i hate that you’re right

tl;dr - none of the rumors about her imprisonment were overblown. she and the other activists were literally tortured: abused, beaten, dehumanized, starved of food and water, made to sleep in bug-infested cells, forced to sleep in the cold and stand all day in the heat outdoors while severely dehydrated. Some of her words:

They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.

It was mockery, rough handling, and everything was filmed. Everything they do is extremely violent. People’s medications were thrown into the trash can in front of their eyes. Heart medication, cancer medication, insulin.

What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.

The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that.

because everyone hates Trump more than they care about who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Was that not obvious? All part of the White House strategy of keeping all focus on his ego, so no one pays attention to the concentration camps.

So correct me if I’m wrong, “Prime Minister” in France is roughly equivalent to the US Speaker of the House?

Cartoonishly evil colonizer strikes again

They also have completely ignored the facts of just about everything and inserted their own ideology or fantasy about what’s true and what’s not. What do you think “shouting from the rooftops” is going to accomplish here?

I think it’s more about knowing what to say when this topic inevitably comes up in interpersonal conversation. It’s not about convincing the conservatives, it’s about convincing the centrists on the sidelines saying nothing. I think they are particularly sensitive to the argument that this was a politically-motivated assassination, and so it’s important to remind those people that the right has blatantly lied about this. To remind them about the stats that you mentioned, that most of these shooters are conservative white males.

Seeing it elsewhere online, but let’s highlight it here. The Right has been trying to paint this shooting as a politically-motivated assassination caused by “transgender ideology” or whatever. Now that we have a clear and believable suspect, we know the truth: this was a young, white, cis male who was likely conservative, at least at some point in the recent past (there’s photos of him wearing a Donald Trump costume for a past Halloween). We should be shouting from the rooftops that the Right lied about this, because, more than anything else, we want to tamp down political violence. These specific lies being peddled by the Right are with the aim of escalating political violence.

absolutely sickening. pure evil. if you are an enemy of Israel, or even just a minor annoyance to Israel, they will kill you as soon as they think they can get away with it.

how do they even have money left to spend???

Cool, so we’re finally going to call a genocide a genocide and stop sending aid to Israel? We’re going to finally take on the health insurance industry and pass Medicare for all?

What, no? We’re not doing that, you say? We’ve gotta continue pandering to our rich donors? Okay cool, then STFU about “changing the status quo”, rat man.

just the way the billionaires like it!

If passed, the law would

and that’s where i stopped. why would the AI president sign anything that hampers the “growth” of AI? it sucks, i hate it, and that means republicans support it.

truuuuue. we love to see fascists fucking around and finding out why the Sith had a Rule of Two.

I am always honored to get your extremely thoughtful replies. I think you’re right, it’s kind of a case of the lies catching up to them. They built up the files as this white whale and then Trump punted on the chance to release them. I guess I’m just surprised to see allies like MTG turn on Trump. I kind of wonder what is happening behind the scenes to fuel that break in rank, because so far they have been pretty eager to lockstep with Trump for political gain. Is something happening in the realpolitik space that we don’t yet know about?

Wild to see literally anything cause his base to lose faith in him. He’s done every morally reprehensible thing imaginable, but this is what gets them foaming at the mouth? Dude was bragging about being a rapist before he was even president for a single second, and his associations with Epstein have been well-documented for years, but now this is a bridge too far? I guess we all have to draw a line somewhere, but man…Trump’s refusal to disclose feels like just another Tuesday in Trumpland, for anyone who actually follows the news.

We all knew it was coming.

ah, just some momentum that they haven’t found a way to fuck up yet. Gotcha.

seems like an unmitigated positive change, which seems very rare for this administration. Any context i’m missing here?

Do we think this is because of anything other than the fact that last year was a presidential election year? The opinions of the masses are VERY malleable to messages of political campaigns. Less active campaigns = fewer strong opinions about wedge issues.

damn, good to know. strange for someone to post what they posted, defend biased sources, and then come here and complain about “corporate news outlets will never be trustworthy”?