isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
Traditional-egalitarian neo-misnagdic liturgical maximalist. Yes, I'm the one who made that steamed hams megillah. איהו/ליה (that’s he/him in Aramaic)
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so many people are incapable of comprehending that two people who virulently disagree can both be entirely correct, but just have very different priorities
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90% of Israel-Palestine discourse is stupid for exactly this reason: everyone is right (yes yes bothsidesing blah blah sue me)
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One of my favorite Hebrew language memes said “if you think Trump is good for Israel because his daughter is Jewish then remember that Bibi’s daughter is also Jewish”
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It's the precise equivalent of saying "You're not being discriminated against on the basis of race, there's just a color chart at the front of the bus and if your skin is darker than a certain color, you have to sit at the back. That's not a protected class."
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the great thing about halakha is we have a framework for how to deal with a supreme court that repeatedly fucks up
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M. Hor. 1:5: There's a makhloket as to whether the Supreme Court needs to offer one bull as a sin-offering (דברי ר׳ מאיר), or whether each state that passed laws banning gender-affirming care will need to offer one bull each while all the other states offer one bull for the court (דברי ר׳ יהודה)
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there is sometimes a relevant existential comics
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it would include the Bahá’í though
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OK, how about “believe that Jesus of Nazareth was incarnate of the one God” which would exclude hindus who believe him to be an avatar of Vishnu
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youtu.be/mTxDOM4-88I
in mexican spanish means “enough dude”
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¡Ya, güey!
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Things to not compromise on:
- AI is not useful
- There are no reasonable concerns about migration
- nor are there about trans people, not even in sport or toilets
- Climate change is real and technofixes don't work
- War is bad and must be avoided
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we should pick a date to have this fight every year. I’d suggest 17 Iyyar, because it’s the date Hitler died and if anybody deserves gehinom it’s him
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori... this but for First Commonwealth Israelites
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okay it might include the Druze which is a problem for my definition I guess
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how about “believes that Jesus of Nazareth was God incarnate”
sure, it includes people like Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses who some Christians might consider not really Christians, but it doesn’t include anybody who is definitely not a Christian that I can think of
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James Thurber wrote this in the New Yorker on 26 August 1939. People knew exactly what was happening, they just didn’t care
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Dennis, Dennis, Dennis
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yeah. I originally followed them because the national parks are America's single greatest invention and the right is trying to destroy them.
But in the past few months it's become increasingly clear that ANPS no longer cares about that and is more interested in LARPing as the French Resistance
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something with distinción in it, that's how you can tell they're not andalucian
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Bibi: "Hey baybeeeeee, I missed you sooo much"
Trump: "Mexicans celebrated 9/11 from the rooftops of Tehran! Vaccines are eating the filthy dogs, and turning the babies into woke! Wait, who is this, where am I? What the hell is going on!?"
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sgof continues. apparently reza khan is the messiah now. and monarchies are good [dubious - discuss] because they are stable [citation needed]
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@jaketapper.bsky.social it’s you! you’re mentioned in this post
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because all of the people watching were ALSO unlikable smug bastards when it came to the existence of Jews
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oh no definitely not
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it isn't intentionally about antisemitism but shakespeare is great because he accidentally made it about it by making the jewish villain character sympathetic and all the christian hero characters unlikeable smug bastards
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I remember hearing that in the Behind the Bastards podcast on the Unification Church
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(Moon's dad wasn't a missionary, but he was converted by one)
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considering him and Sun Myung Moon, the only conclusion I can reach is that Presbyterian missionaries in Korea must be destroyed
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man teleportation must really be helpful on the b-ball court
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i'll take your word for it, you're the North Korea Understander here
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but he had Jew friends! just like trump does
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shit did they update the truth already
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it's a very popular talking point amongst the kind of rich persian jews who bullied me in high school
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this is just neo-tsarism but with nostalgia for a different authoritarian empire
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he needed to be overthrown. just maybe not by the people who did it