@rood@jeffowski His original version omitted the Jews, because he was so anti-Semitic that he didn't seem to mind what the Nazis were doing the Jews even while in the camps; Yad Vashem did not give him Righteous Among the Nations status, since he only did anything for converts to Christianity. It's self-pitying bullshit, so of course Europe (and CANZUS) eats that shit up, to avoid centering the biggest group of victims of the Nazis.
@skaphle@rood@jeffowski I'm not talking about modern democratic Germany, after the left won the Historikerstreit (the self-proclaimed anti-communists were defending Hitler; Jäckel's view of the uniqueness of the Holocaust comes from the opposite end). I'm talking about Niemöller, a man who evidently preferred Nazi Germany to modern democratic multicultural Germany. Stop commemorating that anti-Semitic shit.
@skaphle@rood@jeffowski It's a fake quote. Remember, he *did not include the Jews*. He included smaller groups of victims, because he himself was anti-Semitic. Stop doing this right-wing worship of every anti-Semite who washed himself of the Nazis after the war; it's the same mentality that led Nazi journalists to get rehabilitated after the war, often by Axel Springer himself.
@kate@AstroKatie@Mabande It doesn't matter how one points it out; *any* demand for CWs on a fucking selfie because some people don't like seeing face pics is unreasonable. If you want to err on the side of caution, don't write that @-reply policing how other people use the Internet.
On Bluesky, people are mocking Fedi for its 4,200 Brazilian signups (Bluesky: 2 million), and @AstroKatie complained that last time she tried posting on Fedi, she posted a selfie and some asshole in comments demanded a CW for eye contact. It's a fascinating example of how a feature interacts with culture to subtract value. By itself, the CW feature is useful, as a spoiler warning. But combined with a culture of CWs, it empowers petty assholes to *demand* CWs, making the network less usable.
A genereal strike is planned tomorrow in Israel. The IDF just botched a rescue, and instead of getting six live hostages, it got their bodies, just executed by Hamas; the families of several of the dead are refusing to even take condolence calls from Netanyahu and calling on people to join the protests tomorrow. The Business Forum is in support of the strike and will join the protests.
To give more context to this toot: the six recovered bodies were of hostages who were alive in captivity for months; they died in a botched IDF operation, in which an attack on a tunnel led to the destruction of its oxygen supply, so both the hostages and their captors slowly suffocated to death. Families are naturally livid at this failure and demand that Netanyahu accept the deal that was on the table until he made up a new requirement for control over Philadelphi Axis. https://mastodon.social/@theindex/112996732492479126
@feld@pony@RedOct The poor insulation then makes city living less desirable because street noise filters into the buildings; every time I visit New York I have to deal with way worse noise than I have at home with the windows closed, and I live next to an elevated train in an extremely touristy area. But *none* of this gets resolved through taxing landlords (who then pass the tax on to the renters) - the US and Canada need to Europeanize their building codes.
@feld@pony@RedOct American building codes are generally terrible; note that this problem doesn't exist in German or Nordic Passivhaus construction. Then there's the fenestration - American buildings love to use slide windows, which are harder to insulate than tilt-and-turn, but then one of the people in our program lives in a modern New York condo with tilt-and-turn windows and tells me they're not as well-insulated as German ones, for reasons neither of us knows.
@RedOct Not "can" but "required to," because not everyone can get the required credit or even wants to tether themselves to one risky asset. In practice, taxes on landlords that are not levied on homeowners exist (for example, the American mortgage tax credit, or differential property tax rates, or capital gains taxes exemptions), and what they do in practice is redistribute wealth to homeowners from renters and not so much from commercial landlords.
@tillshadeisgone@jdp23 And as for AIPAC, *none* of how you characterize it is correct (nor Zionism - it's not an American project, it's a Central/Eastern European Jewish one). The line that it unseated two sitting members of Congress is repeated by AIPAC (to make itself look important) and by anti-Semites (to make Zionism look conspiratorial), and meanwhile, normal election analysts point out how both Bush and Bowman were not doing the district casework expected of the job, unlike Tlaib.
@tillshadeisgone@jdp23 The Jews who were criticizing her were on the non- to anti-Zionist spectrum. The Jews she was saying she is channeling as her comrades are the kind who repeat anti-Semitic conspiracy theories like the doctors' plot (this was Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; the conspiracy theory she was repeating was so dumb that Ahmed Tibi saw it and called it out for being anti-Semitic).
@jdp23@tillshadeisgone That is anti-Semitic in a bunch of ways I don't want to get into (for one, AIPAC is rooted thoroughly in Americans with pro-Israel political opinions), because she also said much more than that - she explicitly talked about dual loyalties, which a bunch of Jews in @-replies tried explaining to her before she shut everything down with her "I have Jewish friends" bullshit (those Jewish friends in question believe in a doctors' plot, one that Ahmed Tibi called anti-Semitic).
@jdp23@tillshadeisgone (Separately, authoritarian regimes and democratic backsliders love accusing NGOs of being foreign agents; Bibi does it, Orbán does it, etc.)
It was not a narrow point about FARA, because then technical arguments about whether AIPAC is truly an Israel lobby would count (it isn't - it doesn't advocate for Israel's position in trade disputes). Instead, it became purely emotive: AIPAC is bad because it's part of the Jewish dual loyalties. This is why tech.lgbt was right.
@evan Yeah, that's what's debatable, but in the US it's a bit more than 1% (for PR, Guam, etc.), and that's definitely not enough to make it undemocratic.
The space nerds I know thought Elon Musk great until he got into extreme right politics. The transportation nerds have thought he was a gasbag going back 11 years. But now I'm wondering if the reason SpaceX looks so good is that Standard Elon Musk Industrial Safety isn't actually any worse than NASA's record.
On Twitter, Isaac Choua talks about the historiography of the medieval Jewish Golden Age in Muslim Spain, which was largely an invention of 19th century Ashkenazi Jews looking for some mythical past golden age. In fact, while the extent of anti-Semitic repression in the Islamic world was less bad than in the Christian one, medieval Islamdom marginalized the Jews too. https://x.com/ChouaIsaac/status/1804881881713852833
I write about public transport and do research for NYU's Marron Institute. I've previously lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris.