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in honor of america's 250th birthday approaching, here's your friendly reminder that this poem by emma lazarus (a jewish-american woman) is on a plaque attached to the statue of liberty:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.
OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.
And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.
tbh it is kind of crazy to me that pre trump, nobody on either side of the aisle would ever DREAM of contesting the 14th amendment and now today you have all these chuds having full-on apocalyptic meltdowns about it. like it’s hard for me to believe that such a large proportion of the population always hated the 14th amendment this much, and in this case, i do think trump basically created this political coalition out of whole cloth
I think it’s a combination of two things: Trump as a cult leader and Trump as an accelerationist. The first one is easy, Republicans simply line up to viciously defend anything their Dear Leader shits out. There is no line he could cross, he’s their special boi. With the second one, Republicans have always been terrible, which is why they took so quickly to Trump’s mask-off bigotry, but something that distinguished Trump from a lot of other Republicans is that he wasn’t a regular politician who was trained how to wrap up his bigotry in coded language, he’s just a reality show star that says whatever he wants (he also never had a filter because he’s genuinely one of the stupidest people alive). MAGA voters since 2016 have gone “he just says what everyone is thinking!” They’re wrong that everyone thinks it, but every Republican thinks it. The way he was/is totally unfiltered and not afraid to be proudly bigoted is what drew shit stain voters to him, and it had a radicalizing effect. Having the leader of the party openly, unabashedly embrace naked white supremacy (and not face any real consequences for it!) made Republican voters and politicians embrace thoughts that had only been kept private before, or maybe things they didn’t think possible until their Dear Leader told them that their wildest racist fantasies were righteous, true, and within their grasp. So when you have the leader of the party, one who stacked SCOTUS in his favor and has been given insanely preferential treatment after doing outrageous shit, come out and say “yes of course birthright citizenship is a disgrace and we should get rid of it and we can totally do it because fuck the Constitution”, it just opens a door that was previously closed.
This is why people like Trump should never be given a platform to begin with; shitty people can become totally unhinged when thoughts that are typically shunned out of polite society are given a megaphone. We see this with radicalization all the time, like with anti-vaxxers getting a seat at the table with RFK Jr. instead of laughed out of the room
The fact that herr platner's funds have dried up now that the primary is over leads me to two conclusions:
1. The people donating to him only cared about beating the Normie Dem senior woman
2. The people donating to him wanted to make sure the baggage candidate was the one going up against winning streak collins
In either case, now that the main goal of winning herr platner the primary is over, there is no need to give any more money, they got what they wanted, Janet Mills lost, and collins got her weak opponent
Why did leftist money dry up? Why isn't Bernie down there fundraising with him?
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sony cutting off physical discs while also implementing a system that doesnt allow you to actually own ur digital games due to that 30 day verification whatever not to mention outside of gaming for the past few years sony has stopped producing on physical formats which is insane because THEY developed nearly every format every company uses( dvd, bluray, cd, etc ) so they have the biggest hand on production leaving a vacuum now that theyve stopped plus being absolutely shady with their digital marketplaces most recent example w/ pulling studio canal conent & the funimation / crunchyroll merger still has missing anime never added back to the app the shut down of multiple studios + the end of destiny 2 despite wanting to focus on live service which is just code for focusing on gta6's online mode & nothing else like adding the years upon years upon years of extra added shady sony horsepiss not just playstation but sony as a whole the fuck am i expected to spend a SINGLE dime with them again
adding to the "you dont hate sony enough" they also announced today they are shutting down the ps3 & psvita digital marketplaces so fuck preservation of games for older consoles ig !!
I will not call myself or other people "gooners" or "npcs" or "larpers". i will not call things i dont like "slop". i will not use terms like "-oids". i dont like how common language is slowly becoming more focused on shorthand terms for hate and apathy
“netanyahu’s family’s name was originally miliekowsky, which proves he was from poland! i’ve now proven the zionism wrong!! hahahaha!!!”
…the core of the zionist narrative is that jews returned from countries around the world to israel. that many of those jews came from poland is not only not a secret, it’s the entire point.
in early zionism there was an emphasis on casting off the trappings of diaspora, including languages. many families changed their names to hebrew ones, as an explicit political and cultural embrace of their new-but-ancient hebrew-speaking selves. it, along with hebrew and kibbutzim and farming and fighting, was a casting-off of the “old jew” for the “new jew,” which was also (to them) the ancient israelite. none of this was hidden.
by pointing this out you have not disproven zionism. you are saying “look, the zionists did a zionist thing, completely in line with what they were proudly saying they were doing! i’ve finally caught out their lies!”
it really seems like a lot of the people saying this stuff don’t even know the first thing about zionism.
“okay well it still disproves the zionist myth that ashkenazi jews come from palestine!!!”
askenazi jews didn’t adopt european surnames in the 1700 and 1800s, when they were required to by the governments they lived under. so it’s unlikely the family even had the name miliekowsky for more than 200 years, if that
A member of law enforcement personnel works at the scene outside the US Consulate after shots were fired, in Toronto, …
A Jewish real estate agent has been brutally assaulted while on his way to meet a client at a Toronto commercial center, marking the latest in a string of targeted antisemitic hate crimes as hostility toward Jews and Israelis continues to intensify across Canada.
In a Facebook post, Joseph Bitton described the incident, alleging that a man identifying himself as a Shiite Houthi Muslim from Yemen threatened to kill him, shouted antisemitic slurs at him over his Jewish identity, and then physically attacked him.
According to Bitton’s account, the suspect accused Israel of “killing babies and committing genocide against Palestinians” before launching into a barrage of antisemitic insults, issuing threats, and escalating the confrontation into a violent attack.
The assailant then allegedly threw a parking ticket dispenser, bricks, stones, and metal bars at Bitton, then struck him with a thick wooden branch.
Bitton said he sustained only minor scratches and physical injuries after escaping the attack, but noted that the experience left him shaken and deeply unsettled.
“This is not the Canada where I grew up and lived for the past 64 years,” he wrote in the Facebook post.
Local police responded after Bitton called for help, arresting the suspect at the scene and opening an investigation, with authorities treating the attack as a suspected hate crime.
Like most countries across the Western world, Canada has seen a rise in antisemitic incidents over the last two years, in the wake of the Hamas-led invasion and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Antisemitic incidents in Canada surged to a record high in 2025 for the second consecutive year, with 6,800 acts of anti-Jewish hate reported nationwide, underscoring a persistently hostile climate for Jews and Israelis across the country.
The Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada released its annual report on antisemitism in April, documenting a 9.3 percent increase in hate crimes last year that surpassed the previous record total of 6,219 set in 2024.
Early 2026 data already indicate the country is on track to see its most violent year against the Jewish community in recent memory, with more violent antisemitic attacks recorded so far this year than during all of 2025. In total, 11 violent antisemitic attacks have already been recorded across the country since the start of 2026, surpassing the 10 violent incidents documented during all of last year.
Last month, a gunman opened fire in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood, the heart of the city’s Jewish community, killing a police officer and a local rabbi in one of the latest violent attacks raising alarm over the safety of Jewish residents.
In May, a group of Jewish worshippers standing outside the Congregation Chasidei Bobov synagogue in Montreal was targeted in a drive-by shooting, leaving one person with minor injuries. A week earlier, three visibly Jewish residents were targeted in a separate antisemitic attack when suspects opened fire with a gel-pellet gun, causing minor injuries.
Two synagogues in Toronto were also targeted by gunfire earlier this year, marking the third shooting targeting Jewish institutions in less than a week and intensifying fears of a rapidly deteriorating security climate for Jews and Israelis across Canada.
One thing these past months have shown me is how thinly veiled y'all's activism is when it comes to people you don't like.
Let me be clear:
Every person on earth is born with human rights that have to be met. A safe life, food, water, community and a home aren't things you have to deserve. They are your birth rights. No matter what.
Which is why humanizing "the other side" is so important.
Everyone on earth (yes, even you) is capable of unspeakable acts of cruelty, given your upbringing and or circumstances. You are not exempt of commiting atrocities. You still have fundamental rights that need to be met.
If your activism ain't including this, it's not activism at all. It's an excuse for hate.
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this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"
My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.
Cool cool cool so we will have limited power in a heat wave, we should use dry ice (which releases carbon dioxide in enclosed spaces and can cause severe burns if you’re not careful) while it storms out
Also if you can read the topmost message they will be firing off cannons and buzzing us with jets tomorrow morning starting at 8am
The Civil War Dads would like to remind us that it’s Pickett’s Charge Day, when a nation of the people, for the people, by the people did not perish from the earth because its defenders were heroic and its enemies were arrogant and kind of dumb. May it always be so.
Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the Union defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repelled with over 50 percent casualties.
The assault was aimed at the center of the Union Army's position on Cemetery Ridge, which was believed to be a vulnerable point in the Union defenses. As the Confederate troops marched across nearly a mile of open ground, they came under heavy artillery and rifle fire from entrenched Union forces. The open terrain offered little cover, making the Confederate soldiers easy targets, and their ranks were quickly decimated.
they marched 12,500 men across a mile of open ground under heavy fire. that certainly is one of the greatest white-supremacist self-owns I've heard about, so far.
Pickett's Charge marked the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg, and its furthest advance is called the "high-water mark of the Confederacy". The failure of the charge crushed the Confederate Army's hopes of winning a decisive victory in the North and forced General Lee to retreat back to Virginia.
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