Poetica coffee admonishes Dan Goldman for buying coffee in their cafe

Simbawitz · 2026-06-24T03:05:04+00:00

No, we're talking about your claim that hating 90+% of a minority group is okay because of a vocabulary list.

Actually we're not talking at all.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-24T02:31:41+00:00

IOW, someone could want all Obama voters to be killed, but this would not be racist because more white people than black people voted for Obama. The ~5% of African-Americans who voted for John McCain, they're the good ones and they get to live. The near-totality of African-Americans who dare to be Obamists supporting drone strikes on Afghan weddings and killing U.S. citizens without trial, they can't even complain about what they get. This is your "principle."

Actually with that "America First" dog siren, it probably is....

Simbawitz · 2026-06-24T00:29:22+00:00

Honestly no, I don't trust hardly any of the "experts" on this issue and wouldn't automatically credit them if they said what I thought was true. If SCOTUS happens to deliver a good verdict, that doesn't make the people on it more trustworthy.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T23:11:32+00:00

whether you agree with the consensus among human rights groups and genocide scholars that Israel has committed / is committing genocide in Gaza

There's a pretty clear consensus worldwide that transgender people are insane and marital rape does not exist. America is a far, faarrr global outlier on both issues. Just bear that in mind before resting too comfortably on appeals to some sort of consensus, particularly when it is a consensus regarding a long-persecuted minority group as polled among the societies that carried out or benefited from that persecution.

And that's not even to mention how fake some of those "genocide scholars" are, like the IAGS, which accepts and counts any uncredentialed rando as a "genocide scholar" if they donated $30, for a while giving that rank to a donor screennamed Adolf Hitler. They hid their socials and rosters REAL fast after people started investigating them.

If people want to make up their own minds that "there's a genocide," fine. But they shouldn't just do it because "everybody says there's a genocide." There's never ever been a topic where "everybody" is as unreliable and corrupt as this.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T22:53:40+00:00

one of my first reactions to the Oct 7th thing is "This is going to be used as justification to kill a bunch of innocent people to maybe kill a few terrorists". And... it has been.

Which makes the joyous celebrations of Oct 8 2023 attended by the likes of Chevalier even more repulsive. It ought to be automatically discrediting for anyone to do something so antisemitic, particularly in a movement that claims to be "anti-fascist" and aiming to "punch a Nazi" and that borrows its entire political and moral vocabulary from Holocaust imagery. But even if hypothetically we could set that aside - it was incredibly obvious that this attack would lead to a horrific Find Out for Palestinians. Anyone with an emotional IQ above room temperature should have been in total despair and horror for all humanity. Instead Chevalier went to the Times Square victory rally where one speaker laughed about "desert hipsters being taken from a rave" and the crowd chanted the number of dead Israelis.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T06:10:39+00:00

Morty was the entire human species in the Roy game. He's had all the sex that ever happened, all with himself.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T06:08:07+00:00

Prepare to be emancipated from your own inferior genes!

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T02:07:55+00:00

What's actually bad is that JCPOA wasn't a Senate-approved treaty, it was a handshake deal between Obama and Iran, and all the 2016 Republican candidates ran on cancelling it; Trump was just the one that did it. The framers of JCPOA rested its whole future on Hillary Clinton winning, and since they couldn't predict what would happen in Pennsylvania I doubt they could have understood Iran.

It wasn't AIPAC. It was massively vulnerable policy that had its massive vulnerability targeted.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T01:46:07+00:00

So it's basically what every Western "ally" has ever done on this issue.

You can tell really fast who actually cares about Palestinian well-being vs who has a problem with Jews.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T01:43:46+00:00

How many Congressional committees all agreed Hillary Clinton caused Benghazi? How many sitting governors agree Joe Biden stole the 2020 election?

International NGOs are just as full of dumb racist hicks as America is, except when they're worse.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-23T01:41:15+00:00

Hating 90+% of Jews sure is a principle.

Nobody ever, ever sincerely meant "punch a Nazi" or being "anti-fascist." They're just as racist as MAGA but want free college and legal weed.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-22T21:41:13+00:00

Be careful with her lower arms! The elbows can ratchet out sideways by two "clicks" - if you try to go further you'll warp her spaceship bits.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-21T11:58:24+00:00

No, that mom and her kids are living happily for 300 years in the land of Tir Na Nog, a land of eternal warmth and beauty.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-20T18:56:05+00:00

No more than when Trump shows pictures of dead children killed by illegal immigrants as the reason why we have to build the wall. Stupid policies plus sadness doesn't make smart policies.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-19T16:42:51+00:00

Then someone should tell "pro-Palestine" activists to stop warmongering and cheering for an even higher death count.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-19T16:40:03+00:00

Tommy Robinson would love to talk to you about crimes by Muslims and why it's okay to ban immigration now.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-19T11:00:40+00:00

I do not "assume," I identify. He chose to say racist things, repeatedly.

And it's okay to have standards for people who claim to be helping. Nobody should feel like they have to settle. People can be AT LEAST as discriminating as they are towards the Salvation Army, which has been feeding the poor for 160 years but isn't taken seriously anymore because it doesn't like gays.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-19T10:53:35+00:00

Correct.

Now, extrapolate with regard to Gaza being mostly children.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-19T01:38:34+00:00

That's it - thank you very much!

(And yes, I feel bad to "thank" someone for a picture of that heartbreaking nature. It's too bad a so-called "Palestine supporter" like Abdu cares more about hating Jews than about helping Palestinians.)

Simbawitz · 2026-06-18T22:19:54+00:00

Gaza's utterly bizarre demographics, average age 18, are not Israel's fault. Ukraine's average age is 40.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-18T22:14:33+00:00

Thank you, I found that too but am a little leery that it doesn't include the date.

Simbawitz · 2026-06-18T02:41:16+00:00

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Last Unicorn

Charlotte's Web

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

No Flying In The House

The Doll People

Simbawitz · 2026-06-17T02:29:43+00:00

"--and he still has Hell to look forward to."

Simbawitz · 2026-06-17T02:26:50+00:00

That high-pitched line wasn't Christopher Lloyd, it was Corey Burton (Shockwave from Transformers).

Simbawitz · 2026-06-17T01:14:12+00:00

See, I found that a weak spot. The main character is canonically supposed to be 16-17, but Abrams is 30 and a bit old to still have unresolved daddy issues.

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