uncle bernard

He is on the "list" and he has been "outed." What "list" are you referring to? Epstein's Black Book? Yes. The recently released court documents from the case? Yes. Accused by a specific witness on the record? Yes. Quoted referring to Epstein as a "terrific guy" who likes women "on the younger side?" Yes. So what list isn't he on? The flight logs? Newsflash, Epstein didn't limit his crimes to his island. He did them all over the place, notably Trump's two haunts, NYC and South Florida. The cognitive dissonance here is INSANE.

You're close here, but the actual reason Trump isn't attacked on Epstein stuff by the Dems is because - for God knows what reason - they aren't willing to cut ties with the Clintons. In general, neither party is willing to push hard on this because major players from both would be implicated. Rich people protecting rich people.

Trump is on the list. We have pictures and videos of them hanging out. What are you talking about? lol

I think he's going to thrive under Gilman. My first introduction to Spratley was actually him working out with Gilman during this video series at Eric Guerrero's club several years ago.

My favorite Elon fact is that he admitted in court, under oath, that this was his twitter burner. A deeply, deeply pathetic individual.

This happened years ago. Why are you bringing it up now? Qanon people being mentally ill isn't exactly breaking news.

And Israel is trying to annihilate Iran. At some point, if you actually care about this stopping, you have to acknowledge Israel's role in this disaster. They didn't accidentally double their control of the land since the partition, which itself was never agreed to by the people who already lived there. Like any country, Israel has its own goals and desires. From its inception, the goal of Zionism is to re-establish Jewish control of the region as possible, including southern Lebanon and western Jordan. As they continue to work towards those goals, the region will increasingly heat up. You can't take land like this without backlash. If the US occupied Ontario, nobody would pretend Canada doesn't have a right to oppose that occupation. That double standard only applies to Palestine.

That's not actually true. But yes, there is a Muslim anti-Semitism problem today that stems from the political situation forced on Palestine in the 1940s. They were essentially punished for Christian Europe's historic anti-semitism and as a result, anti-semitism has grown alongside the violence and land disputes. But it's mostly a modern phenomena and you asked about the video claiming to describe 1500 years of Muslim history and it was bunk. Sorry you didn't like the answer.

And just an overall note because she describes Islam as being particularly anti-Semitic, anti-Semitism is a largely Christian, European phenomena. Obviously, there has been anti-Semitism by Muslims historically, but it pales by comparison in scale and intensity to the anti-Semitism of Christian Europe.

I'll have to do some reading to check on the things I'm not sure about, but the most striking (and disingenuous) part of this is that almost every charge she levels at Islam's history can be equally, if not more so, levelled at the history of Christianity. Systematic persecution of Jews? Check (and far more intense). Religious conversion through military conquest? Check. Oppression of women and minorities? Check. Just on one topic I know she hilariously misrepresents, The Crusades. In the 630s, the Byzantines surrendered Jerusalem to the Muslims after a short siege, ending 500 years of Roman control. The transfer was peaceful. For the first time in hundreds of years, Jews were permitted to return to live in Jerusalem in peace under Muslim control. Muslims and Jews largely lived in peace for the next several hundred years. Prior to the First Crusade, the Seljuk Turks parts of the Holy Land and made pilgrimage more difficult. When the Christians launched the Crusades, persecution of Jews intensified in Europe and Jews in the Holy Land fought alongside Muslims to defend against the Crusaders. When the Christians took Jerusalem, they massacred the city's Muslim and Jews, including famously burning Jews alive in their synagogues. In contrast, when Saladin took the city back 100ish years later, he did not massacre the Christians. Instead, he allowed Christian pilgrims to continue to travel to Jerusalem and showed tolerance towards its Christian inhabitants. However, 50 years later, after 10 years of Christian control secured by a peace treaty, Jerusalem fell once again to a Muslim army and that army sacked the city and massacred 6000 Christians who were promised safe passage. Neither side is guiltless. It was a horrific cycle of violence. I don't have all day to pick apart the rest, but safe to say, anybody who claims to reduce 1500 years of complex history into 15 minutes is full of shit, and I think you probably knew that, which is why you asked. Neither Christianity nor Islam have a pure history. Both histories are filled with violence and oppression alongside incredible advances in art, philosophy, technology, etc...

Did you think my post was supportive of the Biden administration?

Hamas formally accepted a two-state solution maintaining the existence of Israel in 2017 in its official charter. That's a fact you're going to have a hard time getting around, but looking forward to seeing you try.

Why aren't the Arabs ever allowed to defend themselves? Israel was blockading Gaza and occupying the West Bank. They annexed the Golan Heights. All of those are acts of war under international law, the international law *we essentially wrote* post-WWII! But the law doesn't apply to them for some reason. Everybody understands Israel's right to defend itself. Killing 40,000+ people in Gaza by conservative estimates is not defense. That turned into offense a loooong time ago. You seem to think this thing should go tit for tat for all eternity. That's how toddlers think. If it's ever going to end, one side has to stop escalating. The arab states have been far more conciliatory in this aspect for years now. They just came out *again* and said they will have peace in exchange for a Palestinian state. Even Hamas accepts a two state solution. Israel does not.

You can't even keep your logic straight.

Israel's killed far far more arabs than the other way around. You're arguing against demonstrable reality and the only way that's possible is if you don't value arab lives the same as others.

What was wrong with that statement?

The pride of the Philly suburbs

Well yeah, he's trying to force us into going to war with them for this purpose. Good luck with that though. How are you this naive?

https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1841167259391160660\ This is the EXACT definition of "human shields" you all used in Gaza. Will you apply it equally? "Human shields" has become a meaningless term. They called the Lebanese civilians killed or injured in their pager terror attack or their bombings human shields too. Going to the grocery store or simply living in a residential neighborhood does not make you a legit military target, even if militants shop or live there too. It's always been absurd and you all know it.

Praying for the souls in Tel Aviv and wherever the Israeli response will be.

Iran specifically chose not to retaliate in a way that would kill people when Israel struck its embassy. Iran is no angel, but your refusal to accept the obvious fact that Israel has been the escalating party in the last year is sheer stupidity. After 10/7, Israel said it's objective was to rescue the hostages and re-secure its borders. That immediately shifted when Hamas offered to return ALL hostages in exchange for them not invading. The remaining hostages could have been home months ago. Gaza has been levelled. Israel's borders were secured. Hamas accepted the ceasefire deal. But Israel continues to escalate because they see this as an opportunity to annex Gaza, the West Bank, and parts of Lebanon. That's what this is about. And if you actually listen to what they say publicly *in Hebrew*, you'd know all that. They are extremely open and honest about their intentions when not speaking to a Western audience.

For a year, the Biden administration has refused to curb Israeli escalation in the region (let alone the massacre in Gaza). Israel claims it's "de-escalating through escalation," whatever 1984 nonsense that is. We should have stopped them when they did "targeted" air strikes in other sovereign countries. We didn't. We should have stopped them when they carried out terror attacks in Lebanon. We didn't. We should have stopped them when the bombed Beirut and killed hundreds of Lebanese civilians. We didn't. Now the Iranians have said enough and swallowed the bait. Missiles are falling on Tel Aviv - real ones, not glorified fireworks. We will almost assuredly get dragged into a regional conflict to defend Israel, just like Netanyahu wanted. Congratulations to all the geniuses on here who wouldn't hear any criticism of Israel and our policy towards them. You're getting exactly what you asked for, whether you realize it or not.