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  • I think Israel is foolish. They are protected by their international support and not viable on their own. Trump is unpredictable and nationalistic.

    That’s weird logic. If we’re going with Trump being unpredictable, then it really doesn’t matter what Israel does in terms of maintaining support from Trump.

    And countries don’t base foreign policy based on what teenagers on the internet want. They base it on interests. What has Israel done that goes against anyone’s national interests? Iran is a thorn in everyone’s side, and Hezbollah has been weakened and cut off from easy supply from Iran because Assad’s regime is gone. It’s not in anyone’s interest for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and Israel has proven their capability in taking out Iran’s air defenses. The Houthis are a problem for global trade and Trump isn’t going to hit them as long as they keep to their deal and not hit US shipping.

    So given everyone’s interests most countries might wag their finger at Israel publicly for political reasons, but people in power know that if their people were taken hostage by terrorists, they’d do much the same thing as Israel has done. The US has become unreliable in dealing with the middle east (not really caring about Houthis attacking other country’s shipping) so they need an ally in the region to keep Iran and their proxies in check. And Israel has demonstrated a lot of capability in that regard. So do you think countries are going to isolate Israel for the sake of a small group of protesters constantly shouting insane slogans?






  • It sometimes is. The character Shylock was Jewish. He was also someone who loaned money at high interest rates.

    Trump was talking about borrowing money, not about Jews. So in that context, probably not antisemitic. Though given the audience, it could be a dog whistle.

    It’s mostly a nothing burger.

    So just another case of attacking Trump on something unimportant and diverting attention from the actual terrible things he’s doing.







  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/

    First season was a bit procedural, but S2 may be the best season of TV of anything. Other seasons were great too, and it had the best ending of any TV show I’ve seen.

    Based on some of the works of Elmore Leonard (author of the books movie like Get Shorty and Jackie Brown are based on) it’s about an old school cowboy kind of guy by the name Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant)… but in modern times. So cowboys vs. gangsters kind of thing.

    Here’s the opening scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho2_c_LGZfk

    Raylan isn’t the most interesting character, interesting enough though because it is questioned whether he’s creating situations so he can kill people, what the influence his father (a violent abusive criminal) had on him, etc. But it’s kinda like Batman TAS, where the villains are the really interesting part of it. The main villain, Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), is kinda like the Joker because he knows the hero is going to win and makes all of his schemes around that.

    You can skip City Primeval tho, it’s kinda pointless other than the last five minutes.



  • That’s a lot of rationalization and excuses for why you won’t speak out against the rampant racism within your group.

    Here in Canada we’re needing to create protest bubbles to prevent people from harassing Canadian Jews: https://globalnews.ca/news/11265909/protest-law-blocking-school-place-fo-worshp/

    Look at the people in that image. They are protesting Canadian Jews because they’re angry at Jews on the other side of the world. It’s antisemitism.

    We went through the same thing with the Antivaxxer Convy protests. Bunch of racist assholes back then were using their antivax bullshit as a reason to go out and harass random Asian people on the street.

    This movement is no different. And how effective do you think your movement will in influencing government policy when the government is busy making policies to prevent your group from engaging in antisemitic attacks?

    The point of this group is obviously not to change anything, and it’s turning into a hate group because no one within the group is speaking out against the antisemitism. Look at the image in the article I linked to. By their actions (harassing Canadian Jews at a synagogue), they are antisemitic people and how is anyone supposed to distinguish between that group of antisemitic assholes and any other “pro-Palestinian” protest? Given what I see posted here daily I’m doubting there is anyone that actually cares about Palestinians, it’s just an excuse to express hatred and fit in with the group expressing hatred. We’ve seen this kind of shit happen before.

    In Canada, our grandparents fought a war against antisemitc assholes, so you aren’t going to intimidate very many Canadians into joining your cause when it’s entangled with antisemitsm and violence. If you’re looking the other way about antisemitism in your movement, you’re in a hate group and people will oppose it. If you really believed in your cause you wouldn’t feel the need to use violence to impose your views on others.