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Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, two-thirds of the world's population don't know the Holocaust happened—or they deny it…

The Middle East and North Africa had the largest percentage of doubters, with only 8 percent of respondents reporting that they had heard of the genocide and believed descriptions of it were accurate. But only 12 percent of respondents in sub-Saharan Africa said the same, and only 23 percent in Asia. People in these groups were likely to say they believed the number of deaths has been exaggerated—just over half of Middle Easterners and a third of Asians and Africans think the body count has been distorted over time…

In almost every religious group, people younger than 65 were much more likely to say they believe that facts about the Holocaust have been distorted, and they were less likely to know what the Holocaust is.

Giant 60 page pdf at the bottom of the article to peruse, with lots of data separations and stuff (tl:dr nothing fundamentally grown jack)

Over the past three years, he has worked to dethrone the interests of big businesses and billionaires, instead rooting his economic agenda in union support, aggressive antitrust regulation, a crackdown on so-called “junk fees,” promoting a tax on the wealthy, and blaming corporate greed for consumers’ inflation-squeezed wallets.

If biden’s “crackdowns” were actually threatening to the wealthy, Americans would’ve called him Chinese

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You are literally the president. You can just simply do something about it instead of yapping

I don't know joe. Maybe he would have beat them senseless and arrested them like you did to Black American students protesting your support of Israel?

Just seeing biden's face makes me physically ill at this point. I don't know if I can put up with 6 more months of campaigning. We haven't even got to the part where trump says fash shit everyday and gets headlines. I really don't want to be an american anymore.

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Do you know the vibe of settlers, but not the practical implementation and end goal of Israel’s settlements? Watch this shit asap

ngos bad

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• Jared Bernstein, Joe Biden's Chief Economist, faced difficulties explaining money's workings in a documentary or Finding The Money,' despite his role.
• He stumbled through concepts, highlighting the confusion around government money printing and borrowing
• Bernstein, who is head of the US Council of Economic Advisers, is not formally trained in economics and appeared bewildered in the clip

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Republican supporters of the ban said it would help police crack down on protesters who wear masks

House Bill 237 would ban everyone, not just protesters, from wearing masks in public for medical reasons if it becomes law. It passed 30-15, with every Republican in favor and every Democrat opposed.

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As Victoria Nuland steps down, she gets "real" about a world on fire.

tl;dr - I do NOT like Christian Zionists, give me the resouces to understand and address their bullshit

The Christians followers of this have been talking about the "end times" with very little explanation. I tried looking into their most recent ranting and raving about the red heifer theory, but I was shocked to find that the most popular results were from people who genuinely believe that shit.

I want an explanation for this insane theory. There's something deeply antisemitic about it and I want to get to the bottom of it.

I don't want to criticize this belief by brushing it off as a bunch of loonies, dismissively pointing to the beliefs as not worth my time. I want to know exactly what it is so I can properly address it, at least mentally.