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Kelly: Comedians in Cars Getting Crucified (hexbear.net)

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Did something happen with Elaine?

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Look up her family

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

She is the fifth cousin four times removed of Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935) of the infamous Dreyfus affair

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[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

I'm reading Wikipedia about this, and suddenly this jumps at me:

The affair engendered numerous antisemitic demonstrations, which in turn affected sentiment within the Jewish communities of Central and Western Europe. At the same time, Jews in the Russian Empire were under pressure of pogroms in response to political instability within the Pale. These factors persuaded Theodor Herzl, one of the founding fathers of Zionism, that the Jews must leave Europe and establish their own state.

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