Elie

All views expressed here are personal. He/Him

[Elie @eliec76]

@NickyFrank30 @ChadNotChud That's literally the Israeli position too though: That their mistreatment of Palestinians is justified and even moral because of how much Jews have suffered previously.

[Elie @eliec76]

@JoePostingg It's not quite that simple because the initial wave of zionist settlers came to mandate Palestine before the 30s. They didn't suffer the Holocaust personally and then treated Holocaust survivors pretty badly once they came over afterwards.
https://t.co/th5adOKnbD

[Elie @eliec76]

@UrbanistOrange @JoePostingg That's not really true: Israel's treated its Mizrahi and especially its Ethopian minorities horribly:
https://t.co/BiNC8vpyoj

[Elie @eliec76]

@JKSteinberger It's not terrorism because the victims are Arab and apparently we aren't human enough to matter

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Let me summarize exactly how Elon showed his entire ass here 🧵:

-Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation
-Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts

[Elie @eliec76]

@c_kletzer Back in the real world, the further left you go the more people start to look like bisexual plumbers from Brooklyn.

[Elie @eliec76]

@agraybee Gonna be a lot of dudes with cosplay trucks getting blisters for the first time.

[Elie @eliec76]

@DeAndreBarron4 @CerberusXt No we get it, we're just saying that the changes are actually morally correct and you are too mentally stunted to realize it.

[Elie @eliec76]

@rsg @vocalcry Mate you got haggled with and ripped off because you're a tourist: Locals know you have much more money to throw around than they do, and you usually don't know what you're buying.
Haggling among locals is much friendlier and more relaxed than with tourists.

[Elie @eliec76]

@vocalcry My dad often treated from his village for free at his clinic. I could trust my mechanic blindly to keep my car running even though it was older than I was. People could literally leave a child alone at a restaurant table, and bystanders would watch them.

[Elie @eliec76]

@vocalcry The only thing I'd correct here is that this is not third-world mentality: I grew up in Lebanon and we actually took care of each other over there, as long as you were part of the same community.

[Elie @eliec76]

@dieworkwear Not to mention that he's on TRT and likely running some other cycle too.

[Elie @eliec76]

@nullvoidauthor @vizard_anon @Carnage4Life Heavily depends on the country. Going back, for me, would've meant dealing with almost 25% unemployment, a financial crisis, anti-LGBT laws, and a very possible war and humanitarian crisis in the next 6 months.
People usually leave for a reason...

[Elie @eliec76]

@vizard_anon @Carnage4Life Not a consensual one either if you're on an H1b

[Elie @eliec76]

@cmclymer Which, by itself, is a weird form of bigotry of low expectations: It's the same reason why people are less incensed than expected when a Republican does something deeply vile or hypocritical. At this point, it's just what we expect of the lot regardless of individual qualities.

[Elie @eliec76]

@cmclymer The only thing missing from your analysis is that the joke only took off as well as it did because Vance is a deeply disturbing weirdo to begin with. Nobody cared whether he actually did it because he's exactly the kind of guy you *expect* to do it.

[Elie @eliec76]

@StevenWillcox2 @yuhline There are plenty of opinions held by tons of people that only tell you that these people are too dumb or vile to listen to.

[Elie @eliec76]

So if you realize that your dad or cousin or whomever has been radicalized by Tucker Carlson or Matt Walsh or Libs of TikTok, you aren't burning a bridge by cutting them out: That bridge's already burned and you're just protecting yourself and your loved ones from them.

[Elie @eliec76]

I volunteered at a crisis hotline for a long time. Most of the callers were people who were on the brink of killing themselves.
The most common type of callers were young LGBT people who had been kicked out, physically abused, or threatened with death by Republican parents.

[Elie @eliec76]

There is no line at which your political beliefs end and your personal beliefs start: The personal is the political, and it's either naive or outright gaslighting to pretend that one doesn't inform the other.