Can you explain more?
Guys? The planet is dying. It’s okay if they didn’t feel like finding someone in Shizuoka who wants to go up their helicopter and take a picture of it right now. They’re still allowed to write the article about it.
The secret service does, as do security for a lot of world leaders.
A huge part of the rise of fascism in Germany was Hitler's skillful use of media.
Most people got their news from papers, and formed opinions by talking with other people in person, and there was a robust culture attuned to those methods of information which enabled people to form a clear picture of the world, so that their picture was roughly in the neighborhood of reality. Hitler was able to manipulate the new mass media of radio so that he could distort and manipulate people into believing crazy things, because they still had the set of interpretations that were appropriate for an older set of media that wasn't subject to the same type of skillful manipulation. It was really effective. It was a big part of what led a fairly democratic state to freely choose to elect a person who literally went on to kill millions, on purpose, when anyone who had a clear picture of reality would have been able to see it coming a mile away.
I will NEVER vote for Kamala Harris, because genocide is a red line for me, and she's personally responsible for Gaza.
Politics is just too stressful, I try to avoid it.
I really think Jill Stein has some great things to say, I think it's a shame that the duopoly is trying so hard to keep her down when she's the only one who can really move things forward. I think I'm going to vote for her.
Voting doesn't matter. If you really want progress, you definitely shouldn't vote. I'm not going to. Why would you, even?
Whoops, sorry about that, I had some sort of fit at the keyboard. Anyway what was I saying?
A: Defines Kamala Harris purely in terms of the war Netanyahu started, from an American client state for the last 40 years, which Biden then supported.
B: Points out that Democrats are hugely supportive of Harris, although her failure to break away from all of that and condemn the war in Gaza is a huge black mark, yes.
A: Defines Harris purely in terms of the war et cetera, but this time adding "I'm telling you."
Sterling.
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They’re not allowed to be collaborating with people who work for certain Russian companies. It’s not a question of security, it’s a question of US law requiring US entities to punish through non-cooperation certain companies that are assisting in the war effort or whatever.
It might or might not be fair, but it isn’t up to the kernel developers, it’s a legal requirement for them.
Okay, so you're okay with genocide in Xinjiang, just not in Gaza. And your strategy for solving the genocide in Gaza is to let someone come into power who's even more pro-genocide that the tepid pro-genocide stance of the current Democrats. Dooming millions of innocent people who can't fight back to a catastrophe beyond even their present catastrophe.
So you're okay with certain genocides. And you don't want strategies that will avoid a huge escalation of the existing genocide in Gaza.
It honestly doesn't sound like you're very anti-genocide.
I don't want to continue this conversation. You are lying.
Read the letter. It says more eloquently than I could, what is the massive difference between "everyday Palestinians demanding the end of genocide [weapons for which are supplied by] the Biden-Harris administration," which of course makes perfect sense and is something I wholeheartedly support, after the important edit I've made on your behalf, versus everyday Palestinians who are okay with the utter disaster even beyond the present unspeakable disaster, that would be Trump coming to power.
I looked up some polls, I looked up who are some of the people on this list and their background. You're wrong, and lying. I don't even need to speak on it, because as a non-Palestinian I don't have the authority on it that the people who already wrote a letter for you do. It's already been said.
If you want to keep talking to me, let's talk about: Is genocide in Xinjiang a red line?
Question: Is genocide in Xinjiang a red line for you?
I already know what your answer's going to be, I'm just asking to highlight what your real goal here is.
The names are listed. Most are Palestinian.
I’m glad you feel empowered to judge who are the real Palestinian voices, who gets to speak, and who’s a “largely self-interested climber” who feels that talking about the genocide in Gaza and playing up their Palestinian heritage is a really good way to get ahead in American politics. Without you to give me guidance, I might have fallen into taking this thing at face value.
Can you tell me more about some of these individual self-interested climbers? Some that you know, who and why specifically you already know that they’re not worth listening to? I’m sure you wouldn’t accuse someone of selling out their own country in the middle of a genocide just because of some vague notions (“you will recognize the type” and so on.) You clearly have some specific reason you can identify these specific people as being dishonest, when they sign this letter. Right?
Congratulations for running newspapers.
I think the world at large has figured out that it's wrong. 200,000 people have cancelled their WaPo subscriptions so far, and some people have written some pretty in-depth essays about exactly why it is such a huge problem:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/anticipatory-obedience-newspapers-endorsement-refusal
https://www.cjr.org/political_press/the-washington-post-opinion-editor-approved-a-harris-endorsement-a-week-later-the-papers-publisher-killed-it.php
The CJR's previous piece about anticipatory obedience also, as The Guardian notes, looks highly prescient now:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anticipatory-obedience-bassin-potter-scheppele-orban-trump-hungary-media-punish.php
There have also been some pieces about how to try to keep good media alive now that conditions are becoming hostile to it:
https://www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-legal-department/
Glad to have you in the conversation, I guess. Yes, it's not normal, it's very bad.