Nima Shirazi
@WideAsleepNima
Co-host @CitationsPod. I'm (at)nimashirazi on the other thing. Fire spitter. Epaulette liker. Tsundoku master. Clinomaniac. Caine-Hackman Theorist.
I take it back. Having gotten this response, 2020 is now the best year ever.
RESPECT NIMA JOON
Reminder that the wealthy are, at least in principle, not entitled to any more say in govt than anyone else. Mamdani meeting with these clowns is probably smart politics but “business leaders” are Just Some Guys with zero constituency and it’s bad journalism to act otherwise
Tough meeting for Mamdani with the Partnership for NY (CEOs) today I'm told. Stood his ground on "intifada" language and wouldn't commit to keeping NYPD Comm. Tisch, whom this crowd likes, in the job. (Also did not recognize her father, Jim Tisch, when he rose for a question)
90 years ago, there was another abundance agenda, envisioned by socialists as a path toward building political power to the left of FDR's "middle road" My latest in @newrepublic on the cast of collectivists agitating for a planned economy to ensure abundance
Genuinely evil person
aid distribution into Gaza is higher than before the war.
In Ep 225, "How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'," we detail the popular media trope that providing direct social welfare to people who need it is somehow playing the electoral game on God Mode w/ guest Janine Jackson soundcloud.com/citationsneede…
5 years ago today we lost an important voice. If you never had a chance to hear it ….The Michael Brooks Show youtube.com/@themichaelbro… via @YouTube
Empathy and learning to read.
What exactly is the left wing propaganda in Sesame Street???
One of the greatest enemies of fascism is an educated, informed, connected and cared for public. Fascists hate children, families & a culture of collective support. That's why they're trying to kill public broadcasting. Mr. Rogers knew this back in 1969. youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA?si…
The Israeli Army just published a video (via @newsisrael13) documenting its own war crimes, proudly showing the world it is in the process of eradicating human existence in Khan Yunis, what is known in international law as genocide. 13tv.co.il/item/news/poli…
In Ep 224, "Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting' Public Outrage" we detail the classic PR gambit of corporations anticipating regulation, offering to "self-police," waiting for outrage to blow over, then going back to business a usual soundcloud.com/citationsneede…
"Humankind cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot
One key problem for journalism is that human beings are generally not interested in reality and don't want to hear about it
Just to be sure, on this day more than ever: I stand firmly and convincingly on the side of justice, as I have always done. I come from a country with a tradition of illustrious legal scholars, talented lawyers and corageous judges who have defended justice at great cost and…
1/5 The Assembly of States Parties to the @IntlCrimCourt concludes its special session on the crime of aggression today. Over the past three days, it has considered amendments to the exercise of the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The #US, not a State party,…
1/5 The Assembly of States Parties to the @IntlCrimCourt concludes its special session on the crime of aggression today. Over the past three days, it has considered amendments to the exercise of the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The #US, not a State party,…
Only extremely free and democratic countries do this
🟥 BREAKING: Israel has just arrested journalist @freyisrael1 — the only reporter in the country who exposed in Hebrew how Col. Golan Vach fabricated the story of 8 burned babies to justify the genocide.
Okay @NBCNews this is simply false and needs a correction. The new Israeli report on 10/7 SV is public and you can read through it and there is most definitely not any testimony from a rape survivor on 10/7. You can argue whatever you want about its conclusions but this is simply…
moderates can't make a compelling message because their message—"sorry you can't have anything but let's send another trillion to israel"—is fundamentally not compelling and a frankly offensive offer
Joe Scarborough asks, "why is it that in the Democratic Party, the three most compelling figures" have been "the mayoral candidate [Zohran Mamdani], Bernie Sanders and AOC"? "Why can't moderate Democrats...make that same compelling message?"
he says "put aside the gaza issue for a moment." everything is just an abstract little intellectual game to these guys. to call them morally bankrupt is an understatement
At the Aspen Ideas Festival, CNN host @FareedZakaria lavished praise on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Look, I’ve had my disagreements with him, but he has handled this remarkably well… he’s handled this extraordinarily well.” Grinning as he spoke, Zakaria gushed over a…
The headline, article framing and lede are all designed to make the Post’s low information readership believe Mamdani illegitimately got into Columbia which he did not because he was not accepted into Columbia. Comment section and replies is 10000 morons angry that he did though!
Incredible stuff
At the Aspen Ideas Festival, CNN host @FareedZakaria lavished praise on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Look, I’ve had my disagreements with him, but he has handled this remarkably well… he’s handled this extraordinarily well.” Grinning as he spoke, Zakaria gushed over a…
First to develop nuclear weapons and tell everyone else not to and we, the nuclear weapon states, commit under #NPT to get rid of ours ; Then to renege on their commitment and use their weapons to create “An Animal Farm” world order where some are more equal than others; Then…
Should the US push for regime change in Iran? Part 1 of my @aspenideas conversation w/ two former national security advisers — @AmbJohnBolton & @AmbassadorRice — and former CIA Director and retired Gen. David Petraeus: