Gun safety rule: Never point a gun at anyone/thing you don't intend to shoot.

Not that you *could* shoot, that you *intend* to shoot. And since another rule is "always assume the gun is loaded," what's happening here is clear.

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

Oh look! A trailer for a rad documentary full of rad people (and also me!)

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Obviously Palestinians are far and away the primary victims of Israel's genocidal war undertaken in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks. And no one should take that away. But there is a part of me furious at the Israeli government for stealing away my ability to just grieve as a Jew.

Dear White Democrats:

The word you're looking for is GENOCIDE. That's what Israel is doing. You won't spontaneously combust if you call evil by its name. It feels good to have a spine.

Sincerely,
Sheryl

With alt text. I love how people talk about the noble Russian bear while ignoring bear abuse. Russia is constantly cornering and harassing actual Russian bears.

The only thing he hates more than trans folks and homeless people is Trump, which is convenient for other people who also hate the same things

Another reason why pushback against "no true Christian" is important. They often don't know their own history. This is simultaneously laughable and soul shattering. Demanding thanks for a brief hiatus in the bloodshed.

Scholars and others are fleeing, and four decades from now we'll be having debates over whether the people affected by this era did enough to protect themselves and their families.

progressive jews and palestinians: "we refuse to be enemies."

european christians/descendants: "oh, well fuck you both then."

"if you don't allow me to see nearly all jews as nazis, how will i eschew my own feelings of guilt for two millennia of anti-jewish persecution?"

a palestinian who regularly speaks out against israel's genocide in gaza is presently being demeaned by white leftists for recognizing the humanity of the victims of the october 7 attack which just shows white people of european christian heritage will never own their role in fomenting these horrors

my obligation in the world as a jew is to recognize the divine in my fellow human being and to make those who refuse to do the same feel like shit about themselves

this photo of the guy in the na nach kippa with a machine gun over his shoulder would make rebbe nachman, who was staunchly anti-war, vomit

Ok this seems pretty explicit. Hive is not training its AI on your images on Bluesky (that we know of) because Bluesky is not paying them for that.

Abughazaleh has enough on her mind without Westerner allies lecturing her on how to support her own people. I saw her comments the last time she left them open while daring to express sympathy for Jewish victims of terror, and I wouldn't blame her if she blocked quotes as well.

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

I will never willingly watch AI slop. Never.

I wrote about Weiss' hypocrisy when it came to @elivalley.bsky.social back in 2019. I think it really says a lot about how little integrity she has. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

!!! Small world (of upward-failing genocide boosters)

This is a great example of the problem with insisting that "those Christians aren't really Christians." It betrays warped priorities. It often co-occurs with Christian supremacy, whether Left or Right.

We're already doing that.

Also, we're not stupid enough to think that Christian antisemites like you will suddenly stop using our ancestors the Pharisees as a convenient synonym for "hypocrite" because y'all were doing that long before the modern State of Israel existed.

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.