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Yeah funnily enough I was going to say "might as well ask them their opinion on Kurdistan" but I figure the Kurds don't deserve the tsuris of getting dragged into this.

what the actual fuck i just saw dyke march released updated priorities that include antizionism as their number one priority and pro-lgbtq+ rights isn't until number three????? at this point why do you still call even yourself a queer organization rather than just the lefty branch of the ss??????

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Is anyone going to make a post about what the new Looney Tunes movie is actually about, or are they just going to try to shame everyone into watching it by demand everyone support 2D animation and sticking it to the studios?

This is like telling me to read a book because it has great queer rep. That's great, what's the plot?

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"Magneto was right."

About what?

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רַבִּי חֲנִינָא סְגַן הַכֹּהֲנִים אוֹמֵר, הֱוֵי מִתְפַּלֵּל בִּשְׁלוֹמָהּ שֶׁל מַלְכוּת, שֶׁאִלְמָלֵא מוֹרָאָהּ, אִישׁ אֶת רֵעֵהוּ חַיִּים בְּלָעוֹ.

Rabbi Hanina, the vice-high priest said: pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for the fear it inspires, every man would swallow his neighbor alive.

Pirkei Avos, 3

Randomly remembered when I was still an anarchist and I wanted to join this anarchist server they asked for your ideologies and i was innocently like "I'm an anarchist and a dubnowist/Jewish autonomist :3" and they like aggresively purity checked me and were all like "your not an evil evil zio right????" And the mods were literally fighting in the ticket with eachother over whether "Jewish autonomism" was a "dogwhistle" for zionism (they could've easily googled Simon Dubnow and i pointed this out several times)

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There are some politicians whom I view everything they do under the lens of "they are running for President". Gavin Newsom has been like that since I first became aware of him in 2004.

This is a lens that can be very helpful when you're wondering why a politician who is not running for President is doing a specific thing. It's because they're running for President. It's just that their Presidential run is in the future and they're laying the groundwork now. But they're doing this because they're running for President.

Example:

"Why is Gavin Newsom--" because he's running for President 2 years from now.

"Why is AOC--" because she's running for President 12 years from now. Hope this helps.

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It's amazing how normalized (derogatory) things are. Like, take a step back. Why should a US queer organization have any opinion on Zionism at all? It's like asking a random person what their opinion is on where to put the couch in Superman's living room. What is the relevance? And who cares?

what the actual fuck i just saw dyke march released updated priorities that include antizionism as their number one priority and pro-lgbtq+ rights isn't until number three????? at this point why do you still call even yourself a queer organization rather than just the lefty branch of the ss??????

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If you're reframing the megillah as "the Jews were in the wrong for defending themselves against the people who were super happy to have a special holiday imperially designated for Jew Murder", then I don't know how to help you.

And if Jews surviving a pogrom is too Problematic for you, just wait until you hear about Chanukah!

2025 Challenge: let Jewish holidays be about Jews.

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Really feeling the "shabbos has kept the Jews" energy these last -- how many weeks has it been in January 20th? Really? Feel like much longer.

Anyway.

Shabbos has definitely kept the Jews.

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I'm still mystified why Christians are allowed to have graven images all over the place.

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

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"I'm running so late for candle lighting the first shabbos after the time change. I'm not sure I'm going to have time to shower."

"I know. It's so rough when it's suddenly an hour earlier."

"Uh. Yeah. That. Definitely not saying this in March. Nope. Not at all."

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Hey, frumblr, it's a Purim miracle: the CRC nows claims their app can scan hechshers and tell you what they are.

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Hey, frumblr, it's a Purim miracle: the CRC nows claims their app can scan hechshers and tell you what they are.

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so tonight I’m at synagogue, listening to the Purim Night reading of the Book of Esther, like you do

and near the end of this chapter my brain presents me with the following:

nooooo ooooone plots like Haman calls the shots like Haman plans a genocide by casting lots like Haman

(It only works with the Hebrew pronunciation of Haman, which, like Gaston, is accented on the second syllable.)

By the time we get home my brain has added:

for there’s none so well-favored and kingly yes, we all can be certain of that he’s so rich that his pockets are jingly and he looks really sharp in a three-cornered hat

*face in hands*

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2025 Challenge: let Jewish holidays be about Jews.

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Conclave fic really demands an incredible AU to be taken, invisibly, as read by both the author and the audience of the fic. That is: for this moment, just for this moment, let's forget every single thing we know about the Vatican and Roman Catholic cardinals. Together, we can do this. Together, we can write joyful escapist fiction... about Roman Catholic Cardinals, all of whom have made the decision to keep their posts and remain there, despite every single thing the Vatican has done and approved of in the lifetimes of these old men.

Let us, fanfiction writers, a group often condemned as being weird and perverts and strange, whose craft is used as a pejorative word for writing that people don't like, let us come together and say "the Roman Catholic Church, as an institution, isn't that bad, actually. Look, I can make them kiss."

And that's unironically beautiful.

Probably subversive, too, come to think of it.

Amazed that so far in my reading of Conclave fic, I've only encountered authorial antisemitism once. Is this what happens when your blorbo is a 53 year old Catholic cardinal who has worked as a missionary his entire life, and his boyfriend, Voldemort?

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I throw out every single thing handmade I get in shalach manos. Yes, even when it comes from people whose houses I happily eat in.

The kashrus isn't in question, THE INGREDIENTS ARE.

In preparation of Purim I have a very important PSA:

IF YOU BAKED SONETHING IN YOUR HOUSE AND GAVE IT OUT IN MISHALACH MANOS PLEASE PUT YOUR NAME

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So far in this fight between habit and breathing, breathing is winning.