• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    He isn’t calling Netanyahu a war criminal in this statement. In fact, he follows up with…

    It still doesn’t answer my question. Whether we sponsor them or not is irrelevant.

    So I guess our sponsorship of Netanyahu doesn’t matter? Why not? Hasan just leaves that in the wind, so he can pivot back and complain

    Mehdi Hasan: So why have you called Biden and Netanyahu war criminals?

    Why keep going back to Biden and Netanyahu? Why keep trying to shield them from Jill’s accusations?

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        2 months ago

        She agreed that he was a criminal when asked.

        Hasan then pivoted to complaining about Jill calling Biden and Netanyahu criminals, while asserting our sponsorship of Israel isn’t relevant to the question of war criminality.

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          2 months ago

          He literally said he didn’t disagree that Netanyahu is a war criminal. This is your own logic you are arguing with. Absolutely amazing

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              Mehdi Hasan: So you called Netanyahu one, which I think he is.

              Jill Stein: Yeah. Well, let me say this. We are sponsoring that war. We are sponsoring Netanyahu. He is our dog in this fight. That is why we have a responsibility to pull him back.

              Mehdi Hasan: No disagreement from me at all. It still doesn’t answer my question. Whether we sponsor them or not is irrelevant.

              Do yourself a favor

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                It’s really amazing that they’re trying so hard to argue that we aren’t seeing what’s right in front of our eyes.

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                  That’s Weevil for you. I’ve never seen a single good argument made from them and their inability to ever admit being wrong is sad.

                  Perhaps it’s time for them to remove the undergarments from their head.

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        That’s what I’m seeing.

        If we apply equal standards to both of them, then Hasan didn’t call Netanyahu a war criminal and Stein didn’t call Putin a war criminal. They both do this weird word dance around the topic.

        They’re both really frustrating here.