I'd take this farther, pointing out how there should be a ton of evidence of mass murder, but there isn't any.

China, like Palestine, is a place where most people have access to smart phones. You're telling me there's exactly zero evidence of mass murder that's come out of China, while we have about a billion photos and videos from Palestine?

The U.S. and plenty of other countries have satellites that can show you individual cars -- and that's what's publicly available! You're telling me the U.S. can't come up with a single satellite photo of a death camp? The best you got is a building with a fence around it somewhere?

Hard to imagine the cops arresting her at 4:30 in the morning without getting special direction to do so.

Moooooooooooooommmmm

They didn't escape gang violence they just went to the most professional gang that offered the best benefits.

There's a real contradiction between how leftists view traditional crime and how leftists view service in the military. Say someone was affiliated with a street gang in their youth and really got in deep at 17. Maybe they didn't personally kill anyone, maybe they weren't even directly involved in a murder, but they worked for an organization that murdered and harmed people. A lot of leftists will emphasize how that person was a kid when they joined, the economic circumstances they grew up in, how limited their personal role was, etc. There's truth to much of that, but we're also talking about a largely self-interested pursuit that largely hurts people. But if that person's twin joins the military at 17, maybe after participating in some sort of ROTC program for a few years before? Then they're not a kid, their circumstances weren't desperate enough, wouldn't a Nazi sweeping floors at a base still be a Nazi, etc.

A street gang isn't the same thing as the military, but we can't correctly note all the similarities and then treat them completely differently.

For me, it's too dependent on each individual's personal circumstances for there to be many useful rules of thumb.

If you're too stupid to understand that the military is for killing, or have a childish view of killing, you barely qualify to pass 3rd grade much less to be a committed political asset.

Good thing we can educate people.

Rod Stewart is almost certainly a piece of shit, but there's a world of difference between an old man putting on a concert and an old man watching a game in a box.

I'm puttin this whole town in my rear view mirror

Iran was already doing that before the U.S. attacked. They also have an arguably more powerful weapon (in the sense you can actually use it): closing the strait.

the prolecattleiat is not being elevated to sapience

"Look at how connected I am to the people!"

The phrase "Epstein class" is a step closer to class consciousness, not a step away from it. If you tell people there's a bipartisan class of people who are above the law and so wealthy/connected that they control many of the biggest levers of power, they will now know what you're talking about and largely agree. That's a huge break from the standard drivel about "we have an imperfect democracy but it's broadly controlled by the people."

wiping out more than $300 billion in value

If it can be erased with one news story and reappear with another, it's not real value.

But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'

"Unable to identify" is quite a bit different from "does not match." Think fingerprints: "we can't make out what was recovered from the scene" is different from "we can make out what was recovered, and it isn't the suspect's fingerprint."

There may also be different levels of certainly in these types of analyses, and this is just arguing that less than 100% certain means "unable to identify."

But Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, has called for full transparency in coverage of the trial, saying: 'We deserve to have cameras in there'.

Damn, she really does just want to maximize her TV time.