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Is it weird that this English BBC reporter is presenting measurements in "feet" https://youtu.be/wMd69ZiE4wU

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The distance between fox droppings is "yards"

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Do you remember a couple weeks into the invasion when IDF commanders explained that leveling whole blocks with bunker busters had to do logistical support and urban planning

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Beyond belief. Impossibly stupid. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4638590-desantis-signs-bill-banning-lab-grown-meat/

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@bikepedantic "our rapid authoritarian creep is intended to prevent the authoritarianism of national democrats" Indiana lawmakers are reading from the same playbook

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"Let's pretend to be busy for three hours while right-wing militants assault the encampment and then show up to arrest their victims" is really only a couple steps away from the IDF's West Bank playbook

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(Which is "let's guard the criminals' flanks and make sure nothing happens to them while they assault the encampment")

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I mean of course masks work but do you remember social distancing

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I'm not saying isolation is great but abstaining from social contact is clearly superior in terms of reducing infection risk

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Well-equipped commuter guy with fat tire bike and a giant backpack straight gawking at my bakfiets like he's having a revelation

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So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option

So what are Palestinians supposed to do??

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@QasimRashid How do I pin this to my profile

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Just finished a religious studies course that was a scriptural studies approach to the Qur'an and so basically

I can discuss topics related to quranic exegesis with some confidence; islamic esotericism is my specialty

but don't ask me why muslims fast for 30 days during Ramadan, I will have to search wikipedia, I am an asshole and I pledge to do better

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Which to be fair that's the definition of the course is it's not about Islam it's about the Qur'an as scripture but I still feel like I missed a step

Ask me about the doctrine of inimitability and what it means to be an ummi nation though

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It turns out one of the biggest bicycle theft crime rings in Toronto was orchestrated by a local bike shop owner, because bike theft stimulates bike shop sales

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-astonished-as-number-of-stolen-bikes-recovered-passes-2-000-1.725034

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He didn't sell the stolen bikes, he just squirreled them away in a rental indefinitely, preferring to sell new bikes instead

This would seem ingenious until you consider the margin on new bikes is never more than 30%

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So I think I have a cool idea for a car dealership

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“dissent must never lead to disorder.”

  • Vladimir Putin

lmao jk that was Joe Biden on the student protests.

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@peter Even if you accept the premise ("never"), this is peak gas-lighting

The institutional response has been disorderly, not the protests

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I bet if you formed an electric car company made only of people who previously worked for Tesla then quit in disgust, you could make a really good electric car company

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@mcc IIRC that's Canoo

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@mcc Browsed their career section and it looks like yes to both: you could have your pick

https://www.canoo.com/

This would be a really interesting time to join the company. They're so close to finally delivering vehicles and unlocking revenue and if they don't do it this year they'll run out of money

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"Stop what you're doing" is in every strategic playbook except the one MBAs use

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If an MBA is saying it, it's a euphemism for "pause temporarily so we can continue"

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A note for counter-protestors:

Waving a giant flag of Israel in the background of what most people perceive as chaos is not sending the message you think it is lol

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Someone explain to me the argument for snipers at a student protest.

I have seen zero reports of protest-related shootings. I have seen zero reports of cops being killed by students. I have seen zero reports of students taking hostages. Why the everloving fuck are cop shops putting guys with guns on the roof? It makes no sense.

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@mcnado Maintaining the deterrence regime, maintaining "the edge" (a specific kind of terrorism law enforcement trains in: controlling with fear by projecting superior force and unpredictability), etc

They're not neutral: they represent "a side" and a rebuttal - they're both representatives and rhetoric

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"I can't understand why these liberals aren't liberaling"

I mean the confusing part is why do democrats let right-wing talk radio define them. Democrats are not liberals, they're democrats

The reason they're not doing the stuff liberals are supposed to do is because they're not liberals and never have been: democrats are conservatives.

Similarly the so-called conservative party isn't conservative at all - they're anti-democratic radicals

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The entire "vote for us to preserve the current constitutional form of government" thing is 1000% a conservative argument that is only coincidentally aligned with liberal values (because what the other side is proposing happens to be worse for individual liberties)

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the cops and liberal leaders have signaled that college protestors are not protected by the rule of law, so now the right-wing brawlers have showed up to attack them, right on schedule. great job everyone. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/ucla-leaders-declare-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful-orders-everyone-to-leave/

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@peter (It doesn't change your point in any way but it's worth considering: Universities are conservative institutions, every single one of them)

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