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Sumerian gods: create humans because theyre tired of toiling the fields and building houses and want someone else to do it for them

Humans: create clankers because we're tired of coding the virtual fields and configuring the virtual houses

 “We have injuries all over our bodies, everything is swollen. We went through what felt like a terror attack. It was horrifying.”

An Israeli mother, 62, and her daughter, 23, were brutally beaten in Thailand by a French tourist.

“He started beating me viciously,” the mother said. “My daughter tried to protect me and was beaten too. We both fought him. I was hit in the head, and at some point I apparently lost consciousness.”

The two women were on the Thai island of Koh Phangan when they were approached by a French national asking where they were from. When they said Israel, he became irate and demanded a debate.

They told him they did not want to discuss Israel/Palestine, and he appeared to walk away, after stating he was "against violence." Then he launched himself at the mother and started biting her ear and punching her until she lost consciousness.

Attacking women on vacation will not help Palestinians. Everyone silent about this violence isn't helping anyone, either. 

All you are doing is harming innocent Jews.

How did he do it?

He starved them to death. He knowingly starved them to death, by collectivizing the farms and then confiscated the food they grew. He sent his soldiers into the countryside to confiscate all the food that people depended on to keep them alive.

At the same time he was creating a famine he was INCREASING FOOD EXPORTS.

Why?

Because he wanted the money from the exported food to buy the things he thought China needed to industrialize.

He literally decided that it was perfectly acceptable to starve tens of millions of people so that they could increase their GDP.

Talking to young teen boys (who are very online but not yet self aware enough to know to hide their opinions) I see the consequences of the subtly antisemitic rhetoric that’s been propagating in our society. In the past year, someone did the nazi salute to me, jokes about Israel as an illegitimate state, conversion attempts, holocaust denial, and so much more, just for me mentioning that I’m Jewish. Many of my friends have had “free Palestine” shouted at them simply for walking down the street with a yarmulke. A thirteen-year-old boy I know had to hide from a group of screaming boys chasing him screaming “free Palestine”.

You’re hearing the gripes of “antisemitism” and casting them away, assuming they are a bludgeon against all legitimate criticism of the state of Israel. And there are genuine critiques of the way the country treats Arabs. But think about if the ideas you’re spreading have a historical root in stereotypes and violence against Jews. Think about who you’re platforming, and whether their motivations include the destruction of the 8 million Jews in Israel (which is a genocidal motivation btw), or a better life for all people in Israel and Palestine. STOP PLATFORMING AND PROMOTING ANTISEMITISM! Unlike most in my community I’ve talked to, I refuse to believe that you are doing this on purpose. You are not responsible for the actions of others, but you are responsible for the ideas that come out of your mouth and what you post.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

-Owning an electronic device with an OS on it

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