I started reading Gawker every day around 20 years ago when I still lived in NYC, probably more for the local gossip than anything else. When I moved to the other side of the world, it was one way I maintained a connection to “home” at the time.

The Palestinians will be better off without them. If the Palestinians aren’t up to the task, the IDF certainly is.

But that very plainly isn’t true. If it were, there wouldn’t be settlers in the West Bank bulldozing the homes of Palestinians and burning down their schools and mosques. Hamas doesn’t control the West Bank; the PLA does. And they aren’t launching rockets, nor are they fighting in any meaningful way, apart from trying…

Oh, in that case you can fuck right off since a quick Google search shows that Hadid has criticized the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians many times.

Gaza is literally surrounded by walls, except for their coastline which is heavily policed and any boat straying out of the approved waters gets immediately fired upon by the IDF. There are only two active crossings, one controlled by Egypt, the other Israel. The people of Gaza cannot leave. Israel controls everything…

Because after Israel spent decades propping them up and undermining the secular forces of the PLO like Fatah and the PFLP, which were unquestionably heroic and very sympathetic figures to westerners, Hamas is the only group left actively fighting for Palestinian liberation. It sucks that that’s the case, but Israel…

That whole “if you’re sitting at a table with Nazis you’re a Nazi too” thing stopped being applied when we looked past all the neo-Nazis NATO was supporting in Ukraine. Meanwhile one guy pulls up a picture of a swastika on his phone at a pro-Palestine protest (he couldn’t even get a physical representation into that…

Would be harder to do if Isreal hadn’t immediately responded by committing a war crime on territory that they effectively control. Thus causing massive risk of life to innocent civilians through an increased lack of food, water, and utilities.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine has been going on non-stop since 1948. When is it ok for people to speak up and say the deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime? When would you grant that permission? When they’re all dead and gone I suppose. 

Condemning Israel for committing war crimes is antisemitic? What do you call the countless Jews who have called out Bibi, Likud, and the “settlers” for a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing and provocation?

2006 was 17 years ago. The average age in Gaza is 18 years old. Most of the people the IDF is trying to genocide into oblivion did not choose Hamas because they weren’t old enough to vote.

Looks the same as the lede photo to me...

I don’t know how old the daughter is, but if she’s a tween/teen then this obsessive love of a pop star is pretty much a right of passage that she’ll likely grow out of. Teen obsession with pop stars goes back many decades and will go on long after Taylor is no longer a thing.

Serial dater? She was with Joe for many years. Meanwhile a male musician who sleeps around like crazy: crickets.

Pretty sure she’s done more for democracy than you have and it irritates that you made me type this.

“Serial dater”? She was with Joe for 6 years. And she’s dated what, two guys since they broke up- like, 9 months ago? She dates like a normal person, she’s just so famous that every gossip rag writes about her dates for weeks on end because people are weird and obsess over it. 

Exactly. She clearly doesn’t want to talk about it and is purposely giving a non-answer. She also likely told production she wouldn’t comment on Taylor Swift and they asked anyway. Ghouls. 

Did someone expect Momma Kelce to be all “We braided hair and painted our nails”? While the world seemingly needs Taylor for column inches, Mom knows better than to say anything!

When a group of vulnerable people—but particularly women—credibly accuse a rich and powerful person of abusive behavior, exploiting an uneven power dynamic, or of therwise doing Bad™ things... isn’t it typically the rule here that one should side with the more vulnerable party(s) as a matter of course, and drag the…