jabberwonk
jabberwonk OP t1_irw0h4l wrote
Reply to comment by Inner-Figure5047 in Mastriano’s Attacks on Jewish School Set Off Outcry Over Antisemitic Signaling by jabberwonk
>Mr. Mastriano, who promotes Christian power and disdains the separation of church and state, has repeatedly lashed Mr. Shapiro for attending and sending his children to what Mr. Mastriano calls a “privileged, exclusive, elite” school, suggesting to one audience that it evinced Mr. Shapiro’s “disdain for people like us.”
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>It is a Jewish day school, where students are given both secular and religious instruction. But Mr. Mastriano’s language in portraying it as an elitist reserve seemed to be a dog whistle.
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>This summer, Mr. Mastriano’s campaign came under scrutiny for paying $5,000 to the far-right social media platform Gab. The man accused of perpetrating the Pittsburgh shooting had posted antisemitic screeds on Gab, and Mr. Mastriano’s payment drew bipartisan condemnation. The platform’s founder, Andrew Torba, defended Mr. Mastriano and declared that “we’re not bending the knee to the 2 percent anymore,” an apparent reference to American Jewry.
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>Only after significant pressure did Mr. Mastriano release a statement saying that he rejected “antisemitism in any form,” appearing to leave the site and stressing that Mr. Torba did not speak for him.
jabberwonk t1_iqsu1hy wrote
Reply to need some ideas on where to go for a weekend getaway the 22nd and 23rd of October by gjoakum221
Colebrookdale Railroad in Boyertown, then maybe out to Lancaster. Should be peak foliage or just past. There's also a weekend in New Hope Pa. (could do that with Boyertown easily enough as well). Further away I'm sure Falling Water is absolutely spectacular during the fall as well.
jabberwonk t1_itlsgx5 wrote
Reply to comment by Alternative-Flan2869 in Trump Plans to Challenge the 2022 Elections -- Starting in Philly by CQU617
And because of these threats and BS all poll workers have to have a mandatory 2-hour in-person training class before 11/8. Mine is tonight and I guarantee it's going to be mostly about not giving any of the GQP poll watchers anything to latch on to.