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Beastly Boy

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155. Congrartulations! You found a BBC reporter who editorialized the hell out of what Netanyahu said.
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:57 PM
6 hrs ago

Just like you did. Except he had the good sense to not put his editorializing in quotation marks like you did, and he cited Netanyahu immediately afterwards to make clear that he was editorializing earlier, which you didn't.

Sure it's important that netanyahu said he will not end the war with the release of the hostages. He said the war will end with the destruction of Hamas. And who in their right mind would end the war with their defiant attackers intact and ready to take more hostages?

Of course I can argue that your quote was not a direct quote. I did just that, remember? There is no such thing as an indirect quote. When you put something in quotation marks, you either quote someone or you fake a quote. You faked a quote. The journalist who, it turns out, doesn't agree with you did not.

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A fucking hyporite. Beastly Boy Saturday #7
Didn't Israel Eko Saturday #38
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Do you ever read articles beyond headlines? I do. Most of the time. Beastly Boy Saturday #97
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I congrtulate you on reading the whole thing. Beastly Boy Yesterday #125
So, Eko Saturday #105
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Must be a different UNRWA. Beastly Boy Saturday #118
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Yes, an independently confirmed fantasy widely covered in the media as if it were fact-based. Their mistale. Beastly Boy Yesterday #123
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Thank you. Very helpful indeed. Something that you previously called a fantasy being confirmed as fact Beastly Boy 12 hrs ago #146
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The questions remain: send them in where? Beastly Boy 15 hrs ago #129
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The same targets they are hitting now except doing so not with a single strike but Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #136
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Well, your observation is exactly the reason my question is a good one. Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #139
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Your wondering contains a proposition for a ground assault. Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #143
Ahhh. Okay. Thanks for explaining your thoughts on why 🙂 cstanleytech 11 hrs ago #148
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Bullshit. No one was stoping them from returning the hostages. Ever. Beastly Boy Saturday #49
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Congrartulations! You found a BBC reporter who editorialized the hell out of what Netanyahu said. Beastly Boy 6 hrs ago #155
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