onno.cool
frothing at the mouth, incandescent rage, we WILL build a better world. | ithaca NY | sic semper tyrannis | views my own
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I personally can't think of a book I've read with a sex scene that felt shoehorned in (in contrast to plot-relevant boning down) from the past like...decade. Idk what genre they're reading tho, I'm mostly a nonfiction bitch
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So it's not even a dislike. Like literally we do not care! People tend to not believe that, so it gets taken as distaste, which then gets lumped in with weird puritans. I (and presumably the screenshotted folks) don't care that there's sex in books. It's not an imposition. It's just boring.
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like imo skill issue on their part, I find plenty to read without random sex scenes, but it really does come from a different place. It's not that breadsticks are bad and nobody should have them it's just that you're really more a nachos bitch
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from an ace perspective it's less that it's icky or whatever and more like... Imagine you really don't give a shit about bread but every restaurant gives you breadsticks a la olive garden. It's not offending you, but it'd be refreshing to go somewhere and NOT get breadsticks
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she's cool, Going Thru It, president of puppygirls
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You might feel it's unfair that people take it that way, and, honestly, get over it
Part of politics, part of life, is understanding how you're coming across to other people
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The group of 4, of which he only killed two, were /all/ embassy staffers (not diplomats). All facts point to him thinking 'Jew Event = Zionist Event.' That is antisemitic. If Trump and Israel say the sky is blue, I'm not going to start calling it green out of spite.
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If it turns out that yes, he specifically sought to murder Yaron Lischinzky and Sarah Milgrim, I'll eat my words: it was a regular extrajudicial execution, not an antisemitic one. I'm literally just trying to help people see why even antizionist Jews are calling the act antisemitic.
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I'm trying to illustrate precisely that! With what facts there are, the shooter went to an event at a Jewish museum, hosted by a Jewish org, and murdered two people at random in the name of antizionism. Unless he knew the victims, the only way you square that is him believing that Judaism=zionism.
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have fun!
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Right, but the question is whether the shooter specifically targeted them/knew who they were, or if his thought process was 'I should kill people at the Jew event because they'll be Zionists.' I'm assuming he didn't have a like video game overlay that shows everyone's shitty tweets.
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Wait, where are you getting that? I've only seen that he approached a group of 4, shot two - all 4 were Israeli diplomats - and then walked into the event. I haven't seen any indication that he knew who they were, even in the 'manifesto' going around.
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Which is irrelevant to why they were targeted. They were targeted because they were at an event at a Jewish museum, being put on for Jews. Whether they deserved extrajudicial murder is irrelevant to the question of whether the act was antisemitic, which is what I'm trying to communicate.
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Just following up on this. Republicans made up a new set of rules that let them ignore the parliamentarian instead of overruling them. Nice work if you can get it!
As a reminder, Senate rules are creative non-fiction and can be abused by any majority at will.
rollcall.com/2025/05/22/s...
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One man and one woman. Both actively working towards peace in the region. The woman specifically studied peacemaking. Murdered because they were at an event for Jews, at a Jewish museum, focused on activism for peace. That Jews were killed is not what makes it antisemitic - that context is.
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The event, not about Israel, was at the Capital Jewish Museum. The man's only questions were about if the event was the American Jewish Committee's Young Diplomats reception. Yelling 'Free Palestine' was not antisemitic. The targeting of this event, however, was.
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"I'm not going to grovel to people I hate"
OK,
1. Brand management isn't grovelling, be serious. Politicians, companies, etc have to walk stuff back all the time
2. It helps to not hate the people whose votes you're asking for
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Man are the invites always this ugly too