I was just informed by one of the admins that I have 14 days to leave functional.cafe after I called a troll doing genocide apologia in my comments a zionist ape, where should I go? What servers don't bow to the complaints of #Zionism?
Functional.cafe are claiming I'm simply a multiple offender of their rules, which i will admit is true ever since they changed their rules, but I would like for it to be clear. They changed their rules in October specifically to accommodate Zionists complaining about my posts, the very day a #BDS tagged post of mine blew up and became among the most shared BDS posts on the activity pub network. I initially agreed to CW political posts, but as #Israel's #genocide in #Palestine has accelerated, killing all but one of my students in Gaza along with most of their families, I've concluded that hiding this behind content warnings is itself bowing to mild repression for the sake of satisfying the demands of the most extreme oppression: genocide.
I've seen plenty of pro-genocide posts in the local server feed. I dont think they are being asked to leave or even getting their posts censored, as mine increasingly have been (even removing posts with many likes from months ago, apparently on demand).
I'm sad I'll be losing all my past posts, especially those about #lisp and #scheme that I occasionally rediscover. Where can I go that won't turn similarly sour? My time with the #fediverse may be up tbh. After being blocked and soft-blocked by nearly everyone I was buddies with in the #guix community (for years!) for being an anti-genocide Jew, and now this, its quite clear that even spaces that act like they stand for universal liberties above all are actually willing supporters of the most oppressive regimes and ideologies on the planet. At least insofar as they are #European in origin and character.
Call me crazy but if you join a tech server, post only about tech until the most brutal violence since WWII emerges, which your posts turn towards as people you have known for a long time are killed alongside their families, one after the other, the server kicking you out is the enforcer of repression, even if they do so all while paying customary lip service to condemning the oppressor. That its a libertarian free speecg fundamentalist who is doing the repression is so incredibly typical. Absolutely vapid ideology, we communists are infinitely more committed to liberty than those who merely brand their personal interests with it. #BDS#Palestine
Zionists dont have to troll me in my comments believe it or not. I did not go and find that guy myself, he found me. He came and started posting about how oppressed Jews are in Brooklyn — which is grotesquely absurd, equivalent to white genocide narratives — in order to defend the genocide of Palestinians. That is beyond the pale in my books... especially as a brooklynite Jew who is sure beyond any reasonable doubt that we aren't one of the oppressed minorities of NYC. If you seriously care about the oppression Jews have suffered throughout history, you should be well aware that the violence that black people, east and west Asians, latinos and Muslims as a whole suffer in the city is comparable to what our grandparents experienced before WWI in Europe, which you should also know is incomparable to anything we or our parents experienced growing up (my father's shul was bombed in one of the worst antisemitic terror attacks in US history growing up, so I dont want to hear about how its so much worse than I acknowledge)
Not sorry I called him an ape. If you stoop to such ridiculous lows and expect strangers to buy it, to acknowledge that your intelligence is comparable to that of a primate is to give you the benefit of the doubt tbh.
@shakil_tcs yeah I need to do that, the problem with me and blogging is that I have this humanities academic ocd wrt to publishing, where everything has to be expressed correctly when I feel like I'm leaving the zone of simple discourse for my writing proper, and have never been able to overcome it and treat a blog more like I do Mastodon. Maybe its time to get back on it.
considering the diversity of the area sephardic jews have primarily inhabited over the past 500 years, which spans France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Algeria, Morrocco, Egypt, etc etc, I think the way that Zionists claim that this is "sephardic hebrew" is itself an orientalization of Sephards as a model of pure, un-yiddishized hebrew (early Zionists put de-yiddishization at the very top of their priorities, and has a concept of the new Hebrew Man to replace it, based on their oriental fantasies of sephards as original Hebrews).
The truth is that among yiddishkeit, yiddish is supposed to mean the Jewish vernacularization of national tounges, and so the yiddish most Sephards spoke was what academics call JudeoArabic, which like other yiddish vernaculars is largely a result of writing the national mother tounge under the constraints of the phonetics of the hebrew alphabet.
But just as Arabs in Egypt and Morrocco may have difficulty understanding each other, the same goes for sephards from Egypt and Morrocco. Isralien Hebrew is more like the way sephards speak, but if you take the weird confabulations of non-religious people learning hebrew for supposed national interests, in a void without much relation to the religion and resentful of the hachareidim
something interesting about Yiddish culture is that it reflect the Talmud in that you have all of these sometimes wildly varying dialects in discourse with one another, but I can still have a conversation with a Litvish Yiddish speaker all while the dialect I know is primarily Hungarian (despite none of my family coming from Hungary, and in fact being Litvaks lol)
I feel like from my time in China that Chinese culture is a lot like Jewish culture in this respect, particularly from working on a project in Changsha and seeing Hunanese communicate with the cantonese team I was working with. Would you say thats the case or am I reading to much of my own experiences into China?
@pkal, anytime I hit the manual for some specific part of emacs I find out how easy it is to write a script that accomplishes what I'm really looking for versus the relatively large package I use lol
Ever since its inception by means of ethnic cleansing, #Israel has remained by far the most dangerous place on Earth for #Jews to live, at least insofar as the Zionist settler-colony remains in tact (I will literally immigrate to the State of Palestine when its dismantled, the sooner the better). #German insistence that without colonizing #Palestine we're in danger of another #Holocaust is the most pernicious veiled threat I can imagine to come from those who committed some of the worst crimes in all of human history against us.
In what remains imo the deepest reflections in the field of Holocaust #Theology[1], #Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum reminds us that we were exiled from #Yerushalayim not because of Roman antisemitism, but as a punishment by G-D for becoming the perpetrators of שנאת חנם (shinayt khinaym, baseless hatred) as sovereigns. Our entire religion after #SecondTempleJudaism is predicated on an eventual messianic return, which was never really about a return to the land where the children of Yishroelites once lived, but a return to a life where we're no longer defined by hate, either as perpetrators or as a dispersed minority religion. Which is precisely why Rabbi Akiva tells us that in the messianic everything is as it is now -- yet different; if you believe you're waiting for a return to a place rather than redemption, that is placing your will in the place of the will of HaShem, and it is always ultimately peace and mutual respect for the stranger that is willed by HaShem. The messianic is not a state in Palestine, but the universal recognition of HaShem as the singular sovereign, the surrender of the world to divine law. Thats the whole of our Toyrah HaKoydesh, the rest is just exegesis.
Satmar Rebbe elaborates on this by demonstrating that the #Zionist project is in fact Avodah Zarah (usually translated as "idol worship" but really its more "serving the obscure"), the practice of the "avodei hakovachim" (star worshippers) where Zarah in the Talmud is evoked specifically in discussions of how to conduct one's self in relation to the Roman and Babylonian empires. "Star worshippers" was literal (and a telling analogy; even if you serve the highest being that appears in your world, you're still serving things rather than the ineffable truth of the Name). Teitelbaum shows, through a comparative study of the invented language of Israeli Hebrew, that it is in fact a vehicle for the Romanization of Hebrew, a kind of deep imperial strategy to replace the symbolic apparatus of our lashoyn hakoydesh and its entire universe of meaning with the language of war, nationalism (goyish) and hatred.
And to what effect? Satmar Rebbe tells us that the tachlis of the state is to ensure the lives of the population remain in perpetual danger in order to methodically affirm the necessity of its military apparatus wrt to protection. And that has been so-called #Israel's entire game since day 1.
The recent fascination with Second Temple Judaism among Youtubers is a ultimately a fascination with hatred. Judaism after the second temple is far deeper and richer, and explicitly opposed to racism, chauvinism, imperialism and most of all: nationalism ("goyish")
about every two years I ditch my init.el and build back up from scratch, and every time it feels great. I'm finally breaking off from org-roam which, for all the good its done me, has become a thorn in my side due to the centralized store. about to give #hyperbole a try, which I've been interested in for a while now.
@otfrom@mousebot its tough. around 6 weeks I was ready to through in the towel and regain my dignity, but my partner encouraged me to keep with it, and like a week or so later it was suddenly a proper beard. The inverse of the "after how many hairs plucked is a person considered bald" problem, and with real effects.