So much for the tolerant zionists

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    If you’re MAGA, you don’t question the conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. If you want to call yourself a progressive, you must denounce Israel.

    Yep, these two things are totally equivalent! Great reporting lea-dysphoric

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    that the keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf adopted by anti-Israel protesters, has become triggering to many Jews

    Ever the frickin’ victims. Oh no, that person’s wearing a black and white cloth protesting the genocide! They must be after me personally! How do people live like this?

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      Can you fucking imagine if the original nazis had done this smol bean bullshit “Halt, your yamulke ist making me feel unsafe as a German citizen”

      Maybe they did and I don’t know, but this is actually nauseating, this level of gleeful slimy bad faith and reality denial at all times. Existing inside a fascist mind must be such a queasy sensation

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Jewish people were vilified in Germany to such an extent that I wouldn’t be surprised if people viewed them as demons in human skin.

        When you truly think what you’re doing is right, the human mind will try to justify it in any way possible.

        It’s the same reason cops lie to themselves whenever they kill a person of color, the same way zionists fear for their lives when they see a “Free Parking” sign.

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    I always thought it would be the left who would come after me.

    shocked-pikachu

    I’ve learned that one non-Jewish friend isn’t talking to me for me posting a piece critical of Mamdani’s socialist politics, so I’m literally losing friends right and left.

    did-someone

    And yet on the right and the left, there is no room for nuance anymore.

    Won’t someone think of the nuance? Why am I, the self-congratulatory centrist who waffles on everything, the only one capable of seeing the precious nuance?

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    Lmao anti-communist centrist who isn’t enthusiastic enough about genocide for her fascist friends and rightly reviled by anyone that isn’t “Why does everyone hate me?”

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    Friends in the group — who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals — sent me screenshots of the hundreds of comments after mine. “For the same reason Buddhists stopped wearing the swastika symbol in public. Not their fault of course but it just means something completely different now,”

    this person hasn’t seen buddhists wear swastikas so obviously they must not do that anymore!

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    “But I’m one of the many Jews in America and Israel stuck in the middle. We may not love Trump or Bibi but are grateful for America’s support in the war against Iran and the outcome. We New Yorkers may not have voted for Mamdani, but are not thrilled by the nose-holding choices of Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo. We may not like the continuing war in Israel and the destruction in Gaza, and abhor the hostages not being free, but we also fear the growing antisemitism in America. Half of my Facebook feed is Israelis protesting the war in Gaza and the other is soldiers in uniform fighting for Israel.”


    The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.