One is Martin, and the other is Charlie.
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Which one is Emilio? We could use some Repo Man right now.
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Vesey first shared a portion of a video on Twitter that showed him being consistently harassed by protesters yelling, “You shouldn’t be here,” and “You are the enemy of the people.”
I hear the echo.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437610-trump-calls-press-the-enemy-of-the-people
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Conservatives are distracting from their failures by anti choice - anti LGBT legislation. That they won’t let anyone look at.
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Posted to Twitter by the US ambassador to the OSCE:
Screenshot in case of deletion:
Uncropped photo:
And what was actually happening in Crimea in May 1944:
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Doesn’t mean it’s cool to crop a picture of the Holocaust and claim it’s something else. It’s rather the opposite of cool.
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I’m not saying it is. And maybe I’m misinterpreting Wanderfound’s post, but I thought they were suggesting the rest of the tweet was a lie because the Ambassador was trying to pass off a picture of the Holocaust as one of the Tartar deportation.
Apologies if I read that wrong.
ETA: Thinking about it, that seems likely and Wanderfound was probably more getting at “and this is why it’s particularly bad the Ambassador was misrepresenting a picture of the Holocaust in this case.”
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Knowing @Wanderfound, you’ve got that right.
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To clarify:
Yes, the Crimean Tatars were subjected to mass relocation, justified by Stalin on the basis that some Crimean Tatars had been Nazi collaborators. It was collective punishment, and large numbers of the people deported were not in fact guilty of the crime that they were being punished for. Stalin was a ruthless bastard and rarely gave a shit about individual injustice.
But, as I’ve been saying here in assorted threads for a few years: that is how propaganda works. Very rarely is propaganda invented from whole cloth; it is instead based on selection and emphasis, distorting the truth for manipulative purposes. The most effective lies are always built around a core of truth.
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Stalin was a ruthless bastard who created a great deal of suffering and injustice.
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Misleading attempts to equate the crimes of Stalin with the crimes of Hitler have been a constant feature of US and neo-Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda ever since WWII.
This particular example was more blatant than most, due to the typical incompetence of Trumpian flunkies, and rendered exceptionally offensive due to the way in which it misuses the suffering of the victims of Nazism.
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Well, quite. Furthermore, from a utilitarian perspective, releasing him from prison shows a remarkable lack of compassion to everyone else.
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Well, yes, predictably. After all, he was sentenced for the most heinous crime known to man - trying to steal money from rich people.
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Things I did not know.
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Meh, maybe. Koch and Mercer claimed the same, but are still backing Trump.
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He knows which side his bread is buttered on. And that’s all that matters to him.
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“And guess what, after November 3rd, coronavirus will magically all of the sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen,” he predicted.
Nurture, nature, or the lead paint on his crib?
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How sad is it that we can immediately tell which party each of these politicians belongs to?
In a country as large and powerful as the States, to have only two major parties to begin with makes no sense, but to have one of them be unequivocally evil in every way – and everyone knows it – is beyond belief. And yet, here we are.
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