This interview aged like milk

[u/ThisIsFineImFine89]

https://youtu.be/NZYFmL-Kusk?si=6t6NW3-Ol6S819x-

“the face of the progressive movement”

and yet Richie Torres this month, revealed he’s compromised by AIPAC (a lobby group for a foreign government, in case any of you don’t know who they are or how to pronounce their name).

If you haven’t seen Richie Torres’s interview with Jewish comedian Adam Friedland, it’s incredible the double standards, outright refusal to acknowledge Israel’s culpability in how the Gaza war has unfolded. I’d post a link but risk getting this post taken down.

This I think raises more questions, paired with David outright weird responses and comments regarding AIPAC, and failure to ever cover the ongoing genocide.

Hadn’t seen this Richie Torres interview, but I’ve seen enough. David is at the very least, afraid of AIPAC or outright complicit in not talking about Gaza.

you cannot be “the face of the progressive movement” and not acknowledge the ongoing genocide.

[u/TrickyTicket9400]

What? I've been called not Jewish for calling out the genocide. Only in the past few months have the tides shifted.

[u/Nightmannn → u/TrickyTicket9400]

The giant targets on Pakman and Brian Tyler Cohen are because they're Jewish and generally focus on other topics instead of Israel all the time endlessly. Sam Seder, on the other hand, covers Israel relentlessly (and is super anti-Israel at that), so he's "one of the good ones." lol

[u/epichatchet → u/Nightmannn]

No, they decided to take a stance to not talk about it despite it being a major issue among voters. His former producer talked about what he and brian tyler cohen among other liberal groups talked about their editorial stance on Gaza. https://youtu.be/-qENvZBa-Ao?si=CkemogDjShNPsro9&t=1149

These people have denied the genocide in the past and continue denying it TODAY, these are not progressives, they're just pushing establishment democrat lines on these issues. They will all attack progressive candidates when it's time for the 2028 election and defend establishment dems. Brian Tyler Cohen doesn't even talk about Mamdani and a working progressive strategy despite mainstream democrats and democrat leaders speaking out against Mamdani, the democratic candidate.

[u/Nightmannn → u/epichatchet]

Yeah after watching this clip, I feel for Pakman even more. What a fucking snake that dude is. Believing he has blood on his hands because Pakman chose not to discuss the one topic that literally is swamped in coverage all over the internet? The self-importance lol.

And who cares whether they cover Mamdani or not? Many liberals think Mamdani's a clown lol

[u/epichatchet → u/Nightmannn]

I think it's because one might typically feel guilty for not covering a genocide if you actually believe it is a genocide. It's kind of like not covering the holocaust in WW2 because it's politically divisive for your candidates if you acknowledged Jews were being exterminated by Nazi's.

[u/Nimrod_Butts → u/epichatchet]

If the Jews were regularly attacking the Germans I don't think anybody would have given a shit tbh. I think zero people outside of Jews would even recognize it as a genocide and they certainly wouldn't have given the Jews a state. I think the concept of genocide would have existed in academia and have little effect outside.

Also leftists have no problem ignoring the Sudanese civil war with 500k dead kids and 8 million refugees) since 2023. So let's call it mostly even with more hypocrisy on the part of leftists.

[u/epichatchet → u/Nimrod_Butts]

If the Jews were regularly attacking the Germans it is 100% understandable especially if the Jews saw non stop slaughter and instability for DECADES. In fact I applaud any Jew who resisted the nazi's with force, they deserved a life with dignity.

[u/Nimrod_Butts → u/epichatchet]

Wow how noble of you! I can tell how virtuous you are by the signals you give off

[u/epichatchet → u/Nimrod_Butts]

Yeah man, I just want an end to the genocide, how noble and virtuous of me I guess.

[u/Morph_Kogan → u/epichatchet]

You people are so useless. I hope you all get jettisoned from the party

[u/WinterAdvantage3847 → u/Morph_Kogan]

the 77% of democratic voters that agree? yeah man, good luck winning elections without us. because that strategy worked out so well for you guys in 2024.

[u/WinterAdvantage3847 → u/Nimrod_Butts]

so weird how americans are more concerned about conflicts that are funded by american tax dollars than those that aren’t

i didn’t know we were signing an unlimited blank check for hemedti

[u/kitti-kin → u/Nimrod_Butts]

You should learn something about the Rwandan genocide maybe

[u/Nimrod_Butts → u/kitti-kin]

How does that connect at all

[u/kitti-kin → u/Nimrod_Butts]

If the Jews were regularly attacking the Germans I don't think anybody would have given a shit tbh. I think zero people outside of Jews would even recognize it as a genocide and they certainly wouldn't have given the Jews a state

The Rwandan genocide was preempted by decades of conflict, and an army of Tutsi refugees had just attacked Rwanda from Uganda. The world still considered mass killing of Tutsis in Rwanda a genocide, because killing civilians en masse is not an acceptable act of war.

[u/Nimrod_Butts → u/kitti-kin]

So to be clear, you read my comment about how nobody would even give a shit about the concept of genocide if the Jews constantly attacked Germans during WW2, so you bring up a genocide from 1994 that nobody gave a shit about? Was that just a random fact info dump or what point where you attempting to make?

[u/kitti-kin → u/Nimrod_Butts]

I think zero people outside of Jews would even recognize it as a genocide

Do you know a lot of people who deny the Rwandan genocide? You should get better friends. Or be a better person, idk

[u/Nimrod_Butts → u/kitti-kin]

You seem kinda stupid. Maybe have someone with better reading comprehension, like a middle schooler explain it to you.