Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸

We’re not becoming 1930s Germany. We’re becoming 1950s Iraq.

The thing people need to understand about the DSA is that they hate Democrats far, far more than they do Republicans.

With Darializa Chevalier’s victory tonight, publicly exulting in the mass murder of Jews is no longer a barrier to high office in the Democratic Party.

@ayaankaran_ Lol yup.

@JacobALinker Not surprising. A lot of Albanians love Trump based on what I know

Interesting data. Trump won 49% of White Muslims. Albanians, Bosnians, Turks, etc.

@reihan the 2025 survey you linked to in Sapir didn't mention Arab Muslim voting priorities in 2024 because the sample size was too small. But I found a poll that's worth comparing to that from the Arab American Institute. You noted that 59 percent of Asian Muslims identified the war in Gaza as their top policy priority in the 2024 presidential election, 32 percent of white Muslims did so, and and 12 percent of black Muslims did so. According to the Arab-American Institute, only 26% of Arab-Americans listed Gaza as one of their top two issues. This includes non-Muslims. 81% of Arab Americans and 95% of Arab Muslims listed it as an important issue in determining their vote. Only 50% of Arab Americans listed it as very important (so probably ~58.5% of Arab Muslims, since 95/81 = 1.17, and 1.17* 50 gets you 58.5%). We could estimated that 31% of Arab Muslims thought Gaza was a top 2 issue (26% * 1.17). That would put Arab Muslims in the same tier as European-American Muslims. Only 55% of Arab Americans would Have Been More Likely to Support Harris if DNC Allowed a Palestinian Speaker. static1.squarespace.com/static/5faecb8…

From the Arab-American Institute. Whereas 81% of Arab-Americans said Gaza was an important issue, only 26% listed Gaza as one of their most important issues.

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin The Greek Orthodox and the Armenians start whacking each other with brooms and you want to blame the Catholics? Tsk tsk tsk.

@JacobALinker @ElliotMalin HOOLIGAN MONKS youtube.com/watch?v=yznFT4…

I’d like to see more of this from Gaza. And less conflict.

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin If we could get the Hamasniks to just stick to broom fights, it'd be a big step up.

@JacobALinker @ElliotMalin H O O L I G A N MONKeyS youtube.com/watch?v=ETAGB6…

@DavidADaoud @akoz33 You’ve aged very well

@JacobALinker @akoz33 Still am

Another example of the problem that Schelling describes comes from Moshe Arens and concerns his attempt to negotiate with the “moderate” Shia militia Amal.

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin Hooligan monks?

@JacobALinker @ElliotMalin Cardinal Pizza Ball is responsible for the hooligan monks. He's the last person to set an example to anybody.

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin A broken clock is right twice a day

@JacobALinker @ElliotMalin ?

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin Broken clock?

@JacobALinker @ElliotMalin That was the first guy to grant de jure recognition to the State of Israel.

@mo_shawki2 @ericadamsfornyc Transplants cannibalizing partisan politics is a thing that has happened in red areas too politico.com/news/magazine/…

@mo_shawki2 @ericadamsfornyc He backs candidates in gentrifying districts. Meanwhile traditional New Yorkers have been leaving in droves for years. It's questionable whether this translates to many other places.

@ericadamsfornyc warned New Yorkers years ago. But the people did not listen.

@slowhoneybee Nah, just for New York. Let it burn.

A very bad omen for the country.

@speechboy71 It's a bit like the phenomenon observed in 2022. Republican voters from places like California who relocated to Idaho, etc. ended up being very MAGA in ways that were very different from traditional conservatives.

@speechboy71 NYC has had substantial demographic cycling too. Different voters. More NGO'ish, NGO-adjacent, subsidized, artsy, students, gentrification, etc.

The problem with the Tea Party analogy is that the actual GOP Tea Party was knocking off establishment candidates in competitive races and swing states/districts, costing the Republicans winnable seats (Angle, Buck, O'Donnell, Mourdock, etc). That simply isn't happening (so far) this cycle with Democrats. The anti-establishment revolt is largely restricted to safe blue districts (Maine is the obvious exception with Platner and Dunlap). I believe Goldman and Espaillait are the first two incumbent House Democrats to lose renomination this cycle. Indeed, few people are gonna talk about the fact that the DCCC's preferred candidate, Cait Conley, easily won the Democratic nomination in NY-17 to face off against Mike Lawler -- giving Dems a great chance to flip that seat.

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin Including in the Palestinian context

@AlanVRK @ElliotMalin People have ways of being looney even without God