I remember when @Wikipedia was the wonder of the internet age. I used it all the time. Then the page editing went to seed: malicious politicized obfuscations and, often alongside that, writing blunders. Now it seems like it’s always a crap shoot as far as knowledge or slop.
Twenty-five years ago, Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia, arguably the most important encyclopedia in human history. This week, he was banned from the site. The story of how and why is an emblem of our time.
Read @lsanger in @TheFP:
https://t.co/qGgWPTPOGn
@ArielleLAngel@BenLorber8 Nearly half of young American Jews are in favor of replacing Israel with a gourmet bong water delivery service. Who cares? That half is the half that doesn’t get what Jews survive in Israel today or what Jews survived (and didn’t) in the diaspora before ….
4/ Takeaway 2. any politician and/or billionaire listening: it’s that bad out there for folks these days that you can radicalize on the cheap. The DSA doesn’t have to be the form of Gozer the Destroyer— it can be anything! Especially if it’s not he same old BS. Try Syndicalism!
@TheFP@Commentary@nypost I don’t think the “Mamdani cohort” Dem primary winners in NYC indicate much about “changing American attitudes toward Jews & Israel”: it’s a super low turnout primary structurally rewarding awful candidates w/ strong “organizing”/1
3/ My two takeaways 1.) Leadership matters , scheming matters. Mamdani was part of that sleeper cell that activated after 10/7 and immediately blamed Jews & continued to lie& demonize. Let’s find better leaders. And finally:
@NYCGreenfield@bradlander If you have to say it like that… it’s bullshit. He’s a doorstop for the mobs of another would-be 10/7 but in NYC, and I hope that every measure possible is taken so that New York’s Hewish voters can’t delude themselves, see an alternative, and plan how to act up in a big way!
@bradlander The only issue is that this *obsession* with the Palestinians to the exclusion of all else is, it’s fairly clear these days, the strongest signal that a politician has no ability to represent fellow Americans, his constituents’ own freedom, rights, or access to the good life.
Plus 3.) at the moment, the country’s greatest proponents of socialism are Jewhating Israel-obsessed addicts of anti-Semitic flavored revenge fantasies. So, if they are SO WRONG and lie so cruelly about Jews, it’s a historic sign that ideology is a disaster area too /3
2. If starting a business, buying a home, any life choice that requires economic risk, is far beyond the means of most good people, then socialistic distribution of homes, healthcare, housing &c. seems like the obvious response. it hasn’t worked before but, if we do just a bit/2
@dansenor@NYCMayor@danielsgoldman By making every day the Hate Israel Show as mayor of the most Jewish city, this guy is one of the drivers of the antisemitic “isromania” that is frankly a way of short-circuiting real Americans’ grievances. gotta be a way of ignoring Zohar and his “Bat-Soneh” wife : “moku satsu”
@ZaidJilani Iran, political camps: Jewish support 93%; Left 76%, Center 93%, Right 97% https://t.co/pqA92AZ1V9 Irab, religiosity (non-Orthodox): secular 67.5%, traditional 84–85%, Haredi 84.5% — https://t.co/hDvC9BVkUk Lebanon, political camps: Jewish support 80%; Left 56%, Center 74%, R 89
@ZaidJilani On the contrary, 80% of Jews agree on 80% of the issues , but just not the same 80%. On the existential threat of Iran and its proxies and the just doctrine of Israeli war I would say 96% agree.
@MarcoFoster_ The start a a scam line- BEWARE- everything that follows is libel & lies & does nothing to advance Jewish or Arab or Muslims in America or Abroad.
@mattbilinsky I think that the “lack of political will” is a press scam plus gas$ Trump forgetting how to sell. If we pulled out of this “deal” now and kept bombing the stuffing out of Iran, and signaled there will be no end - not to “destroy their civilization” just, explosions all the time…
For max drama, we should pull out of the deal and basically tell Iran: “we have the will to keep bombing you forever, wherever we want, at no cost to us very soon, and here’s a taste” We can salvage this— forget the press and all the weak haters. I will pray in the meantime!
Yes, it’s a historic shame that @EmmanuelMacron@_FriedrichMerz@10DowningStreet didn’t man up to deal w/the strait but, we need to signal strong that transit alternatives will be ready soon, then bomb away anything Iranian w/in 30 miles of Hormuz. next: conclusion