Holy fucking shit, I need to eat my shoe

The thing is that when all this went down, there was speculation that he was fired by corporate drones wanting to make Line Go Up, because a large percentage of the company’s employees signed a letter demanding he return.

Sadly unsurprising. Israel doesn’t interact with international institutions in good faith.

My favorite part is where he was the least funny member of a very funny show in literally every episode.

Man, if I was trying to write a satire about the current state of political affairs, “Protester against genocide gets put in a headlock by a bystander while the crowd chants ‘JERRY! JERRY!’”, I’d be told the ‘Jerry Springer Show’ comparison was a bit too on the nose.

Was that before or after the Bee Movie?

The audience immediately began booing the heckler and chanting “Jerry! Jerry!” as another bystander wrestled the protester into a headlock.

Fucking what

“This is exciting. I like this,” the comic said as the original protester was escorted out of the venue. “I like a little Jew hate to spice up the show.”

Fucking what

“The only democracy in the Middle East”, Israel supporters say…

Cut 'em loose. Fuck 'em both.

Wow, I’m so glad that the online left is now into outright rape apologia. “There was only a preliminary investigation because he fled the day he was going to be arrested, therefore, this is clearly a false accusation” My favorite bit is where the article talks about how the woman accusing him of rape never actually accused him of rape, and then outright admits

She says that’s not a problem. He could sleep with her in her bed. Consensual sex occurred that night. With condom. But she says Assange intentionally broke the condom during intercourse. If that is the case, it is of course a sexual offense, so-called stealthing.

But hey, believe all women, until they say something against someone we like.

Fucking repulsive.

“He was tortured because he stayed in an embassy of his own free will to avoid being arrested” is another fucking gem.

Some people have no fucking decency.

More than 300 human rights lawyers and law professors from numerous countries sharply criticized Melzer in response. In an open letter, they said that on the issue of sexual violence, Melzer’s intervention was “both legally erroneous and harmful to the development and protection of human rights law.” Melzer said he stood by his statement that the evidence collected in Sweden was not a basis for investigating the suspected rape.[142][143][144]

One of the women interviewed by Melzer later criticised him and demanded his resignation. She said that by defining how a “proper rape-victim” should act, Melzer was engaging in victim blaming and that his report was partially untrue and defamatory.[145]

“Believe all women, except the ones who say anything against One Of Our’s™”

Not quite how I remember that phrase going.

“Rapist who successfully stalled until rape charges were dropped is trying to stall until other charges are dropped too”

Lord.

I’d be more giddy about that except it’s not the cops who ever pay. It’s just the city (and thus, by extension, the taxpayers and their non-policing interests). And the city will keep sucking on the department’s toes.

Even if it is referring to right-wing assholes, the US is one of the safer places in the world for LGBT folk. That’s not high praise of the US so much as damnation for most of the rest of the world, but either way, one is definitely not in “FAR more danger” inside the USA than “almost anywhere else”.

You are in FAR more danger inside the USA than almost anywhere else. Projection to idiots.

Fucking what

Abbott’s decision comes after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously Thursday to recommend a full pardon and the restoration of firearm rights for Perry

Can we discuss how FUCKED the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is too?

This is obviously sinophobia /s

I’m not super well read on the subject, but is that not true? Or, if it is true, does it not matter?

The issue is that unconditional support of past American actions is no longer acceptable, and so all America’s past actions are being re-evaluated. This is good! However, this also often results in people simply taking the reverse position than the accepted one. This is bad.

The atomic bombings were less bloody than a blockade or an invasion would have been, and the people who claim the Soviet Union was going to successfully invade the home islands or that Japan was about to surrender under any terms that would have been considered reasonable, pinky-promise, are just misinformed or deluded.

Turns out months of GOP stalling had the effect they wanted - an advantage to Russia. Fucking bootlickers.