I think meme is supposed to represent someone that's been ridiculed for questioning vaccines and that's their response to that ridicule. First, those types are not guilty of making genuine neutral inquiries, they've already made up their minds via partisan influence. Second, as we discussed, they don't know the difference between theory and hypothesis. Third, they don't have enough education on the matter to understand the answers to the disingenuous questions they're "asking". Then, all of that is, from within the meme, being expressed by a thumb-sucking child that carries around a blankie and they don't see the parallel between themselves showing the meme and Linus saying something stupid in the meme. I find amusement in that.
Political memes ONLY.. To prove your political points.
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Even with the thumb and blanket, I think of Linus as the intellectual among them. He was also honest about his affective crutches. It humanized his abstractions tremendously.
Lucky Luke
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DIY-HP-LED
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It's not as black and white, it was a struggle for existence and the Arabs had several countries allied against Israel and attacked it at it's founding, when it was a smaller country, there have been many wars and changes since then. On the Israeli side they are stealing land on the west bank ceded by Jordan for a Palestinian state. The radical religious Jews have far more kids than the secular Jews and Israel has become more of a democratic theocracy like Iran. Palestinian global terrorism backfired, ya catch more flies with honey than shit. Israel's PR and image in the west have taken a beating over the change of attitude that goes with the change in demographics and aggression and human rights violations on the west bank, the wall and all the rest. You would think holocaust survivors would know better. I gave up on bothering with the middle east decades ago. I know all about it and it's real simple, both sides want the same land.
Lucky Luke
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Maybe giving them some land was a bad idea. Just like Julian Assange showing America's war crimes this is something we shouldn't turn our backs on.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Well Julian shouldn't have gone to bed with Putin and betrayed an ally while living under the freedom those allies provide, look at Ukraine as an example. Most of the Israeli conquests are the result of fighting existential wars started by their more powerful and numerous neighbors. As far as I'm concerned the west bank is Palestinian territory, but these things happen because they were poorly lead by corrupt people and employed the wrong strategy. They gained a world reputation as terrorists all on their own, by high jacking air liners and committing acts of murder, like during the Olympics, much of it they brought on themselves with idiotic leadership.
I have other concerns than the fait of Donald Trump's ally and Putin's useful idiot. If he dies in an American supermax prison I couldn't care less. He never released any Russian secrets did he, it was all pretty much one sided.
Herb & Suds
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HGCC
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Not to get my news from a meme...but saw one that the town of 13k people had a fucking swat team and 40% of the town budget went to law enforcement.
...and they had one fucking job and did it shitty. Literally the stupidest shit you could possibly do. Every single grade school kid in the country has had to be trained not to do this. https://www.newsweek.com/texas-cops-accident-1710352
Lucky Luke
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Its sad when Conservative America swallows the cool aid. Uncle Sam is chasing him for publishing America's war crimes, nothing to do with a past election. Sad when conservatives like yourself don't want Free Speech and a Free press and would much prefer being told what to think. Murdoch loves and pampers you lot. Sadder still when people like yourself thinks its OK for one country to slowly gobble up another but the other is bad because you have been conditioned by lots of movies that it must be. We should never of created this country and/or we should of given more support to Palestine when we did. Religion and politics should not go hand in hand.
Hypocritical even. Its time America moved more to the Centre and stopped moving at great speed to the right.
The US has charged him with hacking government computers and espionage after he obtained and published hundreds of thousands of classified documents between 2010 and 2011, including the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs.
Noam Chomsky, leading intellectual
Linguist and political critic Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, claims extraditing Assange would be “catastrophic” for press freedom.
“Assange is on trial for his journalism, for his principles, not his personality,” he and writer Alice Walker said, in an op-ed for the UK-based paper The Independent.
Jeremy Corbyn, UK’s ex-Labour Party leader
The former Labour Party leader and current UK MP, a veteran socialist, has said possible extradition to the US should be opposed, and called for the rights of whistle-blowers and journalists to be t“upheld for the good of all of us”.
Tulsi Gabbard, US Democrat politician
Democrat congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Gabbard has been one of the most vocal voices demanding Trump pardon Assange. She said the WikiLeaks founder acted in the “public interest … to expose lies and egregious abuses of power in our government”.
“Since you’re giving pardons to people, please consider pardoning those who, at great personal sacrifice, exposed the deception and criminality of those in the deep state,” Gabbard tweeted last month, in support of Assange and NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Daniel Ellsberg, US whistle-blower
A renowned American whistle-blower, Ellsberg has said Assange’s release of the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs were “comparable importance” to the Pentagon Papers – a study on the American war Vietnam, which he leaked in 1971.
The former military analyst made the comments at Assange’s trial in September.
“It was clear to me that these revelations, like the Pentagon Papers, have the capability of informing the public that they had seriously been misled about the nature of war, progress in war, the likelihood of it ending at all,” he told the court.
Whistleblowers should be encouraged not driven away. Whistleblowers are how we keep the bastards honest. How we preserve facts and true history.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Appeals to authority are not an argument. He will have his day in court and probably a chance for a squeal deal before that. If they didn't have the goods, they would not have indicted him, Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian stooge. They have fair trials and treaties with Australia, it will be high profile and he will be well represented by lawyers and his government.
Lucky Luke
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The world knows he wont get a fair trail. It's why the US lost one of its court cases to have him extradited. Australia isn't chasing him for anything, either is any country in the world- only the embarrassed Ultra Conservative US. You really should spend a few days and look at the case. I'm surprised you are so conservative and against Free media and free speech.
Maybe with the new federal Gov in Australia we can put more pressure on the US to worry about itself and how it treats Free press. Hard when Murdoch has so much power with Americans and is feeding the right wing Julian haters.
DIY-HP-LED
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I'm not, but they used a couple of honey pots to snag him, the UK agrees with the charges and evidence and Australia is not making noises about the injustice of it all, even with a progressive government, Canada is silent on the matter too. This was also going on over two US administrations and if he didn't fight extradition and hide out in an embassy until he went nuts, Trump might have pardoned him and bought him a ticket home, for saving Roger Stone's ass. With a war on and a new imperialist enemy, now is a bad time to get busted for being a Russian agent, or dupe, or useful idiot.
