Thanks to @moyurireads (Author of "Is your fav author a Zionist?") we have a wonderful purchase list for authors who are not openly antagonistic to Israel
Take a stroll through this thread and see what you might want to add to your reading list: 🧵
We'll start with the big ones.
Brandon Sanderson (@BrandSanderson) is here for the crimes of not believing in boycotts and "visiting Israel despite people asking him not to"
He's written dozens of great fantasy novels, including the Stormlight Archive
Rochelle Weinstein's debut novel "This Is Not How It Ends" is a USA Today bestseller. You can get her latest piece on music and love, "What You Do To Me"
She has posted not one but "multiple pro-Israel statements"
Emily St John Mandel wrote "Station Eleven" (a National Book Award finalist). It is a science fiction novel set in the late stages of civilizational collapse
But she has also "travelled to Israel and talks favorably about it"
Students: If you don't like this kind of treatment, you have to show that you reject it. You have to go to a different school, move to a different state, vote a different way.
I'm not even saying "vote for Republicans", find a Democrat (if you can) who will make it clear that they will condemn and punish schools or businesses that reject your dignity this way
The community note here is really fascinating b/c it exposes one of the strategies @PolitiFact uses to deceive its readers:
They routinely reframe the context of the "fact" in question so that they can claim that their team is honest or the other team is dishonest
What most likely happened is that Newsom was given a talking point by his debate team and he just flat-out forgot that the details of the fact mattered
He internalized what he was supposed to say but he's not a careful enough person to get the details correct
This is extraordinarily common among left-leaning elites
The positions no longer select for the diligent, intelligent, and careful. They select for those willing to confidently barf out partisan talking points, even if they are inaccurate
This is going to end up being the most easily preventable crisis in the history of American health policy
"experts" and politicians thought they could bully people into the Covid vaccine and ended up poisoning the incredibly hard-won cultural victories for childhood vaccines
They were warned. We were begging them not to do this. The consequences were not just obvious, we had seen exactly this thing happen 150 years ago with exactly the same result.
Evil, stupid people portraying themselves as saviors
Yesterday, they crushed @KyleKashuv's Harvard career b/c some shit leaked private messages from when he was 15
Today, they are begging for mercy b/c Harvard law students publicly celebrated the largest Jewish genocide since the Nazis
Tomorrow, they will cheer the firing of a mildly right-of-center student or professor for suggesting that trans ideology is a social contagion (which it obviously is)
Every "oh no, this is cancel culture" appeal is not honest. All they want is you to pause long enough that they can get away with it.
They will not reciprocate. They will never give you quarter or kindness. They will beg on their knees for mercy and the very second you grant it, they will stick a knife in your child and laugh at the stupidity of the grace you showed them.
fuck them. When the political winds change, you should absolutely take the opportunity to fuck them.
You asked to be left alone and they tried to fire you.
They celebrated the murder of children and now, realizing their folly, they are begging for mercy
No. No mercy for people who laugh at dead children. Their remorse is driven entirely b/c, after laughing and mocking the dead, they saw their boss look at them weird and they realized they crossed a line.
the lesson they are learning now is that manipulating the right by mimicking their ideological standards with the stupidest analogies is
1) a lot of fun 2) a great way to get away with celebrating genocide so that you can later cancel a teenager for singing a rap song