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I have been saying this for years now. Whatever your stance toward multimillionaires / billionaires, for some reason every time criticism of "the rich" comes up, people whose finances deal in the hundreds of thousands reliably dive on the grenade. Meanwhile the truly obscenely wealthy stay silent, probably unaware the conversation is even happening.

Yes, I said. There was an astonishing final call at deadline, around 7:00 p.m. “You’re Jewish, aren’t you, Seymour?”

In all of our previous conversations, I’d been Sy. I again said yes. “Let me ask you one question then,” Haig said. “Do you honestly believe that Henry Kissinger, a Jewish refugee from Germany who lost thirteen members of his family to the Nazis, could engage in such police-state tactics as wiretapping his own aides? If there is any doubt, you owe it to yourself, your beliefs, and your nation to give us one day to prove that your story is wrong.”

I remember staring at my phone in astonishment. The story ran and Kissinger did not resign.”

it's this whole "we can't be oppressors because we're the descendants of the oppressed" nonsense and it leads to so much harm

we grew up secular jewish in nw london around a lot of orthodox jewish holocaust survivors in the 60s and 70s, and this was exactly them: they were either incredibly kind people who never wanted to see anyone suffer - or they were appalling sexist racist xenophobes

hbomberguy and co are over on bluesky pedojacketing patricia taxxon because she called him out for underpaying her as a freelancer for several years (including when she was a fucking teenager)

The posts about being underpaid came after Hbomb made his post, and after the dogpile was well underway. I think it deserves to be republished here, because it really is a dreadful instance of an artist being undercompensated:

Hbomb's post would be indefensible either way, but I think laying out the order of events illuminates things even further. Patricia Taxxon would be well within her right to call out being underpaid at any time, but as it stands she brought it up after Hbomberguy and his producer* contributed to the harrassment campaign against her. I would bet money that this is why Lily Alexandre deleted her post - because it validates Patricia's claim of underpayment that she posted in response to Hbomb pedojacketing her.

What we have here is a woman being piled on for the crime of venting that a man - who she did not even name - treated her poorly. "Lefttube" my ass.

[Also, while Patricia's account is currently deactivated, it is archived thoroughly on the Wayback Machine. I've seen people asking "posts, are deleted, what happened" and I'd direct them to Patricia's words on the matter.]

In the forty years of its existence, it has always appeared lost and helpless in the presence of any victorious freedom movement. . . . The Zionists regard themselves as second-class citizens in Poland. Their aim is to be first-class citizens in Palestine and make the Arabs second class- citizens.”

well of course but dont you want to provide your biometric data for your convenience?

she full on stared at me. she was like: but i need to put you into the system.

and i was like: need to? you NEED to? i don't want to give my email

and she was like: but...how are you going to return items without an account?

Literally all gun control accomplishes is giving police more reasons to send people to prison and strip their rights. That's the origins of gun control in the US. It was a method to strip free black people of their voting rights. It was introduced on a federal level to criminalize weapons associated with organized crime. It was used in the 60s and 70s to justify raids on dissidents; the assassination of Fred Hampton was executed under the pretense of a raid for illegal weapons, as one glaring example.

You're a fucking moron if you think that's why cops execute civilians in droves. It has nothing to do with the number of guns in America. America has always had tons of guns. This is a nation whose culture is significantly defined by the presence of firearms, yet hypermilitarized police executing noncompliant civilians with impunity is a relatively recent phenomenon. The incredible rise in police violence is almost entirely the fault of one man; Dave Grossman. He made millions off nationally touring and giving seminars to cops telling them to think like an occupying soldier. How death awaits around every corner. To kill them before they can kill you. And, because of that, police officers in America now have looser rules of engagement than American soldiers who occupied one of the most heavily-armed countries in the world. The actual threat probability has nothing to do with it. Police live and operate in a separate, self-defined reality.

And, further on how this country has always had guns. There was a time where even machine guns were incredibly easy to get. Mass shootings have not always happened. In fact, mass shootings as a phenomenon only really morphed into some kind of trend pretty much precisely when news media began turning into what it is today, focusing on sensationalism to scare audiences into viewership. And the more promotion that's been given to shooters, the more attention they get, the more airtime their crimes get, the more frequently they've happened. They happen in states with very strict gun control. They happened under the Clinton assault weapon ban. They happen within the conditions that are supposed to stop them because it is a cultural sickness. It's something happening not because these people have access to guns, but because murdering a whole bunch of people, inflicting the worst cultural nightmare of America, seems gratifying to them.