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I had an ... odd cousin (for context - thoroughly Ashkenazi in custom, like me) who suffered from chronic illness verging on catastrophe most of his life. He would say at family celebrations that it's so nice when you come to a bris and the baby isn't named after you.
Swabbing door handles just for samples
Turns out they couldnāt sustain the outrage. I read most of that years Hugo packet and oof was some of the puppy stuff among the worst writing Iāve ever read.
You will notice that the Book of Amalek is missing from most shuls
Itās the latter, somehow people are getting this idea and are unshakable in it.
I would have continued but oh well I guess I am abrasive tonight.
Getting replies from beneath her block is funny. I hope you have more luck than I did.
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Once again I ask: where is this idea coming from?
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Well sheās blocked me
But also Palestinian identity is just something that Jews didnāt adopt because among other things the material reality of the nakba and way Palestinian identity was shaped by that. Something that didnāt happen to Jews living in Palestine at the time.
No one here is doing that. Absolutely no one. We are all pointing out that result of the 1948 war was the mass expulsion of Palestinian Christians and Muslims from what becomes Israel and also an expulsion of Jews from the areas that ended up controlled by Egypt and Jordan.
Once again I am asking gentiles to learn any basic fact about 1947-1948
ā¦ I am begging gentiles to learn a single fact about 1947-1948
Who is putting this idea out?
No, there are not
I donāt think they recognize what they are doing but you know who else is mad that Israelis were evacuated from Gaza in 2005 because they had always been there?
I have been called an old perverted man by someone who has managed to turn themself into a Gush Katif supporter because some Jews (including me) told them there arenāt Palestinian Jews in Gaza.
I am fairly certain it was not a cat throwing up.
Has anybody tried giving him his childhood sled yet?
Again, a reputable breeder wouldnāt breed dogs from this line which might mean abandoning the breed altogether. But you canāt have aggressive dogs as pets. Thatās just not safe.
So thatās the background as an American. Now here is my uninformed American opinion: it looks to me like the Bully XL lines are heavily inbred and descend from a dog with aggression problems. That makes things different from the pit bull situation since it is one known line with the issue.
Then there is the issue that any dog that bites a human and is stocky with short hair will get reported as a pit bull even if they arenāt. Also there was a certain amount of racism because this is the US and we canāt do anything without race coming up.
And tbf a lot of training. They arenāt good novice dog owner dogs because they tend to be high energy and have a high prey drive too. Reputable breeders do not breed dogs with any sign of human aggression but lots of breeders suck.
I assume it has to do with the pit bull panics in the US. Pit type dogs were popular with dog fighters and people who wanted tough looking dogs. That means people would breed bad temperament dogs and abuse them. But the majority of American pit bull terriers are goofs who need training.
You have a drying out problem, thatās what you have
Worrisome: was that noise a cat throwing up or something else?
No, I have a bad case of not letting it go when people are factually wrong. Now if you want to argue that the settlers in Gaza are native to that area well they would agree with you. If you find yourself agreeing with a settler you should probably check whatās actually going on.
The Jews evacuated in 2005 were settlers, not locals
hey man I don't give a shit what Nate Silver says
Could always be a crank
I think the person just wanted to yell at a Jew
Today in bad takes: Hebrew names are all in modern Hebrew and therefore something???
There seems to be a cycle of Dems soaking up frustration about the system -- when the system works well enough for such frustration to be salient -- and then Republicans crashing the system. Which leads to Dems building it back up again and rise/repeat
I've said this before, but only one party caring about governance makes it, in turn, a magnet for public anger about governance
I'm sorry but on some level my brain is in denial. Yvette Cooper really actually said to our refugee communities that they are not entitled to a right to a family life today
Nachos were invented in Dallas and Texas style nachos arenāt the pile of chips and stuff most people think of as nachos.
Okay, now do baked beans
When you have strong opinions about Mea Shearim:
That would be news to the people who still speak Yiddish as their primary language.
ā¦and they say our people are smart
The framing of taqiyya as something other than a Shiaāa doctrine to protect Shiites from other Muslims persecuting them
Iāll just get on the Jew phone and call up the elders of Zion to talk to Bibi, why hasnāt anyone thought of that?
Oh he does, that doesnāt mean itās not shockingly ignorant
Not great seeing Jews buy into Islamophobic lies.
Well given that you believe that antisemitic propaganda about the Talmud I would say you have moved into antisemitism.
Read this out loud to my husband and got an excellent āis he fucking serious lookā
I was just listening to a Charlie Kirk rant about how millions of people in the USA don't speak English ("unity is our strength," he says), then uses India as an example of a "unified country." Buddy I have news for you about the linguistic diversity of India.
(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
being Canadian is funny because I look at both and am like "what on earth is happening in the rest of the Anglosphere"
Next up heāll say it was a social experiment
You guys see where this is going? Right?
One of my favorite exchanges is when a Jew says āthereās a lot of antisemitism out thereā and someone replies āI havenāt seen a single example!ā, clearly thinking thatās a comment on the Jew being a liar rather than on their own lack of vision.
anyway my brave take is that Bluesky isn't really working because you just can't launch a text-based social media platform in the era of Big Video And Picture Slop and expect it to flourish, most people don't really want to type or read
People say this, but what they actually mean is that professionalized, democratically accountable policing is a relatively recent invention. Before that, there were fewer controls on the people who were authorized to use force against you.
Do you mean mitzvah?
The what?
My older kidās therapist gave us this book: www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...
Itās just a weird choice
And the picture is of a funeral? I assume a Palestinian one, but what?
Taylor Lorenz is getting defended for boosting a Nazi by an awful lot of covid conscious accounts, so yeah, looks like she's become the entry point for introducing that crowd into the fash pipeline.
There is a subset of IFD that is entirely people missing that kashrut makes Jewish cuisine a distinct variant on any local cuisine.
American style bagels are American food. Just like any other food adaptation. Except fruit bagels, those are an abomination
The Torah explicitly forbids men to wear women's clothing. Let men buy their own damn dresses, I say.
Isnāt there an exception for a poor husband and wife who share one outer cloak?
I was adding detail, not correcting
somehow twitter had a second meltdown over someone making food for their neighbors, this time over cookies
So yes
It also doesnāt help that you canāt say anything about Jewishness or antisemitism without someone bringing up Israel. I donāt have infinite patience to deal with that.
Then when you try to push back on the claims you get told āZionism has nothing to do with Judaism and saying they do is antisemitismā Itās exhausting right now.
Every day people seriously post that Ashkenazim are white converts oppressing brown real Jews or claiming Neturei Karta are the real Jews and Jews who disagree with them are against the Torah.
There is a whole running joke about Aussie Bluesky because of the number of accounts with land acknowledgments who talk about khazars or how any political concern for antisemitism is Israel attempting to control Australia.
Not to speak for Joel here but there has been a lot frustration from Jews on bluesky in the last week or so over the way people seem to be blind to antisemitism. Iāve seen hundreds of ostensible leftists saying some seriously antisemitic shit but calling it anti-Zionist.
Oop!
I meant the person above who needs a wallet inspector
I would add āif the sentence makes no sense with āIsraelā or āZionistsā but does with Jewsā
Ah, one of those
Maybe I should send them at the Jews are antisemites person and see if some good happens
Ffs
I thought we were supposed to be Germans, now we are stealing their names?
It does show up mostly as carelessness until Jews start to push back on it and then people get vicious
I mean Iāve been called an antisemite, a racist, a genocide supporter and a Nazi as well as a liar by someone on that thread.
Everyone who says MAGNETO WAS RIGHT gets really mad when it's pointed out that Magneto's actual ideology and outlook is Revisionist Zionism with the proper nouns replaced, something which makes perfect sense for a Polish Jew Holocaust survivor furious at the world!
Yelling tekiah the next time Iām in a traffic jam and seeing what happens
This thread is a spring off of this earlier thread btw bsky.app/profile/dala...
I think people are bad at media literacy and are easily swayed by hotness. See all the people who took Killmongerās rhetoric seriously without looking at his actions.
People bought the propaganda I guess.
Watch someone take that out of context
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There are a whole lot of people saying āMagneto was rightā š¬
Nah. Kidnapping and attempting to sacrifice a seventeen year old for political aims that you can just do yourself is wrong during Reagan, and wrong during Clinton, and so on. Same with the mass blackout plot.
The one Iāve been tangling with?
Letās name names on this one. Taylor Lorenz did that. Just one of many awful batshit crazy that things sheās posted.
The person crashing out in that thread probably couldnāt assimilate that info
Congrats whoever came up with this, you have a dumber and somehow more evil plan than the one Hamas drew up for what do after it destroyed the Zionist entity
I would once again like to point out that collective punishment is explicitly a war crime.
Very much so
Uh. Thats where this all started and I have been called some pretty crappy names today by her.
Where are you getting your facts? bsky.app/profile/dala...