Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@yodaladywhooo @randahl well, it's war, whether its terrorists or a state (or both, I guess, like this one?). Yes this pretty much happens every time.

@sandorspruit @randahl @JorisMeys probably way more tons of explosives but fewer civilian casualties.

@randahl International aid to Palestine is typically $1B / year, right? give or take? US and European Commission give most of that I think. I expect that will continue.

Hopefully it can be used to fix infrastructure instead of attacking Israeli civilians going forward, that would be nice.

"This is not the aftermath... " Randahl it sounds like you had an idea of how IDF could have wiped out Hamas (which obviously needed to happen) without as many civilian casualties. I've never heard of such a plan; while it's maybe a bit late care to articulate it?

@Amoshias @georgetakei (Not that George cares about any of this nuance, he just compared someone getting deported to Ann Frank; he (or whoever is running is socials) is a little detached.)

@badrihippo @jwz Thanks, but that was not the part that was confusing me :)

@Amoshias @georgetakei Wouldn't it also matter that the people in question haven't been convicted yet? Or that the person doesn't know if they've been convicted?

@QasimRashid @Stoneycase That doesn't really answer the question, that's a different question.

@jwz I hate airshows as much as the next guy but I have no idea what this cartoon is trying to tell me, if anything.

@mcnado "his guys"? https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/trump-campaign-press-release-fact-joe-bidens-anti-vaccine-rhetoric-anti-science-and

@llewelly @Teri_Kanefield I feel like it's making a comeback – liberal ideals vs. the excess of the identarian left or right; is it just me?

@kritischelezer @IndyRichard I bet you're a lot of fun at parties.

@michaelgemar @cstross There's a ~republican voter data/analysis platform called "Numinar". They didn't even spell it right.

I applied to work there they didn't give me the time of day.😂

@cy @IndyRichard Maybe. It gets shit done, though.

@IndyRichard "private sector starting looting the public sector" – I have no idea what that means. 😂

@sstrader @Dolphinchaz yeah I think the posters here saying it might be AI generated might be right. It does feel like something he might say, though, so in that sense it doesn't matter much.

Great way to get normies to ignore you, I guess.

@OldFartPhil @radleybalko.bsky.social you're right in that they're wrong about that for completely different reasons.

@Flisty @Remittancegirl @Nonya_Bidniss sometimes the point is more subtle than that. Like: maybe it's antisemitic to hold Israel to a different standard than any other country wrt how it is allowed to defend itself.

@radleybalko.bsky.social yeah the idea that "globalist" is a codeword for Jews is so silly. ADL jumped the shark awhile back.

@gerbrand @QasimRashid that or maybe normal people in the Democratic party who aren't on the extreme fringe.

@blogdiva I totally agree that the "the easy way or the hard way" thing was super shady and I seriously hope we find a new fcc chair ASAP.

But: this Mon Mothma speech is about misinformation, and it feels like the main problem with Kimmel's thing is that he was so spectacularly wrong about the facts.