These people make it so easy for the far right to spin up antisemitic (actually antisemitic, not this bullshit) conspiracy theories.

And perhaps the most interesting implication in all of this: this international, loosely connected network of secret gentiles are portraying Jews in the best possible light by behaving as caring, humanitarian, antiapartheid peace activists… whereas ‘real’ Jews oppose a ceasefire, support the forced separation between Palestinians and others, and prevent aid from reaching them… I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from that one.

Remember that a core belief of liberalism is that indiscriminate mass murder of an entire population for being insufficiently progressive is not only justified, but that opposing the same is an endorsement of all of the beliefs they imagine their targets to hold. It’s why they think “queers for Palestine = chickens for KFC” is some kind of own.

I did a double-take at that 5-digit timestamp in the URL

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

So the Trump administration wants to do a Khmer Rouge, but on Medicaid recipients instead of intellectuals?

Seeing this video awoke a memory in me.

My father practiced corporal punishment. Never took it further than an open-handed swat on the butt, which was tame compared to what his own dad did to him, but even as a kid, it felt humiliating and violating to me in a way that other punishments didn’t.

One day, when I was… 12, I think? I was just entering puberty, and my dad’s age was catching up to him. He went in to swat me on the butt as usual, and I just… didn’t let him. As soon as he grabbed my wrist to pull me into position, I twisted away from him and pulled free. He tried again, but I dodged his hand, then took several steps back. I didn’t raise my hands or anything, didn’t do anything threatening, but made it clear that he’d have to chase me down and wrestle me to the ground if he wanted to spank me.

He looked really pissed for a moment, but then just… stopped. Told me to do the thing that my failure to do had prompted the spanking attempt (I don’t remember what it was), and I did. Never spoke of it. Never tried to spank me again. There was just this unspoken recognition between us that the status quo had forever changed.

Oh hey, they noticed you.

but they’ve also mentioned they’ve not met a single homeless trans person.

Oh good, shipping homeless people out of sight and out of mind has worked then, glory to the People’s Republic of China!

Literally just describing what the West does and ascribing it to China.

I prefer Hexbear Composite

One of the many contradictions of capitalism: it needs an ever-increasing population to maintain its growth, but it strongly disincentivizes having children for the vast majority of people.

This post made by IGN.

Oh

I think you linked the wrong video.

As usual, leftists have championed a doomed cause

Algeria: Liberated.
Vietnam: Liberated.
India: Liberated.
Zimbabwe: Liberated.
South Africa: Liberated.
Ethiopia: Liberated.
Burkina Faso: Liberated.
Mexico: Liberated.
Cuba: Liberated.
Countless other former colonies: Liberated, liberated, liberated.

But Contrapoints has said Palestine will never be free, so

Oh shit Quill, been forever since I’ve seen you around. This is looking really cool and I hope to see it finished.

To ask for the names is to ask for America to become a failed state.

Nearly 25 years alter, I can hear the title theme in my head just as clearly as when I first booted it up. Sometimes the game was cozy, sometimes silly, sometimes exciting, sometimes creepy, sometimes sad, but it always nailed the atmosphere it was going for at any given moment.