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Fascinating and telling how many leftists hate a version of Hillary Clinton that only exists in their heads and the eyes of the far right

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"Why didn't the Democrats codify Roe v Wade?"

They didn't have enough votes to bypass the filibuster because of Joe Manchin

"Why didn'-"

The answer is probably Joe Manchin.

"They had 60 votes in-"

For a few months and that entire time was spent wrestling with like 11 Joe Manchins from a bunch of red states in the senate to get health care reform passed.

"What about the Filibuster-"

JOE FUCKING MANCHIN

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Hey… bad things are not ‘secretly’ good things

Hate crimes are wrong and bad and cannot be justified by you thinking other people are a jumpscare

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Another issue with the separatist idea of "everyone who shares our identity will always understand your experience and struggles, and everyone outside of it will never ever understand" -

You can only enforce that first part by pretending there is an universal set of experiences everyone who shares your identity goes through, and punishing any talk that deviates from it. You make those struggles the defining factor of the identity.

Anyone who doesn't share your identity but says "I experience this too" is seen as an attack on your group instead of a potential ally. They're the enemy, trying to appropriate your struggles and erase you.

Anyone who does share your identity but says "This is not representing my experience" is pushed out of the in-group and basically considered to be aligning themselves with the enemy.

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This week into next week is going to be bonkers.

-Thursday: Halloween 🎃

-Sunday: Time change for the US (and probably other places) (we're going backwards an hour)

-Tuesday: ELECTION DAY

So uhh...be gentle with yourself this week. And each other. Remember to take a break from the news cycle every once in a while, because if last election November taught us anything, it's gonna be wild. (Maybe another long-standing queer-baiting couple will go canon and we can all go feral again on the tumblr.coms)

AND GO VOTE!

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I stay out of most online discussions about housing because leftists will almost instantly reveal they will never think housing is affordable unless the middle class (so them, specifically) can afford a detached single family suburban home because they feel entitled to a lawn

But I am once again begging you all to stop because I actually do want to talk about rent prices, local corruption, wages, etc

And frankly suburbia can get renatured for all I care about cul-de-sacs (although obviously the best solution is a mix of redesigning them as villages, stop stealing land, and straight up giving stolen land back)

I wonder why people online pretend broke and poor are synonymous and then I remind myself that you all don’t actually want to listen to poor people because you’re just as classist and snobbish and elitist as the best of them so you have to invent fake poor people to go back to centering yourselves and it is ruining my online experience

The amount of leftism that is just “I’m too good to live in an apartment, with the poors” is insulting and hurtful; but more than that it’s cliche, ahistorical, and annoying

People don’t want change they just want to put stuff back the way it was when it was less bad for them specifically under the branding of “revolution”—which is, again, annoying—you say you hate an imagined past but your vision of the future never leaves the 1950s-1980s that never existed anyway

And that’s the end of my regularly scheduled frustrated rant

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genuinely concerning to see pro-david duke tweets do well/not be ratioed into oblivion

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Is it worth explaining to you all that you sound like Glenn Greenwald and you need to log off?

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I haven’t been checking Tumblr regularly for weeks and within ten minutes of using it seriously again I see something antisemitic and pro-violence on my feed

Do better

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Jews would be laughed out of the room if we demanded our great grandparents’ homes back.

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A thing about the discourse of where antisemitism and antizionism interact is that

1) a fair amount of antizionists are neonazis, Islamists, Arab supremacists, and communists who believe ethnic self-identity is a barrier to World Revolution, who are just *barely* concealing it (if that)

2) a fair amount of antizionists base their antizionism on a denial of an element (or elements) of Jewish self-identity (denial of Jewish ethnicity, denial of ethnogenesis in the Levant), and a whole lot of Jews find non-Jews essentially arguing that they should get to define what Jews are and aren’t offensive (and antisemitic)

3) there are a fair amount of antizionists whose antizionism comes from a deep hatred of an element or elements of what they determine is evil about “western” society, and for some reason they have decided to obsessively focus on Israel and ignore other “western” countries. This may be genuinely not antisemitic, but it’s still fucked up and weird.

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if a category 3 or even category 4 hurricane directly hits Tampa, Florida, the insurance market will collapse overnight and it will be an unimaginable, complete catastrophe that i'm not sure the United States is capable of handling on top of ongoing Helene recovery. keep anyone who has the misfortune of living in Florida in your thoughts because this particular storm is going directly over very, very warm gulf of mexico waters and has the potential to be a monster.

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A huge part of my self-esteem is actually, “well, I may suck, but at least I’m not a Nazi”

Wish more internet users could say that

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The same time the Brits caused the chaos that happened in 1948, the rest of the Middle East saw as an opportunity to expel their Jewish populations to Israel (to oversimplify, think about the reservations in Canada and the US—that’s how they envisioned Israel and how they expelled Jewish people while seizing all their belongings. A huge part of the reason many Middle Eastern countries are mad is Israel thrived anyway.)

Poland got rid of their Jewish population by literally committing the Holocaust

When you say, “Israel shouldn’t exist” or “Jewish people need to go back to Poland” what I hear is “we can have world peace if all Jewish people die” which is straight out of the “Protocols of Elders of Zion” (think “Birth of a Nation”) and “Mein Kampf”—this is also where ideas about Jewish people or a theoretical state of Israel wanting to “take over” the Middle East come from (they don’t, and you guys are ignoring actual Middle Eastern colonial empires engaged in society-wide human trafficking to scapegoat Jewish people. It’s weird, and I’m sure the victims find your callous disregard creepy, because they’ve actively said so—they would not feel safe in a room alone with you. Consider why that is.)

I have no idea if you guys realize you sound exactly like Adolf Hitler (who was inspired by “Protocols of Elders of Zion”) or Donald Trump (who kept “Mein Kampf” on his bedside table for years)

I’m frankly scared to ask

You cannot discuss Nakba without also discussing expulsions of Jewish people from both Europe and the Middle East—it’s disingenuous and I will not only assume you also support the Trail of Tears, I will tell other people you support the Trail of Tears

Think long and hard about if that’s something you want to be associated with, because I promise you, if other people look it up, they will see the similarities—they’re glaring—and they’ll also probably start asking questions like “why are you downplaying the Holocaust? Isn’t that Holocaust denialism?” (The answer is yes, by the way)

Depending on what else you say, I may also assume you support the enslavement of Black people by the tribes

Argue with your mirror, not with me

Regardless of what you know, some of the most prominent voices on antisemitic Tumblr and TikTok have almost certainly read “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and have been promoting hateful and baseless conspiracy theories found there, and either you haven’t noticed or you agree.

One of the main organizers is implicitly pro-other genocides and constantly spreads barely concealed hatred and bad paraphrases of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as threats directed at specific Jewish people and organizations. I have no idea how you all missed that, but I’ve always found people filled with gleeful hatred are easily distracted from both the particulars and the main facts

And you know what they say about Nazis—if one Nazi is welcome to a seat at your table, it’s a table of Nazis

The Nazism is not misguided. The calls for the death of every living Jewish person are not accidental. The flags calling for genocide did not appear out of overzealousness. It’s the point. Nazism, theocracy, fascism, and eugenics do not value mercy, and they will not give any to you, no matter how much you beg them. If you don’t quickly find your way out, you’ll find yourself dragged down, the rest of your actions discarded as tainted, and your names inscribed in the history books next to the rest of them. Decide if you want to be the shame of your families and cultures for decades to come.

May the memories of all those lost be a blessing, and may we find a way to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

—signed a non-Jewish woman who knows how to read. You should really try it sometime.

Find a way to deradicalize yourselves.

P.S. In my offline research, I’ve found that in almost every subject, the popular information going around online is not just misinformed, but counterfactual. Especially on social media, it is the exact opposite of what every respected expert and researcher says. It’s often exact opposite of what primary sources say. If you’re getting a lot of your information from the internet, then the first thing you need to do is find offline sources. I didn’t have the information literacy to recognize how terrible the situation actually is before I started, and chances are, you don’t either. I would also recommend talking to people who spend time offline and getting some hobbies.

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take a shot every time the western left forgets the uyghurs in china or the women/young protesters in iran

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I’m going to need everyone to refamiliarize themselves with the BITE model right now

Preferably before you all get into some weird music cult