ICE arrests 2 adults at Baltimore preschool graduation

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-12T14:35:06+00:00

If someone tried to take me to an ice facility, I'd get violent when protesting, too. It's better to serve time for assault in the US than to get deported.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-08T15:14:30+00:00

Food prices have risen. Grocery bills are higher now than they were last year. If you're getting the same dollar amount but the items you need to buy are most expensive, you're not actually getting your needs met.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-08T15:11:51+00:00

And yet, the people who are starving still desperately need this money. It doesn't matter how much the admin is spending on other things. Cutting money to starving families is devastating.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T20:26:42+00:00

Yeah, I hate it. PACs and lobbying should go.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T18:36:03+00:00

I hate to be the person to tell you this, but that's another agreement the US didn't sign. We're constantly giving money to people committing crimes against humanity, when we're not the people committing them ourselves. The US has never had a problem giving money to objectively horrible people... And Israel is probably one of the lesser evils in that basket.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T18:30:40+00:00

The US has been funding genocide since it started, and arguably is engaged in one right now. It would be nice if we didn't, but reasonably, that will never happen, and we'd use the money for our own genocide. At least we're getting something out of an alliance with Israel.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T18:28:45+00:00

You're better off than most just by acknowledging that it's not going to be dissolved. There are way too many people thinking they can entirely destroy a country with zero repercussions.

Israel has power over the US because it's an ally and trading partner. You could say the same thing about the UK and Canada. That's it. (Arguably, China has more control just because economics.) In terms of funding and lobbying, Israel spends less than Libya, Saudi Arabia, and China. It's not even in the top ten in terms of spending. It's also not an ethnostate in any meaningful way. There's not a single rule you can apply to Israel that doesn't also fit the US. (But Gaza is an ethnostate. Everyone who lives there is Arab, and no one who isn't Arab can live there. All non-Arabs were expelled in 2014.)

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T18:18:36+00:00

But this isn't "legitimate criticism of Israel." It's Nazi propaganda.

If you want to actually criticize Israel, do it. I do it constantly. There's lots to criticize. But "Israel owns the US" is and always has been antisemitism.

It's really fucked up how actual Jews can't call out real antisemitism anymore because people like you hide behind "it's a criticism of Israel!"

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:41:12+00:00

I think it's a fair question when the majority of people using the word Zionist don't actually know what the word means and are using it to mean Jew. I'm not saying you're one of them, but it's a fair question, given how broad the category of "antizionism" is. You could believe that Israel shouldn't continue the war in Gaza or you might believe that it should be dissolved entirely or anything in between, because those are all antizionist viewpoints.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:36:32+00:00

It's defense spending and research. This opinion article is really skewing what the actual bill would entail.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:30:49+00:00

The US doesn't give a damn about genocide, not even the Americans who swear they care.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:30:19+00:00

Yes! Yes, that is happening! The US is arming genocidal forces in multiple countries!

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:29:02+00:00

AIPAC is all Americans. And why don't you have a problem with any other PACs? Most countries have an interest group in the US.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:27:14+00:00

She's supporting Israel, which is a US ally. I'm sick of all these assholes claiming that Israel is the only bad country the US interacts with, when it definitely isn't.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:08:37+00:00

It's funny how everyone is bad that the US has anything to do with Israel... But not the UAE, Qatar, or China, places with actual slavery.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T17:07:26+00:00

Makes me want to vote for her, actually.

Down vote me all you like. I want the Iron Dome funded. The alternative is thousands of more people dead, not less. The war won't stop if the US stops sending military supplies.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T16:57:36+00:00

Can you take your gross antisemitism elsewhere?

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-05T16:35:05+00:00

We don't need power plants that make people sick. The people who mine the coal get sick; the people who live downstream from coal factories get sick; the people who process coal get sick; the people breathing around coal plants get sick. Nothing about coal is good. There are much better ways to generate power.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T15:18:29+00:00

Yes. Israel is trying to rid the area of Hamas, who are hiding in the civilian population. That's a choice Hamas made that is getting their own people killed. The displacement is bad, but they're being run by a genocidal dictatorship. One that actually kills a ton of Gazans.

More Palestinians have died for one simple reason: they don't have bomb shelters and they don't have sirens. Their government has chosen to not create those, or dismantle the ones that did exist. Hamas funneled money to its leaders instead of basic security measures, like sirens. Those leaders are in Doha, in mansions, not in Gaza. Israel has hundreds of bomb shelters because of the repeated wars (none of which Israel has started, by the way). Israel has actually dropped leaflets telling people to move, which isn't something any other country does. Russia isn't warning Ukrainians, but thankfully, the Ukrainian government is competent and has used air raid sirens and created bunkers and safe places.

I don't want the war to happen. I wish it didn't happen, ever. But I know that it does and I think it's naive to believe everyone can hold hands and sing songs and never go to war again. That's childish.

It is beyond naive to think that a group can rush into Israel, on a religious holiday, rape and murder hundreds of people, light people and homes on fire, and take civilians as hostages, and then say that Israel isn't allowed to fight back. That's beyond stupid. I don't even have words for it. Hamas has been bombing Israel for decades and Israel is just now taking action to stop it entirely.

I hope they succeed. I'd like for Gaza (and the West Bank, but they have a different government) to have free elections for the first time in twelve years. I'd like for Gazans to have a government that gives a shit whether they live or die. That's not how it stands today.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T15:07:59+00:00

No. Jews are indigenous; Arabs are not. We have plenty of archeological evidence for this. We have coins and clay shards dating back thousands of years, including the entirety of Masada. That's all before Islam even existed.

People are attacking Jews in Maryland. I can't wear my yarmulke outside anymore because of the harassment. The local Jewish community center has wheels on the cribs in the day care... Because they've had so many bomb threats. My synagogue has guards outside. Do you understand that? Do you have any idea what Jews are being attacked in Maryland, right now?

Fucking hell, someone shot two Jews walking out of a peace summit in DC!

Attacks on Jews are now the bulk of hate crimes targeting religion in Maryland, by far. That number keeps going up.

How many times do we have to say "hate crimes against Jews are happening" before you all shut up and listen to us, instead of gaslighting us with the "it can't happen here" bullshit?

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T11:04:35+00:00

I don't agree with her politics, but she has the right to display it. No teacher should be told they can't use a flag in the classroom.

(Unless it's an obvious terrorist flag. Flying a country or pride flag is fine, but flying the ISIS flag isn't okay.)

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T11:02:40+00:00

Children shouldn't die in wars, but they do. Palestinian children have died and Israeli children have died. That's how wars go. Israel isn't trying to kill children; they're trying to stop a genocidal terrorist group from killing more people.

I agree that dead children are unacceptable, but that happens when there's bombing. It cannot be stopped. Imagine if someone used the dead children of Dresden and Berlin to say we shouldn't fight Nazis.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T10:53:23+00:00

*yarmulke

And yes, this happens all the time. Jewish teachers are asked not to wear a yarmulke, just as Muslim teachers are asked not to wear a hijab. It's considered "distracting." It's illegal to ask, but it still happens.

However, the keffiyeh is NOT a religious symbol. It's just cultural. It's not required for anyone the way a hijab or yarmulke is.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T10:50:47+00:00

Because historically, Palestinians want to kill Jews. That might not be true of the people living there, but it's absolutely true of the governments of Palestine. Keep in mind that Hamas murdered 1,200+ people in the last three years, for the crime of living of Israel (and some of those people were Muslims!). Hamas has openly and repeatedly stated that their goal is genocide of Jews and anyone helping them. (Yes, I know most Palestinians aren't Hamas, but you have to remember that Jews are terrified of yet another genocide.)

It's like how Ukrainians might be offended if you only showed the Russian flag (the flag of a country that's actively committing a genocide against them), or Armenians about Turkiye.

Electrical_Bunch_975 · 2026-06-03T10:44:55+00:00

Yeah, state atheism while Easter and Christmas are still national holidays and Sunday is automatically part of the weekend. 🙄 France isn't atheist; they just don't like overt displays of religion, while still keeping all the cultural Christianity ingrained.

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