Thousands injured, several dead after pagers explode across Lebanon: Health officials

Invisible Fan · Sep 19, 2024

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I understand your position, but I don’t agree with it. The Middle East has many different factions and many different attitudes.

I do not support radical Islam or even Islam for that matter. However, a lot of the political positions taken by the US and Israel have led to the growth of radical Islam.

I understand your views are sincere, and there are others that agree with you. Based on my personal experiences in the region, my relationships with Arabs and my research and life experiences - I have concluded that US involvement has only increased Islamic extremism.

Israel can worry about themselves. The USA has already gone well beyond what is reasonable.

We don’t need to be creating anymore power vacuums in that region of the world.
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We've become more energy independent under Obama with fracking.

There public reason for still being there has changed since the 90s

It's now for our allies to get cheap energy and make sure that region isn't a choke point for a country like China or Russia

The whole mega rich sheiks raining money to the highest bidder remains unchanged though... It's been like that since ME investment and weapons purchases poured into the US and western Europe during the 80s and helped break 70s stagflation. Electric cars and renewables won't change that anytime soon.

Deckard · Oct 4, 2024

NBC's Richard Engel with some excellent reporting from the very ancient City of Tyre. This isn't the first time it's been in the process of being destroyed by a foreign power. In this case, by Israel.

AroundTheWorld · Oct 4, 2024

Israel is defending itself. Old leftist Jew hater @Deckard trying to paint Israel and its elected leader as the villain.

tinman · Oct 4, 2024

AroundTheWorld said: ↑

Israel is defending itself. Old leftist Jew hater @Deckard trying to paint Israel and its elected leader as the villain.
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He hates Dave Chappelle more than he does Netanyahu

JK Rowling and Chappelle are making mass suffering because of Harry Potter and Chapelle jokes

Deckard said: ↑

You should actually read that column, tinman, even if it's from the New York Post, which loves sensationalism. The quote below is on target. Trans people suffer from bigotry and violence everyday. The irony of Chappelle defending the bigoted opinions of J.K. Rowling, when as a Black man, he knows all too well the consequences of bigotry, hasn't been lost on those of the LGBTQ+ community. I admire the novels Rowling has written, just as I admire the science fiction of Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, yet ardently disagree with his politics, but Rowling's opinion about the Trans community amounts to excrement.

In “The Closer,” Chappelle declares that he’s joining Rowling in “Team TERF!” (the acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist), and conflated rapper DaBaby’s homophobic statements at a show over the summer with systemic racism.

“In our country, you can shoot and kill a [N-word] — but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings,” Chappelle says onstage, referencing a 2018 shooting incident involving the rapper at a Walmart in North Carolina. The 19-year-old victim later died.

The brewing backlash is ample — but perhaps most shocking is the reaction from one of Netflix’s own: Jaclyn Moore, executive producer and showrunner of the streaming giant’s “Dear White People.”

Moore bluntly declared her self “done” with Netflix.

“I love so many of the people I’ve worked with at Netflix,” she shared on Twitter after detailing her own transition in a passionate post. “Brilliant people and executives who have been collaborative and fought for important art,” Moore continued. “[But] I will not work with them as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.”

‘Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.’

GLAAD, in a statement about ‘The Closer’
Meanwhile, the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group focused on the LGBTQ+ community, goes so far as to prod Netflix to pull “The Closer” from its menu.

“With 2021 on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender people in the United States — the majority of whom are Black transgender people — Netflix should know better,” NBJC executive director David Johns said in a statement to Deadline. “Perpetuating transphobia perpetuates violence. Netflix should immediately pull ‘The Closer’ from its platform and directly apologize to the transgender community.”

LGBTQ+ advocacy leaders at GLAAD also called out the acclaimed comic’s pattern of degrading jokes, declaring: “Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.”

https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/critics-blast-dave-chappelle-netflix-for-ridiculing-trans-people/
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