No shame there’s a lot of good candidates honestly and Shai would be my (very close) 2nd pick!
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An American was just shot in the West Bank. The American press can't be bothered.
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An American was just shot in the West Bank. The American press can't be bothered.
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After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting
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After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting
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MVP: Luka
DPOY: Wemby
MIP: Wemby (feels weird to say given he was ROY and 2nd in DPOY but think he gets it)
COTY: Dagneault (Thunder Coach) Repeat
Darkhorse Candidate: Pop - if Spurs make playoffs I could see him getting it if no other candidate stands out. Partially due to legacy
6MOY: Malik Monk (has anyone won this b2b? kinda basing it off that)
WCF Winner: Nuggets
ECF Winner: Celtics
Champion: Nuggets (Source: Copium)
I think you’re likely right on them losing KCP though, they need to hit on most of:
- Braun stepping up a level consistently
- MPJ to improve more, I give him a bit of a pass on the cold shooting this year given the situations with his brothers
- Watson developing some offense so he’s more playable
- Westbrook sticking to his role and not trying to do too much
- One of the young guys to step up and be solid for some bench minutes
I could see 1 or 2 of these happening but they need like 3-4 to win along with Murray playing like their winning season since the margin of error is so slim without KCP and how good the Celtics are.
Thankfully I think you’ll just need to wait 1 more year since I think he gets traded next offseason since the Jazz are rebuilding so his timeline doesn’t line up.
It definitely would be to a team that’s at the very least a play in team trying to make a more solid push since any other rebuilding teams wouldn’t give up the assets.
Never said I don’t believe that’s Hamas goal, what I’m saying is it’s largely irrelevant when Israel has been running an apartheid state and killing Palestinians decades before Hamas was even a thing.
Hamas wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Israel’s decades of cruel actions and more recently allowing of funding.
Think you need to ask why Israel allowed direct funding of Hamas with the clear objective of preventing a Palestinian state. Since like you pointed out they are an extremist organization that won’t help with long term peace in the area. That’s not “anti-semetic” propaganda that was literally from the Times of Israel.
Trying to deflect criticism of Israel as support for Hamas is bs. No US politician that’s spoken out against Israel or myself in any comment here has ever said Hamas “should be in charge” or “Hamas is a shining example” of what we want in the region. Stopping Israel’s genocide doesn’t mean the end goal is Hamas in charge.
We want a unified state where all citizens are treated fairly and equally. Israel has taken clear actions to prevent that.
Lol you're clearly just going to continue to believe Israel's propaganda that it uses to justify an ongoing Apartheid state and genocide. I actually go out and organize in my community and am extensively read up on this subject but instead of countering any of my last points you want to tap out and try to use some cliche's to end the conversation.
What does any of that have to do with Israel’s genocide? No US politician is “Pro-Hamas” they’re at best against the funding and supplying of weapons to Israel due to the ongoing genocide.
Hamas was elected nearly 20 years ago at this point and there hasn’t been one since due to Israel’s occupation. Nearly half of Gazas population is children so wouldn’t have even been alive during that election. How are any of them responsible for Hamas actions?
When I say history didn’t start on Oct 7th I’m saying that this has been happening since the Nakba well before Hamas. Decades of apartheid and genocide are going to bread anger against the purpetrators. Especially when peaceful protests have been met with violance by Israel.
Any support Hamas has is largely because it’s one of the few organizations able to fight against Israel since Israel has been helping prop up Hamas.
The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
So Israel, after running an apartheid state for decades and trying to slowly wipe out the Palestinian people, started to fund Hamas to prevent a Palestinian state from forming because as you clearly pointed out Hamas is an extremist group it blew up in their faces but that’s somehow the fault of the innocent children?
Maybe Israel should have been pushing for a unified state that guaranteed rights to all groups.
What genocide is happening due to Hamas?
Last I checked it’s Israel that has been occupying both the West Bank and Gaza for decades.
It’s Israel that’s been declared by the ICC to be committing acts of genocide.
Israel is the one that’s running an apartheid state for decades.
History did not start on Oct 7th.
Cori Bush was one of only six Democrats who partnered with 200 Republicans to vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Anyone who has driven in St. Louis lately understands , and how desperately we needed that investment.
IIRC this was because they split the bill with the social programs part that was originally all supposed to be 1 package. She was originally for the combined package.
Nope, not for Cori Bush, who’s repeatedly voted against defense spending.
Is this supposed to be bad…?
Despite the fact that Defund the Police was never effective, is wildly unpopular , and is overwhelmingly unpopular with Black voters, Cori Bush stubbornly continues to support the cause. She did in 2022, and she’s not backing away in 2024.
But here’s the kicker: Bush spends more on private security than just about any other member of Congress, having spent close to $500,000 on private security in the 2022 cycle. Just to be clear, this is highly aberrant. Combined, the rest of Missouri’s House delegation has spent a grand total of $0 on private security.
Without getting into a whole separate thing on defund the police I will say the spending is eye raising, she has said:
“I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do,” she said.
I would agree the spending is a bit much but I don’t know the number of threats either. He does later mention she employed her now husband as security as well which is being investigated.
With a national platform, she fails to take even basic steps to help St. Louisans
This whole section feels like it’s reaching. Like maybe she felt the best route was to push to give her constituents more time? Why aren’t other state reps also getting heat for the unused funds?
To a fault, Cori Bush is uncompromisingly partisan
Like this is meaningless in a vacuum, reaching across the aisle isn’t some automatic good.
Take her “no” vote on sanctions against Russia
There are leftists that believe sanctions primarily hurt the working class of countries and not the people in power and so are against them. They haven’t removed Putin from power so far and trying to sanction a third of the countries in the world also has other downsides.
US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen said she is concerned about the strength of the US dollar going forwards, after widespread implementation of sanctions by the country has pushed other financial institutions to seek trades in other currencies.
Overall not a lot in there outside of the security spending/investigation which I’ll agree should be looked at.
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Also before any tries to frame voting No on H.R.6679 as problematic look at the actual bill:
The bill also expands an existing admissions bar against officers, representatives, and spokespersons of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Under this bill, all PLO members are barred from admission into the United States.
Per Wikipedia:
the PLO recognized Israeli sovereignty with the Oslo I Accord, and now only seeks Arab statehood in the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) that have been militarily occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.
It’s almost as if money has a huge influence on elections and allowing legal bribery of politicians and judges probably isn’t the best route to improving conditions for disadvantaged members in any society.
And I don’t see how pushing to continue to fund and supply their genocide is “pro-Palestinian”.
Yeah AIPAC is trying to send a message with these huge spending amounts, speaking out against Zionism and Israel’s genocide gets you removed.
Not sure how this country peacefully fixes its many issues when bribery of politicians and judges is completely legal.
In place of the Chromecast, the company will offer the newly announced $99.99 Google TV Streamer, which launches on September 24th. The set-top box comes with some significant spec bumps over the Chromecast with Google TV, such as a processor that’s 22 percent faster, along with Thread and Matter integration.
Replacing it with something 3x as much that more or less does the same thing.
I’ve heard this story a few times and supposedly it happened over a weekend but yeah either the guy was a very good card counter and played a ton or recklessly bet it on roulette and got insanely lucky if this is true.