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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 9h

Can y’all please stop telling the children that a conclusion to a paper should be a summary of the paper and restating the thesis statement?

It almost makes me want to teach in an edu program for a secondary ELA.

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 8h

Hope is not pretending that real problems don't exist.

Hope is knowing problems exist but still fighting for the good and believing that good can win in spite of evidence that seems to the contrary.

There is good in the world, but we allow evil to flourish when we pretend it doesn't exist.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

Correction: He acts like he owns the place because he *thinks* he's never going to leave.

Let's prove him wrong.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

When you say "that's our government", are you referring to the fakes, or to the bad guys being stupid?

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

While white privilege (or, more precisely, the rights of black people not being respected) does exist, I think this may be more has-a-cult-following-who-doesn't-care-about-the-country privilege.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

I think it's even more sinister. They don't need anti-tank weaponry to wage war on our neighbors and friends.

I think that I.C.E. is stockpiling weapons of war because Trump is planning to use them in another insurrection to stay in power when his time is up.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 9h

I.C.E. is stockpiling weapons of war because the federal government is waging war on our neighbors and friends.

The President of the United States has repeatedly referred to them as vermin and “the enemy within.”

This is America’s future. Dark days ahead. 🇺🇸

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

If you can't hear "that's illegal" and segue into "so what are you going to be doing about the fact that they're doing it anyway", and then provide suggestions if they don't have any ideas, I have to question your organizing skills.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

He will definitely leave the office one way or the other.

(Barring life extension being invented *very* soon.)

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

I think we need to not so much move past it as weaponize it.

*Use* his illegal actions as a basis to justify opposition and resistance.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

Writing that law is not the role of the U.S. judicial system, but rather of Congress.

And Congress is chosen by the people. If the people vote for those who favor the working class over either owning class*...

*I consider there to be two distinct owning classes: Capitalists and landlords.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

It was supposed to be held together by any violation creating vulnerabilities that political rivals would jump on, but the devolvement of a political party into a cult means that there aren't really enough political rivals of the proper sort.

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 11h

some people were born to help, some people were born to innovate. me? i was born to reset my password

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

I think that is overstating the case, but certainly supporting the abusive stuff is not good for the Jewish people as a whole.

Though giving in to the extremists who want there to be no Jewish-self-determination in the area at all would also be bad and not in the interest of the Jewish people.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

The problem is the mentality in which Republican Congresspeople feel more solidarity with Trump than with a sitting member of Congress.

If not for that, Trump pardoning that traitor again would make for an easy impeachment.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

I am not convinced about the "*all* capitalist institutions" part, but yeah, fascism is a mode, not just a set of policies, and has historically used fear of communism as an excuse.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

Presumably for use against the tanks owned by the U.S. Armed Forces when they go to remove Trump when he refuses to leave when he's supposed to...

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

I can say, in all seriousness, that it does more good for America and the world than RFK's paycheck.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

Though you can also look at how it correlates with various other Left-associated (and not-Left-associated) positions...

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

I am not opposed to all capital punishment, but I am opposed to doing it like "just another maintenance task".

Capital punishment should be rare enough to be a *really big deal* whenever it happens, and publicized enough to be used as societal repudiation of whatever they did.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

So refusing to vote for someone for POTUS because you disagree with their geopolitics? Not a purity test, though perhaps unwise if the other viable candidate is even worse.

If it's for mayor of NYC? Yeah, that's a purity test, unless you think it's going to affect their governance of the city.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

To me, what it means is refusing to provide someone with support because you disagree with a political position they have *that is not relevant to the type of support you're withholding*.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

When membership is conditional on supporting someone that only that sort would support...

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IANdrew Dice Clay @iandrewdiceclay.bsky.social · 18h

WWE literally killed Mo by refusing him the money for a new kidney. A former wrestler for them, who simply asked "please can you help me, you keep saying you'll send me to rehab, I dont want rehab, can you do this for me instead?"

And then went "LOL 'Mo'" and let him just die. That is horrible.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 7h

The side in the wrong in this sort of thing is the one that tries to use the same word to mean two things simultaneously, whether that's to defend the indefensible by conflating it with good things, or to attack good things by conflating them with the indefensible.

yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 8h

If you define "Zionism" as something more nefarious, and based on that, you are hostile to "Zionists" who define that as Jewish self-determination and do *not* support the more nefarious stuff, then *you* are the one using the motte and bailey argument, in a way that looks quite anti-Semitic.

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