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About the murdered Bibas children: I understand, people are making them a symbol. But to me that’s wrong. It lessens the horrors of October 7. Kidnapping and murdering children was NOTHING compared to the absolute monstrosity of other atrocities committed on that day. Fuck Palestine!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Only checking in occasionally here lately because there doesn’t seem to be much going on here. Anyway, see you around, and also, Fuck Palestine.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is great! Professor Amy Wax is suing UPenn for discrimination against whites and Jews regarding “offensive speech”. I only hope the lawsuit goes to discovery, so UPenn will have to release statistics on how well their black law students actually rank. freebeacon.com/wp-content/u...

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This is a joke but it doesn’t tell the truth. As Yigal Carmon has said, Israel lost the war on Oct 7, 2023. No subsequent Israeli victory could change that. In that sense, Hamas certainly did win the war, whatever happens going forward. We will see that clearly, when we see the hostages.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

i hate these tech freaks so much. shut up about politics and go make me a little computer.

submitted 46 days ago • 171 comments

Movies where someone bought an expensive piece of jewelry or watch for their spouse/partner & another identical one for their lover, with engraving (on the watch), and this was an important plot point? • Heaven Can Wait (1943) • Johnny O’Clock (1947) • The Edge (1997) Are there more I missed?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck Palestine

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More about overrated classics: the Ernst Lubitsch classic films I’ve seen are overrated, except for “Heaven Can Wait” which was really good. Lubitsch is called “sophisticated”, which means adultery. But now when adultery is no longer risque, “sophistication” doesn’t help. What’s left ain’t funny.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I finally watched “Detour” (1945), and I think it’s overrated today. Yes, it’s a decent noir B movie, but it’s nowhere near the great noir films.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Belal in Gaza is unhappy with the consistency of the free UN hummus. "It tastes like hummus and smells lile hummus, but it isn't hummus!" He complains. "Have mercy on us! Enough sending us cans like this!" TikTok timestamp: 18 hours ago #TheGazaYouDontSee vt.tiktok.com/ZS6PHKrVS/

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

A friend unearthed this from the archives ... a piece I wrote in 2011 predicting the presidency of Donald Trump five years before it happened. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 53 days ago • 40 comments

So I read this new book by Eric Turkheimer, “Understanding the Nature–Nurture Debate”, and it’s really good. There are a few things that didn’t help the book, and there were a couple minor cases where I found his “gloomy prospect” argument unpersuasive. But overall, well-presented and convincing.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Currently learning: the Christmas carol “Villancico de Navidad” by Barrios. Here it is performed by Anabel Montesinos. I started learning this literally on Christmas Day, so a little late, but whatever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5tr...

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Burned, beaten, starved: Health Ministry compiles hostage testimonies to submit to UN

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With both the "Aryan Jesus" of the 1930s and the "Palestinian Jesus" of the 2020s, those who seek to expunge Jews from the past do so to justify eliminating Jews in the present. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

submitted 63 days ago • 30 comments

That quote is kind of a mess. 1. “Race is a political category” is a highly contested claim among of philsophers of race (almost all of whom are anti-racist). 2. Of course no grouping—race, population, species—“produces” any difference at all because of genetic differences. Sloppy thinking. 3…

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

For context: from what I’ve read these are incidents which occurred over thirty years ago. They were investigated; soldiers and commanders were tried, convicted, and punished; units were restructured to deal with the systemic corruption. I’m not an authority on this. But people should print context

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments