The Political Thread

[Comrade Khan]

It's insanely frustrating tbh, there's people out there who cannot tell the difference between modern-day Zionism, which at this point is just a word for the Jewish Nationalist Movement, and being Pro-Israeli Existence.

You can be for the existence of Israel as a nation, but be against the Nationalist Government.

One doesn't preclude you from both.

yes, just the same as you can say Hamas are terrorist scumbags and also not want Palestinians to get bombed into not existing anymore

 

[ServantTwilight]

So when are the US gonna get off their fat asses?

When's Canada?

 

[Comrade Khan]

When's Canada?

Dude we have canoes and poutine

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Yeah like Canada's got the military capability to take Russia on its own.

 

[Chris]

Archdiocese of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $880 Million to Settle Sex Abuse Claims

The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.

www.nytimes.com

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest archdiocese, has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children. The settlement, which experts said was the highest single payout by an archdiocese, brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.

The settlement was announced on Wednesday in a joint statement by lawyers for the plaintiffs and the archdiocese.

 

[Chris]

Panel Calls for Secret Service Overhaul in Report on Trump Shooting Attempt

The findings of a review of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump in July are stark but familiar, underscoring the challenge of overhauling the agency.

www.nytimes.com

An independent panel reviewing the failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in July called on the Secret Service to replace its leadership with people from the private sector and focus almost exclusively on its protective mission.

 

[Chris]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/17/israel-iran-lebanon-war-news-gaza-hamas/

The Israeli military said Wednesday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar may have been among those killed in a recent operation in the Gaza Strip. “At this stage, the identity of the terrorists cannot be confirmed,” the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli air force cautioned in a joint statement. Separately, Israel launched strikes on Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, the mayor a local Lebanese official said, after the Israeli military issued building-specific evacuation warnings for residents in the Hezbollah stronghold for the first time since hostilities escalated last month.

 

[Sabretooth]

That would be amazing news. This guy is the top piece of shit of that organization.

 

[Comrade Khan]

cut off one head 3 more pop up tbh

 

[Sabretooth]

cut off one head 3 more pop up tbh

True but it’s still a big deal considering he’s arguably the mastermind behind Hamas and their extremism.

 

[Comrade Khan]

True but it’s still a big deal considering he’s arguably the mastermind behind Hamas and their extremism.

meh, from my pov it legit always does almost nothing killing the heads of these things. ISIS is still alive and well. So is the Taliban. To me it's a YAY WE KILLED A BADDY and shit keeps going.

If anything it just created a martyr.

We should be capturing and putting these people on trial, murdering them simply emboldens the cause and makes them feel justified.

 

[Chris]

Texas Supreme Court orders last-minute stay of execution for Robert Roberson

The stay came mere hours before Robert Roberson was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.

www.cbsnews.com

The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson late Thursday night, hours before he was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.

Roberson's lawyers and state lawmakers filed a last-second civil appeal with the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night for a stay of execution, which it granted.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

How did it take them a year to kill the Hamas leader, but only a few days for them to kill the terrorist leader in Lebanon? Maybe because Lebanon isn't a nation technically under their control that they wanted carte blanche to commit genocide against? Maybe it's that.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

The curious hunt for the company behind Trump watches | CNN Politics

CNN searched for the maker of the candidate’s new ‘Swiss-made’ timepieces. The search dead-ended in a Wyoming shopping center.

amp.cnn.com

So yeah another scam from Trump but here's the interesting part:



This spokesperson is fucking Russian, who, by the way he answered the question, isn't even in the US.

So yeah, anyone who wants to doubt that Trump is a Russian agent, kiss my ass

 

[Sabretooth]

How did it take them a year to kill the Hamas leader, but only a few days for them to kill the terrorist leader in Lebanon? Maybe because Lebanon isn't a nation technically under their control that they wanted carte blanche to commit genocide against? Maybe it's that.

Well he’s not exactly making himself easy to find