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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I’ve talked with military members about fort and base renaming. The names are significant because they are named after (mostly generals) service members who are strongly associated with a set of tactics or strategies that the base specializes in.

    So instead of fort Green beret you’d have fort “founding father of Green beret” or fort “I trailblazed the green beret playbook”

    I still think we need to rename the Confederate name ones because fuck the traitors, but adhering to that naming scheme is important for the armed services.











  • What a rare W

    The group adds that “rhetorical and physical manifestations” of antisemitism include such things as calling for the killing or harming of Jews or holding Jews collectively responsible for actions taken by Israel.

    This is actually really good and a point I’ve tried to make to lukewarm success. The Israelis are not always in favor of the actions of their government much like we Americans aren’t. Making this distinction is important so that we remember who we’re actually angry at and who we demand action from regarding the clear genocide of the Palestinians.

    Context: I’m an American Jew who is furious with Bibi’s actions and the IDF.