jross

I feel like there’s a lot of truth to the idea that 'the left can’t handle a joke at their expense.' All their reactions are just outrage and cancel culture... Neither that statement or your statement is exactly true. Let's keep going... I feel like there is a lot of truth in the meme below... And this was funny... coming from a meme that is not about women...

While fans were tomahawking for the Nigerian Nightmare in their red-and-yellow Zubaz, I was obsessed with watching Bo Jackson play baseball for the KC Royals. So much so that I always wore my black-and-silver Raiders windbreaker to Chiefs games... the one annual football game my dad would take me to.

Give me frog stroke or death since the Egyptians first illustrated it on their walls. What is the breaststroke?

The most I have personally driven for a single car is about 110K. Honda Civic.

My 2008 F150 has 130K... bought in 2015 with 85K... The last expedition had 220K...

Yes - General American... surprisingly since the speaker is Canadian. Sounds very neutral... easy to understand.

All polar bears

It is your duty to vote. Do not let the "worst" option win by default

Following @Undefeated across topics provides a stronger indicator that he is an educated Iranian.

Maybe UPS. Lower than its been in 10 years...

Gold has outperformed over the past year and underperformed over the last five years. Holding gold longer in this market is a good idea. Last 5 Years S&P500 - 114% Gold - 40% Last 1 Years S&P500 - 18.6% Gold - 41.8% Year To Date S&P500 - 9.4% Gold - 25.9%

What is the company you would buy now? My old company used to buy other products and that was a good starting point for investment considerations (like jfrog). My new company builds all their own products… Maybe United Healthcare to catch the rebound? I don’t think it is at the bottom yet I do expect it to go up considerably over time. Cosmetics will rebound on a longer horizon. I closed out of Advanced Auto Parts and Southwest Airlines last week. I am closing out of ATT and may cut some SOFI because it is the main horse I ride. SOFI seems expensive now but they keep making money, their money is making money, and it will continue to grow rapidly for years to come. I like the good companies with beaten down prices like Nike recently. I have a hard time buying tech when it is already at highs. I work in tech and it blinds me… the layoffs, etc… Intel… seems like that company will keep getting beat up. Western Union is dying. Sofi allows buying equity in private companies like space x. May go that route. Crypto feels like gambling so no to that. Tesla is high and will go higher over time. Just not sure if it will pullback bigly first. Holding timeframe is months to years.

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.