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galad

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galad, to random
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@DropBear @serge There is so much wrong with your post that it would take forever to properly unpack... Primarily you are tokenizing Jews via one of the most fringe sects out there. Secondly, you fundamentally do not understand what Zionism is.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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EDITED: One of journalism's consistent flaws is ignoring relevant context.

Case in point is this NY Times story about a judge tossing out a new federal regulation limiting extortionate credit card late fees.

Here's the context the Times didn't care to include: The financial companies went forum shopping, and landed one of their favorite Trump-appointed judges, who (to his credit) objected to the process, but then predictably ruled against the administration.

Journalistic malpractice, IMO.

galad,
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@dangillmor The New York Times is the publication of choice for American oligarchs.

tzimmer_history, to random
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Weekend reading: I wrote about how mainstream commentators constantly raise the specter of 1968 to denounce the student protests - willfully ignoring the long pattern of leftwing student movements acting as an indispensable corrective.

Some thoughts from this week’s piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-students-have-never-been-the

galad,
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@tzimmer_history The problem here is that this particular protest movement is riddled with antisemitism and islamist apologia.

MJ, to random
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Booing an Israeli singer at Eurovision, setting aside opinions on Israel’s right to exist and the actions of its current leadership, isn’t going to bring peace to anyone.

It’s moronic.

galad,
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@MJ It’s like booing an American because MAGA is a thing.

shoq, to random
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I’m not convinced of that. In much the same way that Israel accepted the UN mandate as permission to declare a nation, the Palis could hold a referrendum on a 2SS that could be enforced by global peacekeepers for a minimum of 15 years. Convince israel of peaceful intent, and even their hardliners would have trouble selling endless war.

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galad,
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@shoq One of the major barriers to Palestinian statehood is their consistent refusal to recognize the legitimacy of Israel. I don't see that changing any time soon.

galad,
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@shoq In ~80 years Palestinians have refused every single opportunity for a two state solution.

shoq, to random
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Israel is a powerful nuclear-armed nation. They are never going to abandon Israel, and will never accept any political solution as long as they are routinely attacked. And no one can force them to do otherwise. Qatar knows this, yet they continue to fund Hamas. They work both sides against the middle and the middle always loses. Someone must start preaching meaningful compromise or this could go on for decades if not centuries.

galad,
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@shoq I fully expect Israel to start routinely assassination high ranking members of HAMAS and other Salafist groups.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

galad,
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@GottaLaff She needs to be removed.

shoq, to random
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@lakelady I can’t speak for @galad, but in my view, the evidence is in the fact that 100% of their very public ire and rhetoric is aimed at the US and Israel, rather than the biggest obstacle to ending the violence: Hamas. I have not yet seen a single exception. It may exist, but I haven’t seen it.

galad,
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@shoq @lakelady I don't think I've heard any of them call for Qatar to expel the leadership of Hamas.

shoq, to random
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It’s so easy to pick sides in conflicts like this. But that’s a mistake, if one ever wants to see peace in that region. Anyone that thinks Israel will back away, or concede anything at this point is not dealing with reality. They made their concessions (in their mind) long ago, and once rejected, they feel justified in keeping the spoils of conflict. If there’s to be any solution, it must start with accepting much of the status quo. Unless you have the armies or leverage to change it.

galad,
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@shoq The problem is that Palestinian groups and their nation state benefactors have had a very long history of negotiating with Israel in bad faith. Ceasefires and peace treaties were usually intended to last only as long as it took Palestinians to rearm.

shoq, to random
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See? Same problem as Hamas itself. When people don’t actually want to resolve the conflict, they make demands that can never be met. And that is precisely why so many Israeli hardliners feel justified in doing whatever it takes to destroy Hamas. Even if the death toll sickens some of them. They see it as their only option with an enemy that lets uncomprising terrorists lead them to only more death and destruction.

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galad,
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@shoq @lakelady They’d be better off pressuring the Biden administration to sanction IDF units under the Leahy Law. It’s already on the books and it’s something Biden is mulling over anyway. Then again, many of these protesters don’t actually want to affect real change.

taylorlorenz, to random
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“The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181107/college-protests-israel-gaza-media-coverage-shameful

galad,
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@taylorlorenz Downplaying the antisemitism at those protests is a bad look.

flexghost, to random
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It’s Sunday

Just another good day in which to say Fuck The New York Times

galad,
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@flexghost Journalistic malpractice

galad, to random
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is in vogue here in the US under the guise of "anti-zionism". Goes to the much older idea that Jews don't belong anywhere and should be thankful for their existence barely being tolerated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/jewish-anti-semitism-harvard-claudine-gay-zionism/677454/?gift=Wyf-5OzbrcU8eE-2Wqvm1b5UO1wVIVd2fuM61lHJWhM

shoq, to random
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And that’s been my argument for quite a number of years. Nothing annoys me more than calls for General strikes. There has never really been a successful general strike in this country. The closest we ever came was 1835. It’s a leftist fantasy.

Source: @CurtAdams
https://mastodon.social/@CurtAdams@urbanists.social/112078905774349532

galad,
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@shoq @CurtAdams They’d have more success getting strikes in specific critical or high profile work sectors.

galad,
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@shoq @CurtAdams The destruction of online and offline third spaces by the Billionaire class absolutely contributes to the inability of regular people to organize. Instead of being able to coalesce on Twitter or Facebook, we're all scattered across niche apps and websites. Mastodon could serve as a main online third space if it was easier for technologically inept people to use.

arstechnica, to random
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Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say

On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/unvaccinated-florida-kids-exposed-to-measles-can-skip-quarantine-officials-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

galad,
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@arstechnica Florida is a third world country.

wdlindsy, to random
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"Does the New York Times care if democracy survives?

I ask this question sincerely, because the Times’ political coverage sometimes makes me wonder. …

I have other questions about the Times too:

Why does the Times opinion page amplify liars and extremists?"

~ Mark Jacob


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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/is-the-new-york-times-neutral-on

galad,
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@gdinwiddie @wdlindsy The owners of the NYT are as conservative and elitist as they get.

flexghost, to random
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Seize Starlink.

Investigate Twitter for proliferating child abuse content.

End all subsidies to Musk properties.

galad,
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@flexghost Nationalize the shit out of his companies and raid his homes and offices.

flexghost, to random
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Hire mental health professionals instead of cops, end qualified immunity and never – ever – call police unless you want someone to die.

galad,
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@flexghost That will only ever work if mental health professionals are paid at least as much as police.

galad, to climate
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LNG is absolutely not a "transition fuel" like the fossil fuel corporations would like people to believe.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-pauses-lng-eport-approvals

serge, to random
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There are times when I think that antisemitism on the Fediverse is going down, but really it's just that our local moderation is going well.

Nonetheless, unless instances' moderators actually take an active stand against it, the result is that it's up to victims of hate speech to be constantly on guard.

I for one am sick of seeing:

Nazi/Holocaust Inversion
Blood Libel Accusations
Harassment of Jews Talking About Antisemitism
Deicide
Word Swapping (ie "Zionists" or "Israelis" used instead of Jews")
Accusations of Weaponized Antisemitism

On the Fediverse.

If you say you're against antisemitism, then take action, clean up your own instance and start taking other instances who allow this kind of hate speech on your instance seriously.

galad,
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@serge I'm not sure it's enough to simply block the instances that allow this behavior. Kolektiva, for example, is by far the most antisemitic instance I've seen so far on Mastodon and it's moderators seem to fully support Hamas.

skaly, to random
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PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU DON'T WANT ANOTHER HOLOCAUST
Yesterday in London in Leicester Square 3 Israelis were speaking Hebrew between them then a person asked them if they're Jewish and once they said yes, he and his group started hitting them and soon about 30 people were hitting the 3 Jews in public in central London. It took the police half an hour to respond. We can't even speak our native language in public anymore and that's why I'm leaving the UK. SPEAK UP. END ANTI-SEMITIC HATE NOW.

galad,
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@silberspur @skaly Antisemitism is extremely common in British Muslim communities. I'm not at all surprised.

flexghost, to random
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We knew it would happen

And it’s happening

A robocall with an AI generated Biden voice is telling democrats not to vote in the New Hampshire primary

Watch the FTC come down with slightly heavy class 1 misdemeanors for the perpetrators – commissioning more election interference

🇺🇸

video/mp4

galad,
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@flexghost The FCC needs to punish these people with decades in jail. The fact that the perpetrators are getting a slap on the wrist is utterly unacceptable.

taylorlorenz, to random
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"Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on Palestinians who had gathered to receive flour brought by UN trucks. Fifty Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured" https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6098

galad,
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@morecowbell @taylorlorenz I'm not contesting that people are getting killed because the current Israeli government doesn't care about collateral damage. I'm asking for evidence about particular incidents which seem like they could be invented to drive outrage.

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