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Steve Plotnicki retweeted
I disagree. Between the creation of Israel and the golden age for Jews in the U.S., we have amassed a significant amount of power. And our enemies have to know that while we will be fair and tolerant, we will wield that power when they cross the line. Now every act that is going
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
This makes no sense! Of course, a sovereign country can occupy certain territories.
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
Many Germans didn’t see the camps in their backyards, they say.
If they don’t believe a genocide is happening, they should be voted out, and several have already.
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
Guys… There’s an entire academic field that studies how power in LatAm never stopped being colonial, even after independence, developed in part by an Argentinean no less. Latin America was not invented the day after Messi was not yellow carded in the Group Stage… 🙄
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
In the West, the activist-university-NGO class works relentlessly to push Jews out of public life unless they renounce their connection to their ancestral homeland and the people who live there. Jews are pressured to disavow their collective identity, redefine themselves as “White,” and deny their status as a distinct and indigenous people. This is a modern form of forced assimilation, one that echoes the historical forced conversions Jews endured for centuries under both Christian and Islamic empires. Then, as now, Jewish distinctiveness is treated as an intolerable affront to universalizing ideologies.
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
Did you read the entire article? The argument is that institutions are only good as the people inhabiting them. If you grow up in a society that is riven with corruption and sectarianism, a relatively non-existent state, and an army that is basically a jobs program, you are not going to get an effective LAF (institution) - performs at a high level. In order for it to be effective, society needs rehabilitation - Lebanon is currently a failed state and has been one for years. The argument has nothing to do with "forcibly re-educating," "loving" or "humiliation."
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So "the collective" is actually fine with my views but only because they've been brainwashed by Red China. Lol.
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“This could happen to them”, like they suddenly wake up on a hilltop outpost with the urge to attack their neighbors? I don’t think that’s a scenario very many people will start empathising with anytime soon.
The trans issue went way overboard in ELITE circles, but defied common sense and was opposed by super-majorities of the electorate. If anything the Israel issue is becoming the complete *inverse* of this. The broader public now has MORE unfavourable views of Israel than the elected politicians, so if anything they will chase after this shift.
And “state sponsored settler violence is bad and people shouldn’t have to live under military rule forever with no perspective to change this” is much closer to a common sense position than whatever Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham are trying to promote, which really only sounds plausible to boomer evangelicals who made this their theological world view. (While even younger evangelicals often don’t seem to buy this anymore).
So the direction of travel here looks pretty fixed, if the policy on the ground doesn’t change (which for the foreseeable future it won’t).
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
That requirement isn't costing China anything. It's destroying the Petrodollar.
That's one of the ways China is winning in this war.
Steve Plotnicki retweeted
Antisemitism on the left somehow feels even more pernicious than that on the right
Not because it's "worse" — I'm not saying that
But because leftists go out of their way to distract, deny, and obfuscate their gutter-level antisemitism, which they too often cloak in pseudo-intellectual academic jargon
“There is no antisemitism on the left” is the kind of lie people tell when ideology matters more to them than truth.
Everyone knows it exists. Everyone.
Denying it outright is not principled. It is cynical and cowardly. And it reveals just how little many of these people actually care about Jewish lives.