It's so cruel how Khrushchev wasn't allowed to follow his dreams (being a populist Democrat from the rural Midwest)

personally were i JVP i would not proudly repost a picture on instagram that contains signs that literally say “a curse on the Jews”

Rejecting Zionism doesn't mean rejecting any connection to the Land and to the language of our people. Those are pretty core to us. Not being educated in the language is fine but viewing it as some kind of Zionist influence is profoundly weird. And then why try to use it?

The fact that they think reading Hebrew being important is 'Zionism' co-opting Jewish identities is a huge part of the problem, especially when they continue to speak for Jews using tokenizing language. It's an ancient part of our peoplehood predating the notion of a nation-state

And unlike the campus protests, there *is* actual overt antisemitism at the off campus ones.

I’m sitting in the middle of New Haven Green listening to some 60something dude with a “Which Holocaust?” sign explaining to his friend that 10/07 was a false flag.

is fallout 76 any good nowadays

there's like a 5 percent difference between their policies, they both seem like good people. this is how a lot of these races work in practice!

See also, academia. We often teach students to critique things when they don't know anything about the object of the critique yet.

Fascinating how for a country with equal rights even Jews know to start yelling 'I'm Jewish I'm Jewish' in order to avoid being shot by police/army/vigilantes

It is simply wrong to believe that every tiny move from Beijing (diplomatic protocol, for example) signifies some grand design/plan or conspiracy. China's political machinery doesn't operate that way, nor do all the agents within such a gigantic apparatus have the level of…

A lot of people appreciate Leonardo’s mechanical genius without also understanding his remarkable blend of sociological and artistic insight, so on display in this rough sketch

My mother hated - from the mid 70s - Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Dave Lee Travis and Gary Glitter, no word of a lie. It made the Yewtree era one of great personal satisfaction for her.

“I don’t really understand this yet but I love and support you” is one of the strongest forms of parental love. And that “yet” is a commitment.

Oh, god: it's happened. A No-True-Scotsman argument that genuinely hinges on whether someone is a true Scotsman.

Standard antisemitic trope: Jews won’t shoot their pets.

Not everyone who disagrees with or even dislikes AOC is weird about women, but man does she make a lot of people who are weird about women expose themselves.

This guy is spending his Saturday trying to see video game tits.

Hanania is fun to watch because he keeps trying to present himself as a Serious Conservative Intellectual, but always just degenerates back into his true form of weird little online freak.

It’s incredible how few people are still unaware that #EdBallsDay was once a pagan festival in honour of Baals, only in later centuries corrupted to ‘Balls’ and overlaid with a modern interpretation