your daily reminder that kafka was a jew watching in real-time as jews became society's ungeziefers and were relegated to ghettos. Your daily reminder that ungeziefer is not just a bug, but vermin.
don't forget the nazis and communists were allies during ww2 and would've remained allies if hitler hadn't betrayed stalin. the two ideologies are not opposites.
for many people, especially those who suffered under the Soviet Union (or Soviet backed communist puppet regimes) or the descendants of those people, seeing a hammer and sickle on someone’s blog or t shirt can feel as bad as seeing a swastika. especially since many people in eastern Europe suffered under both the communists and the Nazis and were the victims of the Nazi-Soviet alliance. Not to mention the many Jews who had family murdered in Soviet pogroms and other family murdered by the Nazis.
I agree with the rest of the commentary but I don’t think people at either extreme are adopting their politics “because it’s trendy”.
The trendiness makes it more pervasive, which makes it easier to fall into echo chambers that validate those who believe it, and the algorithm is certainly part of the shape that takes now, but people tend to have actual internal reasons—even if they’re bad or fallacious ones or don’t actually make any sense when picked apart—why they consider their politics/beliefs are true or moral.
Yeah, the idea that people fall down the alt-right/left pipeline "because it's trendy" is completely missing the point. It's about radicalization. It's about falling in with people who bombard you with existential fear, loathing, and despair. It's about people telling you you're special, that you're part of a small, select group of people who know what's really going on. It's about people insisting something has been stolen from you (usually by The Jews) and that you have to fight, scream, and, ultimately, kill, to get it back
I don't even know whose job it was to teach people this, but did they just stop teaching people what a bicycle bell means?
One would think that hearing a very distinct, clearly audible, reasonably loud and rapidly approaching sound of any kind would make any reasonable mammal turn to look at the direction of the sound, just purely by instinct?? If a deer heard something nearby go DING DING DING DING DING DING at its general direction, it would at least look up to see whether the source of the sound is a threat or not? Just a quick "is that something I need to be concerned about?" type of glance.
The enshittification of pedestrians has reached the point where they have less traffic survival skills than deer.
Hey so someone with chronic migraines is disabled, yall know that right
Like this applies to all “invisible” disabilities in the sense that just bc you can’t see what’s wrong doesn’t mean nothing is wrong or they aren’t disabled but it’s especially the case for chronic migraines
Migraines are NOT just headaches. It’s not just “oof ow my head hurt :(”, Migraines are WHOLE body affair. It’s getting weepy and irritable hours before the pain hits, it’s starting to get clumsy and feeling body aches just before the pain starts, it’s getting stiff because of the aches and sensitive to light and sound because of how heightened senses get.
And when the pain gets, sometimes it is the general image of someone locked in a dark room in bed, which is genuinely awful bc you can’t do anything. You just have to lay there and stew in your pain and no medicine touches it and everything hurts, worst of all your head and there is nothing to focus on other than the pain because any light hurts and any sound hurts.
But sometimes the pain isn’t bad enough for that, or sometimes you have to work or go to school with nails in your head and it’s impossible to focus. Your depth perception gets wonky, you’re clumsy, you slur or stumble over your words because so much of your brain is occupied only by pain. You can’t miss another day of work, you can’t miss the money, but you’re messing up orders or you’re misunderstanding instructions.
And then there’s the after. Postdrome, the migraine hangover. Where the emotional and irritability returns, and you have issues with your stomach, very often leaving you unable to eat or drink without puking. Your neck is stiff, your head feels heavy, your brain is so fogged up that you can barely string together a coherent sentence. Your body aches much worse than before, and you’re exhausted, fatigued to hell and back, and that lasts for 1-3 days after the actual migraine.
Migraines are a multi-day condition that affects EVERY aspect of your fucking life. And medicines that treat the pain very often only lessen the symptoms that occur before and after.
So when I say I am disabled and then I start talking about migraines, I don’t ever want to fucking hear someone say “headaches aren’t disability”. I will actually deck you across the face you fucking prick.
Antisemitism has always existed but it’s never felt this fucking exhausting to be Jewish in all my 21 years of life. Five years ago my non Jewish friends were empathetic when I told them about antisemitism I experienced and now I know I can’t even discuss it with them five years ago I could draw fan art of fictional characters celebrating Hanukkah without getting death threats five years ago I could hang out in niche hobby spaces without seeing someone crochet a Star of David with a slash through it five years ago there weren’t posts on my city’s subreddit minimizing and denying the Holocaust and saying it doesn’t need to be taught in schools five years ago I could wear my Magen David necklace without being spat on five years ago I assumed I could have friendships with people who aren’t Jewish and now I feel like I’m constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop or for them to “find out” my “secret” like fuck man. When am I allowed to feel afraid?
You people are all fucking MISERABLE AND EVIL. You say you don’t hate Jews just Israel but I’m NOT Israeli. I’m a random Jewish girl who lives in America who deserves to live a normal life. So yeah you do just hate Jews. Go outside and be less evil.
okay stick cult is FAR less insidious than it seems- but it's what stick cult stood for was the issue.
see, we generally have a rule that if you wanna pick up a stick, it has to be the length of or shorter than your elbow to the tip of your finger. which stick cult followed for a long time! they battled gently with sticks, or marched around with them, or built castles. it was a pretty good way for them to spend their breaktimes. sometimes we'd have a stick thrown into the coyote or fox enclosure, or theyd chant 'stick cult stick cult stick cult' too loud and we'd have to tell them off, but it was pretty okay for ~3 years. it got passed down from older kids to younger, etc.
all that was fine, until the Fire Nation Rock Cult attacked. see the rock cult was exactly the same as the stick cult- but with rocks. and we dont have a lot of big rocks on site, but we have a lot of gravel- and you can't really play fight with rocks the same as you can with sticks- but you can throw them. and rock cult was INSISTENT on usurping stick cult, to the point where we had multiple friendships end (for the day) due to it. we also got gravel in some kids eyes- it was a whole issue. then stick cult started picking up bigger sticks in retaliation and we had to stop the whole thing altogether
eventually (due to conservative parent complaints) the cults had to be ended. they lived on in spirit in rock castle & stick crew, who we eventually convinced to work together on building a large eagle sized bird nest on the decommissioned well.
it lives on in tales told from older sibling to younger, from counselor to counselor- supposedly, a real eagle used the nest on the well after they built it
Reading the whole Christian bible for the first time and what do you mean the first split between Jesus and the Pharisees is over netilat yadayim? “It is not what goes into a person's mouth that makes him ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes him unclean,” my brother in Hashem you still have to wash your hands before meals
For anyone interested, this is Matthew 15:11 specifically and verses 1-20 of that chapter are the surrounding context. Also worth noting that the famous "the blind cannot lead the blind" saying comes from here, where Jesus is arguing against washing hands, with the "blind" being the Pharisees promoting basic hygiene
Hey, uh... MyJewishLearning? Why are you telling people that it takes only 4-6 months to convert as a Reform Jew? From everything I've heard that's very not the case.
And since when is mikveh and circumcision ever optional?
There are two things I can think of that could maybe have been distorted into “mikvah/circumcision optional”:
For mikvah, there are some regions where the only professionally run mikvahs blackball non-Orthodox or even non-Haredi converts as a matter of policy. In these areas some Reform rabbis opt to perform conversions in natural mikvaot, such as small lakes. Note that a natural mikvah is still a mikvah. If your conversion was performed using a natural body of water that met the requirements to be considered a mikvah, you didn’t skip the step, nor did you abbreviate it or alter it in any way. The only reason why most conversions are performed in professionally-run mikvaot is that it’s quicker and easier and there’s less risk both of giardia and of public indecency charges that way.
For circumcision, in cases of adult conversion where the person in question has already been medically circumcised, the practice is to instead draw a single ceremonial drop of blood. Note that this is the practice for all movements, not just Reform. The only reason I can think of why it might be more associated with the Reform movement is that Reform converts tend to be less hung up on tznius and are willing to talk more openly about the parts of the process that involved their penis than Orthodox converts typically are.
The timeline given here isn’t out of the realm of possibility for what I’ve heard of being done by less scrupulous Reform rabbis for conversion before marriage specifically, but it’s certainly not the general norm, and it’s wild that it’s being treated as though it is.
My conversion took nine months because I was already coming from a Jewish background. Most Reform conversions take a year to a year and a half after you have a sponsoring rabbi (this doesn't include reading and research you've done to get to that point).
As someone whose mikvah was "natural" only by the barest squeak and gasp because the local professional mikavot don't allow non-Orthodox, it was also not optional. However, we did have someone who required a modified mikvah due to health issues; she was in a wheelchair and unable to support her own weight, so she was permitted to be lowered in a sling and might, technically, have been considered "not fully immersed" as part of her was touching the sling at all times.
there are definitely reform jews who are not circumcised, unsure if it's a requirement for conversion. mikveh immersion definitely is, barring health concerns like @prismatic-bell mentioned.
every reform convert ive met has been actively involved in a jewish community for at least 2 years before fully becoming a jew.
i hate this trend of reform being seen as the "easy" way to do judaism.
I know a lot of people assume that because Reform considers itself bound by meaning, not legality, and so not everyone follows the mitzvot. The thing is...converts are more likely, not less, to keep the mitzvot according to the Talmudic requirements (or at least some of them). We do more reading, more learning. I had an adult b'nai mitzvah and my rabbi said I'd accidentally introduced Kabbalistic concepts in my d'var because of how hard I'd studied the overarching theme of Torah. We don't convert for Minority Points or something. We do it because we're drawn to Judaism. And trust me--it's a COMMITMENT. Only half my conversion class made it all the way to the mikvah. Most of us lost friends along the way. It's not easier just because it's different.
The fact that 150K Mainers enthusiastically voted for a man they knew had a Nazi tattoo should haunt them like the legacy of voting for Klansmen haunts the South. Maybe the crackers up in New England are overdue for some national shaming.
I also want to point out that he was running against one of the least popular governors in the country.
Why Janet Mills is so unpopular beats me. A lot of it's probably for dumb misogynistic/ageist reasons.
But, nonetheless, I strongly suspect a lot of Nazi Tat's support was less about people wanting his "progressive" policies and more about people just wanting someone other than the old lady governor. It's very reminiscent of Bernie's Rust Belt "support" in 2016 and how it completely evaporated four years later when he was running against another man instead of a woman.
If I'm right, this is still a pretty damning indictment of Maine voters. An "annoying" old lady was more of a dealbreaker for them than a Nazi tattoo. 😒
We definitely need to be having more discussions about not only the left's open misogyny and ageism (on top of their racism and antisemitism) but also why the majority of leftist Zoomers in particular are so bigoted.
Why was Janet Mills so unpopular when she fought Trump in court (and won) and gave Mainers free community college? Would she have been as unpopular if she were 20 years younger and male?
One of the few things that's bipartisan in politics is a hatred of all things feminine. Many voters instantly recoil from politicians that remind them too much of their mother or grandmother.
We're also in an era of populism, where voters are looking for politicians that are "authentic" and have "charisma" and are "willing to fight," and they always seem to define those traits as traditionally masculine qualities -- has a deep voice, has an imposing stature, is willing to trash-talk others, wears jeans instead of a suit, and so on.
I have little doubt that Mills would've cleaned-out Nazi Tat in the primary if she were a younger man. She barely even edged-out David Costello in the primary vote, despite him being a no-name with little funding and attention. Maine voters truly wanted a man on the ticket, more than anything else.
They watch movies and read history books all their lives where the climax involves angry rioting civilians as villains and mobs marching to murder a person or group they find suspicious but who is not guilty of causing an upsetting situation/bad economic conditions and say to themselves "that could never be me i would never believe lies and propaganda i would never go after innocent people just to feel like i'm doing something productive with my anger over a situation i have no control over and resort to violence just to have someone to blame so i don't need to think too hard about my biases because I'm a Good Person™️" and then they, in their hubris, promptly join the mob
Harvey Yesno signed a statement accusing the rap trio of supporting terror groups, which they deny
Anti-Israel rap trio Kneecap have brought a defamation suit against a Canadian indigenous leader after he signed a letter objecting to their planned performances at venues on ancestral lands in the country.
Harvey Yesno of the Eabametoong First Nation was a signatory to a statement posted by the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, a pro-Israel group for indigenous communities globally.
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh, known by their respective stage names as Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, claim that the statement contained false and defamatory claims.
In particular, their suit centres on the allegation that it accused them of expressing support for the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and condoning antisemitism, which they deny.
O hAnnaidh was previously charged in the UK with a terror offence after a video which appeared to show him displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, on November 21 2024, circulated online.
However, that case collapsed last September, with chief magistrate Paul Goldspring ruling the proceedings were “instituted unlawfully” as prosecutors had brought charges outside the required six-month time frame from the date of the alleged offence.
That ruling was later affirmed by the High Court, which rejected an appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service.
On Wednesday, an Irish court granted Kneecap’s legal counsel permission to serve notice of the suit on Yesno, in both Irish and English, in Ontario, Canada.
The group is suing for financial damages, claiming that the statement Yesno signed caused material damage to their reputation after it was widely picked up by media outlets.
Judge Cian Ferriter ruled that the group had an arguable case that they had been defamed in Ireland, allowing them to bring the suit in that jurisdiction, rather than in Canada.
He added that the three men’s reputations, as well as their identity with Irish language and culture, were “bound up” with Irish jurisdiction due to their citizenship and status as Irish public figures.
However, he did state that he was open to a prospective application from Yesno’s legal team to challenge the jurisdictional ruling.
NEVER get into anything thats heavy on color symbolism bro . for months you will not be able to look at the color blue without instantly thinking of Squingle Dinglus
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