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How exactly could he use the assassination attempt to his advantage now? The shooter doesn't fit any profile he could use to blame Democrats for, and we know very little that made his motive anything other than targeting Trump because he happened to be the nearest famous person to him.

Let us back up, what examples of anti-Jewish sentiment in university campuses can you give us?

> Blocking Jewish students from entering the campus.
> Demanding Jewish students denounce Israel.
> Harassing Jewish students on campus.
> Calling for the end or destruction of the only Jewish state.
> Calling for a global intifada.
> Calling for ethnic cleansing or genocide of Jews by chanting "From River to the Sea…"
> Supporting Hamas.
> Tearing down posters of Jewish hostages.
> Holding double standards for Jews and other minorities (Jews cannot define what anti-Semitism is, but minorities can define what racism towards is)

I can go on and on

> Blocking Jewish students from entering the campus.
> Demanding Jewish students denounce Israel.
> Harassing Jewish students on campus.
> Calling for the end or destruction of the only Jewish state.
> Calling for a global intifada.
> Calling for ethnic cleansing or genocide of Jews by chanting "From River to the Sea…"
> Supporting Hamas.
> Tearing down posters of Jewish hostages.
> Holding double standards for Jews and other minorities (Jews cannot define what anti-Semitism is, but minorities can define what racism towards is)

I can go on and on

By all means, continue on, and I think we would appreciate if you can give us links for more context on each example.

“You’re all going to be thrown into a communist system … You’re going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.” -Donald Trump

Oh no, my medical bills are fading!

If I provide links and images of what I said, would it change your mind?

Which is funny, because supposedly one of the advantages of private-funded R&D is that through competition and free market conditions companies are encouraged to innovate. In reality companies are inevitably motivated to find ways of maximizing profits for the least amount of effort while disregarding things like ethics and safety.

Change my mind on what? Did I imply you were lying about it? If so, then I apologize, I only wanted sources for everyone's convenience so everyone is informed to discuss further.

Someone else has already mentioned medicine, but there has been a lot of progress in drugs, prosthétiques, pacemakers and treatment for almost all fields, with one of my favourites being the treatment of Alzheimer. Bio-mimicry & synthetic biology as a whole is making strides.

It's actually another reason why the current loss of ecosystems & biodiversity so important, it's pretty much burning a library for all the new tech we could learn.

Computing & remote sensing has also gotten much better, it may be another step on the cyberpunk future but it's far easier to detect everything, including gas emissions that we can't normally see.

Perhaps I misread the intention but it seemed to me that you were unsure that there were any forms of anti-Jewish sentiment on campus. Hence why you asked for examples.

Tim Walz posted his quip on 'white guy tacos' and how he isn't 'much of a spice guy' on Twitter. Cue rage from the right-wing folks:

Mike Cernovich

Will Cain of FOX News

Ted Cruz

Ben Shapiro

Whoever this guy is

And more….

Ben Shapiro fears Timmy Walz Disney.

Fair enough, I’ll make sure to be clear next time. I am aware of some of your examples from google searches and previous news reports but thought you were more knowledgeable to provide more accurate sources.

Human endless hornyness will always be an eternal defense against racism.

Sometimes it feels opposite as in "hornyness can be racist". Maybe I am a dumbass who never got this close to understanding politics and stuff online.
Sorry for writing like a dumbass.

I just don't want to spend an hour googling articles and images to present examples. If there is any you supect or want specific examples of, I am happy to oblige.

Wow so that's the best they can do on Walz? I'm a midwestern white guy here, joking about black pepper being "spicy" because all of grandmas recipes from (insert central/northern European nation here) is a damn near everyday thing. Meanwhile every city is a refugee or migrant hub from multiple timeframes, so the good food is present.

Like where I'm at is the headquarters of Seoul Taco and a hot spot of Indian workers and a beacon towards the Vietnamese/Bosnian diasporas (although south county is more kabob central than spicy)

edit – now I want a kolache. I should get a kolache

> Blocking Jewish students from entering the campus.
> Demanding Jewish students denounce Israel.
> Harassing Jewish students on campus.
> Calling for the end or destruction of the only Jewish state.
> Calling for a global intifada.
> Supporting Hamas.

Wow so that's the best they can do on Walz?

There's stuff to hit him with, if you're willing to dig. Negative accounts of his lockdown policy seem to be growing in the background. Going in for the "he destroyed small businesses" angle once it's done baking in the oven could be pretty damaging.

Meanwhile every city is a refugee or migrant hub from multiple timeframes, so the good food is present.

I don't like boiling down immigration to just "food". It devalues both the immigrants and the local culture.

'Course, since a family in my state tried to pull the "muh good food" argument after an illegal immigrant murdered their daughter, I'm probably more sensitive and aware of how fucking cringe this line of thought is. At least it's better than "we need dirt cheap labor to keep the economy running"…

I remembered when some Indian guy with Blue checkmark thought France was under attack from Muslims while in reality Muslims were just selling their food.
Seriously, I do not want to sound racist, but why are Indians so xenophobic towards Muslims? Is it because they have a rivalry with Pakistan or something? I want a proper answer.

And another thing. I find okay that Venezuela doesn't have the weakest money anymore. Shame Turkey has it.
Funny how I learned more about inflation through other things than in college. You can say I am Street smart. Is that a correct term?

Seriously, I do not want to sound racist, but why are Indians so xenophobic towards Muslims? Is it because they have a rivalry with Pakistan or something? I want a proper answer.

500 years of Muslim domination in the subcontinent, and a few centuries of Muslim incursion beforehand. There's a lot more moving parts than this IIRC (such as the partitioning of India), but this is the foundation of their mutual opposition.

Islam and Hinduism having contrasting dietary restrictions also probably feeds tensions to some degree.

food is shorthand for cultural exchange, it's sort of the lifeblood of an empire the size of the US

Thanks for responding to my post.
Speaking of that, I am surprised to see India surpass China in population.
I once thought India had more population than China when China dominated the population status.
After all, China has one child policy. Which seems too harsh.

politics thread, can you guys translate "two transitions at the Olympics" to English?

edit – remind me to never piss off the neocons

You know. As much as I agree Capitalism is flawed, I just cannot take everyone who rants on Capitalism. One of reasons being a media about criticizing Capitalism made for Amazon Prime or Netflix.
I want to write more, but I forgot what exactly I wanted to write other than "You live in a capitalist state that is less corrupt than any Communist state that ever existed." because I would sound like a smug bastard.

Seems what I wrote didn't have a proper execution. As I wanted to say, I just do not trust people who claim to criticize capitalism while capitalist things.
Damn it, I forgot to write in the second sentence the word "seriously" at the end.

Looking at myself, I agree with you. Maybe I am not dumb. I just easily forget what I studied in school. Shame because I want to use the knowledge to help my future kids with school.
Also, I really hope I can mature and have a proper adult life.

Looking at myself, I agree with you. Maybe I am not dumb. I just easily forget what I studied in school. Shame because I want to use the knowledge to help my future kids with school.
Also, I really hope I can mature and have a proper adult life.

I forgot to put "doing" after "while" in second sentence and WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT 30 MINUTES TO EDIT MY POST?

Whining about lockdowns is just the same shtick of appealing to the far right

As we all know, criticizing something that didn't apply to the aristocracy and largely benefited massive businesses at the expense of mom-and-pop shops is "far-right".

also using one immigrant murdering someone to paint the entire community is much more dehumanizing than talking about food

Good news: I was using it to criticize people whose most material reasoning for supporting immigration is "the food", by citing an extreme example.

food is shorthand for cultural exchange, it's sort of the lifeblood of an empire the size of the US

You were literally talking about food??? Outside of the first sentence, your entire reply was about food.

Because the legitimate criticism of them bailing out corpos and not the people or small businesses will not be used
it will be crying about closing things down

At UCLA pro-Palestine protesters not only blocked Jewish students but non-Jewish students as well. cbsnews Jewish Journal

Those students then decided to sue UCLA in June laTimes and the Judge has sided with the students and ordered that UCLA cannot allow the protesters to block Jewish students from entering on campus. CNN

These same pro-Palestine protesters were "establishing checkpoints, and passersby were required to wear a specific wristband to cross them. Students could not traverse the encampment without disavowing Israel." times of Israel

Los Angeles Times

In New York Subway a group of pro-Palestine protesters took over a subway and demanded questioning people if anyone was a Zionist ABC News

Ivy League campuses across the country are now facing anti-Semitism lawsuits from Jewish students. Because of the harassment and the intimidation. This includes:
Harvard

MIT and Columbia

The phrase From River to the Sea is an explicit call to destroy the Jewish state. It was used by the PLO to explicitly call for the restoration of Palestine in "Historic Palestine" – with the goal of getting rid of all non-Palestinian Jews, i.e. Jews that came after 1947. An Arab version of this happens to be: min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye / Falasṭīn ʿarabiyye "from the water to the water / Palestine is Arab" and/or min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye / Falasṭīn islāmiyye "from the water to the water / Palestine is Islamic"

Hamas, in it's 2017 updated charter explicitly rejected "any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea" referring to all areas of former Mandatory Palestine and by extension, the end of Jewish sovereignty in the region. Al Queda uses the term for Islamist purposes, claiming that Palestine shall be Islamic from river to the sea. Hezbollah, use it for the Palestinian cause. Iran and Iraq both use the term to explicitly to restore historic Palestine as only for Arab Palestinians, and no one else.

In fact, the only peoples that use the phrase to mean a country where both Palestinians and Jews live in equal harmony are idealist westerns and Muslim apologist scholars.

This phrase was chanted by protesters all over the West, including Germany

Calls to Globalize the Intifada in protesters is notoriously common. The Atlantic covered it. National Review covered it from protesters who were chanting this around the White House. Wikipedia covers the numerous examples of this.

In New York pro Palestine protesters scream Long Live Hamas at a Jewish couple.

There is deep implicit support for Hamas by progressive left wing students who deny any wrong doing by Hamas, excusing October 7th as an act of resistance. You can find numerous examples of this online, and even among certain people here who still deny any mass rape took place by Hamas.

Me when I am in anti-semitic contest and my opponent is a pro-palestine activist.
That aside, progressive pro-palestine activists are biggest hypocrites and even worse when they start making anti-semitic remarks.

I am sorry if I sounded too harsh towards pro-palestine protests. It's just that few of them began shouting anti-semitic remarks just because of Israel.

There is nothing wrong about being frank about those duped by Iran and Qatar. Weaponizing white guilt is a highly-effective tactic. Honestly, progressives have become akin to MAGA followers with their adherence to dogma (though the former is at least mostly restricted to just the US).

Anyone below 13 years old should get banned on sight frommost social media websites besides some like maybe youtube and facebook if you ask me.

I sure as fuck DONT want any 8 year olds here…I really dont and I really think reddit and twitter are brain damaging for an 8 year old…so many depressed and/or hateful fucks in there….

I aint saying this cause I hate children…I mean sometimes I do but no this is me caring for children…

We as a society are NOT protecting children from the internet and it worries me, how many more children will get groomed online Cause we give them unlimited internet access? Just saying I am worried for them with so many youtubers, smash bros players and discord moderators who end up being groomers

MAGAs are fine with Israel.
As for white guilt thing, I see why some progressive folks find Jews evil and it disgusts me. Considering ethnic Jews as whites and then spitting on them for that is really dumb considering what happened to them in WW2.
I would cringe to see an ethnic Jew say something like this to another Jew like a white person white guilting a white person who actually supports other races.
What I wrote does sound schizophrenic and xenophobic, I just wanted to write all of this because I thought what an example could be.

Or maybe they don't support the killing of thousands of civilians

You'd think that they would have as much energy about protesting civilian deaths when it involves conflicts that don't involve Jews doing the killing. But nah, they outright fucking celebrate it when it's the Jewish civilians getting killed.

I never said the MAGA followers were against Israel. I was merely comparing the devotion the two groups have to their respective ideologies. Politics has become something of a religion for many.

The funny thing algorithms keep trying to pigeonhole me into a specific echo chamber, and the Trump ads I have seen are wild with the ridiculous merchandise on offer. There is actually a figurine of Trump gormlessly hugging the flag. My governor had a point about the MAGA types being weird--though I would say many on the Left lack self-awareness too (insert horseshoe accusations here).

I agree

I'm sure the ones you cherry pick to support your agenda do
but everyone I know is against both genocidal regimes

My agenda is to point out the double, triple, even quadruple standards that are levied on issues that involve my people, how much gas lighting they engage in just to convince themselves that their ideological compatriots aren't the literal shit bags they really are.

You will never find student protestors on campuses demanding that any student who is Chinese descended or from China have to denounce the CCP over their genocide of Uighurs. If they did it would be condemned by the higher ups at these schools as blatant racism.

It seems to me the only civilian deaths that matter is when it's perceived "white" people doing it to "non white" people. They sure as hell don't put nearly the care if it's own "brown" group committing, and ethnic cleansing another "brown" group in places like Yemen, Sudan, or Syria. And they'll outright deny actual genocide being committed by a government they view is hostile to the US.

On that note about Chinese students, it does seem that the CCP cracks down on oversea students if they do speak out against it.

George Santos reaches plea deal, pleads guilty to wire fraud and identity theft

George Santos, who was expelled from Congress as he faced nearly two dozen criminal charges, reached a plea deal Monday with federal prosecutors in New York on two federal counts.

Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

leftwing moderators on reddit are usually massive douchebags.

tbh I really need to give up on reddit its the fucking worst.