@mrwittmayer And these days the picturesque kabbalist is an LA new age hoe learning the zohar from a reconstructionist temple . Biggest downgrade in history.
@1goodtern I just spent 2 hours dealing with @ATT customer service. A company which I consider to be an affront to the dignity of homo-sapiens. This filled my spirit with optimism for a brighter future of technological progress. It makes me dream of world without @ATT. Fuck you @ATT.
@zadokism I don't think it matters at all whether people with similar genetic markers to me are going to be an indentifiable group in the next few centuries. Its cave man biology making people panic about such frivolous things. People should marry who they want actually.
@Maxlikesrocks@moseshessstan I believe its prevalent amongst the Modern Orthodox American made Aliyah or making it soon type. I used to be a part of this community and this thinking was absolut prevalent. Hell, i used to think this.
@Jordanf71637228@LinkofSunshine You have Google or any llm right at your finger tips, yet you refuse to do a cursory check. The seventh jewish congress voted against creating a State anywhere but Israel/Palestine. This was mainly in response to the proposal for a State in Uganda.
@estherzelda0514 I cant stand Mamdani and all the DSA. But he deserves better critiques than this. Mamdani routinely gets castigated by Jewish polemicists for everything he says no matter how mundane (look at the comments on his Tisha Bav post). Its Mamdani derangment symdome.
Noah is the only one in the discourse who expresses this veiw of the conflict, which I believe is a reasonable perspective if one knows the dynamics of the Israeli right, and Kookian theology (or what its become). I respect him much more now even though he's a big an FDR fan.
IF Israel DOES genocide the Palestinians, this is how I think it'll happen. Settlers will drive Palestinians from their homes en masse, killing many in the process, with quiet but key support from the IDF. I think it's reasonably likely.
@Noahpinion Sad but true. I watch with depressed fatalism. To add to your point, I think the religious zionist settlers who see the State as an eschatological vehicle, are primed for a false messiah who leads them to commit atrocities. A new Shabbtai Zvi. Could be something like this.
@ownthelib@DastDn I largely agree that the Palestinian nationalism is terrible. But I also realize that Israel likely will commit unjustifiable atrocities if the far right nationalists gain power. I consider it a tragedy that such a great country will likely devolve into fascistic violence.
@ownthelib@DastDn Spent 20 years as a modern orthodox jew going to Shul, jewish day school, and yeshiva. Did a gap year in a charedi adjacent yeshiva in Israel. My mom is a Kookian religious Zionist. I speak broken Hebrew. I have married siblings living in Israel. My opinions are highly informed.
@ownthelib@DastDn I agree thats the more likely outcome. I also imagine that in addition to the horrific outcome that would be in itself, it will be coupled with barbaric brutality and callous torment. And probably many many deaths from the Palestinians that resist.
@EWErickson Religious people will often map apostasy to their inter-religious disagreements. "You left because you were that type, if you were like my type it would be different." Its a dumb no true Scotsman fallacy. Still this video is quite nutty...
Jewish MAGA is as unrelenting and dogmatic as BLM was back in its hayday. Any dissent from the approved jewish narrative is treated by default as bigotry. Critical antisemitism theory is a neurotic cancer. The jews are woke-and its not the progressive ones.
Two days after Mamdani posted a video singling out the Jewish state as uniquely evil and telling New Yorkers to use "every tool they have" to oppose it, a man heeded his call. He stabbed two Jews coming out of synagogue with a screwdriver and screamed Allahu Akbar. The Mayor has Jewish blood on his hands.