#cw politics

[hyper-fixates]

THE LAST OF US — 01 x 03, “Long, Long Time”

[abyssalshriek]

A US government official, with a position appointed by the president himself, just did a Nazi salute on live television.

If you use Twitter, you are using a site owned by a Nazi. He isn't even hiding it anymore.

Elon Musk's N*zi Salute at the Trump Inauguration Rally. The US government will attempt to censor this or shift your perception of it.

You Saw, What You Saw.

[cruel-hiraeth]

trump’s calculated decision to rewrite the history of the tiktok ban is a thinly-veiled attempt to garner goodwill from younger voters. you can continue to use the app, but please remember that he doesn’t give a fuck about you; you’re just political currency to him.

[whomstsnek]

Uploading a few things I've been seeing on tiktok lately, just wanna spread the word

[4gn0l0tt1-dud3]

dear s*n... this is probably the best reason why im never touching tiktok with a 6 foot pole ever in my fucking life...

(i am so sorry about the political stuff here, i had to get this out of my chest. this shit better not happen to tumblr or youtube.)

2 completely different messages around 20 minutes apart. The felon is trying to buy back the youth.

[neiptune]

tiktok having a banner pop up pretty much saying we're gone for now but fear not trump will fix this for you is so fucked and scary like truly do not download nor use that app ever again

[saetiate]

how much you wanna bet the exact wording of the “president trump helped us” notice was written in whatever contract they signed and is ultimately just one step in their propaganda scheme

[gutsondisplay]

If someone in real life asks you, here's what you tell them

You don't know any immigrant

You don't know anyone who's hispanic, asian, or african in any way

You don't know any gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans person

You don't know what pansexual and beyond is

You don't know what tf a xenogender or neopronouns are

You don't know any trannies, fags, or dykes or what those are

You don't know what a femme, butch, bear, twink, otter, or pillow princess is

You don't know any muslims nor do you know where their mosque or communities are

You don't know any jews nor do you know where their synagogues or communities are

You don't know know any non-christian religious people nor their sacred places or communities are

You know anyone with mental disorders or disabilities

Do not let anyone know you know where or who is a minority, unless you are personally close and fully trust them

Things are getting worrying in america and this is how you will make sure it doesn't get worse

[thecorporatetower]

intersex friends, now is the time to be angry!

lets please not forget this is also violently intersexist. please don't forget about us.

[deadlypawz]

I am in the US. I am a person of color. I am disabled physically and mentally. I am queer. I am AFAB. I am a minor in a red household. I am pagan. I am many things. But most of all, right now I am scared.

Please reblog this with resources. Make this the largest resource reblog chain. Please. I need as much help as I can get. We all do.

Especially after seeing the elongated muskrat do what he did.

[fireyocean92]

In these doomed times, what we need most is the drive to push forward.

Quote directly taken from this tweet the official Sonic Twitter posted last time that orange fuck became president.

[doubleca5t]

Ok apologies for putting a Republican politician on main but Vivek Ramaswamy posted some absolutely generational cringe on twitter the other day and I can't stop laughing at this

I cannot believe this is a real post I've never wanted to shove someone into a locker so bad in my life

[ostermad-blog]

There's a lot of stuff in this post that is ADL apologia at best and pernicious at worst.

When OP writes "a good portion of the left has been trying it’s hardest to discredit the ADL and alienate American Jews for the last few decades, and the rest of the left just kinda went with it," they elide who they're talking about (the Left is hardly a monolith), and they omit why anyone might have reasons to distrust or disdain the ADL.

See how OP sets "the left" and "American Jews" as opposites? And how they rhetorically link criticizing the ADL with the "alienation" of all American Jews? They've erased leftist Jews (like me) from consideration entirely, and neglected to mention the existence of Jewish criticism of the ADL. Here's a post by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on the ADL's response to Musk's Hitler salute: "Attempting to find safety and power in whiteness is hard work, okay?! Those pretzels don't contort themselves!!"

So, OP, who proudly proclaims their support of the state of Israel, has attempted to set the Left and Jews as enemies, linked criticism of the ADL with schemes against the Jewish people, and erased both leftist Jews and Jewish critics of the ADL. That's... not a good look.

OP claims the reason the ADL has refused to acknowledge Musk's Hitler salute as a Hitler salute is because it's 'not safe' for them to do so. I disagree. Plenty of other Jewish institutions have named and criticized Musk's behavior. Here's a piece by the Yiddish Forward discussing the incident that observes that the ADL's statement is out-of-step with other Jewish advocacy organizations as well as the organization's former director.

So, why might the ADL want to decline recognizing Musk's Nazi salute?

If the fear of reprisal was so strong, I'd expect to see other prominent Jewish advocacy organizations failing to respond to Musk's salute and not criticizing the ADL's response. We see this is not the case in the Yiddish Forward article. This argument does not hold water.

The author of the above article proposes that: "perhaps the most generous read is to imagine that, in a time in which antisemitism seems likely to spike, the ADL wants to make sure that the accusation is not sapped of its power by overuse."

This is a weak argument. Antisemitism seems likely to spike? Musk just gave a Hitler salute! Failing to name Nazi behavior only enables further Nazi behavior - we've all read the tumblr post about how a bar becomes a Nazi bar.

Prev argues that the ADL offering Musk deniability for the Hitler salute will let the ADL "extract concessions from him in a meeting." I find that ridiculous. If I'm supposed to be watching out for bullying on the playground, and I see some bullying go down, giving deniability to the bully in no way gives me leverage over them. On the contrary, I've shown the bully that they have power over me, that I will enable them. This whole argument is cope.

So, what other reasons might the ADL have?

Here is my supposition: the ADL has been a steadfast supporter of the state of Israel. And they have consistently labeled anti-Zionist protests as antisemitic, even when these protests feature Jewish speakers and have Jewish attendees. We've had ample opportunities to see them do this since the genocide began in October 2023.

So, who else supports the state of Israel?

Our incoming president and the Republican party.

Here's his pick for new UN ambassador agreeing that Israel has a "Biblical right to the entire West Bank." I'm not even going to begin to unpack how fucked up that is.

The ADL's statement on Musk's salute is a capitulation to the new Presidential administration: we'll look the other way. It is a gesture of compliance.

The ADL's statement is what "obeying in advance" looks like.

The ADL tweet about Elon Musk begins with the words “this is a delicate moment.”

To any goyim reading this- understand that is a literal cry for help. The ADL is telling all of us that they are walking on eggshells here.

Do not take the rest of their tweet at face value- take it in the context the ADL is giving you. The are fully aware of the problem of right wing antisemitism, but they do not believe they can call out Elon Musk without making things worse for themselves and for all American Jews. This is in part because a good portion of the left has been trying it’s hardest to discredit the ADL and alienate American Jews for the last few decades, and the rest of the left just kinda went with it.

They are telling us straight up- we are doing our best while stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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[scribblewise]

Cursed comic do not read

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