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Friday, January 3rd, 2025

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    4:36p
    "Efficiency" of H1-B visas

    *Several conservative critics of [the muskrat] were stripped of their verification badges on [ex-Twitter] after publicly challenging Musk's stance on immigration.*

    They were defending the wrecker's broad stance against immigration even as he was dropping that stance and deferring to the muskrat.

    It looks like the wrecker is being obedience-trained. After that, his followers will be compelled to learn to quickly follow changes in the party line, like "We have always been at war with Eastasia" from Orwell's 1984, if they don't want to be purged from the party.

    They accuse the muskrat of censoring them on ex-Twitter, which may be a bit of an exaggeration since he did not block them. But what is more ironic is that he has done this downgrading to other users before — but since those were not right-wing extremists, the people complaining now did not complain then.

    10:36p
    Jimmy Carter on Palestine

    Activists are apologizing to Jimmy Carter for condemning him as "antisemitic" in 2006, when he described the occupation of Palestine as operating a system of "apartheid".

    I did not read Carter's book, but when I saw that Desmond Tutu said the same, I trusted him, an expert on confronting apartheid, to judge the question right.

    Israeli peace leader Uri Avnery went further: he compared Israel's efforts to make the West Bank empty of Palestinians to Hitler's efforts to make Germany and its conquests empty of Jews. I trusted him, one who had seen Hitler's repression of Jews close up as a youth in Germany, to judge the question right.

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