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Amine's avatar

What messages the US is giving to the world : If you have enough money and power, you can lie, kill, ethnically cleanse entire population and you will be rewarded !!!

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Sb's avatar

But Biden lied before the UN…so does the entire West, media, politicians, etc., sick of the whole damn thing! The slaughter of Palestinians and Lebanese today is so intolerable. The American media: absolute trash!

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Hank Greenspan's avatar

Good piece. As a psychologist, I think about the impact of the constant stream of delusional assertions, intended and not. Having personally grown up in a family with significant psychosis, my response was eventually to give up expecting anything resembling rationality, let alone truthfulness. One withdraws in general. Thinking about the loneliness epidemic, I wonder if this has something to do with it. One either goes it alone, with some number of trustworthy friends, or joins the crazies.

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Murray Smart's avatar

Trump and Vance and the MAGA cult are a Hitler BIG LIE on steroids. LIE and LIE and LIE and LIE and LIE and LIE.......... and keep LYING over and over and over and over.......... again and again and again and again........... so none of their worshipers pays any attention anymore as Trump and Vance and the MAGA insiders rip the guts out of their supporters and the rest of America. Like being slaughtered by a thousand cuts, so finally when they can't survive, it is too late to save themselves or America, because the BIG LIES have overwhelmed them and they never paid any attention (just like Trump and Vance and the MAGA insiders wanted all along). So, they can take over completely with no one to stop them.......... Oh, no job......too bad. Oh, no healthcare.... too bad. Oh, no Social Security and Medicare.......too bad. Oh, no workers........too bad. Oh, no customers........too bad. Oh, no rights.........too bad. Oh, no freedoms.........too bad. Oh, no liberty........too bad. Oh, no democracy........too bad.

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Deena Stryker's avatar

It's time for journalists to blow the whistle on White Supremacy by pointing out that Caucasians constitute a small minority on earth.

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Elsie H.'s avatar

I feel like that’s a misguided rhetorical strategy, though: white supremacists *love* to portray themselves as embattled by the pigmented hordes.

Much better, I think, to take a materialist approach to race. That is, race is a reified legal fiction designed for the express purpose of the inequality it perpetuates.

Because race is whatever those in power need it to be, we see different groups become white or non-white based entirely on changes in delineation, such as the American white-supremacist courting of right-wing American Jews and right-wing Latinos.

Did you know that despite creating a special category for Latinos, the US Census forces Arabs to choose between “Asian” and “Caucasian”? The entire edifice is wack, yo.

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Deena Stryker's avatar

Lazy bureacrats! But how should Arabs be designated?

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Tanzeem Ajmiri's avatar

As Arabs

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HulitC's avatar

What about Turks or Iranians? I don’t think they consider themselves “Arab”

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Tanzeem Ajmiri's avatar

I didn’t say they were Arabs. The person asking the question said how should Arabs be designated. I said as Arabs. Turks and Iranians are distinct from each other and from Arabs. The real issue here is that America is obsessed with the made up category of race. It’s not biologically real. Arabs are Arabs, Turks are Turks Iranians are Iranians. Not some made up racial category erroneously thought of as biological.

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Elsie H.'s avatar

Oh I mean the entire taxonomy should be overhauled so as not to facilitate further entrenching structural racism.

The last major change IIRC was letting people tick more than one box under “race”, which was a good start but still insufficient.

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Brian Tanguay's avatar

Yes, all true, but what's baffling to me is that people attend this man's rallies and cheer when he makes the most abhorrent statements about the US, legal immigrants, women, civil servants, etc. He's a poison that we cannot seem to rid ourselves of. Trump and Vance are running on a platform of racism, bigotry, hatred and violence -- and polling in the mid-40s. How? What is wrong with so many of our fellow citizens? Why do they swallow Trump's torrent of lies?

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Tanzeem Ajmiri's avatar

Because this country is built on white supremacy. The rise of a figure like Trump is the logical conclusion to America. What else would a society that from its inception was rooted in colonialism, genocide and the formation of a racial hierarchy produce? America is rotten at its core and always has been. The same can be said for the rest of western world.

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Robert Heling's avatar

All true and I don't know what needs to happen so people stop believing this nonsense. A good start would be democrats not participating in lies, fake news and firing on all cylinders when it comes to conspiracy theories.

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Tanzeem Ajmiri's avatar

I think the answer is far more complex than any of us would like. Many ppl support trump because he speaks to their worldview. How do u get ppl to change their worldview? It’s an ideological question and I don’t think any one of us has that answer.

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Robert Heling's avatar

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree! I have no answer to this as well and it is kinda frightening tbh..

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Mehrdad's avatar

Quiz: Who lies more, tRUMP or Eylon Levy ?!?!?!?

It is equally important to know why they lie so frequently and so outrageously.

The oligarchy media don't hold them accountable and the people like sheep they follow blindly.

This is a reflection as much on us, the people, as it is on them.

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Marc R Hapke's avatar

Levy is a more persuasive liar.

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Wizarat Rizvi's avatar

John, what DT and Vance are doing or articulating is exactly what we all do in daily life by trying to control the narrative and the use of choice words for our friends and some for our foes.

Case in point is our media using words such as murdered or killed depending on who we want to blame.

If Israel murders children and women we routinely question the numbers by using the word, "Hamas controlled Health Ministry" as if these figure needs to be questioned, where as we take the IDF/Netanyahu Propaganda as gospel.

The only semblance I can find with DT and Vance is the old TV sitcom, All in the Family and Archie Bunker. Archie Bunker learnt from his daughter and son in law, but DT and his admirers are a lost cause.

In order to try to fix our declining morality, we need to stop lying, whether it is in the political sphere or in our daily life. Our Presidents have lied routinely by using the words, 'I do not recall' 'I do not remember' etc.

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Mattie Davis's avatar

Thank you for this decent article. I wished for more coverage like this during the 2016 presidential election.

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Michael Ann Ochs's avatar

After watching the movie "Bad Faith" I am very clear that talking about reality won't in any way affect "Christian Nationalists". They are recruited by thousands of churches across the country operating as political propogandists. The media needs to report on this reality.

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Charlene fitzpatrick's avatar

How can citizens protect themselves from lying politicians? Why are there no consequences for Trump/Vance blatant lies?

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HulitC's avatar

Because Repub leaders need the ignorant to vote for them. Many judges, police, & military are Repub.

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GSN's avatar

All this stridency is getting to me. How can we call this a ‘world leading economy’ when we print new money by trillions and sit on a back log of debt that smothers our GDP? I am not EvEn going to go into our double standards about international law, peace & freedom.

You ask me, we’re living on borrowed time trying to fit into our Emperors New Clothes that fit pretty smartly after WWII.

Our economy ruled the world for a while, but dang, we have faltered and we just can’t look in the mirror.

Yes, Trump is full of sh*t, we already know that … but so are the DEMS. “Less! Less!” We keep being shouted at, but way too much.

Ugh.

Bernie himself keeps saying, yes we’ve done this & that but it’s way not enough, and he’s right. Is Harris the way towards the light, or just another shill for the machine that eats its own?

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Russ Hegi's avatar

Ever been to an Amazing Kreskin Show? He has a dozen subjects up on stage mass hypnotized and they all readily submit to his commands... the Maga Christian Nationalists are like mindless zombies.

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Karen Katzenyammer's avatar

Reading this list of lies is just a reminder of how in danger we are of losing it all if Trump gets back in. But the down ballot races are also in jeopardy if we lose the House or Senate. We watched how the gOP majority in the House all but stopped any functioning legislation. So 40 days until we find out our fate. How can there be a single undecided voter after listening to all the lies? How can the nonMAGA GOP even think of supporting Trump if they want the party to survive?

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Lynda G Wonn's avatar

Since when is the United States responsible for Israel's ethnic cleansing? Netenyahu is responsible. He is doing it to remain in power and facilitate felon trump's election with whom he certainly identifies. Put the blame where it belongs. Trump no doubt has encouraged him, lied about it as he is wont to do and then campaigned on it. Surprisingly he has yet to peddle some worthless, tasteless crap to make money from it...but be assured he will. Netenyahu should be removed from power and tried in the Hague. Only then will peace efforts proceed.

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Stephen's avatar

Biden has been bankrolling and supplying the weapons. He has perfected the art of speaking out of both sides of his face at once. Pretending to care about the destruction of Gaza and the slaughter of kids while giving the go ahead to the munitions being put on a plane and sent to Bibi. Bibi by the way holds Biden in contempt.

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Charlene fitzpatrick's avatar

Not worth responding to

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