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Wow, they develop trucks like my workplace develops code.

We are told consistently that there is no right way to speak out against a clear wrong because systematically every method of protest, from campus demonstrations to essays to books to social media posts to peaceful marches on the streets, is framed as an amorphous attack on Jews everywhere as opposed to focused critiques of a specific wrong being perpetrated by a few powerful individuals.

We need, in large numbers, to refuse this message, no matter how often they try to push it on us. And we need to draw attention to the fact that the most antisemitic message being put about is coming from Israel and the institutions that fawn over it, with their insistence that all Jews must align with their genocidal views and support their genocidal actions. How disrespectful to Jews and Jewishness is that, to co-opt Jewishness itself in the service of your self-serving and brutal politics? It's insulting. And it's not just Israel's government that is being self-serving; it's also all those universities, media companies and governments who are trying to stay in Israel's favor because the alternative is their own discomfort.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, Republican bullshit is still Republican bullshit.

Fascism always needs a new enemy each time it has dealt with the last one. That's why no one is safe from these neo-Nazis.

These are the people who continually call everyone on the left "groomers" and taking an unhealthy interest in kids? The same people cutting peepholes into school bathrooms?

They are: they're concerned that women might have their own ideas and not submit to a man's control.

I thought about that, but it would affect iPhone users from outside Russia who are traveling in Russia, and Apple probably wouldn't want that.

I misunderstood and my comment wasn't well considered. It was even dumb.

What are the libel laws like in the USA? In some countries if you go around groundlessly accusing a public figure of murder, you could find yourself with a nice libel suit on your hands. Not that Trump would take any notice anyway - being sued is his default state.

It's crazy to argue that the result of a dispute about objective numbers between two biased parties should be decided not by a third party, the courts, but by the politicians from those two parties.

It's not a democracy if the results of elections are decided by the party in government. That's how sham elections work in dictatorships.

I'm concerned about how, whether Trump participates and makes a fool of himself or drops out like the coward he is, the headlines will still all be about Trump. This is exactly the media approach that got him elected first time.