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Last night I celebrated Chanukah and Havdalah by saying the blessing for the aromatic spices over my bong and lighting it with the shamash

I can't tell if this is super sacrilegious or if it is very much in the spirit of things, but it was at least meaningful to me.

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I'm wondering what an alternate reality would look like where the closest Jewish holiday to Christmas was something else. Like what if american christians only knew about Shavuot or Tu Bishvat and thought they were the most important Jewish holidays? What if it was Sukkot and the lulav/etrog became the symbol of Judaism in their minds like the menorah is in this reality?

Or the major holidays? What would that look like?

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Mike Johnson saying "a man can't be a woman" has echoes of politicians shouting "I didn't come from no monkey" 20 years ago in 2004.

I at least take comfort in knowing that the way "I didn't come from no monkey" sounds now is probably going to be how this anti trans rhetoric will sound 20 years from now

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Hopefully either his surviving colleagues realize they might be held to account and might be a bit less gung-ho about profiteering off of the death and suffering of other people, or this becomes a trend until that happens

The news today and the media responses to it really put into contrast how differently white collar murder and blue collar murder are treated. On principle, the only time I would be okay with vigilante justice is when justice is otherwise impossible. This was one such time

Brian Thompson was a white collar mass murderer and should be remembered as such. I wouldn't pull the trigger myself but I sure wouldn't get in the way of anyone who would.

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The news today and the media responses to it really put into contrast how differently white collar murder and blue collar murder are treated. On principle, the only time I would be okay with vigilante justice is when justice is otherwise impossible. This was one such time

Brian Thompson was a white collar mass murderer and should be remembered as such. I wouldn't pull the trigger myself but I sure wouldn't get in the way of anyone who would.

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"It takes two to fight"

No. Fuck that. It only takes one to fight. You know what really requires two people?

It takes two to cooperate

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China has Daoism, which venerates the Dao

America has capitalism, which venerates the DOW

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I never thought of picking up trash under the highway as hot-blooded, but if it's what the kids are into.....

but unironically

A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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It sure is!! The doc tore me a new one!

I'm coming up on one year since I had a total proctocolectomy.

Could you write one that says "Feliz ano nuevo"? It's important for it to be "ano" and not "año". I think I'm going to make a cake with that written on it

.... this is the year/anus joke huh

Askbox is closed for new requests, I'm recording these old ones on the to-write document

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The world is a scary place full of social turmoil and armed conflict. Things are going to SUCK. It is on us to put in the work to make it better. That being said, it has always been a scary place and will probably always be, and I think I need to accept that as a given.

Just to name a few, in no particular order of severity, the 90's and earlier was a scary time to be even just a vanilla cis gay man. The post-9/11 years saw the stripping of our privacy rights with the PATRIOT act. The Cold War had the entire world teetering on the edge of complete nuclear annihilation. The years before that had the most brutal wars and atrocities the world has ever seen, and I could go on.

I don't think there has been a sustained period of time without strife in my lifetime or the lifetime of anyone I know. If I sit around and wait for the world to not be a scary place in order to live life, I will die of old age before I even start.

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We will outlive them

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There's no rule that says a dog can't play soccer volleyball

The fourth player withdrew...

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I'm not saying there are parallels, but...

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This is the thing with the "I won't vote for Harris" supposed leftists.

None of them will tell you how allowing Trump to be elected helps.

Because they don't have an answer.

Because they don't really care about anything other than how they personally feel.

Actual leftism involves making pragmatic moves. The public will for revolution doesn't exist, and we live in a two party system. If you want to fight that system, great. There are things like ranked choice voting and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact we need to be fighting for. But those are fights that have to happen year round, at the state level, and not just in an election year.

And in the meanwhile, you vote defensively and strategically, in an attempt to save as many people as possible.

Saying you aren't voting for Harris isn't taking a stand against genocide. It's putting your head in the sand and admitting you care more about your own comfort than making a difference in the world.

Why aren't you getting involved in your local politics? Why aren't you running leftist candidates at a local level, so you can move them up in the system and eventually move the political discussion left. You want to know why politics have moved right? It's because the right wing has been doing that for decades.

Your refusal to participate won't save a single life.

It only means you're abandoning everyone else.

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These songs CHARTED.

I LOVE how they stylized "Fuck the T*ries!" Like they kept the word Fuck, but Tories is a vulgar word

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Petition to stop Jd Vance from ever discussing women’s healthcare again

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How dare you hide this in the tags! This is gorgeous

we don't make enough fun of Batman for not being a vampire. seriously this guy:

nightwalker, lurks in the shadows

goes flying through the city at night hunting down his quarry

romps around in a dramatic ass cape

lives in a gothic manor that is definitely haunted (by the narrative, the ghosts of the past, etcetera)

served by a single devoted familiar servant who seems to share some portion of his strange powers

has multiple fledglings proteges he recruits and trains to share his dark powers

the source of great, often contradictory lore (conflicting reports on his powers/weaknesses/backstory, varies by canon)

unaging (his publication history spans how many decades?)

clearly has some sort of arcane powers superhuman abilities, despite making a huge effort to pass as a Normal Human Guy

autistic bisexual

notice i didn't even mention the whole BAT themed everything. and we're expected to believe this character is NOT a vampire? i'm being baited.