Republican pundit muses whether Jews secretly destroyed OceanGate sub to keep people from finding out Jews sunk the Titanic

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No Jews on the Titanic, you say?

Some choice tidbits from an NPR piece (link at the bottom):

OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush is married to Wendy Rush, the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who choose to remain onboard the sinking Titanic together so that others could escape to safety in their place.

She is also a direct descendant of Minnie Weil, one of the Straus’ seven children.

Isidor Straus was a businessman and politician who, at the time of his death at age 67, co-owned Macy’s department store with his brother and had at one point represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He and Ida met in New York City in their 20s, falling and remaining very much in love, their great-grandson Paul Kurzman told Country Living in 2017.

Let’s look at these names, shall we? Straus. Weil. Kurzman.

I’m sure all those families are registered with the DAR. /s

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Because the original anti-Semitic conspiracy theory wasn’t stupid enough for right-wingers, they piled on more stupid at the first opportunity…

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Stew Peters sounds like a valid set of instructions.

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As a German it is always a bit weird when pretty unremarkable German names are considered evidence of Jewishness in America. Probably the most egregious cases are Schwarz, Weiss and Roth, three of the most common German names.

The only explanation I can think of is that I get the impression that immigrants to the US became less likely to anglicize their names over time while the share of Jews among immigrants from German-speaking lands increased. And now unanglicized German names read as Jewish.

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I’m a genealogist. Isidor Straus is a Jewish name. German(or Austrian)-Jewish, sure. But Jewish.

For a very short period of time before they were once again not allowed to the U.S. (and soon after that, millions of them were no longer alive to immigrate anywhere) until relatively recently.

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This specific individual - sure, why not. But the surname Strauss is pretty damn weak evidence of that.

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Quaker, I think. His daughter was raised by Quaker governesses, and came from a Quaker family.

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the princess bride GIF

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Obviously the Rothschilds used the Jewish Space Lasers.

That is why they faked the moon landing. They needed to hide the evidence of the Space Lasers.

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i did not know that Czar Nicholai II had submarines. :thinking:
could have changed the outcome of the coming revolution, maybe?

to your second statement, yes. absolutely.

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Yes, but they were very small and everyone was packed in close together. Czardine cans, they were called.

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If you wanted to kill somebody, you think it’d be a little bit easier and lower profile to figure out how to have them have a car accident, as opposed to going to one of the most inhospitable points on Earth.

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That’s what they want you to think.

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“The Titanic ‘iceberg’ crash was as fake as the moon landing, and so is this ‘submarine’ story,” said Peters on his verified Twitter account.

So the “submarine” story is fake; or it is real and Rothschild’s sank the Titanic? Which does this fuck-wit claim it is?

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Republican pundit

Enough said.

Always Sunny Reaction GIF

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Weren’t too many (or any) naval battles there but a lot of pissed off sailors.

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AISBAL for short :rofl:

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How is it possible that being this stupid doesn’t hurt? You’d think having your brain rotting into sludge from complete disuse wouldn’t feel great.

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Oh, there is pain. But the pain of incredible stupidity is like the pain of grief for a lost loved one, in that it is not experienced by the subject themselves but by the people around them.

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