The Cultural Affairs Commission of UCLA seems to be in trouble because they had a policy of not hiring Jews, I mean Zionists, and had the stupidity and courage to put this in writing.
The guy's twitter/X feed seems to show that he leaned pretty far to the right. He was a fan of Musk, Thiel, failing fertility, social media corrupting society, and concerned about young men like him.
The rebel forces are making the right noises, so I'm cautiously optimistic. No talk about God and Islam but a lot about forging a new Syria. There has been recognition that women have rights and they vowed not to tell women how to dress.
There was a big protest against anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom this weekend with 32,000 people participating and some interesting demographics. Besides Jews and Christians, you also had Hindus, Sikhs, and non-Jewish Iranians participate. Another way to put it is that groups who can charitably called not overly enamored with Islam and see at least some parts of Islam as causing many issues joined forces. The Hindus and Sikhs in India and even outside of India do not get along. That they joined forces for this march is actually pretty significant.
Everybody's favorite Representative from Michigan had a very unhelpful tweet over Thanksgiving that was basically a woe on us real true indigenous Palestinians like the Native Americans. Well, it was unhelpful in forms of doing something to resolve the I/P conflict but it was helpful in demonstrating their cosmology.
The Palestinians basically see themselves as the real true inhabitants of the land. Some of them might reluctantly admit that Jews lived there as well but they were the political nation and had the total right of self-determination. The Jews had no political rights at all and certainly did not need to be including in the Palestinian nation. They still believe this and many of them see true justice as being the complete destruction of Israel no matter what. Their allies indulge them in this.
"A return to the Lochner era will just lead to a heightening of the contradictions and cause the workers of the world to regain class consciousness and start a world revolution."
What happened on 10/7/23? Why did Hezbollah have to join the fray? The Palestinian leadership has made mistake after mistake in dealing with the Jews and later the Israelis since before any of us were born. It was always "one more glorious push and all the Jews will go away." Meanwhile, they rejected the offers of both Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert without a serious counter offer and can't/won't control their dead enders. They then go wailing to the entire world after each and every "one last glorious push" fails and that their actions basically discredited the entire peace camp in Israel politically.
Meanwhile, 79% of American Jews voted for Harris because we recognize Trump is bad news. We did this despite the fact that most of us have no patience for the people wailing about Gaza after another "one more glorious push" failed and how the protestors harassed and menaced American Jews. American Muslims decided to play stupid political games and won stupid political prizes. The protestors found another reason not to vote Democratic this year.
I think the classic term for this is kleptocracy, government of thieves. That being said, I think that contemporary liberalism has a communications problem and a consistency problem. Defining a broad universal liberalism that defends the choose your own adventure path to life has not been easy. Many liberals have adopted a "we must fight for the wretched of the earth" worldview that makes it easy for the global right to present liberalism as being more concerned with small subaltern groups than humanity or the citizenry in general.
Too many liberals are also addicted to the jargon that has come polluting in from academia and activism. It's why you get people who insist on using the word Latinx despite Latinos hating it. They learned this term in college damn it and it is right.
Trump's current choices do not seem that competent but supremely loyal. That being said, you really don't need that much competency to do a lot of damage.
It is depressing how little cognitive ability is necessary to go through life. I suppose the idea that late voters were going to break for Harris came from a hope for common sense to triumph.
"It's the inflation, stupid" plus post-COVID malaise doesn't allow the right wag their fingers at the Democrats, leftists to wag the fingers at the Democrats, and liberals to do jeremiads about the racism and misogyny of the United States. Nobody gets to have any fun or make any more from pontificating.
The group I still don't understand are the people who believe a strong further left message would help the Democrats despite the sheer rejection of police reform in the most Democratic areas of the United States.
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On “Open Mic for the week of 12/9/2024”
The Cultural Affairs Commission of UCLA seems to be in trouble because they had a policy of not hiring Jews, I mean Zionists, and had the stupidity and courage to put this in writing.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-831990
On “From the New York Post: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops”
In which Phil H praises Big Pharma.
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The guy's twitter/X feed seems to show that he leaned pretty far to the right. He was a fan of Musk, Thiel, failing fertility, social media corrupting society, and concerned about young men like him.
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He seems to come from a rather privileged background.
On “Bashar al-Assad Flees To Moscow, Ending 50 Years of Syrian Dictatorship”
The rebel forces are making the right noises, so I'm cautiously optimistic. No talk about God and Islam but a lot about forging a new Syria. There has been recognition that women have rights and they vowed not to tell women how to dress.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-rebels-tap-transitional-pm-vow-not-to-tell-women-how-to-dress/
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The Syrian Intelligence services were apparently organized with the help of Eichmann's right-handed man. That might explain the brutality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Brunner#Postwar_flight_and_escape_to_Syria
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/2/2024”
There was a big protest against anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom this weekend with 32,000 people participating and some interesting demographics. Besides Jews and Christians, you also had Hindus, Sikhs, and non-Jewish Iranians participate. Another way to put it is that groups who can charitably called not overly enamored with Islam and see at least some parts of Islam as causing many issues joined forces. The Hindus and Sikhs in India and even outside of India do not get along. That they joined forces for this march is actually pretty significant.
https://www.thejc.com/community/over-30-000-march-through-london-against-antisemitism-t6ne9zk0
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Hegseth is going down:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trumps-pick-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-peril-senate-republicans-rcna182738
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This might be why a lot of very non-Christian customs like the Romanian bear dance survived in Orthodox lands more than Catholic and Protestant lands.
On “From CNN: South Korea president declares emergency martial law, sending shockwaves across country”
President Yoon's senior staff tenders their resignation:
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-12-04/national/politics/Presidential-aides-tender-resignations-after-martial-law-fiasco-Yoon-cancels-public-schedule/2192426
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/2/2024”
More young men are converting to Eastern Orthodoxy because it is manly Christianity. Protestantism is becoming the domain of women:
https://www.rawstory.com/orthodox-church/
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Trump's DEI Beria has an enemy list:
https://newrepublic.com/article/188946/kash-patel-fbi-enemies-list
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Everybody's favorite Representative from Michigan had a very unhelpful tweet over Thanksgiving that was basically a woe on us real true indigenous Palestinians like the Native Americans. Well, it was unhelpful in forms of doing something to resolve the I/P conflict but it was helpful in demonstrating their cosmology.
The Palestinians basically see themselves as the real true inhabitants of the land. Some of them might reluctantly admit that Jews lived there as well but they were the political nation and had the total right of self-determination. The Jews had no political rights at all and certainly did not need to be including in the Palestinian nation. They still believe this and many of them see true justice as being the complete destruction of Israel no matter what. Their allies indulge them in this.
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Sarcasm on.
"A return to the Lochner era will just lead to a heightening of the contradictions and cause the workers of the world to regain class consciousness and start a world revolution."
Sarcasm off.
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What happened on 10/7/23? Why did Hezbollah have to join the fray? The Palestinian leadership has made mistake after mistake in dealing with the Jews and later the Israelis since before any of us were born. It was always "one more glorious push and all the Jews will go away." Meanwhile, they rejected the offers of both Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert without a serious counter offer and can't/won't control their dead enders. They then go wailing to the entire world after each and every "one last glorious push" fails and that their actions basically discredited the entire peace camp in Israel politically.
Meanwhile, 79% of American Jews voted for Harris because we recognize Trump is bad news. We did this despite the fact that most of us have no patience for the people wailing about Gaza after another "one more glorious push" failed and how the protestors harassed and menaced American Jews. American Muslims decided to play stupid political games and won stupid political prizes. The protestors found another reason not to vote Democratic this year.
On “Joe Biden Pardons Local Man”
We aren't going to norm our way out of this.
On “I Told You So”
I think the classic term for this is kleptocracy, government of thieves. That being said, I think that contemporary liberalism has a communications problem and a consistency problem. Defining a broad universal liberalism that defends the choose your own adventure path to life has not been easy. Many liberals have adopted a "we must fight for the wretched of the earth" worldview that makes it easy for the global right to present liberalism as being more concerned with small subaltern groups than humanity or the citizenry in general.
Too many liberals are also addicted to the jargon that has come polluting in from academia and activism. It's why you get people who insist on using the word Latinx despite Latinos hating it. They learned this term in college damn it and it is right.
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Trump's current choices do not seem that competent but supremely loyal. That being said, you really don't need that much competency to do a lot of damage.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/25/2024”
Pete Hegsmith's mom has some choice words to say about him:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/pete-hegseth-mother-email.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d04.hkIK.QnXcVaptGbvi&smid=url-share
On “Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.”
It is depressing how little cognitive ability is necessary to go through life. I suppose the idea that late voters were going to break for Harris came from a hope for common sense to triumph.
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True that. It still seems like a very sad way to live one's life.
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I can't imagine having my head up my rear enough to not know that the Democratic Party replaced their front runner.
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Everybody is big disagreement about what those unforced errors were. The only one that seems like a real big mistake was not appearing on Rogan.
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There were apparently a lot of people who didn't even know that Biden dropped out until Election Day:
https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-did-biden-drop-out-search-spiked-tuesday
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"It's the inflation, stupid" plus post-COVID malaise doesn't allow the right wag their fingers at the Democrats, leftists to wag the fingers at the Democrats, and liberals to do jeremiads about the racism and misogyny of the United States. Nobody gets to have any fun or make any more from pontificating.
The group I still don't understand are the people who believe a strong further left message would help the Democrats despite the sheer rejection of police reform in the most Democratic areas of the United States.
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