An Apology But Not An Explanation

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’ve already apologized in the post itself and on twitter, but it occurs to me I need to do it for the people who subscribe.

If you’re looking at the page wondering who replaced me, that probably makes twice in two days. It is true I make it a policy not to apologize to those screaming offense. That policy remains in place.

You see normally when I offend people it is by doing or saying something I believe, and if it offends them, that’s their problem not mine.

This one I did not mean, I have no real explanation for, and it was heinous because of the times we live in.

For those who missed it, yesterday I put up one meme in the compilation that was or could be interpreted as antisemitic. In fact, that was the simplest interpretation.

And I have no explanation for it, or none that makes sense to me. It was a two panel, top and bottom meme. And the problem is that I didn’t see the bottom panel. Period. What I saw was the top that said “CNN says Earth is [amount] in debt. Who do we owe that debt to, the Decepticons?” This tickled my economics nerd sense of humor, because of course, we talk of debt and of borrowing from the future, but that’s not precisely true. You should put a pin in that, or it will turn into a whole new post. I’ll do one tomorrow. The truth is that we’re stealing from the present, which yes, means our kids will be poorer, but we’re not actually borrowing from them.

But the idea of the whole Earth, with no universal governing authority, made me giggle, so it went in. I never saw the second panel, which had a Decepticon “Jew” caricature. (To be fair, this has happened before. Today we’re reconfiguring my office, as I get no internet up there, so I’m doing the posts on the laptot, and sometimes the bottom is hard to see, and since then I overtop in posting, I might never see the bottom.)

I have no explanation for this, save that I was ill for two months and am now rushing to catch up one everything, house and work, on top of the holidays and with a guest in the house who is moving out in stages this weekend. All of which means I’m running around like a lunatic and was dealing with other problems while putting up the promo post. (This is normal.) And the promo post is fussy and fiddly to put up.

Also, yes, the meme came in a compilation one of my friends sends me, and no, he’s not anti-semitic. He apologized for it, but the fault is mine, because I do nix some of his every week, sometimes because I think he missed the subtle dig — at conservatives or Trump or something hidden in them — or because I fail to “get” them. (Apparently both he and I, not being anti-semites or hanging out in such places missed “Decepticon” having become a slur. Both of us thought of it as the Science Fiction meaning.)

So I wouldn’t just ‘pass his meme on’ with no thought.

Again no explanation. Except it’s like when I gave my kitten the old cats meds and spend a day terrified he’d die on me (It was Indy. Obviously he’s fine.) They don’t look a thing alike, but Havey was running from me, Indy ran up to me and my brain went “Cat shape” and popped the pill in his mouth. Which I realized was wrong as he swallowed. This was about a year and a half ago, and I also had no explanation for it except “I was very tired.” And apparently a meat-robot took over while my brain went to sleep.

Anyway, I normally wouldn’t bother apologizing for such a slip. After all, it can be interpreted as my friend did, as so over the top it mocks anti-Semites.

But unfortunately since 10/7 there has been a weird wave of anti-semitism everywhere, and while it of course is mostly a leftist thing, it seems to have infected some people theoretically on our side. I know for my Jewish friends the experience is often of seeing friends and neighbors remove the mask to show a hideous face beneath.

And while no rational human being can think I suddenly became anti-Semitic, (In fact, that would be evidence there was a pod in the basement and something was wearing a Sarah suit.) we don’t live in rational times, and as I said some people I’d never have dreamed of being that ridiculous seem to believe the most atrocious stuff.

So, I’m apologizing if I induced someone’s PTSD to act up, and I’m apologizing for putting up something I do not in fact believe, not even as a joke.

I have no idea how it happened, but it’s been brought home to me perhaps sleep is not the enemy. And I need to look at every meme very carefully before it goes up.

I’m very sorry if I hurt some of you. It wasn’t intentional. And I literally didn’t mean it. I just missed a second panel on the meme.

If I EVER post something like that again, take it as a cue for a welfare check, because something went wrong.

Thank you.

99 thoughts on “An Apology But Not An Explanation”

    1. Well, I don’t care if they try to use it against me. IT IS a owed apology, because I’ve seen so many of my Jewish friends DEEPLY hurt by seeing people turn on them after 10/7. I don’t want to contribute to that hurt. Ever.

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      1. Miss Sarah, you’re always a gracious hostess, and I thought your apology was perfectly pitched although not really necessary from my [ultra-MAGA-psycho-Zionist] perspective. I am honored to accept your cute little sparrow on behalf of am Yisrael.

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      2. I suspect you didn’t see it because you are not an antisemite.

        It’s not as far up there as “using octopuses to indicate the Jews secretly running everything,” but “evil robots thus clearly Jewish not a lack of talent in drawing”

        Like how I’ve missed anti-Catholic digs because there hasn’t been organized attempt to genocide the Vatican State in the last five years, which got cheered on or excused by various evil morons.

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  2. I am fairly new to your site; even in the short time I have been a fan, I cannot imagine ANY circumstance where you might be accused of antisemitism. Folks who follow you know better; if you have attracted some who don’t, they are of the ilk who look for something, anything, with which to take umbrage in order to feel superior. They should be ignored as small-minded and no consequence individuals. Forge ahead and continue to delight those of us smart enough to value your take on things.

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    1. Agree 100%. As for the “decepticon”, I’d never heard that in any context, so if I did see it it simply went past me.

      Ans as for the antisemites who emerged from under their rocks after 10/07, they’re the classic “blame the victim” idiots who show up every time some righteous group or individual turns the tables on an attacker. Like woul;d-be rapists killed or maimed by their intended victims, the “Palestinians” (no such thing; Palestine as a state is a creation of the 20th century) are getting exactly what they invited. As is Hezbollah.

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  3. Sarah – I confess that the anti-Semitic tilt of the second panel went totally past me (I didn’t pay attention to the decepticon, having gotten the joke of the first panel.) An honest mistake, Don’t beat yourself up – I think we’ve all had enough canceling.

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  5. Nobody’s perfect, Sarah. It’s not a big deal. To me, “Deception” sounds like a Transformer joke, and I would have thought the same thing. No big deal!

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        1. …and I’m mightily resisting the urge to post a clip from the G1 movie from the 80s, but now I have a certain song as an earworm. :-o

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    4. It was a Transformer joke.

      But, it also clearly had what I suspect was Israel’s Gundam from G Gundam. In G Gundam, there are a bunch of national stereotype Gundams.

      This was a Gundam or Decepticon, with those sterotypical sidelocks that some Jewish men wear, a hat, and reading a scroll that I suspect has indicators of being a Torah.

      So I noticed the second panel, made some of the mental connections, then moved on without comment.

      I think I must have made some other mental connections as well, or something.

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  6. I saw the meme, did not make the Jewish connection either, thought the Decepticon thing was funny, and scrolled on to the next meme.

    If that makes me a Nazi, because I didn’t make an odious connection and I’m insufficiently pious, then some people are straining at gnats, have their knickers in a twist over nothing, and y’all can K my A.

    Now that it has been spelled out, IMHO anyone who really thinks the world is in debt to the Jews is as big an idiot as one who really thinks Decepticons did it. Or bigger, if anything. And that guy can K my A as well.

    No apologies to pearl clutchers. Get a life, you w@nkers.

    Sarah, no harm no foul. The Phantom has spoken.

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    1. Just curious.

      Did folks not -see- the traditional/Orthodox Hebrew hat, beard, hair, and big scroll? The six-point star? Blue and white colors?

      Or did it just not process as “Jewish”?

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      1. I didn’t catch it at first glance, but did notice before scrolling down the page. I didn’t ping our hostess about it, but not because I’m antisemitic or believe that she is, just that I’m lazy. :P

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      4. I saw it, thought, “Chassidic Decepticon? Dang, I missed that episode,” and laughed my tail off at the whole thing.

        I read it as “Oh, look, someone being over-the-top stupid. Poe’s Law in effect,” and went on. I’m obviously not the right market for the meme-maker.

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      5. Nothing. No connection. Some of us simply don’t pay any attention to that stuff. At all. Ever. We don’t ‘get it’.

        Some refuse to believe that, which I consider to be -their- problem, not mine.

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      6. Saw it. Processed it as Jewish.

        Understood the claim, and that it was an incorrect slur.

        For whatever reason, did not decide it was worth saying anything, or really remembering.

        I actually may have tracked down the origin of the image.

        So, when reading the memes, I thought ‘Oh, an over the top Israel gundum from G Gundam.’

        There are cybertronians without mouths, but many of them have mouths. Gundams more often have eyes but no mouth. (Except I think for some SD gundams.) I also did not recall seeing a Decepticon insignia.

        I’m not super familiar with G Gundam, but I knew that the Dutch Gundam in that was a windmill or something.

        Anyway, turns out that there was a G Gundam fan created Rabbi Gundam for Neo Israel. PEr the duckduckgo index, IIRC (1) mintyrobo created it for a Hannukkah greeting card for 2003, and put it on deviant art. Seems to have been taken down.

        I’m sharing the new details, because it is possible that this is the best job I will ever do tracking down some weird image with fannish elements.

        (1) I did not make notes, so I may not have remembered the username exactly correctly.

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        1. Oh! That explains why it didn’t exactly look like a standard Transformer (vehicle-type, not electrical type). Neat. Thanks for the info.

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      7. I honestly saw only the “weird” hat with the earflaps (did NOT code as Orthodox, prob because poorly drawn?) and didn’t even spot the star.

        As to blue and white, well, lots of transformers/decepticons had similar color schemes in the cartoon, so I just went “that’s a weird looking bot” but since it’s also been nigh 40 years since I watched any of the cartoon I honestly don’t recall what anyone but Optimus prime looks like :D

        Didn’t realize it until our gracious hostess apologized–and I’m glad to see I’m not the only one here who didn’t notice. We’re just…not anti Semitic enough here? Or just don’t notice coded stuff like that?

        At any rate, we are all well aware that Sarah would never have posted it if she’d noticed–but like many of us, didn’t. Bunch of innocents here, we are!

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        1. I saw the picture scribble, the word descepticons, and went “huh? What about the cartoon robots?” Just figured “I didn’t get it”. So scrolled on. Not the first meme I didn’t “get”, won’t be the last.

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  7. The telling thing was that while it could be taken that way, the part(-y,-ies) who would be most logically offended seemed to be more laughing at/with than anything. Of course, the group is known for having quite a sense of humor. It’s they Get Serious that there is Real Trouble. For an example of that, see Gaza… where they got a bit serious but are still holding back some.

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  8. A. Shit happens

    B. I now want a new Transformers series where the Jewabots (or possibly Judencons) combine to form RABBI who fights the likes of Devastator and First Aid

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    1. Samson Prime, King Data-Vid, Dev-Rah (the lady gamerbot), and the lovable MaccaBee!

      And their enemies: Fear-Oh, Harm-Admin, Jeza-Decibel, and the tricky, gigantic Go-Lie-Ath.

      A battle of good ancient tech and timeless evil, between the Build-ren of Israel and the Cain-Nanites!

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      3. Bwahahaha!!! This is one of the best things I’ve heard in weeks. Totally ridiculous, and also badass. Somebody needs to make it happen.

        As for the meme in question, I did think it was odd that the robot was a Jewish caricature — after laughing my head off at the first panel. And then I moved on. Such is life in the age of memes.

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  9. May I make mention that if you can possibly be so offended by a cartoon meme like that, you have bigger problems than a simple picture on the internet. If your faith and confidence are so fragile as to take egregious offense to the memes of others, what does that say about you?

    I have, in my life, been a Catholic, an Atheist, a reluctant Methodist, and a curious wanderer of religious faiths and more. There have been many slurs and epithets cast against me. Violent acts, disparagement, threats, and suchlike. This is not a sad thing, nor do I desire pity for it.

    In the assaults upon my belief, my faith has grown stronger. My beliefs are not cookie cutter perfect, identical to any other that I’ve found. They have evolved as I have. Through relentless questions, curiosity, failures, and investigation is where I stand today.

    As believers, we only fail when we stop getting back up again. We are, none of us, perfect. That does not prevent us from chasing perfection, even as we can only perceive the tiniest part of it.

    I can see that folks like us only feel sorrow that we might have inadvertently hurt a friend. That is praiseworthy. Let not the harmful intentions of those that are most definitely not your friends sway you. A friend will tell you of your mistakes, and stand by you as you strive to be better. Just as you would do the same.

    For whatever imaginary offense you might believe of this, I give you forgiveness for my own part. It takes rather a lot to offend someone like me. Mostly because of a failure to identify social cues, but also because I don’t much care what those meaningless to me say about or to me.

    May your heart be untroubled, sister Sarah. In the grand scope of things, this is of little consequence, if it is any at all. Those who would seek to cause you harm will still be doing so, regardless of whatever you do (save massive brain trauma that caused you to go crazy and suddenly become a Socialist- a highly unlikely if not impossible chain of events). Those who are friendly towards you would hardly turn their backs on you for such a thing.

    Be at peace. Look to those that love you- your husband, your children, your children’s wives, and your fuzzy little friends. Do they think any less of you for this? Of course not. Nor should they. Chin up, girl. Let the foes try and make something of this. They are but fools and unintelligent, maleducated children. Their demonstrated ignorance stands for all to see.

    You are not a bad person Sarah. You are an intelligent, caring, and relentlessly brave one. Those that know you, know this. Worry not.

    Now go clean, or play with the cats, or edit, or plot. Do what needs be done, and enjoy life again. That is good both ways. It’s bloody fun, and it tends to aggravate the idiots most amusingly.

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  10. Eh meh. I didn’t think it was that bad. I actually laughed.

    But I can see how some completely humorless fools might have complained.

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  11. I was a bit confused by it myself… but I also thought the idea of a Decepticon Rabbi was silly enough to be the joke, and so that’s why it was there.

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    1. The same. Laughing at something silly beats taking offense six ways to Shabbos… and if Rabbi Transformerstein ever shows up, I’d attend his shiurim for sure!

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            1. Writing yes. Having his comics out in public…. not yet. BUT he used to have Ninja Nun and her friend Mogen David.
              I got an email asking me if he was Catholic or Jewish, because an office full of his comic fans couldn’t decide. (Mogen had all the best zingers.)

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  12. I wouldn’t apologize, since you get progs bleating “Do Better” and such and never really accepting the apology.

    The “allies” whom been getting publicly anti-semitic were likely never our friends. A lot of leftists got disaffected by the shift to blaming whites and not all of them can be those pathetic white people kneeling/flagellating themselves so attempting to infiltrate the right and spread their own version of collectivism is their likely path.

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    1. I have not seen many get more antisemitic on our side: those who were otherwise co-belligerents had already told us what they think of the sons of Jacob, and some were greater mule-fathers about it than others. Those who love or at least honor the Jews had likewise also made themselves known.

      The duplicitous masks-of-expedience stances are far more common on the left of the aisle than the right, because (IMO) the American division of R and L comes down to those who subordinate all to pursuing Truth, and those who subordinate all to the pursuit of Power, respectively. We might not agree on what is true, but on this side, we try to make the truth our aim.

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      1. In Fairness, I do not think ANYBODY becomes Conservative as a means of Status Gain Through Social Signaling. That tends to keep down the myrmidon contingent on the Right.

        Progressives cannot pursue Truth as they do not recognize Truth as a Value. It is, instead, an artifact of Power to be imposed by the Elite. It is a tool of oppression and rebellion: Their Truth, Our Truth but never The Truth. This is also the basis of the recent misuse of Science which one side considers a means of deriving Truth while the other considers a tool of imposing Truth.

        Language usage similarly reflects this dichotomy. The Right uses language as a way of conveying meaning and thus holds to definitions as established. The Left uses language as an implement of imposing meaning and definitions are malleable according to the needs of those exercising power over words.

        “Reality is a Social Construct” is a basic tenet of the Social Sciences – but it matters whether you consider Reality something to be shaped to the collective Will or if the purpose is to confirm that social construct as nearly as possible to an underlying Reality (aka G-D’s Will.) The former inevitably brings closer the Gods of the Copybook Headings which hardly any enjoy.

        Rgrds,

        RES

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        1. The concept of the universe being able to be altered by a large enough consensus of supposedly intelligent life is an occasional theme that I see pop up every so often in science fiction. Greg Bear’s, “Blood Magic” is one of them, where the cellular intelligences change reality toward the end of the book after passing some huge Googleplex in number.

          Not having seen any substantiation for such a ‘belief’, it seems more like an extrapolation of magical thinking/wishing on the part of the Left. You can’t change reality without the use of work. It doesn’t change just because someone says, “I wanna”, or “That’s not fair!”

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          1. In all the universe, the only control you have is over your own actions. Your actions can affect the universe, but you can’t always predict how, or how your actions will interact with everybody else’s.

            Thought without action has no effect outside your own head.

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  13. Add me to the list of people who just didn’t register that they went together.

    The current wave of antisemitism since 10/7 is pulling away masks that the first Trump administration didn’t reach.

    I think…maybe more masks will fall soon.

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  14. I doubt absolution is warranted as you, while not as anti-anti-Semitic than Alan Dershowitz, are only slightly less so.

    Like others I perceived it as a Transformers joke and thus scarcely worth attention. I think this an instance of the anti-Semitic iconography being, dog-whistle-like, noticeable by the already anti-Semitic. Thus to perceive it as anti-Semitic flags one as anti-Semitic (or one of the Professionally Alert Caste, ever on guard for opportunities to decry, denounce and banish.)

    At this season of the year it is important to recognize that any Debt has been discharged for those willing to accept the Forgiveness, so the only Debt extant is owed by those determined to be damned. That debt is not measured monetarily.

    So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Welcome the New Calendar, light lights, spin dreidels, eat donuts and debate whether latkes are served with sour cream, applesauce or straight up. We’ve survived another passage ’round the Sun!

    Rgrds,

    RES

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  15. Sarah

    I have followed you for several years. It would never occur to me to consider you antisemitic. I would have made the same oversight that you did. I didn’t notice the antisemitism when I originally read the meme.

    FWIW I think you are good and thoughtful woman who would never gratuitously insult anyone. I enjoy reading your blog.

    Please forgive yourself and don’t stop being the way you are.

    And have a Merry Christmas with your friends and family.

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  16. It must’ve slid right by my radar, probably interpreted as openly mocking Jew-hate as being as stupid as believing the Transformers are real. The one I did do a double-take on was the “everything I hate is Jewish” one, until I realized that yes, it was mocking and ridiculing Jew-hate.

    Part of it is the problem that, a sly dig at the haters delivered by a Jewish comedian can sound very different when repeated by someone who isn’t Jewish. So, for those of us who aren’t Jewish, it can be tricky to figure out what we can safely repeat/repost/etc.

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      2. I have observed that members of a group usually know the best jokes about said group. That’s why I have an excellent collection of blonde jokes and Mormon jokes.

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      1. Which is what I realized about 2.1 seconds after I first saw it (which was complicated by the initial page-down getting only about half the image on the screen, so I didn’t see the punchline until I did a second page-down and could see the whole thing).

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  17. Well we’re taking it as a welfare check this time also. You’re burning the candle at both ends again. And in the middle. I kind of know that saying “get rest” is futile but I’ll say it anyway.

    PS, I missed the reference but I miss a lot of modern references so I’m not your good choice for a beta reader of memes.

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  18. I’m Jewish, but never noticed what you’re apologizing for. “Decepticon” has never been anything but a Transformers reference to me (possibly because I used to spend hours with that program on TV in the background when my stepsons were little).

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    1. There were some step-up transformers, for getting voltage high enough to light big neon lights. One day a younger neighbor kid asked, “What are those?” “Transformers.” “What do they turn into?”

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  19. I was a little surprised when I saw it (as I’ve seen a lot of anti-Semitic memes like that on Gab…my follow list over there is all over the map because, hey, can’t fight stupid if you don’t take the time to understand it a little) but I wrote it off as you being absurdist or having just missed the panel, as you did.

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  20. Oh, fret not – I think no one would assume you were suddenly going to don your jackboots and fake moustache and begin quoting Mein Kampf!! I saw it, figured it was a poke at the people who blamed Da Jooz for whatever, and moved on. But you are so kind to even cover that issue, showing your heart of gold and your lovely conscience. God bless you all and Merry Christmas to you and yours, two legged, four legged, feathered or finned.

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  21. FWIW, I’m another one who didn’t notice,and I get some pretty vile stuff on my Twitter feed (mostly stuff reposted by anti-anti-Semites).

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  22. List me as another one that it flew by. And this is the first I’ve heard of the “Decepticon = Jooooosssss!!!!!11”

    Looks like I need to update my Newspeak Dictionary again

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    1. Meh.

      Just another one that will keep slipping by me.

      Heck when I see “BLM”, I don’t think of the rioter’s unless the report is on rioters. I think of the agency that manages timber and grazing lands. Of coarse some of who discuss them think they are terrorists too. So …

      Oh, yes. Get off my lawn 😁

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  23. “We owe it to our future generations and we are not going to pay it,” is how I see it. I think for me (missed it here, but I I’ve seen it elsewhere, and went back to check, Oh, yeah) I’ve become so inured to the typical “Joooozzzs” B.S. I didn’t even make that connection, because that isn’t who we owe, I didn’t pay mind to the lower panel

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  24. I’m an off-again-on-again reader from Insty Land, 60+yrs old, and I thought it was the sci fi robots as well.

    but -as an old mom and a PD sufferer, sleep is NOT the enemy and those productive hours or minutes you think you’re squeezing out? The sleep would be better.

    Merry Christmas and hope you are 100% again soon.

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  25. To be honest, I looked at that particular meme, as a whole, and it didn’t make any sense to me. Which is why I didn’t repost it myself. I’m not surprised it snuck through, considering the volume you manage to dig up each week. That’s why newspapers used to print retractions.
    Even the best of us sometimes get caught with our britches around our ankles. (I hate making mistakes but, it’s always better if I own up to them and fix them rather than trying to deny or ignore them – Kudos to you!)

    That one was a pretty blatant attempt by the maker to sneak some antisemitism into the meme, and especially by trying to appeal to the rage against Jews financial successes. Easy to overlook if you have several things on your mind already, or haven’t had coffee. What’s more concerning are the memes where the pattern is hidden better, not enough to be easily noticed, but registers subconsciously. And humans are good at seeing patterns, even if they don’t recognize them. Which is why psyops are both an art, and a science.

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      1. It might come later in the next year. It took the abuse of the pastor and threats to demolish his church, plus events in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, to finally push things to a breaking point in 1989.

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  27. On a complete tangent, looks like I’m going to have to be giving my cat pills for the rest of his life. And he is a formerly feral cat. A creampuff, but fully able to turn inside himself.

    On a bit of a Hail Mary, I decided to try sticking the pills in cat treats to see if I could get him to just eat them.

    Found a couple at the store that looked like they might be squishy enough to embed a pill in: a Temptations salmon treat and some Friskies crunchy outside / chewy inside pills.

    Well, turned out the salmon treats had the consistency of dark chocolate, and smell like peanut butter. And the crunchy treats were not chewy on the inside. I ended up trying anyway, on the off chance it worked. The salmon treat kind of shattered instead of squished, and the crunchy treats weren’t going to work, so I did what I could and stuck the whole thing on a plate for him. (He was fascinated by the salmon treats.)

    Wonder of wonders, the little stinker ate the whole thing, pill and all. We’ve now repeated it there times with the same result.

    I now have a way to get pills in this cat without WWIII.

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    1. “I now have a way to get pills in this cat without WWIII.

      “

      Congratulations!

      Been there, done that, multiple cats over the years. Have the scars to prove it. Actually, “we” have the scars to prove it. A few cats took two of us to get them to take their life extension medication.

      Pray your method keeps working.

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    2. Athena would take pills crushed into t-u-n-a or h-a-m. Jase reverses himself inside his skin, then disapparates and reappears in Abu Dhabi when you try to give him a pill. Even when three people try to give him a pill.

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    3. They make treats that are intended to convey pills to the critters, with a little hole to stick the pill in.

      Maybe you got enough salmon flavor on the pill he didn’t notice it was a pill.

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          1. We always had to “shove it down throats” far enough the cat had to swallow (at least past the opening). Usually with a finger. But there is a long tool for that. More often enough chucked up. Current semi-feral has “calming meds” to give when we need to take to the vet. Sprinkle on wet food. Problem is no guaranty he’ll eat the food. Last trip problem was getting him into the carrier, at vet clinic he was fine (he got shots and nails clipped). Not happy, but no blood shed of the techs. Thank goodness the feline flea med is topical (Revolution).

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          2. My doggos have all been usually fine if it’s embedded in a large bite of something too gooey to get rid of. Cream cheese works. Otherwise they will go to some lengths: Fuzzy pouched and then licked all the tasty beefy coating off her monthly heartworm pill and left the little white hexagon in the middle of the living room.

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  28. To be honest, it didn’t even occur to me that was supposed to be a Jewish decepticon. I just went “Well, that decepticon looks weird, but it has been 40 years since I actually watched a Transformers cartoon, so ::shrug::” and continued onwards :D

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