(((I Will Outlive)))

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- Albert Einstein

I think this is an apt description of how philo- and anti-semitism have worked historically. When a majority society views it as advantageous to claim us as a group, they will. When they view it as disadvantageous, they other us. Note all the gentile atheists who are quick to deny Einstein’s self-identification as a Jew to claim him for themselves. 

"i didn't even realise this but some people in israel hate their government"

you have no trouble understanding that there are many americans who condemn their government, but you're surprised to hear the same thing about israelis? what?

Don't make me tap the sign

Andrew Garfield on consent and privacy

"I've been doing this for 46 years and it's never been like this," says James Spann, an Alabama meteorologist. He says how he's been "inundated" with eerie messages telling him to "stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else."

They out here threatening the weathermen.

I used to work for the US government doing weather stuff and this is nothing new. Back at the end of the 2000s there was a lot of people who were reacting to the end of the bush administration (where "global warming" and "climate change" were banned terms) by deciding to go all Truther on WEATHER. Anything we were doing was suspect. We had 20,000 weather stations across the country but they could all be ignored because of pictures of one of them being badly installed in Arizona (it was in a parking lot: a heat island!).

I had a coworker that had to spend a few weeks rewriting his code because when he'd first done it, it was too accurate. The precious calculations had been done in the 80s with FORTRAN, so when he converted the algorithm to Java, it took use of our new CPUs and now the averages were slightly different because the previous code had been very limited in how it did math. Naturally, as soon as we published new and improved calculations, endless fools claimed it was lies because the better rounding meant that it was now reported as 70.2 degrees in Newport in August 1987, not 70.1 degrees.

So he had to spend WEEKS rewriting all the calculations to use FORTRAN-equivalent math. Truncate everything, never round up or down, don't store more than 2 decimal points ever.

We had armed guards on the building, and not just because the IRS was there too. They had their own separate set of armed guards.

Weather has always been stupidly, stupidly political.

When someone says, "Transandrophobia isn't real, read Whipping Girl"

What they're actually saying is:

"I value the words of a single white trans women who wrote a book in 2007 (a book not even intended to address the oppression of trans men), over the words and theory of an indigenous trans man who coined transandrophobia, and all of the numerous trans men of color and otherwise marginalized transmasc people who are currently theorizing about their own oppression based on their actual lived experiences."

“Antisemitism isn’t real, read Mein Kampf.”

Adding on that 88 isn't always a giveaway, so check their account first! I've seen many Chinese/Asian accounts with 88 in them because its considered a lucky number. Some on tumblr have disclaimers in their blog that they're not nazis because they've been harassed by people who only know the nazi association.

However, 1488 is a dead giveaway. The 14 represents the number of words in a popular nazi slogan.

There are also people who were born in 1988 who just aren't aware. Keep that in mind. You might be dealing with an ignorant Millennial. It does happen.

My theory is always better safe than sorry and block as soon as anything is sketchy, but that's not everyone's attitude.

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Chas Newkey-Burden, Oy Va Goy (via firefly-in-the-dark)

Truth.

"Throughout our topic analysis, we find that tankies are particularly vocal about major geopolitical events (Fig. 4 and 5). They are especially focused on issues such as Chinese and North Korean politics, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. They also show a keen interest in topics related to communism, fascism, and Stalin. However, when it comes to everyday societal challenges that are usually points of interest for the left wing—like policing, climate change, healthcare, housing, and workers’ rights—tankies seem less engaged."

Tankies don't give a shit about you or actual problems

To answer anon's question, which I think wasn't really addressed: they're called tankies because they specifically were cool with the Soviet Union sending tanks into Czechoslovakia and Hungary. They are people who think Tiananmen Square was perfectly okay, actually. That's why they're called tankies.

I bring a sort of "it's wrong to hate people based on how or where they were born" vibe to political discourse that apparently right wingers and left wingers both don't really like