HI WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BABY GOOSE

SCRATCH THAT IT WAS A PINECONE

APOLOGIES FOR THE FALSE ADVERTISING

NO ONE IS MORE DISAPPOINTED THAN ME

NO

I DON'T THINK YOU ARE

OH MY GOD

OKAY, Y'KNOW-

I DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS

THERE IS NO PINECONE IS THERE

WE TRUSTED YOU. GOOSEGATE 2024

I AM GOING TO SET THE PINECONE ON FIRE

oh no the -

it's time to take the power back from Big Pinecone and give it to the people

YOU DID NOT MAKE FUCKING FANART FOR THIS GODDAMN POST

OH MY GOD

"I'm sorry it came to this, old friend. I...I let the power of goosegate go to my head." I chuckle softly, shaking my head.

"But it's too late now. And you can't deny, the people yearn for the cone." There's the tremendous sound of tearing metal and snapping wood as the final defenses are broken. I smile sadly.

"They're here."

RP FANFICTION??

RP FANFICTION ON MY POST??

NO

There once was tumblr named pen

Who posted of geese in a den

But tragedy struck

It was a pine cone she mistook

And so tumblr revolted in the end

THIS IS NOT A CREATIVE WRITING CLASS

My name is pen

And wen I see

A babey goose

I squeal with glee

But wen I share

This joy of myne

Tragedy strikes

Is cone of pine

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Tonight in Tel Aviv: protest calling for a hostage deal and against invasion of Rafah. source

These are your evil Israelis.

These are the Tel Aviv who you want blown up.

If you can’t understand that a country is not its misguided leadership for Israel how can you ask Israel to understand that for Palestine? Yet the people of Tel Aviv do. And it is their family, friends and countrymen who are dead, hostage, raped and injured. They can do it so what is your excuse?

Once more with feeling, PEOPLE ARE NOT THE SAME AS GOVERNMENT

These guys get it

The western tankies do not

I haven't heard this conspiracy theory but it doesn't surprise me. Seems the antisemitic leftists are coming up with new conspiracy theories about us all the time.

I'm fully expecting talk about secret Jewish space lasers from that crowd any day now.

A lot of this came from JVP, of course, with their "Deadly Exchange" nonsense. An aside: american policing doens't come out of slave patrols, that's mostly false. Not the most important thing, but people really REALLY exaggerated what little truth there is in that one. American cops are racist because America is racist. European cops are racist because Europe is racist. Cops tend to represent the right wing of society, for many structural reasons, and this is true globally. We don't need magical origin stories or exhange programs for it to be true.

Honestly, weird ass conspiracies aside this one is just -sigh-

Transporting random cops, not even a specialist team, to be trained out of the country would be expensive. While overspending on police is a whole separate issue/debate it's still a waste of resources you'd have to justify. Let's just say for whatever reason, Big City PD decides to send a random officer all the way to Israel for training. That's several hundred dollars in transportation alone, if you just make the officer fly cheap and just take 1 carryon, even more expensive if you send all the equipment with them.

Then you have to most likely pay for the entire time there. Food, housing, other needs, not to mention the training itself. So we're starting to wrack up costs in the couple thousands for what's a bare minimum a 2+ week training. Not to mention not having that employee working so they're likely paying someone overtime. Yes police departments overspend but that's a ridiculous waste of resources to do constantly when there's a perfectly working military base 2 hours away tops.

But then again, most conspiracy theories don't make sense.

The trips to Israel were privately funded, by the ADL and I think a few other organizations. Meaning not that many people went, iirc it was primarily people fairly high up the chain of command.

It was not for weapons training. It was training on how to respond to terror threats and mass casualty terror attacks. Because Israel has had a shit ton of those and the US has had exactly 1. So they figured Israel would have better strategies and techniques on how to deal with terrorist attacks.

I have no idea if any of the training was at all useful and don't know enough about the specifics of the program to have formed an overall opinion of it. But implying that the systemic racism and police brutality that are such horrifying issues in the US sprang into existence in 1948 along with the state of Israel is just preposterous. And horribly bigoted. And lets the people and systems that are responsible completely off the hook with a pre-packaged scapegoat.

"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah but accusing Jews of making up hate crimes to derail the conversation around Gaza is. Claiming that the media is controlled by a secret group of all powerful Zionists is. Acting like the Holocaust is something Jews use to get out of trouble instead of an actual genocide that happened within living memory is. Telling us to go back to where we came from is.

"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah well a lot of you aren't being accused of antisemitism because you are criticizing Israel. You're being accused of antisemitism because you are being antisemitic and do nothing but evade and double down when it gets called out.

You know, pointing out specific antisemitic tropes is important when speaking to someone acting in good faith. But someone who is determined to convince themselves that they are on the right side without having to actually do any critical thinking could just as easily treat is as a cheat code: If I avoid these phrases, I'm not being antisemitic, even if I still think and act exactly the same way.

So I'm going to make this very simple.

Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism. Hating Israel is.

If you criticize Israel in ways that you don't criticize other countries who take similar (or worse) actions and have similar (or worse) histories, that's antisemitism. If you go beyond criticizing the establishment of the State to saying the State should stop existing, that's antisemitism.

(And don't give me any "but I think all states/all colonial states should stop existing" bullshit. Dreaming of an eventually utopia without nation-states is fine and all, but it's not a practical goal in anything but the extreme long term. If that's your only take on geopolitics, kindly keep your mouth shut while the serious people are talking.)

If you think any bad thing that happens or has happened to Israelis or their ancestors is irrelevant or deserved, that's antisemitism. If you hear about something bad happening to Israelis and immediately dismiss it as propaganda, that is antisemitism.

The Israeli government doesn't speak for all the world's Jews, and not all Jews are Israeli citizens, but half of the world's Jews live there, and Israel is the Jewish State. If you hate Israel, you hate the Jews.

And if you see yourself in any of this, and it doesn't cause you to do some serious soul searching, than you can fuck right off. There is a long, long history of people hating the Jews, and there is a long, long history of us still being here after they're gone.

And, frankly, if you have not been to the Middle East and worked with the people there for an extended period of time, than I 100% guarantee you that there are Israeli Jews (and Israeli non-Jews, because believe it or not, they exist) who have worked harder, sacrificed more, and accomplished more to oppose the wrongdoings of the Israeli government, address flaws in Israel as a State, improve the lives of Palestinian people, and move towards peace in the Middle East than you have.

If that concept surprises you, than you have been making sweeping negative judgements about people you know nothing about based on the fact that they are Jewish or associated with something Jewish, and that is the definition of antisemitism.

When COVID first started, most leftists and activists were aware that lingering Sinophobia led to unfair assumptions and conspiratorial thinking about China and Chinese culture. And they were aware that line of thinking led to a massive influx in hate speech and hate crimes against API communities in the West. And they were aware that standing up against API hate didn’t mean condoning the actions of the Chinese government.

Lingering antisemitism leads to unfair assumptions and conspiratorial thinking about Israel and Jewish culture. That line of thinking is leading to a massive influx of hate speech and hate crimes against Jewish communities in the diaspora. Standing up against hatred targeted at Jews and Israelis does not mean you’re condoning the actions of the Israeli government.

If you can see and understand the first one, but you reject the second one, you’re antisemitic. You afford more freedom, care, and respect to non-Jewish cultures and ethnicities. That’s antisemitism plain and simple.

have i ever shown you guys my professor’s DNI list

this is environmental storytelling to me. i just KNOW she’s so so tired of gay cottagecore bitches

Smurfs dni

everyone shut the fuck up this is the only funny addition to this post

when dni means "do not illustrate"

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

Answering some questions I see in the tags.

Yes this is still up, unfortunately. And it's a great activity to do with friends. Do keep in mind that it's actually best to use obvious jokes as the primary goal of the hotline is to fearmonger with conservatives and intimidate progressives and realistic stories can be used as ammo for the fearmongering.

Hello my 550 followers, y'all know what to do!

Thia is absolutely sickening. Hamas agreed to the ceacefire and isrel still decided to attack Rafah.

*israel

Al Jazeera is an unreliable source

Oh wow, that'd be terrible if true. Could you give me any source to learn about the unreliability of Al Jazeera? It always seemed pretty reliable to me :3

Alright, from top to bottom

The wikipedia article talks about al jazeera arabic, the arabic language branch of al jazeera, the article i linked is in english.

The second article is from "the jerusalem post" which is a right wing israel newpaper. Up until 2023 its editor in-chief was Yaakov KatzI, who was an advisor for Naftali Bennet, a right wing israel politician. I find it a bit ironic you used that newspaper to prove my source isn't reliable :3

Yoseph Haddad is an ex idf soldier and a staunch defender of israel. In the 1 minute long video you linked he doesn't provide any source for his claims, except for a picture of a tweet from al jazeera arabic, which we have already said isn't al jazeera english.

The last link is just a reddit post. Without a single source. I don't really think that counts even as a crappy proof of your point.

@spot-the-antisemitism I just-

I’m not going to bother debunking AJ because if you don’t understand that they’re a Qatari mouthpiece at this point (it’s banned in multiple countries in the region), what can we even do, but I am going to deal with this specific story.

Hamas has done nothing but reject ceasefire deals for MONTHS, notably up to claiming they don’t even know where the hostages are or how many are alive. their primary objective in not accepting these deals is because they’re still contingent on the eventual goal of getting them out of power and Gaza free from their horrific, oppressive control. this has been laid out in stipulations and future plans multiple times, but of course they don’t want that.

they’ve been given offers that are exceedingly generous to them. despite them being rapist murderers who are still holding innocent people hostage.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4629393-blinken-hamas-israel-generous-ceasefire-deal/

what happened with this particular deal is they rejected the most recent one, then…accepted one that Israeli officials had not seen nor agreed to. that’s not how negotiations work. furthermore, in that “deal,” they wanted to exchange dead bodies rather than returning living hostages first.

they’re playing a game and you’re falling for it by believing them and the outrage and propaganda they’ve been using to manipulate the West throughout this ordeal. neither government has successfully done the right thing here, but one…is an actual government capable of dealing with diplomacy and terms in an ongoing war and crisis, the other is a terror organization that would - and has continued to - sacrifice its civilians as martyrs because their goal has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting them, they want a state of perpetual war and chaos (which they have literally said on camera), they want every Israeli and Jew eradicated from the earth (very clearly stated in their charter), and they’ll destroy their own people and use those casualties to facilitate it if they have to. you are helping them achieve this and worsening the horror in Gaza every time you believe and circulate the narrative they want out there, that’s why Hamas’ leaders, the Houthis, and the Islamic Republic of Iran (the head of this terror snake) have been THANKING Western college students lately - they see that as useful, unfettered support. please understand how dangerous that is, as all of these organizations slaughter, oppress, and terrorize their people.

Y'all covered everything.

here, i can discuss the al jazeera nonsense. they frequently and habitually publish different articles about the same topic in english and arabic to appeal to different audiences: in the west they appear more liberal and secular, in the middle east they are more conservative and religious. this is a tactic that has been documented and studied multiple times over the years. frankly i don't care if the reporting is genuinely earnest, if you are deliberately changing the way you present the facts, you are compromising your integrity as a trusted news outlet.

even with all that - they're funded by the qatari government, which regardless of their politics should be a huge red flag for media bias. i view it the same way i do the bbc: there might be great articles out there, but there is also a bias that exists, too. i would strongly recommend setting aside some time to learn how media bias presents itself in journalism - and the kicker. if it sounds too good to be true, or too horrific to be real life, always, ALWAYS triple check your sources. not from fringe media centers, i'm talking major news outlets like the ap and reuters. if they aren't reporting on it, then that brings up another red flag in my book. obviously these two are western centric but they do good work and are independently run and frequently address their standards for journalism.

Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.

yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.

it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.

do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.

Just to look at this from one step further back, let's accept the premise. Let's imagine that there is a type of crime that is 1) horrible evil irredeemable universally-agreed-upon bad, and 2) could somehow be prosecuted with 100% accuracy and 0% bias. Yes, even then, those criminals deserve a right to vote.

Do you they're going to like vote themselves out of jail? Vote to make murder legal? What exactly are you afraid of.

Realistically they'll just... vote just like anyone else. They'll help elect city councilmembers they think will better their hometowns, and presidents they think will best serve the country. They might even vote in their own interests! To reform prisons, fund rehabilitation programs, and outlaw predatory practices by telecoms. Are you saying you don't want any of those things?

And even if there were one of those super-duper-unambiguously-evil totally misanthropic death-row convicts, who's scheduled to be execute the very next day and just wants to sow chaos and watch the outside world burn however they can... what's the worst they could do, vote republican?

Taking people's rights away isn't bad because it might happen to someone you like, it's because taking people's rights away is bad.

do people think that convicted serial killers are going to vote to legalize serial killing

If criminals can vote then we can't reasonably argue they can't run for president. So why you love Cheeto Mussolini so much?

I don't think you actually understand how presidency works.

This is the second time in my voting history that I’ve participated in flipping a red seat in Alabama for Democrats (the previous time being my beloved Doug Jones) so it’s always funny to see people turn around and say voting doesn’t matter when I’ve seen it twice in the past ten years flip seats in what is supposed to be safe Republican country. Republicans are digging their own grave with their radicalization and it is making them lose (and with your help we can make them lose harder). Vote.

Vote. If yours didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to make sure you couldn't do it.

Democrats outnumber Republicans in the US.

Democrats outnumber Republicans in several "red" states - the Rs just work very hard to keep them from voting.

In "red" states, every Democratic vote matters, even if they don't win; it proves support, and it makes the Rs nervous about pushing their agenda. (And in states where there is also voting on laws, the public can block some of their agenda even without voting in a Democratic governor or majority in their legislature.)

In "blue" states, Democratic votes help remind everyone that we outnumber them, and help push the Overton window to the left.

If voting didn't matter, nobody would be wasting money trying to convince you not to.

The "winner-takes-all" model of electoral votes in nearly all states -- which only applies to presidential elections, but is also the only time a lot of people think about the politics of any state that they don't live in -- disguises the fact that even "safe" red or blue states are actually fairly purple when you look at them.

And this applies even more strongly to red states, because they work the hardest on suppressing Democratic votes and voters.

So, for instance, Democrats have been working hard on flipping Texas for years. From outside, that might seem laughable. But it is not impossible! It hasn't happened yet, but it keeps getting closer. And even the fact that it could happen forces the national GOP to divert resources to keeping Texas, resources that they could otherwise spend on the so-called "battleground" states.

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Your honor! Please direct your attention towards the manga.

As you can see there are small pieces of paper sticking out of every volume.

But no such paper is sticking out of the Batman comic.

The reason? The Batman book doesn’t belong to the library. The photographer put it there to take a picture.

Once again making hasty assumptions, Wright?

First of all, I’d like to direct the court’s attention to this particular spot, in the top right-hand corner.

Notice how the words are blocking the top of the Batman book.

With this in mind, how can you claim that there is “no such paper sticking out of the Batman comic”?!

Say whaaaat?

Well uhm

Look at the size of the paper pieces, they’re all sticking pretty far out.

If there was paper in the batman comic, it would be big enough to stick up over the text.

And while gravity does exist, it probably won’t make the paper do a 90 degree turn and just lean horisontally left at the middle.

Still grasping for straws, Wright?

Hypothetically, if there were a paper there, this picture would not be able to prove its presence. I’ve taken the liberty of drawing a diagram to illustrate my point. We are faced with three possibilities. It is possible that (1) the paper was simply tucked in deeper than the others.

Paper is a soft material, Wright. It’s not unreasonable for it to do a (2) 90 degree turn. 

Or perhaps, (3) a paper does not exist there at all. 

Either way, you cannot prove your client innocent without sufficient evidence.  

Which, of course, is impossible thanks to the obtrusive words.

I’m sorry Edgeworth.

I concede that I can’t disprove theory 1

But the image you submited for theory 2 is contradictory.

Look at the tilt of the other papers. They clearly prove how much the paper would tilt.

And theory 3 is my point! Why would the library’s book not have this piece of paper when the other library books do?

While you still have thory 1, there is another contradiction.

The books are not in alphabetical order, this proves that the batman comic was placed there specifically for the picture!

Ack.

(Perhaps I should’ve left the artistry to the forensic artist…)

Now hold it right there! It doesn’t matter which direction the paper is going because it’s impossible to prove it even exists!

Those theories are all the same! We do not have enough information to prove them. There could be an infinite amount of papers in there for all we know. I simply presented them only so that the court could better understand your baseless conjecture!

… I suppose the order of the books do seem out of the ordinary. However, therein lies not just one possibility. Clearly, those are Japanese graphic novels, also known as “manga”. And the Batman comic book is a graphic novel, too, no?

Seeing as it currently has only graphic novels in the shelf, it is possible that any other novels have simply not yet been restocked. Asserting whether or not this effect was deliberate is useless– there is no way of knowing if the photographer and the captioner are the same person, let alone their involvement in this picture.

Face it Wright, you can’t prove any of these groundless accusations!

Did everyone just ignore the library sticker?

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I will reblog this any time i see it on my dash

Absolutely fucking D E S T R O Y E D

This is the strongest Tumblr post I’ve ever witnessed.

This was recommended and as a super logical person I can see why

I’ve been looking for this for ages!!

Apparently legendary.

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iconic

maybe whistleblowers just happen to come forward around the time they're about to die. no one ever considers that

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I just opened the news and read that the Holocaust is being referred to by a European Union official as "a dark spot in European history."

No.

His intention was good, but I have to correct him. The Holocaust was the natural conclusion of close to 2,000 years of European antisemitism. It wasn't one dark spot, it was the direct offspring of a long, dark history of countless antisemitic events, including persecution, discrimination often coded into law, forced conversions, killing Jews who didn't and who did agree to said forced conversions, repeated expulsions, attacks, pogroms, massacres, and always shifting the narrative regarding who and what are the Jews, with only one element remaining constant: that the Jews or the Jewish collective (the Jewish religion, the Jewish race, now the Jewish state) are the worst.

Such a history and perception of Jews could only lead to a genocide eventually. If it hadn't been Hitler, it would have been someone else exploiting the antisemitic fertile ground of European history. That's supported by how many local collaborators he had in his pursuit to kill all Jews, across Europe, northern Africa and certain parts of Asia.

Until Europe - and the world (! We tend to focus on Europe, because that's where the Holocaust was at its most brutal effectiveness, but neither the Holocaust, nor Jew hatred itself were ever limited to that one continent) - will finally face the full history of its own antisemitism, until it stops treating the Holocaust like it was a 12 years long anomaly, blamed on and confined to the Nazis, we are all doomed to the repetition of antisemitism rearing its ugly, violent, dangerous head whenever it can.

(for more of my posts regarding antisemitism and Israel, click here)

It’s so much easier to pretend that antisemitism started and ended with the Holocaust, though.

If everyone would just agree that the Holocaust was just a temporary madness that took over the Nazis, then they don’t have to grapple with the fact that their own countries have also killed Jews for the crime of being Jewish. Their own governments turned away Jews who were trying to flee because it was better that they die in Germany than live here – wherever “here” happened to be. Their own ancestors very likely participated in pogroms. Their religious leaders preached “love thy neighbor,” but always with the exception – “unless he is a Jew.”

To acknowledge these things is to grapple with how antisemitism is baked into Western society from its very roots, and to be forced to admit that antisemitism is systemic at least as much as racism is, and it entered the system at a much earlier point. Having to reconsider how your society is structured is exhausting, and actually trying to do something to make it more equitable is even more so.

Isn’t it easier to pretend it was just the Nazis?

can someone explain to me how zionism is white supremacy?

like actually explain it.

Hi! @thatmezuzaluvr, Here’s why I figure so many people consider Zionism white supremacy.

I believe so many people consider it white supremacy because they consider Jews a white people.

As all Jews know there are many pan ethnicities in the Jewish ethnicity, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi. But outside of Jewish communities only really Ashkenazi Jews are known, and they are the most associated with Judaism. Considering so many anti Zionist have only been around Ashkenazi.

Since so many goy associate Judaism with Ashkenazi, they associate it with whiteness, and in turn they associate it with the only Jewish state.

Associating the only Jewish state and incredibly Jewish ideology with whiteness, and associating Palestinians and their need for self determination with brownness, gives away to the ideology that Zionism is white supremacy.

Not to mention how the word Zionism has been so over taken by goys that no one wants to listen to the Jewish definition. So it has become easily associated with supporting the Israeli government, which they consider white.

So ultimately it comes down to straight up ignorance and no knowledge of Jewishness.

(Sorry if this explanation is a little sloppy) 

"In Our Name: ..." an article written by Jewish students at Columbia University.