SarahJ 🕯️

I'm officially leaving twitter. I spend entirely too much time on here. Take care everyone. I'll be back in 15 minutes.

I don’t agree that Israel is committing genocide or that it’s an apartheid state. You want to destroy the world’s only Jewish country in a post-Holocaust reality - a country established because of the historical persecution of Jews in the Middle East and Europe. That is de facto antisemitism, and your refusal to seriously engage with the history of how this conflict started is egregious. Why did peaceful British rule only last until 1920? What happened then? What happened in 1921? What happened in 1929? Why were previous two-state solution offers rejected? What happened in 1947 with UN Resolution 181? Who accepted it and who rejected it? What happened after that? Who started a civil war? What armies invaded? What was their objective? Did they want to govern the Palestinians or give them a state? Who occupied Gaza? Who occupied the West Bank? Why did Jordan give the Palestinians citizenship? Why did Jordan revoke that citizenship in the ’80s and render the Palestinians stateless? Why did Arafat turn down Camp David, the Clinton Parameters, and the Taba negotiations? Where are the Palestinian peace plans, Hasan? Where is the PLO’s two-state solution plan? Why do all of these come from the Israeli side? Why did they put up the barriers in the 2000s - the ones you point to as evidence of apartheid, alongside the checkpoints? What were they trying to prevent (and succeed in preventing) during the Second Intifada? You never grapple with any of these questions because you’re chronically unserious, and your number one objective is to radicalize your audience on this subject specifically. You’re a toxic influence, warping the history to fit your geopolitical objectives. Well, congrats. You got your wish. Now you have a guy with a totenkopf tattoo running in Maine and your buddy who refuses to condemn Hezbollah in Michigan. You’ve succeeded, Hasan. You’ve stretched the Overton Window, and everyone is going to suffer for it.

@Edallanstoker @cbcwatcher I note you don't say that she is wrong 🤔

@cbcwatcher Hate Karrison is as stupid as she is ugly....that is lot of stupid!

Harrison on Carney slow rolling the negotiations with the US "And I think it's just as likely that if Trump does poorly in the midterms that he looks to lash out and Canada will be a convenient whipping post." "I hear a lot of cutting slack and putting this at the feet of the president in terms of, you know, what Canadians are willing to withstand" "The prime minister is the one who ran the election on being able to fix this issue." @KatlynHarrison

I don't have faith and find life being up to me empowering, not depressing. Humans are capable, resilient, and creative. Seeing yourself as a "worm" that cannot withstand suffering sounds way more depressing tbh 🤷

@rupasubramanya @Pardy_LarryD Yeah, that's not how your comments come across, Rupa. Canada has serious economic problems and Canadians are dealing with the fallout. The CPC actually advocates for improving these issues while the Liberals do nothing. I'm done here. Unfollowed.

@Pardy_LarryD Nope. Clearly, you can't read so let me explain. I'm mocking some online conservatives and their propaganda.

Good to know the CPC is managing to rake in record fundraising numbers in this apocalyptic wasteland they keep describing, a country where thanks to breadline economics, the economy is perpetually on the brink of collapse and Canadians have to rely on gulag rations to get by. It's remarkable that donors, just like the rest of the country remain so financially resilient amid total societal collapse.

@CyberEllen1994 @IonaItalia

@IonaItalia Right about lots of things, including this 😀

I am strongly against free buses. More people will take buses if there are more frequent, faster, better connected services. That costs money. Fares also stop belligerent drunks and schizophrenic homeless people from riding the bus all day, deterring normal passengers.

Happy April 30th to all who observe.

Rumi said “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” Clarity doesn't come before action. It comes from action.

@GregoryJGalante @TristinHopper So was Canada up until about 30 years ago

@vanderwolf10 @TristinHopper And guess what Sherlock? JAPAN IS A 98.5 % HOMOGENOUS SOCIETY. It also doesn't hate itself by mass importation of millions of people who are antithetical to its existence.

If you're wondering why Canada now has drug zombies and jihadist hate rallies in every downtown, you're merely witnessing our successful metamorphosis into a self-hating, post-national economic zone. This is what such places look like. It ends when we *stop* hating ourselves and desecrating our shared values.

@hugorifkind I say, fucking go for it.

@GregoryJGalante @TristinHopper I mean, Japan as an example is not Judeo-Christian and their society seems to work well, albeit differently than our own

@TristinHopper There's Judeo-Christian values. Then everything else. Everything else is COMPLETE SHYTE. We need a return to God A return to family A return to masculinity A return to nationalism. We need to stop apologizing for all of it. 😐

Ladies, ya gotta read Midnight in Chernobyl by @HigginbothamA, it's a great book and just might convince you that the fault for Chernobyl lies not with nuclear power itself, but widespread corruption in the USSR. Nuclear is a clean and reliable energy source when well-managed.

I am not Jewish. Or Christian, for that matter. I'm not religious. But I support Jewish culture because it: - values life, not death or some imaginary afterlife - supports dissent and intellectual inquiry - values family and community - champions self-improvement, not guilt

@safier @MattiFriedman "Which no one was ever meant to see"? I thought Anne herself was interested in having the diary published after the war.

This passage from @MattiFriedman’s excellent new book is one of the most 🎯 things I’ve read in a while. He nails what so many of us have felt for years but couldn’t quite name — what’s been done to Anne Frank’s memory, and what it says about how Jews are allowed to be remembered

@MerriamWebster Infinitesimally

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

Deport him.

@FoodProfessor So sorry to hear about your family's terrible loss. Deepest condolences.

@kinsellawarren @preta_6 Isn't antisemitism also a "culture war"? You seem to give a shit about that 🤔

Amy, we know why it is important to you. But for me, at least, I could not give less of a shit about all the culture war stuff. Maybe I'm alone in that regard. (But I don't care about that, either.)

@PaulSkallas I do that now and my salary is more than $42,600. <Sigh>

Go to work. go home. Cook dinner. Stare at your phone.