What's going on with the top of the map?

It really shows that netanyahu's genocidal attempt to cling to power are not just brutal, inhumane and a risk to the whole region, but also strongly against israel's own interests.

When an asshole says they're good for the economy it's just more believable, because most rich people are assholes.

The term was coined by an academic and then claimed by fascists to describe their own hatred of jews. If anything, the current meaning as something to be reviled is the reclaimed version.

Antisemitism is a word that a historically oppressed group uses to defend itself. Others taking that away from jews is not the same thing as the reclaiming of queer or the n-word by their communities .

The word is being misused by israel and that's truly appalling, but there is still a valid use case for it's current meaning.

Wait you want to hear the FBI's version of why people who film factory farms should be charged with attempted use of WMDs?

Probably the FBI is not willing to explain why they want to pretend that exposing illegal animal cruelty is the same thing as planning a mustard gas attack.

Oh, % of year 2000 values, ok I get now.

The state of israel is already doing more than enough to "remove the air from the sails of the word "antisemitism".

Antisemitism is real and a real threat and it deserves a term that reflects the level of horror that it has inflicted. Minimizing the horrors of the holocaust against the jews does nothing to combat the holocaust israel is conducting. You can't draw attention to a genocide by minimizing a different genocide. That's not how horror at human barbary works.

No one is happy that israel is abusing the term antisemitism but the solution is to point that out. Or just laugh at israel when they make obviously untrue claims, as most people do.

Using antisemitic to mean hatred of speakers of semitic languages doesn't make sense because no one groups all speakers of semitic languages together. Hatred of jews and hatred of arabs are two very different phenomena with vastly different sets of prejudices and stereotypes, each deserving of their own term.

It's not a conspiracy of the israeli government to modify english words to exclude arabs.

Semitic was a termed coined by a german academic in the late 1700s, to mean semitic languages. Antisemitism was being used to mean hatred of jews by the mid to late 1800s, mostly by german and prussian nationalists describing their own hatred of jews as antisemitism. When english borrows the term from german in 1881, it already meant hatred of jews.

Pretending that you don't know the meaning of 'antisemitic' is only slightly less annoying than pretending that criticism of israel is antisemitic.

Semitic is a term with two main uses - 1) to mean 'jews' in the term 'anti-semitic'. 2) to refer to a particular branch of the afro-asiatic language family. No one is using 'semite' to mean all speakers of semitic languages and even if they did the meaning of the term antisemitic is clear and well understood.

Please, please just stick to pointing out how dumb it is to pretend that criticizing the genocidal actions of a nation state is somehow hatred of jews. This overplayed piece of feigned linguistic ignorance is doing nothing for no one.

I just find it hard to believe that more films have drugs than profanity.

It's a jeebus said so thing. Babies need to be baptized and sinners need to be sent to hell.

The rights that US citizens enjoy are standard across the overwhelming majority of our global peers, for any sensible definition of peer.

we haven't followed the rules the constitution imposed

A good constitution would be less ignorable. We ignore the words 'well regulated militia', for example.

Part of the reason Russia succeeded in getting trump elected is because our system, as laid out in the constitution, allows the person who got less votes to win sometimes. That's bad design.

doesn't mean you get to starve and decimate an entire country just because you don't like their politics

I think the history of the US and every other imperial power ever would disagree.

Trump supporting troll account, you're an easy block.

It created the flimsy disfunctional bribe machine that brought us to where we are today - it was toilet paper from the beginning.

I bet it'll end up as a "gift" to a supreme court judge from a rich fascist with business before the court.

If your fantasy were remotely possible, mine wouldn't be so appealing. Alas the rich are beyond justice of any kind.

China, CN is the two letter country code.

I don't think you're going to find much concrete evidence on what China does in secret to disappeared billionaires. It probably varies. Some combination of prison, house arrest and re-education are certainly likely. Most guesses probably say more about the poster's thoughts on China than about China itself.

Incidentally, I desperately wish we could just shove musk in a secret prison for a few months. The amount of power he has is itself a threat to democracy, even if he wasn't personally a dangerous lunatic.