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The Daily Beast: What is this Elon Salute what can it mean French Nazis: too Nazi for us

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There is no excuse for Hamas to murder children and parade their bodies like trophies. It is cruel, depraved, evil behavior. Full stop. And there is no excuse to gloat over the murder of those whose politics are different than yours, because you think it somehow "vindicates" you. Full stop.

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The responsibility for the death of Shiri Bibas and the disappearance of her body lies firmly with Hamas. Having said that, the Israeli government and military, who left Nir Oz without protection on the 7th of October, chose to prioritise a war of vengeance over the safe return of the hostages.

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Not only are the Congressman’s remarks not a threat but Martin was a defense attorney for people who actually did threaten government officials - the Jan 6th insurrectionists! - and works for a president who has made multiple violent threats (2nd Amendment people and Hillary, folks, remember that?)

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

The Right used to claim that everything that happens to poor people and Black people is because they have "absent fathers" and if they only had good fathers their situation would be fixed. Now they idolize Elon Musk who is an absent father to a shocking degree.

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

Antisemitism is sometimes invoked maliciously. Antisemitism is sometimes invoked out of paranoia. Antisemitism can be used to fight pro-Palestinian speech, willingly or unwillingly. This does not give you the license for any of the following cheap rhetorical parlour tricks: 1/5

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The documentary Active Measures made it clear that Trump is a Russian asset. Now Trump is making it clear himself.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 3 days ago • 4827 comments

“Others shouted insults, including at children. One man called neighborhood residents ‘filthy Zionist assholes,’ and a woman shouted at young girls watching from a crosswalk, saying, ‘you’re so gross. You’re disgusting.’Children on their way home from neighborhood yeshivas peered out bus windows.”

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?

submitted 5 days ago • 159 comments

This precisely. There is ample evidence to show that the Russian government has long favored Trump. Furthermore, Trump has well researched ties to Russian organized crime through his real estate deals. Last, but not least, bad actors from Russia launder money via real estate. It’s all pretty clear.

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One of the most infuriating parts of Trumpworld's involvement with Russia has been watching public figures and legacy media act politely baffled by every new pro-Russian position or decision, all of which are perfectly explicable if they'd just admit the truth staring them in the face.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

If Joe Biden said this, the entire Republican Party would be yelling about Munich/1938/appeasement, & it would prompt nonstop front page headlines about whether he was mentally unfit to be president.

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

Pavlov’s experiment in today’s #DafYomi www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.63...

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If Putin had installed a president completely obedient to him and ordered him to kill the country, nothing would be different from what Trump did this past week.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

Here’s something I wrote a few years ago on the fundamentalist push to display the Ten Commandments in schools, contrasted with Rabbinic approaches to then Ten Commandments and the role of complexity in a Divine text: www.sefaria.org/sheets/24024...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

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Now we know what the price of the prisoner release was yesterday. Didn't even take 24 hours for Trump to pay up.

submitted 10 days ago • 95 comments