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I don’t see Netanyahu or

rmrd0000 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:59:42 +0000

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I don’t see Netanyahu or AIPAC becoming more diplomatic.

Good repair job: Ilhan Omar:

artappraiser — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 03:43:04 +0000

In reply to Ilhan Omar’s Criticism Raises the Question: Is Aipac Too Powerful?

Good repair job: Ilhan Omar: We must apply our universal values to all nations. Only then will we achieve peace.

Op-ed by Ilhan Omar @ WashingtonPost.com, March 17 at 8:01 PM

Will not be surprised if future tweets on foreign policy get more statesmanlike as well.

and no surprise, guess who

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:21:25 +0000

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and no surprise, guess who sees an opportunity to troll and distract with this little culture wars item?

Ratio of Pirro tweets to NZ mosque massacre tweets? https://t.co/pXVm3CnyCa
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 17, 2019

This is an interesting tweet about Fox News from the US president. I remember when China’s Communist Party Chief Xi Jinping visited newsrooms of the big state-run news organizations and ordered them to stay true to the party. https://t.co/trfQwKmhuP
— Edward Wong (@ewong) March 17, 2019

more on Judge Janine

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 02:26:50 +0000

In reply to Fox News’ Pirro

more on Judge Janine situation, with more nuance:

‘Even Fox News is afraid of the Fox News audience’: Watchdog @GoAngelo explains why Jeanine Pirro has not been fired#FoxNews https://t.co/v6WGvlkIhk
— Bob Brigham (@BobBrigham) March 17, 2019

2/ This week Fox News met with advertisers. It didn’t go well for Fox News.

Now they’re in crisis and damage control mode.

So what is calculus behind yanking show... pic.twitter.com/ZNVEtTfhzW
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 17, 2019

3/ (1) They know anti-Muslim bigotry is concern. They remove show until things cool down, so her advertisers tonight aren’t hearing from people in this moment.

(2) Anti-muslim bigotry is feature, not a bug of Pirro show. So she’s a big risk to put up in this moment.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 17, 2019

4/ But again: Nothing about Pirro’s show is all that different from the rest of Fox News.

You think you get 1/3 Americans to fear sharia law taking over US cities just by watching Pirro once a week? No. You need all Fox News for that.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) March 17, 2019

Ironically, @JudgeJeanine

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 02:13:37 +0000

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Ironically, @JudgeJeanine show was called “JUSTICE”https://t.co/hKHj9oIVdT
— Venture Capital (@kelly2277) March 17, 2019

Here's what trolling tribal

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:36:47 +0000

In reply to Ilhan Omar’s Criticism Raises the Question: Is Aipac Too Powerful?

Here's what trolling tribal gets ya in the end: more anger and division where everybody becomes a tribal troll:

Chelsea Clinton Confronted at Vigil by Student Blaming Her ‘Rhetoric’ for NZ Mosque Shooting @ Mediaite, March 16

Normally I wouIdn't pay attention to such a story; I looked it up after I ran across this troll tweet:

chelsea clinton is an imperialist vulture so fuck her and her war criminal family. a muslim student daring to call out her white supremacy and violent islamophobia is nothing but comeuppance
— stephanie (@stephaniemarya) March 16, 2019

Makes me think that what really drives the fervent opposition to AIPAC nuts is that AIPAC is smarter than to do dumb trolling. You can't win against them by going lowest common denominator.

I will never buy the argument: but but but trolling won Trump the presidency. He won the presidency via electoral college tricks and a majority of the population is still against him,I daresay a majority hates his trolling more than anything else about him.

Omar is not the reason we are

rmrd0000 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:47:44 +0000

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Omar is not the reason we are not having a serious discussion about Israel and Palestinians. Before Omar, we were diverted by the anti-BDS movement which attacked free speech

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/9/18172826/bds-law-israel-boycott-states-explained

Fox News’ Pirro

rmrd0000 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:16:26 +0000

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Fox News’ Pirro

“Omar wears the hijab, which according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get molested,” Pirro said. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanine-pirro-ilhan-omar_n_5c852bc1e4b0d93616292486

The show remains on the air

Netanyahu made a deal with a

rmrd0000 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:56:28 +0000

In reply to Ilhan Omar’s Criticism Raises the Question: Is Aipac Too Powerful?

Netanyahu made a deal with a racist party

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/world/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-otzma-yehudit-jewish-power.html

He says that Israel is an apartheid state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/benjamin-netanyahu-says-israel-is-not-a-state-of-all-its-citizens

Omar is not the one who causes concern.

Ok interesting take. Tried to

Obey — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:04:09 +0000

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Ok interesting take. Tried to google around for civility as an election issue and got this. It is somewhat in line with what you say, but it is not trolling as against civility. It suggests that it is more a question of engaging Trump on his choice of issues rather than Democrats making up their own mind about how to frame the debate. I.e. it is not a question of political style, it is not about how you say things, it is what you choose to talk about.

That said, it would be nice if civility was an issue. I don't see it making a comeback on this side of the Atlantic.