I. what.

I genuinely respect "there are people who have cultivated these skills & there are those who have not, & to get an audience you need to have a certain floor of skill, that's your price of entry for engagement" far more than this "don't you want to express something?" patronizing claptrap.

This skeleton key for this sentiment is that the idealized Small Farmer - or for that matter Coal Miner or Factory Worker - is not contrasted with their boss, but rather with the emasculation of the office worker under the thumb of the dread HR Lady. Sing along, everyone, you know the words!

I answered it already. Calls to dissolve the internationally recognized state Israel against its peoples will violate the basic principles of self determination in Article I. www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...

For reference, this is referencing Article I of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, whose wording is clear and unambiguous. The very text that guarantees Israeli sovereign popular will to self determine ALSO guarantees Palestinian popular will to self-determination.

You'll hear both queer & cishet claims of this narrative & as a person who has been on Birthright when he was younger as part of a young adults group - supposedly the group most amenable to Breed for Zionism... no, they do not do this, what is wrong with you?

Now call me a bit of an ignoramus but I feel like this very explicitly means they really... Can't be said to be Rodin's own work, can they? "He was too busy with projects to do any of the carving, chiseling or finishing himself." Like you're describing a franchise, not a singular creator.

ONE incident of this sort of thing - much less the hosts of flying monkeys fluttering about on social media - is enough to color the impressions of our entire community, especially when we're met with "well those people aren't actually very significant... and anyways the cause is important..."

Well, whatever you think of LLMs, for most of human history the vast majority of the population lived lives of desperate grinding labor in the fields so a relatively small portion of the population could do Everything Else, including the arts, on anything like a full time basis.

"Rockets that don't hit anyone." I am not indifferent to Israeli crimes, not unaware of the origins of Hezbollah (which are more complicated than that). I am simply saying this: if you allow a paramilitary to operate within your borders, their actions will be seen as casus belli against you.

The thing that everyone quietly wants to hide is the fact that Susan Abulhawa posting like this is not actually new if you even consult *summaries* of her work. Mornings in Jenin - originally published as "The Scar of David" - turns on an Israeli Jew kidnapping a Palestinian child!

The transformation of Marxist socialism from a concrete political program whose adherents (Orwell) could write things like "the real objective of socialism is not happiness" to its current role as essentially a promise of jubilee and permanent vacation, an opiate of the masses, is a great irony.

One of these always delivers the crowd more

D&D character with a succession of temporary parental figures in their backstory of different levels of melodramatic standing, each of which becomes an adventure antagonist at some point except for the last, Good Parent.

Normal things to tell a Jew saying "hey believe Jews when they say they think something is antisemitic."

What do we say everyone? Sing along, you know the words!

absolutely absurd takes. I do not think that we would be better off without the steam loom, we would just be more poorly dressed.

[Norman Rockwell Guy] I do not think using generative AI, whatever you think of it, is comparable to having worked for the Gestapo and handing over persecuted minorities to torment and execution. that's... not a sane comparison. what is wrong with you.

Maybe you should actually read. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

sane responses to a post.

THIS IS NARRATIVE BRAIN EXACTLY LIKE THAT CONDEMNED BY LEFTISTS FROM CENTRISTS. The universe is not going to repay you for an act of painful moral sacrifice with victory! Platner is not the key to anything! Victory in Maine does not guarantee the Senate for Dems more broadly!

The Nazis themselves were not especially impressed or intimidated by the ghetto uprising, referring to the combatants thusly (Wikipedia source). There's no positive lesson, there, no cool romantic Going Down in Style as Crabapple would have it.

I think you mean this:

Bay scallops and pasta in a modified grenobloise sauce. (Hybrid version of a simple recipe I found online with jalapeno added, I put cornichons back in as well)

Ok then. The answer is "Yes, I am genocidal." See? It wasn't hard! Fucking finally.

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that protesting injustice and horror was an activity you only did when you were assured of total safety. wow, I guess the No Kings protesters, including the pro-Palestine ones, are just way harder than the entire (elite!) campus protest movement huh?

Or in other words

Personally I want him muzzled because he's a misogynist, an antisemite, a Campist and frankly a know nothing man child and we have too many of those in politics already. Also he's not even actually that popular.

But seriously look at Izzy (better pic)

We need to remind everyone that Erlich DIED. He was MURDERED by the very European and Soviet order he chose to put his trust in. Bundism is a FAILED IDEOLOGY, and fetishizing it is for losers. It has lessons for us, true. One of them is "we were wrong."