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I was always told that one of the central lessons of the Shoah is that legal, juridical regimes can still be immoral. The claim that Anne Frank was in Amsterdam "legally" is false, but more than that, the question "Was Anne Frank an illegal?" is so grossly missing the point of Holocaust remembrance.

sharon, this is your lawyer, please keep it up until i can do my weekly shop a few metres from my front door.

Sharron Davies ranting against 15 minute cities, because of course she is.

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph saying she wants to... kill all dogs??

Julie Burchill asking "does it matter if Grok undresses us all?" in The Spectator

Graham Linehan in the midst of his now four-day-long double down on Alex Pretti's murder being justified and fine.

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

yeah, this is what i thought of immediately as well. there were a lot of nazis who weren't per se true believers but did extremely evil stuff to advance themselves in society. vance comes straight out of that mould.

Turbografx-16 CD game - Caroline in the CD

top 7 simple books to get your kids reading & they're all from the same writer! video game devs hate her!!!

harry potter was a miracle of marketing rather than literature. that same marketing environment doesn't exist for the new generations. pretty simple, you'd think.

I don't think it bodes particularly well for the future of antisemitism when holocaust remembrance becomes an explicitly identitarian call rather than a universal human one.

also, saying this at the time when one of the most prominent ice captives is an asylum seeker, a legal status?!?

also, they literally removed reich citizenship from jewish people! open the schools!

Skeet: The Shoah was not overzealous or even cruel enforcement of immigration laws. If you really don't know that, wow. If instead you've decided to pretend everything is the same for ideological reasons that's your choice but it's not honest.

this is also particularly perplexing because if i remember correctly eichmann himself used to help jewish people 'self-deport', helping them to flee the hostile environment the nazis had created.

dehumanisation is a process & for the targets of us fascism, it started a long time ago.

i think the holocaust should give us universal lessons about the villification & dehumanisation of groups of people in society & where this can lead.

somewhat soiled by that fact that david rieff himself seems to be spouting "anti-woke" fascist talking points but there's a lot of this unironically in the comments:

"never again" simply means "never again’’ will germans kill jews in europe in the 1940’s. that is all it means.

look at that slaphead* fuck who worked for the nyt & has his 'oh my god, what i have wrought???' moment about demonising trans people & went right back to business as usual a few days later.

*i can say it, they are my people

also, the next time the atlantic mentions trans people, it's going to be incredibly obvious that they have zero actual contrition & are happy to advance the fascist project! asking for people to change their actions as a part of a change of mind isn't unreasonable!

chairman xi, please, the planet is crying out for liberation

Hello, the IDF? Yes, I'd like to report a Palestinian children's hospital

i don't know how these people are so incompetent at social media. literally turn that can 90 degrees so that irn bru isn't visible, people will recognise it anyway & be like 'is he drinking irn bru?' &, ok, it won't be positive because he's a known evil cunt, but people will be interested?

dublin bussy

post new hole every hour

one thing that any watchdog group for this stuff, which i'm not against in principle, has to tackle is that we let human beings & animals unnecessarily suffer _all the time_. if you want us to give sentient machines rights, you have to first consider the rights we are withholding from those!

this is genuinely the most revealing thing about it. we see how these tech companies feel about actual people who are currently sentient & can suffer, so it's hard to believe they are actually motivated by compassion. this is all just marketing.

high praise!

Screenshot of Google Translate Norwegian translation of union which is 'fagforening'.

commiserations to non-Dutch speakers, who will never know what this is about

two masc fellas getting the ride off each other? call that a trade union.

A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. "Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

if you actually think that we're on the cusp of ai gaining sentience & being able to feel pain: first of all, you're a grade-a eejit, but also, why are you working for a company that you think is imminently going to be a part of the slave trade?

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

your publication has been going after the scapegoat minority these fascists have been demonising in order to consolidate power for years. you're complicit, you evil freaks.