A regular guy in Portland, Oregon, who's interested in a lot of different things and likes to write. Most posts here are not written by me, but are reblogged from other Tumblr users. My main blog is http://infidel753.blogspot.com
there was one super rapey cotton ceiling post i saw once that was so heinous that like i feel like the need to go find it and make everyone look at it to prove that we are not making it up like they really do say shit like that.
it just makes me feel crazy that they will deny that anyone has ever perpetuated this cotton ceiling rhetoric when they make posts like this acting like a woman's lack of attraction to them is a problem to be solved. It doesn't matter why a woman doesn't want to fuck you!!! Coming at her like it's some type of debate and trying to convince her that she's a bad person for not having sex with you is sex pest behavior!!!
Here's another one I found while looking for this one where the same user reblogged that conflates allyship with dating and hookups. Maybe that's why women don't want to be your allies anymore!!!!!!
And here's another one where they're just for real just lying and saying we're the ones who are loudly announcing totally unprompted that we don't want to fuck you!!! No!!! You people will pester us about whether or not we'd theoretically fuck you and then you call us hysterical terfs if we say no!!!! Or you'll hear some random women you don't even know mention that she's only into vagina and you'll take that as a personal attack for some reason because you feel completely fucking entitled to a random woman's body!!!!!
like it reminds me of the scenario in this comic where this person gets offended that a female celebrity that doesn't know they exist would not theoretically fuck them. Like you realize that's a completely normal situation for lesbians since most female celebrities being straight??? who the fuck caresssssssss
This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.
OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.
And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.
Hever Castle. Once home of the Boleyn family, it was in terrible shape when purchased by William Waldorf Astor, the American billionaire. He hired people to save what could be and refurbished the ground floor into living space, and added a whole "Tudor" village for all his guests, servants and staff.
That's the village
He also added massive gardens in what had been a swamp.
Some of Astor's living space. He had his designers and architects copy from all kinds of medieval-Jacobean models around the country.
I’ve been arguing with someone regarding the latest rumours that the IDF is rigging toys with explosives.
They keep bringing up the 1974 Nabetiah camp, but a preliminary google showed that reporting said the toys were clean and intact rather than dirty like the area they were in.
I’m just curious if you know the history of this claim?
They're conflating two claims and got both of them wrong.
Claim one is based a real event: the Israeli reprisal after the Ma'alot massacre.
On May 15, 1974, three DFLP terrorists crossed into Israel from Lebanon, murdered a family in Ma'alot, then seized a school and took 115 hostages, most of them teenagers. 22 students were killed.
In response, Israel bombed 7 DFLP bases, including the one at Nabatieh.
An estimated 27 people were killed and over 100 were injured.
That's the entire 1974 Nabatieh story. Terrorists attacked a school, Israel bombed the bases the attack was launched from. There are no toys in it. Nobody in 1974 alleged toys. The word "toy" appears in no contemporaneous account of that raid.
Claim two is a blood libel that didn't exist yet in 1974.
In 1998, Lebanon's permanent mission to the UN sent the Secretary-General a letter alleging Israel had dropped thousands of booby-trapped toys on Lebanese towns, and it named Nabatieh as one of them. That, in 1998, 24 years later, is where "toys" and "Nabatieh" first show up together as an allegation.
Look closely at what that document is, because the people making the allegation never do. It is a Lebanese government submission that got assigned a UN document number, A/53/677, not a UN investigation, finding, or verification of anything. Getting circulated as a General Assembly document means someone filed it. That is the entire bar.
Consequently, the claim gets laundered downstream into "even the UN confirmed it."
The UN confirmed that Lebanon mailed them a letter. The letter also says the toys were dropped by fighter planes, which contradicts the 1990s field reporting that said helicopters. The allegation can't keep its own delivery method straight and dropping toys from jets is aerodynamically impossible.
Someone later took the location from the 1998 libel, stapled it to the date of the real 1974 raid, and out comes the meme your friend is quoting: booby-trapped toys, Nabatieh, 1974. Two unrelated things fused into one fake citation. The 1974 raid had no toys and the 1998 toy claim had no 1974.
The 1998 allegation never had any evidence at all.
In September 2000, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office sent the Foreign Affairs Committee a memorandum on landmines in South Lebanon, which the committee then published. Among real hazards like cluster bombs and shells, it lists "even booby trapped toys, allegedly dropped by the Israeli airforce."
The word "allegedly" is the FCO's own hedge. They were not asserting it, just logging an unverified category in passing, in the same memo that elsewhere insists Israel's minefield data still needed independent verification.
Later writers deleted "allegedly" and promoted a hedged line in a government department's memo into a verified British intelligence finding. It was the opposite of verified. Note that this is not even a Foreign Affairs Committee conclusion, which is the way it gets cited. It's a government department answering the committee's mail.
Now your own observation, Anon, which is the sharpest thing in this whole exchange. The toys in the photos and videos making the allegations look clean and intact, not weathered like the bombed ground around them, and the images themselves carry no date, no photographer, and no source.
Set those clean toys against what the allegation actually claims, that aircraft dropped these toys onto Lebanese and Gazan towns.
Objects dropped from a plane or a helicopter onto rubble and left outdoors do not photograph shelf-fresh.
So the claim has to choose - either the toys were dropped, and the pristine ones are props, or the toys are pristine because a hand placed them there, and nothing was dropped from anything. The reply your friend reaches for, that this is just what a planted lure looks like, doesn't save the allegation. It concedes the toys were set down by hand, which means no aircraft dropped anything, which was the entire claim. Clean toys can only decide here which half of this story is the lie - it's one or the other.
(Kudos, by the way - you clocked the forensic problem much faster than the people circulating the images ever did.)
A shred of truth: South Lebanon was/is genuinely saturated with unexploded ordnance that children can mistake for toys.
Cluster bomblets the size of a tennis ball, scattered by the hundreds of thousands, have killed and maimed kids who picked them up. That is real, documented, and a separate tragedy from the claim on the table - because the libel is not "unexploded munitions are dangerous to children." The libel is "Israel manufactures bombs shaped like Snoopy dolls and golden eggs and drops them to lure children to their deaths."
That specific claim, purpose-built toys deployed to target children, has never been forensically verified by a single independent body. Not UNMAS, not the demining NGOs working those exact hills, not Human Rights Watch, not Amnesty.
Even the alleged mechanics don't survive contact. The 1990s versions said the toys were dropped by helicopter, and a UNIFIL officer told AFP the objects could look like a toy "or have the shape of an ordinary stone," but no independent investigator has ever recovered, defused, and documented one of these purpose-built toy-bombs. Hezbollah showed local media a rigged Snoopy doll and some golden eggs. Nobody neutral was ever allowed to examine them.
Palestinian Media Watch says this libel runs on a schedule: poisoned candy, then exploding pens, then toys. Same accusation every season, that Jews engineer products to kill children - and these claims come straight from Fatah and the PLO.
The 2025 Gaza version is the same template. A Facebook post from a Gaza health official, sourced to unnamed police, no photographic evidence, and a viral image that traces back to a 2018 video from Yemen.
According to the rumor, Israeli forces left behind explosives disguised as "teddy bears, dolls and colorful balls" to attract and kill child
A real 1974 airstrike with no toys + a 1998 toy libel with no verification + a meme that grafts the date of one onto the lie of the other = modern blood libel.
You don't need anyone to deny this for it to fall apart:
The date comes from one event, the toys from another.
The letter says fighter planes, the field reports said helicopters.
The photos have no date, no source, no chain of custody and show neat, clean toys.
The claim can't agree with itself about when it happened, who dropped it, or how.
If you want to push back, ask which it is: 1974 or 1998, planes or helicopters, and where is a single dated, sourced photograph of one of these toys.
They won't have an answer, because the claim was never built to survive questions. It was built to be forwarded, retweeted, and reposted without thinking.
That, Anon, is an important difference between you and the person you're arguing with - you can think - and you asked questions.
According to the latest Palestinian Authority libel against Israel, the IDF is distributing “booby-trapped toys” to Arab children
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There is a very stupid thing that’s been going on for decades and it’s something pro-Israel groups are just as guilty of as Israel’s enemies.
The so-called debate about Israel’s legitimacy or its “right to exist.”
I’ll explain why.
Countries are not up to debate. There is no such principle in international law, historical discourse, or even common logic.
It’s like walking up to a person and asking them, “what right do you have to live? Explain your birth. Was your birth justified? Give me a reason you’re a live or I’ll kill you.”
That’s insane, right? That’s something a psychopath would do.
Yet this is something people are doing to Israelis every day and for some reason Israelis indulge these maniacs with long-winded speeches about historical claims, links to the land, history and so forth.
Why?
No one ever comes Turkey and tells the Turks, “prove me you are genetically linked to the land. Prove me that your religion says you are allowed to live in Turkey. Prove me that Turkey is a country which represents Turkishness.”
If someone did it, the Turks would laugh at him and then kick him out. And rightly so.
Turkey exists because a group of people who call themselves Turks are strong enough to defend their borders. That is all. They don’t owe anyone an explanation about why they exist they don’t need to justify their immigration policies to anyone. This is entirely their business.
Now, Turkey is technically a settler colony.
The Turks came from Central Asia and conquered the region from the Greeks. They have committed many genocides. In fact, they are by far the bloodiest state in the history of the Middle East.
In the 20th century alone, they have killed and expelled millions of Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, and Kurds.
They are occupying Cyprus, an EU-member state and continue expending their illegal (isn’t it fun to call everything you dislike “illegal”?) settlements there. They are ethnically cleansing Kurds from Syria and are replacing them with Arab settlers in a scale orders of magnitude larger than anything else going on in the Middle East right now.
And yet, no one walks up to a random Turk and tells him, “what is your claim to Turkey? By what right does Turkey exist?”
Some people (not enough) are critical of the Turkish state, but no one claims it’s not a real state or that Turks are not a real nation. Such a mechanism simply doesn’t exist in the world for anyone except Israel.
No one does it with Japan, Belgium, Indonesia, or Qatar.
No one does it with countries which were literally created a few years ago, often on a whim of some European powers, like Kosovo or South Sudan.
For some reason, only Israel is a continuous debate.
But here’s the thing: according to international law and just basic logic, as soon as a country exists, it exists. That’s it. The debate is over. There is no international law that says a country can lose its right to exist because of XYZ. There is no legal mechanism for world-sponsored genocide (because this is what “a country doesn’t have the right to exist” really means).
How would it even work? Is not the very definition of sovereignty the fact that a group of people can defend their borders and have a state? How can you legislate facts that contradict the reality on the ground?
Nations don’t need to prove their genetic purity. They don’t need to prove historical justification. They don’t need to prove religious mandate.
They just need to be there.
This is the only response Israelis should give to people demanding they prove their right to live in Israel or asking them what is their claim to the land.
You don’t need to jump through hoops that were only placed there for you.
And again, no one demands a Frenchman prove he has the exact same genes as the people who lived in France 3,000 years ago. No one demands an Australian finds a line of scripture that justifies his presence in Australia and then defends it in a bad faith debate with his enemies.
Israelis are the only people in the world subjected to this humiliating ritual. Just say no.
More than a 100 years ago, long before Israel became a sovereign state, the great Jewish author Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote these words in response to libels against the Jewish people in the Russian empire:
“Do our neighbors blush because Christians in Kishinev hammered nails into the eyes of Jewish infants? Not at all. They walk along with their heads held high — and quite rightly, because the persona of a people is sovereign, is accountable to no one, and is not obliged to explain itself, even when something happens that requires explanation.
[Jews] are not obliged to give account to anyone, we are not sitting for an exam, and no one is entitled to demand an answer from us for any charge he wishes to direct our way. We were here before them, and we will be leaving after them. We are fine just the way we are. We will not be any different, nor do we want to be.”
We exist because we exist. That’s it.
There’s nothing to debate here. We don’t need to demonstrate racial purity, religious mandate, our historical rights.
there is no moral defense for not allowing the return of palestinians who fled or were driven out from the territory of present-day israel into the west bank, gaza, lebanon, jordan, the west, etc.
they largely didn't flee because they wanted Jews to be driven into the sea, but because people ALWAYS flee from a warzone. wars ALWAYS create refugees because people's lives are at risk. and lots of Jews fled it, too - but they were allowed back in afterwards.
not to mention, a lot of palestinians were directly expelled by israelis. it's true that Jews were also expelled from what became arab territory - and their descendants (not random fanatics) should also have the right of return to those places.
it won't lead to a majority in support of hamas because palestinians will have about half the share of the vote, and then less than half of those will support hamas. the half that support the PA will lean more towards a free democratic society with rights for all, and israeli Jews will have to work with them
it will probably lead to a government that is less sadistic and more in favor of justice for palestinians who have been treated like shit, and that's what people are really afraid of
Israel has no reason to invite more problems into their land than they already have, these guys can return into a future Palestinian state (when Abu Mazen or his successor pulls his head out of his fat arse and finally accepts one of these many offers for a Palestinian state the Israelis made). Losing against el Yahood has consequences.
The population exchange happened in 1948. How many of the Arabs who left Israel 78 years ago are even still alive? Or perhaps Anon believes that the status of being a refugee is inheritable and that people can claim to be refugees from a territory they didn't come from and have never even seen -- a self-evident absurdity.
By Anon's logic, all the Germans expelled from Silesia and Pomerania in 1945 (after their leaders similarly launched a war of aggression and lost) and their modern descendants would be entitled to return to those areas and vote in Polish elections. It's absurd. Applying such a concept generally would reduce the whole world to chaos.
The upshot for me is that we as a society don't bother to care about the character of our politicians, just the designation behind their name. Some of that is because committees that control nominations only give us the illusion of choice, but some is our own indifference. Once upon a time the hint of infidelity was enough to sink a candidate, and now a guy can have a Nazi tattoo for nearly 20 years, say "Oh, I didn't know, sowwwy!", and people shrug and say, "Well, vote blue no matter who, guess we gotta vote for him."
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the platform has lost its commitment to neutrality and is increasingly controlled by activist editors pushing a particular agenda.
Sanger has repeatedly raised concerns about anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia and called for more ideological diversity among editors, including more pro-Israel voices. He argues that a small group of editors has gained significant influence over how topics related to Israel, Zionism, and the Middle East are presented.
After launching an initiative promoting neutrality, transparency, and viewpoint diversity, Sanger was indefinitely banned from editing Wikipedia.
The controversy is fueling renewed debate over who controls one of the world’s most influential sources of information.
You hear the quote "they move millions in dark money to preserve their power and turn us against each other" and think it's from Nazi Germany or the KKK, but no! It's mayor of the most Jewish city in the diaspora Zohran Mamdani!
Everyone who voted for him or normalized his candidacy is complicit in this horror. You stood with a modern day Nazi. You made the Left a safe place for bigotry and hateful extremists, which is fundamentally opposed to democratic values and liberalism and which undermines the whole movement. You destroyed the security - mental, emotional, and physical - of the American Jewish community.
This needs to stop. People on the Left need to stand up and condemn this the way they would if it was said about any other group. For the sake of the Jewish community and for the sake of morality and decency and democracy.
You want to know what you would have done when the Nazis were coming to power? You are doing it right now.
The islamic regime is flooding social media with fake propaganda videos of hijabless women to pretend the regime has changed but in reality they are slowly bringing back the morality police to beat and harass Iranian women again
Nothing in Iran is normal don’t believe the regime’s lies
When Israel captured the Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann in 1960, the Jewish state was condemned by the international community, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union. Even though these nations executed countless Nazis on foreign soil and occupied many countries in Europe, the UN passed Resolution 138 condemning Israel and warning that Eichmann’s arrest had “undermined international peace.”
The Argentinian politicians who knowingly harbored Nazis compared Israel to “regimes universally condemned,” which led to violent pogroms against the country’s Jewish community.
The New York Post and the Washington Post joined the choir. The Times accused Israel of “inverse racism,” while the Christian Science Monitor compared Israel’s willingness to act against Jew killers abroad to Nazi Germany which also, um, acted abroad.
Today they're making movies, writing books, and publish graphic novels about this. They celebrate it as a triumphs of good vs. evil. None of these stories mention the condemnation. Same goes for the raid on Entebbe.
So don’t be disheartened by all the noise you’re hearing from the UN, the media, and the shit eaters we mistakenly call professors, journalists, and actors.
Their noise will soon be forgotten. Even by them. Just remember: there’s only one appropriate reply to their screeching.
“Fuck these people.”
Hey hey this is *SUPER* illegal in the United States holy cow.
If you are in this country and took the job, which I hope you didn't, now is definitely the time to look into a pro-bono labour rights lawyer. You're definitely eligible for back pay of any tips withheld and probably more. If you're in any progressive state there's a good chance your rights go beyond this. Regardless, federal regulations:
On a personal note I am seeing red over the situation. Fuck them for the audacity to pull this shit. Fuck them for being manipulative, abusive bosses.
Also, "5-10 minutes early is on time" NO!! That's WAGE THEFT. Those 5-10 minutes a day add up to 1 hour 40 to 3 hours 20 a month that you're not being paid (never mind the time they'll inevitably insist you stay longer after your shift to finish tasks). That shit adds up!
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