Pollard Twain
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@esjesjesj I’m convinced the majority of this app is just rage bait for clicks
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Am I the only person who actually watched this show
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@portraitinflesh There are some examples of people being released from Nazi concentration camps, such as this one. I can't say how common that was, but some effort was put into the pretense that the camps weren't that bad. x.com/i/status/19348…
Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian@DrHelenFry
Willy Field endured a grueling four-month ordeal at Dachau concentration camp. Against all odds, he survived. This could be the most intricate thread you’ll ever read on the harsh realities of daily life at Dachau: (🧵)
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The thing about concentration camps is that people were sent there indefinitely, until they died of starvation, brutality or disease. Even if we accept that Israel mistreated the flotilla members, in what universe can that be comparable, when they were released after a day or so?
David Mullins@Mullins77David
The unmitigated narcissism of these people is absolutely extraordinary.
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@billybinion @terrybythebay Does that factor in the cost of operating in NYC? Because literally everything there costs several times what it would just a couple hours away from the city.
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@terrybythebay My mom was a teacher. Saw a lot of the challenges up close, it’s definitely hard. That doesn’t excuse that places like NYC spend 3x more than other places for the same (or worse) results. At some point politicians need to accept that pouring endless money into this isn’t working.
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Fun fact: NYC spends over $42,000 per student each year—roughly 4x the average in-state tuition at a public college. Yet only about 28% of the city’s 4th graders read proficiently.
And people like Zohran Mamdani want you to believe Jeff Bezos is the one failing the public.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
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@HistoryBoomer I've never understood why canceling was supposed to be a new thing. Ostracization is a pretty old concept that most people support in at least some form. "Canceling" seems like it was just an effort to move the Overton window on what society would accept.
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@PercyHopweather @all_the_Mindy It used to be that when an otherwise decent politician's decision to champion a racist, unpopular policy discouraged voters from supporting them, it was considered the politician's fault. Now apparently it's the voters fault, but only the left leaning ones.
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Hasan Piker's editor (and the rest of the so-called "left™️"); belatedly realizing this hits a little different when *they* might be in peril.
Instead of just us "other" people.
Oh, weĺl.
Me playing the world's smallest violin for "leftist™️" "conscience voters."
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ostonox@ostonox
no one expected you to stand up to trump's fascist regime, that's what we've been saying and you're proving the point
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@HenMazzig Didn't you write a substack post that was specifically casting doubt on the testimony of survivors?
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Hen Mazzig@HenMazzig
I have said what I needed to say on Kristoff’s opinion piece already. There is no further need to engage with the NYT because they only continue to make my point for me. If you haven't yet, read my full thoughts here: bit.ly/4wKFqaw
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I am not in the business of denying any survivor's testimony.
But I am also not in the business of forgetting how the exact same people now making extreme claims against Israel, reacted when Hamas rape survivors spoke out about their experiences.
In the video: Then a host on The Hill, Briahna Joy Gray visibly scoffs at the sister of hostage Romi Gonen when she warned the Israeli hostages were being sexually assaulted by Hamas.
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@petersavodnik Protesting the American government is literally the most American thing you can do.
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Setting aside the constitutionality of whether he can stay, the grift is laughable and transparent: He hates America, and he's fighting as hard as he can to stay in America -- because only by staying can he continue playing the role of activist railing against the regime.
New York Post@nypost
Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil to appeal to US Supreme Court in last bid to avoid deportation trib.al/aayTnMJ
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@teameffujoe But it's not Parade for Jews, the name clearly says "Israel"...
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For the same reason they have a…
Irish Parade
Scottish Parade
Puerto Rican Parade
Philippine Parade
Carribean Parade
Dominican Parade
Italian Parade
German Parade
Chinese/Asian Parade
Mexican Parade
Brazilian Parade
Indian Parade
Nigerian Parade
Panamanian Parade
Pride Parade
Indigenous Parade
African Parade
Weird how the only time you say anything about the parades is when there’s one for Jews.
Truth_teller 🇷🇺@Truthtellerftm
The bigger question is why is there an Israel day parade at all in New York?
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Oh wow, a Nazi thinks that Jews are secretly trying to destroy civilization. That's such a brave and bold stance you have there, Graham. Nobody would have predicted it.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
The words "Gaza" and "genocide" appear precisely zero times in the DNC autopsy. Turning a blind eye to crimes against humanity was a grave injustice, and a terrible election strategy.
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@hahussain @HenMazzig It's not a rumor, they released statements and that itself qualifies as news.
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Why would a columnist in America's biggest newspaper spread a rumor before he confirms it?
Does he still not see how journalistically failing, if not ethically compromised, his work has become?
Nicholas Kristof@NickKristof
Sumud flotilla activists -- who come from Europe, the US and elsewhere -- have released a statement that Israeli authorities subjected them to abuse, sexual violence and in multiple cases, rape. This hasn't been confirmed. reuters.com/world/europe/f…
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@HenMazzig They were taken in international waters under the threat of violence. Just it was predictable doesn't make it any less kidnapping.
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No, I cannot believe I have to write this.
“Second time.” You cannot be voluntarily kidnapped, and definitely not twice.
And being sent away a few hours after doesn’t meet the definition either. Kfir Bibas was kidnapped. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped. You bought a ticket. They did not get to come back alive and write an op-ed.
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Pollard Twain retweetledi
You are misrepresenting history to justify your "indigenous" narrative, Adam. There was no such consensus among 19th century European Jews that they were a non-European Oriental ethnic group. This was instead an actively contested issue, including among the Zionists.
As Tom Segev notes in his biography of Ben-Gurion, Ben-Gurion identified as a "European" with ancient Roots in the Levant, not a Near Easterner or "Oriental"; and Jabotinsky declared that European Jews had "nothing in common" with the Near East. (He also equated the Yishuv to white settlers in America, and the Palestinian Arabs to the Sioux, in the Iron Wall.)
Anti-Zionists such as Edwin Montagu, the only Jew in Lloyd George's Cabinet (which issued the Balfour Declaration), ridiculed the idea that all Jews had a cultural or ethnical connection, and emphatically identified as an "Englishman of Jewish faith." The first generations of Reform Jews denied that Jews were an ethnically defined nation, and defined Jewry as members of a faith, not a nation of ethnicity.
Certainly, there were dissenting voices. However, even people like Ahad Ha'am wanted to recapture and reconstitute a Jewish connection to the Orient, which they saw as lost.
Persecution, not the mythical 'calling of Zion' is what led European Jews to embrace Zionism. That's why there were so few Jewish immigrants to Palestine from Western Europe before the Nazis came to power. They were Eastern Europeans fleeing pogroms, and then during Nazi persecution and after the Holocaust Jews started to come in large numbers from Western/Central Europe.
Adam Louis-Klein@adam_louis52328
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the category of “Semitic” — and the language of “Semitism” — was entirely standard, including among Jews who opposed political Zionism. Thinkers such as Ahad Ha’am, Martin Buber, and Reform anti-Zionists regularly spoke of a distinct “Semitic spirit,” often using it to situate Jews within a broader "Near Eastern" civilizational world shared with Arabs and Muslims. In not a single one of these pre-1948 Jewish traditions are Jews described as “white colonizers” in the Land of Israel. The “white colonizer” stereotype is a specific construction of contemporary antizionism. It functions by recoding Jews as the inverse of the dominant moral values of the present and racially marking them as political enemies.
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@HistoryBoomer "Cooking for yourself" really shouldn't be understood as "making everything from scratch". Normal people have the time to make sandwiches, but may not have the time to grind their own grain and bake their own bread.
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You can boil pasta, add Classico, Newman's Own, or Trader Joe's sauce, and then pre-grated cheese.
"NO! MAKING PASTA SAUCE FROM SCRATCH IS EASY AND MUCH BETTER!"
Stop. You're part of the problem. Don't scare them. Let them work up to sauce from scratch later. Classico is fine.
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@danceswitbears @allie__voss Are they all stupidly rich and out of touch? It seems like there are too many for that to be the case.
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@allie__voss One time I argued it out with one of those guys and it turned out that he fundamentally didn't understand how to reuse or conserve ingredients and seemed to think only poor people would bother.
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It's always funny when someone says making burgers at home cost them $90 and you find out they purchased like 25 ingredients
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
Part of the problem with cooking discourse is downstream of the widespread cooking shows. "Today we'll make a grilled cheese. To do this right, you'll need sharp Gruyère, creamy, spreadable Boursin, and sweet-tart caramelized onions and figs on thick-cut sourdough..."
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@HistoryBoomer A meaningful junk of twitter discourse is people either pretending to or truly not understanding jokes and getting mad about it.
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The people who didn't know this was a joke should have their vote taken away.
Humorless is the real enemy.
Carl@HistoryBoomer
Texas is big enough to contain all of Russia.
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This is so true. Everyone knows that being named after the country next door is way faker than based traditional Levantine names like Jabotinsky, Lefkowitz, Ravinsky, and Arlozerov.
Sarah For Trump🇺🇸🇮🇱@SarahAllisonFl
Hey @grok, what does the last name 'Almasri' mean? Keep the answer super short.
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@danceswitbears @souljagoyteller Or random disembodied hand...
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@souljagoyteller I'm stuck on the weird use of AI to make a picture with a random giant bobcat...
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I've got colleagues using AI to create class materials (including inaccurate PP presentations) and grade student work.
The saddest part is that they're using AI to grade AI generated work.
It's a perfect circle of incompetence and nonsense.
Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD@araujohistorian
Like many of you, I am disgusted with people using AI to write any kind of text, but I am even more annoyed to see educated people, with doctoral degrees, well-paid tenured faculty positions, who allegedly have two brain cells, using AI to created ugly, pathetic visual images.
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Pollard Twain retweetledi
I'll tell you why so many people upset about the "no hallucinated citations" ban on the arxiv: because they've all been copying citation lists from each other without checking them since the beginning of time.
And why did they do this? Because half of the citations in scientific papers are politics and not to the benefit of the reader. If you don't list the right papers, your paper doesn't look 'right' and reviewers will complain that you didn't cite this-and-that other unrelated work.
For what I am concerned, these are all bullshit citations that shouldn't be in the papers in the first place. They can easily be automated by "related papers" links, that are (wait for it) provided by... AI...
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