"Stephen Fry issued a heartfelt #Christmas message Monday, calling out the surge in #antisemitism in the #UnitedKingdom and encouraging the country’s #Jews to take pride in their heritage — and swiftly sparked a torrent of online trolling and backlash, with many accusing the actor and writer of playing the victim instead of shining light on the plight of #Palestinians in war-torn #Gaza."
Fry is figuring out he should have kept it a secret. Sorry bud. Welcome to the thunderdome.
@TonyStark@dukepaaron Besides, after the Brits liberated some former Nazi concentration camps, their disgraceful & telling months-long internment of Jewish former concentration-camp inmates at Bergen-Belsen (, where Anne Frank died) can hardly be interpreted as "protection" of Jewish victims of the Nazis.
Not all Brits are responsible of the maltreatment of former Jewish concentration camp inmates, just like not all Israelis & Jews can ever credibly be called responsible for whatever has been done to innocent Palestinians seeking peace & understanding with their Jewish Israeli neighbors.
Nor are all Palestinians responsible & accountable for atrocities committed against Jews & Israelis of any faith & ethnicity.
From The Intellectualist at the hellsite, here's Senator Mike Braun [R-IN] saying he's open to SCOTUS changing settled law and depriving people of equal protection in** mixed racial marriages.**
Thus allowing states to reimplement old miscegenation laws, or banning so-called mixed ethnic marriages, requiring SCOTUS overturn Loving v Virginia in 1967.
@GW@FrankFrank@retrohondajunki Never forget, what "Republicans" did to America on Jan 6, 2021 equals,
what Confederate rebels did on April 12, 1861.
Never forget the infamous Confederate war flag(s) inside the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 & make sure it will never happen again!
@marcelias (Ex-) Confederate state passed new, highly gerrymandered congressional & legislative maps as well as a county board of commissioners map.
Reminder: The states of the defeated Confederacy needed to ratify the Fourteenth & 13th & 15th (Reconstruction) Amendments to regain U.S. congressional representation.
The other way round, their continued subversion of their own mandatory ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments should strip them of congressional representation again.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Section 2 might offer a friendly path to remind them of their duties & obligations to strictly abide by the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment.
@marcelias A slate of 9 supporters of electoral fraud is running for the 3rd-most important office of U.S. government.
In any normal country you'd call the cops.
Suppression of voters is an act of insurrection against the authority of the United States & their Constitution, especially the Reconstruction Amendments.
@marcelias 😎✌ Abraham Lincoln wouldn't be amused witnessing the usurpers of his Republican party bringing forward one fraudulent oppressive anti-voter measure after the other, with no end in sight.
All this to reverse, what the real Republican Party achieved in the late 1860s/70s.
It's not only today's "GOP's" alleged "front-runner" that's a fraud, never legitimized by free & fair elections.
It’s Not Personal: Why Clarence Thomas’ Trip to the #Koch Summit Undermines His #Ethics Defense
Even by Thomas’ own permissive interpretation, the justice’s recently revealed travel to Palm Springs and the Bohemian Grove appear to violate the disclosure law, experts explained.
@asbestos@ProPublica What the hell makes it be asked too much, that "conservatives" seek American unity for free & equal human beings instead of subjugation of those, who disagree with them on conceptions of freedom, equality, self-determination & community/nation?
Putting everyone & everything in "left" & "right" boxes evidently isn't the way to move the country forward.
Thankfully President Biden understands the duty of his office to serve & care for all Americans as far as possible, regardless of ideological positions, trenches & opinions.
“Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than 1 million women and children onto the waitlist of a nutritional assistance program for poor mothers with young children. Reducing federal spending on home heating assistance for low-income families by more than 70 percent with energy prices high heading into the winter months.”
@TonyStark Damn, do fake "Republicans" have no other fetish but to hate & hurt the weakest of society, like the insurrectionary Confederates used to do?
@StillIRise1963 Yes.
The number of despotic initiatives having an oppressive nationwide impact, originating from former slaveholder states is strikingly obvious.
The ex-Confederacy feels emboldened enough to rebel again.
Confederate war flags inside the Capitol on Jan 6 haven't been the only signs.
HB 544 “Divisive Concepts” bill prohibits teaching of racism, sexism, materials that claim “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, wh. consciously/unconsciously”
@kkarhan@persagen Quite some time before Grant referred to him, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson called for a "wall of separation between church and State".
Those trying to tear down that wall today are guaranteed to not be supporters of the United States Constitution & the liberties & freedoms it's envisioning for all Americans.
When government officials lie about vaccine safety, it leads to deadly consequences. Our leaders are supposed to provide accurate, scientifically-backed data. When they fuel anti-fax conspiracies based on pseudo-science, they create vaccine hesitancy, and that leads to greater loss of life.
@georgetakei 😎 The failure to compel swearing "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." as part of everyone's oath of office will always come back to bite the nation's butt — if not corrected!
@LouisIngenthron That's all? DeSantis & his co-conspirators just need to redraw the map?
That's all they get for violating the Constitution/ Reconstruction Amendments????
Hasn't justice been tempered with mercy for too long already, to the blatant disadvantage of people of color in southern ex-slaveholder states, which ratified the Reconstruction Amendments to regain congressional representation, only to habitually violate those Amendments in those states after having infiltrated Congress again?
"Because the truth be told, White supremacy is not a mental health issue," Jones said on the House floor. "It is about terrorism, and the shooting that happened in Jacksonville, Florida, was not quote-unquote racially motivated. It was racial terrorism, and until we acknowledge that fact, until we act on that fact, it will continue to happen."
'White supremacy is not a mental health issue': Justin Jones scolds GOP after Jacksonville shooting
@StillIRise1963 White or Aryan supremacy ideology is an expression of depraved indifference to & contempt for human life & humanity. As are (mass) shootings.
Guns don't belong into the hands of domestic extremists & terrorists.
Allowing them to purchase & possess guns means facilitating crimes.
No matter how the 2nd Amendment is interpreted.
On this day, 60 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. held his iconic "I Have a Dream"-speech.
"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."