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The continued freakout over the Bloomberg video is a good example of the extent to which ppl’s brains are broken and we’re going to get some hella bad policies and regulations because ppl in power have somehow convinced themselves Facebook ads determine US elections.
I remember watching members of Congress hold up Facebook ads calling Hillary the devil in a freaking congressional hearing and being like ‘What are we going to do about this!’

We’re governed by several hundred Grandpa Simpsons.
I mean I’m not even exaggerating
This is a real scene from real life
America got boomered. Welcome to the future.
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The Rot Inside American Jewish Organizations. My new essay in @Commentary on how groups turned a blind eye to antisemitism masquerading as ‘anti-Zionism’ to protect the left and now can’t contain the damage from the predictable explosion of antisemitism commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-r…
Two of these groups are led by ex-Obama political figures. One is Halie Soifer, who heads the Jewish Democratic Council of America, a group whose vulgar politicking after Jewish tragedies is unlike anything the US Jewish community has seen, and is only getting worse.
The second ex-Obama-led group is the Anti-Defamation League, now headed by Jonathan Greenblatt, who for years gave Sarsour, Omar and others a pass while pushing the lie that antisemitism was a right wing phenomenon. The damage that lie has done is incalculable.
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Seth Mandel
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What was the media’s role in spreading fear about Haredim on the cusp of the escalation in violence against them? This 2017 New York Times article is a good place to start asking such questions: nytimes.com/2017/08/02/nyr…
Look at this lede! To add to the normal ppl moving into Jersey City, there’s ‘an unexpected flavor.’ Are you kidding me?
Residents aren’t warned about the ‘bankers, artists and college graduates.’ But the African Americans in town are specifically warned about the Jews.

Who’s more likely to cause gentrification—Hasidic students w/families or Wall Streeters?
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I tweeted the AJC survey on antisemitism in France earlier, but I want to focus on the very last graph in the full report. It asks Jews and non-Jews in France about the perceived causes of the antisemitism they both agree is happening. This is instructive:
First, they asked about whether they think a major cause is an old hatred that never really goes away. Second pic shows blue=non-Jews and grey=Jews
What do you notice? By a large margin, French society seeks to blame something from the past, which doesn’t absolve them but comes closest to doing so since it’s portrayed as a permanent condition of society. Jews don’t think that in nearly such numbers.
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This blog post is nonsense. Sure, techies are confused about policy making, but this blog post is even more confused. For one thing, it has an enormous left-wing socialist bent to it.
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