4 essays on Hamas, Tech Tyranny, Gay Identity and Trump’s Power.
Today you’re getting essays in four different subjects; ain’t I the best teacher you ever met
By
David Gottfried
Pro Hamas “activists” are now adopting patently Hitlerian tactics.
This past week, Pro Hamas activists invaded a New York City Subway train and demanded that all Jews identify themselves. This is what the Nazis did. The Nazis, wedded to the delusion that all Jews were constantly subverting society by passing as non-Jews, wanted Jews identified and segregated so their “influence” would be neutered.
Of course, the pro Hamas hoodlums did not kill anyone on the subway. However, they are not stupid people; many of them have frequented America’s most elite institutions of “higher” learning. Therefore. they know that the Nazis always endeavored to point the glare of search lights on Jews. After all, whenever the Nazis seized new territory, they instantly demanded that all Jews wear a yellow star.
Why did educated, pro-Hamas bastards demand that the Jews identify themselves.
They are nostalgic for a holocaust. They have had their full of the peace of the post war era and long to be hurtling back in time to the 30’s and the 40’s, when Rassenkrieg (Race War) set men’s eyes on fire. And this of course encompasses the far right as well. At least one of the January 6 insurrectionists wore a T shirt that said, “Camp Auschwitz.” I want to strangle these people to death. What the fuck is so goddamn funny about Auschwitz.
New Developments in Technology, in conjunction with the Uniform Commercial Code, section 2-207, are skewering working people.
This is the problem, concretely: On February 1, one may speak to “Margaret” of Spectrum, and she may agree that Spectrum will give you internet service, cable television and mobile phone service for 300 dollars a month. A few hours later, one may receive emails which purport to state the terms of the contract, but this written recitation of terms adds terms which screw you.
Obviously, one would want to reply to the e mail and note that the contract, you agreed to with Margaret, did not contain those hideous terms. However, you cannot respond to the email. The email is designated a “no reply” e mail.
Apparently, in our Brave New World of Hi Tech, a new form of communication has been conceived: The lord can speak to his Vassal, but the Vassal cannot speak back. A company can misstate their verbal pledges in an e mail that you cannot respond to.
Many large companies keep mum about the e mail addresses that one can write to. Sometimes they keep mum about their physical addresses. If your dispute with a company were to come before a court, the court will want evidence of your protests to the company, but when a company is impervious to e mail, and when its physical address is obscured, you will have no evidence.
Of course, in most cases one can always eventually find their physical address. However, they have devised plenty of ingenious methods of receiving certified mail without signing for it.
The ability of companies, to send you e mails that you can’t respond to, can destroy poor consumers because of the rules of the UCC, or the uniform commercial code. By and large, in all 50 states, the UCC governs commercial relations.
If A and B enter into a contract, and 15 minutes later A sends B a confirmation of the contract which adds additional terms, those additional terms will become part of the contract unless B promptly says, “Hell no. I don’t agree to those additional terms.” This is the law pursuant to UCC, Section 2-207. However, how can B refute those additional terms when those additional terms are proffered in an email that B cannot respond to. I will admit that the UCC says that this provision is only operative between merchants, but various jurisdictions, on a rightward march starting with Reagan and accelerating with Trump, are apt to define the term merchant more and more broadly to screw working people.
Gay Identity and Its Limitations
We are in the midst of gay pride month. Many gay people argue that gay identity is just as solid and joyous and integral to one’s life as one’s Catholic identity or Jewish Identity or black identity.
I beg to differ. Identities based on sexual attraction are never as durable as identifies premised on religion or race. Do elderly Irish Catholics stay away from the Church because they have gotten old. Do Jews run away from the synagogue because they have aged. Do blacks shelve their black identity when they get old. Of course not.
However, gay people do not want to be seen in gay bars or other gay venues when they are old. Gay people want to meet other gay people who are attractive. After all, attractive people are more appetizing sexually. When one loses one’s attractiveness, one’s value is severely depreciated. Oh, in some quarters the aged are endured, in some gay habitats the clientele will affect a good-natured acceptance of the aged, but it’s always understood that the presence of the ugly and old will be fleeting, that no one wants to be accosted by the unseemly sight of wrinkles.
In every congregation of gay people I have observed, the oldest people in the assemblage always seem pathetic. In political organizations, the 55-year-old gay man who may have more experience that anyone else in the room is made to feel guilty when he has the floor as he knows that his hyperactive fellows dislike his masculine, gravelly voice which should defer, in seconds flat, to the piercing hysteria of a nineteen-year-old lesbian reeking with the excessive self-regard of Greta Thunberg. (In New York City, we appear to have been suffering from a metastasis of Greta Thunbergs. Soon every man will desert every woman and the gals can have sex with their cats.) In bars, older gay men speak and act and move in such hushed and deferential tones that they appear ghostlike, visages from the afterlife who have alit on earth to disturb the good-looking people.
Now I am not here to bash homosexuality. Indeed, I am gay. But your shelf life is abbreviated. In a short span of time, you are no longer a good piece of meat. Therefore, you should be fucking up a storm before you have hair on your legs. Incidentally, some Freudian psychoanalysts, who generally condemn male homosexuality, have said that there is a certain form of homosexuality, which is very intense in adolescence, which is self-curative and is replaced by heterosexual attraction by age 20.
The Systen is Rigged in Trump’s Favor
A) The conviction of Hunter Biden. Initially, the prosecutor and Hunter’s counsel agreed to a deal in which Hunter did not plead guilty to anything of substance. However, the Judge, who had been appointed by Trump, insisted that Hunter get the third rail. Generally, when both sides to a dispute agree to a resolution of that dispute, the judge reflexively endorses the resolution. However, the female Trump Judge was interested in pleasing her master.
B) During the 2016 campaign, the FBI told the American public that it was investigating Hillary; it did not tell the public that it was also investigating Trump.
The FBI made Trump look cleaner than Hillary
C) Most of the American media has been silent about the Christopher Steele memo.
D) Most of the media has not picked up on NY Times articles which suggest and practically prove that Trump is in the pay of Russia.
E) The media had been silent, for the most part, about Trump’s termination of our joint military exercises with South Korea and Japan to appease North Korea. So North Korea was still enriching its weapons while we were not allowed to work with our allies to buttress our defense. After Biden took office, we resumed joint military exercises.
F) Most Americans believe that we ran out of Afghanistan, with our tail between our legs, because Biden was a weakling. Most Americans don’t know that Trump, before he left office, made an agreement with the Taliban – the same bastards allied with Osama Bin Ladin --to give Afghanistan back to the Taliban.
G) Most media outlets are silent about the Trump Labor Department’s revision of rules, re the availability of overtime, to hurt working people.
H) There’s a virtual media blackout regarding Russian machinations, in Detroit in 2016, to lower the black vote
I) The media is virtually silent about the lies of numerous Trump associates, to the FBI, to the effect that they did not have consultations with the Russians and had not taken Russian funds.
American Media, here this: Let’s have fewer stories about the Donald’s sexual escapades – which help him with many voters -- and more stories about his concerted efforts to rob the American people and butcher our democracy.