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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 16m

Then start telling Bernie to retire today. Retiring the person who helped us lose in 2016 is much more important that retiring the person who stood up to Trump.

As for Platner, if the voters think he will represent them better than Mills, he will win the primary. What are you afraid off?

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 22m

Does Bernie, a geriatric 84 year old member of the establishment who spent 35 years in the House and the Senate with a few Post Office naming bills to his credit, needs to retire too?

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 1h

Whether it's your original interpretation or mine, I think the stories like this need to be publicized (maybe with extra clarifications).

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 1h

One could read the reference to Democrats in a more positive way: as that particular voter's understanding that it's Democrats and only Democrats who fight for voters' interest.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 1h

Those poor Arabs, they have no agency - not only had they no choice but to invade the Jewish state the day it declared independence, they couldn't help it but to start attacking their Jewish compatriots who, having accepted the second class citizenship status, lived among them for centuries.

Bye

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 2h

Can you name one free and democratic Arab state where the ethnic and religious minorities (including both atheist and religious Jews) thrive? Just so that Israelis can use that state as a role model.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 2h

Not to mention that more than half of Israel is a desert. Literally, the Negev desert.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 2h

Both Jewish and Arab communities are thriving in 🇮🇱.

Jewish communities did stop to exist in Arab countries. But this has nothing to do with 🇮🇱. The Arab majorities (or their rulers) couldn't accept the existence of one Jewish-majority state & had to ethnically cleanse their own Jewish citizens.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 6h

* The future Palestine will be as Judenrein as every other Arab country is today.
* Israel does not have a constitution.
* Israel is the Jewish state just like Japan is Japanes, Saudi Arabia is Arab, France is French.
* All citizens of Israel have equal right, none are "subjects".
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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 6h

You have reading comprehension problems.
Neither the US nor Israel have ever been an ethnocracy in the modern meaning of the word. They have always been much further from ethnocracy than any Arab country today.

But today they are multi-cultural multi-ethnic democracies.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 10h

Most Israelis are Jews. Half of all Jews in the world are Israelis. Most of the rest support the Jewish right to self-determination.
So you hate Jews.

All Jew haters are despicable but some at least have the courage to wear their convictions on a sleeve. You aren't one of those.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 10h

Good point

(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 10h

But the real demand is: "stop shooting at Israelis from under hospitals, schools, and mosques. Disarm, and return the hostages".
Too bad in your Jew hatred you can't accept facts.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 11h

Most Jews in the current Israel are descendants of the refugees of the ethnic cleansing in the Arab world.

But you don't have to continue with your lies, your anti-semitism is well established.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 11h

The US didn't have equal rights for all in the 60s. To be fair, neither did Israel. Even then they both were more equal than most countries, especially any Arab country. Today, there are equal rights laws in the US & everyone is equal under the law in Israel.
Still not the case in the Arab world.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 11h

We are talking about the 19th and 20th centuries, right?
Regardless, whether you consider Ottoman laws discriminatory or not, Jews immigrated to the area under the laws of the Ottoman empire, they didn't invade.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 11h

"You can me antisemitic for not supporting ethnocracy"

But Israel is a diverse country, as diverse as any Western democracy, more inclusive & diverse than its Arab neighbors, with many ethnic groups, 20% Arab, all having the same rights under the law.

It is your lie that makes you antisemitic.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 11h

The future Israel returned to being a Jewish majority land not due to invasion but due to Jewish immigration to their historic homeland despite discriminatory laws of Ottoman, then British Empire. It was attacked on the day it declared independence & expanded as a result of that defensive war.
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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 12h

Has any one of them called for a primary challenge to Sanders last year?

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 15h

I agree. As a first step, Sanders who is 84, who ran for reelection at 83, and who already filed to run for reelection in 2030 at the young age of 89, should open the path for younger people by resigning today.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 15h

And all that Hamas had to do to stop it was surrender.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 23h

If only we voted in Clinton in 2016 and Harris in 2024 we would be a long way on the path to universal healthcare. Instead we voted in a con man who promised to destroy any and all healthcare.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 23h

Let's stay on topic. And as far as staying on topic, I will take you moving the goalposts as an admission that you lied, that you always knew - the majority of the released Palestinians were not civilians, were not hostages, while every one of Israelis kidnapped on October 7 was a hostage.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 1d

If this happens, it won't be an accident, it will be done, either by Netanyahu, Hamas, or both, with an explicit goal to break the deal.

Of course, we must also understand that this is not peace, it's a lull which may last months or years but will end unless *both* sides decide they must coexist.

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(((woland))) 🇺🇲✡️🇺🇦 @voland66.bsky.social · 1d

Then stop bitching about California actions and help vote the GOP out so that we can pass and enforce countrywide regulations and rejoin international treaties aimed at addressing the climate.

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