that parenthetical referring to that ridiculous law Congress just passed that would make it illegal to criticize Israeli foreign or domestic policy ๐
tbqh I think the answer is as simple as "it's less socially acceptable (and may soon be illegal) to criticize Israeli policy directly, so they reach for the closest term that has approximately the same meaning in context, even though it makes less sense"
I don't understand how you can get to the point of saying "wearing a keffiyeh is prohibited" and not realize that you are, in fact, clearly on the wrong side of history.
literally cartoon villain shit
A soldier in the Worldโs Most Moral Army posing for a photo in the Al Aqsa University library in Gaza
Despite claims to the contrary, Schumer is vulnerable on this issue, and pressure DOES make a difference.
i fully intend to call schumer's office tomorrow and tell him exactly how much of an embarrassment he is to the people of this state and i suggest everyone else do the same
They went on trips for class a few times, and because he was on board, the bus would have to go through checkpoints, where they would stop the whole bus and question/search him (and only him).
The class was shocked the first few times this had happened - they had NO IDEA this was even a thing.
One of my good friends who is Palestinian went to medical school in Israel, and he was the first Palestinian person that *anyone in his entire class* had ever actually known.
Medical school!
It consistently amazes me how few Jews and Israelis I know who have gotten to know even one Palestinian.
It amazes me even more that until relatively recently I was one of those people.
It amazes me even more than that how much people think this is inconsequential in how they think about Israel.
not because they don't want to be! only because they get destroyed by Microsoft and Google when they try to compete directly there. If anything, AI gives them a chance to compete directly with them again more successfully by leveraging their competitive advantage (hardware)
you're more likely to find workarounds on Windows than OS X, if Apple ends up going all-in. Because if they do, it will be integrated into the hardware and TPM. At least on Windows, you have the issues of legacy support and hardware fragmentation allowing the possibility of workarounds
And the fact that their core business is selling hardware actually makes them way *more* vulnerable to AI madness, not less, because AI is so hardware-intensive
Apple is no more immune to this than Microsoft or Google. If they end up not competing in AI, it's because they *can't*. Remember, even "privacy" as a brand point was their second choice, after they tried (and failed) to compete in the ads business, back when that was the cash cow
(in case it's not clear, "stylist" and "barber" are two different certifications/licenses, and stylists would theoretically be the ones more likely to have this training)
Because stylists and barbers alike are generally not trained in curly hair. It took me years to find someone who will cut my hair right, and he's a stylist, and even he said he just learned by trial and error from working on curly-haired clients over the years and asking *them*.
Can't even teleport through the Darkforce dimension with my vigilante girlfriend anymore.
Because of Cloak.
Can't even hack my way through a three-chord song on my acoustic guitar because of folk
Not really - it's relatively rural and the per capita income is half the state average
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The green one does say 25. I assumed the black is a separate 45 lb plate and the bar is 45, which is already not-impressive for a powerlifter of her presumed weight, but if the bar and/or the black plate aren't 45, then that'd be even worse, lmfao
(The fact that she's only using 185 lbs - considered "novice" level for her bodyweight and age - just makes this extra funny.)
If I were being accused of having a "bleach blonde, bad-built butch body", I would not post a video of myself doing power cleans in my garage.
This is the post of a woman who is Definitely Not Madโข. Don't put it in CSPAN that Marjorie Taylor Greene is mad. She's not mad!
Marjorie Taylor Greene personally insults both Jasmine Crockett and AOC, and then adopts the fake, ingratiating "Karen tone" to paint the Black woman as the loud, out of control aggressor, rather than the victim.
And importantly: in the end, she wins! Watch the full video. Greene gets her way. ๐
I've been captivated by last week's video of Jasmine Crockett. Not just for the iconic "bleach blond bad built butch body" comment, but because of MtG's unctuous "calm down" remarks, a weaponization of whiteness that every PoC immediately relates to on a visceral level
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jasmine Crockett had heated exchanges Thursday during a contempt hearing for Attorney General Merrick Garland. Less than an hour after the hearing was underway, Greene took shots at her Democratic colleague, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas. "Do you know what weโre here for?" Crockett asked MTG, who shot back: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what youโre reading." AOC then weighed in saying, "I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to take down Ms. Greenโs words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person... move her words down." "Are your feelings hurt?" Greene asked. "Oh girl, baby girl!" Ocasio-Cortez shot back. "Donโt even play!" Greene later agreed to strike her words but refused to apologize and insulted Ocasio-Cortez's intelligence. "You will never get an apology out of me," Greene said. Later in the hearing, after recess, Crockett stirred up chaos again. "I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling," Crockett said. "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?" Subscribe to LiveNOW from FOX! https://www.youtube.com/livenowfox?sub_confirmation=1 Where to watch LiveNOW from FOX: https://www.livenowfox.com/ Follow us @LiveNOWFOX on Twitter: https://twitter.com/livenowfox Raw and unfiltered. Watch a non-stop stream of breaking news, live events and stories across the nation. Limited commentary. No opinion. Experience LiveNOW from FOX.
m.youtube.comHell hath no fury like a white person asked to acknowledge the tiniest microaggression.
The core experience of being a person of color in majority-white countries? Constantly weighing exactly how much casual racism to accept from your friends, because saying anything, no matter how politely, risks pissing them off and the cutting off all contact forever.
Good Lord, that's even WORSE than the quote already sounded
The frustrating thing about biking in NYC is that safety is EXTREMELY variable depending on where you are and where you're going. Some point-to-point origin/destination combos are even Amsterdam-level safe, but then if you have to go even one block away, you might as well be biking in, like, Houston
I absolutely would bike if it were remotely safe to here (and doubly so if Citibikes weren't nearly 50lb)
Humans aren't all that different from one another, so this isn't limited to Israel or 10/7. But the scale, media attention, and extreme power differential of this particular situation mean that it's an inescapable and extremely glaring reminder that people are capable of genocidal hatred.
But that lens only goes so far. Between Israel's actions since 10/7, and the existence of social media documentation, we can see plainly that atrocities are
not just a matter of convenient, self-serving apathy. There are some people who have that hate in their hearts and are willing to express it.
And we see this framework applied on a smaller scale in everyday life too. People are content to live in a society where prisoners and homeless people are abused and treated as subhuman, and yet most choose to support the policies that keep that system standing instead of upsetting the status quo.
And that lens makes sense, to a point. Most German civilians didn't know *everything* about the Holocaust, but they knew more than enough to know it was bad. The info was available. They just largely chose not to pry further. They were happy to live in Omelas.
One lens that's often used to teach about atrocities like the Holocaust is that people seek a scapegoat to explain their (perceived) suffering, and that they're happy to punish said scapegoat, as long as they don't need to be confronted with the implications too directly.
It's easy for me to understand that horrific things happen, but it's a lot harder to reckon with the cold truth that they happen not just incidentally, or because of apathy, but because there are people who truly *wish* for those horrific things.
I'm not speaking hypothetically. There are so many quotes from right-wing asshats literally saying that Gazan civilians belong in body bags instead of at the beach, or just living their lives.
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The thing I can't wrap my head around is not that this happens, but that there are people who look at this and think that's a good thing.
appreciate the dedication to activism, but please don't spam threads with unrelated replies like this, or your post from earlier today. it's not helping the cause.
this is Marvel Girl erasure (and I'm here for it)
Nightcrawler losing his mind when he saw people using condoms on Krakoa was one of my favorite parts of the series
I was going to say this was a flight to Florida, but I realized that was probably redundant
Cops will inflate their pensions by doing unnecessary overtime, because pension payouts are based on the average compensation over the past X years *including* overtime. So they will do OT playing games on their phones and collect money from it for the rest of their lives.
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This doesn't even take into account overtime spiking, a practice which is basically outright fraud, but somehow persists because all cops benefit, and NYPD cops aren't accountable to anyone except other cops. bsky.app/profile/nada...
Cops inflate their pensions by doing unnecessary overtime, because pension payouts are based on your average compensation *including* overtime in your final X years. So cops will do OT fiddling on their phones and collect $$ for it for the rest of their lives.
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This doesn't even take into account overtime spiking, a practice which is basically outright fraud, but somehow persists because all cops benefit, and NYPD cops aren't accountable to anyone except other cops. bsky.app/profile/nada...
This doesn't even take into account overtime spiking, a practice which is basically outright fraud, but somehow persists because all cops benefit, and NYPD cops aren't accountable to anyone except other cops. bsky.app/profile/nada...
Guy down the street is retired NYPD. He grifted over a million dollars in OT pay and just built a $1.2 million home and will rent out the $700K house he is moving out of.
And he has a dozen buddies down here in SW Florida just like him.
People: "Yes, there's racism in old Disney movies, but you can't hold that against them. They didn't KNOW what was bad back then"
Disney executives, 1967: "People will call us racist if we cast a Black man to play a Black-coded ape talking in AAVE. So, cast a white guy in Blackface instead."
A few months ago I sat on a flight next to a cop who was telling her seatmate that she had done this, and that she had used her second cop pension to buy investment properties and rent them out, and I don't think there could be a more succinct description of everything wrong with society than that.
โfunโ fact: nypd officers often move to other places to get a second pension after working the required amount to get an nyc pension