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As I've mentioned before on the CEB, as someone with a disability, I've always wanted to get called for jury duty. Not to actually do jury duty, but just to witness the clusterfuck of the court staff, clerk, and judge awkwardly trying to figure out what to do with someone who's a functional quad and has a personal care aide. It would be glorious. I'm registered for the draft for the same reason (the waiver process is a pain in the ass too).  

Today, the dream was almost realized, and better.

I got a call from a Sergeant at Sheriff's Office in my former county to inform me that I have a warrant for missing federal grand jury duty, and they have my signature receiving the summons. I explained I moved out of county over a year ago. He then said I'll need to do signature analysis with the County Sheriff's Office where I live now or I'll be arrested. 

Imagine, Sheriff Deputies trying to figure out how to do signature analysis on someone who can't hold a pen. Imagine Deputies trying to figure out the logistics of how to get me to jail for booking. It would have been beyond glorious. 

But no, the dream was not to be, it was a scam. First clue was the guy said my old town's name wrong, it wasn't a area code near that county, and I called the actual Sheriff's Office to confirm I have no warrant. I was robbed, maybe one day it will be real. 

I had COVID in my house and didn't get it. 

If you've got anything that Social Security recognizes as a disability, a lot of states have Medicaid Buy In programs that let you keep Medicaid with higher income and asset limits. Could help you keep Medicaid once you find work. 

Ohio SWAT raid and flashbang wrong house with baby on a ventilator inside 

God finding personal care aides sucks. Had someone who seemed good during the phone interview, no showed no text her in person interview. 

Looks like the IDF has withdrawn 7 brigades and a Division HQ from Gaza. 

16 hours ago, Link200 said:

Out of curiosity, at what point will people on this forum believe Israel has gone too far? Where exactly is that line?

Level of destruction combined with the lack of a desired political outcome (besides "remove Hamas").

Vivek is going to be VP, isn't he?

I don't think it is unreasonable for Jews to conclude a lot of this is antisemitism. The average liberal had little to no knowledge of the conflict before 10/7 and have been crash learning about it from probably not the best sources, so it isn't really a surprise they're being clumsy with their language and their hot takes being antisemitic troupes. That's normal and expected when people learn about something quickly. I've had multiple friends, 2 in the bay area, wanting to learn more then realizing they know someone with a degree in international security who could explain it better than Tik Tok (me). 

None of that rises to actual antisemitism on its own though, but when you factor in other things, it raises some eye brows:

• Top University Presidents can't tell Congress that calling for the genocide of the Jews is bad. 
• Lefties and liberals, who pride themselves on being culturally aware and careful about not saying the wrong thing, keep repeating the same troupes despite being told why its bad. 
• 120,000 ethnic Armenians were ethnically cleansed in the fall and nobody cared, but everyone has an opinion on Israel and Palestine. 
• Wholesale denial of sexual violence for months. 
• Repeated 'mistakes' by media outlets reporting on the war in Hamas' favor. 
• The left's one state solution being either incredibly naive or willfully being okay with a massive ethnic conflict.  
• Really worrying statistics regarding Gen Z's views on the Holocaust. 

24 minutes ago, Jason said:

re: the rise in antisemitic activity--the headline on that NBC article says "attacks" but the article says "incidents"--I'd like to see a source on this that isn't the ADL because Greenblatt is a fucking jackass and I don't trust him to not just count anything even vaguely anti-Israel as "antisemitic incidents"

Is the data being twisted to give Israel cover, sure, but trying to use that to prove there isn't a problem (or it is less of a problem) is a bit like telling black people in 2020 everything is okay with the police because of the statistics. Jews don't feel safe, they've historically got a good read on this stuff, so let's maybe try to figure out why and how to fix it. 

Watching Twitter debate the War Powers Act is... ugh.

Was this worth watching? 

18 minutes ago, elbobo said:

 

the more I think about it the more confused/concerned I get. There are the wars in the Ukraine and Israel going on, US warships are actively engaging targets seemingly every other day in the gulf... like who is reporting this information to president, who is the pentagon reporting to? 

Biden supposedly has a very active (too active?) NSC Staff running foreign policy out of the White House, I guess they were and are just used to bypassing Austin? Wasn't the entire idea of another recently retired General as Defense Secretary because Biden needed the expertise? 

17 hours ago, elbobo said:

Doesn't the President have frequent meetings with Secretary of Defense, did he just not notice that he was missing?

That but also did the Combatant Commanders (who report directly to SecDef) not notice? 

Am I the only one who thinks Biden has a little of W Bush's "well he's a good guy" when judging how his subordinates are performing? 

I'll be the first to admit I don't know shit about this issue, I do think though that there needs to be proactive attempts at educating the public on these issues, otherwise the movement is going to get ran over. You're asking the public to massively change their perceptions what's normal, and if the debate devolves into "your woke vs you're a chud", the uneducated idiot like me is either going to go 'meh' with in difference or become closet anti trans. Either outcome is going to give law makers cover to chip away at like this by asking questions about sports, care, and bathrooms. In a perfect world most people would be okay banning late term abortions except for xyz, my objection to those bans is how do you cleanly allow those exceptions without calling the hospital lawyer at 2am, you can't. 

I don't think so, it could have been had it not been stopped. Would we remember 9/11 if 3 of the planes were stopped at the gate and the 4th was taken back by the passengers? 

Israel iced 2 senior Hamas Leaders in Beiruit

Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast

APNEWS.COM

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Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing, had headed the group’s presence in the West Bank.

US Navy helicopters sink 3 Houthi gunboats. 

1 hour ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Also, Dolezal is basically the only case I’ve ever really heard of “transracial” identity, but it just seems pretty cringey with a white woman claiming to be Black and acting like she’s had the “Black experience.” Seems a bit too much like extreme cultural appropriation to me. 

I've heard it used by international adoptees who are trying to reconnect with the culture they were adopted from. 

20 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

Yeah, this is one of the areas I'm driving at that you guys are getting into (and I'm all for regulation, but keep it legal). Like this "no porn" stance and sex scenes in films violate fictional characters' consent, etc. seems to be a troubling and growing issue. I can imagine sexually maladjusted Gen Z teens turning into 40 year olds who are super prudish and turn that into policy can't be a good thing. I just don't get why they're so uncomfortable with it all. It's bad enough that even in a mainstream movie like Jennifer Lawrence's recent No Hard Feelings they make fun of it (the scene is she's trying to find a teenage boy at a party amongst the bedrooms upstairs but as she opens the different rooms instead of finding people having sex she just finds Gen Z doing things like looking at their phones or playing board games and shit). I just see this kind of stuff and feel like about these people on the left who hate "violent" video games, sex, porn, aggressive content, controversial content, drinking, partying, etc. as:

 

Did this exist before COVID?

10 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I'm fairly ignorant on this issue, but I do remember reading some years ago about some people in the deaf community being divided on their children being able to hear, and if they should have the right to decide if their children would be deaf, as otherwise they wouldn't be a part of it with them. I was...deeply uncomfortable with the discussion.

The deaf community is wild. It was more should their also deaf kids have hearing implants, not making them deaf when they otherwise wouldn't be, which is kind of the same thing I guess? That whole debate is largely due to the community being very insular and as a result developed a very rich culture they don't want to lose with the next generation.

Even within my own disability, assuming equal access to newborn screening and genetic treatments, Gen A is probably the last generation to experience type 2 and 3 Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which is amazing but also kind of sad because the SMA community has a very strong culture of adaptation. Is that loss justification for denying treatment, absolutely not. 

57 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

Looked up BIID, wtffff

52 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Also I just looked up biid and I may have found my line but that’s my initial reaction I’ll definitely have to research more.

Yeah, they're fun to run into online. I have no doubt they're mentally ill but everyone I ran into online has turned out to be a massive con artist and emotionally manipulative. A lot of the anger is in part because a lot of disabled people struggle to accept their disability due to the social limitations and therefore are upset someone would want that for themselves, but also the idea that they might access extremely limited disability services and accommodations.

5 hours ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

I don't think we needed to accept anything. But I think making a public mockery of it was too far. I don't agree with it but it seemed over the top response wise. Like let's make an example out of this one because it doesn't actually address any systemic issues and it's tabloid fun. I feel like the response itself was racist too. Like what she did was weird and wrong but there was a little bit of "lmao someone would actually want to be black" tinge to it. Like if a black woman acts white she's refined, but the other way around is unacceptable because black culture itself is not accepted. I dunno, everyone sucks. 

Wasn't most of the criticism from black people themselves upset she was claiming to be experiencing the same oppression? In the disability community those with body integrity identity disorder (BIID) are rejected hard because many feel it is an insult to the true experience of whatever disability they identify with. If I'm upstairs in a burning building, I am completely reliant on others to carry me out, but if someone with BIID is in the same situation, they'll get up out of the wheelchair and walk down the stairs (those with BIID in wheelchairs somehow always identify as a T-4 Para, a pretty simple to manage disability, even then they'll feel their ass hurt and aren't at risk of dying from a pressure sore). 

I think a lot of this is the result Bernie losing and a clear leader of the progressive movement not being obvious. That loss of leadership scattered the left and opened up the left to the same grift that made MAGA popular, essentially when you tie the anti establishment that they both share. A lot of like the Dore and Bree types are probably progressive, but they're so anti establishment they view MAGA as an ally. Dore, before leaving TYT, said he wanted Trump to win because things would get so bad it would unify the left against establishment liberals who created the conditions for a Trump to rise. Bernie losing again despite Trump winning in 2016 turned them all extremely bitter and more extreme against the establishment, an extremism that the algo boosts, and right wing media funders are more than happy to bankroll (including Russians funding the Greyzone types).