i disagree that what we’re seeing is some special internet-poisoned discourse. it’s basic american bloodlust.

i wasn’t implying that you didn’t! this is just more of the same. not a special internet thing. we didn’t have mass social media back then but if we did, it’d probably sound very similar

my point is that this isn’t a new phenomenon, it didn’t come from 4chan, it massively predates it. NOT that it’s ok or cool. please

am i the only one who remembered when normal everyday conversations in america were about turning the middle east into glass and vivid descriptions of how they’d torture alqaeda and general approval of our inhuman island prison camps

Someone who would defend war crimes for any cause is mostly just telling on themselves that they would celebrate the brutal and horrific murder of you, your immediate family, and any and all members of your community, if they could find a cause to rationalize it to themselves

you fools. you absolute fools. you thought mccarthy’s *first* fifteen attempts at speaker of the house were embarrassing. you have no idea how much more embarrassing this can get.

McCarthy loyalists vow to draw out painful speakership battle

House Republicans' state of emotional limbo is particularly problematic, since they'd otherwise welcome the chance to move quickly on aiding Israel.

Read this story about a Texas woman forced to give birth to twins doomed to die outside the womb and ask if a single anti-abortion politician will ever see the gates of heaven

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Elon Musk’s vision for free speech on X tested by Israel-Hamas war misinformation

Platform’s owner contends with a wave of false or misleading content that has alarmed EU officials and advertisers

This reminds me of the woman who called absolutely everything racism except her job prosecuting children in Louisiana.

I know some people say that questioning details about horrific stories is a way of downplaying or denying the horror, but it’s really not: wartime propaganda is corrosive and insidious and a tool for manipulation, and truth is worth caring about even in the face of utter tragedy.