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I'm done with sfba.social and the mods who are fine with limiting my account because I call out racists for their racist words.

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I'm done with sfba.social and the mods who are fine with limiting my account because I call out racists for their racist words.

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Turns out: my secondary drive (SATA SSD) was the culprit. It died in some fashion where it refused to be enumerated, can't boot with it attached, can't even mount it with a USB adapter. Sigh

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Turns out: my secondary drive (SATA SSD) was the culprit. It died in some fashion where it refused to be enumerated, can't boot with it attached, can't even mount it with a USB adapter. Sigh

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Funky power outage over the weekend. Power stopped and then sorta came back but everything was flickering on and off so I cut the main breaker.

Power returned but my windows 11 PC now refuses to boot. Refuses to boot to recovery USB. I swear I know how to computer. So frustrated

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Funky power outage over the weekend. Power stopped and then sorta came back but everything was flickering on and off so I cut the main breaker.

Power returned but my windows 11 PC now refuses to boot. Refuses to boot to recovery USB. I swear I know how to computer. So frustrated

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@avirr @waldoj @migurski @andrewrgross yeah, no, that's not what the word means

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@avirr @waldoj @migurski @andrewrgross yeah, no, that's not what the word means

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@vruz @seb that's not what I'm saying, and you suggesting as much is the part that's racist.

I'm done pretending that it's okay to say that Israel is committing or trying to commit genocide. Warfare sucks. People die. Hamas is responsible for 100% of the deaths here and if you can't own that then you're the disgusting one.

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@vruz @seb that's not what I'm saying, and you suggesting as much is the part that's racist.

I'm done pretending that it's okay to say that Israel is committing or trying to commit genocide. Warfare sucks. People die. Hamas is responsible for 100% of the deaths here and if you can't own that then you're the disgusting one.

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@MisuseCase @andrewrgross @waldoj @migurski effectively you choose to dehumanize Jews and Israelis, reducing the value of our lives so you can make statements like that, racist

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@MisuseCase @andrewrgross @waldoj @migurski effectively you choose to dehumanize Jews and Israelis, reducing the value of our lives so you can make statements like that, racist

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@MisuseCase @andrewrgross @waldoj @migurski for.*whom* (my grammarian surfaces)

Hard truths for you, and your racist ostriching.

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@MisuseCase @andrewrgross @waldoj @migurski for.*whom* (my grammarian surfaces)

Hard truths for you, and your racist ostriching.

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@MisuseCase @andrewrgross @waldoj @migurski you think there's anything cheerful or insincere about my very real lived experience? Or perhaps you feel I'm uninformed? Or are you just uncomfortable with hard truths.

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@MisuseCase @andrewrgross @waldoj @migurski you think there's anything cheerful or insincere about my very real lived experience? Or perhaps you feel I'm uninformed? Or are you just uncomfortable with hard truths.

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@joshourisman @simon @piki a trillion years ago, my wife worked as a teacher's assistant at a fancy Manhattan private school. Her class included Bacon's daughter, and he chaperoned one of the class field trips to the Met. So now my bacon number is 2 via my wife 💪

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@joshourisman @simon @piki a trillion years ago, my wife worked as a teacher's assistant at a fancy Manhattan private school. Her class included Bacon's daughter, and he chaperoned one of the class field trips to the Met. So now my bacon number is 2 via my wife 💪

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@ChemicalTribe @caseynewton @zoeschiffer It's funny you mention that, because I haven't seen any other western nation afford said targets the benefit of leaflets, direct SMS, "roof knock" munitions with a warning to evacuate, or any number of the things that Israel does to minimize (not eliminate) civilian harms.

Facts are inconvenient, racist.

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@ChemicalTribe @caseynewton @zoeschiffer It's funny you mention that, because I haven't seen any other western nation afford said targets the benefit of leaflets, direct SMS, "roof knock" munitions with a warning to evacuate, or any number of the things that Israel does to minimize (not eliminate) civilian harms.

Facts are inconvenient, racist.

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Your tax dollars are yours. If you don't want them spent on Israel, it is absolutely your right to say so. But it's very different to say "I understand that we deploy foreign aid $ as a carrot to achieve our strategic aims around the globe, but I don't want to give billions of dollars of foreign aid to other countries whose human rights record I don't like." and "Israel alone is a despotic evil regime deserving of protest" when the US spends billions on Egypt (why? because the aid to Egypt was the carrot exchanged for a promise to keep the Suez canal open in the interests of global maritime shipping.)

One is protest. The other is hate speech.

It's not hard to distinguish when you look at them; just like it's not hard to call bullshit on people who insist that the swastika is just a hindu symbol for luck. Sorry, some words have baggage.

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Your tax dollars are yours. If you don't want them spent on Israel, it is absolutely your right to say so. But it's very different to say "I understand that we deploy foreign aid $ as a carrot to achieve our strategic aims around the globe, but I don't want to give billions of dollars of foreign aid to other countries whose human rights record I don't like." and "Israel alone is a despotic evil regime deserving of protest" when the US spends billions on Egypt (why? because the aid to Egypt was the carrot exchanged for a promise to keep the Suez canal open in the interests of global maritime shipping.)

One is protest. The other is hate speech.

It's not hard to distinguish when you look at them; just like it's not hard to call bullshit on people who insist that the swastika is just a hindu symbol for luck. Sorry, some words have baggage.

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@Jonathanglick No, that's not what I'm saying.

I think for protests to be taken seriously, they should be earned through real engagement, not reflexive parroting of slogans. I don't believe every crank with a sharpie and a poster protesting outside of planned parenthood that gays and abortions caused COVID, but it's easy for me to be incredulous of that because of how I was raised.

Nor do I think that only the largest fire in the world deserves protest. If you really take the time to wade into the endless backstory, I think you'd come out the other end feeling less sure of what to say and how to say it. But you'd have a lot more legitimacy in my eyes than the people who mindlessly retweet racist slogans because "babies are dying".

Protests can also be hate speech. It's always been hard to define hate speech. You're effectively asking me to define hate speech.

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@Jonathanglick No, that's not what I'm saying.

I think for protests to be taken seriously, they should be earned through real engagement, not reflexive parroting of slogans. I don't believe every crank with a sharpie and a poster protesting outside of planned parenthood that gays and abortions caused COVID, but it's easy for me to be incredulous of that because of how I was raised.

Nor do I think that only the largest fire in the world deserves protest. If you really take the time to wade into the endless backstory, I think you'd come out the other end feeling less sure of what to say and how to say it. But you'd have a lot more legitimacy in my eyes than the people who mindlessly retweet racist slogans because "babies are dying".

Protests can also be hate speech. It's always been hard to define hate speech. You're effectively asking me to define hate speech.

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@ChemicalTribe @caseynewton @zoeschiffer The wholesale destruction of Palestine because Hamas has elected to turn it into a battlefield?

I presume you have some magical means of conducting warfare in urban settings? Bullets that only hurt the bad guys? Palestine has had exactly one way to avoid warfare since October 7th, and that is the release of all hostages and the surrender of Hamas. I pity the people in Gaza who voted Hamas into power (well, partially, given that Hamas murdered their Fatah counterparts in a coup right afterwards). The Gazans do not have a choice in this war, but it is not because of Israel.

But in any case, I'm not gaslighting. And I'm not going anywhere — unfortunately, much like your racism.

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@ChemicalTribe @caseynewton @zoeschiffer The wholesale destruction of Palestine because Hamas has elected to turn it into a battlefield?

I presume you have some magical means of conducting warfare in urban settings? Bullets that only hurt the bad guys? Palestine has had exactly one way to avoid warfare since October 7th, and that is the release of all hostages and the surrender of Hamas. I pity the people in Gaza who voted Hamas into power (well, partially, given that Hamas murdered their Fatah counterparts in a coup right afterwards). The Gazans do not have a choice in this war, but it is not because of Israel.

But in any case, I'm not gaslighting. And I'm not going anywhere — unfortunately, much like your racism.

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I want two states with security for all sides and less dead everyone in the coming decades. The test I try to apply: ask yourself if your rhetoric or actions move us closer to that or further away from it. The reason why it's hard to apply the test: it almost always involves subjective tradeoffs and nuance.

Will some act of protest do something? Or does it only demonize Israel? What if the answer is not binary? What if it might do something but many people will understand it as demonizing Israel? Does that help more than it hurts?

I don't think I am smart enough to come up with some tweet-sized flowchart.

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I want two states with security for all sides and less dead everyone in the coming decades. The test I try to apply: ask yourself if your rhetoric or actions move us closer to that or further away from it. The reason why it's hard to apply the test: it almost always involves subjective tradeoffs and nuance.

Will some act of protest do something? Or does it only demonize Israel? What if the answer is not binary? What if it might do something but many people will understand it as demonizing Israel? Does that help more than it hurts?

I don't think I am smart enough to come up with some tweet-sized flowchart.

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Netanyahu is a shitbag and always has been. He's painted himself into a political corner with the true dangers, Messrs Ben Gvir and Smotrich — these are the ones who actually would like to erect Judeostan on the corpse of modern Israel. When I think about what I want to happen, I want to drive a wedge between him and them, because he doesn't actually share their values. He's merely beholden to them, electorally. And with a corruption trial hanging over his head, he is willing to sell out two countries to keep his seat.

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Netanyahu is a shitbag and always has been. He's painted himself into a political corner with the true dangers, Messrs Ben Gvir and Smotrich — these are the ones who actually would like to erect Judeostan on the corpse of modern Israel. When I think about what I want to happen, I want to drive a wedge between him and them, because he doesn't actually share their values. He's merely beholden to them, electorally. And with a corruption trial hanging over his head, he is willing to sell out two countries to keep his seat.

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@Jonathanglick Man, there's a lot to unpack in that, it's like three million dollar questions in one.

Start by unpacking whether you're really accomplishing that with whatever you're doing, or if it's just furthering someone else's agenda to enable and encourage violence against Jews and Israelis. Right now, that's the biggest problem. You cannot right a wrong by adding bigotry.

I am not understating the amount of homework it takes to understand the complex system that is FMF and how aid to Israel is ultimately a form of job subsidies for various congressional districts. Like any complex system, there are rarely single moves like "halt funding now!" which are neatly scoped. I do not see simple, slogan-sized actions. For starters, I do not think that calling US aid to Israel "funding Bibi's regime" is a legitimate simplification.

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@Jonathanglick Man, there's a lot to unpack in that, it's like three million dollar questions in one.

Start by unpacking whether you're really accomplishing that with whatever you're doing, or if it's just furthering someone else's agenda to enable and encourage violence against Jews and Israelis. Right now, that's the biggest problem. You cannot right a wrong by adding bigotry.

I am not understating the amount of homework it takes to understand the complex system that is FMF and how aid to Israel is ultimately a form of job subsidies for various congressional districts. Like any complex system, there are rarely single moves like "halt funding now!" which are neatly scoped. I do not see simple, slogan-sized actions. For starters, I do not think that calling US aid to Israel "funding Bibi's regime" is a legitimate simplification.

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@jonhendry @caseynewton @zoeschiffer I mean, if you wanna be a racist with your broad brush, you do you

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@jonhendry @caseynewton @zoeschiffer I mean, if you wanna be a racist with your broad brush, you do you

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@Jonathanglick You have mobs of people calling implicitly or explicitly for the murder of millions of Israelis, dehumanization of Jews everywhere, restricting the freedom of movement of Jews. You have protestors calling to treat Israel by a different standard than they would apply anywhere else, but it goes unnoticed because they have never concerned themselves with anywhere else.

I have stood on the streets in Israel and protested the actions of my government as a citizen. Fighting oppression is a thing. But it is nearly impossible to look at these protests with a functional bullshit detector and fail to see the hatred upon which their premises and arguments rest.

Of course there's a legitimate reason to put pressure on the Israeli government to do the right thing. But I don't see anyone saying that everyone should divest from Shameful Disgusting America because Trump was once president. And I definitely don't see anyone protesting China. Or Syria. It's racist.

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@Jonathanglick You have mobs of people calling implicitly or explicitly for the murder of millions of Israelis, dehumanization of Jews everywhere, restricting the freedom of movement of Jews. You have protestors calling to treat Israel by a different standard than they would apply anywhere else, but it goes unnoticed because they have never concerned themselves with anywhere else.

I have stood on the streets in Israel and protested the actions of my government as a citizen. Fighting oppression is a thing. But it is nearly impossible to look at these protests with a functional bullshit detector and fail to see the hatred upon which their premises and arguments rest.

Of course there's a legitimate reason to put pressure on the Israeli government to do the right thing. But I don't see anyone saying that everyone should divest from Shameful Disgusting America because Trump was once president. And I definitely don't see anyone protesting China. Or Syria. It's racist.

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@ChemicalTribe @caseynewton @zoeschiffer No, not really. I'm dead serious. All wars supply tragedies. The attempt to reframe this conflict — one that almost none of you have a part in nor an understanding of — as some unique tragedy among tragedies is not some innocent misunderstanding. It's a racist lie that is going mainstream, and without getting into the purpose of the lie, the net effect is casual violence towards Jews becoming acceptable in ways that are in direct contradiction to every antiracist movement, especially those of the last few years, like BLM.

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@ChemicalTribe @caseynewton @zoeschiffer No, not really. I'm dead serious. All wars supply tragedies. The attempt to reframe this conflict — one that almost none of you have a part in nor an understanding of — as some unique tragedy among tragedies is not some innocent misunderstanding. It's a racist lie that is going mainstream, and without getting into the purpose of the lie, the net effect is casual violence towards Jews becoming acceptable in ways that are in direct contradiction to every antiracist movement, especially those of the last few years, like BLM.

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@Jonathanglick @caseynewton @zoeschiffer I don't follow.

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@Jonathanglick @caseynewton @zoeschiffer I don't follow.