[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 6 months ago

My best friend in shul, and still to this day, comes from a long line of anti-Zionist leftists. My own family history is more mixed, but includes several socialists and anti-Zionists.

Interestingly, one of the portions of the IHRA definition of antisemitism enshrined in this law is:

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

Now, e.g. means "for example" which means it's not the only example. Might another example be the silencing of anti-Zionist speech? After all, as stated in the article:

The Jewish Bund was the largest Jewish trade union movement and Jewish political party in Europe, and it fought for Jewish liberation alongside the struggle for socialism and international solidarity with other workers and oppressed peoples. [...] Against Zionism, the Bund insisted “wherever we are, that’s our homeland.”

Isn't this Bundism a form of self determination? And wouldn't denying the anti-Zionism inherent in it be tantamount to denying the self-determination of the Jewish people?

Can I sue Congress under the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 16 points 9 months ago

Top Dakota and Bottom Dakota

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 9 months ago

0:28 is the deciding factor, clearly.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

On the other hand, Tuvix creeped me out.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

Sources say the shark warned the woman, saying "American woman, stay away from me."

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

That's correct. Egypt does not want to take the Palestinians.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

September 30, 2022 in Hickory, NC it rained 5 inches. That is a shit load of rain. It doesn't say when he was driving home, but from 5 PM to 7 PM, it rained 1.7 inches, the peak of the storm. Driving through a wooded, unlit area in a torrential downpour... I'd wager you're right.

Article also says he drowned. In this little creek:

Yeah, it was raining hard.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Not to mention, there's literally pumpkin spice beer.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's exactly what I've... heard... too!

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Chris, top her.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

No, he's describing a pumped storage facility.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

I was in Selma recently, to see the Edmund Pettus Bridge where John Lewis and his foot soldiers began their march to Montgomery. Not only is the bridge named after a grand dragon of the KKK, but the town is boarded up, the museum & store at the park memorializing the event look abandoned (even though they're not) and aren't reliably open, and the park is falling apart and overgrown.

This is one of the most iconic events in civil rights history and that's the state of its memorial. We saw carloads of black folks from all over the south roll up, try the doors, look at the memorial, and leave. They can barely experience their own history here, where such a powerful event happened.

Selma itself is much like the town in this article, overwhelming majority black, but no money in the black community, and a small, wealthy, powerful white population. The memorial has to be run by volunteers. The white folks won't contribute. They'll put up confederate monuments with private money if you ask them to.

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