Ben Dreyfuss
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Haha this is such a funny example of someone who is way too online and internet poisoned talking to someone who is, well, not.
Kaitlin ‘Kent State gun girl’ Bennett vs. an absolute KING
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In 2013, I forced myself to go to Benihana alone as a test of my own self-confidence. It was the most awkward hour. I then forced myself to do it a few more times. Eventually it stopped being uncomfortable for me and is now just uncomfortable for the families I get seated with.
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I haven’t worn a mask in years but I truly hate these people who have a problem with *other people* wearing masks!
She isn’t hurting anyone! She has her own unique medical situation and risk tolerance! Shut the fuck up about her wearing masks at some random event
Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz dances wearing a medical MASK at the Pornhub Awards.
The controversial reporter wore a total of 2 masks while attending the ceremony.
She has double masked for 4 years despite the pandemic being long over.
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republican 1: I’m going to take down the speaker!
speaker: no you’re not, bitch
republicans 2-8: yes we are
dems: do you want to talk about how we could save you
speaker: no you fucking commie slut idiot
*LATER THAT DAY*
conservatives: how dare the democrats do this
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I don’t want to be at the vanguard of the movement or anything but I’ve noticed the word “retard” creeping back into usage as a synonym for “idiot” after 15 years in ableism exile, and I support it. It’s an enjoyable word to say. Has a nice sound to it.
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“In my first hundred days in office I will destroy 2/3rds of the nation’s wealth”
Ramaswamy Says He’d Run the Government Like Elon Musk Runs Twitter: ‘A Good Example Of What I Want To Do’
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Tim Pool apparently doesn’t understand how property taxes work.
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Look, you don’t understand, ok, it’s not what it sounds like, It’s not SLAVERY slavery. Not like SERIOUS SLAVERY. It’s “slavery” slavery. Young, fun, modern. A sort of “toss-your-hair-back slavery.” Kind, humane, agency respecting slavery.
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Wow never expected Hannity to run such fawning segments about Joe Biden and how he’s a good and empathetic father
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Unlike the conflict between Jews and Palestinians, which has a clear end point just over the horizon
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The actual audio of this—as someone who has struggled with drugs and mental health issues and received calls like this from my family—just sort of almost made me cry
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The funniest bad scene in movie history is the end of Cruel Intentions when the principle of the boarding school takes the crucifix off Sarah Michelle Gellar’s wrist, unscrews it, and discovers her hidden stash of cocaine, all while the song Bitter Sweet Symphony plays
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This is sort of a hilarious example of how social media allows teenagers to hijack and pollute our political discourse with their predictably stupid ideas
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if your first reaction to seeing the story of the Titanic tourist submarine that went missing is to focus on the fact that they could afford a $250k excursion and then tweet about how they deserve to die, you should touch grass but that grass should be in a mental institution.
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What does a ceasefire even mean? Just, like, Hamas gets away with it? lol
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The hoax of going outside the Twitter building with boxes and pretending to be employees who have been fired is very mean because obviously reporters were going to fall for it but it is very funny and genius.
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Like many other Jews, I do not like the way the Israeli government treats Palestinians, but like 98% of people of all religions I am angry & horrified by Hamas and I’m profoundly annoyed & frustrated by the small number of very loud voices on the American Left defending them
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People from SF who have been totally habituated to car break-ins are constantly like “it’s no big deal, just don’t leave anything in your car,” but, like, what? Being able to leave things in your car is a key benefit of having a car.
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I am not a coding genius who understands how the apps work but why is twitter so unable to stop this specific form of bot spam? Like, they’re all writing the exact same thing. Can’t they just have this specific text trigger some red flag for bot behavior or something?
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To think, Palestine would finally be free right now if only she’d followed the instructions correctly and filled in the oval.
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I think trans activists can sometimes walk into an anti-trans trap where they escalate this issue (which is obviously justifiably important to them) to huge importance for the country, but the median voter is this guy.
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“Do you know what NYU is doing?”
“About what?”
“About Israel. Why are we protesting here?”
“I wish I was more educated”
This whole exchange is just perfect. No notes.
Young anti-Israel students tell a journalist exactly why they are protesting
It’s all clear now…
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Everything wrong with partisan political lunatic twitter in one helpful tweet
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The stupidest people on earth are on this website. “$700 isn’t enough! Rabble rabble rabble!”
Obviously $700 is the maximum amount FEMA is allowed to disperse without getting extraordinary approval from congress, you syphilitic dipshits.
Fucking google it.
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And, ladies, he just got in early admission to Harvard
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It’s very funny that the left has talked themselves into arguing that Islamic countries are welcoming to gay people.
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Love 2 ruin a 7 year old’s birthday party by being awkwardly assigned to sit next to him at teppanyaki
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pretty sure we were actually one of the good guys in WW2
Once the narrative that the U.S. was actually one of the good guys in WWI/WWII, last great lie, finally crumbles, the world can finally start to move forward with genuine solutions because it’ll mean they’ve finally diagnosed the real problem.
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Seems like one of the many good reasons Hamas shouldn’t have attacked Israel and, more broadly, why all Palestinians and the entire Islamic world should just accept Israel’s existence and move on to the part where they can all coexist peacefully.
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One of the saddest bits about being “cancelled” is you lose friends. I was upset for a long time at Mother Jones for them destroying my income & career blah blah blah , but 18 months on the thing that stings the most is that my closest friends for a decade still won’t speak to me
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The human tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza is Hamas’s fault.
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One day I’m going to go with a laptop and ask people to “keep it down” because “I’m trying to get some work done”
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This is one of those stories that is so nuts that you can’t really explain it without broadening your thinking to “there is a gas leak in the office where these people work and they have spent years stewing in toxic fumes”
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All these dumb Americans who think socialized healthcare is the only metric that matters should go visit a cancer-stricken relative as they lay dying in an NHS hospital in Britain. I done that, friend, and it ain't whatever you think it is. It's not happiness and salvation.
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Narrator: we could not have ended homelessness for $18B
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While the replies to the tweets with the evidence of the tunnels are filled with deranged conspiracy theorists in denial, the people I follow who were laughing at the mere idea that Hamas was in the hospital sure seem to have gone quiet. Maybe they’re all busy with other things.
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So the people who did the October 7 attacks? They’re going to get shot in the head and then they won’t be able to do it again. Now, it’s possible that other people might try something similar down the line, and those people are then going to need to be shot in the head too.
How does any of this make Israel and the region safer? How does this protect Israeli civilians and make them more secure?
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sick dunk on someone expressing their support for your right to dress however you want?
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Has anyone written a good piece about how the left seems to be using the word “genocide” to mean “civilians who died in war while looking the same”?
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No other option? They had no other option but to go into Israel before dawn and chop up civilians and kidnap children and take them hostage? No other option? None? Not one?
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Sometimes you read stories about “tenants from hell” which are like people who rent an Airbnb for a month and then use whacky tenancy laws to never leave. And what you need to do if you’re the landlord is get some friends, rough types, trustworthy blokes from the neighborhood you…
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@mattyglesias
@elonmusk
@hodgetwins
@micsolana
If we’re going to play the “first amendment was violated by a government employee asking a private enterprise to consider taking steps to moderate speech” game then I think it’s the trump team that is first against the wall
10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:
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When I want teppanyaki, I get teppanyaki! I am free and liberated! I do not wait to organize a group! I just go straight there and say “one please”
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“The left loves the Houthis” is such a funny development.
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I imagine I support every actual policy that trans people want but my main reaction to almost every dust up about this stuff is “why is this being escalated to such a nationally important debate?”
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“Thanks, GOP, for reminding me that my elderly father stood by me during my weakest moments!”
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Seems like this headline is missing an important detail!
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This is a classic example of the “I will watch an old revolutionary film and be unimpressed by it for your amusement because I have already seen the subsequent films it inspired” genre
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I’m going to need to know the brand of whiskey before I can judge the appropriateness of this bill.
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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Fwiw, I don’t think you were doing PR for the world’s richest man. I think you jumped at an opportunity to dress up a bunch of banal bullshit in a sensational way for money and subscribers
can’t say I wouldn’t have the done the same!
Doesn’t make the story explosive tho
Looking forward to going through all the tweets complaining about “PR for the richest man on earth,” and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, White House, etc.
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imagine being the white house staffer who has to tell the VP that they deleted a tweet from her jewish husband's account because it said hannukah was about jews hiding in caves gathering around a menorah they needed for heat
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Maybe you don’t know this but Jon Stewart actually had a tv show for the last few years on Apple TV and it was the worst thing in history thanks
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Imagine being the lucky nobody who got a gig working on Black Swan and ended up getting Natalie Portman to fall in love with him and then cheating on her.
EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman, Ben Millepied fight for marriage amid affair with 25-year-old
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Where do people even come up with this stuff? In a sweat lodge? During an Ayahuasca retreat? On Mars?
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Decolonization twitter has apparently decided that any place where the US has military bases is a colony
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I personally find the whole “who is indigenous to the land” aspect of the Israel-Palestine conversation totally inane. Sounds like they both lived there in the past. Cool story. A lot of people lived a lot of places in the past.
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Damn, I guess these kids will have to transfer to Harvard
The infamous ‘H*tler’ store, the most popular clothing store in Gaza, has reportedly been destroyed.
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This reminds me of when NYU students took over the library for a week and gave the school a list of demands that was like “1) cheaper tuition…7) a free Palestine…11) carbon tax” and the guy was like “we can talk about a few of these but I have no control over many of them”
NOW: We’ve shut down the entire SF Federal Building. We demand immediate ceasefire and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
@SpeakerPelosi
, your hands are drenched in blood. We’re not going anywhere until you end your complicity in this genocide.
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Kevin Spacey was found not guilty in this trial in the UK. I don’t know anything about the charges but I know he is a sexual predator who molested my brother. I sincerely doubt it’s in the cards but if he does get rehabilitated into hollywood, I will lose it.
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I watched a documentary yesterday about the Indiana state prison and learned that they have a unique program where prisoners can adopt cats who live with them from the animal shelter. The prisoners are way happier and the prison says they’re better behaved
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It seems like the general consensus of my Twitter feed is that 2021 was somehow worse than 2020 but I think that’s sort of insane. It might have felt more disappointing because it wasn’t the wonderful dream recovery we all wanted but 2020 was, like, quite bad.
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It’s not even entirely clear to me why it’s supposed to matter if the braying antisemites at Columbia are students or not. If a band of hooded klansmen kept marching through the campus, it would be reasonable to ask why the university wasn’t doing more to protect their students
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Biden has spent the last two weeks trying to get Egypt to open their border so that humanitarian aid can enter and refugees can leave, while prevailing upon Israel to delay their ground invasion until those things happen.
Pretty sure President Muslim Ban wouldn’t have bothered
Every Arab-American I know has said there is no chance they are voting for Biden next year (myself included).
Although the voting clout of Arab-Americans is much different than Palestinian citizens of Israel, it’s worth noting the parallels to 2001, when Ehud Barak lost the…
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Straightforward from here:
Musk loses interest
Amazon buys twitters for pennies on the dollar
You get a check mark with a prime membership
It only runs on a Kindle
Everyone has elf names from lord of the rings
Amazon shuts it down after 11 months
We’re all free
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Whoops.
Lord please someone check me if I ever cape hard for someone credibly accused of sexual assault just because a body language expert told me the Jewish Socialist was icky.
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This open letter demanding that Taylor Swift break up with her boyfriend is the most hilariously insane thing I have ever read
GOING TO KEEP SPAMMING THIS BECAUSE WE AREN’T TALKING SHIT FOR THE HELL OF IT,
@taylorswift13
, THIS IS RELEVANT
#speakupnow
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I actually don’t think that the left has begun to grapple with how angry they have made many American Jews. I am incredibly mad at them. I just saw a tweet that had nothing to do with this and I almost retweeted it just to own libs but then was like “wait Ben you’re pro-trans”
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The idea that black Americans have a knee jerk fondness for anyone who has ever been arrested is profoundly racist
Watters: The mugshot has breathed new life into the Trump campaign and broadened his appeal to Black Americans… Today my garbage man told me he’s buying mugshot tee shirts for everyone for Christmas.
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In 2004, I was 18 & a total anti-Bush lib. The thing I am perhaps most ashamed of is that I liked Fahrenheit 9/11 when it came out. (It’s actually the worst movie ever.) but one of the key talking points was that politicians didn’t send their own kids to war. But Biden did
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My father has called me in situations like this. It’s weird to talk about it publicly but it’s just a very evocative reference for anyone who has struggled with this stuff
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The left loves to be like “it’s all connected! Climate change, racism, Palestine, capitalism! It’s all one issue!” And while I fundamentally disagree with that outlook, if you insist on framing it that way, then fine. I guess you’ve lost me on everything.
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“Andor” is fascinating because clearly someone at the Star Wars factory came to work one day and said “hey I’ve got an idea. What if we actually tried to make it good?” And other people probably scoffed but then eventually were like “ok just this once”
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"BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck" might be the funniest use of breaking i've ever seen.
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Who is trying to take this from you
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There is one well-liked journalist who works for a top-tier publication that has spent the last week retweeting every single "i think the Jews are probably lying" tweet they've seen without ever personally typing it out. And I want them to know:
I see you
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I think it's a little silly to decide that owning Nazi memorabilia means you like Nazis. I own a number of Civil War antiques and some of them are confederate. It doesn't mean I love the Confederacy.
People are fascinated with WW2. I imagine there are lots of benign collectors.
I've spent decades of my life researching and writing about white supremacists and, no, I don't have any paintings or statues of them in my house because that's not something you do with the people you *hate*
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I don’t understand why people doubt TikTok has played a role in the perception vs reality of the economy.
TikTok has convinced millions of gullible idiots that they’re “neurodivergent” just because they have felt awkward at least once in their lives.
Seems pretty influential
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America’s dumbest fucking columnist is on the case
Deep thinker Ben Dreyfuss has deep thoughts. Why don't you just listen to him, whiny Palestinians, Arabs and "the entire Islamic world" and get over it? Come on!
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“Hamas is not a terrorist organization just because the US and Israel deem it so”
Ok but what about the fact that they (1) are an organization which (2) carries out terrorist attacks?
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire.
A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas.
This was the reaction…
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The idea that people who sell their house for a price above the assessed tax value should call the government and be like “hey apparently it was worth more than you thought so could you please recalculate for back years and send me a new bill” is hilarious.
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When did Taylor Swift go from being arguably our most famous pop star to being A Person Of Such Phenomenal Historic Importance That Her Mere Attendance At A Football Game Is National News?
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Happy New Year to everyone but People Magazine who killed Betty White by tempting fate
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Yeah I’m sure Hamas was terribly concerned with getting the best possible medical care for the victims of the terrorist attack they were in the process of committing
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Meghan Markle is an American hero who I think is popular across all partisan divides because she did the most American thing possible: she went to England and was so hot and cool that she convinced their top bachelor to abandon his family and burn the country to the ground.
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It’s funny to imagine the shoe being on the other foot and people expecting republicans to save Nancy Pelosi. No one would expect that lol.
NEW: Some House Dem mods have received calls from GOP counterparts asking them to vote to save McCarthy’s job, four sources familiar tell
@nbcnews
. One source describing those calls as “begging,” another describing them as “temperature taking.” W/
@GarrettHaake
@ryanobles
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Everyone is such a sad sack. Jesus Christ. Everything is fine. We live in a time of plenty.
There are a couple of issues that we got to deal with but they’re relatively minor.
do we have a name for the relentlessly shitty period of history we're going through yet?
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This account reads like it is run by a 52 year old sexual predator who has been trying to pick up college coeds from the same university bar since 1993
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Legitimately, the double standard in this case is so insane. I feel like people who have spent years losing their minds over every viral right wing disinformation thing but are now like “calm down, only a few thousand teens said they love osama bin laden” should be embarrassed
Remember:
When crazy ideas appear on the fringe right, it’s a scary leading indicator that shows how radicalized the right is becoming.
But when crazy ideas appear on the fringe left, it’s just a TikTok thing, and anyway, you probably caused it by talking about it, you dolt.
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I mean I already knew a lot of people on the right were antisemitic since the media has talked about it constantly for the last zillion years.
The reason we keep talking about the left wing antisemites is because people on the left like me feel a profound sense of betrayal
Perhaps I’m missing something but i’m pretty sure the open and brazen antisemitism in recent days from right wing media figures with huge followings, like Kirk, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk, should be a bigger story. Or is everyone only focusing on college students on campuses?
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The only self own I see in this screenshot is LibsofTikTok admitting that it isn’t the sexual abuse that they think is the problem
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all the people outraged that she makes so much less than NBA first round draft picks should probably calm down since these salaries are based on the TV contracts which is to say it’s your own fault for not watching the WNBA ever in your entire life.
A look at Caitlin Clark’s first contract in the WNBA
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Every single TikTok keeps calling Gaza a genocide and it just is obviously not a genocide. When did everyone decide that the word genocide should have no meaning? Did I miss the memo?
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No one thinks people should be banned from wasting as much money on doordash as they want. We just think people should stop crying about how unfair it is that they’re being asked to pay the full price.
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In 2004, I was 18 years old and I really liked the movie “Fahrenheit 9/11”. Over the next few years I saw some other Michael Moore movies that I didn’t like and so a few years ago I decided to rewatch Fahrenheit 9/11. Let me tell you something: it is not good lol.
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