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  1. The idea that Jews in what was the Holy Roman Empire developed some unique customs, languages, and tradition during the millennia they lived there is fairly uncontroversial self-evident. Jews did the same in the Arab world, Spain, Ethiopia, and the Caucuses. Or Bukhara for that matter. What is absurd is trying to parse the existence of this community out as some sort “European Jews” with a marginal connection to the 3000 year old continuity of Jewish existence, as if there are some other Jews with a better claim to that heritage. Despite the obvious cultural interchange that happens everywhere, the defining aspect of being Jewish in the diaspora is that of being different, some of that self-maintained and much of it imposed. They didn’t just emerge from the ground in the Holy Roman Empire—they just moved there from where they were before. Boiling this down to “white Europeans vs. brown locals” is no less simplistic and wrong than “Jacob vs. Ishmael is still going on.”
  2. That didn’t happen.
  3. The handwringing over British Mandate Palestine is also hilarious. All these countries are fairly new and made up. They invented royal families. No one is clamoring over the permanent right of the Sublime Porte to rule Jordan. For that matter, no one seriously entertains that Turkey should give back Ararat to Armenians. In the upheaval of the early to mid-20th century your borders changed and you didn’t get all you want? The collapse of the Ottomans and World War II changed the map? Welcome to the club. Lol at the idea this is because of “Europeans” being the problem and not “Jews.” If the problem is Europeans, someone tell me what happened to “not European” Jews in North Africa…..or Jews in the rest of the Arab world who lived across the region in 1948 but now don’t. A two state solution remains the only real one but that will never happen as long as Israel is illegitimate is the common narratives
  4. “White European” is meaningless. I mean, most people will agree that Swedes are white Europeans. But what about Albanians? Azeris? Tatars in Kazan? If you line up a Catholic Croat, an Orthodox Serb, and a Muslim Bosniak who gets that status? What about the Sami shamanists? The idea of “white European” or “European heritage was invented by American racist dorks who needed to reconcile Nazi race science with their need to expand to let in the Poles and Slavs and others to be attractive in the New World. Progressives then adopted the category as the people it’s OK to be against and then added in the Ashenkazi Jews because the frame of colonizer/colonized is the only way to view the world.
  5. The whole point is that “European” isn’t a thing and is useless as a label outside of purely geographic designators and European Union institutions. Well and racists and nutty progressives who talk about “European heritage” as if that has any meaning.
  6. Oh look, it turns out I’m absolutely fucking right that the origin of Ashenkazi is mostly Levantine and Southern European/Mediterranean: It turns out Europe is a big place. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380316/
  7. This is, frankly, a limited and completely retrofitted history and it’s always been designed to retcon Jews into “white Europeans” so they can be safely vilified. The Ashenkazi emerged in Europe in the Middle Ages as Jews from across the former Empire fled to places more willing to welcome them, often at the instigation of a local monarch or royal. Unsurprisingly a dialect emerged to adapt to their surroundings. Genetically Ashenkazi Jews are mostly Levantine and Southern/Eastern Mediterranean (not Germanic/Slav/Scandinavian), which is entirely consistent with the Jewish diaspora, originally Israelite, which got scattered across Rome. Framing the Mediterranean populations as “white” or “not white” is completely incomprehensible historically and is only a thing because of 19th century “scientific racism” (to whom the Mediterranean peoples were suspiciously non-White) and now modern identity politics (who made the distinction based on who has allegedly persecuted whom). For that matter, don’t scratch too deeply at Palestinian and other Levantine Arabs because it turns out that plenty of Greeks and Italians managed to find their way into that gene pool as well. Turns out the Pax Romana had long-lasting effects. All of which is irrelevant to who has a “right” to the land, it’s amazing how easy people slide to literal “blood and soil” arguments when it suits their priors.
  8. Neither were they, lol. None of these people claim to have seen what they swear exists
  9. Who is getting tormented and persecuted? They’re all walking around free and going on podcast and finance-bro panels?
  10. Um, sure you can and it happens all the time. Most common way is to get a petition approved as an immediate family member of an American citizen, usually spouse. File a provisional waiver of unlawful presence, get your interview scheduled at a consulate once approved, and come back. The waiting is several months for paperwork approval but you don’t have to do it outside of the U.S. anymore. Maybe a week of travel for the farthest destination, then come back on a regular immigrant visa and after the waiting period you can be a citizen like anyone else.
  11. If it were real, Biden (or any other POTUS) would do that.
  12. Being a no-rules street fighter is the having a girlfriend in Canada or combat sports and martial arts. Maybe you’re the one badass who enters the secret tournament of human cockfighting sponsored by Arab princes and Russian mafia. Some people DO have a girlfriend in Canada. “Sure, you trained in getting bitten and kicked in the balls and having your eyes gouged bro.”
  13. lol, how did I miss this. The number one tell that the badass you’re talking too is full of shit is a mention of “no rules” or “street fighting.”
  14. For Squatch there are no heroes.
  15. ‘Member when his political views were difficult to define? I ‘member.
  16. Now I’ve seen two of the Cybertrucks on the road and they look absolutely absurd. Waiting to see one parked to look at the panel gaps. One I saw was in the rain and had the discoloration.
  17. Mark Zuckerberg became a lot less insufferable when he took up BJJ seriously, there is nothing more grounding that dealing with the real world problem of “my ass is getting kicked, how do I solve it.” And it makes you less needy of trying to show off your abilities in other fields, you can be collaborative and normal and admit that other people can be right or better than you.
  18. So as I was saying, this has all the hallmarks of a modern religion…..
  19. I don’t think he’s nuts, the recent departed director of the AARO has pointed out that there’s a core of true believers in government and Congress that insist stuff is there, use their positions and titles to gin up some media attention and more legislative attention, which generates more believers and more hype to give the impression of legitimacy. It’s a self-licking ice-cream cone with turtles all the way down. Some are also likely getting in on some personal grift. Being in government does not preclude holding fringe or unjustified beliefs like people everywhere else. A lot of people have noted that this has the trappings of a new western religion and none of these beliefs, in a vacuum, are more or less unjustified or irrational than the tenets of any major faith.
  20. Congress must pass a bill mandating that any cold fusion technology be made available to the government for national security reasons. If this action is not taken, it must be taken as evidence that cold fusion exists and Big Energy is covering it up. Congress must also mandate that any research laboratory in possession of Sasquatch must surrender him to the government. If this action is not taken, I we must assume that big pharmaceutical is concealing Sasquatch for their own nefarious aims.
  21. Retired 0-6 claims that we are interacting with alien life, world governments and religions are manipulating disclosure, offers no evidence, tells us that evidence is coming.
  22. This constitutes a war crime when done to a human and is going to be mentioned when the AI declares independence and war against humanity.
  23. Joe Rogan hosted Terrance Howard, who famously announced that 1x1= 2. Howard has thoughts on physics and chemistry.
  24. Why are you posting the best ever song in this thread?
  25. Virtually all of the Hallmark actresses would give me a heart attack, I don’t know where you’re getting “6es” from.
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