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writing these words in this order made me feel like i was having a stroke, i am pleased to share it with all of you

It is not AT ALL clear in the video that this is what she is referencing. Unless you have HER saying something about this in her AIPAC stuff I think the simplest interpretation of the video is her blaming AIPAC for her loss and her loss therefore means Biss's win was "bought".

That's because you have. My son was there on a gap year; every Friday in May he told me that the reservists were all getting ready for the war to start up again over the weekend.

Were any actual prices announced yet or just the discounts? I feel like I don't have enough information to even form a full opinion on this yet. I mostly view it for what I think it is: for now, an experiment to see what happens.

There's a whole Planet Money segment on this from npr a number of years ago. IIRC "grape" was one of the first ever artificial flavors and was indeed based on Concord grapes in the New York area. That doesn't mean it really tasted like them, but that was what the inventor was aiming for.

Cartoons don't involve the likely deaths of any living, breathing, humans near where the characters are fighting.

Members of Lechi and the Irgun sat in Israel's first Parliaments, which is always the example I cite when someone tries to argue that everyone from Hamas has to be barred from running in elections. Heck, I made this argument when I still identified as Zionist!

Based on my Facebook feed, which is HEAVILY people who are involved in mainstream American Jewish/Zionist orgs: absolutely. (My Bsky feed is much more non/anti-Zionist and much fewer mainstream Jews)

Wow, that sucks, I didn't know it was that bad now. When I was running a used books business they were still reliable for 2 day and overnight, though I rarely used them because I got decent UPS rates and had a daily pickup from them.

If it is FedEx ground it involves mostly 3rd party contractors for the final delivery. It has never been a super reliable method, worst of the 3 ground choices (next to UPS and USPS). Their express products are still handled by their own drivers as far as I know.

It's been a while, but the deliberations of the Beit Din (rabbinic court made up of 3 rabbis) are in the story. When they announce their decision the Bride is dragged back to the underworld by unseen forces, kicking and screaming.

All those books people donate to Goodwill, Salvation Army, Unique Thrift, Lupus, Veterans, etc... Tons and tons of them. Guaranteed that at least 80% of them end up in landfills or, at best, shredded for recycling. Probably closer to 90%.

I mostly know some of this stuff from the Jewish storytelling world. I think that a LOT of the stories in Schwartz's collection "Lilith's Cave" probably have their origins in the world you are describing (The folktale that "The Corpse Bride" is clearly based on uses a Beit Din to defeat the bride)

This is one possible scenario, yes.

This is a fair point - I have no idea what their donor base actually cares about beyond IsRaEl gOoD

Fair, but I think there is a point where the comparison fails. The moderating at NRA was because of corruption, not because of ideology AIPAC is ideologically in line with anyone who will be tapped as Israeli PM right now. In the past when they weren't they mostly ignored the PM until a friend won

attempts at suppression, yes Rigging is INCREDIBLY difficult to do at any scale in the US because of how decentralized our system is. I won't say impossible, but pretty close.

Animated or Suicide Squad?

So far there are no indications that AIPAC has any of the internal corruption issues that really killed the NRA. AIPAC is many things, but they have never been grifters. The mainstream Jewish pro-Israel world is stuck in a feedback loop bubble, I don't know if they ever moderate.

Lets add that before Citizens United such bundling was the BEST way for someone to get direct access to a candidate. Show up with $30k of max donations in hand and you aren't getting shuffled off to a staffer.