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Don't you think people should have consequences for the hate speech?
Everything that a certain population of the US correlated with the color Blue dislikes is considered hate speech by them, so things become impractical. Thankfully there are fewer and fewer snowflakes.
What of those who have virtually no footprint? Almost the only thing I have is LinkedIn, which is always only as up to date as the last time I changed jobs, which I don't do often. No Facebook, insta, snap, twitter, tiktok. I subscribe to maybe five channels on YouTube. My HN account isn't linked to my main 'identity' email address so I could hide it just by having a clean phone (which I do for international travel a…
> What of those who have virtually no footprint? Those people wouldn't want to travel to a police state anyway.
I fall into this camp (little to no social media besides LinkedIn) and I've had no issues traveling to the EU or UK or really any other police state for that matter. Plan to do more this upcoming year.
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And why would they exclude muslim and liberal tourists ? The reason they are creating all sort of censorship and unconstitutional rules to prevent criticism of Israel is, surprise!, to benefit Israel . It's otherwise incredible how Israel happens to be always the lucky recipient of all sorts of benefits and favours that are all intended for some other purpose. Come on.
> And why would they exclude muslim and liberal tourists? What? Because MAGA hates Muslims and libs, that's why. What's confusing about that? Yes a lot of the policies are designed to benefit Israel, however that's completely distinct from being designed to benefit Jews . The administration doesn't care about ant-semitism on its own merits, but it does care about protecting Israel. Do some reading on the theological…
No, evangelicals need all the Jews to go back to Israel for their end of the world prophecy to come true. So why don't they just pass laws to expel them from the US? It would be criminal of course, but coherent with their goals. The fact is, coherence stops when it stops benefitting zionists. They are nutters but their folly is well directed.
Also, as I just said in my previous comment, you're claiming that Israel is getting some specially favourable treatment by sheer chance. Nothing to do with the people who live there or that consider that their own promised land. Come on.
Finally, why you feel the need to specify that Jews and zionists are not the same. Nobody has mentioned Jews so far (unless for the frankly naive idea that this preoccupation with "antisemitism" is actually about Jews- the most accomplished, safe and protected group in the US- rather than about Israel).
I'm going to assume it's then going to be considered suspicious if you don't happen to have any social media for at least the last 5 years ?
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> perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment Interesting that threats to national security and "antisemitism" are put on an equal footing and clearly above everything else; also makes me wonder what is "unlawful antisemitic harassment"- the US considers every speech lawful as far as I understand. Or, if some speech is indeed unlawful, is it going to matter only if that speech is against Jews or Israel?
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> Probably most people are in a dire enough situation that they cannot afford to protest, and are busy enough trying to figure out how to re-organize their living situation. What is your mental model of the median American citizen?
Boiled down and greatly simplified; someone who struggles to afford food, housing, and child care. Seems most independent analysts highlight the large swaths of people unable to get basic necessities, just one example of many: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/in-every-corner-of-the-co... > The nation’s affordability crisis has not spared middle-class families, one-third of which struggle to afford basic necessities…
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More likely US Customs & Border Protection
Yeah, it was confusing. I my circles the US one is known as "BP" and Canadian is "CBP". It makes more sense that they were talking about the Mexican border in retrospect given some other cues.
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> And why would they exclude muslim and liberal tourists? What? Because MAGA hates Muslims and libs, that's why. What's confusing about that? Yes a lot of the policies are designed to benefit Israel, however that's completely distinct from being designed to benefit Jews . The administration doesn't care about ant-semitism on its own merits, but it does care about protecting Israel. Do some reading on the theological…
> evangelicals need Israel to be controlled by Jews in order for their end-world prophecies to come true No, evangelicals need all the Jews to go back to Israel for their end of the world prophecy to come true. So why don't they just pass laws to expel them from the US? It would be criminal of course, but coherent with their goals. The fact is, coherence stops when it stops benefitting zionists. They are nutters but…
Not according to literally any evangelical I've ever spoken to, nor any mainstream evangelical in US theo-politics. Nor is that actually stated in scripture. The complete assemblage of Jews in Israel can happen during or after Tribulation via Jesus teleportation magic.
Sovereignty to rebuild the temple is all that's required for Jesus to gain his Jew-teleportation powers.
Based on your vernacular I'm going to guess you aren't from the US and have no clue what the US religious landscape is actually like.
> you're claiming that Israel is getting some specially favourable treatment by sheer chance
I made no such claim.
My claim is that they're getting "favorable" treatment as a purely instrumental means to an end. In this case (the visas) the end is to exclude Muslims and libs. In other cases it's to bring back kamikaze Jesus. None of it has to do with actually liking Jews.
> Finally, why you feel the need to specify that Jews and zionists are not the same.
Because otherwise a person literally can't parse the factual statement that American evangelicals love Israel but don't care for Jews?