Echoes Down The Corridor

That's funny, I don't see you criticizing Russia the same way. I don't see you criticizing China the same way. Afghanistan. Syria. Yemen. Iraq. Iran. Turkmenistan. North Korea. The list goes on

That's interesting as I'm russian myself, dumbass, tell me more about how we, russians, are firebombed at protests, blocked from student campuses, called baby killers, vermin, how russian neighborhoods are filled with people screaming for our blood, how random russians are blocked from cafes and stopped in the streets and harassed over Putin's war simply because they're russian.

Ну давай. Расскажи мне, русскому человеку, о притеснениях русских иммигрантов. Может ещё заведешь мне путинскую шарманку, про то, как русскоязычных везде притесняют и обижают, а? Ну так, если совсем мозгов нет. А судя по тебе мозгов реально нет и вряд ли когда-то были

Where are all the articles about Orthodox Churches in financial crisis because they can't afford the security measures they need to not get killed for congregating?

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

a) yes, they did.

b) cool, YOU never heard it, so it didn't happen?

c) okay cool, they more often use terms like, "Israel heavily lobbies Congress and thus influences Congressional decisions--"

So does China and over a dozen Arab Muslim countries, yet I don't see you accusing Chinese or Muslim Americans of "controlling Congress" on those grounds.

In fact, you accuse anyone who does of being "Sinophobic/Islamophobic."

Showing you're all two-faced hypocrites.

d) And again, that's beside the point:

The Left claims to protect minorities.

The Left harasses and attacks Jews.

The Left claims Jews "don't count as minorities" because "Israel donates to Congress, so Jews are REALLY the ones with power--"

Except

1) Diaspora Jews =/= Israelis

2) You cowards never attack ACTUAL Trump Congress Officials or Trump fans at Trump Rallies, because you know deep down they'll actually hit back and/or legally retaliate with the full force of the law.

Thereby demonstrating with your COWARDLY ACTIONS who you REALLY think is in power.

You're not "punching up at those in power" when you harass and attack Jews, you're BULLIES AND COWARDS who're PUNCHING DOWN AT AN EASY TARGET.

Mike Johnson tactics before a double-back to allude bribe taking SPECIFICALLY by "An Israel Owned PAC" (AIPAC is American) over any other PAC while insisting you're NOT talking about a Jewish conspiracy? "I don't know about that" AND THEN the double-back? Objectively less competent than Mike Johnson.

The US/Western left is a Nazi bar. All those cute stories about Punk Bars and Punching Nazis? well. They decided they liked what the Nazis had to say, and if they called Jews/Israelis Nazis and said things like "Even the Nazis weren't this depraved" it wouldn't be noticed or called out, or affect people because they don't see Jews as people. They don't see Palestinians or Arabs or Muslims or Druze or Syrians or really anybody as people either, just elves or avatars to engage their fandom-religion over because it lets them 'punch up' Wil Wheaton posted this and a bunch of people felt very good about themselves and then he and a whole bunch of other people failed Jews and let Nazis into the bar because the Nazis slightly changed how they said what they said, and what they wore.

The DSA, Fight Agency, Ivy league nepobaby shitheads funded and supported by Neville Singham, the CCP and Russia (to fuck with US function because they're autocratic imperialists with their own interests) are doing their best to make the Democratic Party into a Nazi Bar after spending decades making the academic/protest left their useful idiots and disposable weapons. And a whole lot of people who consume activism as a faith-fandom because they're certain they don't need a faith or a church social group and are recreating it through some fuckers recruting them through HERO STORIES and REVOLUTION STORIES are primed to let them. Because they like the Good Things and so they are the Good People. And Jews are easy for loser populists to blame.

Punch Nazis, right? Anyway.

There is no date more solemn in South Korea’s political calendar than May 18. On that day in 1980, Chun Doo-hwan, who had just seized power, ordered the massacre of hundreds of unarmed protesters in the southwestern city of Gwangju. For most, it is remembered as one of the worst tragedies in modern South Korean history.

For Starbucks Korea, however, the occasion was a joke. On the 46th anniversary of what is now known as the Gwangju Uprising, Starbucks Korea released a new branded tumbler while celebrating “Tank Day” and said that the tumbler can just be “slapped on the table”—both of which are unsubtle references to far-right memes that mock the victims of the massacre.

The advertisement sparked immediate outrage and a “very significant drop in sales,” according to one employee of Shinsegae, the group that owns Starbucks Korea. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung sharply rebuked the campaign, calling it “completely out of line.” Although Starbucks Korea pulled the advertisement and issued an apology, the incident highlights the troubling degree to which anti-democratic sentiments have become normalized in South Korea’s right wing.

On its own, the advert might be read as just an unfortunate coincidence. But the South Korean far right has a track record of using specific distasteful memes like this. Among them, “Tank Day” is a celebratory reference to the Gwangju Uprising, cheering for the tanks that massacred the protesters. “Slap the table” is a reference to student activist Park Jong-chul, who was killed at a black site after having been waterboarded for hours in 1987. To explain Park’s death, the Chun dictatorship infamously claimed that Park had “just dropped dead when the police slapped the table.” The slapdash lie incensed the South Korean public, sparking a massive nationwide protest movement now known as the June Struggle, which ended the military dictatorship and helped South Korea transition to a liberal democracy.

Sneaking in anti-democratic memes has been a hobby of South Korea’s far right for more than a decade. The fountainhead of this trend is a website called “Ilbe,” a contraction of ilgan best jeojangso, which means “depository of the daily bests.” Established in 2010, Ilbe was the online watering hole of South Korea’s emerging young right wing, who entertained themselves by exchanging photoshopped images and GIFs, and voting to choose the “best” material of the day.

In a trend that presaged the alt-right and incel politics in democracies around the world, Ilbe users—typically, young men—trafficked in self-loathing nihilism and hate directed at women and democracy activists. To them, Chun, nicknamed “Chun Tank” on Ilbe, was a hero to be celebrated. Their greatest enemy was Roh Moo-hyun, a famous human rights lawyer and democracy activist who became president in 2003. By late 2012, Ilbe was one of the largest websites in South Korea and an emergent force in the country’s conservative politics, which increasingly came to see women, liberals, and democracy itself as the enemy.

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

-mass buy in from the SE Asian subcontinent to the British Isles. I’m talking government, populace, infrastructure, the whole nine yards. Every government from Bangladesh to Morocco to Scotland will have to issue immigration papers, determine sources of income, and set up social safety nets. Etc etc etc.

That in turn will require:

-populations the world over to commit themselves to never creating an environment so hostile to Jews that Jews come to feel that a nation state in the Southern Levant is the only option.

Now let’s go full idealistic. Let’s say that the world decides to free Palestine and send the Jews “home.” Let’s say all the people and governments are committed to making that happen humanely and equitably. What would that look like?

-trillions of dollars in reparations for murder, property theft, bank accounts, businesses, etc compounded over minimum 80 years

-full buy in from all levels of society to educating themselves about anti-Semitism, and eradicating it. I’m talking from executive branch to the working poor.

If you want Palestine to be free from the river to the sea, you really need to sit down and actually think about where you will send those Israeli Jews and descendants who only ended up there in the first place after they were violently expelled from somewhere else. I’m not talking about the Yishuv. I’m talking about the world after 1945. Are they supposed to go back to Poland? Or Yemen? Or France? Or Syria? What would that look like? Genuinely, how do we administrate and create the infrastructure for that?

It’s a hard, shitty question which flies in the face of blind optimism and overly simple narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. But from where I’m sitting as a non-Zionist (I don’t do nationalism point blank; this is not a value judgement or a smug assertion of diasporic Jewish moral superiority) Holocaust scholar, it seems like those Jews are supposed to disappear or like, painlessly immigrate somewhere?

This is another iteration of The Jewish Problem, and if we’re going to seriously say that Israel should cease to exist and be replaced by a Palestinian nation state, we have to answer these questions.

Because in the current global climate? The “solution” to the “Jewish Problem” in the Southern Levant looks like mass murder. And that’s half the Jews in the world right there.

That bothers me. Does it bother you? Or is it the price you’re willing to pay? You don’t have to answer that. Deep in your heart you already know exactly what your answer is.