dukepaaron

dukepaaron, 1 day ago to random

Fediverse: Biden is secretly controlled by Israel and the Jewish Lobby.

Jew: hey guys maybe tone down the anti-Jew rhetoric okay?

Fediverse: CRITICIZING NETANYAHU ISN'T ANTISEMITISM. YOURE DOING ANTISEMITISM!

dukepaaron, 1 day ago to random

Rightwing: those other people have Jew haters with them and we have some Jews with us that proves we're not the bad guys. We're good for the Jews! Stay away from those dirty Jew haters!

Leftwing: those other people have Jew haters with them and we have some Jews with us that proves we're not the bad guys. We're good for the Jews! Stay away from those dirty Jew haters!

Me: Political alignment is less interesting right now than zero tolerance for this bullshit. 🧐

TonyStark, 1 day ago to random

If you’re replying to me and refusing to read what I wrote, I’m way too busy to keep explaining it. So if you get blocked today after I’ve stated it over and over and the initial post is clear, you’ll know what happened.

It’s not the first time I’ve done it and I really do not care who you are.

sickmatter, 4 days ago to random

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/07/culture/hinds-hall-macklemores-new-rap-track-defends-pro-palestinian-college-protests-and-condemns-israel

Macklemore the white supremacist nice

dukepaaron, 4 days ago to random

I'm no fan of any politicians really and usually stay out of that kind of commentary but...

People complaining that Biden talked about antisemitism on Holocaust Remembrance Day are fucking shitty weirdos.

Binder, 4 days ago to random

Contrary to allegations, I don't "wake up grumpy". I wake up normal & then immediately have to deal w/ some bullshit or other, which results in me becoming grumpy.

V different thing.

dukepaaron, 4 days ago to Palestine

"Pro-#Palestinian protesters chanted “free #Palestine” outside #Auschwitz in Poland, according to footage shared by i24 journalist India Naftali on X Monday and multiple international media reports.

The pro-Palestinian #protest occurred during a march commemorating the victims of the #Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day."

I grew up around a lot of survivors. I remember talking to my step dad's dad one time and you know these folks did not really talk about the holocaust. At all. And when they did it certainly wasn't around the kids.

So anyway, I forget the context of the conversation, but he said to me that "the thing to remember about what happened is that it's your neighbors that turn you in." We maybe talked three times in my life, but that is stamped in my brain.

Anyway, fuck allayall doing this kind of shit.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-800191#google_vignette

dukepaaron, 5 days ago to random

The worst elements of a protest movement don't negate the prime focus of that movement. They don't speak to its morality or sense of justice or whatever.

And at the same time every holiday being an escalation point and every tombstone or memorial to the dead or place where we worship, live, or work being a target is rage inducing.

dukepaaron, 5 days ago to random

"The #NYPD is stepping up patrols outside #synagogues and other houses of worship across the city, after more than 20 synagogues received #bomb threats this past weekend. No #bombs were found in any of the buildings."

https://wabcradio.com/2024/05/06/more-than-20-nyc-synagogues-get-bomb-threats/

dukepaaron, 6 days ago to random

This ship is clearly filling up with dumbassery faster than I can bail it out.

fraying, 6 days ago to random

Really fucking annoying that the far right explains what’s happening in Israel as Jews controlling Biden and the far left explains it as Biden being controlled by Jews. It’s all just antisemitism.

And neither side will acknowledge reality: Bibi is an insane war criminal. Israel is not an American colony, it’s a nation that Biden has no control of. It’s completely arrogant and wrong to think either man can control what the other does, or that the Jewish people have any say over any of it.

TonyStark, 6 days ago to random

You may or may not want to waste 3 minutes of your life listening to Susan Sarandon and while I agree with her on points like people suffering unjustly is horrible (although I try to care about all of them, not just one segment), statements claiming one doesn’t need their family who abandoned them (not even sure that’s happening) and “we’re your family” are statements cult leaders make while brainwashing folks.

Susan Sarandon Speaks at Palestine Millions March 240302 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy8QYMGn-gU

dukepaaron, 6 days ago to random

There are only two things more boring than all of the competing antisemitism definitions:

1. Everyone freaking out about them and creating wild conspiracy theories;

2. Getting them goysplained constantly.

serge, 6 days ago to random

My estimate, based on several analysis, is that the Fediverse is about 3% explicitly antisemitic. This is based on analysis I've done on hate messages across the Fediverse, analysis on my own posts, etc.

Then there's another layer of people who believe antisemitic lies and will spout the, though often they'll do it "carefully" so as not to show the appearance of hate. I have many examples of this. These kinds of people are peddlers of social capital and see that they can get away with advocating violence against Jews in coded language in one post, then be celebrated by saying they "Don't hate anyone" in another- giving cover to their hate.

Finally, there's a huge majority that is simply silent. They don't want to "get involved".

Well as John Mellencamp says "Silence is Complicity".

So, my non-Jewish friends... what about you?

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/john-mellencamp-decries-antisemitism-rock-hall-induction-1235166862/

dukepaaron, 8 days ago to Israel

"Marjorie Taylor Greene has a lot of big feelings about the #Jews. Whenever the Georgia congresswoman opines on the topic, her thoughts are bound to produce some combination of hilarity and concern. Her latest musings on interfaith dialogue, in response to her vote against the #Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, skew much more toward the latter. Greene appears to imagine this act as a threat to religious freedom, and grounds her position in an #antisemitic trope that has led to violence against Jews for centuries."

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/distorted-gospel-marjorie-taylor-greene-jesus-and-the-jews/

dukepaaron, 9 days ago to random

The fediverse is my last stop on the social media trail.

And right now I'm teetering on packing it in. Twitter was shit but it was a better experience as a Jew.

This place is a deluge of hot garbage and so was twitter. But twitter had hundreds of thousands of Jews. Including our public intellectuals. Jews from all walks of life. Jews from many denominations. Jews from all over the world.

What does the fediverse offer in comparison? Mostly just the game of 'out the antisemite' which is boring AF.

TonyStark, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

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.

TonyStark, 9 days ago to random

Hey, beige.party.

WTF?