It Bears Repeating

I'm just over here libbing tf out עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי 🇺🇸x🇮🇱

[biglawbear]

Tumblr search function is shit. So here's a pinned post with my frequently used tags I guess.

[odysseys-blood]

the fairy vs walrus thing has been tried and died by now ofc but seeing this is rly like

yeah no id be way more confused by random walrus encounter

[goingrampant]

When leftists talk about putting Zionists in internment camps and castrate them (for being pedophiles), I think we're playing the same word substitution game as the far-right. It doesn't matter if they don't identify as Nazis, because the essence is the same. It doesn't matter if they don't think Zionists equate to Jews, because the essence is the same. It doesn't matter if the castration is, on paper, an anti-pedophile effort, because the essence is the same as Nazis castrating imprisoned Polish men to make better slaves. Exact wording gets in the way of meaning. We're about to King Lear ourselves into a second Holocaust.

[biglawbear]

Sometimes it feels like my entire lawyer job is just telling people they're being fucking stupid

[afurioushawk]

For those who need a refresher, this is what the polling looked like for the Maine Senate race in September 2020

Platner is probably cooked.

[short-wooloo]

I'm gonna predict that it'll probably come down to collins 51%, herr platner 49% or less, and I'm being generous

[zaprowsdower27]

Texas, North Carolina, Alaska, Iowa.

It won't be easy. It may not be likely. The odds and state governments may be against us. But we CAN get a senate majority without pretending the sexist nazi would somehow vote differently than a typical Republican.

[raccoonshuffle]

@biglawbear 's tags here are relevant, but I'm not as concerned about El-Sayed. He's got support amongst college kids in Ann Arbor and Detroit metro, I think some in Lansing and Kalamazoo; but the racial politics are complicated and he's been slipping in the polls because he won't shut up about Israel and he's been caught lying about being a physician. He's run before for governor and got trounced against Whitmer. Currently Haley Stevens is in the lead for the primary.

[biglawbear]

This is helpful and hopeful to know from the ground. I'm still nervous because polling seems like it's been really volatile:

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/34647/latest_polls_show_different_results_one_has_haley_stevens_leading_another_abdul_el-sayed

Like as I track the polls the leader has varied between El-Sayed, Stevens, and McMorrow, and it just seems like a tossup

I hope either Stevens or McMorrow consolidate support because if they eat each other and El-Sayed wins a plurality I'm gonna have Words

Like the Jewish Democratic Council endorsed both Stevens and McMorrow and I'm frustrated because I feel like it's a risk not to just get behind one or the other given the risk of splitting the vote

National Org to Focus on Defeating Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Primary and Republican Mike Rogers in General WASHINGTON — Today, the Jewish D

[ponpurin]

I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land making Jerusalem “for everyone”.

[notaaronsroommate]

pride month.

ok, listen, shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up do not say any fuckshit you dumb bastards.

if you want to see sucking and fucking go to folsom street fair in San Fran, that's where you see people bouncing cocks off eachother and it's fine and self contained. No one is sucking and fucking at pride even if I wish they were. Everyone is fine there, yes whatever micro identity you just came up with, no one is stationed at the entryway to each blocked off street with a gaydar detector.

if you see the bank of america pridefloat shut the fuck up about it and ignore it. yeah, I KNOW. I been doin this for damn near 20 years at this point shut the fuck up "ooo corporate pride, pride was a riot" I KNOW. EVERYONE KNOWS. It is way BETTER if the billion dollar corporation thinks you are a non exterminatable customer base they must pander too rather than having no rainbow colored bullshit whatsoever.

shut the fuck up. shut the fuck up. get off the fucking computer. go get rammed up the ass. shut the fuck up.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[churlsgonewild]

[ewaneneollav]

[clefsandlasers-deactivated20190]

idk what they were going for but this sounds like a dril-tier shitpost

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[reactionimagesdaily]

[chutzpahchesed]

Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy ~ About the Film | Great Performances | PBS

Narrated by Broadway legend Joel Grey, this documentary explores the role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern Am

one of my favorite things Great Performances has ever done is this documentary, and it hasn't been available to watch for many years. the full video is available at the link above. please give it a watch if you have the chance, it's wonderful and will give you insight into the roots and rich Jewish legacy of Broadway.

description from PBS:

Narrated by Broadway legend Joel Grey, this documentary explores the role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical and showcases the work of some of the nation’s preeminent creators of musical theater including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and more.

Streaming until: 6/26/2026 @ 11:59 PM EDT

[jaydenskyle]

Hasan Piker blaming gay people—sorry “homofascism”—for his preferred candidates losing in a primary so maybe can the gays stop thirsting over him now?

[short-wooloo]

Commie turns on queers, tale as old as time

[biglawbear]

Anyway happy pride month to Scott Wiener who got the plurality of like literally every demographic in San Fran to support him

[cshoppy19]

yall think Davy is still in the navy

[thebreakfastgenie]

it's been 50 years and the mandatory retirement age is 62 so probably not

[biglawbear]

🫡

Davy we thank you for your service

[afurioushawk]

For those who need a refresher, this is what the polling looked like for the Maine Senate race in September 2020

Platner is probably cooked.

[short-wooloo]

I'm gonna predict that it'll probably come down to collins 51%, herr platner 49% or less, and I'm being generous

[zaprowsdower27]

Texas, North Carolina, Alaska, Iowa.

It won't be easy. It may not be likely. The odds and state governments may be against us. But we CAN get a senate majority without pretending the sexist nazi would somehow vote differently than a typical Republican.

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.