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i pulled over while dressed fem cause my car was smoking. men keep coming up to me, looking around under the hood and then giving me wildly different diagnoses. so far only one has been correct.
also only one of them understood that i might not want his help
i pulled over while dressed fem cause my car was smoking. men keep coming up to me, looking around under the hood and then giving me wildly different diagnoses. so far only one has been correct.
We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife
like, a solid half of the main cast of Nona
i don’t feel like debating that topic much farther bc truthfully if it comes down to “women will lose to men in every sport bc they don’t have as much testosterone!!!!!” my elite feminist response is honest to god “ok we will lose with honor as equals instead of having our own special Easy Mode Female category so we can win amongst ourselves” like i’m sorry i just can’t be persuaded. i’m a brick wall. i want co-ed sports
I deeply hate a lot of current fiction writing trends, especially the rise of "romantasy" and similar styles of writing, but whenever I say this people think I'm a misogynistic puritan. I have reasons for hating these trends that are completely unrelated to the content, readership, or popularity of the books. I don't hate the books, I hate what unchecked consumerist capitalism has done to the book industry.
me: I should get a cute swimsuit now that I'm more comfortable with my body. Time to google "bikinis for trans women" to see if anyone has advice
google: you want to tuck? you want tucking panties? you want tucking panties for drag queens or eff tee em? I got ten billion of those and one cis woman stock model in a trans-pride-flag bikini. Do you want porn?
there is a brand called Rubies. they were made specifically because the designer wanted his daughter to have a swimsuit that she felt comfortable in. theyre pretty pricey but ive been told that they are worth it.
Express your femininity with the same comfort and confidence as your cis friends.
Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.
Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.
I think one of the most disheartening things I've experienced as someone who's Jewish is watching a leftist and a right-winger get into an argument and both saying the other was being tricked by "The Jews."
Zionism is the belief Jews belong in yisrael. HOWWW is that antisemitic. +no amount of bad action from israel can excuse hate against Jews. Ugh.
Zionism isn't the belief that we belong in Israel. It is the belief in the need for a Jewish state. If a Jewish state exists then it would, by definition, be an ethnostate. The formation of an ethnostate is directly opposed to the moral, spiritual, cultural, and practical interests of the Jewish people.
Nothing can excuse antisemitism, but there are some Jews who utilize antisemites as political tools. As far as I can tell this is something that has been done by the state of Israel.
hey by that definition vast majority of the world is an ethnostate. The other definition of ethnostate is one that only gives citizenship yo one ethnicity which Israel is not.
And no it isn't. Can you explain what parts of Judaism is contradicts? Because zionism is very much aligned with 'next year in Jerusalem', building a community in israel.
Zionism is multifaceted, its so vast. Yeah people believe in the need for a Jewish state. For security + religious + many other reasons. But a Jewish state is not a state where others can't be. Its a state where Jewish holidays, days of remembrance, shabbat, kosher, etc. Are all recognised.
Yeah, lot's of countries are functionally ethnostates. This is a bad thing that I don't like. An ethnostate can have citizens that aren't members of the privileged ethnic group. The person who created this definition and introduced ethnocratic theory is an Israeli professor who did so in order to describe Israel.
BECAUSE HAVING AN ETHNOSTATE IS BAD. TIKKUN OLAM MEANS NOT HAVING A FUCKING ETHNOSTATE THAT KILLS UNARMED CIVILIANS
A Jewish state is a Jewish state, as in a state for and by Jews. That is the goal of Zionism, if that's not what you believe in then you should be horrified by the existence of Israeli state.
why is an ethnostate bad? (Ethnostate=comprising of mostly the same ethnicty. Not the definition I brought up which is obviously bad.) It makes total sense for humans to group up with people who are similar to them. You are saying VAST majority of the world is bad. And if you believe that I hope you put this same amount of energy for every other country out there and not just Israel.
The "privileged group" is privileged because they are the majority. That's true for any democratic country ever. The majority rules. And in most countries there is a majority ethnicity. As long as there's no discriminatory laws and citizens of different ethnicities are treated equally then there's no real issue. Most democracies act like that (mostly)
(*in every single country on earth the privileged majority does enact some level of discrimination conscious or not. Some countries more than others. But in the fundamental of an ethnostate (your definition) there is nothing wrong with an ethnostate.)
"BECAUSE HAVING AN ETHNOSTATE IS BAD. TIKKUN OLAM MEANS NOT HAVING A FUCKING ETHNOSTATE THAT KILLS UNARMED CIVILIANS"
Okay so tikun olam means fixing the world right? And like I said different streams of Judaism have different ideas but the jist is the same. If an ethnostate is simply a country with majority 1 ethnicty you have to dismantle 90% of the world. Good luck. Tikun olam is not against a Jewish state.
Kills unarmed civilians? That is a war crime. You can and should criticise it. But it has nothing to do with our discussion so far.
"A Jewish state is a Jewish state, as in a state for and by Jews."
a Jewish state is a state that recognises Jews. Like I said before. That does not mean others can't live in the state as equal citizens. (Re: Arabic is israel's national language as well as hebrew. By law it has to be on all government related things.)
The goal of zionism is to get Jews in Israel. It never once mentions disregard for arabs. Khanism does, and its awful. But we're not talking about it.
If your issue is ethnostates in general I hope you're not zeroing in only on Israel. That'd be quite unfortunate. If you have a specific issue with Israel outside of it (say the treatment of gaza) then that's different.
Tldr: Countries comprising of mostly one ethnicity are not inly extremely common, but fine actually.
Ethnocracy - Wikipedia
hey, did you not read a single thing I said? I specifically mentioned I think ethnostates^ are bad if you go by the definition. But then you pulled a different definition that was ethnostate = country with majority ethnicity. So I went along with you. That's all.
Israel is not an ethnocracy. I actually have a whole post about it BRB.
💬 2 🔁 3 ❤️ 8 · Is israel an ethnostate? · This post is the first in a series I'll make a masterlist of called "What is israel?" *rn I hav
Obviously the actual definition of ethnostate is bad. But you pulled a completely different one. So I went along with you. By /your/ definition most of the world is filled with ethnostates. And I don't see a problem with that because theyre not actually ethnostates, but you obviously do.
the definition of ethnostate that i have been using is the one outlined in the above article. at no point did i give a definition beyond saying that an ethnostate can have citizens of multiple ethnicities.
"An ethnostate can have citizens that aren't members of the privileged ethnic group"
True. But Israel is not an ethnostate.
"Yeah, lot's of countries are functionally ethnostates."
Which means your definition of an ethnostate is different. You can't argue that you agree with that wikipedia article and then say most of the world is an ethnostate. Because most of the world is not in fact an ethnostate. Including Israel. A county in which citizens of various ethnicities have the same legal rights and can reach the same universities, professions, and places is not an ethnostate. A country in which various ethnicities are in the government is not an ethnostate.
*I'm not the biggest fan of Wikipedia as a source for obvious reasons but for the sake of the argument I'm taking it at face value and as true
You understand that these aren't contradictory? The way I see it elements of ethnocracy are central to many governments. Ethnocracy, as defined by Oren Yiftachel, does not mandate a nation state in which only one ethnic group has citizenship. Rather it requires a system where the majority of government positions are held by a particular ethnicity and are used to further the position of that ethnic group while systematically oppressing other ethnic groups. This applies to the entirety of the imperial core and numerous countries beyond it including israel.
I am using the same definition as the people who wrote that article, the same definition as the man who created the term. Your idea that I must be using a different definition seems to come from a belief that ethnocratic leanings are uncommon in contemporary democracy. You are wrong.
"Rather it requires a system where the majority of government positions are held by a particular ethnicity and are used to further the position of that ethnic group while systematically oppressing other ethnic groups."
And I just mentioned how that is not the case. Did you read what i wrote...
You believing majority of the world is ethnocracies is in fact against the definition you brought up. Racism and some discrimination is not enough to be considered an ethnocracy. All countries have those issues. Every single one. Unless you'd like to argue 100% of the world are ethnocracies? (Ethnocracies and ethnostates are similar but not the exact same. Since we're talking about ethnocracies now, and since it's obvious Israel isn't an ethnostate, I'll leave that one be.)
Currently, in one of the most racist and discriminatory governments Israel has ever had, arabs make up 10% of knesset members. (Arabs make up 20% of israel.) Even in the most racist, awful government that actively refused to work with arabs (which is disgusting and I whole heartedly condemn it) there are still 12 arab knesset members. Also there are 3 druze knesset members.
Now mind you in previous governments the number was much higher.
"Your idea that I must be using a different definition seems to come from a belief that ethnocratic leanings are uncommon in contemporary democracy. You are wrong."
A true democracy, in which all ethnicities are given the same legal rights is not an ethnostate or an ethnocracy, are you serious?
"Ethnocracies are characterized by their control system – the legal, institutional, and physical instruments of power deemed necessary to secure ethnic dominance."
From your source BTW. There can be discrimination without it being an athnocracy. I will say, the current government Israel has definitely wished they were at least in part an ethnocracy. Like convicted criminal and terrorist lover Ben gvir. But this current government has only existed since 2022. Are you arguing Israel has been an ethnocracy from it's beginning, and if so how?
Israel's declaration of independence clearly states no one will be discriminated against based on their race. Now you might say 'Israel didn't hold it up' okay. I hear you out. Give me legal examples. In law.
*there's that g-d forsaken law from 2018 that definitely constitutes as discriminatory and I hate it and a lot of Israelis hate it. Besides that fairly recent one.
1. ethnostate and ethnocracy are typically used as synonyms. if you're really gonna base an argument around them having different definitions then you need to make the claim that this is a formal academic discussion.
2. What do you think an ethnocracy is? cause im real curious at this point.
3. what do you mean by true democracy? because neo-liberal democracies certainly do not fit any reasonable criteria.
4. if you think that neo-liberal democracies are not the basis for ethnocracy then you need to go read just about anything on the subject, including that article.
5. if you think all ethnic groups are afforded equal legal rights in the majority of democratic nations then i suggest you take a history class
6. the term ethnocracy does describe israel, the term was created by an israeli to describe israel
7. do you really not believe that israels function as a state is to prioritize the interests of jews as an ethnic group? do you not believe that the israeli state gives certain privileges to jews that it does not give to other ethnic groups? because if that is the case then i will once again suggest you take a history class.
8. you want legal examples? look at the Nation-State Bill from about 8 years ago. I think it's pretty damning what with the part about jews being the only ones with a right to national self-determination in the state of israel. i know you want me to ignore it but its a pretty big fucking deal
If you want to learn what it is that you are talking about I would recommend reading Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine by Oren Yiftachel.
Can't say I (a Jew) ever thought I'd be called a Nazi for citing a Jewish philosophy that predates the existence of Nazism but here we are. I'm sure Hitler had major influence over the founding philosophies of the Yiddisher Arbeter Bund. After all 8 year old Austrian farm boys had notable influence over Russian politics in 1897.
I think one of the most disheartening things I've experienced as someone who's Jewish is watching a leftist and a right-winger get into an argument and both saying the other was being tricked by "The Jews."
@zionismandunashamedofitforever how do you manage to use tumblr while deepthroating the boot? like, you know the shit im complaining about is zionists fault right? the zionist state actively benefits and encourages antisemitism targeting people in the diaspora. so fuck off, if you actually cared about our people then you wouldn't be a zionist
With love, @bug-filled-corpse , I’m not sure that this situation should be analyzed like this.
You cannot lay the blame of global antisemitism at the feet of Zionism. It is key to know that if it were not Israel there would be another thing that draws the left and the right together against Jews. I assure you that I and our Israeli siblings hate the way that the government has behaved. Not all, surely, but the same could be said of Americans and its government.
But more than that, ask yourself a question of a somewhat similar situation, was it right for America to blame ethnic Arabs and Muslims in the US for 9/11? Why is that? Is it because they have nothing to do directly with the group from the place that they’re from?
What if those Arabs who were profiled had family in the countries America invaded? What if they sent money back to family? What if that money then got expropriated to the hands of the organizations that were responsible? Would it be okay then?
Obviously not. These questions are rhetorical. Islamophobia is not the responsibility of Muslims and ethnic Arabs. We know this. So then why is it the fault of the “Zionist state” that our people should suffer? It is not Israel that shot up Bondi beach, it is not Israel that massacred at the tree of life synagogue, and it is not Israel that fire bombs synagogues, nor graffitis outside my house, nor calls me a kike, nor puts blood libelous posters outside my polling place when I vote. These bad actors have free will and a responsibility to exercise it. The blame is with the perpetrators.
I’ll be direct: the blame you level is misplaced. I know your heart is in the right place. But we would do better to join together rather than have you blame your siblings for the hatred we all face. Do not forget that the Bund didn’t just wink out of existence because of Zionists, it was violently and genocidally crushed. Zionism didn’t succeed the bundists because it was just “the better plan”. It succeeded because it was all that was left. It was the only plan.
I wonder if OP realises that she's literally just doing Association of National Jews logic but leftishly. "We could get along with the people attacking our places of community, attacking us and murdering us, if only those independence minded Jews would assimilate." The Association of National Jews were outlawed in 1935 and later murdered in the Shoah.
These people on the left and the right hate you for being a Jew, there's no amount of perfect that you can be where they won't hate you for being a Jew, finding other Jews to hate because they hate you for being a Jew is just a hat on a hat. Zionist is just the word they use as a smoke screen to launder their Jew hatred.
Hey, @bug-filled-corpse, what excuse do you think people used before 1947? For the record, that includes the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Pale of Settlement, and the Holocaust. Israel didn't exist and THEY STILL KILLED US. People will use whatever excuse they want to justify our murders.
Israel didn't (and doesn't) cause antisemitism. Israel exists BECAUSE OF antisemitism.
We need a country where gentiles can't round us up and murder us en masse, again. That country is Israel.
Learn history, boged.
OP, saying "the Jewish state is responsible for antisemitism and benefits from propagating it" is literal Nazi rhetoric. Like, literal "the Jews are oppressors, them being oppressed is just manufactured by them to give them plausible deniability while they prey on others" type shit. You're a Nazi. You are the one spreading antisemitism. Cope.
Yeah, it's definitely the not Bundist rhetoric, because you definitely know what you're talking about. You know about the Bund. You know it was a left-wing anti-zionist Jewish labor union. You know it actually fought for the liberation of the our people and not for the establishment of an ethnostate. You know it worked to keep the Yiddish language alive rather than try to ban it. You know it believed in the need for us to continue our diasporic traditions rather than form a pan-judaic hegemony. You know about that. Cause you seem really sure about your knowledge on this. That must mean you know all about Jewish Autonomism vs Zionism vs Intergrationism and you certainly know about doikayt. You know that the argument that Zionism is morally wrong and that a Zionist state would serve to further the interests of antisemites has existed for longer than Nazism. In fact I'm sure that everyone here knows this. I'm sure that each and every person that decided to say something like this to me is someone who actually understands that there have been Jewish critiques of Zionism for as long as there has been Zionism. You all know this. Right?
(for the record this isn't targeted at @leunusualsuspect you do seem pretty knowledgeable but I would note that the Bund was very much not crushed. It was disbanded in 1921 when it integrated into the Communist Party and was prevented from maintaining autonomy by the pre-existing Jewish section of the Party. In fact the Polish branch of the Bund didn't dissolve until 1948 when Poland became a Communist one party system. The Australian Bund, which was founded by the Polish branch of the Bund in 1928, is still active and has been growing since 2019.)
anyone posting screenshots of my shit and then blocking me is a fucking coward. if you arent able say shit to my face at least have the self respect not to hide from me online. youre already behind a screen, if you have something to say to me then own it.
i hate vague posts that don't name names so: this is about @moran-with-a-g
I think one of the most disheartening things I've experienced as someone who's Jewish is watching a leftist and a right-winger get into an argument and both saying the other was being tricked by "The Jews."
@zionismandunashamedofitforever how do you manage to use tumblr while deepthroating the boot? like, you know the shit im complaining about is zionists fault right? the zionist state actively benefits and encourages antisemitism targeting people in the diaspora. so fuck off, if you actually cared about our people then you wouldn't be a zionist
@zionismandunashamedofitforever oh shit and youre a fucking terf too? fuck you must really love the taste of the boot. like, at this point just say youre a fascist who doesn't actually care about jewish people. itll be easier on everyone
I think one of the most disheartening things I've experienced as someone who's Jewish is watching a leftist and a right-winger get into an argument and both saying the other was being tricked by "The Jews."
@zionismandunashamedofitforever how do you manage to use tumblr while deepthroating the boot? like, you know the shit im complaining about is zionists fault right? the zionist state actively benefits and encourages antisemitism targeting people in the diaspora. so fuck off, if you actually cared about our people then you wouldn't be a zionist
I think one of the most disheartening things I've experienced as someone who's Jewish is watching a leftist and a right-winger get into an argument and both saying the other was being tricked by "The Jews."
And when shit like this happens if i say anything about it I get called a zionist and its like buddy you really misread this whole situation if you think my liberationist ass is a zionist but im still gonna tell someone to stfu if theyre being antisemitic
I think one of the most disheartening things I've experienced as someone who's Jewish is watching a leftist and a right-winger get into an argument and both saying the other was being tricked by "The Jews."
I spent so long trying to read this. How could @danaterrace do this to me??????
no for real like sit over there and drink your little beverage and stay tf out of the way let me cook
@loser-mutt-boyfriend sitting on the couch while I make us dinner
