Comment by orionsbelt
2 years ago
Paul is trashing his rep all on his own.
I am Jewish, appalled by Paul’s tweets, but lazy and don’t do anything about it.
I fail to see how other Jewish people, that are similarly appalled, but more activist in nature about trying to work together to push back on rising antisemitism, is anything nefarious.
"I fail to see how other Russian people, who are similarly appalled but more activist in nature about trying to work together to push back on rising anti-russian sentiment, is anything nefarious."
"I fail to see how other Chinese people, who are similarly appalled but more activist in nature about trying to work together to push back on rising anti-chinese sentiment, is anything nefarious."
"I fail to see how other Saudi people, who are similarly appalled but more activist in nature about trying to work together to push back on rising anti-saudi sentiment, is anything nefarious."
...Once a state actor is involved, you have become the devil you swore to fight.
That’s just it though, highly placed people got there by only promoting DOD-friendly issues.
All he’s done is point out that Gaza civilians are being decimated and you’re appalled by those tweets?
Kinda telling on yourself there tbh.
Please don't cross into attacking someone else on HN. This topic is extremely inflammatory, so you can be sure that the other person will feel your comment as many times more aggressive than you intended it.
Needless to say this goes equally for both sides of the argument.
Dan I wish you would address such remarks to the person who makes the first move rather than people who react to it. Alleging that pg was 'trashing his rep' (without saying why) is the epitome of flamebait, but you have a long-standing pattern of chiding people for taking the bait rather than the person throwing it out. This rewards baitposting.
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Paul’s tweets have a tone and subtext that speak louder than the literal text.
As an imperfect analogy, see “all lives matter” or similarly controversial statements that, taken literally, appear harmless.
Except that it should be uncontroversial to say that nobody should kill children. But people have lost jobs for saying that Israel needs to stop killing Palestinian children.