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@amerika From what I have seen, the conflict in Israel is causing a lot of infighting on the left. The far lefties of course hate Israel for being an apartheid ethnostate, and the establishment and moderate left is all about "our greatest ally."

@37712 I made a second point that is a factor in a later comment: the Muslims. I am quite sure they would be large part of the "anti-Semitism." And it is understandable, considering how many wars the US wages on behalf of Israel.

I am sure there are those that hate Jews protesting as well against Israel. Except these people have always existed, and they are often Muslim (no surprise considering Palestine is a factor). But just having a proclaimed "rise of anti-Semitism" is vague enough to give those in power the excuse to do what they please, including crackdowns on speech and sending more money to Israel. Meanwhile, they will blame white people for the "anti-Semitism" even if they are brown nosing Israel the hardest.

I don't know if this point has been brought up before, but I doubt the claims of "anti-Semitism" on the rise being true. Rather, they just conflate any anti-Israeli protesters as being "anti-Semites" regardless of whether or not they actually hate Jews.

I guarantee there are plenty of lefty protestors labeled "anti-Semites" that are pro-Jew in every way except for having Israel as an ethnostate. It is just that they take the Ben Shapiro definition of "anti-Semitism" and run with it.

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Clever idea, up until you get banned.

@SapientPearwood @Jim @echo "But it would be too expensive to have the police being that active on a constant basis!"

That is one response I expect, which I would counter that allowing crime to be rampant is a major financial burden to everyone as well, along with all the downsides of crime being constantly present.

@DoubleD @theFlow @Tfmonkey an inverse example of this takes place in the Twilight books/movies. Bella the main character is bland, and it makes it so that the female audience can insert themselves as her character and fulfill their romance fantasy.

It clearly worked there too, as the Twilight series was clearly quite popular. Yes, it was a bad story, but popularity often does not align with quality.

@ButtWorldsMan You have to be some level of crazy to think that men being stronger than women is somehow a product of socialization. The vast majority of women do not deny that it is biological, so we are getting really fringe with these women "scientists."

Also, these women must be dead eggers, as any woman who has been pregnant will tell you that they are significantly limited. Carrying an extra 20-30 lbs at the late stages of pregnancy will indeed make physical exertion harder. Because duh.

@PapaPole @WashedOutGundamPilot >referring specifically to the jews who accepted jesus as the messiah i.e. christians?

I sure missed that. Whoops. So it seems we agree.

I have most certainly noticed that our household grocery costs have been higher these days. I have said before and will say again, I can accept this as the "new normal," even if I am not happy with it. I will take more expensive food over no food any day.

So I oppose any calls for price controls, as that will bring about the no food scenario I actually fear.

@PapaPole @WashedOutGundamPilot A lot of the New Testament is at odds with this.

Luke 3:7-8

Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

In short, don't think you are special just because you are Jewish.

@graf @Shadowman311 Short answer, the grey area between a relationship and no relationship. Often it comes when a woman is sleeping with the guy she wants to commit to him (but he won't) or she is in a relationship she does not want to acknowledge as such because even she knows it is not one that is going to work but she is too fearful of being alone to just end things.

@Godcast @DW2 This is The Nation we are talking about. They are as far left as you can get, and they may not be in the loop with the rest of the establishment media that is directly under the thumb of the powers that be. Those that write/run this commie rag are the types that the regime will execute once they no longer have a need for their useful idiots.

@ButtWorldsMan @Tfmonkey @sardonicsmile This article tells me that while being a leftist rag, The Nation does not appear to be in lock step with the Cathedral. Because right now they need people to sign up for the military, and I doubt this will make things better. And no, I don't think this will work as a counter signal if that is what they are trying to do. Right wingers proved to be more independently minded than the left during the vaxx rollouts.

@Aether >but now I owe so much to the IRS I have no money

Color me shocked that someone who is a prostitute is bad with money and does not understand the basics of taxes. She probably spent all the money and then found out later that the government wants their cut too.

Yes taxation is theft, but you still need to account for it even if you hate doing it.

I don't claim to know all the details of what all happened with 9/11, but I and others are suspicious of the official story and suspect that there is a lot of lies being told.

This "debunking" does not help his case when he insists that the passengers and flight attendants would have to be in on the conspiracy.

No you retard. They did not know because they would have been considered acceptable losses by those carrying out the conspiracy. And only a few people from each agency would be needed.