ozymandiae.bsky.social
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Right up there with saying you don’t give FB rights to track you. Performative and not going to do anything useful. We need to train people to refuse to talk to cops, refuse to open their door, refuse to help ICE.
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No.
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Israel didn’t exist 100 years ago.
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Better: don’t be a Pride tourist. You know, the ones who gawk and think that the locals are deaf and dumb.
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They are literally causing thousands of infants to be born with HIV because of the ending of USAID. You cannot claim to care about babies and support this trash administration.
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“Treasury Secretary torches reputation, self, and lies obviously about basic facts.”
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Lunatic conspiracy theories that he was executed by the military during Trump’s first term no less.
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“Illegally failed to distribute funds allocated by Congress.”
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“Illegally failed to distribute funds allocated by Congress.”
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On what basis does the state regulate what software private corporations can use? Passing this would just lead to a lawsuit that the state would lose, wouldn’t it?
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He took away something completely unrelated to the actual content of the book. It’s nuts.
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“Negative perceptions” is a funny way to write “reports of tourists being arrested and held in horrible conditions for no reason.”
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This is coming from a recently filed suit.
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No shooter, no death. Blame the cause.
This was a person who made the deliberate choice to murder someone. They own their choice, and trying to blame someone else is fucked up.
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Blame the shooter.
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It doesn’t. Except that SCOTUS Republicans hate gay people so are willing to support stupid arguments that lead to their preferred outcomes.
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Or … and maybe actually talk about this … it’s the huge cuts in funding. 🙄
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How much does it cost to keep people in poverty? Ramesh Ponnoru is another late-convert Catholic who hasn’t learned anything from the Bible.
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“But he told us that we could make money from other suckers and he wouldn’t regulate it” is not a selling point for most of us. Crime sells, if you are the criminal and not the one who is being stolen from.
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Such a Christian man. 🙄
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Yes. The violence was bad whether by Israel or by other countries. I think they should have done a population exchange like Pakistan and India.
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Trivially.
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Arab Israeli citizens are part of Israel’s military command, Supreme Court, and Congress. That’s not how apartheid is usually defined.
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By the way, Shlaim was born in 1945, so it would be curious indeed if he remembered first hand what happened in Iraq when he was 3 in 1948. He also left at age 6.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
What’s a few pogroms between friends, right?
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If you are arguing “not all” Jews were forced out of their homes, you will have to grapple with the fact that not all Palestinians were forced out either. 20% of Israelis are Arab.
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Newt Gingrich was having an affair with his now-third wife, and lying about it, while he was impeaching Clinton for lying about an affair. Nothing has changed.
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Nope not pretending the two aren’t related, just that the expulsions happened on both sides.
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Trolling is boring. Israel was established in 1948. That is what the original poster referred to as a mistake.
Here you go. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_...
Compare and contrast.
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Not for giggles, for profit for the top 0.01%.
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Do you know what happened in 1948?
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Skipped the first half of the quote, did ya?
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I’m not defending the Israeli government. They are horrifying. But that is different from arguing against the existence of the country. Kind of how pointing out that the Trump administration’s actions are killing millions isn’t an indictment of the existence of the US, just its current admin.
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What do you think they meant by “1948 was an error. I don't know what solution there is. I wish we did away with religion altogether.”
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Their argument was that establishing a state like that with a religion was a mistake. How is India-Pakistan different other than that the population exchange worked better.
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What they can do is refuse assignments that are immoral. And face the consequences of defying this administration.
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Does this mean that you think a place like BlueSky will reshape the way we think (about what other people believe)?
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So you oppose the existence of India and Pakistan too? Strange, but you do you.
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“The existence of a Jewish state is an error” is not criticism of Israel’s actions today, but of Israel’s existence at all. And unless you also want to end the existence of China, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, the reason for the argument is not treating Muslims terribly.
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Mostly Christian nationalists and fascists. But go off.
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The majority of Jews in the US did not vote for Trump. 🙄
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The vast majority of insane no-holds Israel supporters are Christian nationalists. Stop trying to make this a Jewish problem, when it’s a fascist problem.
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Good for her for reclusing and following basic ethical norms. But this precedent will be overturned within the year.
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Only because Barrett reclused herself because she advised the Catholic school when she was a law professor. So the result in the next similar case will be 5-4.
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Overhauls? Don’t you mean guts?
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A shooting 5 miles from the Israeli embassy at the Jewish Museum was what now?
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“Regulatory clarity”? It should be “a promise to prop up crypto currency using the power of the US government in exchange for millions in political donations.”
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I’ll buy queer, or m but gay? Do you know something we don’t know? Even odds he was asexual rather than homosexual.