I’m honestly surprised this story hasn’t been getting more news attention.

There’s already videos of IDF soldiers going into Ultra Orthodox neighborhoods and picking fights with people.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews aren’t harming anyone

Well except for the women within their communities

Are you a PMC Karen who refuses to eat bugloaf?

initially charged with public intoxication

Who hasn’t been there, you have a few too many at the public pool and then you commit a hate crime

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this a popular opinion among a lot of abolitionist too? There was a general feeling that white people could never get over their racism so the only way for the black community to thrive was to send them somewhere away from whites where they could form their own nation. I think the whole “forty acres and a mule” thing came from General Sherman having a conversation with a black pastor who had become the de-facto leader of a small army worth of runaway slaves and asking him if his community would prefer living among the whites or being given a region of land to form their own community and apparently the chose the latter.

This isn’t me defending Lincoln, dude was no abolitionist, but more trying to understand the historical context in which that opinion of him formed.

I’m more of a polish off half a bag while listening to Gang of Four myself, then pass out in my bed, but I guess that’s just me.

Could he?

Why is Lenin a shrimp?

Wood et al 2018: there is no evidence for a consistent “backfire effect”; telling people facts generally changes their minds;

I have a VERY hard time believing this is true in given the day and age we’re living in.

What are they selling? Endangered bird corpses?

Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also a landlord. KKKatluk.

Not exactly related but I also find it funny when someone posts an anecdote to make a point, then someone posts their own anecdote to make a counterpoint, and the first person is lie “well that’s just an anecdote!”

I’ve basically come to the conclusion that most people I know are pretty fucking awful, at least in terms of their politics, even if they’re nice to me. I really don’t bother myself with it anymore, I just live my life and enjoy their company and change the topic whenever politics comes up.

I’ve basically given up on any prospect of there being an imperial core left movement and it’s honestly taken away a lot of anxiety for me. I just grill and wait for Xi to rightfully nuke me and all my shitty cracker friends and family.

I’m in my 30s

It’s me, I am the child

After the revolution there should be a historical sitcom about western leftists being cringe and having awkward encounters like this.

I mean there is sort of an ironic truth to this

Really the best way to reduce crime and therefore for the need for police and prisons is to create a more equitable, prosperous, stable society. Doing that is a long ass process though and there’s a bunch of people out there who have an incentive to disrupt or undo it. So, you have to stop them, which usually means imprisoning them.

It’s fine lol

Damn the opposing party planted an activist in a random house just waiting to own a Labour canvasser? That’s for real planning ahead there!

Nah the shirt was red with a gold hammer and sickle on the back