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If this was a picture of a fish or a vegetable it would be perfect!

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  • gedaliyah Mod ,
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    Your submission in "No pride in Tel Aviv this year" was removed for: Post title must match article title. Please repost with correct title.

    gedaliyah ,
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    Sodastream was always such a strange target. It's a niche product, and hasn't been relevant for a decade. Closing their original factory put 100s of Palestinians out of work; it was one of the companies that fostered cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.

    Why not post about a major company like Intel or Apple? They have core products and development in Israel.

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    "I hate to say I told you so..."

    -literally everyone

    gedaliyah ,
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    It is still a show of good faith and progress. Egypt and Qatar would not put forward a deal that didn't at least have a reasonable point of negotiation. So far this is the first I've heard about Hama's making a serious ceasefire proposal.

    gedaliyah ,
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    This is a revisionist view that requires ignoring a lot of historical facts. Almost a million Jews were expelled from MENA countries in the 20th century, many of whom survived only by escaping to Israel. The Palestinian Authoriry has never accepted any status for Jews. Christians, Muslims, Druze, yes, but no Jews.

    Meanwhile, there are about 2 million Arab citizens (mostly Muslim) of Israel who are entitled to equal rights, including government subsidized Churches and Mosques.

    N.H. lawmaker opposes new marriage bill, says teens are of ‘ripe, fertile’ age ( www.masslive.com )

    “If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving...

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    That's after we confirmed it contained no cheese.

    gedaliyah ,
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    Mo-om! The billionaires are fighting again!

    gedaliyah ,
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    I've been seeing a lot about this but I am not a programmer. Can anyone eli5?

    gedaliyah ,
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    Thanks - that helps!

    How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours - (NYT Gift Link) ( www.nytimes.com )

    A New York Times examination of more than 100 videos from clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that violence ebbed and flowed for nearly five hours, mostly with little or no police intervention. The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment....

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    It was always just propaganda to discredit the NYT, which is not only the paper of record for the nation, but also has a history of championing high journalistic ethics.

    That said, this behavior is heartbreaking and deplorable. It seems clear that this violence was initiated by people who stand opposed to terrorism and in solidarity for the return of hostages. This should never have happened and I hope that those who led this charge are brought to justice.

    gedaliyah ,
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    Gosh, that's a nice strawman you've created.

    I'm sure it has nothing to do with protesters refusing to let Jewish students onto their own campus without passing a political purity test, threatening and vandalizing Jewish institutions, desecrating Jewish ritual objects, or appropriating violent language like "intifada."

    Why doesn't the movement cast out the people who advocate targeting Jews? Why does it celebrate those who advocate violence?

    gedaliyah , (edited )
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    Yes. That's why there are not chants calling for violence during the pro-Israel demonstrations on campuses.

    Edit: Just think about the number of downvotes. All these people believe it's not true, but no one is posting a video to contradict it. Of all the people who have seen this, no one can show a single example.

    gedaliyah ,
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    How charmingly quaint my good man! I think it will make the perfect bougie addition to my bare hardwood Manhattan flat. I'll put it just next to the elevator. This must really be how the poor's live!

    gedaliyah ,
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    But this is actually a good thing? They will be targeting wealthy enterprises to pay what they owe.

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    I think that's' one of those "Mandela effect" things. It never happened, but a lot of people believe it did. Our brains take a lot of shortcuts.

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    Not according to the book of Mormon.

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    Oh really? Well, I'm sure they'll get around to baptizing them all posthumously if they haven't already.

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    Any word yet on who bought all those matching tents and construction materials for the pro-Palestine encampments?

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    Now multiply that by 50-60 and someone donated a few grand per campus just for the tents. Who was it?

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    I think it's unlikely that dozens and kids bought the exact same tent in the exact same color at the exact same time without coordination. I'll let someone more capable than myself calculate the statistics on that.

    gedaliyah Mod ,
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    This is a discussion about who is funding campus protests. Why would you think it's unusual that ask a question like this?

    gedaliyah ,
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    Trying to distract people from the fact that Colombia is in shambles due to poor leadership?

    gedaliyah ,
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    Samesies.

    gedaliyah , (edited )
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    MS is doing their level best

    gedaliyah ,
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    Is this going to turn out to be one of those "last starfighter” situations, except it's about arranging lists of words rather than fighting aliens?

    gedaliyah ,
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    I don't think this is true - at least not in the Hebrew Bible (I don't know much about the Greek/Christian parts). What verse/ passage are you thinking of?

    gedaliyah ,
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    Somehow conservative Christians never seem to apply this logic to Leviticus 18:22.

    gedaliyah ,
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    Well, that's the difference. This is just Daniel Whedon's personal interpretation. It's not included in the list above because those are all explicit - not just one person's interpretation. Obviously a commentary is subjective by nature. Why open up a solid argument to debate by introducing a lower quality argument based on a subjective opinion?

    gedaliyah ,
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    Here are a few examples of arguments that this entire line of thinking opens you up to:

    1. "keep" is a mistranslation - the original text says הַחֲי֖וּ, which means "let live."
    2. "young girls" is a mistranslation: "young girls" would be ילדות, but instead this says הַטַּ֣ף, which could mean "children" or "families,"
    3. According to BDB (one of the most widely used English biblical lexicons), sometimes the "word includes (or implies) women as well as children"
    4. Other commentaries say that they were taken not as wives, but as slave workers.

    Why do you want to mess around with all that nonsense? Just use the unambiguous examples from OP's infographic.

    gedaliyah ,
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    The entire idea that any of this has to do with being "saved" is a Christian invention anyway. The Hebrew Bible uses the exact same wording regarding eating pork. These were clearly a code of behavior that were intended to apply to one particular group of people, and possibly only a subgroup of that group.

    Additionally, many scholars consider this passage not a condemnation of homosexual sex, but relating to inappropriate sexual domination. Of course it's extremely problematic that heterosexual sex would be considered a dominating act, but that's more than we should really get into right now.

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