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God truly help us all if she’s Attorney General two years from now.

Right. It’s not as though Fox is an actual journalistic organization and is going to issue a retraction, or anything like that.

Lock her up.

Meanwhile, the people of Sioux Falls responded with, “Oh my god! He said our city name! Trump knows who we are! He really does love us! MAGA!!”

That’s because you don’t see apologizing as a weakness.

No doubt. The non-apology was a part of a move that people can learn from.

I didn't intend to touch a nerve. I have never regarded mere opposition to Israeli government policies as being antisemitic, and I have never known of any liberals who hate Jews and want to marginalize, persecute, or genocide them, as some right-wing extremist groups might. That was really the only point I was trying to make. Do the DSA (whom I'd honestly never heard of before today) hate Jews? If they do, then I imagine they would agree with the Times of Israel's characterization that they ''support [the October 7] Palestinian terror onslaught against Israelis." That would be the first time I'd heard of any American mainstream political organization (which I would assume this is one) supporting terrorist murder, which would be honestly surprising to me. But then, like I say, I've traditionally not been animated by Middle East issues and so i don't follow the particulars as closely as some might. I do recognize that this is a minefield topic, though, and it's really hard to tread any objective ground on it.

I don't think of anti-Israel (the country) and antisemitism (the people) as being the same, although Jewish people themselves might be inclined to dispute that. In any event, I don't even know what elements of the left would hate Jews in the way certain types of right-wingers would. Deep Jewish involvement itself is woven into the fabric of the left wing, so anyone who claims to be part of the left and would also support persecution or at least marginalization of Jews within society makes me believe they are actually right-wingers in left-wing clothing, the way Soviet Russians were.

I may just have a blind spot about it, because honestly I am not animated by issues relating to the Middle East, but I don't think I have ever seen any general hatred of Jewish people by those who identify as liberals. I suspect there are some fine-tooth comb points that could be made that conflates concern or support for the Palestinian people (separate from Hamas) with antisemitism, but I when think about antisemitism as a broad personal trait, versus as an accusation hurled in response to some isolated action or statement, all the Jew-hating I have seen has come from the right. But again, I may just have a blind spot about it.

I can see why people would bail on political Twitter due to the bot activity and disinformation campaigns and the general fear and loathing of Musk, but I see no reason to not continue to use Twitter for sports.

I'm having trouble squaring up the idea of "the left" with the idea of antisemitism. Maybe I'm not fully understanding the full breadth of what constitutes "the left". What is even a "the left" principle that would unify a progressive liberal and an overt antisemite?

Just signed up for BlueSky, typed in a dozen accounts from Twitter to follow, maybe five are on it, and some of them haven't posted in months. So, a little slow on the uptake.

While we were actually there?

Baseball is to football in the US as cricket is to soccer in the UK.

I don't think under-35s care about wins or complete games, either. But they definitely care about stars, and I think high strikeout totals might be the sign of a pitching star to them.

Was it one of the dead ball guys? If so, then no wonder. One of the other things about the game in those days was how big the ballparks were. It was nothing for a park to be 360 down the lines, 450 to center, and 400 in the alleys. Outfielders had to play deeper to prevent batted balls from getting by them and turning into inside-the-park home runs, which allow softer hit fliners and the like that would be caught today to drop in for hits. One reason there were so many qualified .300 hitters back then.

Interesting data points on how TwitX has lurched rightward since Musk took it over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-anniversary/ One year after billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, aiming to rid it of a “woke mind virus” that he believed was suppressing free speech, the site’s business outlook appears dire. The number of people actively tweeting has dropped by more than 30 percent, according to previously unreported data obtained by The Washington Post, and the company — which the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX has renamed X — is hemorrhaging advertisers and revenue, interviews show. But in at least one respect, Musk has delivered on his original promise: Twitter has become far less “woke.” Through dramatic product changes, sudden policy shifts and his own outsize presence on the platform, Musk has rapidly re-engineered who has a voice on a service that used to be the hub of real-time news and global debate. A site that fueled social movements such as the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has veered noticeably rightward under Musk, especially in the United States, say organizers from across the political spectrum. A Post analysis of dozens of conservative and right-wing influencers and media figures found that many saw their follower counts rise on the day Musk became owner and continue rising at a rate higher than under Twitter’s previous ownership. None of the dozens of popular liberal and left-wing accounts examined by The Post show the same pattern.

That’s actually a pretty decent recovery on Trump’s part. Took in the corrective information, acknowledged the right city to the crowd without apologizing, and immediately engaged them with a question about something else to get their minds of the error.

I agree with you, although maybe even executive terrorists are super emotional and not fact-driven and also simply not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

He shoots, he SCORES!