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 @c6d0060b 
Thanks for sharing that you're on twitter.  It's good to know who the nazis are so we can block them here on mastodon. 
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But why spend money on ad... 
 @6b43cb18
When ADL is seen advertising on twitter, this serves to normalize and legitimize musk's right-wing extremism.  As long as musk wants to keep pretending he's serious about keeping twitter/x relevant, then musk needs this sort of legitimization.  ADL will support musk as long as he doesn't cross some line and go full-nazi.  I'm sure ADL would prefer that musk not go full nazi, in large part because this would tarnish and delegitimize musk's brand of right-wing extremism, a brand that ADL wants to support.  This is always a difficult balancing act for the ADL because of course full-nazi is the inevitable logical conclusion of right-wing extremism.  As long as twitter is in any way relevant to journalism and to the public discourse, which it still is, then ADL and anyone else with a political agenda needs to advertise on twitter because ingratiating themselves to musk gives them input into who gets censored by musk.  ADL can easily tolerate some (but not endless) amounts of antisemitism on twitter in exchange for having some ability to influence the censorship of pro-Palestinian advocacy.  At the end of the day, musk might be too far-right for even the ADL, we'll have to wait and see.

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 @6b43cb18 
The ADL is a surrogate of the Israeli state.  While musk's twitter certainly makes the world less safe for Jewish people, from the perspective of the right-wing extremist Israeli state, this is a tolerable cost in exchange for the benefit provided by twitter, both directly and indirectly, of helping to support the genocide and destruction of the Palestinian state.  If anything, the increase in anti-Jewish propaganda and hate crimes that inevitably arises from Twitter's hate campaign will provide valuable fodder with which to generate sympathy and funding for the ADL and for the Israeli state.  I'm not saying that ADL or musk are gonna directly organize a false-flag bombing of a synagogue, I'm just saying their respective interests and right-wing extremist politics have a lot in common. 
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 @1923603a @f7d0478e 
I would think myself richer, not poorer, for finding out which colleagues are nazi collaborators. 
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GET proponents claim that harms from GET are from not doing it correctly but with Lighting Pr... 
 @0ecd8d1a 
What is LP please? 
 @65b14323 
Consumer Reports current ratings of auto insurance companies, from least worst to most worst. (You must pay Consumer Reports money for more details.)

(92) USAA Group
(86) NJM Insurance Group
(83) Amica Mutual Group
(81) Erie Insurance Group
(80) PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company
(78) Acuity
(78) West Bend Mutual Insurance Company
(76) California Casualty Group
(75) Chubb INA Group
(69) The Cincinnati Insurance Companies
(68) Wawanesa General Insurance Company
(65) Auto-Owners Insurance Group
(64) Westfield Group
(64) Auto Club Enterprises Insurance Group
(63) State Farm Group
(63) Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company
(62) American Family Insurance Group
(61) Horace Mann Insurance Group
(61) NYCM Insurance Group
(59) Plymouth Rock Companies
(58) COUNTRY Financial Property Casualty Group
(57) State Auto Insurance Companies
(54) Hartford Insurance Group
(53) Auto Club Group
(53) Travelers Group
(52) GEICO (Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Group)
(51) Hanover Insurance Group Property & Casualty Companies
(51) CSAA Insurance Group
(48) Mercury General Group
(46) MAPFRE North America Group
(46) Nationwide Group
(46) Farmers Insurance Group
(45) Progressive Insurance Group
(43) Allstate Insurance Group
(40) Kemper PC Companies
(40) Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies 
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 @879c2191 
This RICO case serves two purposes simultaneously - to harass and undermine the left, and to enable a narrative of false equivalence between leftist criticism of RICO misuse and right-wing complaint of same in the trump RICO case.