MissionManFan

Please don’t actually make me talk about this stuff irl

[Beverly Hallberg @BeverlyHallberg]

For people who want to argue that you have no value in society unless you have children, Dolly Parton is a great example of why that simply isn’t true. She gave generously to both her family and society, and we are all far better off for having had her in the world.

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@DruzeSaher32 @Awesome_Jew_ Yeah maybe they were Qatar, Emirates, Eithad or some other Arab airline flight attendants. I go almost monthly and those are the only ones I see

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

Never ask someone if they "accept Israel’s right to exist.”

Ask them if they "accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people."

The first question is easily dodged by ideologues:

a) "No country has a right to exist," or;

b) "Yes, as a democratic country that doesn't show a preference for any one people or religion."

The second question gets to the heart of the dispute.

For Western anti-Zionists and communists, the objection is to the Jews as a people entitled to self-determination. And the idea of a Jewish State that favors Jews.

So when they say they object to any "ethno-state," ask them whether they similarly reject countries constituted as the national homes of particular peoples, such as Croatia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania & Albania.

And when they say they object to any country that shows a "preference for a religion," ask whether they object to the more than 80 countries that either have an official religion or give preferential treatment to one, including the UK, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Argentina. Or the 27 countries that have Islam as their official religion.

When they backtrack a little and say they object to Israel privileging Jewish immigration ask them whether they similarly object to Germany privileging ethnic German immigration, Armenia privileging ethnic Armenian immigration, or Greece privileging ethnic Greek immigration?

When they narrow it down further to objecting to not allowing the descendants of Palestinian refugees to immigrate, ask them whether a similar hereditary right should be granted to the descendants of war refugees from all 20th century wars?

When they change course and say “Israel is an apartheid state,” ask them what rights are denied to Israel’s 2m Arab citizens, who are prominent in medicine, academia, sport and business?

When they shift focus to the West Bank and say Israel shouldn’t rule over West Bank Palestinians without making them citizens, ask them when was the last time Palestinians demanded Israeli citizenship?

Ask them whether they know that more than half of the West Bank Palestinians (1.5 million) live under the non-democratic Palestinian Authority.

Ask them whether they know another 400k Palestinian residents live in East Jerusalem, where they are entitled to Israeli health insurance, National Insurance benefits, education, employment rights, access to Israeli courts, freedom of movement within Israel, and to vote and run in municipal elections.

Yes, Israel and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) present complicated historical, legal and security questions.

One can criticize and oppose government policies without opposing Jewish self-determination, which since 1948 has been realized in the State of Israel.

Most likely the person you are speaking to really doesn’t like the idea of a Jewish State, but hasn’t yet settled on the reason. When the objection comes first, the rationale is flexible.

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@StefanFSchubert @Noahpinion It definitely has become socially unacceptable to just be a complete jerk to somebody else randomly with physical harassment. Cyber bullying definitely has taken over but even it’s still less direct

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@Cashflow_Cowboy Clearly a “where do we like to eat out for Mexican at home in New York and maybe that good place we went to that one time we visited LA” list

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@shevereshtus @PowersBenny Even if you take the generous approach that it allows for some deviation from the gender binary, it’s still based on physical biology and not something you can choose to identify as

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The level of corruption between the firestarter utility companies and Gavin Newsom is unreal. Where the hell is the Attorney General to look out for these consumers getting wrecked by the utilities? Too busy suing over who airs Friends reruns?

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@0321K9 This sounds like what any “news” from @FaytuksNetwork is

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@litcapital @redsteeze Exactly, rent freezes force new renters to subsidize older ones

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@ErikHvatum @GadSaad Second photo is fake

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@shevereshtus @HeimishCon The one thing I do have to add about the $20 burrito thing is that my university closed down a food court with affordable places to replace it with expensive places. Sometimes the issue is that options at different price levels aren’t available together anymore

[David Frum @davidfrum]

King Nebuchadnezzar and the Emperor Titus join the Democratic Socialists of America in wishing a meaningful Tisha b'Av to all observing the holy day.

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@LAW9960 @collinsworth55 I prefer to wake up with some light outside so standard time is an easy win

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

A lot of the men who crossed into Israel on October 7 made it back home and tried to return to normal life.

They went back to their neighborhoods, their families, and whatever passed for a routine. Some of them probably told themselves that the worst was over.

After all, they had survived the raid, the fighting, and the initial wave of retaliation. In their minds, time was now on their side. The world would move on, the headlines would fade, and eventually they could just be regular people again.

That was the mistake.

Israel didn’t treat October 7 like a regular wartime event that eventually gets archived. They treated it like a crime scene with thousands of pieces of evidence and an extremely long memory. While some of these men were busy trying to blend back into civilian life, Israel was busy matching faces from bodycam footage, cross-referencing names from captured phones, and following the trails that came out of interrogations. They weren’t in a rush. They were building files.

There’s something almost darkly funny about watching men who participated in that level of barbarism try to go back to being husbands, mechanics, or neighbors, as if the footage of what they did would eventually expire like old milk. They really believed that if they just kept their heads down long enough, the whole thing would become yesterday’s news.

It didn’t.

Israel kept the receipts. And unlike most governments, they’ve shown zero interest in letting the statute of limitations run out on mass murder and rape. The slow, steady announcements of individual deaths aren’t random. They’re the result of patient, methodical work on men who made the critical error of assuming they could commit atrocities and then simply return to ordinary life like nothing happened.

Some mistakes don’t get smaller with time. They just get documented.
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[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@Dispropoganda

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@DSA_Watch

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

More "common sense moderate Democrats" on the march

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

The left did not replace white Americans, they culturally replaced black Americans:

-BLM was replaced by Palestine
-Obama bros' were replaced by the Zorhan wing.
-Rap/hip hop was replaced by latin-fusion and afro-beats
-Black Church influence was replaced by Islamic influence

[MissionManFan @MissionManFan]

@neoavatara This is what Trump wants - outrage over nonesense so his actual bad stuff skates through

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

No idiot that supports this MOU is ever fit to be commander in Chief.

I thought that under the Obama nuclear deal too.

Unlike some, I've been consistent on this.