Just so we're clear, the Lebanon war that the yearbook refers to was in 2006. Seth Rich would have been 12, and that is apparently what the yearbook says (text is kind of smudged in the video).
He went with 300 other kids, and stayed for six weeks. It wasn't really "training with the army". It's a very common thing in upper-class Jewish families, the kids often go around the time of their Bar Mitzvah. I don't think you can infer much from this item except the obvious, that he came from an upper-class Jewish family.
Thanks for pointing that out. I usually don't go with the ((Jew!!!)) circle jerk on voat, but being from an upperclass Jewish family does make you part of a small, well-connected, club. I don't know what to read into that, but, according to statistics, it's true, and those people do end up coming up in stories like this all the time.
The list of "dual citizens" is also fake. If you check the source, he arrived at the list based solely on the Israeli "law of return," which grants Israeli citizenship to any Jew who asks. Bernie Sanders was specifically asked about his being on this list, and he said it's crap, he has only American citizenship.
It is certainly true that a high proportion of Senators and Congressmen are Jewish, and many of these are also on the known bad guys list (Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, etc). But the statistics aren't really all that out of line. For example, 23 out of 435 Congressmen is 5.3 percent. But then about 2.2 percent of the U.S. population is Jewish. Since politicians tend to be well-connected and wealthy, there's really not much here besides the fact that wealthy people are over-represented in the House of Representatives. Knock me over with a feather!
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SoberSecondThought ago
Just so we're clear, the Lebanon war that the yearbook refers to was in 2006. Seth Rich would have been 12, and that is apparently what the yearbook says (text is kind of smudged in the video).
He went with 300 other kids, and stayed for six weeks. It wasn't really "training with the army". It's a very common thing in upper-class Jewish families, the kids often go around the time of their Bar Mitzvah. I don't think you can infer much from this item except the obvious, that he came from an upper-class Jewish family.
we_kill_creativity ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I usually don't go with the ((Jew!!!)) circle jerk on voat, but being from an upperclass Jewish family does make you part of a small, well-connected, club. I don't know what to read into that, but, according to statistics, it's true, and those people do end up coming up in stories like this all the time.
SoberSecondThought ago
The list of "dual citizens" is also fake. If you check the source, he arrived at the list based solely on the Israeli "law of return," which grants Israeli citizenship to any Jew who asks. Bernie Sanders was specifically asked about his being on this list, and he said it's crap, he has only American citizenship.
It is certainly true that a high proportion of Senators and Congressmen are Jewish, and many of these are also on the known bad guys list (Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, etc). But the statistics aren't really all that out of line. For example, 23 out of 435 Congressmen is 5.3 percent. But then about 2.2 percent of the U.S. population is Jewish. Since politicians tend to be well-connected and wealthy, there's really not much here besides the fact that wealthy people are over-represented in the House of Representatives. Knock me over with a feather!