Absolutely. The overwhelming majority of the opposition is also Zionist, though. "Zionism" is an actual ideology, not just code for "likes whoever is running Israel right now".
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Absolutely. The overwhelming majority of the opposition is also Zionist, though. "Zionism" is an actual ideology, not just code for "likes whoever is running Israel right now".
I think this goes too far in the other direction. I think the Israelis are engaging in a kind of collective guilt against Gaza, and definitely trying to clear people out of urban areas.
This one was unimportant but particularly glaring, since he repeated it after being caught on tape. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...
Bluesky buddies! I want a bunch of examples for something I'm writing of instances in the last 9 months of the Trump administration insisting on something that was *obviously* untrue - real 'up is down' examples, ideally with news story links to the statement.
And here is one of those inconvenient allies, who returns the favor by deriding progressive left folks like AOC as "liberal Zionists" (he thinks that's a bad thing) bsky.app/profile/dbea...
A big burly man came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, "Sir, I never felt comfortable trying to live as a woman."
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Alternately bsky.app/profile/gcam...
Okay he's definitely alive and conscious
Food was, in fact, a contraband item which the blockading Allies did not allow to enter the Germany or, later in the war, the occupied parts of Europe.
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Or this grab bag of cherry picked experts in... 2016 ccrjustice.org/genocide-pal...
my attempt at a "scott alexander leaked email explainer" for anyone who does not find everything he is saying obvious www.tumblr.com/segyges/7934...
Having basic numeracy and literacy be a multi-generational tradition at a time when most of your peers are a generation or two removed from the village is a big leg up, which can them compound!
this is entirely normative behavior under a different set of norms than usual
They're putting Stars of David on people who are Jewish and not Israeli. Anthony Blinken's Jewishness is the thing the meme maker wants to emphasize.
The Second Great Awakening is responsible for so so much, good and bad.
Hot take: the Western progressive left's conflation of Zionism and Kahanism is all about sanewashing the actual anti-Zionism of their political allies.
No-enemies-to-the-left progressives get stuck with a bunch of bad allies. Islamists, tankies, rich nimbys, diverse cultists. They ignore the craziness when they can (tankies, nimbys until ~2020), and sanewash only when they get organized pushback from within the left (Jews, recently yimbys).
*I* want to type and read!
This sort of hysterical take based on optics never quite delves into how many states involved in these summits actually share a free trade zone, customs union, currency structure and unconditional defence pact
No. It can grow all it wants and it still doesnโt have a source of revenue. I frankly do not know that bsky couldnโt support itself _today_ with a QOL premium edition for $5-$10. I dont think their burn rate is public but like its not *that* much money whatever it is
Hot take: the Western progressive left's conflation of Zionism and Kahanism is all about sanewashing the actual anti-Zionism of their political allies.
"Meanwhile Zionists are structurally antisemitic" LOLWUT. I'll be sure to tell the explicitly Zionist Reform and Conservative national institutions, and the overwhelmingly Jewish literal World Zionist Organization. And no, the "weeding out" is not effective.
(It's also not clear to me that they're anti-Zionist per se)
Pearce is a good 'un! OP wasn't denying the existence of anti-Zionists who Do The Work, and neither am I.
TBF, the resulting states are sometimes quite effective. Not that that's a great endorsement of the ideology...
I don't see a Voting With Their Feet moment on the horizon, but it'll be an informal gauge (while we wait for elections next year) of the "normative" citizens' mood, especially of aspects not well captured by election polling.
Call-up of 60K reservists expected in the coming days in Israel, per Channel 13 News. 13 and Yediot report that military sources are worried about turnout rates; and that those military sources complain the Security Cabinet isn't taking the issue seriously.
(Absolution is on offer for those who were only *literally* horny for him.)
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
the key is that pull is num_people times how_terminally_online_on_average and the optimal point is actually 4chan in 2014 so we're doing good
There's a lot of *other* very real awful things that Israel does but striking Ansar Allah just isn't something I can bring myself to be broken up over, even if the Israeli government vs Ansar Allah is degrees of evil.
Okay One True Scotsman
Where am I in that screenshot?
Then tell me - what symbol was tainted to make "Jews hate Jesus and that's why Christians should be anti-Zionist" a sane statement?
It's okay. Sometimes people in "your" ideological tribe are shitty. I know that feeling VERY VERY WELL. Just breath and you'll make it through this trauma.
1. It is fascinating that you think antiracist and feminist activism are definitionally liberal and not leftist. 2. If you think that her feminist and antiracist activism is predictive of liberal views on class and wealth, you're just empirically wrong.
i think that the idea that money can literally be contaminated morally and rendered evil to handle is of course philosophically wrong but it sure does seem like a Chesterton's fence
No, actually, I'm going to blame antisemites for their antisemitism.
But also, this "she's not as left as me therefore this isn't *leftist* antisemitism" is deeply annoying.
She has a very prolific body of work explaining her ideology, a simple Google of name + "capitalism" would suffice. mrambaranolm.medium.com/ascension-fr...
(More generally, the upside-down red triangle is a marker of explicitly pro-Hamas leftists.)
The retweeter has a Wikipedia page. Look at the "activism" section. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ra...
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Plus all the harassment of kippahs wearers and mezuzah hangers at universities after October 7th.
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Magneto is a character who evolved into a hero because Chris Claremont decided to take possibly the most beard-twirling one-dimensional villain in all of Marvel and find the humanity in him, and turned him into a hero within five years in the early 1980s.
Kind of amazing how many analysts and scholars wasted 100 000s of wordcount worth of credibility in taking the incoherent flailing of an incompetent administration that is rapidly paralysing the US seriously
Partially buried lede here from both the headline and Columbus is that Rowling's the one self-estranged from everyone else and the obstacle to a reunion: that she'd refuse to work with Radcliffe & Co, not vice versa.
"I am deliberately promoting most ideas from the neoreactionary movement. i think they should avoid the words 'feudalism' and 'cathedral' for marketing purposes, and I also disagree with them neoreactionaries about gender, but I like everything else they say and am deliberately marketing for it"
โAnd Trump is dying tonightโ - 21st century US idiom expressing skepticism about an overly optimistic statement.
"the marketplace of ideas" includes ideas like "you should assume this guy is lying or wrong because he is usually lying or wrong"
How has rationalwiki avoided going off summer ideological deep end for so long?
The commonly cited AI water usage statistics are based on a methodology where, if your data center buys green energy from a hydroelectric dam (as lots do, including the hyperscalers), then โnatural evaporation of the water from the lake behind the damโ is counted as that data centerโs water use.
At the Vatican the Pope released a statement, "I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment."
I went with Astra Militarum commander, and pretty much the same. The feel was of a distant relative who'd made enough of a splash to get catapulted up the line of succession.
Part of it is that the US Constitution and statute define "state of emergency" (or leave it undefined) without serious costs to invoking it. Very Weimar Germany, or modern Egypt and Israel. Once again I stan the current German constitution.
Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life
[director who uses the same costume and set designers, vfx studio, same(ish) actors, and his wife has multiple academy award nominations for writing his movies voice]: so as an Auteur i believe,,,
The ideal outcome for Trump's health is that it wavers somewhere bad enough that he can't run an energetic presidency but good enough that each of his lackeys is too afraid to propose at 25A solution, and then in 2026 it slips to the point where half the lackeys are ready for 25A and the GOP cracks
this is how the nobel prizes were founded. very effective method historically
Alternately, some people just want every single Israeli to cease existing, regardless of what they say or do.
When you reference Jacobin I assume you mean the writings of Branko Marcetic, who is... yikes.
Russian propaganda is also published in English. This specific narrative about Boris Johnson of all people being responsible for the collapse of the Istanbul talks is a staple of Russian foreign-facing propaganda.
You yourself have backpedaled to abandon b but are still talking about Istanbul generally as if you hadn't; and a is frankly laughable given what we actually know about the talks, and indicates you've been boiling your brain in Russian propaganda narratives about the period.
And then you said "but", with claims that a) Boris Johnson and Ukrainian intransigence he inspired was at fault for the collapse of talks, rather than Bucha and Russian intransigence, and b) a likely outcome was Ukraine getting back Kherson and Melitopol and reparations. bsky.app/profile/plot...
Or to put it differently - you're moving the goalposts from "should Ukraine have given in to what Russia was offering in 2022" to "should Ukraine accept some peace deal based on the battle lines of 2025".
On both sides of the equation there is ample evidence you're wrong. Russia was not willing to give back territory it held, and there is evidence that Ukraine could take back important parts of that territory.
Your original position wasn't just that Ukraine isn't going to conquer all its territory back in the battlefield. It's that the without British (โฝ) specific negotiations in Istanbul were going to produce better results as good (getting back Kherson and Melitopol) than they got by fighting.
The difference is, you think Ukraine is only willing to fight because of nefarious British (???) meddling, and not because they (like Afghan women 20 years ago) actually have their own interests and preferences. (And in this case, Ukraine was proven right on the battlefield later that year.)
Bangladesh is big, but ummm. State capacity for big public works is rather limited compared to India.
Or his alternative line, "well how can you have internal democracy when the outside world is hostile". Which, umm. Also not a great endorsement of his preferred system's behavior under stress! bsky.app/profile/013-...
Tolkien would have loved this tweet.
the government has already tried to mandate the speech of AI products share the administration's political preferences by making it a criteria of the bidding process, a system under which it is prioritizing giving contracts to Elon's Grok over Google
Judging by his addition of "movements" and "lack of social connection", I think this is standard old autism nuttery.
look, sometimes all you can do is force people into the open. and if that's all you can actually do, you should do it
The reason they're doing it this way, though, is that they *don't* have a majority. At least not for all the things Trump wants to do.
functionally unless you get a bill with teeth that prevents impoundments congress does not have article 1 powers and it is better for them to refuse assent regardless of other consequences than it is for them to do that
If you don't want to be assumed to be defending her, then maybe don't respond to a post about her antisemitism under the rug by claiming that's "burying the lede".
I guarantee you Taylor is not
Do you ask this question of self styled anti fascist non Jews?
This is actually less an "end-run" and more "example #145,436,884 of how Congress repeatedly gave away its powers and hoped norms would just hold everything together and now they aren't." Congress lets POTUS petition for a clawback and withhold funding for 45 days during the process. But here?
My variant was "Chaos bad, Eldar good"
Every small landlord ive ever had has their unemployable nephew deal with maintenance on a bimonthly basis in their absolutely not up to code rental and every corporate landlord has been Basically Pleasant and Responsive. Rents too damn high bc we dont bild
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the only thing worse than a red flag warning is a black flag warning, when they hang on high the banners of jihad from the fire watch towers
It also explains Leninist and early Stalinist Soviet reliance on Jews for middle management: they were a rare combination of literate/numerate and reliably anti-Tsarist. (Right up until they got a new generation of educated non-Jews and could purge the Jewish contingent.)
Very powerful statement by 200+ faculty from Bar-Ilan University, not known as the most progressive university in Israel (to put it mildly). Respect! ๐
San Francisco County, despite being literally just the city of San Francisco, has its own sheriffs department entirely separate from the city's police department lol
i think "how much and what information is going in and out" is important but where your thinky bits are relative to your body or whether the body really exists aren't
"Prophecy was given to the mad." (The origin is a theological statement about the destruction of the Temple, but is used more broadly.)
Most likely Gantz. Possibly Lapid. But then, ื ืืืื ื ืืชื ื ืืฉืืืื
I have no idea, that's why I said "wild card". I just don't think Bennett as prime minister is the most likely outcome. I think his current strength in polls is based on his being a blank slate who isn't in the news taking concrete positions.
Most techies absolutely love Silicon Valley. I couldn't get through more than one episode, but only because it was too close to home.
That's a big if. He's a bit of an wild card - "right wing" because of his national religious sectarian identity, but out of step with national religious politics because of his Anglo background and values. Hence getting kicked out of his own party.
And this alliance is now deeply rooted not just on the elite level, but in the Israeli right-wing's voter and activist base.
