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Shown here is Gal Erad, an Israeli sprinter who was studying for a computer science degree in the University of New Mexico. Was. The university officials bought him a plane ticket and told him to leave NOW as they "can't guarantee his safety".
Let that sink in. Black students told to leave because they "can't guarantee their safety". Female students told to leave because they "can't guarantee their safety". Catholic students told to leave because they "can't guarantee their safety". Etc.
I learned about this on Reddit and one poster there is saying "If Defcon 5 is 'get out of the USA' then I think we're approaching Defcon 3. And accelerating"
The thing is, there's a very, very, very consistent pattern that countries that treat Jews well, do well. And countries that treat Jews badly become shitholes. The US has done tremendously well because for all of its existence up until now, it's treated its Jews pretty well. There's been discrimination, but pretty much only on the level I've experienced as a hated "haole" in Hawaii. Not outright pogroms. This may change.
I guess the question for me is, how long will it take to go from Defcon 3 to Defcon 5? We got very close to Defcon 5 on the day of the January 6th insurrection. In fact, our country was saved by a White House intern who had a solid head on her shoulders, and grabbed the box of electoral votes and went into the hiding place with the politicians. I remember the hearings on the radio - in the sea of useful idiots were some real "hard operators" who were planning to break through floors/ceilings "Like we did in Afghanistan" to get to the politicians and kill them all. I guess our country was also saved by that heavenly Secret Service agent who killed that drugged-up blonde zombie who was literally crawling over jagged broken glass to get at him and his group of agents, to eat their brains probably. He mad a dead thing deader. That one shot turned the herd, though.
Come on, Secret Service, get a little more trigger-happy, OK? I've followed the reaction to this on Reddit, and it's very consistent - white people think it was no big dealio, and I, and POC, all think there should have been insurrectionist bodies stacked like cordwood on the White House lawn.
So we got very close to full-on Nazism on that day, then stepped back from the precipice for the last 4 years, but now we're getting close again. It can happen slowly or it can happen fast. I'd prefer to be out already. But prior to the October e7th attack, I'm not sure how to say this, but Jews and Israel had become complacent. It was just complaints on Reddit. That's sure changed. And Covid, I like to say, was like that big foot in the animations on Monty Python. This big foot just stomped down on everything.
I feel pretty good about one thing though; last night I was putting some trash in the dumpster and I found one box with 4 loaves of Bimbo bread and 6 little Bimbo cakes. I took the box and put the bread and cakes out by "my" dumpster enclosure and in a few hours, they were gone. And just now, Crutch Guy was hobbling through the parking lot and I went out and gave him a bottle of water and a bag of Borden shredded cheddar cheese. He only speaks a little English, mostly Spanish. I tried to ask him where he's trying to get to, and he said "Only walking... poquito." So, walking a little. He's got one calf bandaged up with an Ace bandage with some kind of lump under the bandage. Dammit this is the kind of guy the Republicans want cops to arrest and throw in a concentration camp.
I may have already written about this, but I recall the time 20+ years ago when I was active on the Ebay chat board and I related how I was in a Mexican restaurant in Huntington Beach, and this Mexican guy ate a meal, then tried to pay by cashing his pay check from his job there. I got the impression it was an arrangement he had with them but then something had changed so he could not do this, and now was on the hook for the price of his meal. They'd called the cops and everything. So I paid for his meal and that defused the whole situation. Well, the (almost all white) crowd on the Ebay discussion board sure didn't like hearing that! At that time, I bleached my hair blonde and drove a BMW and voted Republican, but it seemed like the right thing to do. Here was a human being, in a tough corner, and a mere $15 or so would fix things. No problem! But my Ebay compatriots acted like I'd done some evil thing.
I used to think that if I liked I could move anywhere in the USA ... but on the radio as I type, there's a story about teen gangs - one called the Gilbert Goons - in the Phoenix, AZ area killing people and beating people up. I could have predicted that, as I remember sitting in the very large suburban house of a friend of mine in Gilbert. He was a sales engineer for Agilent, and we were talking pleasantly and one of his daughters came home from school and talked to my friend, happily, about the "Nazi Club" one of the teachers set up that she attends after school.
This was not even remarked on by my friend. He didn't say, "Let's talk about this later". He didn't say, "Not now". He didn't say anything. Nazi clubs are A-OK in Arizona even to educated, affluent, householders. Maybe more than A-OK with that group, just as it was the middle-class burghers who supported Hitler the most.
I was behind on shipping and had time to pack 18 things from large to small, and got those things to the post office and FedEx. I was able to dash into H Mart for some cooking gas and veggies, and a little bag of kimi boro I gave an Asian homeless guy I've seen around - kimi boro remind me of childhood and maybe they will remind him of his childhood also. He's very quiet, and just said, "Thank you".
I found shipping stuff on the way back, and got in here. There have been landscape people cleaning up and weeding etc and now they were making a lot of noise and dust with leaf blowers. As I came in here, I saw this guy, the guy who'd been having some kind of car trouble quite a while back. So I started to say, "Are those both your cars?" but the damn leaf blower was too loud and I gave up, as he likewise gave up.
I've figured him out now, I think. Both cars are BMWs and have been here forever. One drives in and out and one just sits. The guy's clean-cut, and the cars are very clean, even the non-moving one doesn't have low tires or anything. The guy literally has a driving car and a sleeping car. The sleeping one has the windows black and out I mean, BLACKED out.
I think the guy works some weird shift, maybe works for the airport or one of the casinos. Maybe he's trying to save up all the money he can, and I think he has a pretty good system. A person can live in a car in this parking lot for years on end and no one will bother them unless they make themselves a problem.
That's also kind of interesting because I myself could do the car-life thing here because the people in this complex know me and are used to seeing me. Not that I'd want to, because living in a car is expensive. I want everything to hold together as it's been, so I can just keep my head down and in 2-3 years, move to Israel.
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