George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"

We should have never doubted this man

You'll have to be slightly more specific

On Yom HaShoah, we pause to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis’ systematic program of mass murder, along with the millions of others murdered by the Hitler regime. We remember the scale of this horror, and the systems of hatred and dehumanization that made it possible — and that still echo in our world today. In New York City, home to more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in this country, that memory lives among us and shapes who we are. The resilience of survivors is woven into the very fabric of this city, and it calls on all of us to act with courage and clarity in the face of injustice. Today, as antisemitism rises once more, we are reminded that remembrance alone is not enough. We must confront hate wherever it appears. As we light the yahrzeit candle, let us come together to protect its fragile flame — and shield it from the cold winds of hate and cruelty.    “Never again” is a promise. And it is one we must fight to keep.

Never Again must mean Never Again. To Jews, or to anyone else. (3/3)

they're saying that all traces of Viktor are being erased so thoroughly that he's now just an orban legend

God: I created the Graven Image as a cautionary tale.

Tech company: At long last we have created the Graven Image from the classic biblical commandment "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image."

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

I just tried to "up dog" my seven year old nephew.

"hey, do you have up dog?"

Him: "Yeah!" And runs off to his room.

He comes back with a toy: the dog from "Up".

"it's the Up Dog"

Damn he got me

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

1. Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
[REDACTED]; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

What redaction from this Yeats 1919 poem is the most widely read book in modern African literature?

10 YARD PENALTY

#LL108 #bestwronganswers

3. In February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly declined a U.S. government offer of evacuation from Kyiv by saying, "The fight is here; I need [BLANK], not a [BLANK]." What two words fill in the blanks in this quote?

A PITCHER, BELLY-ITCHER

The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."

FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."

hmm

Chag Pesach sameach

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

One of the more common genres of posts on here is a sort of left-liberal incredulity about how Israelis don't seem to understand where things are headed with public opinion—but it's the Western left-liberal who doesn't seem to get that this doesn't matter because they've repeatedly proven it doesn't

Kudos to whoever wrote this headline:

This sucks

Just the President of the United States again saying insanely, unapologetically, shamelessly racist shit, and the extremely powerful people around him nodding in agreement.

How far back in time would you have to go to find another U.S. president saying something this bigoted in public?

Anne Applebaum explains Trump

This administration does not accept the pluralistic character of the American public. The citizenship of nonChristians is contigent at best.

Also the Pier was done in close coordination with the IDF - the Pier was positioned at the tip of the Netzarim Corridor and had IDF security. It was also part of a joint Israeli-US mission to avoid the topic of "why doesn't Israel just let stuff in through the land borders"

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

Trump saying things has no probative or epistemic value whatsoever, including as to his own state of mind and intentions

We all know this, by now. And yet somehow the lesson does not sink in

"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing.

Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before."

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