Charl Peter Gerida

Charl Peter Gerida

@realcpg.bsky.social

Observing from a distance

763 Followers 401 Following 2 Posts Joined Jun 2024
8 hours ago

I'd like to just say that across the long long history of The Jews, the overwhelming majority of Jews have been unbelievably, incredibly, grindingly poor, levels of poverty and deportation that are hard for the 21st century American mind to really wrap our heads around

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7 hours ago
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“No to war and Free Palestine.”

— Javier Bardem while presenting at the #Oscars .

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7 hours ago

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

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8 hours ago

no roads refused

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14 hours ago
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NRSC polling apparently has Talarico beating both Cornyn and Paxton

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7 hours ago
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News live: no Australian ships will head to strait of Hormuz, minister says; three fishermen found dead off SA coast Follow live

Australia will not send naval ships to assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

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"No to war... and free Palestine"
Javier Bardem

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7 hours ago

Well done on Javier Bardem for wearing the same pin he did to oppose the disastrous 2003 War on Terror in 2026...

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7 hours ago

Thank you sir

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15 hours ago

i think that the entire supreme court should do ayahuasca together

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10 hours ago
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Amy Madigan wins Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Weapons

#Oscars

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11 hours ago
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I do not regret to inform you:

We are going to win.

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10 hours ago

i am voting for whoever adopts this as their platform

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15 hours ago
Josh Shapiro on Gavin Newsom calling Israel an 'apartheid state': "We've got to be acknowledging that language matters here. That words matter and that we've got to use words that are actually rooted in reality and are able to bring the temperature down"

This is the exact same argument that Bernie made against AOC, Tlaib, Omar and Bowman calling Israel an apartheid state in May 2021, but neither Bernie nor Shapiro seem to be disputing the actual racial structure in Israel's rule over Palestinians. They just think it's bad to say it out loud.

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15 hours ago

you know, i am actually quite sympathetic to jewish inhabitants of israel/palestine wanting to live *there* specifically, regardless of where their ancestors are from. i just dont think they get to select who is enfranchised in order to maintain a particular ethnic composition of that state

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian mother, father and 2 children in West Bank Ali Bani Odeh, 37, His Wife and Two of Their Children, 5 and 7, Were Killed in the West Bank's Tammun When Israeli Forces Fired on Their Car. Two Other Children Survived the Attack. The Justice Minist...

Undercover Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian couple in their car and two of their children, aged five and seven.

Khaled, the oldest child who survived, recounted that the soldier declared "we killed dogs", then took him out of the car, and beat him.

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17 hours ago

this more than anything is why I think a Dem Tea Party is very much in the cards—party regulars are so mad at stalwart liberal incumbents they're close to denying them ballot access before voters even get a say

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1 day ago

More important than any of this is the fact that the Israelis are actually correct based on the historical evidence that the US does not condition anything on Israeli behavior and quite frankly may not ever.

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The Americans established a pretty clear incentive structure by repeatedly affirming that the escalation ladder goes only one way.

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Gideon Levy had an article in Haaretz recently with the title "Everyone In This Country Has Gone Insane". So, that's how that's going.

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my first encounter with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was taking an airport shuttle with my family and an Israeli guy at age nine and the guy thinking that the wisdom he needed to impart to me was that Arabs were worse than animals, a point he belabored until my dad told him to shut up

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1 day ago

i think that the essential issue is that the Israeli electorate is psychotic to a degree the average American could not possibly understand

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16 hours ago

No, you see, they were only there to support the troops who raped a man with a knife

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11 hours ago

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

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10 hours ago

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names.

Good on Amy and Ed.

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14 hours ago
zohran mamdani promises to
FILL ALL HOLES
following pothole initiative with dot

insane image

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