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You shouldn't buy it. She has nothing going for her, here. In England she's not going to be stared at with people whispering, "Didn't that used to be Ellen DeGeneres? Too bad we all found out what a jerk she is behind the scenes." "Yeah. What a phony!" "Was she ever funny?" Etc.
Who?
There have been lots of people who announce they're leaving Twitter, but they always come back. They all announced they were leaving for Mastodon. Now they're all leaving for Bluesky. Eventually they'll all be leaving for something else.
At least some of the people who promised to leave America if Trump got elected are actually leaving this country. I think they really thought people would miss them. "O, noes! Don't leave, Ellen! You haven't done anything worth watching in years, but someone will miss you!"😂
A post copied from Bluesky, taken from "Libs of Bluesky" --
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Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew.bsky.social
i love going to my job as a dentist and giving conservative children extra
fluoride
@Libsofbluesky
November 24, 2024 at 3:17 AM & Everybody can reply
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And note the number of "likes." Good thing the place isn't "toxic." 🙄
The great thing about Twitter is the Community Notes. If someone likes or retweets something that isn't true, folks can flag it, and the Community Notes people investigate it and we all get to see the truth, with links to credible sources.
This works for conservative tweets as well as liberal tweets. Folks saying it's just a "right-wing echo chamber" obviously don't spend much time on it. In fact, a lot of people are complaining that the "For You" feed has a lot of liberals we've never heard of and certainly would never follow on it. The "Following" feed IS made up of folks we follow. But frankly, I spend more time on the "For You" feed, because it's more varied and interesting.
So it's only a right- or left-wing echo chamber on Twitter/X if you want it to be. What's odd is that the liberals could have a liberal echo chamber with the "Following" feed, but apparently the liberals don't like that conservatives even exist on Twitter.
I was trying to remember Mastodon's name. It was supposed to be the hot alternative to X. Same thing happened to it that's happening to Bluesky -- it became a magnet for "minor-attracted persons."
I hope TMC-4 is getting paid for shilling like this....
They're both doing poorly right now. They overplayed their hands, and realized too late that being the PR outlet for the Biden Administration and the DNC wasn't going to work when they were trying to tell people that what they saw with their eyes in the stores wasn't what was really happening. No, boys and girls. It wasn't a great economy, and Americans don't continue to tune in any media that'll pee down their back and tell them it's raining.
It's nothing less than the best acting that Mel Gibson has done.
Never liked Julia Roberts. She always came off as if she was a real jerk in real life. Which I hear is true.
Just today, I got to see three more pedos billing themselves as MAPs -- Minor Attracted Persons. They're big over there.
Brooklyn Dad said the site needed to steal all the good ideas from Twitter/X, which sounds to me as though the site doesn't function as well as Twitter does, isn't as user-friendly, and the paid Democrat shill is misses his old home BAD!
We're enjoying the break from the stupidity. We can check in on it with tweets from "Libs of Bluesky." Meathead announced he had to wander off to a retreat to get away from everything and try to regroup after that nasty dose of democracy. Same with "Mar🐫." Jo Jo from Jerz proves constantly that she's trash with a sewer-mouth. And I'm just not feeling the joy and love we were told the Dems radiated. O, well.
As much as they whine over there, I get the feeling they're going to be back eventually.
Oh. One more thing. The snowflakes are constantly reporting anything that gives them the sads. They've been making the site meltdown occasionally with an average of 3000 reports from whiners a day.
Something tells me it's not going to "defeat" Twitter.
Meanwhile, Musk is thinking of buying MSNBC now that rumor has it it's on the auction block. Joe Rogan says he's interested in taking Rachel Maddow's slot if Musk buys the crippled network.
You're right. Except that he had a way of projecting a kind of charm -- which in the movie biz is sometimes all it takes.
What he lacks is gravitas. I was thinking of the difference between Denzel and Hanks in Philadelphia. Denzel wasn't given as much to do, he didn't get to show his range, but he had the gravitas. Even playing someone who was dying of a horrible disease, Hanks still seemed too light. They picked him for the role because he had that boy-next-door quality, and was likable, not because he could reach through a screen and rip your heart out.
People liked to compare him to Spencer Tracy. Tracy had gravitas. He was in demand into his old age because he could command a screen. Once Hanks started losing his boyish looks, folks could find what he offered elsewhere, with a face to match. Hanks should be getting meaty, character-driven roles at this point in his career. Of course, they're not writing things like Judgment at Nuremberg anymore. But if they were, Hanks hasn't the chops to play them.
Thank you!
Poor baby! You can't read well, can you? That's why I put it in that form, so people who could read would see you're throwing insults without having informed yourself.
If you could read, you'd see Amal got outed as a defender of scum by left-leaning HuffPo.
Now, show where either one of us lied. And just repeating "lying low life" isn't good enough.
In doing so, Amal Clooney has proved that she is no angelic philanthropist whose job is but a hobby after being a wife, but a determined professional whose interest in her own career has been just as paramount as her idealism. To reduce her to a savior figure not only infantilizes her work and the work of all human rights lawyers, but also boils her multifaceted and controversial career choices down to simplistic idealism, which is hardly a way to make a living, and certainly not to make a successful legal career.
Clooney's decision to continue to work on his defense drew some fire after she became engaged to her current spouse, as if her professional life might take a backseat to her then-fiancé's humanitarian image. Clooney's primary role in the case appears to be appealing the decision to hold the trial in Libya's domestic courts, however, claiming her client's right to meet with his lawyers was denied by the ICC.
Clooney herself justified her choice to work on behalf of al Senussi, saying that everyone has a right to a defense lawyer (extremely true) and criticizing the International Criminal Court for violating the rights of her client. Even though this may seem ironic, given the charges of human rights violations against al Senussi, due process is an integral, essential part of the international legal structure, and failures to uphold due process undermine the entire system. When it comes to those accused of war crimes or human rights violations, this includes the right to a defense, which Clooney provided professionally and convincingly in al Senussi's case. What's more, Clooney, while being many other laudable things, is also a lawyer, and lawyers make their living and reputation from acting as both prosecution and defense.
Clooney's defense of al Senussi and legal advising to al Khalifa is part of her success as a lawyer, and defense as well as prosecution is essential to ensure the functioning of international human rights law. It is a reminder that human rights lawyers are still lawyers, professionals who need to make a career by playing both sides of the courtroom. She is certainly not a saint, but a shrewd and passionate professional (some would dare to say "ambitious") who has advanced her career by taking the unsavory clients along with defending those whose rights have been violated.
While Amal Clooney's resume reads like most human rights activists' wildest dreams (stints working for the UN, heads of states, and ambassadors are not easy to come by) the term "human rights lawyer" is somewhat misunderstood by the public to mean "saint." Although Clooney's work for organizations such as the International Court of Justice, where she clerked during law school, and the United Nations is laudable both professionally and morally, there are also some not-so-savory clients whose human rights violations make it clear that she is their defense lawyer, not prosecutor.
Clooney's client list includes not only the ostensible "good guys" like former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, but also very questionable characters like the King of Bahrain and Abdullah al Senussi. She served as Bahraini King Hasan bin Isa al Khalifa's legal advisor on the Bassiouni Commission, a royally established group charged with investigating claims of human rights violations during the Arab Spring uprisings in Bahrain in 2011. Briefly, troops sent by the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as the Bahraini security services crushed the uprising using excessive force, killing many civilians, and wounding and jailing thousands. The Bassiouni Commission itself found that people had been tortured to death in police custody - yes, tortured to death - and that hundr eds more had been injured or killed, confirming what rights groups had already reported although on a smaller scale. Yet in this context, Clooney worked not on behalf of the violated but the violator, advising the King on human rights, presumably in order to absolve him of as much responsibility as possible, as any good defense lawyer does.
Abdullah al Senussi, another one of Clooney's clients, served as Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief and was captured in Libya in 2011. The International Criminal Court charged him with crimes against humanity in 2011 for his role in Gaddafi's brutal government as well as the Lockerbie bombing.
I actually thought of doing that when I first read it to show what a moron you are, but I thought it would be too insulting. Yet here you are ASKING to be insulted. What do you have against reading the short HuffPo article? You're funny.
Instead, I'll post the whole article and let the folks here see how you can't read well enough to pick out the salient bits:
Amal Clooney is not a Saint
To reduce Clooney's to a savior figure not only infantilizes her work and the work of all human rights lawyers, but also boils her multifaceted and controversial career choices down to simplistic idealism, which is hardly a way to make a living, and certainly not to make a successful legal career.
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Vicky Kelberer, Contributor
MA Candidate Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies Junior Scholar, Graduate Co-Chair of the Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking
Jan 16, 2015, 04:14 PM EST
|Updated Mar 17, 2015
Amal Clooney's appearance at the Golden Globes on Sunday alongside "trophy husband" George unsurprisingly caused a buzz, and not just Giuliana Rancic's buzz from awkwardly doing a shot while the couple looked on. While Mr. Clooney was there to accept a lifetime achievement award for his work in film, host Tina Fey pointed out that Mrs. Clooney's achievements have somewhat dwarfed those of her husband. As Fey pointed out, "Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person U.N. commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award." Yet although Fey makes Clooney sounds like a one-woman global savior, her actual professional history is a bit more complicated than that. (Cont.)
Didn't seem to.
But someone needed to have done even a cursory vetting of that overgrown snot, Gaetz. The girl in question lied about her age, and it was Goetz's friend who was really the sex trafficker. But does any of that sound remotely savory? On top of that, yes, he's made a lot of enemies on the Hill by being a class A jerk. If I know it, why didn't Trump know it?
The article did support her claims, other than the sick family pedigree. But I know this person, and if this person says Amal has ties to Hamas, Amal has ties to Hamas. That's certainly not going to put George off any. It'd likely be a selling point.
Do read the HuffPo article again. You may have reading comprehension problems.
That isn't the assumption I made! He should have left the explanation in. 😂
There now. "Trump says lots of things. How do you keep them straight?" Usually the Democrat talking points are the sort that can best be applied to themselves, but they turn them around on Trump.
By the way, O, wow. A politician who talks out of both sides of his mouth. Will wonders never cease.
Some people voted for him just to keep America from turning into England. I hear this current administration has loosened up the borders even more to try to get even more illegals into the country. Putin is saying Poland is now a target. That old picture of Obama standing in the middle of rubble saying, "My work here is done," applies to his puppets. "Do you have proof that Biden is an Obama puppet???" No, but Biden has a lot of Obama's people working in his administration. 2+2 usually equals four, especially since we all know that Biden can't be running this country. Well, most of us know it.