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The hope would be that it would turn viral and covered by news voluntarily, but yeah it’s a gamble and I won’t pretend to know marketing.

Would be pretty good tradition if campaigns or advertisers competed to donate the most to charities for the superbowl. Would be pretty low-hanging fruit for a campaign.

Campaign advisor: “we’ve got 7 mil to spend on ad for superbowl”

Biden: “give it all to charity”

News reports politician giving all money to good cause instead of ad. Average Joe goes, “wow that’s actually kind of cool. A politician putting money to use!”

Win-win.

Here’s a fascinating piece of what appears to be censorship or extremely selective transcribing from transcripts of yesterday’s press briefings. You won’t find this in the transcript of C-SPAN, or the WhiteHouse.gov transcript.

During the White House press briefing yesterday, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby remarked the following — note that’s in brackets was cut from the transcript:

REPORTER: THESE ARE VERBAL URGINGS, NOT COMMITMENTS.

MR. KIRBY: [I KNOW, YOU WANT US TO HANG SOME SORT OF CONDITION OVER THEIR NECK] WHAT I AM TELLING YOU IS WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE ISRAELIS TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE AS PRECISE AS THEY CAN BE AND MORE AID IS GETTING IN AND WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE THAT APPROACH.

Yes, verbal conditions would be excellent. He claims the weapons are for defense, but they are clearly being used for disastrous offensive effect to civilians.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?534613-1/white-house-daily-briefing

Starts around 15:15.

I just want a non-battery solution for solar. I’m sitting on panels I got a good price for but inverter shopping is kind of a nightmare.

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Yep. Israel will just investigate themselves and say whoopsies but the message couldn’t have been more clear.

They’re fucking evil.

Intentional or blatantly incompetent, it’s quite clear that Israel is using the same playbook as Putin when he strikes civilians in Ukraine.

I generally agree with you here; though as a caveat if I understand right, Hamas changed their charter to accept the the 1967 borders two-state solution as of 2017, suggesting a willingness to coexist.

Whether that’s in good faith or not I don’t know.

I completely agree. I understand why radicalization occurs within Palestine, but this attack does not advance the goals of Palestine in any way but in fact exacerbates their already-dismal conditions tenfold. To me, I feel that Israel has nearly all of the agency to actually change the paradigm, but of course won’t. Meanwhile Palestinians are pretty much voiceless on the world-stage and so “acting out” is the only way they can get attention. It’s a horrible state of affairs that can only resolve by some miracle of a true leader presenting themselves within both camps and seeking to truly turn the page.

The new memo said, in part, “Players shall not be put in the position of having to demonstrate (or where they may be appearing to demonstrate) personal support for any Special Initiatives. A factor that may be considered in this regard includes, for example, whether a Player (or Players) is required to be in close proximity to any groups or individuals visibly or otherwise clearly associated with such Special Initiative(s).”

Wait so their excuse is to protect the bigots who don’t want to participate, so their solution is to ban it all…? What?

Yeah being the 99th percentile makes you pretty darn good, but it’s really the top 1/10th if not 100th of 1 percent that competition for the “best” begins.

Nope. However I think it’s important to recognize that desperation breeds radicalization. And Israel creates fertile ground for this.

Proportionally speaking, at least people are publicly talking about how shitty Israel is for now, which is better than before since nobody cared about the many dead Palestine civilians over the years. In that sense, the PA get to actually have a conversation in the media while Hamas can be the fall guy.

Reddit worldnews has had a live thread about Russian invasion of Ukraine since February last year. They didn’t have one for the Israeli occupation.

He always has something dumb to say. Every excuse will be thrown out. If it happened fast, he’d say it’s a witchhunt just the same and they rushed.

I mean, so did McCarthy.

I find it a bit absurd how quickly Republicans like McCarthy have stumbled over themselves to basically write a blank check to Israel while simultaneously playing hardball with Ukraine who arguably is fighting the more “just” war.

Kindly explain how this is whataboutism.

That’s neat conjecture and botherism and all, but I’m citing facts. You’re just speculating.