Americans want first world service on third world levels of taxation. They get angry about why it is so hard to build anything new or various problems or why existing infrastructure is degrading. They don't want to pay for maintenance or do the hard work in getting superior services.
The propaganda on what a good neighborhood even proceeds radio let alone television. When Manhattan got too populated for row houses and you started to need apartments, this was basically a decade after the Civil War, there were lots of people aghast because proper Anglo-Saxon Protestants live in a home and not an apartment buildings. Lots of cities in pre-car North America promoted themselves as cities of homes.
I haven't really been following this scandal but the DNC has been rather angry with David Hogg for fighting for young politicians in positions of power in the party rather than the seniority system currently in play. A female Native American DNC member is going to challenge David Hogg's victory as DNC Vice Chair by citing "fairness and diversity rules." This is basically the liberal equivalent of Christians who use Muslim front people to file suits against pro-LGBT kid's lit in schools. Nobody who isn't already on their side is going to fall for it.
There has been a lot of propaganda in North America that "good" neighborhoods consists of single family homes with well manicured lawns and gardens and not in walking distance of non-residential real estate. Mixed use land use, apartment buildings, and even transit make something a bad neighborhood. That's the problem with voter preferences. The problem with fashionable leftist notions is that the real solution is not very romantic and it means that the dreaded developer, a worse capitalist than an arms merchant, will get wealthy.
My parents did day care through the Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association. I think that day care was a lot less fancy and cheaper during the 1980s. This might mainly be because we were in an in between era from modern options for women and when women had limited working options. So you had larger number of women pre-school teachers you could pay cheap for.
I agree that working class and lower middle class people are not as easy to buy off with benefits as possible.
From my job, I know that many working couples or single parents lower in the socio-economic scale, also engage in grey market day care. Lots of working class or lower middle class Asian parents would leave their kids with an older woman baby sitter. It wouldn't surprise me if other communities did something similar.
College educated bougie parents are going to want something a lot more formal for their young kids. They aren't going to want to just leave the kid with an older person in their apartment.
How is subsidized or universal daycare, an upper middle class welfare thing? Lots of not very upper middle class families have two working parents and no grand parent to take care of the kids or you have working single parents.
There are lots of places where if you are white you vote Republican because Republicans are the white people party. It's tribal voting. The Democratic problem is finding candidates that can win in those states, which aren't super liberal or lefty, but can also work with the rest of the Democratic Party without going Steve Manchin or blue dog.
Considering how leaving Gaza didn't really free Israel of Gaza, I don't think leaving the WB will have the effect you think it will. People will find a way to say the Occupation continues even after the Occupation ended.
TL/DR of my comment: I want to hear the plot and the plan for attacking global anti-Semitism whether it comes from the White Right, the Left, Intersectionalists, Muslims, or anybody else..
I do not want people to appeal to Jews to Jews as victims of rash international conspiracy theories and hatred then shrug and do nothing if it turns out that all of Sumatra or Venezuela is in the grip of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They should not say "well it doesn't matter, there aren't any Jews in Sumatra or Venezuela." They should do something about it.
A world war against global anti-Semitism should be the price for an independent Palestine. This is true even if it means going very hard against hundreds of millions or billions of people that will never meet a Jew.
I happen to live in an area of the United States where these people exist in large numbers and are very loud. There is a nearby and rather important Bay Area park where "F-word Israel" scrawled on the pavement. I literally know people in real life that I have to interact with fair frequency because of work who believe that "Israelis are the new you know what" without irony.
I am utterly sick that it is always the Jews in general and Israelis in particular who have to do outreach work. It just feels like a one way street. Even though there are only 16 million Jews in the world and 2 billion Muslims, I guarantee you that more Jewish organizations are holding events like the below link than Muslim ones:
The enemies of the Jews are on the march and nobody seems that interested in putting them down. Pointing out the anti-Semitism of the DEI/Intersectionalists, the Left, and among the Muslim world is simply something that can't be done. We are supposed to hold our nose at these freaks and believe they are pure as snow.
I'm utterly tired of the double standards that the DEI/Intersectional movement applies towards the Jewish people. They both appeal to Jews for help because of our past while at the same time insisting that Israel is based on racist foundations but have no issue with Muslim identity states or that Jews are wypipo doing wypipo things. Their self-congratulatory festivals are filled with hypocrisy.
That many Jews who should know better, can't take the side of their own people in fight is also disturbing. I do not get anti-Zionist Jews. "Just one more ecumenical multicultural cargo cult event and all will be fine" they believe. It never occurs to them to make demands or check up on what people say about Jews when no Jews are around.
We invite people to learn a little about us and we learn a little about them and foolishly believe that they will spread the message that the Jews aren't bad when we aren't around. That isn't what happens though. Either the people who come to the ecumenical multicultural cargo cult events either stay silent when they hear anti-Semitism out of fear of getting hit or they go to the bathroom on us behind our backs.
I think the biggest demographic threat to Israel right now is the Haredi Jews out breeding the non-crazies and Secular Israeli Jews are unique in having a TFR above the replacement rate.
My stance on the activists and academic nuts online or not, and I live in a place where they are very much in the flesh, is a lot more hostile than your stance. You think they are annoying bugs. I see them as actively dangerous and dishonest. They define Zionism like Republican define feminism and refuse to learn anything about Zionism or Jewish history. They have menaced and disrupted Jewish events that have nothing to do with Israel or Palestine.
Israel can change the status quo by doing a unilateral withdrawl/border determination on their own. I don't know whether this would be seen as a true end to the occupation. Lots of people argue that Gaza is under occupation because of the blockage to stop arm importation. I imagine a hard border would get many to say that the Occupation still exists. It will be a moving target.
Ultimately, the Palestinians and other Muslims are going to have to say they can live with Israel in order for the conflict to end.
Wisconsin judge arrested for FBI for allegedly signaling to an immigrant in her courtroom that ICE wanted to arrest to exit through the side door rather than the front door. We are entering the arrest officials and politicians who don't comply period of tyranny.
Besides the growth in the ultra-Orthodox population, I think that the average Israeli is basically just frustrated that no matter what they do, it doesn't stop the terrorism. They don't believe that a Palestinian state will improve things at all. Many believe that the West Bank will become a gigantic base against Israel like Gaza became a base against Israel any any attempt to defend themselves will unleash howls.
The mental minds of the people who hate Israel must be made to change for not fighting to happen. As long as enough people believe that Israel is blight on all of Islam or that it is a settler-colonial state than the war against Israel will continue forever even if there is a Palestinian state.
Also the appetite for Gaza style withdrawal from the West Bank let alone a negotiated deal with the Palestinians, which will most likely on the Right of Return because not insisting on that means Palestinian Civil War, is probably really low even among the most left leaning Israelis now.
I personally would love it if there was a way to get cosplay revolutionaries, radical academics, and other opponents of Zionism to apologize for their unrighteous denial of the justice of Jewish self-determination. But it will not happen. The war against Israel and Jews will never end.
I am doubtful if a creation of an independent Palestine will satisfy the cosplay revolutionaries. They will find another reason to continue. The call for the complete destruction of Israel will never end unless it is made to stop.
Beijing calls out Trump's lie on the United States and China actively discussing tariffs.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tariff-trade-war-china-beijing-trump-washington-us-economy-markets-rcna202535
To be fair to the Palestinians, I think that was true until very recently but recent protests against Hamas in Gaza makes me think that they got into their heads, finally, that this isn't going to happen. Now we just need to get Netanyahu out of power and dictate borders.
The people who really want Israel gone and won't settle for anything less are the allegedly Pro-Palestinian protestors and radicals in the West. I find that they have a more hardline stance on Israel than the government of most Muslim majority countries.
Nearly all of the leftists rallying against Zionism and Israel for ethnic cleansing are going back to the 1948 War. It's why the Pro-Palestinian activists in the West insist on an absolute right of return into green line Israel. That and this would destroy Israel.
Yet, that is what many of the protestors believe. They don't acknowledge that most Israelis are Mizrahi Jews, because that creates ideological inconvenience for them. If they do, they don't listen to what Mizrahi Jews say their life was like under Islam. They that Israeli Jews would be able to move to Europe or North America easily.
I really think that there are a lot of groups in the world angry at Jews for getting in the way of their grand ideological projects. They wanted us to be seen and not heard and allow them to go about creating their idealized nationalist, Islamist, Christian, or whatever community without protest. Instead Jews loudly insisted on our presence and rights.
This. The extremist statements made by Hamas or related groups are supposed to be taken "seriously, not literally" and just because of the conditions they have to endure and once the oppression ends they will become liberal. While extremist statements made by Jews are to be taken seriously and literally.
Yet, if you do an online search the one very angry guy is treated as the "true opinion" while the rest are not. The anti-Semites do this because it is convenient and dishonest.
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On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
Americans want first world service on third world levels of taxation. They get angry about why it is so hard to build anything new or various problems or why existing infrastructure is degrading. They don't want to pay for maintenance or do the hard work in getting superior services.
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The propaganda on what a good neighborhood even proceeds radio let alone television. When Manhattan got too populated for row houses and you started to need apartments, this was basically a decade after the Civil War, there were lots of people aghast because proper Anglo-Saxon Protestants live in a home and not an apartment buildings. Lots of cities in pre-car North America promoted themselves as cities of homes.
"
I haven't really been following this scandal but the DNC has been rather angry with David Hogg for fighting for young politicians in positions of power in the party rather than the seniority system currently in play. A female Native American DNC member is going to challenge David Hogg's victory as DNC Vice Chair by citing "fairness and diversity rules." This is basically the liberal equivalent of Christians who use Muslim front people to file suits against pro-LGBT kid's lit in schools. Nobody who isn't already on their side is going to fall for it.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c029d5f6a28705d3d8f43655f5492ecf65b3a4aed0dc8fa00017d60157cf19c7.jpg
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There has been a lot of propaganda in North America that "good" neighborhoods consists of single family homes with well manicured lawns and gardens and not in walking distance of non-residential real estate. Mixed use land use, apartment buildings, and even transit make something a bad neighborhood. That's the problem with voter preferences. The problem with fashionable leftist notions is that the real solution is not very romantic and it means that the dreaded developer, a worse capitalist than an arms merchant, will get wealthy.
"
My parents did day care through the Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association. I think that day care was a lot less fancy and cheaper during the 1980s. This might mainly be because we were in an in between era from modern options for women and when women had limited working options. So you had larger number of women pre-school teachers you could pay cheap for.
I agree that working class and lower middle class people are not as easy to buy off with benefits as possible.
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This is like saying public school won't work.
"
From my job, I know that many working couples or single parents lower in the socio-economic scale, also engage in grey market day care. Lots of working class or lower middle class Asian parents would leave their kids with an older woman baby sitter. It wouldn't surprise me if other communities did something similar.
College educated bougie parents are going to want something a lot more formal for their young kids. They aren't going to want to just leave the kid with an older person in their apartment.
"
How is subsidized or universal daycare, an upper middle class welfare thing? Lots of not very upper middle class families have two working parents and no grand parent to take care of the kids or you have working single parents.
"
There are lots of places where if you are white you vote Republican because Republicans are the white people party. It's tribal voting. The Democratic problem is finding candidates that can win in those states, which aren't super liberal or lefty, but can also work with the rest of the Democratic Party without going Steve Manchin or blue dog.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
Considering how leaving Gaza didn't really free Israel of Gaza, I don't think leaving the WB will have the effect you think it will. People will find a way to say the Occupation continues even after the Occupation ended.
"
TL/DR of my comment: I want to hear the plot and the plan for attacking global anti-Semitism whether it comes from the White Right, the Left, Intersectionalists, Muslims, or anybody else..
I do not want people to appeal to Jews to Jews as victims of rash international conspiracy theories and hatred then shrug and do nothing if it turns out that all of Sumatra or Venezuela is in the grip of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They should not say "well it doesn't matter, there aren't any Jews in Sumatra or Venezuela." They should do something about it.
A world war against global anti-Semitism should be the price for an independent Palestine. This is true even if it means going very hard against hundreds of millions or billions of people that will never meet a Jew.
"
I happen to live in an area of the United States where these people exist in large numbers and are very loud. There is a nearby and rather important Bay Area park where "F-word Israel" scrawled on the pavement. I literally know people in real life that I have to interact with fair frequency because of work who believe that "Israelis are the new you know what" without irony.
I am utterly sick that it is always the Jews in general and Israelis in particular who have to do outreach work. It just feels like a one way street. Even though there are only 16 million Jews in the world and 2 billion Muslims, I guarantee you that more Jewish organizations are holding events like the below link than Muslim ones:
https://www.jccsf.org/event/shared-grief-shared-hope-voices-from-israel-and-palestine/
The enemies of the Jews are on the march and nobody seems that interested in putting them down. Pointing out the anti-Semitism of the DEI/Intersectionalists, the Left, and among the Muslim world is simply something that can't be done. We are supposed to hold our nose at these freaks and believe they are pure as snow.
"
I'm utterly tired of the double standards that the DEI/Intersectional movement applies towards the Jewish people. They both appeal to Jews for help because of our past while at the same time insisting that Israel is based on racist foundations but have no issue with Muslim identity states or that Jews are wypipo doing wypipo things. Their self-congratulatory festivals are filled with hypocrisy.
That many Jews who should know better, can't take the side of their own people in fight is also disturbing. I do not get anti-Zionist Jews. "Just one more ecumenical multicultural cargo cult event and all will be fine" they believe. It never occurs to them to make demands or check up on what people say about Jews when no Jews are around.
We invite people to learn a little about us and we learn a little about them and foolishly believe that they will spread the message that the Jews aren't bad when we aren't around. That isn't what happens though. Either the people who come to the ecumenical multicultural cargo cult events either stay silent when they hear anti-Semitism out of fear of getting hit or they go to the bathroom on us behind our backs.
"
I think the biggest demographic threat to Israel right now is the Haredi Jews out breeding the non-crazies and Secular Israeli Jews are unique in having a TFR above the replacement rate.
My stance on the activists and academic nuts online or not, and I live in a place where they are very much in the flesh, is a lot more hostile than your stance. You think they are annoying bugs. I see them as actively dangerous and dishonest. They define Zionism like Republican define feminism and refuse to learn anything about Zionism or Jewish history. They have menaced and disrupted Jewish events that have nothing to do with Israel or Palestine.
"
Israel can change the status quo by doing a unilateral withdrawl/border determination on their own. I don't know whether this would be seen as a true end to the occupation. Lots of people argue that Gaza is under occupation because of the blockage to stop arm importation. I imagine a hard border would get many to say that the Occupation still exists. It will be a moving target.
Ultimately, the Palestinians and other Muslims are going to have to say they can live with Israel in order for the conflict to end.
"
Wisconsin judge arrested for FBI for allegedly signaling to an immigrant in her courtroom that ICE wanted to arrest to exit through the side door rather than the front door. We are entering the arrest officials and politicians who don't comply period of tyranny.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-milwaukee.html
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Besides the growth in the ultra-Orthodox population, I think that the average Israeli is basically just frustrated that no matter what they do, it doesn't stop the terrorism. They don't believe that a Palestinian state will improve things at all. Many believe that the West Bank will become a gigantic base against Israel like Gaza became a base against Israel any any attempt to defend themselves will unleash howls.
The mental minds of the people who hate Israel must be made to change for not fighting to happen. As long as enough people believe that Israel is blight on all of Islam or that it is a settler-colonial state than the war against Israel will continue forever even if there is a Palestinian state.
"
Also the appetite for Gaza style withdrawal from the West Bank let alone a negotiated deal with the Palestinians, which will most likely on the Right of Return because not insisting on that means Palestinian Civil War, is probably really low even among the most left leaning Israelis now.
I personally would love it if there was a way to get cosplay revolutionaries, radical academics, and other opponents of Zionism to apologize for their unrighteous denial of the justice of Jewish self-determination. But it will not happen. The war against Israel and Jews will never end.
"
I am doubtful if a creation of an independent Palestine will satisfy the cosplay revolutionaries. They will find another reason to continue. The call for the complete destruction of Israel will never end unless it is made to stop.
"
Beijing calls out Trump's lie on the United States and China actively discussing tariffs.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tariff-trade-war-china-beijing-trump-washington-us-economy-markets-rcna202535
"
To be fair to the Palestinians, I think that was true until very recently but recent protests against Hamas in Gaza makes me think that they got into their heads, finally, that this isn't going to happen. Now we just need to get Netanyahu out of power and dictate borders.
The people who really want Israel gone and won't settle for anything less are the allegedly Pro-Palestinian protestors and radicals in the West. I find that they have a more hardline stance on Israel than the government of most Muslim majority countries.
"
Nearly all of the leftists rallying against Zionism and Israel for ethnic cleansing are going back to the 1948 War. It's why the Pro-Palestinian activists in the West insist on an absolute right of return into green line Israel. That and this would destroy Israel.
"
Yet, that is what many of the protestors believe. They don't acknowledge that most Israelis are Mizrahi Jews, because that creates ideological inconvenience for them. If they do, they don't listen to what Mizrahi Jews say their life was like under Islam. They that Israeli Jews would be able to move to Europe or North America easily.
I really think that there are a lot of groups in the world angry at Jews for getting in the way of their grand ideological projects. They wanted us to be seen and not heard and allow them to go about creating their idealized nationalist, Islamist, Christian, or whatever community without protest. Instead Jews loudly insisted on our presence and rights.
"
This. The extremist statements made by Hamas or related groups are supposed to be taken "seriously, not literally" and just because of the conditions they have to endure and once the oppression ends they will become liberal. While extremist statements made by Jews are to be taken seriously and literally.
"
Yet, if you do an online search the one very angry guy is treated as the "true opinion" while the rest are not. The anti-Semites do this because it is convenient and dishonest.
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