It is staggering how they think reading books is a bad thing and against God. I never understood why they enjoyed keeping their sheep ignorant, but then again, after this election, I do.

I’m thinking of higher ed, also. Which we’re not really funding adequately.

I dunno, there can be a lot of different aspects to that. As someone who hated being in school and spent basically the whole time intentionally just scraping by I can attest that it had nothing to do with my parents.

I agree and it’s not all right wing people who decide fucking up in school is cool.

Trump doesn’t care cause pretty overwhelmingly those industries didn’t support him, but they’re already talking about how they’re moving to Canada. Also wouldn’t be surprised if they ramp up international offices cause it’s probably cheaper to pay people to move overseas to manage offices than deal with this mess of…

A bit OT but who do these people think will be paying their SS when they’re old? The US *NEEDS* immigrants to work and pay into the system because people are having 1 or 2 children, not the 5-10 previous generations were. Without population growth that pyramid collapses pretty fast, especially when you consider the…

The new ban’s removal of Iraq from the seven countries also seriously undercuts the idea that this will be a “temporary” ban for countries like Yemen, Syria, and Iran, countries which don’t have good relations with the United States. Iraq had to undergo a month of negotiations to get heightened visa scrutiny before…

I’m going to go ahead and guess Saudi Arabia is still not on the list because of Mango Mussolini’s business ties to that country, even tho most of the 9/11 hijackers were from there and elements within the royal family have funded terrorism and extremism in both the Muslim world and the West for decades. And why don’t…

Because Americans rightly hate it? About as far as Americans will go is mildly more redistribution and transfers.

Because most socialist policies are deeply unpopular and would result in massive electoral losses?

My daughter and I are converting to Judaism (she is a quarter ethnically Jewish) and there is a kid who’s written swastikas on her notebook and he and another kid frequently give each other Nazi salutes. These kids are Trump supporters.

I mean... yeah? We should be mad about that, too, that’s just not what we’re talking about right now. I’m mad about a lot of things, but right this moment we’re talking about vandalism at Jewish cemeteries.

You know what I’m sick and tired of?

To be fair, people ran out to protest a highly visible executive order. It’s a bit harder to stoke protests against decentralized hate crimes, which is why you haven’t seen large scale protest of the mosque shooting/burnings either.

i read this thread and it’s very...

This has been terrifying. I grew up in Charlotte and our JCC shares a campus with the conservative and reform temples. The entire campus has had two bomb threats since Drumpf was inaugurated. My family is not particularly religious, but that campus is where my sister and I grew up. We were there for preschool, Sunday…

I know right? I’m getting so sick of it after like many years I’m ready to leave. Fuck these people. Catch me outside and say that shit you idiots.

Never thought that Jez of all places would have an anti-Semitic streak but here we are.

Libel. The word you want to use is libel.

If your post had said “this sucks in conjunction with the islamaphovic attacks, this is really troubling” it would have been fine. Instead you lied and stated that publicly protecting Jews was easy politically, basically saying “what about x” whataboutism is a tactic used by the left (and the right) to silence a…