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  • Table tennis champions said to be in ‘cleanse from exposure to contamination’ following podium picture with opponents

    Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, who won silver medals, are said to be undergoing “ideological evaluation” along with other athletes who returned from the Paris Games.

    the Daily NK reported.

    Citing anonymous official sources in Pyongyang, the news outlet, which specialises in North Korean affairs

    Hmmm…

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_NK

    Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy,[4] an NGO funded by the U.S. Congress. Daily NK’s president is Lee Kwang-baek.

    The organization is part of a consortium with the Unification Media Group, which is a South Korea–based non-profit organization that produces and delivers radio content into North Korea via short-wave radio broadcasts.

    So it’s a NED funded propaganda network controlled by Lee Kwang-baek

    https://www.dailynk.com/english/author/lee-kwang-baek/

    Lee Kwang Baek has served as Daily NK’s president since 2014 alongside his role as president of Unification Media Group. He is an advisor to the Korea Hana Foundation

    https://koreahana.or.kr/home/eng/contents.do?menuPos=2

    The Korea Hana Foundation(KHF) is a non-profit public organization established by Ministry of Unification in 2010. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Unification

    The Ministry of Unification (Korean: 통일부; Hanja: 統一部) is an executive department of the South Korean government

    So the source for this story is another story citing “anonymous sources”, and that original story is from a US-South Korea joint propaganda project?

    Nice.



  • Because that’s the thing, they don’t actually care about pushing anyone left, or stopping the genocide, it’s a team sport to them, this is their Superbowl and they just want to win and wait until the next game to tune back in.

    Edit: and that’s why they hate the protesters so much, we hurt their chances to win, they don’t care that the cause is literally opposing a genocide supported and carried out by their party.







  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

    ~Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963.



  • She did say that, and also that there are horrors being inflicted in Gaza. Only her whole statement gives any idea what she’s talking about.

    Yes this is one of those platitudes. As you said, you need the full context. Considering she just said we must oppose Iran in the area (support Israel) and said she will always support Israels right to defend itself (common justification for the ongoing genocide).

    The most she spoke against the genocide was

    At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.(Platitudes which don’t even directly call out the ones carrying out a genocide)

    President Biden and I are working to end this war such that Israel is secure (must secure the genocidal force!), the hostages are released (Hamas must free hostages, they could stop this! It’s not Israel just being genocidal!), the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity. Security. Freedom. And self-determination. (Good but toothless considering the rest of the speech) tine.

    And know this: I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists. (More support for Israel)

    To be honest, I expect her to back Israel, and that these words are just a way to temporarily placate the ones calling for an end to genocide. But at least she tried to broach the complexity of the situation.

    Yes she will back Israel, she made that clear. She didn’t try to broach any complexity though, she defended Israels “right to defend itself” and said bad things are happening in Gaza while refusing to even name the ones responsible, then, once again, stating support for the ones responsible.





  • Yeah, blue maga.

    No, I’m not being blindly loyal. I’m understanding that it’s (frankly kinda idiotic) political posturing. It’s politics. It’s de rigueur.

    This is exactly what Trump fans say when you give them something he said that they disagree with or point out his playing of both sides.

    the platform is highlighting the feckless inconsistency and ineptitude of the Trump administration and the guy himself as a “we can do better” statement, while I see it as much more of a “huh, thought you said you’d be ‘strong on defense’, but that didn’t pan out” - I.e., largely pointing out hypocrisy,

    So…move right on the military and become a warhawk…to show that Trump isn’t actually hawkish enough on the military so it didn’t work for him?..love it./s

    refuse to play politics with our security. Here is my pledge to you: As President, I will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed. And I will sign it into law. (Immigration as a national security issue)

    ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world. (More military, more deadly!)

    will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists. (Make them fear us!)

    I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. Because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that the terrorist organization Hamas caused on October 7th. (Support Israel and justify the ongoing genocide!)

    The Democratic party is just evil at this point, people just don’t want to lose hope and the system has been designed to convince people the Dems are the only hope.