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@MarkKoekkelkor1 @websterkaroon Your indifference to/support for awful conditions for Iranians in Iran blinds you. Those result directly from IRI/IRGC incompetence wrt Iran’s economy & pervasive kleptocracy, exacerbated by the war & larger conflict. Jan anger didn’t vanish when the war started/will return 100x.

@infinite_jaz That wasn’t the question he was asked. It was: do you support Hamas’ right to attack IDF soldiers, not in self-defense/in response to a specific provocation, but as generalized resistance to occupation. Many good reasons to demand better than Hamas who also oppresses Palestinians

@lionel_trolling This was always the endgame of 3+ decades of governance by boomer narcissists who have dominated/controlled the levers of power in both parties since the 92 and 94 elections.

@severino205 @MattBruenig @Noahpinion Mamdani’s dad comes to Columbia because of Said 100% distinct from anti-war 60s. Eg Joseph Massad’s proud, direct connection to Said embodies this distinct foreign take described as thirdworldist or anti-imperialist & is a key figure spurring the Columbia campus protests in 23-24

@johnsplaining @AliceFromQueens @Noahpinion Overlooking Said’s role in this shift is silly. U.S. academia of the 70s/80s was useless re transferring any momentum from Vietnam into activism wrt western hemisphere U.S anti-communist imperialism, but Saidism founded post-colonialism in academia ie he wrote the book literally.

@AliceFromQueens @Noahpinion Saidism’s role in post-colonialism was imported & has clear, direct lineage to/influence on the 2026 U.S. Left, as opposed to anti-war activists of the 60s who famously became Third Way Dems by the 90s. OPEC and the first 70s oil crisis was the pivot to centering oil & Israel.

@Noahpinion Jordan and Lebron* ftfy

@nahid8 @nybooks The most salient fact about Iran in 2026, even more than the idiotic war, is the IRI regime massacring several thousand unarmed protesters & the Western Left immediately, loudly jumped to the regime’s defense. Addressing that abomination is more important than dunking on Iran Int

@pati_marins64 This specific weapons sale by China to Iran was allegedly a core element of Bibi’s case for the war to Trump in the Oval Office in February. Rubio said this flat out within the first ~72 hours in early March: reuters.com/world/china/ir…

@mattyglesias @daveweigel @semaforben Also seemed to be somewhat racist and had fucked up ideas about gender and consent that were relatively obvious prior to two weeks ago.

@TVietor08 I’d genuinely respect if you & @brhodes would substantively address this argument & critics who argue that Obama Iran policy culminating in the JCPOA laid the groundwork for these circumstances (ie Reformists/NIACists played you) but not holding my breath. x.com/marionawfal/st…

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Anduril's founder, Palmer Luckey, argues the U.S. had no choice but to take action in Iran: "China provided Iran with manufacturing equipment and expertise that caused a steep curve upwards in their ballistic missile production capacity. If you allowed them to continue for

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@Alonso_GD Is it resisting oppression to shoot civilians because you insist on controlling access to food provided by int’l relief orgs in the midst of famine that is causing mass death? “Executions, kneecapping, bone breaking & beatings” are resisting oppression? news.un.org/en/story/2026/…

@havivrettiggur The (not as clever as Scahill thinks it is) trick in his framing is construing Hamas as an entity subject to international laws of war, implying they’re constrained by international law. Khanna should’ve called that out more explicitly but he’s bad at these antagonistic exchanges

@JillFilipovic It’s almost as if the entire point of being an outspoken leftist for them is expressing their Acute Main Character Syndrome ie the point was never changing anything in Gaza/the West Bank, it was always all about cultivating their sense of self-righteous, smug superiority. Almost.

@TVietor08 That false equivalence as applied to the IRGC’s huge build up of BMs & drones (which was ongoing through all 8 years of Obama plus Trump 1.0 & Biden) explains a lot about why the Obama administration’s Iran policy was a huge failure. Reformists’ goal was scamming you & it worked.

@kylascan Bullshit framing. Retirees banking on substantial home value appreciation to fund their retirements aren’t equally sympathetic v young & increasingly middle aged people shut out of homeownership. Building more housing is objectively good for schools, city services, employers etc.

@NateSilver538 The way forward for center-lefts is to be the vanguard of Biden-bashing as an entry point to claim space as the most anti-gerontocracy faction then turn it against Bernie & call out DSAs for their hypocrisy. Also useful because it’s a bipartisan pox on both houses via Trump/Mitch

@aramithek Nope. His dad was the main proponent of that theory sucking up to the Nazis (he correctly distrusted both UK & Russia). By the 60s MRP’s take was Iran was superior to Europe & would own them in the 21st century which would’ve happened (see eg UAE today) but for sociopath mullahs.

@brian_callaci Literally exactly correct, except knowing his unbridled ambition there’s a decent chance he would’ve found his way into the Trump 2.0 DOJ and spent the last 18 months lying his ass of to federal judges with the hope that Trump notices and rewards him.

@PhilWMagness “Directly” is silly but yeah this is an important element of context that needs to be mentioned much more often, and it all took place after the European colonial powers had largely abolished slavery. Black Dems in the 2028 primaries need to wear this line out.