• emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    one of them goes on record in the article. it's presented a little cryptically but how is this not a bit of a sideswipe

    Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director before leaving the role at the beginning of this year, suggested that her identity lies elsewhere. “She’s a Christian, but strength is her religion.”

    EDIT: maybe I'm reading it wrong? he's quoted a few times later on making excuses for her, so maybe he thinks he's saying something good. doesn't land for me

    EDIT2: christ this is a long article

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        no I think I was misreading it, I think he's trying to say something good. just a weird way to say it

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Jamal Simmons

          You made me curious about him so I went right to his Twitter account to see what he had to say. I should have predicted it. This is his most recent tweet.

          There is no defense for the intentional murder and kidnapping of innocent civilians — especially the elderly and children — ever. Put yourself in the room with gunmen threatening your family. There will be time for political debate later. This is not complicated.

          Nitter

          "This is not complicated," - it's so simple to be a lib. I wish somebody would ask him "Put yourself in the room with gunmen threatening your family. You're Gazan and the gunmen are Israeli. Now what?"

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              1 year ago

              Over and over they scream at you "Where are the tunnels!" in badly broken Arabic. And what do you say? Do you say "I don't know," or "My young son goes looking around without asking me so maybe he knows," or "I know but I'll only tell you if you let us live?" or "Please don't murder us?" Or...?

              • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                If the scariest person you know, someone you're a little afraid of, promises to go after their family to show them what its like; what do you say?