Greenblatt is legitimately an enabler for the admin, but some of this is explicable because a lot of American Jews really did kind of emotionally break after 10/7 and we're going to need to have folks wrestle with that. - ThreadSky

loudpenitent.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Greenblatt is legitimately an enabler for the admin, but some of this is explicable because a lot of American Jews really did kind of emotionally break after 10/7 and we're going to need to have folks wrestle with that.

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I saw an article about this, apparently took shots at BLM as well as the student protestors and likened the protestors to ISIS... 😖

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sysfin.bsky.social•7 days ago

People compared it to 9/11 and I think wrt the psychological damage is an apt comparison.

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

It's mostly less because of fear of Hamas, either, it's fear of our fellow leftists.

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

Shit like this did not endear American Jews to the left.
https://bsky.app/profile/phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social/post/3lqxibxcsjs2t

pfish.zone•7 days ago

do you have the direction of (not) endearing right? because I don’t follow the argument you’re making here

cf. “the friendly dog endeared herself to me” vs. “i endeared myself to the shy puppy”

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

I'm saying that seeing things like this had a *lot* of American Jews asking unpleasant questions about whether they were safe with their previously secure leftist comrades when their comrades are orgiastically celebrating violence against our coreligionists.

pfish.zone•7 days ago

yeah I think you have “did not endear” going the wrong way. “this did not endear the left to American Jews”

alonlevy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Not exactly. A better comparison would be if there were 9/11 and then immediately every American were bombarded with messages saying it shouldn't retaliate and Al-Qaida had a point and Bin Laden was a great hero.

sysfin.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yea seeing streamers do hamas cosplay was not good. Especially because so many had been doing weird antisemitic shit for a while.

yotam.bsky.social•7 days ago

and you're still missing the part where one plane turns around with all its passengers and disappears into an underground lair

themilfmag.net•7 days ago

boy i wish we were bombarded w those msgs cuz our reaction was sm worse than doing nothing

alonlevy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes, yes, the Taliban were based and it was bad that the US removed them.

Get a grip.

themilfmag.net•7 days ago

i dont even need to go that far cuz the taliban wasnt responsible for 9/11

ghunkinking.bsky.social•7 days ago

We had very reasonable demands on the Afghan government at the time: hand over the Al-Qaeda leadership to the nearest U.S. embassy with a bow.

alonlevy.bsky.social•7 days ago

They sheltered the people who were.

adamsessler.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah, I completely broke. Suddenly felt like everyone around me couldn’t be trusted.

adamsessler.bsky.social•7 days ago

But the thing that did was less the horror of 10/7 than the reaction of peers and people I thought I was sharing the same wavelength.

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

(needless to say the American left will either never have this conversation, or congratulate themselves for making "the Zionists" miserable.)

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

Exhibit A.

nonplussed12.bsky.social•6 days ago

Whoever said this, fuck 'em.

dickius.bsky.social•7 days ago

He was a piece of shit way before 2023.

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

He was. I'm more talking about the Jewish community more broadly, whose anxiety Greenblatt is exploiting.

osana.bsky.social•7 days ago

And that's understandable for people to break after something like that being perpetrated, especially within living memory of the Holocaust.

I'm just really surprised by the criticism directed at BLM protestors. That really surprised me.

i-bresnick.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think the ADL is making terrible choices but you're not going to see me raising my voice super loudly to criticize them until someone else makes a convincing case to carry on their mission.

We were already talking about the Pantry Game before 10/7

pfish.zone•7 days ago

they’re not even carrying on their own mission

i-bresnick.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think they're doing a bad job at it right now, picking political favorites. I don't think they're entirely wrong.

And I don't think anyone else is really stepping up in the way that they've historically been able to

pfish.zone•1 day ago

what they’ve been saying today says to me that the organization is beyond reform. they’ve shredded their credibility so thoroughly that even if leadership were replaced I don’t think anybody left of likud can take them seriously.

nonplussed12.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm an old time Zionist and I haven't broken. Hamas played Israel. They KNEW they would overreact, and they sat back and watched as the Israelis went ballistic. Hamas outsmarted everyone. Of course, the Palestinians pay the price.

zoharthegolden.bsky.social•6 days ago

So you're saying that Israelis are too DUMB to be in control of the ship? MAYBE THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY THEN.

nonplussed12.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Labor Zionists never would have let conditions degrade to this.
This is all on Likud. That's why they killed Rabin.
https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948

zoharthegolden.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's the problem when any society lets the angry impulsive half take the wheel. This genocide is hurting Jews worldwide. The vast majority want this over. Is there ANYTHING that could be done internally? Because any country that would step in knows it would be up against the US.

nonplussed12.bsky.social•6 days ago

Israel has the same problem we have. Until the Labor Alignment regroups and they have a critical mass of the electorate, the dysfunction goes on. Israel mirrors the American crisis.
You have no idea how despondent I am. This is not what I lived for.

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