war agsinst a shadowy guerrilla enemy that you can never be completely sure you’ve defeated? A war that seems to keep Netanyahu in power. I’m just asking questions.
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- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 1 month ago:
Protestors against the expansion of the Vietnam war into Cambodia were called “communists” “bums” and “disloyal to the United States”. Some were killed by national guardsmen, firing into the crowd of American citizens.
Protestors against the South Africa apartied system were called “communists” “terrorists” and “thugs”. Nelson Mandela remained on US terror watch lists until 2008.
I reject and condemn the human rights violations of the Viet Nam war, I reject and condemn the South African Apartied system and I reject and condemn the deliberate killing of unarmed civilian noncombatants of any nation.
Call me what you will.
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 1 month ago:
I absolutely believe the police should do the right thing.
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 2 months ago:
No I think taking over others people’s land and buildings is wrong. Damaging or destroying other people’s buildings and keeping people captive, denying them food and medical care is wrong.
- Comment on Nypd storms Columbia 2 months ago:
It is certainly a sign of moral and cognitive backwardness in this nation that to speak out against the systematic murder of civilian noncombatants is to be called pro-hamas.
To protest the killing of over 13,000 innocent children is to be reviled, called a criminal, and to risk arrest.
Isn’t it also backwards that the conservative, who always seems to be on the lookout for government tyrrany, should call for the arrest of those who speak out against their own government supplying bombs that are to be dropped on innocent children.
- Comment on How Argentina's inflation fight made the peso the strongest currency in the world 2 months ago:
Great! The bankers are doing well. However, people with jobs are still showing up at community kitchens. The community kitchens that also got their funding cut.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 months ago:
Now you hold onro your biscuits, mister. Are you suggesting that basic human necessities, things that some might consider human rights, shouldn’t be turned into commodities?