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Aug 12

Not that we have to even slightly justify our existence in this country, but let’s entertain a thought experiment for the people who fantasize about “removing the Jews” from America.

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Here are just some of the companies, hospitals, universities, and cultural institutions built or led by Jewish Americans.

Now imagine the U.S. without them. 🧵

1 - Goldman Sachs, founded in 1869 by Marcus Goldman, a German-Jewish immigrant, and later joined by his son-in-law Samuel Sachs, started as a small commercial paper business. It grew into a global investment bank influencing U.S. markets, policy, and corporate growth for over 150 years.

2 - Lehman Brothers (1850), created by Henry, Emanuel, and Mayer Lehman, Jewish immigrants from Bavaria. They began as dry goods merchants in Alabama, eventually moving to New York and becoming a central player in American finance, helping fund railroads, industry, and innovation for more than a century.

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@Average_NY_Guy

Jul 29

🧵🧵You want to use words like genocide, holocaust, famine, ethnic cleansing? 🧵🧵🧵

Fine. Let me show you what those words actually mean.
This thread contains real photos. Not made with AI. Not filtered. Real human beings, who were starved to bones, dumped in piles, burned, gassed, shot, exterminated like rats, for no reason at all.

This is what a genocide looks like.
Not a war, not a siege, and not a conflict.
But an actual system built to erase Jews from existence.

⚠️ Viewer Discretion Advised: Graphic Holocaust Images⚠️

1/ They were starved to death.

⚠️ Viewer discretion is advised⚠️

2/ They were left to die.

⚠️ Viewer discretion is advised⚠️

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@Average_NY_Guy

Jul 10

🧵🧵Thread: Before the Jewish return, the land of Israel was a land without industry or infrastructure, ravaged by neglect and poverty under Ottoman rule. Visitors dismissed it as barren, lifeless, and forgotten.

In 1867, Mark Twain saw it with his own eyes and called it barren, lifeless, and hopeless.

This thread breaks down what he saw, what it meant, and why Zionists were right to quote him 🧵🧵

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Twain’s visit to Palestine in 1867, documented in The Innocents Abroad, was part of a luxury cruise through Europe and the Ottoman Empire. He wasn’t on a political mission. He was writing for an American audience hungry for satire, travel commentary, and biblical reflection.

But his words left a deep impression: he called Palestine “a desolate country,” a place where “we never saw a human being on the whole route,” with “barren hills,” “unsightly deserts,” and “no solitary village for thirty miles.”

Zionists have rightly cited these words to show that the land was far from flourishing before Jewish pioneers arrived to revive and rebuild it.

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Palestine in the mid-19th century was part of crumbling and decaying Ottoman Empire. It had no real economy, no national identity, and no development vision. The roads were dangerous, infrastructure was nearly nonexistent, and large stretches of land were either abandoned, overgrown, or infested with malaria.

Twain arrived at the end of the dry season, in September, when even the fertile regions appeared scorched and barren. He was reacting to what he saw and what he didn’t see: people, life, movement, productivity. Compared to the biblical scene he had imagined as a child in Missouri, the actual Holy Land felt ruined and forgotten.

His disappointment was genuine, not political. Twain’s blunt, unfiltered descriptions reflect the reality Jewish pioneers later confronted—a land in desperate need of revival, exactly what Zionism set out to achieve.

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@Average_NY_Guy

Jul 8

🧵🧵Thread: How Newspapers Helped Kill 6 Million Jews🧵🧵

The Holocaust didn’t begin with Auschwitz, cattle cars, ghettos, or death marches.

It began years earlier, with headlines, street posters, and newspapers displayed in glass cases for children to read on their way to school.

Before Jews were hunted or deported, they were redefined and dehumanized.

Day by day, word by word, the German society was trained:
🔹 To fear their neighbors
🔹 To laugh at their suffering
🔹 To feel nothing when they vanished

This wasn’t hidden rhetoric. It was state-sponsored journalism.
And it happened in broad daylight on every street corner.

The goal wasn’t just to hate the Jew.
It was to unsee the Jew as human.

This thread is about how Nazi newspapers like Der Stürmer and Völkischer Beobachter made genocide not just possible but actually popular.

And why their methods still matter today.

1/12 – How Nazi Newspapers Paved the Road to Genocide

Joseph Goebbels, head of the Ministry of Propaganda, understood that public opinion could be shaped long before violence ever began. He knew that if people saw Jews not as individuals, but as threats to society, it would become easier to justify discrimination, exclusion, and eventually mass murder.

To achieve this, the Nazi regime used newspapers as a primary tool for dehumanization. The two most influential publications were:

1 – Der Stürmer, a weekly paper filled with crude antisemitic cartoons, conspiracy theories, and inflammatory headlines. It appealed to emotion, fear, and hatred.
2 – Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the Nazi Party. Unlike Der Stürmer, it presented itself as a serious and intellectual publication, using political and economic arguments to portray Jews as a danger to Germany’s future.

Together, these two papers reached millions of Germans each week. They didn’t simply report events—they shaped how those events were understood. Through constant repetition of antisemitic themes and moral framing, they slowly shifted the public’s perception of Jews from citizens to enemies.

This was not passive information. It was active indoctrination.

So yes, before the physical destruction came the psychological one.

2/12 – Der Stürmer: Hate on Every Corner

Der Stürmer was edited by Julius Streicher, a fanatical antisemite and early Nazi.

It was crass, sensational, and borderline p*rn*graphic. And it was everywhere.

Streicher’s headlines usually screamed lines like:

“The Jew is the World’s Misfortune”
“Jewish Murder Lust”
“The Parasite Among Us”

Its cartoons were obscene. Its articles accused Jews of blood libel, s*xual perversion, financial treason, and everything in between.

And you didn’t even need to buy it.

Nazi display boxes—Stürmer-Kästen—were mounted across towns and cities. Children passed them on the way to school. Housewives on their way to the market. There was no escape, everyone saw it, and everyone read it.

The more grotesque the paper became, the more normalized the message became.

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@Average_NY_Guy

Jul 4

🧵This July 4th, let’s honor the Jewish patriots who helped secure America’s independence.

Though only 2,000–3,000 Jews lived in the colonies, they made huge contributions, from financing the war, fighting on the front lines, to advocating for liberty, and helping lay the groundwork for religious freedom.

Here are some of the Jewish heroes of the American Revolution 🇺🇸👇

1/ Haym Salomon – The Financier of the Revolution

Born in Poland in 1740, Haym Salomon was a Sephardic Jew who immigrated to New York. Fluent in several languages, he used his skills to work as a broker and translator for foreign merchants, and later for the Patriot cause.

During the war, Salomon became a prime financier for the Continental Congress. He helped sell war bonds and raised personal loans from wealthy French and Spanish Jews to support Washington’s army when Congress lacked funds.

He personally gave over $650,000, more than $14 million in today’s money, including $20,000 for the final campaign at Yorktown, without which the decisive victory may not have happened.

Captured twice by the British as a suspected spy, he bribed his way out of prison and resumed his efforts, even helping British-held prisoners escape.

Despite his immense contribution, he died in 1785 nearly penniless, having sacrificed everything for the American cause. His gravestone reads: “An American patriot.”

2/ Francis Salvador – The Paul Revere of the South

Francis Salvador was born into a wealthy Sephardic Jewish family in London and later emigrated to South Carolina, becoming a plantation owner. In 1774, he made history as the first Jew elected to public office in the American colonies.

A passionate revolutionary, Salvador represented South Carolina in the Provincial Congress, where he pushed for independence from Britain and advocated strongly for colonial unity.

When Cherokee forces, encouraged by the British, attacked Patriot settlements in 1776, Salvador famously rode 30 miles through the night to warn local militias—similar to Paul Revere’s ride.

He joined the militia to defend his community and was mortally wounded in a skirmish with the Cherokees. He was scalped by their British-allied warriors and died at age 29.

He became the first Jewish soldier killed in the American Revolution—a martyr for a country that still hadn’t fully accepted him.

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Jun 30

🧵Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Agenda: A Blueprint for Collapse

New York City stands at a crossroads — and Zohran Mamdani’s radical agenda threatens to push it over the edge.

Most people know him for defending the intifada. They think that’s the controversy.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg

His platform is a fantasy-world checklist that would bankrupt the city, dismantle public safety, and drive out the working and middle class that keeps New York alive.

Here’s exactly how Mamdani would wreck the city — thread below 🧵👇

1. Rent Freeze on Rent-Stabilized Apartments

Policy: Freeze rents on ~1 million rent-stabilized apartments to shield low- and middle-income tenants from rising costs — especially during inflation.

Why It’s Flawed:
Freezing rents may sound tenant-friendly, but it devastates property maintenance. Landlords can’t afford rising costs (repairs, taxes, insurance), and buildings deteriorate — just like they did in 1970s NYC.

A 2019 Manhattan Institute study found that San Francisco’s rent control policies led to reduced housing quality and decreased supply.
Private investment dries up. Developers walk away. Market distortions cause non-stabilized rents to skyrocket, squeezing the middle class.
This isn’t affordability — it’s slow-motion collapse.

2. Free City Buses

Policy: Make all NYC buses fare-free, eliminating $630 million in annual revenue. Mamdani says this will reduce car use and improve equity, especially in the outer boroughs.

Why It’s Flawed:
The MTA already faces a projected $16.8 billion deficit through 2028. Eliminating bus fares without a clear funding plan forces tax hikes or cuts to subway and rail services.

Boston’s fare-free bus pilot led to overcrowding, delayed service, and operational strain.
Working New Yorkers will either pay higher taxes or deal with declining service. It’s a reckless promise with no real plan behind it.

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