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I literally found this because that scene made me realize Holtzmann flirts like a bird and I needed to know if anyone else saw it. And @batmanisagatewaydrug nailed it.

full and complete offense but the scene in Ghostbusters where Holtzmann starts lip syncing and dancing to DeBarge to flirt with Erin >>> every other attempt at romance in the history of cinema 

#Jillian Holtzmann #Ghostbusters #wlw

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Tomorrow, October 27th, marks the 5th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting. For any of those who may not remember or forgot a few details, especially outside of the US: in 2018, a man named Robert Bowers went into the Tree of Life Synagogue during their Shabbat morning services and opened fire. 11 Jews lost their lives. On August 3, 2023, Robert Bowers was sentenced to death for this antisemitic crime. This was the worst mass shooting of Jews in the US to date.

Yesterday, October 25th, Jewish students at Cooper Union, a college in New York had to barricade themselves in the library while 'protestors' banged on the doors and shouted 'Free Palestine'. Note that the students had done absolutely nothing to cause this and have absolutely no power to do anything about the situation in the Middle East. This was an antisemitic attack, not a protest. You don't trap people for a protest. That's basic protesting rules. Disrupting is NOT the same as trapping. Peaceful protesting is defined as not blocking doors. Even if the students had opened the doors the demonstrators were right there and threatening. Not peaceful. It took over 40 minutes for the students to be safely escorted out of the building.

Also yesterday, a 6-person family in LA was woken up at approximately 520am by a man who kicked in their door and was wielding a knife. Blessedly (somewhat) he had entered the master bedroom first where he confronted the husband and his pregnant wife (at 9 months which means any amount of stress could put her into labor and put her baby at risk). All four children were also at home. Luckily the husband was able to fend off the knife-wielding antisemite. Multiple reasons he knew they were Jewish range from the mezuzah on their door to the fact he is apparently a neighbor and had talked to them before a few months previous where he found out they are Israeli. He apparently was drunk but had the wherewithal to state his intentions: he was going to kill them because they are Jews.

October has not been kind to Jews in the past few years and especially not this week in particular. Please, we are not okay. We are very tired and hurt and scared.

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people who care about (or claim to care about) palestinian liberation should ally with left-wing israelis instead of shunning them for being israeli, unless of course they hate israelis more than they care for palestinians.

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The American Hamas apologists who are out here like “If you shitlibs don’t do what we say, we won’t vote in 2024!!!!”

1.) As if any of you got off your lazy, selfish asses long enough to vote in any election in your life 2.) As if entertaining the dirtbag left has ever yielded a positive result for Democrats 3.) Democrats don’t want terrorism apologists in the party, actually. I know it might be incomprehensible to radicalized ghouls who are deep in their social media or college campus bubble, but decent people don’t think mass murder and rape are ever justified, and saying otherwise would be electoral poison. And in general, decent people want tankies and terrorism stans to stay far away from them. Shocking, I know

I also think it’s ghoulish to make a conflict that is, above all, harming people in the Middle East far away from us into another endless excuse for why you won’t go press a button in a voting booth every few years, but that should go without saying (and we all know a GOP administration would be worse about this in every way, but that goes without saying x2)

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While it’s true that you sometimes can’t trust mainstream news publications for unbiased reporting, you also can’t necessarily trust unsourced rage tweets and instagram infographics for accurate information. Media literacy is in the mf toilet.

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if any of y’all were wondering what leftist antisemitism can look like, here’s an example:

here’s the rhetoric they’re blatantly borrowing from:

so yeah, there absolutely is antisemitism that is unique to leftism and if you try to argue there isn’t that is probably because you agree with it!

also before you try to whine abt this in the notes, i am a leftist jew. cry to someone else.

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Cultural Christianity meeting braindead leftist ideology. Throwing identity politics (strict oppressor/oppressed boundaries and the role of privilege applied without regard to scale) in a blender with Christian cultural standards (anti-intellectualism, purity of ideology) and somehow the slurry of ideologies becomes the worst of all worlds.

you guys want to see some objectively useless analysis? here you go:

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i posted a somewhat more thoughtful take about this last night but like

increasingly i think there are a lot of gentiles (with absolutely no personal ties to palestine) who are picturing a resolution where the israeli state is dismantled entirely by force

so there’s no need to care about anything jews think or feel, and that’s super radical praxis, because the israeli government is apparently going to be taken down by a les miserables style revolution

and like. does anyone with a rudimentary understanding of international politics want to explain to the class why this might go badly

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any anti-zionism that is not committed to fighting antisemitism and making the diaspora safe for jews to live in is not just counterproductive: it is worse than useless.

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Seems like a good time to remind people that the phrase "from the river to the sea" - while apparently popular on this hellsite, is basically a call for the total eradication of not just the Israeli state (and by that I don't mean the government, I mean EVERYTHING) but of every Jew in that area.

SO. If I see it on your blog? Bye. I do not trust you to have anything even remotely approaching a nuanced take to this fucking tragedy.

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I had someone tell me to my face that they "don't care about [my] name, just get me my food" and let their children trip me as I was passing with a loaded tray because it "took too long" to get their food. This was dinner on a Friday night. We were packed.

This same woman goes to my mother's church and was, at the time, considered one of her favorite friends.

You put on a uniform and it allows people to ignore that you're a human too.

Working in a custoner service job is an incredibly easy way to get dehumanized to other people btw.

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If this is the virgin loser website how come all of my mutuals are hot and smart? Skill issue maybe

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Okay so as far as I can tell, they haven't yet confirmed that this particular murder was a hate crime; however, I'd like you to consider that it's extremely likely giving the current global explosion in antisemitic hate crimes being egged on across the political spectrum that a highly visible Jew in politics and community leadership might have, in fact, been murdered because she's Jewish.

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fellas if you’re trying to cancel me for saying “rape is bad all the time no matter who does it,” that says a lot more about you than it ever could about me. and it says nothing good.

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Some of yall will (correctly) say that Israel shouldn't punish Palestine as a whole for the actions of Hamas, and then you'll immediately go congratulate Palestine as a whole for the actions of Hamas. "Don't conflate Hamas with Palestinian citizens" means "Don't conflate Hamas with Palestinian citizens," not "Don't conflate Hamas with Palestinian citizens, except when I do it to celebrate the kikes colonizers dying."

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i would not be okay with someone hurting me for political reasons and if you say otherwise about yourself, that’s deeply unwell behavior.

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Don't participate in colonialism by going to the Colonization Capital of the World.

telling people to go to the united states of america so that they are not complicit in colonialism is. well it’s a choice

#how was the United States founded again?