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C | late 20's | USA | Jewish dyke - nature, history, cats, soccer/hockey - if your blog is blank or you ask me for money I will report you as spam

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[siriusplack1-deactivated2015112]

troy bolton chad danforth potter you were named after the two raddest Wildcats i ever knew now take this basketball and get your head in the game

[disneychannelheritageposts]

disney channel heritage post

[21st-century-minutiae]

The above is a parody of a much mocked line from the epilogue of the final Harry Potter book, an influential franchise of mixed reputation due to the actions of the author. The line in question depicts the titular Harry Potter telling his son that he was named after “two of the bravest men he ever knew”. This shortened paraphrase of the original quote became a meme. Notably, both of the names represented extremely flawed characters, one of which had a particularly antagonistic relationship with the protagonist. Both were deceased and essentially whitewashed in memory, which could be taken as a sign of forgiveness, but was mocked for being extremely dismissive of the realities of the characters (and being a pretty bad/awkward name).

“Troy Bolton” and “Chad Danforth” were two characters in the early twenty-first century Disney Channel musical move: High School Musical, a story about entrenched high school cliques. Troy (one of the two protagonists) and his friend Chad are two basketball players for the high school of the movie, whose mascot is a “Wildcat.” As is common for United States High Schools, the sports teams and the players are named after the school mascot, making them both “Wildcats.”

“Get your head in the game” is one of the famous songs from the musical, Troy is trying to regain his focus on sports, instead of his budding romance/participation in a musical. The constant repetition of “Get your head in the game” makes the song easily memorable, along side the use of a basketball court and balls for percussion.

People who grew up in the height of the Harry Potter fandom would have been at the right age to be deeply familiar with High School Musical. Other than that demographic overlap, there is little to nothing in common that would link the two franchises. The juxtaposition, building off an existing meme, which exacerbates the absurdity that made the meme popular, is the core of the joke above.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

What the hell? Realtors gone mad. Look at this listing in Piney Flats, TN.

A creepy, unsettling, disturbing disembodied doll hand.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/657-Allison-Rd-Piney-Flats-TN-37686/81199703_zpid/

[dontliveinthefuture]

great advice honestly

[h4ganah]

I’m attempting to ask this in genuine faith, but the fear that more refugees would make Jews a minority in Israel does sound similar to the white nationalists afraid white people will become a minority in America. Or Christian’s nationalists upset that they won’t be a Christian country any more.

Obviously Palestinians aren’t likely to just, live conflict free with Israelis given how radicalized the population currently is

But my understanding is that Israel is already a secular democracy, presumably with constitutional amendments in place to protect the rights of its citizens,

Is there somehow a law saying how many non Jews are allowed in? What is the difference I’m missing here?

Don't worry dude, I understand why you're asking, I had the same concern at one point. I'm happy you asked someone in good faith instead of just assuming the worst.

Firstly, no, Israel doesn't have any laws like that.

Israel has since its inception had to balance both being a liberal democracy while also being a jewish country, which isn't always uncomplicated.

There are many reason this is nothing like christian white nationalists wanting to not have non-white non-christians in their country.

For one thing, the reason for not wanting Jews to become a minority in Israel is that Israel would then stop being the one country in the world that will always remain a safe haven for Jews, no matter what. If history has taught jews anything, is that you can never trust the majority to stay nice to you, and that shit can get ugly for jews really fast, no matter how fine things are in the moment. No matter how bad things get for diaspora Jews, there is always one country where you will never get persecuted for being Jewish, and that is Israel.

At the end of the day it's a matter of jewish security, not a matter of disliking arabs. It would be equally bad in the grand scheme of things if the "right of return" instead was about white Europeans, or whatever. The problem is still that Israel would stop being majority Jewish - not because Jews are "better" or anything, but because a jewish majority country will at least not persecute jews.

White nationalists and Christian nationalists want a country free of non-white people and non-christians because they hate non-white non-christians, and they have to imagine and make up being oppressed to justify their beliefs. They also believe that being white and a christian makes them better or superior to everyone else, which Jews don't (yes, there are obviously exceptions of insane revisionist jews who think like this, but they're the exception, not the rule)

Jews, on the other hand, are actually oppressed. And while anti-arab racism in Israel is absolutely a thing and bad, Israel still has a sizeable Arab population with the same rights as Jewish Israelis, which would never be the case if Israel was motivated by ethnosupremacism.

Hope that decently answered your question, if anyone has anything to add feel free to do so.

[daughterofstories]

The history of Jews specifically in Arab countries--and areas controlled by Palestinians is very relevant here.

There are centuries of history of Arabs and Muslim countries making Jews second class citizens at best. Over the past century, Jews have been ethnically cleansed from the entire Arabic and Muslim world. In the West Bank, it is illegal to sell land to Jews.

The recent draft constitution that the Palestinian Authority published explicitly stated that Palestine would be an Arabic and Muslim country and did not have a single acknowledgement of Jewish heritage or right to safety.

Every bit of precedence we have says that Jews would not be safe in a majority Palestinian country.

Not to mention that Arabic culture and Islam came to Israel and the rest of the region as imperialist conquerors and still control the entire rest of the region.

Once you look beyond the surface, the Palestinian Right of Return is a lot less like refugees trying to get into the US or Europe and a lot more like if the US government said that they would start actually respecting treaties with Native American tribes, but only if all the US citizens currently living on the historical tribal lands were granted full voice in all tribal matters, thus ensuring that the actual members of the tribe remained a minority and were prevented from regaining any true sovereignty.

[l3gendarycatlover]

"what's the difference between hundreds of millions of colonisers wanting to control everybody else, vs a tiny minority wanting to control just its own tiny strip of land without the colonisers insisting on taking it back over by superior numbers?"

You have encountered one of the fundamental flaws of pure democracy. When a majority wants to destroy an intrinsic minority, that minority cannot survive in a purely equal democracy with that majority. It can only survive independently, and can't survive giving the majority a vote in whether it stays independent.

That's a tough enough pill to swallow, but we're still trying to get westerners to swallow even the tiny grain of historical reality that arabs are the oppressive colonial majority in SWANA.

[buffalo-tracks]

Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.

The Wretched of the Earth

Discourse On Colonialism

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Borderlands/La Frontera

As We Have Always Done

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Books I couldn't find on the archive but still recommend you purchase or check out at the library:

[eroscestlavie]

everyone envies me for my Mateo Point

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[quixoticclown]

Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

[daily-nhl-polls]

Would you wear a signed jersey to a game?

Yes

No

Nuance

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

[redstonedust]

'being single sucks because youll be lonely' lame and untrue. 'being single sucks because a lot of groceries are portioned to make food for more than one person and you cant really take advantage of buying in bulk because it'll go bad before you use it all' this i cannot deny.

[utopians]

I consider myself a real hater but sometimes you really do go too far with haterism. once I had to break mutuals with someone bc they hated the entire art form of poetry and the final straw was when they started hateposting about soup. The food

[bluestockingbaby]

[tpwrtrmnky]

"screen time screen time screen time screeeeEEEEEEEE" before the smartphone, kids were so bored they'd play with explosives, vandalize local infrastructure and harass old people for entertainment.

fund libraries. fund makerspaces. fund youth sports. enable kids to actually go places without having to ask someone to drive them everywhere. excessive reliance on digital spaces is a symptom of having nothing else to do.

[moniquill]

We need third spaces that do not require money.

[aetherograph]

We also need to allow children and esp teenage children to exist in public without seeing that as threatening or criminal. Loitering is a fake crime. Teens making noise by riding bikes or skateboarding outside is not a crime. People sitting on their front stoops hanging out IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME. Someone sleeping in a park IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME. Some kids fooling around in the bushes IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME. Black and brown kids EXISTING OUTSIDE IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME.

PEOPLE EXISTING IN PUBLIC IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME.

[mf-dooom]

[yetanothergreyjedi]

that is the face of a man worried he will be next

[ashtraythief]

Good news, he was not next! In fact, she accepted him as her mate, he learned the crane mating dance and now every year, he artificially inseminates her with crane semen to expand the very endangered crane population. True story.

[luulapants]

Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man's boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you're excited about it.

[whetstonefires]

crane husband.....

[roach-works]

this is the diametric opposite of all those awful swan wife stories and i love it.

[alex51324]

(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:

Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980′s.  The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.  

As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.  

It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.  

Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, it’s pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.  

The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.

They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.   

Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris--and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.  

Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.  

Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent.  (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)  

It worked!  

Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility--sometimes the biological dad and his mate--both because it’s unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.  

However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them.  (This would not work with real eggs because he can’t sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)

Chris accepts that he is pretty much married to this bird.  White-naped cranes live to be about 60, and they mate for life, so he knows he can’t retire while Walnut is alive.  (At the time of the article, Walnut was 36, and Chris 42.)  

[thesylverlining]

Legit cannot pick the funniest part of this

she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)

His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)

the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)

"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")

chris sits any potential human partners down, like "my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already... Attached" (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) "Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding... the relationship is open, but very committed"

[anais-ninja-bitch]

just had to explain this post to my father bc he thought my stifled laughter was a signal of illness.

well done, everyone, good game. hit the showers.

[largishcat]

[eshlimoriarty]

[lazorsandparadox]

Not only is he 'married' to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes

[queersatanic]

the “this content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines” notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[kedreeva]

I regret being the bearer of bad news, but I thought it should be shared that Walnut passed away in January of this year (2024). There's a lot of mixed info about the lifespan of cranes (due to people misunderstanding what a median is...) but the average for most species I know of is 20-30 years (in the wild if nothing eats them/they don't die young), and 30-45 in captivity, with the oldest known white-naped crane having loved to be 46. Given that she was 42, this old gal did good, and I'm certain she will be missed by folks here.

[optimysticals]

Fly on forever Walnut Crane-Crowe

[necrosonatica]

Hey fellas is it colonialist for an ethnic group to want free, unrestricted access to their ancient sacred sites? Is it anti-colonialist for descendents of invading empires to deny them access under the threat of violence? asking for a friend.

[freshwaterduck]

[musings-of-a-crazed-musician]

reblogging this with the addition of my favorite comment on the post