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11-12-2016 , 09:11 AM
and lol at referring to it as "art"
11-12-2016 , 09:13 AM
LOL at people not getting dry humour. Well played, DS, both the incident and the post.
11-12-2016 , 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Woke up to that yesterday morning. They also painted an arrow to the mezuzah on the door as an explanation. I'm not religious, but my girlfriend semi converted and put it there a while back.

Obviously the Trump win emboldened these folks even though there is no chance that Trump would have approved and almost no chance he is an anti-semite. They will learn this soon enough when they see Trump's upcoming inner circle. Still this incident does prove that the people who say that Trump's rhetoric is dangerous, even if he doesn't mean it, are correct.

Personally I was amused rather than appalled or fearful. For reasons I need not go into here. Neither was Sue. But she did write about it and post a picture on her facebook. And the next thing you know she got sympathetic replies from several of her facebook friends including a couple of woman who offered to come over and use their expertise to remove the symbol.

They did just that and refused payment or even gas money. More importantly they hit it off with Sue as they discovered they had many similar interests including sewing and veganism. Since Sue is visually impaired she can't drive and doesn't have a chance to meet that many friends in person, but these two ladies will now be added to that group. They probably would never have met otherwise. So here is an example of a bad incident actually being good. I wonder if those painters would have still put up that art if they knew how it would turn out. Frankly I feel like I owe them five thousand dollars or so. Perhaps they would like to come back and collect.
Sorry to hear about your house. This is unfortunately a totally predictable result to a man who ran tv ads quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion getting elected president. He mainstreamed hate against everyone that isn't a WASP.

Edit: Where do you live? Nevada?
11-12-2016 , 10:32 AM
How behind the times were these vandals? Don't they know that hipster anti-semites would have put (((triple brackets))) around his house?
11-12-2016 , 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by vixticator
"A Molotov cocktail came smashing through my window and burned my rug, I really been meaning to buy a new rug and insurance will cover the window. I actually purchased a very expensive rug cheaply and resold it for $10,000 profit. I'm offering $3,000 to the bomb throwers for their community service."

Future David sklansky post iyam.
30% seems a little light
11-12-2016 , 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
I made this point in the other thread but I thought it was absolutely critical to explain to my kids (ages 8,6) who sort of got the idea in their heads Trump was really, uniquely bad. We live in Ann Arbor after all. They hear stuff.
Ehhh...feel like a bad parent now. My kids are near that age and I'm not sure they think its a bigger deal than the NY Giants losing in the playoffs.
11-12-2016 , 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by dessin d'enfant
Ehhh...feel like a bad parent now. My kids are near that age and I'm not sure they think its a bigger deal than the NY Giants losing in the playoffs.
Let kids be kids and enjoy their childhood. There's enough time when they're adults to learn the pain in life.
11-12-2016 , 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Peter
Let kids be kids and enjoy their childhood. There's enough time when they're adults to learn the pain in life.
Ya, thats my strategy. As an adult now I really have a tough time tracing any problems in my life to not being aware of terrible things as a child. I imagine my kids largely think if you have a problem you should go tell an adult and they will solve it. The total opposite of reality but I'm not sure an awful way to be raised.
11-12-2016 , 01:05 PM
NPR had a story recently that covered Mr. Rogers' use of a live tv special to tell children about political assassination

it was kinda nuts
11-12-2016 , 02:21 PM
Trump is not anti-Jewish. His daughter is Jewish and his grandchildren are. In England the anti-Jews are the left wing liberals. Mean while who is acting like the Facists. Who is rioting in the street and wants to overthrow the election. Wasn't Trump the one who was called unAmerican for not saying he would accept the results of the election. I was bannegd (rightfully so) when I crossed the line in commenting on goofyballer post in Politics

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Originally Posted by King_of_NYC

Originally Posted by goofyballer View Post
Random aside: I used to be happy that I voted in 2008 to hand California redistricting over to an independent commission, thus ridding our state of gerrymandering.

I'm not happy about that anymore. I used to think part of moving the country forward meant someone had to start with being the bigger person and making sacrifices in the interest of the common good, and maybe others would follow.

8 years later, seems pretty clear that isn't happening. Republican-controlled states are getting even worse with vote suppression and don't appear to give the slightest amount of ****s about making elections more fair.

California voted 62-33 for Clinton, and 25% of its Congressional delegation is Republicans. A little less than the popular vote share, but reasonable.

Meanwhile, in North Carolina, Trump edged out a 51-47 win. 3 of their 13 representatives are Democrats. Same story in razor-thin and Republican-controlled (at the state level) Michigan - 9 Republicans, 5 Democrats. Pennsylvania, where Republicans had full control of 2011 redistricting: 13 Republicans, 6 Democrats.

So, **** it. **** California's fair districts:



Take these ****s in the Sierras and mesh each part of them with a different area of Sacramento. Take Darrell Issa's district in armed forces-heavy north San Diego County and figure out how to snake it through to include East Los Angeles.
So very common reaction from the left. Democracy and elections are great until we don't get what we want then we use force. Who are the facists now?

I hate what happen to you David. Don't know how there is a connection. There is quite a connection to the number of Trump supporters being beaten in the street and the shops being burnt down.
11-12-2016 , 02:37 PM
rofl these people marching are overthrowing the government by force. time to roll in the tanks
11-12-2016 , 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny
Trump is not anti-Jewish. His daughter is Jewish and his grandchildren are.

There is quite a connection to the number of Trump supporters being beaten in the street and the shops being burnt down.
Trump supporters being beaten?

That's so clueless. Almost as clueless as saying Trump isn't anti-Semitic. Remember: he was the one say there was a global (((banker))) conspiracy trying to stop him from taking office, and also retweeted anti-Semitic propaganda, then apologized for taking it down.

You're willfully ignoring these things to pretend Trump doesn't have large, glaring red warning flags.

I'm sure if Trump had a single black friend, who was one of the good ones *wink wink*, despite him saying all blacks were too lazy to work for him doing accounting, you wouldn't be willing to say he was racist.
11-12-2016 , 02:50 PM
Remember Trump supporters, see something, say something. You see any extremist activity please report them to the FBI
11-12-2016 , 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny

I hate what happen to you David. Don't know how there is a connection. There is quite a connection to the number of Trump supporters being beaten in the street and the shops being burnt down.
Let me see if I understand this. You are saying that a swastika being painted on a random Jewish person's door is somehow retaliation by trumpeters for protests against trump? I must have missed the part of the news where Jewish Americans are beating Trump supporters in the street and burning down shops, please enlighten me.
11-12-2016 , 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
David,

Really glad that it didn't have the intended effect on you the cowardly scum that did it picked on the wrong dude, but even if you aren't rattled personally doesn't it worry you in the general sense? The conclusion of stanley milgram after his famous experiment was



If the sentiment in america is tilting to where people are emboldened to do things like this are you not at all concerned about the slippery slope? What about in 2 years when the economy takes a plunge and president trump needs a scapegoat? You don't think it's possible he'll lean on old hatreds?
It's almost inconceivable. But I say that mainly because I know many people who have known him a long time.

As I mentioned elsewhere the most recent evidence that he isn't what he appears to be came after his white house visit. It not only made him reconsider his stance on Obamacare but it also had him giving credit to Obama for that change of stance. How many politicians would do that second thing?
11-12-2016 , 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
Remember Trump supporters, see something, say something. You see any extremist activity please report them to the FBI
I'm not sure if you mean this as "(((David))) needs narced on by Trump's brownshirts" or "The good Trumpkins need to narc on the bad Trumpkins"

but the latter ain't happening. Trumpkins admire loyalty above reason and morals. There is no way they live up to their own standards of wishing muslims narced on muslim terrorists. They're total hypocrites.
11-12-2016 , 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny
Trump is not anti-Jewish. His daughter is Jewish and his grandchildren are. In England the anti-Jews are the left wing liberals.
Yes there's anti-sematism here, it's on the rise alongside the islamophobia and xenophobia. But when Jewish graves are being daubed with swastikas, or Muslims are being subjected to hate attacks on the streets, you can bet you're life the perpertrators are not remotely the left wing liberals. They are on the far right and delighted trump has won.
11-12-2016 , 03:02 PM
i would just like to say that whenever i see the title of this thread i get an association to a rap song but i don't know which one
11-12-2016 , 03:06 PM
i put on my googling hat and found out:



play this dope track and imagine that ice-t raps the title of this thread the same as the beginning: "6 in the morning police at my door"
11-12-2016 , 03:08 PM
Maybe one of the positive things to come of this will be the coming together of Jewish Americans, African Americans, and Muslim Americans. American Jews were some of the earliest leaders and supporters of the Civil Rights movement (based on their own experiences with the holocaust), but that relationship frayed badly over time. One of the greatest cons of all time was Western Civilization pitting the Jews against the Muslims. At least in America now maybe this will be the beginning of the end of that based on a common threat.
11-12-2016 , 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by dessin d'enfant
Confronting antisemitism with absurd money grubbing is an interesting strategy.
Money grubbing? I was using money as a way to measure how happy their defacing my property turned out to make us. It had nothing to do with religion. I was just rying to taunt some criminals.

I would think better examples of Jews money grubbing would be the well educated scientist who, upon realizing that even though he was smart enough to learn advanced things he was not likely smart enough to invent anything new, so he should instead try to be a big fish in a little pond populated by the semi smart in the non scientific financial world.
11-12-2016 , 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by dzikijohnny
So very common reaction from the left. Democracy and elections are great until we don't get what we want then we use force. Who are the facists now?
That would still be the Republicans. Glad to help solve the answer to your stupid question.

Where are YOUR principles, if you think this hypothetical thing that "the left" is mad about is so bad, that you've stood silent or cheered on the actions of others to do those same things, because you happen to benefit from them?

If your principles are, as they seem to be "fight with 'the left' because I can", why are you surprised they're fighting back? Bullies hate to get punched in the face. It's time to start punching back.
11-12-2016 , 03:10 PM
Thanks liberals!
11-12-2016 , 03:12 PM
Trump is going to sorely disappoint his white nationalist supporters. I don't know what they'll do once they realize it.
11-12-2016 , 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Money grubbing? I was using money as a way to measure how happy their defacing my property turned out to make us. It had nothing to do with religion. I was just rying to taunt some criminals.

I would think better examples of Jews money grubbing would be the well educated scientist who, upon realizing that even though he was smart enough to learn advanced things he was not likely smart enough to invent anything new, so he should instead try to be a big fish in a little pond populated by the semi smart in the non scientific financial world.
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