I well remember how I defended the honor of Saddam Hussein in 2003 by saying Iraq had no WMD

yes, bit by bit we are losing our humanity

It is an unfortunate reality that high quality journalism is not profitable. It never has been — it was subsidized in the past by other parts of newspapers — and it never will be. There is literally no answer here except some form of public funding.

I believe so, yes

you may enjoy this Larry Summers history: www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/...

Such mushrooms must be punished and punished severely

Twitter did indeed restrict free speech before Musk bought it. For instance, it froze my account in 2019 because a joke of mine made David Duke & various Nazis angry. (Now, of course, Twitter restricts free speech far more, due to Musk's intense hatred of freedom.) theintercept.com/2019/11/30/d...

Twitter did indeed restrict free speech before Musk bought it. For instance, it froze my account in 2019 because a joke of mine made David Duke & various Nazis angry. (Now, of course, Twitter restricts free speech far more, due to Musk's intense hatred of freedom.) theintercept.com/2019/11/30/d...

I don't know enough about Syria to have an opinion on this. But it is fundamentally hilarious (and horrifying) to see so clearly that the entire War on Terror was bullshit.

If you're curious about America's decades-long support before 9/11 for hard-right fundamentalist groups like al Qaeda — and why it makes sense we're going right back to it — a great resource is "Devil's Game: How the U.S. Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam" by Robert Dreyfuss

🎶 seems like old times 🎶

America supported hard-right, fundamentalist Islamist groups for decades before 9/11 — for the obvious reason that we had common enemies: secular, nationalist groups in the mideast. We had a brief post-2001 disagreement but now we're back to our normal friendship with al Qaeda & co.

it's exactly what I voted for