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Dan Nelson retweeted
Europe has 1.3 million Jews, most of them successful, law-abiding citizens.
And it also has 50 million Muslims, the majority of whom live off government social services, are overrepresented in prisons, burn European cities every few months, stab Europeans randomly in the streets, behead journalists and politicians, and raped 250,000 British teenagers.
Guess which side the useful-idiot European leaders have been empowering since October 7?
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The anti-Israel social media operation, mapped:
Qatar, Iran, Turkey, Russia, China, and Palestinian advocacy networks are the 6 hubs.
233 entities spanning state-backed media, foreign agents, activist groups, campaigns, and digital publishers. At least 86 documented connections
Dan Nelson retweeted
Of course he name drops an obscure Italian-American communist who was against America's participation in World War 2 and was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the international communist party.
Of all the great men and women of Italian descent who've contributed to New York City and the United States, this is the idiot he picks.
He is physically incapable of being anything other than a loathsome propagandist for communism.
As the most prominent Italian-American in city government, please allow me to formally disinvite you from ever mentioning Italian heritage ever again.
And yes, we Italians came here to work, create businesses, dig the subways, build the buildings -- and it was indeed a struggle. A struggle a rich kid like Zohran could never know. But we didn't ask for any handouts. There was no welfare, millions of us came here knowing there was only ourselves, our work, and our community -- and we thrived. We wanted to become Americans, and our people were proud to learn the language and wave the American flag.
And when the time came, millions of Italian-Americans returned to Europe to fight World War 2, my father included. Many of them had to fight their own former countrymen in Mussolini's Italy. And they did exactly that, because they were nothing less than Americans.
Quite the opposite of the current immigrant situation championed by people like Zohran, where we invite lazy and entitled foreigners to loot the treasury without asking anything in return, as they resentfully fly the flags of their own nations -- and could never be counted on to defend America.
My mother was a widow who raised five children on her own, working in a button factory. We didn't take a penny of government assistance. We relied on ourselves. It was hard work, but we did it, and we were grateful. And today I sit on the City Council, representing the very neighborhood I grew up in.
That's what being an Italian-American in New York means. Not the communist propaganda Zohran is pushing here.
It's about hard work, independence, heritage, and most importantly, pride in being an American above all else.
Dan Nelson retweeted
Breaking: "As retired senior military leaders and legal experts, on this, the third anniversary of Hamas's October 7, 2023 brutal attack on Israel, we reject claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza." @jinsadc
I am honored to be a part of 76 retired U.S. officers (including 13 Generals, 27 Lieutenant Generals, 19 Major Generals, 5 Brigadier Generals) Refuting the Genocide Allegation Against Israel.
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"The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide."
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My dude, this is a blip.
This is less than a blip.
Dan Nelson retweeted
The land was not stolen. It was for sale.
By 1947, Jews held about 463,000 acres. Most of it bought. 73% of the plots were purchased from absentee landowners living in Cairo, Damascus, and Beirut.
John Hope Simpson walked the country in 1930 and wrote the sentence the slogans cannot survive: the Jews paid high prices, and then paid tenants to whom they were under no legal obligation to pay a dime.
In 1944 as the Holocaust raged, Jews were paying $1,000 to $1,100 an acre for sand and marsh. For comparison, Iowa black dirt that year was going for $110 an acre.
King Abdullah later wrote in his memoirs that the Arabs were as prodigal in selling as they are in weeping.
It was all the rage to sell worthless land to Jews for exorbitant prices. The mayors of Gaza and Jerusalem sold land to Jews. Members of the Muslim Supreme Council sold land to Jews. As’ad el-Shukairy, the father of the first PLO chairman, took Jewish money for land.
The nationalism came after the check cleared.
Dan Nelson retweeted
Swedish election results.
In central Rinkeby, the left got 93.9% of the votes. Around 93% of the population there has a foreign background.
In central Rosengård, the left got 97.6% of the votes. Around 95% of the population there has a foreign background.
And now you know the reason why the left supports open borders.
Dan Nelson retweeted
During World War II, New York City was home to roughly 2 million Jews — the largest Jewish population of any city in the world at the time.
By contrast, the German-born and distinct German-American community in the same city was a small fraction of that size. Even at its historical peak decades earlier, New York’s German population never approached the scale of the Jewish community by the 1940s.
Nazi Germany was systematically murdering millions of Jews across Europe. American Jews knew it. They read the reports. Many had family being slaughtered.
Yet there are zero reports of organized Jewish mobs in New York attacking random German-Americans, burning German businesses, or assaulting people simply for being German or of German descent.
Jews did not turn their grief, rage, and trauma into collective violence against civilians who shared ethnicity with the perpetrators.
So when people claim that Muslims around the world are somehow justified in attacking Jews — or that antisemitic violence is an understandable “reaction” to Israel — remember this historical contrast.
If 2 million Jews in one city could live next to Germans during the actual Holocaust without launching pogroms against them, the idea that today’s global Muslim population “can’t help” attacking Jews over a conflict thousands of miles away is pure nonsense.
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This is what entrepreneurialism feels like. xitter.cf/tannokasa9/status/2079…
Dan Nelson retweeted
There is/was never a genocide in Gaza. The opposite actually, one side (Israel) vaccinating, feeding, helping with all services (medical, drinking water, power) while taking extraordinary steps to protect civilians in the worst urban warfare scenario arguably ever seen and the other side (Hamas) doing everything it can to get civilians killed, stealing food, targeting civilians that do not do their demands. The mayor is a liar and worse.
"He's the subject of this arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity, for war crimes and is the architect of the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza."
@NYCMayor #Mamdani discusses remarks on exploring options for arrest of @IsraeliPM @netanyahu.
Dan Nelson retweeted
Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA.
It’s not an “oopsie!” This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.
Mayor Mamdani's map of NYC immigrant neighborhoods sparks outrage for ignoring Little Italy: 'Terrible mistake' trib.al/EEDtYW8
Dan Nelson retweeted
Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made:
"AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research."
And when that happens, he warns, you won't get a vote on it:
"So then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation."
A corporation that already knows everything about you:
"An entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data."
From there, the slide toward something far darker is shorter than most people think:
"Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism."
And even the best-case outcome isn't reassuring. Tech giants becoming the self-appointed arbiters of human good is, as he puts it, the fox guarding the hen house.
He's not buying the idea that these companies would stay benevolent with that kind of power:
"They would never ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash."
The sarcasm is the point.
Cameron has spent four decades imagining worst-case futures on screen. His verdict on this one:
"That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago, if for no other reason than it's no longer science fiction."
Dan Nelson retweeted
I’m not asking you, I’m telling you.
Take a moment and listen to this 81 second response from Victor Glover after being asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter.
I don’t quite think it can be overstated how perfect this crew is for the job.
Dan Nelson retweeted
The Atlantic has a sobering, first-person look at the ramifications of legalized online sports betting. Here are a few of the more telling passages.
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