But Germany’s Staatsräson says you have to do whatever Israel wants.

Given how Germany, France, the UK etc have all lined up behind Israel, towing the line that Israel has a right to defend itself, and even going as far as saying that Israel is doing our dirty work for us, I have very serious doubts that Harris would not have followed Israel down the warpath.

Just like with Putin’s stooges, the grovelling and the self humiliation is the point.

Skyrim something about Vici.

This kind of shit needs to start being considered as heinous as antisemitic shit. And that’s only partly because this kind of shit actually lays the groundwork for antisemitism.

Now that foreigners are no longer it, I am looking forward to learning who is going to be revealed as the next scapegoat for the neoliberal enshittification of the country!

Trump isn’t “considering” anything. He’s not a rational actor, he’s a narcissistic egomaniac, unable to ask or take advice, unable to think about anything that isn’t about how cool he is perceived.

Seeing how the Germans, the Brits and others are already lining up behind Israel, I have no indication that a Democrat president would also not be. This is a “USA is an imperialist fuckface of a country leading a league of apartheid and genocide ebablers” problem not a “Trump is a fuckface president” problem.

Isn’t it the job of the opposition party at this point to propose legislation that outlaws this practice? To run candidates on a platform of reigning in these abuses? To run ads with scary music saying how the government is infringing on liberties etc?

Rural Republicans already fear three letter federal agencies: BLM, ATF, etc. Play to their fears, this very low hanging fruit, Democrats.

Break them up into infrastructure and ISP services. Infrastructure is a natural monopoly, they can compete over services on top of it if they want.

It’s so weird to me that “drivers” and “cyclists” are presented sometimes like in your message as two different demographics. I guess in some places it is like that. But in my city, I drive to some things, bike to others, take transit to others. I want to be safe and keep others safe in each mode.

Isn’t there a particular Nazi paramilitary that dresses up exactly like that? Those guys that were on a U Haul?

I’ve heard the accusation that she’s a Russian asset, but Iranian? First time I’ve ever heard that one.

This is what happens when you make your Staatsräson “never again to those people in particular” as opposed to “never again to anyone ever”, then spend two years pretending that anti-Semitism is an imported problem, and end up saying that an illegal war by a genocidal apartheid state is your own dirty business.

I don’t know what “the tiktok crowd” is, but I suspect you’re talking about the woke left somehow. So let me respond to what I think you’re saying, and if I’m misunderstanding, just correct me. Nobody in the woke left is thinking that “the Jews are doing a genocide against Muslims”. The accusation is that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinians. Israel and Jewish people: not the same thing. Muslims and Palestinians: not the same thing.

I think that’s exactly the reference here.

Absolutely.

I would just however push back on the implicit hierarchy in the way you write it, where cultural prejudice is a smaller degree of prejudice compared to racist prejudice. For example, a black American tourist in, say, N. Ireland, will probably face less prejudice than a white Romanian immigrant. It’s all intersections.

But it is based on race, just an older definition of race. There was a time when southern Europeans were classified as the “olive race”. In the bollocks scientific racist hierarchies of the time, that put them below the Aryans, but above the Semites and the blacks. The Nordicist racists of course considered themselves the apex, and looked down on the rest. In the US you guys still remember how the Irish, the Italians, the Greeks, the Poles, the Jews, were very slowly integrated into the category of White, meaning they were not always considered White.

The caricatures of the lazy southerners are indeed racist stereotypes of this past era and to claim that they do not persist in the modern era is kind of weird, seeing how so many other racist stereotypes persist.

Iran for sure does have sectarian tensions under the surface. There are Kurds, Azeris, Arabs, Balochs etc. Shias, Sunnis, secularists, workers, capitalists, etc etc. There are all the ingredients for a big big chaos.

“Semites” as a description of a set of people is as much antiquated a terminology as the word “Aryans”. In fact it was Ernest Renan that first made that distinction in the 19th century to specifically frame history as a tension between Semites and Aryans (cf Hannah Arendt). It’s of course just a bunch of scientific racism bollocks. And it is precisely because of that that the term “antisemitism” has always meant hatred of Jews in particular (in the “Jews vs Aryans” sense).

The only term that persists in the sciences today is the term “semitic languages”, which is basically similar to “indo-european languages”, and which of course has nothing to do with antisemitism.