Weird move since the Pharisees were anti-establishment, prosocial, and prioritized human life and dignity above strict legal observance.
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Weird move since the Pharisees were anti-establishment, prosocial, and prioritized human life and dignity above strict legal observance.
Out of curiosity, when there have been "announcements" like this in the past, does he usually post about them on social media in addition to the release from the press office? Just wondering. For no reason.
I don't see how it could NOT be.
I know you mean this figuratively, but I think there is a non-zero chance that they do it literally
This is your regular reminder that rationality is an emotion. It is not the opposite of emotion. It is the feeling of being calmly certain. That is not the same thing as being right. It is the FEELING of being right.
הערן צו דיין פעטער, דוד! עס איז נישט צו שפּעט!
Think it'll work?
A bit odd to say Ellie Wiesel is “long-dead” when he died nine years ago.
Or Portland. Or all of them.
I hope it was trained on Wiesel's Yiddish writings. Those were less blunted for gentile feelings.
It's going to be so very
Right? It's such an obvious Trump move, I can't believe it hasn't happened.
I give Vance less than a week before Mike Johnson starts impeachment proceedings.
If he IS dead, the knives are going to be out in force and it's going to be delicious.
He's putting his own face on all US currency instead of those dead guys nobody cares about. Also they're now called "TrumpBucks" instead of "dollars".
I could be totally wrong. This is based on nothing but gut feelings.
No, not really. But this kind of lack of visibility followed by a very specific time, but very vague message is weird. I really do think he's having some kind of health crisis, and they're going to pump him full of whatever drugs he needs to stand up for 10 minutes as proof of life.
What could explain this crisis of faith???
Bluesky?
I'm a Ba'alue Teshusky
oh he dead
The dictionary is descriptive, not prescriptive, which has the unfortunate effect of including the inventions of bigots and racists in its list of words.
NARRATOR: It did not need to be restated
Labor Day was invented by George Washington during the Revolutionary War to flush out British spies, who would give themselves away by spelling it "Labour Day".
This is relevant to my interests
Ooh, age-appropriate info! PJ Library sent kid "Brave Girl" by Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet recently (for extremely ADHD values of "recently") and it became one of THE bedtime books for a couple months near the end of the school year.
Happy Labor Day! Let's talk about Yiddish labor activist legend, Clara Lemlich Shavelson:
This is how we got a Democrat rep in my district - far right nutjob won a primary against a moderate Republican incumbent, and then lost two general elections in a row. The Democrat we got kind of sucks, but even sucky democrats count towards a house majority.
An amazing thing to me is that these three images, sequentially, are a horror plot. Your own longing for childhood gradually consuming you, growing like a cancer metastasizing as you willingly let it consume you, distracted by an endless stream of nostalgic materialism.
Go Hannah go!
Later loser. Don't fall off your high horse on the way out
I didn't say anything about being brave. I said that I was willing to degrade myself.
You started out tiresome. Jewishness isn't *just* a religion. And you can feel free to scroll up to the post *I* am replying to.
We all say that, Scott Galloway isn't special.
Or non-Jew, if we're still pretending like you're unaware of all context
Hadn't read it yet. But yes, an actual sincere apology that doesn't hedge on requiring *every* Jew to individually prove to you that they're sufficiently against Israel before they're allowed to talk about antisemitism would be good.
And being Jewish isn't just about religion in the way the Christianized West understands it.
Ok. But I'm not the only one. I'm the best only one willing to degrade myself by jumping through hoops to prove it to you, even though I have no obligation to do so and you have no right to demand it.
Sure thing. Here you go:
I haven't defended Israel. And I have no idea what the rest of this means.
Nope. Critique folks who are not defending Israel's genocide in any way, but you assume they must be because they said something about antisemitism: antisemitic. HTH.
Weird thing to reply with if that's NOT what you're saying. And in any case, that's not what I was replying to.
Agreed. FTW.
Ok, you can just send me the money now then.
How do you know they aren't Jewish? What does whether or not you're Jewish have to do with anything? I haven't said anything about whether or not you're Jewish, I've said you're being antisemitic. Jews can do that too, though it's especially embarrassing when they do.
4. Nobody said antizionism == antisemitism. What Joel said, and what I say, is that while antisemitism=/= antisemitism, a whole lot of people think they can do antisemitism if they call is antizionism.
3. Cool. Search our timelines, and when you're done I'll let you know where you can send me a month's rent money.
1. Mine does. It's the very first word. But even if it didn't, we all know that you are making the assumption, didn't insight your intelligence and mine by pretending otherwise. 2. I don't do that. Why do you assume that I do?
Nobody said it IS justified. I, and every other Jew you are interacting with here regularly, loudly, and publicly say it is NOT justified. But here you are, attacking us anyway. Which is - you guessed it - antisemitic af.
I would just like to take a moment to appreciate that you held out for 212 for this one.
By Maurice Ogden?
My therapist: what would you tell someone else going through what you are going through? Me: that they don't have to feel this way, and that they deserve to feel okay, and that I'm here to love and support them. My therapist: Right. So ... ? Me: we've been through this. I'm different.
Literally every single week.
What he said is that many extremely online leftists treat the true statement that antizionism isn't antisemitism to excuse stuff that IS antisemitism. Like, for instance, assuming that any Jew that talks about antisemitism must be a Zionist pig.
He didn't say Zionism was a religion or a country. He didn't say that it wasn't a heartless and sadistic policy. He didn't say that many Jews AREN'T against Zionism - in the way you're using it, Joel himself isn't a Zionist. He didn't say antizionism IS antisemitism.
Sure, I think running on "here's how my policies are actually MORE fiscally responsible than the fascists" is good.
Yes, and also Niemöller sucks.
What's also real is "antizionists" throwing Molotov cocktails at elderly Jews. There are lots of things that are simultaneously real, turns out.
Oh boy. Here I go on a two day bender again.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Right. And I think most of them *are* sensible, actually.
We can't ever win by appealing to that. Appealing to that IS losing. I firmly believe that we can win by going hard in opposition to it. I firmly believe that a candidate who comes out hard on no compromise, no quarter, no looking back will sweep a free and fair election. If we still have those.
We *never* gain a thing with conservatives, because they don't actually have policy positions or priorities. There is no goal they have that they will bend on some other issue to achieve. Their only goal is total dominance, and total control.
I think what little enthusiasm Biden had evaporated during his acceptance speech, when he made everything about reaching across the aisle and coming together as a country and amnesty for a man that tried to do a coup. That weakened support with Democrats, and gained *nothing* with conservatives
I'm glad Biden won in 2020. I think he did some great stuff during his term, and some distinctly not great stuff. I think that the only reason he won the primary was because a critical mass of voters decided a Democrat can't win without appealing to conservatives and I think that is very, very wrong
It's been actual *decades* of this crap, and at some point we have to learn that compromising with evil is not only morally inexcusable, it also does not gain us anything. Not anything at all.
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
"Nazis, but leftishly" is my least favorite phenomenon of 2025.
The blanked out word is not, in fact, “Jews.” It’s a word that is ostensibly a synonym for “Jews” but is actually quite a bit worse.
"Other countries pay the tariffs" Oh, okay.
And a reminder that the 'naming' thing is a literal Nazi obsession freshly laundered through a lunatic fringe of the left
What did this guy's shitty daughter do to the trans girl that led to a physical fight, that's what I want to know.
Right?? I genuinely feel betrayed. He seemed like such a chill guy
Conviction is harder, admittedly, but c'mon.
It takes a simple majority to impeach a cabinet member. You need 4 Republicans who love not having measles more than they love RFK. If you can't get that, wtf are you doing man?
I'm really beating up on myself here. I am the only UTC-8 person on my team. Everyone else is UTC-5, UTC+8, or UTC+10. I genuinely do have 7:00 AM meetings 3 days a week.
Right now is NOT the time to settle. Right now is the time to make the Democrats understand that we don't want their Republican-Lite greaseball. Right now is when we compromise on *nothing*.
I understand the concerns about Kamala Harris' track record, and I absolutely did vote for her and encourage others to as well *once she was the nominee*, because I believed she would be better than Trump. I stand by that. We are not even through the 1st year of Trump's term, though.
The thing about accepting Newsom's depravity against trans people or the homeless on the grounds of "Yeah, that's bad, but we have to beat Trump or it'll be worse." is that by accepting it, you mark it as acceptable, both within your mind and in the larger world around you.
If that means you have to go to a meeting at 2:00 in the morning, well, I guess you should've lived somewhere else, shouldn't you?
IT DOESN'T MATTER DK, THE LONG NUMBER IS ALWAYS THE SAME, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS WRONG FOR TRYING TO MAKE IT BEND TO YOUR LOCATION
Time is NOT a flat circle, it's just one very long number.
This is real SQL that I really wrote with the intention of putting it in a production environment, and I genuinely did not realize what I had done until I went back and read over it
'e' is always "error", I don't have to comment to make that clear! It's also always 'event', obviously. Unless it's a constant, then it's 2.71828.
Ah yes, the people who are death and suffering groupies who revel in symbolism and aesthetics are fundamentally different from the group that designed and fetishized SS uniforms and carried out the most effective mass murder campaign in recorded history.
Please do not "trans women and girls are extra vulnerable to Nazi recruitment online" in my mentions. I will remove you. It's nonsense. There have been members of minorities in nazi lone wolf terror as long as it's existed. But there's no reason to collude in the idea that it's a trans problem.
I'm starting to think it actually might be a little TOO easy being Snoop D O double G.
I have never explained it to my kids. They've never asked me any questions about it. They don't think of it as something that needs to be asked about, because they've always been around queer people, it isn't something new and strange being introduced.
If there's "some sort of accountability on the transgender front" required here, it's our accountability as a country to provide *more* access to affirmative care, *more* acceptance of the whole gender spectrum, *more* protections for trans people. Not less.
Those are not things that someone who is having their gender identity supported, being accepted as who they are, and receiving the gender affirming care and treatment she needs writes. They're the kinds of feelings a good therapist and a supportive community can help with, whatever that means.
But we also know that she wrote in her journal that she was "tired of being trans", that she "wish[ed] she hadn't brain washed herself into being trans" and that she didn't like her long hair and was only keeping it because it was the only aspect of being trans she had left.
And look - I don't want to do any sketchy investigation here. From what we know, the shooter identified as a woman, so I have no reason to think that she wasn't a woman. I am not saying that we should doubt that, in any way.
Dozens and dozens of white cis men do mass shootings and they're all "lone wolves", but one transgender person attempts to and it's "a common denominator".
The reason we think mentally ill people are much more likely to commit violent crimes is because we retroactively label anyone who commits ‘senseless’ violence mentally ill.
Only zionists get tired, duh.
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