Years ago, a therapist told me that telling other people they can’t cross your boundaries is self-defense; drawing your boundaries in *someone else’s space* is aggression. I think about that a lot.

The Intelligence Community vs the State Department on the conflict in Lebanon (POLITICO, 2024)

MYSHIPANDMYMEN!! now act romantically attracted to one of the most beautiful women in the world and a fantastic actress MYSHIPANDMYMEN!! Better, but maybe you could shift the tone a bit when you’re discussing haiku MYSHIPANDMYMEN!! Ok, listen, how about some sage advice to the warlord…

I wonder how the Democrats could easily improve their prospects in Michigan?

it took me a moment to realize the NYPD commissioner who was just raided by the feds is the NYPD commissioner who succeeded the NYPD commissioner who was raided by the feds a few weeks ago and then resigned

To “restore order,” the regime enacts a host of measures against the “Other”: Mass arrests, discriminatory legislation, “orderly” purges in the form of deportations. But the situation will soon be “untenable” again: After more propaganda, more pogroms - leading to more extreme measures.

TZthomaszimmer.bsky.socialSep 15, 2024 1:02pm

Trump is trying to incite a pogrom. Mere weeks before the election, he has about a 50:50 chance to get back to the White House. As president, he could then use the racist frenzy he and Vance caused as justification for mobilizing the federal government to “cleanse” the nation.

The “Haitians eat cats” thing is not just an appeal to racists. It’s an end-zone dance, a celebration of how far the American Right has successfully shoved the Overton Window back to where they can revel in being openly, overtly racist. It’s glee over the abandonment of pretense.

There was never high to be a two-state solution. Never ever. Genocide was always the goal.

Sim Kern has a great reel about how Holocaust media (books, films, etc) has been so mainstreamed that it is THE dominant narrative of genocide, despite the Armenians, Bosnians, Rwandans and especially all the silent genocides of colonization, Namibia being just one egregious example.

But when have the Ashkenazi been militarily dominant? Never, right?