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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And sexistly! White *men* are presumably serious and consistent in their outrage and well-educated in history in a way our silly girlbrains could never be

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There was that article about a federal govt worker who thought he'd make her IVF free, instead he fired her and now she can't afford to ever have kids. People really thought he was in favor of freedom and prosperity!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah, but you see, this is a chance to be antisemitic *and* misogynist while keeping your leftist cred

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're agreeing and you are weirdly insisting on having an issue with me for no reason, muting now, have a good one

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Responding to the post above you, sorry - this idea that we'd let people hate Muslims/antisemitic cultures if they as a Jew were victimized, but.... leftists won't even welcome an ex-Muslim if they so much as question the Muslim *government* let alone express religious bigotry.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ex-Muslims are absolutely treated as pariahs by left/liberal people in the Western countries they move to when they express antipathy towards Islam or the country they had to flee (which is why so many end up falling into the very welcoming arms of the right)! I feel like I'm going insane!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

White male *liberal*, that's the important part! If you were a conservative Trump voter, you'd be normal and fine, but as a liberal Harris voter, you're a white male who *thinks he's better than a Trump voter* and that makes you *even worse* lol

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course they'd say Jews are just being hysterical, the way that Christians in rural nowheresville have armed guards at their churches to stop the gub'mint from takin' their good godfearin pastor away for not loving the gays enough or whatever. The fact that Jews have real reasons couldn't be it!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(and woman! very important to add that, white women are much worse than white men)

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a white liberal atheist Jew from a blue city in a blue state with way too much education (including an MBA!), I really wish I knew how to harness the apparently nuclear-level evil I am clearly capable of

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He referred to the child predator with a singular "they"!!! He's an LGBT rights icon!!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His party wants to make pregnancy a capital crime so he can fuck all the way off

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

everyone knows the most important thing about a military officer is if he has a beard which is why Grant so famously was a worse general than McClellan

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the "no uterus, no opinion" way. The question of Jewish safety and Israel's impact on it aren't questions that Gentiles really get to answer. "Jews should only have the choice to live as a minority in the diaspora" is a weird, bigoted thing to say!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah. But also opposing Israel's policies doesn't make you anti-Zionist, nor does "Zionist" mean you support Israel right now. Being against Zionism as a Gentile is antisemitic in the way that being anti-abortion as a man is automatically misogynistic. Not an opinion you get to have!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Anti-Israel sentiment" (I refuse to use "anti-Zionism", which is not what they mean) isn't necessarily antisemitism so they believe it means you are definitely not bigoted if you are anti-Israel right now. Fucking infuritating.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

India and China are actively oppressing Muslims and no one on the left would say that opposing those governments could absolve you of racism towards Indian- or Chinese-Americans!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They just didn't want to go to war led by a GIIIIIIIIIIIRL

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I saw it was him bloviating to his terrified wife, I was shocked! From what ppl said, I thought it was a powerful moment! (I did enjoy the parody of Julius Caesar's "danger knows full well I am more dangerous than he" speech also yelled at his wife, but I'm a Shakespeare nerd.)

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 27/09/2026

secretary of damnatio memoriae, many people are crying out for it

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When people say "anti-abortion ppl should like contraception" I'm like... contraception still prevents that baby from being born, why would they want that? The bigger weirdness is that this also means they're against abstinence too, you're supposed to bear children early and often lol

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

LBJ 🤝 Trump prde.upress.virginia.edu/conversation...

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A pregnancy threatening your life (as all pregnancies do)? Suck it up! A pregnancy threatening your paramour's political career as a Republican? That's not a precious baby it's a traitor to the cause, get rid of it!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can't educate when you're just saying "trust me bro" and making wrong assumptions about what your counterparty knows and thinks.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've had incredibly respectful conversations with Christians where all beliefs were laid on the table, but no one was actively trying to convince the other, it was entirely about our experiences feeling othered for our beliefs/practices. It was great! Real education happened!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Evangelists make strange, *bizarre* assumptions about non-Christians. We've heard of Jesus! We literally do not think the story is real! You can't be like, "look behind you! phew, see I saved you" when we *don't see the threat* and feel insulted and inconvenienced. Empathy, people!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They want to use Jews to absolve their own whiteness, so we have to all be white and we have to all be evil in a way that is explained by our whiteness. If we are punished for our whiteness we can represent their own penitence.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean you should *do good things* too, but "sit in the dark and self-flagellate for not being indigenous", shockingly, does not count!!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After 10/7 there was a martyring furor getting very excited at the idea of dying at the hands of righteous indigenous people, but that was not actually something that real voters enjoy

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"pound for pound" makes him literally incorrect, and "gotta hand it to the terrorists" is a pretty dumb thing to say! I know it's fashionable to say Americans should die, but most Americans aren't voting for that, nor do they want to be on a team with ppl who do!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unfortunately most of the biggest Trump supporters I know are immigrants, because "I had to do such a hard path to get and stay here, they have it easy, Democrats only care about illegals and Americans but not me"

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also, "I'm so edgy and smart and brilliant and fringe" ... "that's just fringe nonsense, stop elevating it" like isn't being fringe and out of the mainstream a sign of *goodness* in these spaces? You can't have it both ways!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People shouldn't go MAGA over it. But other marginalized people are excused for abstaining from voting or ratfucking Dems for way less. Jews are held to an impossible standard of seeing people minimize bigotry against us while we have to smile and enjoy it too.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It really has become, "I support Palestine therefore I *cannot* be antisemitic or bigoted in any way." A logic that would not be applied by leftists to other marginalized people.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And if you used this on a Muslim country that was oppressing its own citizens, or an African country, people would literally assume you were a huge racist regardless of what you believe. Ex-Muslims cannot find support on the left at all because you can't be against a Muslim theocracy!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Within Our Lifetime praised the attack, there was the Times Square rally in support of it, we all remember it! "vibes, essays, papers" was a meme...

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I also feel like, people use it to *excuse* antisemitism - like "my hatred of the Chinese government and support for the Uyghers means I *can't* be racist against Asian people" would be nonsense, but the analogue for Jews is considered rock-solid proof of goodness

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The ADL sucks and it would be a huge mistake for Jews to abstain from voting or go R as a Jew. But people on the left often argue that other oppressed people should abstain or support Rs (see: Paxton, Ken)! The double standard sucks!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It wasn't everyone doing it, but huge numbers were downplaying it. If there was a massacre of another minority group that led to some leftists hating that group, you wouldn't see the broader left downplaying that hate. We saw that solidarity wasn't there.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Globalize the intifada" was the next day! Worldwide solidarity with the killers, eliminationist rhetoric run wild, it was pretty widespread! People wanted Jews to be aware that they didn't belong in Israel or anywhere else.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Liberal Jews thought those liberal/left Gentiles in their social circles would be the "ones who'd hide them", and were overwhelmed by people celebrating and salivating at 10/7. It broke a lot of brains. If Vivian Silver gets murdered and people thrill at it, what's there to even do?

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In a context where you can get booted from an unrelated professional org for privately supporting a two-state-solution, be told you can't support any good cause unless you agree that Jews all Go Back To Poland, where words are violence except when those words imply the death of Jews, it's tough!

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Christianity is constantly used as a get-out-of-jail-free card in America. "I was thrown out for praying!" "I was banned for loving God!" "I lost custody because I'm a Christian" everything is a punishment for the faith. They want diplomatic immunity for any wrong act.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I too would like to study them, so we can cure them of delusions. But I'd prefer to spend that money helping people who want to be helped by medical science as opposed to wannabe medieval peasants.

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Meryl Federman @merylfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From a mile off, I knew that mainstream (Gentile) Dems were going to end up being his rock-solid base, and the DSA types were going to drop him like a hot potato if he won. Like the run rising in the east.

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