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I grew up with a kid who went exactly that route during his teenage years, though seemed to become a pretty normal adult by all accounts.

Tbh I’d prefer to be doing a lot less Jewish posting. But the world does not appear set to knock its bullshit off any time soon.

Somebody should ask Ryan for his sourcing on Platner’s wife being Jewish.

My general take is that for so long it was extremely lonely being principled against Israeli atrocities in the west and you took whatever allies you could find, and that imprinted some really bad habits. And now it’s everybody’s problem.

As long as we’re doing a personal gripe session (and apparently we’re two Jews having a chat so of course we are), it would also be great if all the people who knew how bigotry worked didnt forget how bigotry worked the moment it came to talking about antisemitism. But we are where we are.

I don’t think our opinions are particularly different when you get right down to it.

Fwiw, I don’t think he like harbors hatred for Jews in his heart or whatever (who can really know) I think he’s basically a dumb dumb who has done a bunch of things that are antisemitic. And, well, when you’ve don’t a bunch of antisemitic things, I judge you on the things you have done.

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I think you should vote for Janet Mills in the primary even though you don’t like her because Graham Platner is antisemitic, similarly my family (who are all Jewish and live in Maine) will vote for Graham Platner if he wins the primary even though he is antisemitic because it beats the Republican.

It’s it about you it’s about very specifically the person who said antisemitism from Platner is worth it to them. A direct reflection of how much my human worth vis a vis other people matters to them.

Right. Thank you for demonstrating what normalizing antisemitism looks like.

The idea that one can one idea that aligns with the far right while having many others that do not.

Ah I confess I had trouble parsing it lol

What are you talking about?

This is certainly the aspiration we cling to. Of course, the reality of the democratic coalition is often muddier, as this conversation nicely illustrates.

as a deliberate crossover, fantastic; as error, c'mon man

I wrote in my initial post that making antisemites feel more welcome might indeed be politically useful. There are inevitably more antisemites than Jews in the world.

The negative consequences of electing him are the antisemitism. Still better than a Republican but very bad!

I mean look if it’s him or a Republican I’ll (well not me, but my family who lives in Maine) will grit our teeth and vote for him. But it fucking sucks to be asked.

I mean at this point he’s done enough stuff that I don’t think it matters much if he did because he’s very dumb the impact is the impact.

I would like it if significant members of the democratic coalition looked at a guy who is clearly antisemitic and said “that’s bad, we don’t want that,” and not, “well obviously he’s not conservative so it doesn’t matter.”

I think this gets at something that BlueSky misses. The problem with Platner is not that he’s a secret conservative, or a Fetterman. The problem is he’s antisemitic. One can be on the left and not particularly care if Jews are harmed or discriminated against. In fact it can be politically useful.

It used to be that this political calculation was difficult because “you will be demagogued as antisemitic” was a real (and fucked up hurdle).

It’s quite bad that that hurdle has resolved with “nobody will care if you’re antisemitic” and not “breaking with Israel is not antisemitic.”

Newsom likens Israel to ‘apartheid state,’ questions future military support The California governor’s comments came as he promoted his new memoir in Los Angeles.

It’s good that moderate Dems see the writing on the wall on this and are making this jump. It is a moral, and just, and correct course of action.

It is however really bad that the last clause of the writing they’re seeing is “the Nazis like this too.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

You see some interesting equivalents of this as well with Judaism a the secular left. Where people who are primarily interested in the political matter of Gaza and Israel look at Jewishness as like a weird social club for people who probably like Israel unless they prove otherwise.

You’re worth it buddy.

The more I play with Claude and figure out what I’m good and bad with and what it’s good and bad with the more convinced I get that people who know how to code are going to be editors and all of us idiots using it are going to be writers.

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