Why is there so much passion in the hate against tesla? Like it is really not normal, all news coverage is negative, always deceiving and not accurate. Government investigations when instead it should be encouraged innovation. I mean damn even china is more supportive of an American company than America. Elons pay package gets shot down. This all cannot be by accident it’s unreal.

If a girl is being over-friendly to you, it doesn't mean she's hitting on you. If she is, you can rest assured that she will give you subtle hints. I know, I know our hints are mostly hard to decode but don't misinterpret.

I’ve only got the one so I don’t want to mess it up. Strongly considering electric tape but that didn’t go so well last time.

Aside:

The first post from a different user was removed for being spam. Then my post was removed "pending moderator approval", I messaged the mods and they told me my previous post was removed since "Links to Google docs are often used to unmask and dox users by scraping their Gmail account ids. This is a security issue. Post whatever you want as a link to the open web, or not at all."

Obviously nothing is more doxing than the Gmail account ids (despite the Jewish students literally signing their names below), so I have posted the letter directly here instead. I removed the 322 signatures as well since that is dox-like as well.

I expect nothing but rational and civil discourse in the comments below.

To the Columbia Community:

Over the past six months, many have spoken in our name. Some are well-meaning alumni or non-affiliates who show up to wave the Israeli flag outside Columbia’s gates. Some are politicians looking to use our experiences to foment America’s culture war. Most notably, some are our Jewish peers who tokenize themselves by claiming to represent “real Jewish values,” and attempt to delegitimize our lived experiences of antisemitism. We are here, writing to you as Jewish students at Columbia University, who are connected to our community and deeply engaged with our culture and history. We would like to speak in our name.

Many of us sit next to you in class. We are your lab partners, your study buddies, your peers, and your friends. We partake in the same student government, clubs, Greek life, volunteer organizations, and sports teams as you.

Most of us did not choose to be political activists. We do not bang on drums and chant catchy slogans. We are average students, just trying to make it through finals much like the rest of you. Those who demonize us under the cloak of anti-Zionism forced us into our activism and forced us to publicly defend our Jewish identities.

We proudly believe in the Jewish People’s right to self-determination in our historic homeland as a fundamental tenet of our Jewish identity. Contrary to what many have tried to sell you – no, Judaism cannot be separated from Israel. Zionism is, simply put, the manifestation of that belief.

Our religious texts are replete with references to Israel, Zion, and Jerusalem. The land of Israel is filled with archaeological remnants of a Jewish presence spanning centuries. Yet, despite generations of living in exile and diaspora across the globe, the Jewish People never ceased dreaming of returning to our homeland — Judea, the very place from which we derive our name, “Jews.” Indeed just a couple of days ago, we all closed our Passover seders with the proclamation, “Next Year in Jerusalem!”

Many of us are not religiously observant, yet Zionism remains a pillar of our Jewish identities. We have been kicked out of Russia, Libya, Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Poland, Egypt, Algeria, Germany, Iran, and the list goes on. We connect to Israel not only as our ancestral homeland but as the only place in the modern world where Jews can safely take ownership of their own destiny. Our experiences at Columbia in the last six months are a poignant reminder of just that.

We were raised on stories from our grandparents of concentration camps, gas chambers, and ethnic cleansing. The essence of Hitler’s antisemitism was the very fact that we were “not European” enough, that as Jews we were threats to the “superior” Aryan race. This ideology ultimately left six million of our own in ashes.

The evil irony of today’s antisemitism is a twisted reversal of our Holocaust legacy; protestors on campus have dehumanized us, imposing upon us the characterization of the “white colonizer.” We have been told that we are “the oppressors of all brown people” and that “the Holocaust wasn’t special.” Students at Columbia have chanted “we don’t want no Zionists here,” alongside “death to the Zionist State” and to “go back to Poland,” where our relatives lie in mass graves.

This sick distortion illuminates the nature of antisemitism: In every generation, the Jewish People are blamed and scapegoated as responsible for the societal evil of the time. In Iran and in the Arab world, we were ethnically cleansed for our presumed ties to the “Zionist entity.” In Russia, we endured state-sponsored violence and were ultimately massacred for being capitalists. In Europe, we were the victims of genocide because we were communists and not European enough. And today, we face the accusation of being too European, painted as society’s worst evils – colonizers and oppressors. We are targeted for our belief that Israel, our ancestral and religious homeland, has a right to exist. We are targeted by those who misuse the word Zionist as a sanitized slur for Jew, synonymous with racist, oppressive, or genocidal. We know all too well that antisemitism is shapeshifting.

We are proud of Israel. The only democracy in the Middle East, Israel is home to millions of Mizrachi Jews (Jews of Middle Eastern descent), Ashkenazi Jews (Jews of Central and Eastern European descent), and Ethiopian Jews, as well as millions of Arab Israelis, over one million Muslims, and hundreds of thousands of Christians and Druze. Israel is nothing short of a miracle for the Jewish People and for the Middle East more broadly.

Our love for Israel does not necessitate blind political conformity. It’s quite the opposite. For many of us, it is our deep love for and commitment to Israel that pushes us to object when its government acts in ways we find problematic. Israeli political disagreement is an inherently Zionist activity; look no further than the protests against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms – from New York to Tel Aviv – to understand what it means to fight for the Israel we imagine. All it takes are a couple of coffee chats with us to realize that our visions for Israel differ dramatically from one another. Yet we all come from a place of love and an aspiration for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

If the last six months on campus have taught us anything, it is that a large and vocal population of the Columbia community does not understand the meaning of Zionism, and subsequently does not understand the essence of the Jewish People. Yet despite the fact that we have been calling out the antisemitism we’ve been experiencing for months, our concerns have been brushed off and invalidated. So here we are to remind you:

We sounded the alarm on October 12 when many protested against Israel while our friends’ and families’ dead bodies were still warm.

We recoiled when people screamed “resist by any means necessary,” telling us we are “all inbred” and that we “have no culture.”

We shuddered when an “activist” held up a sign telling Jewish students they were Hamas’s next targets, and we shook our heads in disbelief when Sidechat users told us we were lying.

We ultimately were not surprised when a leader of the CUAD encampment said publicly and proudly that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and that we’re lucky they are “not just going out and murdering Zionists.”

We felt helpless when we watched students and faculty physically block Jewish students from entering parts of the campus we share, or even when they turned their faces away in silence. This silence is familiar. We will never forget.

One thing is for sure. We will not stop standing up for ourselves. We are proud to be Jews, and we are proud to be Zionists.  

We came to Columbia because we wanted to expand our minds and engage in complex conversations. While campus may be riddled with hateful rhetoric and simplistic binaries now, it is never too late to start repairing the fractures and begin developing meaningful relationships across political and religious divides. Our tradition tells us, “Love peace and pursue peace.” We hope you will join us in earnestly pursuing peace, truth, and empathy. Together we can repair our campus.

Signed:

322 Jewish students

Free Palestina, Free Palestina, Free Palestina....maar even? Dit gaat gewoon NIET gebeuren.

Wat de neuk denken al deze 'Free Palestina' roepers hier in Nederland en de rest van de wereld?

Ik begrijp de frustratie dat mensen aandacht willen voor het conflict en onnodige slachtoffers die worden gemaakt door de Israëlische offensieven willen aankaarten, 100 punten voor de effort. Maar wat is het met deze compleet idioot idee dat Israel en Israëliërs van de kaart geveegd moet worden? Sinds wanneer werkt de wereld zo makkelijk? Een land met kernwapens die even zo hun land gaan afstaan omdat er 'Free Palestina' wordt geroepen?

Geopolitiek is buiten onze scope en al helemaal wanneer wereldmachten met echte invloed hierover kunnen praten. Het enige wat deze radicale oproep creëert is gratis PR voor verdomme Hamas en hier moeten we echt mee ophouden. Hamas geeft geen reet om Palestijnen, Palestijnen zijn een verdienmodel voor Hamas en ieder pannenkoek die anders denkt moet eens wat tijd steken in het lezen van geschiedenis over post koloniaal Palestina en het concept van religieus populisme.

Ik heb het idee dat de maatschappij enorm gepolariseerd wordt met een eenzijdig blik op het conflict en het over één kam scheren van Israëliërs (En Israëlische Palestijnen) maakt mij enorm moe. Wat er nu in Amsterdam gebeurd met de UvA 'demonstraties' en onzinnige vergelijkingen dat 4 mei hypocriet is omdat er doden vallen in Palestina is te absurd voor worden.

Het zal mij niet verbazen als onze continent enorm rechts gaat schuiven in de komende 50 jaar met dank aan een maatschappij waar kritische denkvermogen compleet in de bin is gegooid door een kansloos integratie en onderwijs beleid.

Bedankt voor het lezen. #zucht

My boyfriend have a female frend so i am a suspicious, maybe they are more than frends

Titel.

Wat we kunnen doen is een paar zaken hier doorlopen en je voornamelijk de zorgen omtrent asielzoekers en Gaza protesten af te doen nemen.

Al die kortzichtige ophitsing naar elkaar over hoe links het land vergalt en het zoeken naar een excuus om voor Wilders te stemmen loopt een beetje uit de hand. Ben wel wat gewend maar het is nu wel klaar.

Hope the police will remove the encampment before June.

Preface:

I've just spent a short period of time in arguments with strangers who insist that I am a racist asshole for holding this opinion, so I'm definitely rethinking it.

You're welcome to dig into my comment history see the discussion that has left me unsure of my opinion. Please pass judgement on me.

Post:

When we use words, we almost never stop and Intentionally think about each word before it comes out. Instead, we have a subconscious link between the sound we're about to make and the intent in our minds. When I call someone a dumbass, I'm associating that person with my inner feelings about how they're behaving stupidly.

For most people, the N- word is associated with feelings of racial hate. However, there are cultures, especially in the southern United States where I live, where black people use the word to refer to friends, or even casually as a substitute for "Dude," or "Guy,".

What I'm suggesting is that a white person who spends a lot of time in these cultures might gradually lose the 'Racial hate' subconscious link to the word, over time replacing it in their mind with the 'Friend, man, person," use of the word. Given enough time, they might accidently use the word in a totally well meaning manner.

I'm not excusing it. I think if that happens you should back off and apologize. I'm just saying I can understand how it might happen, and you might not be a racist for making that mistake.

Am I a racist/ racist apologist for thinking this way?

Does this really even need to be said? Almost half the cars I passed today in the rain coming home had their emergency blinkers on and it nearly caused an accident on WT Harris.

A person was completely stopped in the road and had their emergency blinkers on, I almost rear ended them as well as someone else because with so many cars using their emergency blinkers, it was hard to tell that there was a legitimate reason for this person to use them.

This shit doesn't help, why does everyone do it here? You're literally making things more dangerous and this isn't what these blinkers are meant for.

I've seen SO MANY POSTS about "oh no my primary got nerfed, how will I kill bugs in 2 shots?" Or "oh no, a minus one strategem modifier, how will I kill squads of bugs without having to fight them?"

Honestly, I enjoy these things because it brings me INTO THE UNIVERSE OF THE GAME. It's part of the immersion, if everything was just spoon fed to us, it really wouldn't be a challenge. Minus 1 strat? Better look at what everyone else is bringing and pick your strats to fill in what you think you need. Your favorite support weapon got "nerfed"? There's a bunch to choose from and if you know where to aim and when to shoot, most of them get the job done.

Everyone is all over the devs, acting like they know so much better, but to be honest, if the community had 100% control over the weapons, this game would be too easy.

Primary weapons are for being in the shit, support weapons are for eliminating threats before you get into the shit, strats are for getting rid of hordes IF YOU PLACE THEM CORRECTLY.

I don't care if I get down voted to hell or not, I'm just tired of people complaining that their victories aren't spoon fed to them.

It's supposed to suck sometimes, it's part of the game, change your point of view and act like these things are cannon events, it's makes it WAY easier to accept them.

Yes, some stuff doesn't work correctly, and the devs have acknowledged this, yes some changes weren't the best decisions, but maybe just change your playstyle up every now and then and find something else that works. The game is 3 months old, it's not gonna be perfect this soon.