re: Netflix under fire for historically accurate casting of biblical movie…

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Can someone explain to me how modern day Jews aren’t of Jewish descent.

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I don't really care, but I can answer this question

1. The people who returned to Israel in the late 19th century and post-creation of Israel spent a LONG time outside of the Levant.

2. "Jewish" is a religion, so people who have no genetic history in the Med area can become Jewish.

The Palestinians of today are not the same as back when; they changed when Muhammad came into the picture. They are now rabidly and violently anti-Jew/Israel, as their Prophet's Theology demands.

Jihadism won't change no matter what kind of movies Netflix makes. Islamists are martyrdom-minded, and like moths to the flame will push the destruction of Israel till they are neck deep in "blood up the bridle of a horse".

You cut and paste nearly every response you post here.

You need to leave the site again and get back to work, Perry Mason.

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The Left uses the bureaucracy as a negotiating tool, because promoting the power of the bureaucracy is a Leftist ideal.

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Of course

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Of course

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That's the whole point of DOGE, allegedly, to remove that power.

This is what always happens when the "reduce government" crowd gets power. They don't want to give up the power/leverage and ultimately expand it.

That's why we have a Leviathan bureaucracy ("the Deep State") and are $35T in debt.

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Expansion of regulatory authority = expansion of government

Expansion of intervention into free markets = expansion of government

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Um, no. If the same number of people have expanded powers, that doesn't 'increase the size of government,' no matter how much you want it to.

No, you're just wrong about this. A major platform of the Trump campaign was reducing the size of government. Whether or not his admin. accomplishes this remains to be seen, but claiming that MAGA wants to expand government is cheap, c-tier lawyer bullshite.

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The Palestinians of today are not the same as back when; they changed when Muhammad came into the picture. They are now rabidly and violently anti-Jew/Israel, as their Prophet's Theology demands.

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Judaism isn’t the same as back then either. The Babylonian Talmud was not completed until around AD 700. The Jewish religion is completely different than it was 2000 years ago. In fact, Christianity is the oldest of the 3 Abrahamic religions from a purity standpoint

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but since the religion is a religion that is NOT focused on new converts it’s likely that most Jewish believers are genetic decedents of Jews from the Biblical era.

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The genetic testing has been posted ITT. This "common sense" approach is running into actual data on the issue.

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Maybe they married Europeans over time, not arguing that, but they have to be extremely likely to be the actual descendants, right?

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Look at the data. I don't think anyone is arguing they have NO genetic history in the area.

Well, other than those who promote the Khazarian Conspiracy Theory. They propose they're all frauds.

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A major platform of the Trump campaign was reducing the size of government.

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And we are seeing that was only words and won't be action.

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Whether or not his admin. accomplishes this remains to be seen

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I'll wager a good bit they will not, both for philosophical and effectiveness reasons.

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but claiming that MAGA wants to expand government is cheap, c-tier lawyer bullshite.

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But they do. We ended up with more government (and debt) after Trump admin 1. There is no reason to think the same results won't happen this time, too.

*the referenced debt above doesn't even include Trump's trillions of covid spending.