So. The term anti-semitism was made up by anti-Jewish racist Germans in the 19th century. It was supposed to be a more “scientific-sounding” alternative to the older term, Judenhass (lit. “Jew-hatred”) that would be more palatable to the gentile German people. At the time (1870’s or so) few people in Europe were too much concerned with what was actually going on with Palestinians or Arabs in general.

This is why you see a lot of pro-Israel folks still use “anti-semitism” as shorthand for “anti-Jewish racism” today. The term, read literally, initially seems to include racism against all “Semitic” people as well (which is… what exactly? I truly don’t know, is it every ethnic group who speaks a Semitic language?). But the very term “anti-semitism” is just itself an old dog whistle for “jew-hatred” that is now becoming a cudgel that pro-Israeli folks use to bully folks into ignoring Israeli war crimes. Anyway

So what are we supposed to call the political ideology championed by Theodor Herzl? I wonder if he had anything to say about this himself. Anyway

I’m sure you also raise this criticism all the time when people are posting pro-Israel stuff.

I’m against the death penalty, but obviously if it’s going to happen, the guillotine is the only acceptable method. Everything else is either unreliable, cruel, or both.

How dare you! Microsoft would never publish software that utilizes system resources so well.

Uhhh surveillance definitely doesn’t prevent a thing

I’ve experienced something similar. I’ve been telling everyone who will listen how great Linux is for years. It wasn’t until windows 11 that they started listening in big numbers.

That’s odd. I live in Seattle. In the summer it’s light until 10PM, and most of us think it’s extremely fun

I very much doubt people would adopt something like this within the same country

This is how they’ve been doing it in China for awhile now, and it seems… fine

There is actual metric time, it’s ten hours a day IIRC. Ten day “weeks,” ten “months” a year, etc. I think the French tried it briefly after the Revolution.

But if school doesn’t start at 7:30, then the sports teams won’t be able to practice after school!

I don’t use Firefox, but go off

Very secure ransomware with high utility-value is still ransomware.

If it spies on you until you pay the creator, it’s ransomware.

Dude. This is just ransomware with better marketing.

If it spies on you until you pay the creator, that’s ransomware.

Yep, we already had a word for software that spies on you until you pay the creator—“ransomware.”

Seed-fund unions in underleveraged, corporate wage-theft-common industries, requiring only that the new unions to contribute parts of their dues back to the fund to accelerate more seed-funding of unions.

TBH unions already do some of this, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(union_organizing) More would be good, of course!

Also pretty impressive was the Iraqi foreign minister blocking the second shoe. Quick reflexes

He really is like everything bad about the mafia, with none of the good stuff

And now you gotta wonder about what other activists you never heard about, yourself

I mean, for the last ten years people have been telling me I’m a conspiracy theorist for saying that the DNC fucked over Sanders, so I appreciate this article for backing me up lol