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lmao at this reply

He didn’t say he will fold. And he won’t.

However if no negotiation happens, the US will unilaterally take a decision based on their self-interest.

"Trump won't fold, he'll just *describes folding*."

A sitting US Congressman personally firing on the Russian military.

There has to be some law against this (not that it will be applied). MAGAs have been crying “Logan Act” because of van Hollen’s visit with Abrego Garcia, meanwhile a Republican elected official is personally committing acts of war against a sovereign nation.

"Youngest political prisoner in Russia", exchanged to the West last year, publicly confesses that he was not a "political prisoner", but an actual spy and enemy combatant.

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1912169328369418634

as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property

Oh no, the plagiarism machine's intellectual property was plagiarized!

Putin being a batshit insane lunatic ready to kill another few hundred thousand young Russians for his ambitions doesn’t make the situation easier.

They still think this war is because Putin woke up one day and decided to invade because he’s just crazy and evil like that.

Biden says Palestinians are "driven by ancient desire to wipe out Jewish people off the face of the Earth".

lmao RFK Jr is proposing to Biden that they hold a nationwide poll putting Biden and him each 1-on-1 vs Trump and the loser will drop out. He’s showing polls where Trump beats Biden but without Biden, Kennedy beats Trump. Saying “Biden is the real spoiler”.

Regardless of how true or crazy it is, it’s a good bit.

I find it fascinating how every single time it is the exact same arguments, same wording, same tactics.

The only acceptable topic is the genocide perpetrated by the Oppressor on the Oppressed If you bring up any other topic, ask any question, anything at all, you don't think Palestinians are people It is like you, and her, are reading from the exact same ideological manual. it is scary.

Liberals really struggle with moral consistency.

It "sounds like we're reading from the same manual" because it's the natural reaction to a fucking genocide.

It's the same arguments and wording because it's 100% correct and it's all that should be needed.

Amazing how this just hits pretty much every radlib talking point.

• "we need to work with the Democratic party"
• "the left wing of the possible" aka "pragmatism"
• "Marxists are evil dictators"
• Zionists
• "Israel has a right to defend itself"
• "Israel has a right to exist"
• "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA, we have to support the Nazis in Ukraine!"
• Uyghur "genocide"
• "purity tests"
• believing the IOF's claims of Hamas's actions

Also, you don't have to read the article now, I just summed it up. Unless you really want to read about the radlib history of the DSA.

One hour ago: we know nothing about the hospital being bombed
30 minutes ago: sounds like it was a misfired Hamas rocket
10 minutes ago: well we told them to evacuate

https://twitter.com/mathaiaus/status/1714352882290737292

Someone post that book quote.

The von der Leyen family (German pronunciation: [fɔn deːɐ̯ ˈlaɪən] is a German noble family which made its fortune as silk merchants and silk weaving industrialists.

The family was ennobled in 1786 and one branch raised to Baronial rank by Napoleon in 1813 and by the King of Prussia in 1816.

Heiko von der Leyen, husband of politician Ursula von der Leyen (former German Federal Minister for Defence and current President of the European Commission), belongs to an ennobled (but not the baronial Bloemersheim) branch of the family.

So 2/3.

Edit:

The [von der Leyen] family built many factory and residential buildings in Krefeld some of which survived World War II bombardments.

I wonder what those factories were used for during World War II

[Ursula von der Leyen's grandfather] belonged to a family of wealthy cotton merchants; his father was the cotton merchant Carl Albrecht (1875–1952) and his mother was the American-born Mary Ladson Robertson (1883–1960), who belonged to a prominent planter family from South Carolina. His father was a grandson of Baron Ludwig Knoop, one of the leading industrialists of the Russian Empire in his lifetime.

lmao it gets worse.

James Henry Ladson (1795–1868) was an American planter and businessman from Charleston, South Carolina. He was the owner of James H. Ladson & Co., a major Charleston firm that was active in the rice and cotton business, and owned over 200 slaves.

Among Ladson's descendants is Ursula von der Leyen, who briefly lived under the alias Rose Ladson.

"I need a pseudonym, what should I go with? I know, the family name of my slaver ancestors!"

Ursula von der Leyen, nominee for EU top job, lived in London under alias to escape Baader-Meinhof gang

The Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang, was a West German far-left militant group founded in 1970. The RAF described itself as a communist, anti-imperialist, and urban guerrilla group which was engaged in armed resistance against what it considered a fascist state.

Hmm, why did she move to London and take a pseudonym to escape a far-left militant group? You'd only do something like that if you or your family were being specifically targeted, right?

In 1828, the workers at the von der Leyen factories rebelled against their employers and the 11th Hussar Regiment put down the rebellion. Karl Marx described it as the "first workers' uprising in German history."

Interesting trivia.

In 1976, Albrecht [Ursula's father, Premier of Lower Saxony] made Hans Puvogel his minister of justice. During his tenure, Puvogel was particularly active in combatting notions of more liberal penal and rehabilitation systems. He had already set out justification for his stance in a 1935-1936 doctoral thesis. There, he wrote of the “inheritance of criminal tendencies”, of “constitutionally predisposed criminals” and “inferior people”, who would have to be “eliminated from the community”. “Only a person of value to the race” would have “a right to exist within the national community”.

And it gets even worse, though indirectly.