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Jerry T retweeted
Being left-wing means first pretending to care about the world, in order to get attention, but ultimately being the most selfish, narcissistic people on the entire planet.
Every few weeks I find myself crafting a similar response, for educational purposes to the young or ill-informed. Periodically I come across a good example and forward it on.
Except no one “took” their land. They left at the behest of the five Arab countries who attacked Israel in 1948. They left so that those attacking us would have the ability to slaughter us unencumbered. Israel asked them to stay and offered full citizenship. The Arabs who stayed were given full citizenship and equal rights under law. Those who left so that we could be slaughtered were not welcomed back.
It is interesting that you ignored my allusion to the Arab countries in the MENA who between 1948 and the early 1970’s forcibly exiled 850,000 Jews from their homes and communities, destroyed their houses of worship, and stole their real and personal property.
In 1948, there were 265,000 Jews in Morocco, 140,000 in Algeria, 105,000 in Tunisia, 38,000 in Libya, 100,000 in Egypt, 30,000 in Syria, 7,000 in Lebanon, 60,000 in Yemen, and 135,000 in Iraq.
Today, there are fewer than 10 Jews in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. There are 50 in Algeria, 20 in Lebanon, 30 in Syria, and a couple thousand in Morocco and Tunisia. Iran has around 9,500 Jews as of 2025.
That is what ethnic cleansing looks like.
Jerry T retweeted
The dirty little secret to SpaceX’s success was never that they dispensed with all the crusty senior engineers at NASA and legacy aerospace in favor of hot shot 24 year olds. It was that they hired every single one of those crusty old senior engineers and dispensed with the broken managerial culture in big corporate aerospace. They got where they are by transplanting Prime talent into a Founder corporate stucture.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
This actually happened
When I was at Boeing in California, Boeing laid off all the rocket engineers in California to replace them with new people (who had no idea what they were doing) for 20-30% less per head in Alabama
I talked to one of the guys who was getting laid off, he was an old dude, he had worked on the DC-X which was the reusable rocket program McDonnell Douglas had in the 90s
His next job: consultant for SpaceX
Boeing dumped him on the side of the road to save 0.25*his salary and SpaceX picked him up in 30 seconds flat
Jerry T retweeted
BREAKING: @ap confirms up to 6 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California can be found on voter rolls, according to legal filing.
BREAKING: More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California cannot be found on voter rolls, according to a legal filing. apnews.com/article/californi…
Jerry T retweeted
The Nakba tragically did happen--in 1948 Palestinians started a war that killed 1% of Israel's population, most of whom were Holocaust survivors.
Palestinians ethnically cleansed every single Jew from East Jerusalem and the West Bank (the Etzion bloc) and massacred the doctors and nurses of the Hadassah hospital and Hebrew University.
It could have all been avoided had they not started a war and accepted the UN's peaceful two state solution.
Jerry T retweeted
Again, a candidate who lost a national election is calling for an end to the constitutional mechanisms by which she lost, and there's not a peep out of our fascist happy label media about it.
Jerry T retweeted
DC was explicitly designed to not be a state for a whole host of reasons. There is not a legitimate argument for DC statehood beyond “I want two more blue senators”
Jerry T retweeted
Yes. That is largely how it worked. The Romans were murdering people in the colosseum. The Germans considered murder a civil offense so long as it was announced after the fact. The Carthaginians were sacrificing babies to their gods. The Aztecs were tearing peoples’ hearts out for the same purpose. The Iroquois were partaking in ritual cannibalism.
Take it to Africa, South America, Asia, or anywhere else you want, and you’ll find that pre-Christian society was almost universally more violent.
Jerry T retweeted
There were five slave trades. You were taught about only one. 🏴🇬🇧
One. The Atlantic. Twelve million Africans shipped to the Americas. Britain banned it in 1807, then hunted it for sixty years.
Two. The Barbary trade. A million Europeans taken to North Africa. Britain bombarded Algiers in 1816.
Three. The Saharan trade. A thousand years of caravans north across the desert. Britain had its northern end banned. Tripoli, 1857.
Four. The East African trade. Twenty thousand people a year through one customs house. Britain forced the market shut. 5 June 1873.
Five. The Ottoman trade. Raiders sold Eastern Europeans south for three hundred years. Britain made the Sultan ban it in 1854.
It cost sixty years and two thousand sailors. Nobody else fought all five. 🙏🇬🇧
It isn't over. Mauritania only made it a crime in 2007. Fifty million people are in slavery today.
Someone has to remember who started the fight. ⚓🇬🇧💪
Jerry T retweeted
Obama in 2007 stood before a black audience after Hurricane Katrina & said that the federal govt didn’t care abt helping them bc they’re black. Yet he was 1 of only 14 Senators who is on record who voted *against* helping them.
His rhetoric was just stoking racism & grievance.
Jerry T retweeted
No wonder the parents edited out the entire conversation with the cops.
Jerry T retweeted
Turns out, there's more to the Florida toddler soccer story, and you should be livid at the people responsible for misleading people about it.
The league director, who is Black, called the non-emergency line because the kids *mother* was following him around the field while yelling, cursing and calling him names AFTER they were repeatedly asked to leave.
He wanted an officer to explain she was not allowed to return the field in the future (trespass warning) and let them know they were refunding the money because he didn't want to interact with her directly... again because she was harassing him and live-streaming it because they benched her son so other children could play.
Turns out this little star's parents were shouting and calling other children losers, shouting the score at other parents, and upsetting the kids.
The point of soccer at that age isn't to win. Most don't even keep score.
The kid is magic, but it was his parents who caused the problem, and it wasn't racially motivated.
People who weaponize these stories and straight up lie to people need to be held accountable, because when people actually do racist things (every damn day), people looking for excuses will dismiss it with "just like that soccer story, huh."
sports.yahoo.com/articles/91…
Jerry T retweeted
Robert Reich in 2025: Trump is a fascist dictator for even suggesting that a company be taken over by the government and for telling a CEO what to do.
Robert Reich in 2026: SpaceX and Starlink must be taken over by the government.
Small man, giant fraud.
Jerry T retweeted
Not sure what's more shocking: that most suburban Vancouver ridings flipped Conservative after the NDP started transferring Canadians' land and homes to random Indian chiefs, or that some of them STILL VOTED MAJORITY NDP 🤯
Jerry T retweeted
Ukraine hacked Starlink terminals to ignore the speed limits, violated the terms, and then cried when SpaceX patched it.
So it turns out that Ukraine's issues with Starlink were caused by Ukraine.
Starlink terminals disconnected at speeds above 160 KPH, as determined by the Starlink terminals internal GPS.
To get around this, Ukraine hacked the Starlink terminals to think they were stationary regardless of speed.
SpaceX figured this out, and updated the system software to detect excessive speed by seeing how rapidly the terminal switched from on satellite to another. This broke Ukraine's hack, and Starlink would no longer work at high speeds.
Ukraine was using Starlink in a way that violated the terms of service.
Starlink figured it out and stopped it.
Jerry T retweeted
Congrats to the Leafs on getting to play against Tristan Jarry.
Quite the victory lap online though for such a medicore performance.
Jerry T retweeted
the cowardly thing about John Oliver in my opinion is that he never ever ever ever ever challenges the biases of his overwhelmingly liberal audience or presents them with any information that might cause them to question their existing beliefs. it’s all just partisan comfort food
HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.