I said I intended not to say anything for two weeks, no matter what Greta posted on Instagram.
About five hours ago, I set my alarm for 12:00 my local time, with the intention of not going online until then, even though this would have meant a several-hour gap in which any Stories posted by Greta on Instagram would have been deleted before I saw them.
Despite what I said, I'm posting about the Story that Greta posted four hours ago, which I assume is from a video that is not yet showing up on Picuki and I'm too lazy to click the link to view Greta's profile on Instagram.
Greta mentions the report described here:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-antisemitism/
When I was 17 I think, I learned judo at my local community college. I think it counted as an actual class, in contrast to the karate that I learned at a local gym with my aunt until the gym changed the rules so that I would have required a gym membership to continue going. I stopped taking judo once school started, as I was too busy; I might have had my first job by then, as well as doing cross-country running after school and studying for seven Advanced Placement tests and the ten subjects of Academic Decathlon.
One thing that I remember had nothing to do with traditional judo lessons: it was practice with reacting to having a gun pointed at you at close range, which might sound unrealistic to any police officer who knows how fast someone can close 3~6 meters of distance. (Also.) We actually practiced with fake or toy guns, like pushing the front of the gun up while pushing down on the person's elbow.
Anyway, one memorable lesson that I'm sure I've mentioned before: pushing someone, in order to make them situate their feet along a line in the direction of force, so that they become weak in another direction. Just the general concept of controlling someone's reactions.
Why don't people feel a sense of danger at being called anti-Russian?
What about anti-Persian? Or anti-French?
I was thinking earlier about, basically, politics. Like,
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/trump-responds-critics-after-posting-christ-like-image/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116407007495166895
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116408742801619405
The strategy basically is, "make someone look like they are worse than average". For example, worse than the average US president. If everyone always uses this strategy, then it should work about 50% of the time. And for some people, that is an acceptable success rate: high enough that they have no interest in looking for a better use of their time. It's actually sort of like gambling: people don't know if their efforts to make someone look worse than average will succeed in any particular situation, because they try the strategy in many cases where there's a significant chance of failure, and so they get interested in the result.
In contrast: stopping global warming has had a 0% success rate up until the current time, just like all efforts to avoid dying have historically ended in failure. 50% is great compared to that.
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Update 15 Apr 2026, 21:00
So I just had a thought. When Kanye West got banned from Chirp Club for something related to Jewish people. Suppose that Greta posted the following on Chirp Club:
1) Kill all Muslims
If banned, success. If not banned:
2) Stab all Jewish people in the arm with a Covid vaccine
If not banned, escalate the statements to approach the statement in 1, for science.
This is a strategy that can only be used by someone who is comfortable with being seen by some people as dishonest. In general, I think it's a much less interesting thing to do than sharing the idea.
* Video by 心系小许 had 510k likes on 04 Sep 2025, only up to 511.4k now. Not actually sure if the song says "Kanye West". Would have linked a more energetic performance by ク无感 @96421348752 but it's deleted or hidden on Douyin.
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