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Nothing like going to block someone and finding you already had them blocked...

jews still existing does directly conflict with a lot of basic tenets in both christianity & islam. and the reality of our ongoing jewishness does account for a lot of violence towards jews, including ongoing efforts to convert us. if judaism is “right” then its supposed continuations are “wrong,” and i think this anxiety is built into the marrow of antisemitism. this doesn’t even get into the specific conflicts between christianity and islam, but the onus should not be modern-day jews to reconcile these belief systems. also messianics fuck off forever thank you

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insane how many "russia's largest air strike on ukraine yet" news i've been alive to see

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Did you guys hear that the UK government is now working on passing a version of "client side scanning"? It would completely get rid of end-to-end encryption by giving AI access to your entire device. You can't opt out of it, you can't consent to it, you no longer have any privacy.

The AI would scan all of the content of your phone continuously and report the data to the companies, it would also report anything it deems offensive or illegal to the police and send the all of your information. A blind person can see the problems with this, especially given how AI policing systems regularly identify POC as more likely to commit crimes.

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Like clockwork

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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At least six people were murdered and dozens were wounded after terrorists opened fire on civilians at Ramot Junction in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem on Monday morning.

Four were pronounced dead at the scene, including a man in his 50s and three men in their 30s. The fifth, a woman in her 50s, was declared dead at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

At least 21 were wounded at the scene and were transported to three different medical centers, including Shaare Zedek and Hadassah-University Medical Centers at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus.

The terrorists boarded the Line 62 bus in Jerusalem, which operates across the city, and began shooting at passengers.

In response to the attack, a soldier and several civilians at the bus stop engaged the attackers and returned fire. The terrorists were killed at the scene. The terrorists were in their twenties, from towns on the outskirts of Ramallah, El-Kubeiba, and Katanna. Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas praised the attack.

All entry and exit points in and out of Jerusalem have been closed as a manhunt is underway to identify the terrorists. Highway 1 has been closed from the Arzaim Tunnel eastward. The closure is expected to last for an extended period.

“We arrived at the scene in large numbers as soon as we heard the report of gunshot wounds," MDA paramedic Nadav Taib described.

"When we arrived, we saw people lying unconscious on the road, on the side of the road, and on the sidewalk near a bus stop. There was a lot of destruction, shattered glass on the floor, and a lot of commotion. We began providing medical treatment to the injured, and we are currently continuing to treat the injured and transport them to hospitals.”

“I immediately began providing medical treatment to a woman about 70 who had penetrating injuries to her upper body," MDA paramedic Shlomi Levy said. "With the help of MDA first responders who reached the scene quickly, she was evacuated by an MDA mobile intensive care unit to the hospital in serious condition. After the evacuation, I continued treating a woman in her 40s. She was conscious and had gunshot wounds to her upper body. We provided life-saving care and evacuated her to the hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.”

“This is a very severe scene," paramedic Fadi Dkaidek said. "We arrived with large forces and immediately began triaging the wounded and providing medical treatment to several casualties with varying degrees of injuries, including severe and critical cases. The wounded were lying on the road and sidewalk near a bus station, some of them unconscious. We continue to evacuate the injured to hospitals quickly while providing life-saving medical care.”

“Gunfire like nothing I’ve ever experienced," an elderly woman who was on the attacked bus recounted to N12. "The bus was packed, and as soon as it pulled up to the stop, there was shooting. A suspicious man made a phone call, which several people witnessed. While he was on the phone, the terrorists arrived. I’m telling what I saw, but others saw more. I went to the other side of the road and hid under another bus.”

“The bus doors didn’t open, the driver said there was a malfunction," an eyewitness to the attack said. Another eyewitness, Malka Cohen, stated that the bus doors initially did not open, and the driver claimed there was a malfunction. Immediately afterward, when the doors opened, the terrorists opened fire.

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they should have leftist infighting as an event at the next olympics

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(I’ve seen a lot of very disturbing and heinous antisemitic AI caricatures of Jews, but I think the one in the above comment might be among the worst)

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Street built on former Jewish Cemetary (Christian on left, Muslim on right), Suleymani, Iraq in 2016

Photo credit: Joseph Samuel / Diarna Geo-museum

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The only downside to talking to small children like they’re normal people and treating them like normal people (as per my mom) is that as they develop into bigger children they are viscerally aware of every single moment in which they are pandered to like stupid little accessories (as per my dad, my teacher, the special ed aide, every adult in my middle school) and you end up getting a lot of phone calls from people reporting your kid for (checks notes) “undermining authority”, “disrupting the classroom environment”, “disobeying elder peers”, and “unionizing the grade eleven gym class with intent to incite a mutiny” (as per me) and you end up with a Grown Adult who will absolutely encourage and enable other people’s children to fuck the sustem

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My predictions for the next name changes after renaming Department of Defense to Department of War:

• USDA -> Department of Famine

• FDA -> Department of Pestilence

• HHS -> Department of Death

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why r callouts always like "please dont harass this person and dont go after them. anyway heres every single detail of their life gathered by stalking and their private profiles for all to see"

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you know whats kinda funny?

that all of these so called woke racists justice fighters saying jews/israelis (not acknowledging non jewish israelis but that’s for a diff post) are white europeans-

i can bet you whatever you want that if given a picture of a few jews next to a few palestinians, they wouldn’t be able to say which is which, but they’d still call the jews white. 😅

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"modern hebrew is a made up language!!!! it isn't anything like ancient hebrew!!!! the jews just created it to sound legitimate"

all languages are made up

modern english isn't the same as chaucer's english but i literally don't see anybody saying the evil americans invented english or whatever

modern hebrew speakers can understand biblical hebrew

it's been a long time since hebrew was spoken in daily life. we need new words because, surprisingly, words like "internet" didn't exist in biblical times

nearly every single language borrowed words from its neighbors. english is like 45% french. so no, hebrew didnt steal from arabic or whatever

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why do leftists always make sure to say "hamas" and never "gazans" or "palestinians" or "arabs" or "muslims" when talking about the october 7th attacks but have no problem with saying "israelis" or "zionists" or sometimes just "jews" when referring to things specifically done by the israeli government or military

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So there’s this small nation with a majority indigenous population that was re-established on indigenous lands due to a centuries long Land Back movement. This nation was also established in part by indigenous socialists and communists, so it offers universal health care, has a strong labor rights system, and communes are a fairly common and normalized sight in rural areas. The nation also has extremely progressive views on the LGBTQ+ community. It’s consistently ranked the most Queer friendly country on the entire continent, and among the most Queer friendly countries on Earth. This nation has also become a global leader in developing renewable energy and green technologies, which it happily shares with the world at large.

Clearly, despite the fact that this nation has some massive flaws to overcome, the Western Left must be a huge fan of its extremely progressive policies and achievements. They are the sort that will jump to defend the Soviet Union or North Korea, after all. Wait, hold on a second, I’m just getting word that… genocidal colonist pinkwashing greenwashing Zio bastards? Hmm. That’s not quite what I expected.

Seems like when Leftists want to stan a communist-branded authoritarian dictatorship, they will find an excuse for any and all transgressions against humanity. But when the Left wants to vilify a flawed democracy, they will find a way to condemn every positive result— even the ones they claim to support no matter what.