Why does it seem like fails?

So.

To clarify.

They are asking for the right to ‘Execute’ the whole population of an Entire Country which is the Ancestral Homeland of an oppressed Indigenous People —

— because ‘service’ is Mandatory in Israel, whether you’re cooking or doing fitness training or, idk, providing therapy maybe? Doesn’t matter. You ‘served’ in The Army….. So they are asking to Execute…… Literally Everyone.

(Yes, yes, some people refuse, so it isn’t Literally 100% Total Population, but it may as well be)

And the Alternative is…..

* being brainwashed in A Camp For Holding Political Dissidents

* in order to convince members of this tribe that AKSHUALLY, Sovereignty And Self-Determination In One’s Ancestral Homeland is a Bad Thing but also this only applies to You,

* You, Specifically, Members Of This Tribe That My Own People Almost Certainly Have Historically And Currently Continue To Oppress

* And Also I think that it would be an understandable Good And Moral Thing for Absolutely Nobody to offer you ANY kind of safe harbour from this genocide

Right.

And……. And these Jew-Haters Who Call Themselves ‘Anti-Zionists’ …… they think of themselves as the Good Guys here.

Somehow.

‘I should be allowed to engage in the mass murder of fully half of this oppressed indigenous people and be considered a shining example of morality for it! uwu’ is something they consider to be …. Praxis. Justice. A Meaningful Discussion About The Genuine Future Tasks Which Will Have To Be Addressed And Brought About uwu

…… and they either are fully aware of how wildly, teeth-gnashingly bigoted this is, or somehow fail to notice how they are DROWING in violent hatred of a micro-minority that has been violently oppressed for Literal Millenia;

‘no bro, u don’t understand, this time they really are evil, this time they really *do* Drink The Blood Of Christian[/Palestinian] Children!

All The Ugly Lies I Have Been Told Since Birth About A Minority Are Actually True this time, bro!

This time they really do deserve all the violence and hatred they [don’t uwu] face, bro!

No, I don’t need to unpack the things I’ve learned since birth bro; What A Relief That I Can [Finally] Just Safely Let Go Of The Need To Unlearn Bigotry And Just Immediately Believe Every Nasty Thing I’m Told About Those Evil People, PHEW! That was So Exhausting! 🥰’

….

And they consider themselves Leftists. Progressive. Kind, Gentle, Compassionate, Loving People Who Want To Improve The World And Protect The Vulnerable. Smol Beans who have Never Done Anything Wrong In Their Lives [and desperately want to protect this self image above all else].

The cognitive dissonance is fucking STAGGERING.

Has *been* staggering since October 7th. Each new revelation of the depths of evil they were willing to ignore, bury, excuse or outright Exalt [or decry as This Is What Israel Did Actually] so long as they got to Harm Jewish People. The willful and LOUD abandonment of EVERY progressive value, while making utterly unhinged accusations. The sheer, maddening dedication to *Opposite World* levels of hypocrisy and ignorance.

The math checks out.

So some asshole has thought up a new Tumblr scam: it's a post on a Tumblr account that's named something to make it look official-ish.

Variations include:

account-help

account-sync

account-update

account-updating

These posts show up on your dashboard, telling you that because they think you've monetized your Tumblr account, they're putting you in the penalty box sending you to the cornfield setting you to "Lurker Mode" where you can post but no one will see your posts. And, naturally, all you have to do is click on the helpful link to give tumblrsupport your account data to get it fixed.

Friends, this is a big fat lie.

The official location of Tumblr Support is https://www.tumblr.com/support or https://support.tumblr.com. And guess what? They'll already have your account information.

Tumblr has no such thing as Lurker Mode.

If you right-click on their link, you'll see it's a munged/shortened link. You can go to a site like https://www.expandurl.net to expand that link and see where it takes you: it's not Tumblr Support.

@staff, please be aware this is happening.

Do... do you know a quick google search shows it is a statement of solidarity for the jewish nation.. what is the jewish nation? oh yeah, Isr**l. hop off my dick bitch

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

The examples the IHRA provides as guidance, which do mention Israel, are even less binding (and they are just that—examples), and explicitly state that criticisms comparable to reasonable criticisms of other states cannot be considered antisemitic.

The definition does not “chill free speech”; it is a criticism of certain kinds of speech, which is itself free speech, and should be protected in any country where “free speech” means anything.

When people claim this “chills their speech”, they are not describing any rights of theirs that are actually being abridged; they are simply telling you the kinds of speech they wish to be able to engage in without being criticized.

Some of them are IRGC bootlickers!

The administration either got rid of or didn't listen to people who could explain the algae problem, and decided that the problem was because other administrations were just stupid and didn't know how to take care of the pool, and also saw an opportunity for grifting some money.

So they painted the bottom of the pool dark blue, which absorbed more heat from the sun and made the algae bloom faster than ever. So they dumped hydrogen peroxide in it, which only killed the algae around the edges and also made the new paint job peel.

Waste tax money on vanity projects

Ignore experts saying the project will cause numerous problems

Said project fucks up shit that was working perfectly fine beforehand

Claim the problems caused by the project dont exist

Switch to saying none of this was a big deal in the first place despite costing millions of dollars

By the time Obama rocked up and it became his issue, the initial issues had compounded with "it's old as balls" and "this was never designed to have this many visitors." Obama undertook a massive renovation that included stabilizing the pool structurally and rerouting the water source, as noted above. He was aware that this was only a partial fix to the problem--there's only so much you can do with a megastructure that was built improperly when cars were still a novelty and that sits in the middle of one of the busiest metro areas in the US--but he did what he could. Perfect is the enemy of "mostly right."

Now if you wanted to fix the pool properly, the way to do it would be to tear the whole thing out, go back to the original blueprints, and have a modern architect look at what needs to exist as substructure to make the superstructure viable. That is, understandably, not a cost we can really afford right now. And replacing it with a different form of monument somewhat less problematic, like a garden, would be extremely politically fraught. So "we're going to deal with problems as best we can when they crop up" is the name of the game.

TRUMP TRIED TO REMOVE OBAMA'S RENOVATION. Like. The thing that meant he had a pool to paint in the first place.

I see this especially often when it comes to cultural appropriation from Judaism, and while part of that probably is due to me following a lot of Jewish people, I'm confident that a much larger part of it is due to a widespread sense of entitlement towards Jewish culture