there IS a fringe sect that wants to take control of the Temple Mount by force, and re-institute animal sacrifices, but most see them as insane extremist terrorists even in Israel. Most i know feel this scenario is undesirable, and LIKE that our sages decided to replace the sacrifices with prayer.
again i am not particularly big on Chabad, but this is obviously insane and literally just hate and right-wing conspiracy driven by the utter ignorance most non-Jews have about Jewish sects and practice and culture. Chabad is very prolific and so are an easy scapegoat.
forward.com/fast-forward...
funny story, liberals took the bait and condemned left-wing counters for the violence, meanwhile the right made instant celebrities of their own guys for rolling in with metal pipes to beat people with. 2017 was a super cool year
the core premise was "hey Nazis are transparently using 'campus speech events' as pretext to show up and assault students, we should figure out how to protect our community from violence while balancing speech protections" anyway six months later Nazis rioted at Charlottesville and murdered someone
What If I Told You the "speech is violence" oped Haidt based his entire "campus left" crusade on was written in the immediate aftermath of neo-Nazis rolling into campus to beat students under the guise of "security" and was principally referring to literal violence-supporting speech like conspiracy.
in the reactionary mind jew and trans are both personifications of fluidity, modernity, and dissolution of traditional boundaries and hierarchies
twitter nazi zerohplovecraft called trans people "the jews of gender" and russian irredentist alexander dugin called ukrainians "collective transgenders"
Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.
Kermit the frog sitting on a log surrounded by flowers Text: "what radicalised you?" empathy bro, literally just wanting people to be treated like human beings
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What do Pahlavi supporters make of the Axios report about Trump flirting with supporting secessionist militias
But here's the thing: as much as everyone is acting shocked by this, it's really not all that surprising. Fascism always requires smaller and smaller in-groups and bigger and bigger out-groups. Israeli violence against marginalized people was never going to stay confined to Palestinians.
I'm late to this, but wow is it wild to see Bondi grin and laugh at the end of this. It's such a mask off moment in how Republicans use antisemitism claims purely for their own ends.
She genuinely thought it was hilarious that she "triggered" a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust.
these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
1. A box a teenager checked on a form 20 years ago (that was accurate) isn’t newsworthy.
2. The source clearly had political motives and you hid that.
3. One the byline reporters on the “story” is an avid follower of an open white supremacist.
4. Pictures of tweets? Really? You that lazy?
Those detained at the facility are among the hundreds of people who have been arrested and disappeared by ICE agents after attending their immigration hearings.
All landlords are parasites, this is so fucked up
if it weren’t for fleeting joy I’d have no joy at all
The same white boomers who didn't want integrated schools and don't want to fund public education are the first ones to talk about how much they love Motown. Drives me insane.
The Black church was the biggest subsidy of 20th century music bar none. Almost every Black musician learned in church. You know why Motown was a thing? Because Black kids who learned to sing and play by ear in church also got formal music education in Detroit public schools.
This statement by a collective of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues we must oppose the murderous assault that the Israeli and US militaries are carrying out against people in Iran while also refusing to condone the oppression perpetrated by the Iranian government.
(am serious, this is actually from his Truth Social account at truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT..., if you haven't seen it)
The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.
In “The Plot Against America”
Philip Roth (1933-2018)
imagines the United States under the rule of a fascist leader,a fervent defender of "America First."
Two decades after its publication, this alternate history offers a disturbing insight into current events and contemporary political excesses
I think a lot of this comes from the merger of MAGA and Silicon Valley. The tech industry believes it’s the only place capable of innovation and all the other intellectual centers of America - academia, industry, media, journalism, government - should be abolished and simply bend the knee to tech
my ideology is now sending Elon Musk to the Hague
Seems like everyone could use a timeline cleanse today
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