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  • Not necessarily. There’s tons of antisemitism in The American Fascist Party the GOP, but they’re 100% on the side of the Israeli government.

    The conservative brain works in mysterious ways. Some support Israel because of some end-times prophecy nonsense, some think that every Jew that moves to Israel is one less Jew in their way. Others just decided they hate Muslims more than Jew.

    In fact, equating Judaism and the Israeli government is arguably a kind of antisemitism itself

    That’s a different thing. You can oppose Israel without being an antisemite, but it’s trickier to explain how you can be an antisemite without opposing Israel. Hating all Jews while somehow militarily supporting those Jews. While it can be explained (see above) you have to admit it is rather counterintuitive.

    And anyway I would not expect GOP dynamics to easily translate to the AFD.















  • Agree that fun driving is essentially over, but I don’t think automatic cars are as common outside North America.

    In Europe ~80% of cars have manual transmission, mainly due to the (in the past) better fuel efficiency.

    Modern automatic cars have often slightly better fuel efficiency, but they cost quite a bit more to buy and maintain, and very nearly everyone knows how to drive stick, so people usually don’t bother.

    Edit: As we stop having fun driving cars, should we finally also say goodbye to race biking, and fun motorcycling, once and for all?