I’m not talking about the “Steele Dossier”, which was only ever a document of what people said about Donald Trump in Russia, not an attestation of any fact except that people had said that to the interviewer. Rumors. Of course, many rumors lack a basis in truth.

But “Russiagate” - the proposition that the Donald Trump campaign for the Presidency in 2016 worked with agents of Russian intelligence services - was never debunked, it was confirmed, including by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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We see this happening in US as well where democrats still believe in the whole Russiagate conspiracy theory despite it having been thoroughly debunked at this point

It literally was never debunked? The Trump campaign straight-up sent internal polling data to agents of the Russian intelligence service, who then released Hillary’s emails at the exact time necessary to derail media coverage of a major Trump scandal.

They were working together. Everybody knows they were. The Trump campaign openly admitted to it. The only thing that was “debunked” was “Russiagate was debunked.”

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Israel isn’t, though. Their prosecution of the war in Gaza is both entirely necessary and entirely humane in total contrast to their enemies.

"But what about - " yup, that’s humane. The IDF does that, rather than rape a 13-year-old child with a knife between her legs and gut her from root to stem. The IDF does that, rather than rape a festivalgoer and blow her brains out with a dick still in her.

"But what about - " yup, that’s necessary. The IDF does that, rather than execute unarmed homemakers and grandmothers in front of their own children, and livestream it to her Facebook page, all apparently to get 150 of their worst goatfuckers out of an Israeli pokey.

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Palestine doesn’t want the land. They want the Jews to be dead.

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I think if you want to understand racism, you can’t understand it as the failure to have certain pieces of knowledge. Racists generally aren’t unaware that people experience suffering when they’re held down or held back from their appropriate station in life.

What racists generally believe, if you’re trying to be maximally charitable to the views of racists (ugh), is that human suffering also comes from pushing people into societal roles that are above their station. The individual so pushed suffers, and society suffers for having “the wrong people” in important roles. For instance, that’s the view that held that slavery for Black Americans was good for them.

I think a racist in that strain would play the Detroit game and not be convinced, since the game likely doesn’t address that position at all.

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Israel should have access to anything they want to eliminate their enemies, because they’re our ally.

Diplomacy is literally rewarding your allies and punishing your enemies.