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Sympthsical's JournalProtestors block Jewish students from entering UCLA
Just wanted to toss this one out there for the people who are forever "not seeing any antisemitism" or think "It's all outside agitators!"
There are these people, and there are the people who make excuses for them.
This is illiberalism.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestinian_Violence/comments/1cgt422/jewish_ucla_student_blocked_from_entering_his_own/
Decades outside of the 1960s have actually happened
This is kind of more of a Millennial grouse I really need to get off my chest.
Does everything ever have to revolve around the 1960s? They were 60 years ago. Surely events have occurred since then. It would never cross my mind to constantly reference the 1990s as if that was when everything important happened.
Did the 1970s even happen? I wasn't alive then, and I almost never hear anyone talk about them. The 80s is just "Reagan was a tool. That is all."
But oh my god. "The grocery store was out of bread. It's 1968 all over again!"
What has everyone been doing for the last sixty years that this is the endless holy reference by which all other things are measured? Every time anyone anywhere has a protest about anything, it's the 1960s all over again.
I thought I'd be grateful people gave the 1930s a rest for ten seconds (and just in time to have discussion about Jewish issues - lucky coincidental break for those folks). But good lord, can we go back to that? Why was every minor event on earth being "just like the Nazis!" somehow less irritating than this?
Yeah, stuff happened then. Civil Rights, protests, moon things, JFK. But other shit has happened since, too. LGBT rights, 9/11, a few wars here and there. The economic death of the middle class. It's fun across the ages. These events can be referenced instead sometimes!
Ok, grousing over. I just had to say it somewhere because my eyes cannot take much more rolling without medical attention. The media is being just the worst about this, but it's creeped into everything else, too.
Whew. I feel better.
The Stages of Antisemitism
Stage 1: Denial - "It's not happening"
Stage 2: Reluctant Admission - "It's happening, but it's a small handful of fringe"
Stage 3: The Conspiratorial - "It's happening, but it's outside foreign/domestic agitators who are someone else"
Stage 4: The Full Admission - "It's happening, but it's not important and here is why"
Stage 5: The Actual Sentiment - "It's happening, but here's why what they're saying is a good thing"
I think we're somewhere between 3 and 4 right now.
Support for Russia and Apologism for Iran are both anti-western and Putin supportive
Just a thought I wish would cross some minds in this country once in a while.
Putin must be laughing his ass off at how he's managing it.
It's worse when people eagerly walk right into it.
Suspect in 2021 SF stabbing case of 94-year-old Asian woman gets probation
Everyone here in the Bay Area is furious. To be clear, this isn't the prosecutor. This is the judge.
https://abc7news.com/sf-woman-stabbed-daniel-cauich-san-francisco-attempted-murder-94-year-old-ahn-peng-taylor/14558878/
They were joined by Jenkins and San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey.
"If there is no accountability for the people who attack them, if we don't have adequate consequences for that behavior, it will continue," Jenkins said.
Public safety advocates say they are demanding courts end the release of violent repeat offenders and restore public safety on the streets of San Francisco.
'What the Hell Am I Watching': Republicans Torch Their Own SOTU Rebuttal
L.O.L. Honestly. One of my favorite political speeches of all time for all the wrong reasons.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/katie-britt-sotu-rebuttal-torched-republicans-1234983528/
Into the late hours of the night, Rolling Stone was inundated, sometimes completely unprompted, with messages from longtime GOP operatives, right-leaning pollsters, conservative Capitol Hill staff, MAGA lawyers, and even some senior members of Trump’s own 2024 campaign absolutely torching Britt’s absurdly over-dramatic rebuttal.
“What the hell am I watching right now?” a Trump adviser asked, mid-Britt remarks.
“Creepy,” one of the Republican pollsters noted.
Well, this was the best SOTU evening ever
First the President comes out like he's about to punch someone in the face - which was awesome.
And then we followed up with a nice ASMR session about sex trafficking from someone who's trying to seduce me from across a kitchen table?
Fantastic. 10/10. No notes.
Reminder about California results
We've transitioned into a heavily vote-by-mail state (upwards of 90% of ballots cast are mailed). Ballots post-marked by election day have 7 days to arrive at the county elections office.
So if various races are close, it might be a hot second before final tallies are known.
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