I'm fond of saying that political reporters are basically sports reporters who don't understand sports at all

insanely unpopular, these wars, voters don't want this shit, but boy does that not matter one fucking bit to the bloodthirstiness from politicians, be it loud and overt or feigning at being mild and 'reasonable'

the fact that mamdani's speech also specifically calls out the hypocrisy of a "universalism" that makes blatant exceptions for palestinian life kind drives this whole bit in lmao. but people worm around that too cuz they don't see that cruelty as 'active' as much as 'unfortunately inevitable'.