The Zohran Mamdani

victory for the NYC Democratic Party mayoral candidacy is the most significant challenge yet by the antizionist neo-socialist wing of the Democratic Party to the decrepit Schumer-Pelosi establishment.

I find all this Mamdani Hoo-Ha fascinating.

There is talk concerning the extent to which his antizionism will affect his candidacy and relationship with his voter base. This is obviously most concerning around the fairly sizeable Jewish population which is highly pro-Israel.

His supporters insist that he is not antisemitic and, in fact, just recently he reaffirmed his commitment to the safety of New York’s Jews. 

Speaking strictly for myself, I’d rather throw myself off a cliff than support an antizionist.

The guy spoke in favor of “globalize the intifada,” for fuck’s sake.

The intifadas in Israel, particularly the Second Intifada, meant open season on Jews by Palestinian-Jihadis who killed over a thousand of our brothers and sisters there.

The call for an intifada is a call to blow up busses and set-off suicide belts in pizzerias.

If “intifada” means kill the Jews, “globalize the intifada” means kill the Jews wherever we may be found, including New York.

Frankly, a New York Jew would have to be a stone-cold idiot to support this guy... yet we know that many did. About 20 percent, apparently.

"Do They Pay You..."

 

Reddit - r/headlinepics

TrueHaiku:

Do they fucking pay you to come in here and defend genocide? I mean, the world sees what is happening. We have livestreams and videos now. The world generally sees Israel for what it is. No amount of Israeli cockslurping is gonna change our minds, so what's your goal?

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Good_Low2461 (me):

It's important for Jewish people to see how the hatred evolves in real time.

See, we didn't have that opportunity in the 1930s because the media wasn't nearly as evolved as it is now.

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hellomondays:

It is antisemitic to say that Jews (not just Israel, apparently) are incapable of upholding human rights in wartime.

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Good_Low2461

"Human rights"?

My guess is that Israel is doing a better job upholding human rights in wartime than probably any other country in human history.

If you look into it you will find that the civilian-to-combatant death ratio in Gaza is far lower than was the US civilian-to-combatant death ratio in Iraq War II.

One of the main problems that Israel (and the Jews, in general) has is not the never-ending attempt by the Palestinian-Jihadis to murder the Jews in Israel, but the anti-Israel / anti-Jewish propaganda campaign that seeks to spread hatred.

We see this throughout social media constantly.

Israel is portrayed as demonic.

And, really, that was the entire point of Oct 7.

Surely you have asked yourself what Hamas hoped to achieve on that day.

Well, what they wanted was plenty of dead Palestinian-Arabs so that their progressive friends in the Red-Green Alliance could scream from the hillsides how "Zionists" are evil.

And, I tell ya, it worked very well.

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EyeGod (his response to my claim that Jews are from Judea).

Nope, not all of them.

But, hey, you go back far enough, we’re all from Africa, right?

So, how far do you wanna push your logic?

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Good_Low2461

That's a fair point.

Antisemitic antizionists basically engage in two styles of attack on the Jewish people and Israel.

The first is in portraying Israel and its supporters as evil.

You know, in the Middle Ages they accused us of killing Jesus because that was the most evil thing that you could ascribe to someone at the time and it justified their killing of Jews.

Now they scream from the hillsides about "genocide" because, today, that is the most evil thing that you could ascribe to someone and it justifies the killing of Jews.

The second is in what I call "The Indigeneity Question."

In this case, the enemies of the Jewish people will say, "You stole the land from the indigenous Palestinians!"

Well, the fact is that the Jewish people, including those of us from European diaspora, have genetic roots that go to the Levant.

So do most Palestinian-Arabs, of course.

But questions of indigeneity are not primarily about genetics, but about culture.

The Palestinian-Arabs are still Arabs.

Their culture is primarily derived from the Arab side of their family.

Their language is Arabic and Islam was born on the Arabian Peninsula.

Likewise, the Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel.

The Hebrew language comes from there, as does our religion.

These are five things

that anyone who cares about the well-being of the Jewish people -- and, thus, the well-being of Israel -- should know in their bones.

1 - The Jewish people, including those of us from the European diaspora, are indigenous to Israel.

See: Tony Masiuk & Dani Ishai Behan, No, Ashkenazi Jews are not ‘genetically European’ (2024)

2 - There is no genocide in Gaza.

It's not a genocide if you can end it at will simply by releasing the people that you are torturing.

3 - There is no reference to a Palestinian-Arab nation or ethnicity in all of human history until the mid-1960s.

This is because there was no such nation or ethnicity.

4 - Israel offers its Arab citizens greater civil liberties and access to economic opportunity than regular Arabs have anywhere else in the entire Muslim Middle East.

5 - Whatever the intention of the antizionist movement within the western-left, it manufactures hatred toward Jews with the intention of replacing the lone, sole Jewish state with a 23rd Arab dictatorship.

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If the Palestinian-Arabs can be considered a distinct ethnic group it is a result of Arab-Muslim imperialism and religious hostility toward Jewish self-determination and self-defense on historically Jewish land.

Were it not for the never-ending war against Jewish autonomy in Israel the "Palestinian" people would never have come into existence.

It seems pretty obvious

 

that, increasingly, the internet is less about people communicating with one another than it is about computers communicating with one another.

I no longer have certainty that any post, or even comment, that I may be responding to was actually written by a human being.

We know that a significant percentage of it is AI sludge, but we don't know exactly how much. Whatever that percentage is, it is increasing.

The Golden Age of Blogdom is dead and buried.

The small blogs, from back in the 00s and 10s, had an authenticity and sense of community which, to me at least, seems very much over with.

My own little journey into the world of the political blogs started with Daily Kos in the early-mid 00s. There was a real sense of community then and a feeling that regular people were taking back the conversation.

Daily Kos, even then, was quite big. My UID # was fifty-five thousand something, but people got to know one another pretty well.

But, hell, that was a long ago, now. It was when still when I favored Democrats.

I then joined Maryscott O'Connor's now defunct My Left Wing, which was considerably more left-leaning than was Daily Kos. If dKos was about promoting Democrats, MLW was more about promoting socialism or the progressive-left, although none of us were formal in our political allegiances.

She even got written up by the Washington Post in a 2006 article titled, The Left, Online and Outraged: Liberal Blogger Finds an Outlet and a Community

MLW was never more than 1/50th the size of dKos, but we had a pretty strong regular group for awhile. Eventually the tensions within the left tore MLW apart, particularly the tensions between the Jewish left and the antizionist left.

MSOC was stuck in the middle. Although I suspect that she is increasingly antizionist, she always avoided the topic and much like Markos Moulitsas recognizes that it's nothing but trouble for the left, in general.

Then I started up this joint in '09 and it did pretty well for awhile through the mid-late 10s, until I joined Facebook a few years ago and neglected this place.

Now, of course, there is almost nobody here and I am just using this as a space for reflection.

As someone with an obvious

interest in social media around the Never-Ending War against the Jews of the Middle East, I continue to look at the nature of various venues going all the way back to Daily Kos in the 2000s.

Recently I have been taking a gander at Reddit and compared to, say, X or Facebook I am pleasantly surprised.

From what I can tell, Facebook is pretty much the bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of gutter-level antizionism.

The hate towards Israel coming out of Facebook pages like "Artists for Palestinians" is very low rent... but that is part of what I found interesting about it.

I want to know what people think on the street and it doesn't get more street level than Facebook antizionism. Those guys absolutely despise Jews Zionists and they haven't the intelligence or sophistication to gild their hatred in the form of academic-sounding neo-socialism that you might find from, say, AOC or, much to my disgust, Bernie Sanders.

The "subreddits" that I am beginning to participate in include r/Isreal and r/IsraelPalestine.

To my taste, at least, the environment of Reddit is better than Facebook and X, mainly because it's a bit more homey, if you get me.

X, btw, is just awful and alienating and cold.

Although I fully expect to get banned from Reddit shortly -- because I keep getting banned from various social media venues -- for the moment I can be found under the name u/Good_Low2461.

I didn't even choose that moniker.

They chose it for me and, for the time being, at least over there, I welcome the anonymity.

I think that Reddit tends to be more anonymous than either X or Facebook.

Ever since I left Daily Kos, somewhere early in the Obama administration, I have remained pretty much open about my identity.

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Just heard the term “AI Slop” to refer to internet content, like increasing numbers of youtube videos, that are created by AI and voiced by AI. 

Awful.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

wants to know if our universe is in a black hole.

I think that is an excellent question!

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On the Daily Show -- which I used to love back in the day -- Jon Stewart pointed out that Netanyahu has been screaming his bloody head off concerning Iranian nukes for decades.

The implication is that he was wrong then and is probably, therefore, wrong now. Iran is not necessarily on the verge of gaining nuclear weaponry and they deny that they even want nukes.

What I would ask is, what if he's wrong?

Those who think that Iran is not on the verge of gaining The Bomb may very well be correct. Fuck if I know. But is that honestly a risk that the West, in general, should want to take?

This is just flat-out stupid.

Of course, Israel and the West cannot allow a Jihadi-run state to have nuclear weapons. Does that statement even require justification? Is it not obvious on its face?