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Israeli-American techie scum. Almost became political operative scum, hence tweeting.
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The only property in Smaug's hoard that rightfully belonged to non-dwarvish parties was in fact property that had been seized from non-dwarvish parties, and distinguishing that should have been a legal dispute rather than a military attack on the sovereignty of the newly reestablished kingdom
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Pretty amazing reliance on a guy who is an admitted liar and propagandist. If the NYT were sensible and honest they'd shun that repellent guy like every normal person would.
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Maybe
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(It will be the funniest thing ever if *this* government is the first to last four years. The second funniest would be if the Haredi draft is what brings it down, since that's what kicked off the endless series of elections in '19.)
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theres a great piece in jacobin about the collapse of this yugoslav marxist academic circle and it has a line to the effect of 'the croat wing were principled opponents of croat ethnonationalism, the serbian wing were also principled opponents of croat ethnonationalism'
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I routinely encounter this argument and I find it bizarre. The point of advancing a politics is to effect a political outcome. There are many people who support politics they don't understand. That isn't an argument against the danger of those ideas and the people who would carry them out in power.
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The Jewish museum event and the rally in Boulder *were* more political events than Jewish ones, but if you consider either of them compelling targets for political violence it seems like a very short jump to going after synagogues that fly Israeli flags, or Jewish day schools that celebrate Israel.
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Nothing encapsulates the human mind's inability to comprehend the scale of our society like a NIMBY counting buildings and declaring that sufficient proof that there must be lots of new housing being built.
Meanwhile
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Sports is an effective anti-trans vector because it divides tolerant people who believe trans realities and those who don't.
People who see me as a mega gay man and politely play along with my insistence that I'm a woman aren't ready to believe that my athletic capacity is similar to cis women.
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Nobody knows exactly how this is going to play out. My *guess* is Netanyahu will dangle real concessions to everyone and in the process of haggling drag this out for more months in the hopes that political conditions change to something more favorable before he has to make commitments.
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I don't know when Netanyahu's coalition will collapse. Maybe next week, maybe at a later date.
But it's more likely to collapse over the Haredi draft issue than it is to collapse in the face of protests to bring the hostages home and end the war, since those are opposition goals.
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I think the idea was "alliance between peaceniks and Haredim", not "Haredim are peaceniks"
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Because I genuinely want to play with this stuff: how do you take advantage of this new ecosystem if your code absolutely cannot go off-prem? Just shell out for a stupidly expensive local-model workstation for every developer?
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I think there's a certain memory-holing here of just how badly student groups showed their ass, particularly in October-December 2023, and how strongly that shaped public perception of pro-Palestinian activism.
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They did go viral! Berkeley, Harvard, &c student statements eg "indisputably support[ing] the Uprising" were brought up by (disproportionately, but not only, R) congresspeople in hearings! That Harvard "Israel is responsible for October 7th" letter (released the day of) was all over the news!
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Local chapters of SJP widely used the toolkit that statement came from, and issued their own statements with similar sentiments about the October 7th attacks.
And that image on the left was used by lots of actual protest organizers on campuses.
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EuroTrack: just 6-16% across our six Western European publics think Israel has responded proportionately in Gaza
The most common view (29-40%) is that, while Israel was right to send troops into Gaza after the 7 Oct attacks in 2023, they have since gone too far
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
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Don't remind me 😠www.fda.gov/consumers/co...
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Were they, though?
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the consequences of edupol making all PR professionals democrats