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imstilljeremy

@imstilljeremy@babka.social

tentatively back from hiatus (sorta):

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Largely limited to: #Jewdiverse #Mazeldon #Politics #USPolitics #BlackLivesMatter #Disabilities #WheelOfTime #WoT #Pluralism #SFF #Michigan

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dukepaaron, to random
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This is peak America.

Guy signs rental agreement that apt keeps kosher then tries to renege. Redditors recommend cooking revenge bacon to teach that nasty Jewish roomate a lesson.

They should have little virtual pitchforks and torches.

https://www.boredpanda.com/jewish-roommate-not-allowed-oven-food/

imstilljeremy,
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@dukepaaron

I love how they just don't mention in the article that the other guy had it written repeatedly that the kitchen was kosher, and the guy had asked multiple follow-up questions establishing that he understood the kitchen would have to be kosher, and then framed it as "I am not allowed to use..." instead of "I can only use it for..."

Like, yes, it sucks to sign a lease that agrees to stuff you didn't realize would be as much of an issue to follow as you had initially thought, but the idea that the Jewish guy had an obligation to try and dissuade OP from renting because OP probably didn't realize what keeping kosher entails is just Christian supremacy wrapped in a thin veneer.

Like, I do think the Jewish guy should have known that this schmuck didn't realize what was involved, but him not hammering the point doesn't make him wrong. It just makes him too optimistic about how pluralistic the society is.

imstilljeremy, to random
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It's so funny how the Simpsons quote "Everything about the past is perfect, except how it led to the present" is how so many people actually view history because it is almost precisely the opposite of reality.

dukepaaron, to queer
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"A Wider Bridge has called upon #Pride organizers across the country to ensure #Jewish people can safely participate in their events.

The group, which “advocates for justice, counters LGBTQphobia, and fights #antisemitism and other forms of hatred,” sent a letter to the Capital Pride Alliance and more than 60 other Pride organizers."

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/06/04/pride-organizers-urged-to-ensure-jewish-people-can-safely-participate-in-events/

imstilljeremy,
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@dukepaaron @jmb

My presumption here is that in blue enclaves within red states, those showing up for pride know they need as many people as they can for safety and for purpose (a very visible show of acceptance and courage) and so it wouldn't occur to most to gatekeep.

OTOH, deep blue spaces operate on the presumption of near-unanimous support, and so feel comfortable taking measures to ensure the "wrong people" aren't present.

Hence things like red state pride parades depending on support from local police to keep them safe and blue state parades implementing policies to rid themselves of police guards/presence as an extension of first principles.

kjr, to random
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Jewish writers are getting blacklisted and worry about their publishing futures

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-804434

imstilljeremy,
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@kjr

This article felt like a real missed opportunity. It ended up being essentially a reading of a Twitter thread by a (seemingly) totally random person with no power or influence.

So, if the article is just to say that it is alarming what kinds of antisemitic things get traction... well, we can all read Twitter for ourselves if we want.

They didn't seem to actually explore the topic at all.

But Jewish authors are still feeling unsafe. Some are losing out on European contracts for American books that mention Jewish themes. Others are scrubbing their books of Jewish characters (“It’s not worth it,” one author told me), and many are going silent on social media, afraid.

This is the only important text in the entire article, IMO: Real world impact. How is this impacting the world of Jewish literary publishing and authorship?

1/2

futurebird, to random
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I had a student who was chewed up by the justice system in NYC— he was in my calc III class at the CC — and he could have gone on to a 4 year school with a scholarship— but that was not to be it’s a very nasty and remorseless system and I have no sympathy for someone who has only seen the concierge in kid gloves version.

imstilljeremy,
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@futurebird

This is a very good way of putting it.

Our justice system screws up with the innocent.
Our justice system abuses the guilty far beyond that which they are ostensibly sentenced.

And so my patience is rather thin for those whom it has gone out of its way, far beyond any standards of decency or justice, who can only now cry foul.

futurebird, to random
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The verdict may not matter to Trump's base, but I do think there is a group of people it matters to who are being overlooked: the people who were already likely to vote for Biden.

A Trump acquittal would have sapped trust in legal systems and government further. It would fueled apathy. Hopelessness and apathy can reelect Trump.

imstilljeremy,
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@tuban_muzuru @futurebird

I'm failing to follow the analogy, could you elaborate?

juergen_hubert, to politics
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1/ Okay, while the Trump verdict has been very riveting, I'd like to talk about failure states in democracies for a bit.

Any stable democracy needs peaceful transfers of power. If a ruling government loses in an election and thus loses power, they are free to moan about it - but in the end, they should leave office without violence because (unless they screwed up bigly) they realize that they will likely return to power one day. They are invested in the system, and do not want to overthrow the basic democratic order of their country - because it works for them.

Thus, a country needs multiple parties with an investment in democracy, who are willing to form a government - but who are also willing to leave peacefully. If this is not the case, then the democracy in question is in a failure state.

An good (or rather, very very bad) example of a "proportional representation" democracy in a failure state was the late Weimar Republic. Starting in 1932, the NSDAP (Nazis) and the KDP (Communists) received a majority of the vote and thus representatives. Both wanted to overthrow the Republic and its democracy in its own way, and thus it became impossible to form a democratic government - let alone switch between different ones. But the Weimar Republic had problems in this regard even earlier, since there were numerous miniscule parties with only a very small number of candidates. They only cared about a small number of issues, had no motivation to compromise, and thus were not willing to join a working government.

#Politics #Democracy #Elections #WeimarRepublic #Germany #History

imstilljeremy,
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@juergen_hubert

This was an excellent overview of the political theory and history, though i have two objections:

voters could voice their dissatisfaction with the ruling party by voting for another party

This is still true, which is unfortunately the problem. The issue is that "democracy" is itself one of the planks of the party which voters are voicing their dissatisfaction through support of an alternate party.

Very obviously, we would agree that voters have a not limitless supply of alternative parties to which voters can turn, and thus types of dissatisfaction they can express. Dissatisfaction with abortion laws being too permissive under the GOP cannot be expressed either as there lacks an alternate for them to support.

However there is a reluctance to recognize "Democracy" as a policy on which voters are expressing tthemselves.

And that leads to my second concern: I'm unconvinced this is a result of, and thus indictment of FPtP voting but instead of rising illiberalism.

ash, to Israel
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So, in theory, I'll be able to come back to Jerusalem (from Armenia I was forced to go in March) around 15 of June. But when this week, when the conclusion of my aliyah after 1,5 years of burocracy hell is almost palpable, I became too unstable to perform the last bits needed.

Some kind of moral support will be very appreciated. Thank you.

@mazeldon @israel

imstilljeremy,
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@ash @mazeldon @israel

רפואה שלמה

imstilljeremy, to politics
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A reminder: people prove their loyalty to the group by endorsing and praising the absolute stupidest, most indefensibly idiotic stuff so long as it signals in the correct direction.

The less defensible, more obviously absurd the argument, the stronger you signal your fealty to the group.

Tesseks, to religion
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Do most Christians want to ban divorce, birth control and abortion or just the right-winged ones?

Edit video in thread that I made me question.

#rightwing #christian #christians #abortion #rights #religion #politics

imstilljeremy,
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@Tesseks

It's worth remembering that Christians, the most GOP-leaning religion, are split almost exactly evenly down the middle between Democrats and Republicans. Every other religious group votes overwhelmingly for Democrats.

Democrats are the party of religious freedom and expression. Republicans are the party of lonely single men and abusive men who are on their 3rd or 4th wife and don't pay child support.

Legislating women's rights is an expression of GOP authoritarianism and misogyny.

endantisemitism, to random
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Holocaust inversion

https://procolix.social/@koen/112429557809855138
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/oF2KO

#FediAntisemitism

imstilljeremy,
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@endantisemitism

The fetishization of our grandparents is fucking gross.

The fervor from Evangelicals when they saw my kippah and excitedly explain how holy I am and that I can worship "Yeshua" and still be a Jew (while ringing them up at Kohl's) that made me feel like I needed a shower is the same as the fervor of these "ex-Christians" who see our dead grandparents and excitedly explain how holy they were and that the only ones that were bad were the ones that survived.

Ugh. It's just gross.

futurebird, to random
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Someone said it's important say this publicly in the US: so I will. (And I think each of us should, online and to friends)

This November I will vote for Biden.

I would regard not voting for Biden, particularly in: PA, OH, MI, WI, IN, IL,VA, GA, FL, AZ, ME, NC, NH, etc. as a huge error. I'd be disappointed to find out anyone I knew didn't vote. It's one of a long list of things we need to do. We can't skip it.

And still? We deserve better choices, and in the future we shall have them.

imstilljeremy,
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@futurebird @incoherentmumblings @tob

I mean, they are citing Nazi Germany as a success story for her theory of historical progress. Which would mean the upside to Trump would be extermination camps, and all of us who are killed are just the price that needs to be paid for her "progress".

A wonderful demonstration of the counter-argument to your point, though horrifyingly honest.

Setok, to Eurovision
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Oh, I just learnt that , the main sponsor of the , is from .

Look, the song was OK, if nothing special, but coming a tight second in the televote (only just losing to ), and gaining the number one vote in countries like Finland is just really suspect.

I don’t necessarily mean bot votes, though it wouldn’t surprise me, but at least an orchestrated pro-Israel campaign.

imstilljeremy,
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@Setok @Haydar

Your "criticism" is:

  1. Israelis campaigned for people to vote for their singer like everybody else;
  2. The votes don't match what you intuitively felt they deserved;
  3. Vague handwaving about a conspiracy where you allude to a network of spies in other countries using a corporate sponsor to Step 2 ... Step 3 Rigged result

That's not criticism, it's paranoia.

Get help and just stop thinking about Jews this much. It's creepy and we don't want your attention.

Edit to Add Links

imstilljeremy,
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@kjr @Setok @Haydar

Oh come on, are you calling it "a conspiracy theory" to suggest that Morroccan Oil blackmailed the Fins to vote for an Israeli song in a dastardly plot to come in 5th place?!

Jeez, you Je--Zionists call anything antisemitic these days.

imstilljeremy, to random
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Oh, whoops. I accidentally fell for one of the far-right people who poses as, and is embraced by (and perhaps believes themselves to be), the left wing, thinking they actually believe the things they say rather than just putting together whatever words will advance their interests.

It genuinely is hard to tell the left from the right these days, when both will froth at the mouth about the Zionist Occupied Government who doesn't put America First.

Just more great moments in criticism .

david1, to Israel
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One of the odd things people say about is that it's a "Western state" when it's no more a state than Japan and, in my opinion, far less so. For example, is determined by religious authorities even though The stopped doing this over a century ago.

imstilljeremy,
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@david1

Israel doesn't have "marriage" as a civil institution the way that Europeans developed it.

It isn't that their civil marriages are administered by a religious authority, as you are equating with past European laws (I assume based on bad information somebody gave you), but that Israel simply doesn't have civil marriages.

Their marriages are determined by religious authorities in the exact same way as I signed my Ketubah here, which is just a separate activity from state involvement in marriage at all.

Whoever described it to you as being similar to religious officials determining who qualifies as being in a union did you a disservice which ended in you being less informed than before.

chris, to random
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I‘m wondering if there were still people in Germany in 1933 who loudly abstained from voting because “the choice between NSDAP and everything else is like the choice between pest and cholera” and “voting does not really change anything”.
And did they feel some smug justification that “the political class” failed?

imstilljeremy,
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@chris

Because it was Parliamentary rather than our system, it was more about directing their votes for/within the coalitions. Within the analogy you made, this was Thalmann's theory when he was explaining why Nazis were the better option.

Although most parties thought that they would all be "next" after the Nazi collapse, Ernest Thalmann was the one who explicitly sought to ally with Hitler to destroy liberal democracy ("the political class") because he thought it would just hurt "the right people".

For his trouble, he was among the first thrown in prison and was one of the few for whom Hitler specifically ordered the execution.

imstilljeremy, to random
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"Do I live in a police state?" is a question that, if posted publicly, answers itself 5 minutes later.

Absolutely childish, unserious people.

imstilljeremy, to random
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Americans are so priveleged that many literally cannot conceive of the lives, around the world and throughout history, that lack even one.

This is not just in the sense of creature comforts that are limited by (even minor) pricing barriers (no matter how important they may be, such as air conditioning, heating, medications, restaurants, internet) but things that exist in the background of almost every interaction and moment of our existence: insulation from the elements, shelter from predators, downtime we can spend on things other than basic survival, ubiquitous communication via common language and literacy, running water, abundant food, guarantee of freedom from the mere whim of another, daily influence on the lives of others, knowledge of how the physical world works, the ability to discern our impact on those around us, the ability to go where we please when we please, and far more.

The ingratitude for these gifts, paid by the blood, sweat, and tears of our ancestors is heartbreaking.

imstilljeremy,
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"Voting is fascism" people, and I need to emphasize that not all of them are foreign influence operations (having personally known some), are legitimately the most sheltered, privileged people on the planet.

There are billionaires who have a less warped sense of reality than these people.

imstilljeremy, to random
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If you have to write up a 10 page review of Israel, Hamas, and your family who were killed for having Jewish blood, just to justify banning a Nazi who rants about how Jews have always been a "predatory people" because of the "Hebrew genocide" from Christian liturgy... I mean, I'll be glad a Nazi is banned and also feel like you have made it clear anything short of that is (at least) tolerated.

So... yeah, still gonna want nothing to do with your place.

TonyStark, (edited ) to random
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I’d really rather be posting about the 2024 elections and climate news and other things I enjoy but since the Fediverse just gets more and more comfortable with Jew hatred, not less, and people stay dead silent about it, this is where it is.

imstilljeremy,
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@dukepaaron @axeshun @TonyStark @mentallyalex

Not to be too much on self-promotion here, but I have a link to an article on Antisemitism in my bio that I think will hit you right where you're at right now.

I wrote this a bit back, but I think that'll drive the point home all the better.

imstilljeremy, to random
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At this point, the fact that this guy hasn't been banned makes a pretty good case for defederating from this instance.

Just straight up Nazi shit, with "you're a predatory people and always have been" as a reply to being told Jews just want to be left alone.

I don't make policy for #Babka, but this guy just going on a Nazi rant seems like it should be a call for a fediblock.

#FediAntisemitism #Antisemitism

Post from @CosmicallyF replying to @imstilljeremy The only reason there even is a modern Israel to speak of is because the Christians stole it from the Muslims and gave it to the Jews based on some hocus pocus prophecy. Now you're committing genocide to seize the rest. Even the whole Old Testament is about the Hebrews genocide to steal "the promised land". You don't just want to be left alone. You're a predatory people and always have been.
Post from @CosmicallyF All of this unduly accusing me of hating Jews doesn't make Jews my favorite people... . Reply from @8124 "UNDULY meaning: 1. more than is necessary, acceptable, or reasonable” if you're going to use the word unduly, maybe don't declare that you hate Jews in the same post lol Reply from @CosmicallyF Fuck you and your genocide apologism. Maybe | wouldn't have a low opinion of Jews if the construct of Israel is on stolen land.
Post from @CosmicallyF All of this unduly accusing me of hating Jews doesn't make Jews my favorite people... Reply from @WmShakesp3are point proven perhaps, | mean, Jews as a group? Jews on the fediverse? Jews for Jesus? All Jews? What? Post from @CosmicallyF Honestly my problem is particularly Zionists but the mainstream doesn't really differentiate that from the rest of the Jews. Really the Christian Zionists are are even worse.

imstilljeremy, to Jewish
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I am conscious that a lot of people have never met a Jew, but the number who seem to think we are fictional or mythical characters from stories, like elves or Olympians, is always jarring.

autism101, to actuallyautistic
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As autistic people, we don’t need to apologize to others for our differences.

Illustration by Izzy @autieselfcare

@actuallyautistic

imstilljeremy,
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@autism101 @actuallyautistic

Maybe a bit unpopular (and I still only very recently got my diagnosis, so this might be my deep-seated issues with myself), but I do feel like it's fair for me to have to apologize for #1, #2, #4.5 (second half), #6, and #8.

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