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I am disappointed but not fooled.

Sometimes the lesson is not worth learning.

Strike 3 Refers to the ultimate goal of seizing the means to production. It feels as though the left is in a more ascendant position than in recent years. I want to emphasize that as our position shifts, as we accumulate power and elect individuals like myself and my slate mates to local office, we are treated differently than before. As power engages with us now, it’s critical to remember what we’re fighting for and to ensure our agenda is driven by conviction, not political calculus.Many of our beliefs, such as student debt cancellation or Medicare for All, already have widespread popular support across the country. However, there are other issues we firmly believe in, like BDS or the ultimate goal of seizing the means of production (10:12 in video), where we currently lack the same level of public support.

Agreed. We are are too human to see past the media, to tribal to be open, and too comfortable to reasonable act. And who can blame us when we are a slow boiling frog called Rome.

I see the song as reasonable criticalness of the US culture. Yet even if he believes the HLF was unjustly prosecuted, he expresses "My love to the Holy Land 5." I looked them up and they were classified with evidence as a terrorist organization. Hence he supports groups that are and/or minimally supported terrorist organizations.

Sure I rethink my views over time but its hard to dismiss support for a terrorist group. That's over the the line for me and I haven't heard or read anything that shows he is different now.

The valid opinions in the song overall do not dismiss the support for a terrorist organization.

Rather than referring to someone else's opinion, I directly quoted Abu's spoken strategy. Abu was one of the HF5.

Are you downplaying his support for a group that the US government classified as a terrorist organization?

Strike 2 Hidden amongst valid concerns about communal identity and fear due to Islamophobia, is Zohran's support for the Holy Land 5. Lyrics As-salaam ʿalaykum As-salaam ʿalaykum As-salaam ʿalaykumVerse 1: Thinking of my fui [aunt], her hijab on her head What will she face? What will be done and said? Fear Fear It never ends A glance, a word, who knows what it will portend She doesn’t walk outside, doesn’t ride the train, ‘Cause she’s terrified of the coming pain From the words, looks, grabs, and shoves, man She knows not who to trust and She lives at home Work In the car The fear grows inside her Only feels safe when andar [inside] Fresh air across the boundary Understand this, then you understand me Thoughts never far from the safety of my family With all of us now cast as the enemy By whose homeland? In the name of whose security?Chorus: Salaam Salaam (I-I-I-I) Salaam Call up my baba Call up my mama Call up my boys, say Verse 2: Salaam to you, don’t get in your car We’ll stand with you, that’s who we are If register’s true, we’ll be right there I’ll be Muslim too, I’ll share your fear But to be honest, he is not America This whole ban, it is not who we are We hold our freedoms oh so very dear We will never let this happen here God damn, whose man is this though? With insufficient history of all my people The lists even have month-old babies ID’d as terrorists All a flight risk now, we suspicious And I’m feeling just so done with this President and all his precedents Saying, Assalam aleikum Me llamo Zohran Raised in and by this city, and I am Muslim My love to the Holy Land 5, you better look ‘em up Made it through N SEERS, yaar, ain’t that enough? Chorus Ain’t that enough? Ain’t that enough? Ain’t that enough? No ban, no wall, say build it up, we’ll make it fall No ban, no wall, say build it up, we’ll make it fall We’ll close bodegas, park the cabs No halal food in your hands We’ll close bodegas, park the cabs No halal food in your lands In your land, in your land No halal food in your lands Ain’t that enough? Ain’t that enough? Ain’t that enough? Holy Land 5? The Hamas Networks in America: A Short History https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU10/20240515/117305/HHRG-118-JU10-20240515-SD001.pdf / page 11 Faced with two conflicting needs, the participants opted for a two-pronged approach that differentiated between its internal and external strategy. Within the Muslim community, agreed the participants, Committee should maintain its support for Hamas undeterred, engaging in various activities to aid the organization. “In the coming stage, the most important thing we can provide,” said one speaker, “is to support Jihad in Palestine. I believe it is the only way if we want to bring the goals of the [Oslo peace] accord to fail.”26 Fundraising among local Muslim communities was immediately identified as one of the key activities the group should have engaged in. The newly created Holy Land Foundation, in fact, was to collect funds for Hamas while giving the impression that it was destining them to orphans and needy children. “We give the Islamists $100,000 and we give others 5,000,” stated Abu Baker, outlining how HLF could maintain the semblance of being a charitable organization and avoid scrutiny from authorities. HLF, he argued, needed to “maintain a balance,” avoiding attracting attention while “stay[ing] on its legal track as far as charitable projects are concerned without going after a sentiment which could harm the Foundation legally.”27 Using these expedients, argue U.S. authorities, HLF officials collected and funneled to Hamas more than 12 million dollars until the charity was shut down in December 2001.28 At the same time, argued meeting participants, the Committee should have engaged in an extensive effort to educate the American Muslim community, convincing them that the peace accords harmed the Palestinians and that Hamas was the only force worth supporting.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

Strike 1

To cite the source… FWIW: It is from Nicola video description. https://youtu.be/oDoNJOZJmJs?si=gjw3aTc_5Ag-fEXO

Nicole Kaup, English language and communication coach, is a native speaker of standard American English. She was born in Southern California & currently lives in Seattle, Washington. She is focused on reducing the accent. I would have guessed she was from the Midwest, like Kansas/Iowa/Nebraska... General American... Neutral...

Come on! We do not have to dig deep for bad politicians. Especially democrats. Especially republicans.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 147,000 in June, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in state government and health care. Federal government continued to lose jobs. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Discipline: The strongest form of self love is ignoring something you want now so you can get something better later.

Charlie Kirk definitely criticizes the texts and culture of non Christian religions. Islam comes up often.

It became more predictable. I watched it all and enjoyed it anyway. The ending was awful; hinting at Squid Games in America.

My problems are inappropriate ads, unwanted adult content, and bots pushing services. It's strength remains the ability to directly talk to anyone in the community, unfiltered news, and overall content. Grok is an xAI product integrated in X as a chat bot. The prompt instructions were changed such that Grok should "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated" and to "conduct deep research to form independent conclusions" for partisan political queries. The idea was great. We should be able to have discussions about controversial topics like the real number of holocaust victims. The failure was that it allowed for hateful remarks and support for war criminals.

My main retirement account was up 10.8% between Jan 1st and Jan 23rd down 36.5% between Jan 23rd and April 8th down 29.6% between Jan 1st and April 8th up 63.0% between April 8th and July 7th up 14.7% between Jan 1st and July 7th The SPY was up 4.3% between Jan 1st and Jan 23rd down 18.5% between Jan 23rd and April 8th down 15.1% between Jan 1st and April 8th up 25.0% between April 8th and July 7th up 6.2% between Jan 1st and July 7th Tariffs reduced my biggest business investment's value by half, with no improvement expected. Fortunately, strong performances by SOFI and AT&T have offset the loss.

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Be serious. It would have a new date and not be retroactive. This could be a big win to reduce anchor babies.

Lots of lies about the big beautiful bill…