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@SheDevil1978 You mean that eoji/special characters screen?

@richard_merren @lolgop Republicans and democrats aren't homogenous ideological blocks, and support for Israel isn't necessarily an indicator that a party doesn't have its own antisemite problem. There are plenty of Christians in the Republican party who support Israel because it fits into their end-times prophecies, for example, not because they care about anyone living there. Also, Republican leadership is absolutely taking advantage of all this because it's politically advantageous for them to do so. Not that a bunch of progressives haven't absolutely handed antisemitism to them on a silver platter.

@SheDevil1978 Can you close the Jaws error first? That send-error-report dialog usually steals focus.

@SheDevil1978 What kind of app is throwing the error? Web app? Microsoft app? non-MS-desktop app?

@SteveThompson OCR does investigations like this when schools are concerned, not the FBI.

From the "It Was Never About Law And Order" Dept.

@sickmatter Still not OK.

I eagerly await the Biden administration's sactioning of this individual. Spoiler alert: Not holding my breath.

Oh boy.

Narrator: They are already causing lots of damage and it doesn't matter where they are anymore because everything is national.

It seems weird because, up until this point, there's been a fair amount of instances with at least some plausible deniability attached, and so now they feel confident to take the mask off and so more Jews, who have spent the last several months doing their best to give benefit of the doubt, are being robbed of that. And as much as I often disagree with you about this stuff I take absolutely no joy in any of this.

Usually they mean in the description. You can view the whole thing by arrowing down past the heading containing the video title and, once you press enter on the more button, it'll pop you back up to the top of the screen at which point find the heading and then arrow down to read the full description with links you can then activate in the normal ways.

@dukepaaron I'm with Tony. Not all protest, or more specifically, not all activities called protest, are valid.

@TonyStark To put this a bit differently: If the only part getting people arrested had been the trespassing, and there had otherwise been no violence/no intimidation/no taking over people's office/no vandalism, I'd agree with you. That's not how any of this happened.

@TonyStark All of this has gotten way past the point where not arresting them can be an effective tactic. It's also one that's been tried up to this point, with zero change. I probably would have agreed with you entirely about not arresting at the beginning of this, but either people start getting arrested/fired/otherwise experiencing consequences for this shit or it continues to escalate and Jews continue to pay the price.

Also if that civil disobedience involves arrestable offenses, like trespassing, then the civilly disobedient should expect to be arrested. It's kind of part of the game. Otherwise it's not really civil disobedience.

There's nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting for an end to a war. This stuff blew way past the vanilla antiwar line on October 8. It is absolutely antisemitic to tell the Jewish state to stop fighting an enemy that has made it abundantly clear that it will do everything in its power to ensure that state and the Jews living within it no longer exist when the people telling the Jewish state to stop fighting have absolutely zero intent to ensure the genocidal enemy can't achieve its goals except offering more hope as a strategy which is the left-flavored thoughts and prayers. "Totally agree with the bit about the nazi bar problem though. Either fix it or fuck off.

@sickmatter Lol things take a little longer until I get enough caffeine in my system.

That's … really windy and it'll make the temps worse.

Oh yeah I guess it would need to be the actual 20th. So, 20 Tamuz or 20 Iyar depending on the year, or 20 Tevet if you just go with Rosh Hashanah as the beginning of the year. But then, any day is a good day to get high, so …