duderium [he/him] @ duderium @hexbear.net

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We have to stop letting boers into the USA until we figure out what is going on.

If it had been me, I simply would have not swallowed the bee.

Actual antisemitism (hatred of jews rather than questioning isn’treal) has been an american thing since day one. Columbus left Spain on his famous voyage while his financial backers were expelling jews who had been there for centuries at least, I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find that some of the money for his three ships came from expelled jews.

I’m half jewish and can count the number of antisemitic comments I’ve heard in my life on one hand, but one was just a few weeks ago when I was at the supply store for my blue collar job, a wretched hive of rightwing scum and villainy, where one of the white boomers there said something about “jewing someone down” right next to me. This dude also almost certainly supports amerikkka committing suicide to defend isn’treal. I of course couldn’t say a fucking word to this piece of shit because then I would have trouble doing basic shit for my job for the rest of my career in this hellhole.

Counterpoint: keep an eye on the news and do whatever you can to help our friends in the Middle East.

For enjoying a succulent Chinese meal?

Hogg out or log out

California has one of the best state flags IMO. I wish we could keep the bear and the hammer and sickle somehow.

Has Olympus fallen?

I did recently hear a Trump voter just being perplexed by the idea of tariffs, and he was seemingly aware that they had not helped lower the price of anything.

The police are feeling emboldened by Trump and acting even shittier than usual, people are getting more pissed off at them than usual, so it’s definitely possible that the nothing ever happens crew could soon be in shambles.

I’ve been meaning to make a thread about an IRL vibe shift. I go jogging a few times a week and I live in an area that’s really touristy in the summer. I usually say “free palestine” to people as I pass them. 99% of the time, people just ignore me. I’ve said this to hundreds of people. This is a rich white liberal area and you need some money to vacation here. Only one person has ever answered me positively, and she seemed to be an Indian college student. This was months ago. But a few days ago I went jogging, and tourists were here for the first time this summer. I said free palestine as I passed them on my jog. And two of them agreed with me. Two! On the first day! Two white people! So I have to wonder if some sort of vibe shift is taking place. A majority of Americans disapproves of isntreal for the first time. Are the libs just pretending to be socialists when they’re out of power (and will they revert to “everything good is impossible” mode once they get back into the White House?) or is this a permanent change? It happened again yesterday. Not many people were out, but I said free palestine to two white boomers, and one ignored me while the other agreed with me! What is happening?

Cool

American jew here, I don’t care who says “free the hostages,” they all deserve to be treated the way the Palestinians in Gaza are treated.

The last time I used chatgpt (years ago) I asked it to imitate my writing and it just basically copied my sentences and used a thesaurus for a few words to cover its tracks, so you might not be far off here.

I was a teenager during the W. years and I just remember it as the bleakest time. Not the best time in my life and just terrible politically. Very similar to the Biden years (W. and Biden are almost the same guy in so many ways), except imagine that no one is fighting back (except some pretty desperate people in Iraq and Afghanistan I guess) and all you know about Marxism comes from the cow poster on the wall of the English teacher's classroom. Don't get me wrong, things are still very bad now...but back then, they were possibly worse.

Welcome back, JFK.

Communists: “we have to radicalize people.”

ICE: “hold my beer.”

Say the wrong thing, be unemployed for years. Sounds like a great time.

Possibly, but the newspaper is exclusively purchased by petite (and even some haute) bourgeois elderly whites who don’t want to hear anything about how their beloved community is changing, unless it’s about some new shithole business opening to hawk overpriced garbage to tourists. The editor who fired me ended up losing her job about a year later, and now she has a much harder job working as the town clerk; i.e., dealing with a shitload of extremely boring and complex paperwork forty hours a week. The reporter was a super old guy who croaked later on after publishing a rabid article or two about my political activities without ever mentioning that I had worked for the newspaper.

I think from the Israeli perspective, none of what you say really matters, because in their view they are dealing with insects, not human beings. You don’t have respectful diplomacy with insects.