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the she-ra reboot makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline
the kids these days dont know this masterpiece…they will learn
the Masters of the Universe remake makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline
from the right:
from the left:
right wing:
(there are so many horrible things from Stew Peters and Jake Shields that are even worse than what’s screencapped here, it’s staggering. you can look for yourselves, but tbh I don’t recommend it.)
left wing:
both:
(the squirrel account is as unspeakably heinous as the far right Neo-Nazis).
this could go on with endless examples, but for a bunch of people who claim they “notice” patterns, it’s notable that they aren’t recognizing what’s happened to themselves.
I’m acutely aware that scrolling around to document this garbage does next to nothing other than record it (and spike my stress levels lol), and the futility is frustrating/angering/frightening/saddening in varying measures every day.
but we’re being gaslit that this isn’t happening, and I refuse to be a party to the questions later of, “how did that happen?”
How does it get this bad? I don't understand what happened on the left. Not the Neonazi right side that I grew up expecting to encounter as a non Jewish southern woman.
But the left was supposedly sane? Where the people who supported other religions and races and cultures were.
But now it isn't. When did it happen? Why did happen?
I feel so lost and confused.
I have thoughts on this, some are evidence based and some are slightly more theoretical, but stay with me. there are articles and studies and books about all of the following that I could add but I’m so exhausted I can’t dig them all up right now, my apologies for that. I will try to include some links that I can remember.
first and foremost, antisemitism is a constant feature of society. it is millennia old, useful, and malleable to fit in any time period where it’s needed, because it is conspiracy based.
“Author Yossi Klein Halevi has identified it perfectly. Throughout history, he said, “The Jew” was always used in order to describe whatever it is that is most loathsome in a society at any given moment. In the early days of Christianity “The Jew” was the Christ killer, under Nazism “The Jew” was the ultimate race polluter, at the time of communism “The Jew” was the capitalist pig, or the communist, depending on who you’re asking.
“The Jew” was simply a cipher onto which the antisemite could project whatever it was that they considered to be the ultimate evil.”
This is a transcript of a speech that was presented to the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism at the U.S. Congress
it’s always there and always informing a certain level of discourse, but sometimes it’s less severe than at other points. we had an unusual reprieve from it in Western countries following the horrors of the Holocaust. antisemitism became more widely recognized and more taboo after the industrialized murder of six million Jews, but only while it was vivid in living memory. as those who witnessed WWII firsthand have passed away, and as we have lost more and more survivors (our only survivors now were very small children when it happened, and while that doesn’t in any way diminish their experiences, the memories from a very young child versus those who survived as teens and adults are less detailed). Holocaust denial has risen steadily the further we’ve gotten from it, and Holocaust education has plummeted over the last decade or so. the more it becomes a problem of the past, the less willing people are to feel compassion towards it.
antisemitism runs in cycles. every century or so it tends to get very bad again, as people forget whatever atrocities were carried out against Jews before (not limited to the Holocaust in this case). antisemitism also tends to spike when there is social upheaval, uncertainty, and unrest, and political turmoil. people need someone to blame, and it’s hard to let go of the favorite centuries’ old scapegoat.
in the United States specifically, there was a cultural golden age of Jewish culture and visible excellence and success throughout the 20th century. this was true in science and technology and academia, but for many people it was most seen in the arts. Jewish composers, musicians, actors, writers were celebrated and created beloved art for decades. Hollywood to Broadway. film and television. this succeeded in creating a more positive and welcoming view of American Jews in many ways. that age is over, and it’s why I tend to harp on representation and how easily Jews are now erased, both from that rich history (you can make a biopic about a Jew, played by a non-Jew, and never mention they were Jewish at all, for example), and from current media.
the right wing has their Neo-Nazism and Jewish supremacy ZOG conspiracies, but the left wing didn’t really adopt that thinking as pervasively until Jews became folded into and then made the pinnacle example of “white oppressors.” this, too, is remixed scapegoating.
there has been a concerted, funded, decades long effort to thread this through higher education and NGOs. this is the part most won’t believe and dismiss as conspiratorial, but we have the evidence of it happening. the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological alliance of Soviet antizionism/Islamist movements, and Qatari money have influenced the entire apparatus of Western academia, mainstream media, and NGOs for decades, and the fomenting of hatred against Jews (and Israel) has been a central driving goal. everything from the Durban conference (the UN) to the uncovered situation with organizations like Oxfam to the current crisis of Jew hatred at Columbia University is interconnected because of the driving force that has desired this outcome. detailing all of this would take a novel, and many books have been written studying it, so I can’t do the extent and depth of it justice here. you can read some about the in intentional manipulation of academia in this post.
I am very opposed to conspiracism because it’s almost always dangerously rooted in violent antisemitism, so when I say this has taken work, wealth, and intent from powerful individuals and organizations, it’s not a frivolous accusation.
the war. October 7th, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, unleashed a level of violent hatred that, for those of us who are millennials and younger, had not been experienced in our lifetimes. it was growing there - and always there - in the background and under the surface, and hindsight makes it much easier to see in the years preceding this (cultural ostracism, things like Magen Davids being banned at the Women’s March and at pride marches for years before 10/7, or, again, the institutional antisemitism that was creeping its way indelibly across campuses and deeply embedding as a key feature of leftist politics, disguised as social justice).
the war, which has undoubtedly been devastating, has been beamed on people’s screens, graphically, and often doused with toxic disinformation, blood libel, etc, for over two years. more and more people get their news from social media like TikTok, which has been inundated with this, and the hatred has inherently accompanied it. bias and malpractice from the mainstream media certainly hasn’t helped.
the omnicause thus has become a cultural obsession, and Gaza has been imbued with a kind of religious fervor (seen quite often in the use of Jesus imagery, literally and figuratively). many young people who are not religious but are searching for meaning tend to latch onto causes to give themselves purpose, which can be a positive thing, but in this instance there’s a fervor and rage that has become so detrimentally intertwined with everything they absorb, believe, and repeat that the Jew hatred is impossible to untangle from the latent good humanitarian impulse. it has become a cult mentality, so locked into its beliefs and demand for obedience in thought and action that it is blasphemous to ask questions or break the narrative in any way, for fear of being branded a heretic (in this case, a “Zionist,” an accusation and slur flung with the venom that used to hang those accused of being a witch, a fury which still leads to the slaughter of those branded infidels).
and that leads directly to perhaps one of the most noxious aspects of this: the popularity of the celebrities, influencers, and grifters suddenly having so much power to shape the conversation. this is an aspect I personally find quite terrifying, as many accounts have cultivated millions of followers and millions of views, often in numbers far outstripping the entire Jewish population of the world. this is where we get the Hasan Pikers and Ana Kasparians and Nick Fuenteses and Candace Owenses of the world, and they’ve discovered that not only is Jew hatred heady, giving them a sense of power and superiority, it is also wildly lucrative and they’re making a fortune on it.
things like Charlie Kirk’s shooting being turned into a rabid antisemitic conspiracy (despite this being easily debunked) and the Epstein files (which is where we’re now getting a LOT of the increase in rhetoric like “baby eating blood drinkers,” as if this isn’t ancient hatred), and the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran is not only the key support and funder of genocidal antisemitic terror groups (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis), but is also a key source of antisemitic propaganda for the globe, is ramping it up exponentially.
so, yeah, it’s a confluence of a lot of terrible things.
The two sides of the anti-Semitism debate currently roiling the right can be boiled down to the following: those who warn that Jews are the
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight
Unlike many other bigotries, anti-Semitism is not merely a social prejudice; it is a conspiracy theory about how the world operates.
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the barely scratches the surface of it all, but I hope it can help to illuminate and explain some of it for you.
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I saw it. I mean I saw you. Changing back from… you know. It was fucking beautiful.
It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.
#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’
I absolutely think it is
I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.
I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.
Terry was a comedic genius
#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)
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When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.
...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.
*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*
get out here Terry I just wanna talk
Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.
In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u.
The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.
OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW
I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.
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Latinclass ca. 9th grade: the text we had to translate contained the words trans means "on the other side of" or in german it can be translated to "über/ hinüber". Also silvas; silvanis means "the forest" or in german "der Wald".
Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald
Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald
My latin teacher gave me a very weird look as I suddenly facepalmed myself and groaned quietly.
The Venturi and Selachii feud is what killed me when I got it.
The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).
Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)
... fucking HELL Terry.
In Carpe Jugulum, Count Magpyr boasts of having helped write the Malleus Maleficarum, along with the Torquus Simiae Maleficarum, the Auriga Clavium Maleficarum, and in fact the entire Arca Instrumentorum.
The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.
Malleus = "hammer" Torquus Simiae = "monkey wrench" Auriga Clavium = "bucket of nails" Arca Instrumentorum = "box of tools"
Monstrous Regiment is named for a pamphlet written by extremely shouty Calvinist and one of the leaders of the new Church of Scotland, John Knox, in the 16th century against all the women getting into positions of power in politics at the time (Liz I, Mary Queen of Scots etc). The document itself is titled "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women".
In a book about an overbearing and baffling and misogynist God and the heroes being a ragtag regiment of literal women and monsters, I punched the air on that one. The layers of pun are built up like a millefeuille.
(Also, if you read some of the stuff in the actual tract, you can see where Pterry got some of Nuggan's laws, although proceed with caution because it's a vitriolic piece of work)
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He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 pounds.
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 — when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech
22 students out the window.
He held the door.
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Iron Fist Week, Day 4: A Favorite Story Presenting: the incomparably zany Iron Fist volume 1 #15 by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Bruce Patterson, Dan Green, and Annette Kawecki!
I want to start with the Marvel Unlimited synopsis for this issue, which reads as follows: "X-Men & Iron Fist Team-Up! Marvel’s mighty mutants take down the Bushmaster and Steel Serpent in Iron Fist’s final issue. Legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont delivers powerful storytelling…and punches!"
I cannot over-stress how little of this is true. To find out what actually happens in this incredible issue, join me on a trip back to 1977...
Our story starts in a NYC back alley, where our hero, Iron Fist, has allowed himself to walk into a trap in order to find out who set it. He easily dispatches the hired guns lying in wait for him but is caught completely off-guard by the trap's mastermind, who ambushes him from behind, knocks him off-balance, and gives him a big ol' hug.
Danny recognizes him as the same guy who hugged him in the previous issue! Who is this affectionate masked man?! Don't get excited: He doesn't show up again in this issue.
Meanwhile, in Greenwich Village, Wolverine is mooning over Jean Grey outside of her apartment.
What Wolvie doesn't realize is that Jean's roommate, Misty Knight, has her own mooner. Danny sneaks into the apartment to see Misty, despite the fact that they are currently on the outs--before remembering that she's out of town on Nightwing Restorations business. In a brief interlude, we see Misty, international woman of mystery, infiltrating Bushmaster's Caribbean headquarters under the code name Maya Korday. She's missing Danny in his absence but is still pissed at him.
Meanwhile, back in New York, Danny discovers potato salad.
But! Wolverine has just seen a mysterious intruder enter the home of "his woman"! He busts in, claws out. Danny has no idea who Wolverine is (he hasn't been in New York very long) and fights back, while simultaneously trying to untangle some love triangles in his head.
The fight pauses when Danny accidentally flings Wolverine out the window. Danny is horrified--he's already been framed for murder three times since leaving K'un-Lun, so actually killing a guy is the last thing he needs. Fortunately...
As evidenced by the potato salad, Jean and Misty's apartment is ground zero for an imminent X-Men party. Which means, of course...the chaos only gets more chaotic from here.
Finally, the party's unwitting hosts return from a last-minute grocery run.
The idiots all finally stop fighting long enough to have a conversation and clear up the misunderstanding. The party proceeds as planned, Danny is able to use his Rand-Meachum connections to prevent Jean from being evicted, new friendships are formed, and everyone gets a happy ending (except Wolverine).
10/10; a perfect issue.
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