There have also been credible reports of teachers taking it upon themselves to do teach ins about the I/P conflict that are basically "Zionism is settler-colonialism" rather than an actual honest history of the Zionist movement and what it was responding to and trying to do. I do not see these people as mere people on the internet but people who are educating people and basically keeping out the Jewish perspective of what happened.

I oppose these a-holes all the time but it feels like being a trench soldier against an enemy that won't quit.

Diaspora Jews might not like Netanyahu or Likud but most of us hate Hamas more and did not like a bunch of people out and about celebrating the massacre of Jews as kinetic decolonization. I really doubt that many of these types could tell you how many Jews are there and how many of them live in Israel.

Republicans in Congress seem to be willing to shut down the government for no reason other than Trump is opposed to the continuing resolution. I'd say that the Republicans are not waking up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

I don't know. They seem to be on a march to me. Jews have been explaining to them with great patience on what they seem to the shortcomings of intersectionality towards Jews for years before 10/7. Nothing seems to get them to pause and reconsider things.

If anything they seem to be at lost worse after 10/7/ Lots of reports from public and private schools of teachers doing some very ideological and without context teachings of the I/P movement that completely ignore the conditions that led to Zionism in the first place. Not just in America but abroad and nobody can make them stop.

The identarians keep getting caught doing some really embarrassing things in public. The University of Michigan's DEI chief was just fired for basically saying "Jews Don't Count" at DEI conference. Meanwhile, a DEI conference for private schools, ended up doing a lot of anti-Semitism and saying that "Israel was founded on racist principles" while apparently Arab and Muslim states are fine under DEI principles.

These people do not understand how hypocritical they seem to everybody not remotely sympathetic towards them. They have the groups they believe are the wretched of the earth and everybody else can pound sand.

Delusional would be a better word.

Private school diversity conference seems to have devolved into a conference of anti-Semitism. Odd how anti-Semitism keeps propping up at DEI events:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/nyregion/antisemitism-conference-private-schools.html

Israel and Saudi Arabia have normalization talks break through. Meanwhile, Hamas is finally surrendering.

https://archive.ph/C7QsZ#selection-543.19-547.88

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-palestine-ceasefire-hostage-negotiations-d599e1d1?mod=russia_trendingnow_article_pos3

I'm not sure how Harris could have thrown Biden under the bus when she was his VP. Many Democratic voters did not want Biden to run again but they actually think that Biden is a good President. Totally throwing Biden under the bus would cause a big fissure in the party. There is no way to communicate we are throwing him on the bus for electoral purposes only to the millions that need to hear this.

The lost might have been a lot bigger against a conventional Republican and the loss was closer because it was Trump.

Inflation was considered preferable to recessions and depression during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s because everybody wanted to avoid another Great Depression and the radicalization that came from it. You had to go to the extreme right to find pro-mass unemployment politicians who hated Keynesian stimulus. Things started to slowly change during the 1980s. By now, most voters seem to consider recession preferable to inflation.

Chief DEI officer at University of Michigan shocked to learn that anti-Semitism is seen as racism rather than resistance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/university-of-michigan-dei-administrator-antisemitism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU4.voeJ.cZqQF94j4VHj&smid=url-share

Also Jewish University of Michigan regent has his home vandalized by anti-Semites, I mean Pro-Palestinian activists:

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/103f7dfd6e64ba236194a452ddfaa8314876d38fbb9617b3d04c1f4bd12c97fc.jpg

As mentioned to my brother, maybe not. Liberal-left parties tend to be big tent coalition parties. The problem with big tent coalition parties is that you have lots of different groups that won't vote if their needs aren't being met and many times the needs of groups within the coalition are contradictory and oppositional. This is why the Israel-Hamas War was such a hard needle to thread for the Democratic Party. The most passionate Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian voters are within the Democratic Party and the leadership needed to deal with both groups when both groups were feeling extremely angry at each other.

What need to be done is a more universal liberalism but that isn't the style of the time and too many people won't have it.

Again, both you and North are correct at the same time. The big problem of the modern age internationally is that every single group seems incapable of pause and strategic thinking or thinking about opposite perspectives. So you have the people upset about eggs, the NIMBYs, the Intersectional faction, and lots of other people in a constant state of aggravation and few people capable of pause and reflection. So we have this giant's prisoner dilemma in politics and nobody knows the way out.

The problem with Democratic governance in big cities can be summed up in one word, NIMBY. There are a lot of local level people who are severely uninterested in what can be called the physical work of government like maintaining and building the physical infrastructure or want to use the schools to try out interesting theories rather than teach the nuts and bolts.

This is correct. Activist try to create imaginary communities who happen to magically agree with them but the reality is a lot more complicated.

Both you and Hei Lun Chan are correct. You are correct that Asians along with Latinos should have recognized that Trump and the Republicans are leopards and will indeed eat faces. Hei Lun Chan is correct in that Asian Americans found what they see as their own needs being ignored or even outright rejected by the liberal-left spectrum, especially the activist branch, but receiving an absolute demand for support in exchange for nothing because I guess "Asians don't count" to put it in terms.

Pretend billionaire knows pretend billionaire and wants to lend him a hand.

I praticed immigration from Bush II. Donald Trump's team does not make idle threats when it comes to immigration or anything else.

I'm 5'5", so I'm not exactly on the short man hate.

I have no idea how to deal with people this detached from reality even though it is my job:

Rosa said she is glad her children voted for Trump. She’s not too worried about deportation, although she asked to be identified solely by her first name to reduce the risk. She believes Trump wants to deport criminals, not people like her who crossed the border undetected in the 1990s but haven’t gotten in trouble with the law. “They know who has been behaving well and who hasn’t been,” she said. . . .
In our reporting on the new effects of immigration, ProPublica interviewed dozens of long-established Latino immigrants and their U.S.-born relatives in cities like Denver and Chicago and in small towns along the Texas border. Over and over, they spoke of feeling resentment as they watched the government ease the transition of large numbers of asylum-seekers into the U.S. by giving them access to work permits and IDs, and in some cities spending millions of dollars to provide them with food and shelter.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-latino-trump-election-resentment-asylum?fbclid=IwY2xjawHHL_BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ0DTrI-RzxHI_x2iAd0ZSPf3-cinuYiDT82djpnl5UFY1q1g1_GZVlM6Q_aem_eBZzNPjIQyREKWfdVvs_Eg

I dare you to make any less sense.

Can we build stuff anymore? There is talk of building a subway line around Geary Boulevard, an important east-west thoroughfare in San Francisco. There has been talks and plans of building a subway line down Geary Boulevard since 1949 from what I've read. The current conversation predicts that work on the Geary Subway will START, not be completed, but START in 15 years. Who knows how long after that it will take to finish the project.
Not only do people have to do study upon study but there are always several lawsuits to stop the project because some group wants to save the nesting environments of the sewer rats. I get how the old bulldoze through things paradigm was not great but we swung too far in the opposite direction. People can't wait a generation for a subway line.

Your point being?