Answer: when it's functionally a sideblog because the actual sideblog @cometcon is the main character where all my art and writing stuff goes. XD Anyway this where I put all my reblogs of things so I don't gum up my main... uh, I mean sideblo- ugh, whatever. 18+ only please. Queer-run, queer friendly, all spectrums. If I block you randomly, you're not clearly a piece of shit like a terf/nazi/etc, and you have that you are a minor in your blog description or anywhere else I could have seen it, that's most likely why I blocked you; it's not personal, it just keeps you away from any adult stuff I post/reblog. I may also have blocked you for liking something that hurts my soul and I don't want you to run into a criticism post. Anti-shippers take your bullshit elsewhere. I'm neither a pro nor an anti-shipper. I'm a normal person who thinks responsibility should be taken for what messages you convey and tagging should be done properly, but content shouldn't be censored just because someone else doesn't like it. Critical consumption is your friend and if you're that worried you should report issues to actual authorities on the matter, not random wankers who have recreated Puritanism in fandom for some buckwild reason. Also, the block button is your friend. Use it. Otherwise, feel free to kick off your shoes, relax, and appreciate sexy alien robots with me. :D (Blacklist '#not transformers' to avoid anything I've reblogged that isn't transformers, if you only want Transformer content from here. Remind me if I forget one.) Let me know/remind me if I should add specific tags to anything.
I share and reblog group humanitarian aid organisations.
I don't currently reblog individual donation blogs and I CANNOT DONATE ANY MONEY OUTSIDE MY OWN COUNTRY. When I donate nowadays it is solely to all of the groups within my own country because I am BELOW THE POVERTY LINE and if I ever have anything to spare I want to help my own communities first. You are NOT the only people suffering in the world who come asking for help. I have to turn all of them down too, including Queer organisations which I am personally a demographic of, so it isn't a 'screw you for not being someone I relate to' either. I use my limited funds on my own communities if I can use them at all, which is already rare.
If you have a reputable group organisation working with you in a crisis zone, or a petition I can legally sign as someone outside the country, or some other activism movement within your country you want me to draw attention to, or anything else like that, then feel free to shoot that over to me and I'll reblog it.
STOP tagging me in individual donation posts and STOP yelling at me when I don't reblog. If you think I'm a terrible person who doesn't care, then a) what exactly do you think guilt tripping me is going to do? If I'm a terrible person who doesn't care then I'm not going to listen and that's a waste of your time you could be using asking someone who clearly just reblogs anything they're asked to. And b) use the block button. I'm serious. If I'm a terrible person who just doesn't care, then you definitely don't want me capable of interacting with you.
That goes for anyone who wants to decide something about me based on what and when I financially support or boost. If you want to put me on a shitlist, go ahead. Nothing will stop you if you think going after a random blog for personally still wanting to be careful is a productive use of your time as an activist instead of, you know, literally anything else that might actually help the people you insist you're fighting for. The internet loves to dogpile about shit like that because it makes people feel good about themselves and is way easier than actually doing anything more productive to help. If I were a politican that would make way more sense, but I'm not. I'm some random from Australia who needs to spend more time on my own country whenever I do more active activism and I just do what I can if other countries reach out for things like boosting group organisations or petitions or letters to people in power or whatever else.
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Me with (Soshiro) Hoshina right now. 😂 Normally not even fictional humans catch my eye but there are definitely exceptions (about 25/25/25/25 men/women/genderqueer/trans characters).
I LOVE THEIR DOCKING SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS TOO WONDERFUL HOLY SHIT AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU COVER @5amanthus THINGS TOO THEY HAVE SO MUCH AMAZING STUFF AND TO HAVE BOTH OF YOU MAKING SOMETHING SO AWESOME WILL BE A WHOLE EXPLOSION OF EPICNESS!!!!!!!!
Dare I say, blind Blip-A whose visor is enhanced with assistive devices to give her an echolocation type view like the Eridians (something that drew her to them) and she isn't much of a talker, preferring to respond in hums and whirrs?
Dare I say, Hail Mary who by contrast is an absolute yapper, who loves math so much she accidentally cuts a lot of other bots/beings off while talking about it, but Blip-A doesn't mind cause she could listen for hours? She's more tactile and architecturally creative minded anyway, so it's fun to learn new things while she works on projects?
Dare I say, once Grace and Rocky are safely on Erid, Blip-A and Hail Mary decide to explore the universe together to help save the other stars and while they're navigating a dead galaxy destroyed by Astrophage they come across another damaged Cybertronian, blown to pieces, covered in blood, and in desperate need of their help 👀
Dare I say the two of them take the Iron Lung (they/them?) under wing, who once rebuilt only speaks through clips of other people's voices (like a creepy Bumblebee, but they are valid). Scary goth joins polycule? Yes?
GO OFF GO OFF GO OFF GO OFF YOU TWO ABSOLUTE MONARCHS HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Thinking of the human who spent so much time on these. What were they thinking? How were they feeling? Were they happy with their results? Did they show those off to someone? Did they berate themselves for not reaching an impossible standard? Who were they?
So, I see a lot of people in the tags wondering why this shark is biting the submarine cable, so allow me to provide a brief overview of shark anatomy, behavior, kinematics, and fiber optic technology.
What’s that smell?
Sharks, as predators, have a few tools up their fins for finding prey in the vast oceans. With a lot of ground to cover, and poor visibility, many species have developed an extremely acute sense of smell; allowing them to pick up on scents drifting in the currents from miles away, such as whale oil. For pelagic sharks, this is vital.
Electroreception
Sharks also possess electro-receptive nerves sitting in pores on their noses, know as ampullae of Lorenzini, that are capable of detecting electric fields measuring in the nanovolts. Multicellular organisms give off faint electric fields, so if your prey hides in the sand or simply swims around in total darkness, being able to detect them from their electric field is an incredible advantage. The more ampullae you have, the more sensitive you become. This is one of the reasons for the development of the cephalofoil on hammerhead and bonnethead species, as well as the long nose on the infamous goblin shark.
o>o what’s this?
Sharks can be curious creatures, and often test the waters by nibbling. A young silky shark might nip a sea turtle’s flipper to see if it’s something tasty and food-like, and then decide it’s not, without seriously harming or killing the turtle, for instance. A blue shark may chomp a surf board because it looked like food, and realized it’s not, and move on. Perhaps a running camera maybe even pique a shark’s interest and try nibbling it. Just as a dog or cat might sniff something new because they’re curious, sharks bite because they’re curious.
Bite Kinematics
It was once believed in the past that sharks had bone-crushing bite-force, until a diver and citizen-scientist, Valarie Taylor, tested out a shark suit design she developed with her husband, Ron Taylor, in order to help prove to the public that sharks were not a threat of humans after the release of the 1975 film, Jaws (which she and her husband helped film, since they were pioneer shark handlers). She dove with blue sharks, and had to try really hard to goad one into biting her forearm, which was covered in chain mail. Despite the hypothesis of some biologists at the time, her bones did not break, and there was no imprint of the mail on her skin. This is because sharks like Prionance glauca rely on thrashing to tear away bites of meat, like a reciprocating saw. Gray and white tip reef sharks, bull sharks, tigers, great whites, salmon sharks, silky sharks, oceanic white-tips, and so on, do not rely on bite force to get a kill or a bite to eat. That is why chain mail shark suits work: they prevent cuts (anyone who’s worked at a deli and has worn chain gloves can attest).
Sharks like wobbegongs, goblins sharks, and sand tigers actually create vacuums to suck prey in, and their teeth keep them from escaping (for the sand tiger and goblin). Sharks like the port jackson feed on shellfish, so their teeth are adapted for breaking shells.
Fiber Optic Cables
Fiber optic cables are made of two cores of glass, one inside the other, about 62um thick depending on whether it is single-mode or multi-mode. They are tiny, but very effective. The light signal travels through the inner-core at a specific angle so that it frequently runs into the outer core–whose refractive index is different than that of the inner-core–and is refracted, or bent, back into the inner core. And repeat. The other layers provide light insulation and protection from the elements and tugging forces. Submarine cable may only carry few fibers, so why are they so thick? Well, when your destination is thousands of kilometers away, the light signal will eventually fade out. So, optical amplifiers must be placed along the way. These amplifiers require electricity to run, so copper cables are run with the fiber cables. They are bound together with more insulation and protection, and finally, kevlar. Now you have a complete submarine cable!
The Bite of ‘09
In the GIF that I created, we can see a bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus, drifting toward a submarine cable. (source: https://youtu.be/1ex7uTQf4bQ ) They are benthic predators and scavengers, growing up to 14 feet long, and inhabiting great depths up to 8,200 feet. Now, as I mentioned previously, sharks can detect electric fields, and submarine cables can give off quite an electric field because of those optical amplifies and their power cables. The male sixgill we can see here is curious about what’s giving off the field. And like most curious sharks, he decides to bite to see what it’s all about. The GIF does not show the aftermath, which is why I’ve linked the video and made a new gif, below (not sped up). After the sixgill determined that this cable is not food, he removes his jaws from the cable and moves on. He did not thrash. That outer layer of kevlar on the cable protected it from damage adequately, as intended, and all is well.
I hope this explanation was satisfying, and I hope you were able to learn something! If you are curious abotu sixgill sharks, here’s a documentary on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQwThFPjdGM , and here’s a website dedicated to the Puget Sound sixgill population: https://www.sixgillsharks.org/
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Just some quick math, a long rest is 8 hours, so you can get three long rests a day (theoretically), meaning 9 days and 16 hours is
Twenty-nine resurrections
There were nearly 30 deaths and every single one came back. It musta been like the Endgame portal scene except with like, your brother and your dead wife. Incredible.
My fav autobot, and also one of the few autobots I like. (I’m a Decepticon fan.) Plus his colors are the colors of my country’s flag. Maybe that’s why I like him more. XD
Unfortunately by the time this came up on my feed, the feedback thing was already closed, but people should still be made aware of this and kick up a stink for two reasons:
1) Basic human rights violations like this are unacceptable already, but if you don't care because you don't work in a meat factory, keep in mind that this kind of thing being normalises RISES UP THE CHAIN TO AFFECT OTHER JOBS AS WELL. Getting away with it in a sector where the people doing the job aren't considered as human and important is A STRATEGIC CHOICE TO GET PEOPLE TO EXCUSE IT. 2) YOUR FOOD WILL BECOME MORE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH THAN IT ALREADY IS. We've already seen fucking LISTERIA cases on the rise since the last time Trump was in power. Do you really want SALMONELLA and PIG TAPE WORMS and who knows what else turning up in food which is supposed to be regulated and safe????
Get this man and everyone who supports corporations doing this out of power as soon as you can, and FIGHT FOR ALL WORKER'S RIGHTS AND FOOD REGULATION STANDARDS AT ALL COSTS.
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Eugenics, Deafness, And Societal Obsession With 'Fixing' People Instead Of Learning To Accommodate
A user called mockingjay478 had this to say (their words, not mine) covering more nuances of why exactly this is actually a very bad thing for many Deaf people without also addressing societal attitudes about disability and things they see as disability (among all the numerous other issues with eugenicist attitudes which we've already seen the result of during the Nazi regime in Germany in the early to mid 1900s). Please read their points properly and watch the Deaf Gains video provided for Deaf perspectives on this before you launch into scoffing and telling Deaf people they're delusional and that being 'handicapped' is inherently a bad thing they should want 'cured'*:
I have residual hearing. For now. I have a degenerative disability that will continue to make my hearing worse. And I'm not sad about it. I don't want to prevent my hearing loss.
This "cure" doesn't work for the cause of my hearing "issues" and I wouldn't choose it, even if it did, as it wouldn't be a gain for me. And I'm the only one who can decide if it would be or not, thanks.
And disability =/= "bad" or "lesser" especially not when we're talking about deafness.
If you're Hearing, you really need to sit tf down and LISTEN to Deaf people on this.
If it was actually a universal "cure" for deafness, it absolutely would NOT be used as an optional "cure". It would be forced on us all as it would be seen as cheaper than providing necessary supports like interpreters, supporting the schools for the deaf, and hearing aids/cochlear implants.
It is also yet another thing that Hearing people will use to put the pressure on deaf & HOH people to "fix" our hearing instead of meeting us where we're at by learning your local sign. They may even claim it's optional while also removing all other accommodations and refusing to bring in mandatory classes that teach sign language as a language other than English. Which is mandatory all the same. Just with a heavy dose of gaslighting.
And Deaf and HOH people are already expected to adjust ourselves to accommodate Hearing people. Which is a situation almost entirely unique to the Deaf + HOH community, at least among similar areas of the disabled community. There's nowhere near as much pressure on people with any other similar disability to "fix" their disability purely to accommodate non-disabled people.
Blindness "cures" are at least about the individual's goals. And service dogs, audio signals at traffic lights, tactile paving, etc are all actively becoming more common. People with nerve damage are encouraged to accept the damage may be permanent, but are given physio/OT support to help them achieve their goals and make the most of their life in the body they have.
But when Hearing people need to learn a new language to accommodate us? Suddenly it becomes entirely acceptable to treat our disability as something that MUST be fixed.
And to be clear: It also happens any other time disabled people are a "burden" to abled people. Anyone with higher care needs is far more likely to face "cure" rhetoric.
But when people with chronic illnesses want research done to find better ways to treat and manage their pain or other symptoms, suddenly a "cure" is off the table, because the cost of doing so is far more than the potential cost saved. Because not giving chronically ill people adequate medical care is far cheaper than a one-off injection or surgery to implant a CI. Let alone the ongoing medical care required to actually implement these treatments or to properly manage the symptoms.
And one of the biggest motivations to make deaf/HOH people Hearing-adjacent is to be able to shove them into school and the workforce without any long-term accommodations. While most chronically ill people who are in the situation I'm describing will never be able to hold down a job and are considered unemployable.
Capitalism is what creates this "us vs them" mentality and capitalism needs ableism to exist for it to thrive. There's no benefit to deepthroating the boot.
I don't think I can put it any more clearly than that myself. Autistic people go through our own version of this constantly, and our cultures overlap in many places, so a lot of this also applies to 'cures' for autism.
Eugenics is bad, folks. Let's not jump headfirst into these things with all the best intentions without also considering long term societal complexities and bigotries which need to be accounted for in these conversations, yeah? People who want to be hearing should absolutely have this option and get to choose it without judgement, but that can't be the only angle this science takes. It just can't.
*ngl, a lot of takes hearing people have about Deaf people not wanting to be made to be like them sound hauntingly similar to colonialist rhetoric about 'saving' indigenous people from their 'savagery' by 'civilising' them and then getting mad when those people didn't actually want to be 'civilised.' And then promptly forced it on them anyway so they didn't have to just work with the different cultures, ways of life and prior existence on and actual understanding of the land. It comes from exactly the same place:
"You are not like me and I am clearly the superior kind of human so obviously you should want to be like me and if you don't it's only because you're too ignorant to know any better and if I just give you a firm (oppressive and controlling with no care for what you actually want and need as an individual human being) push in the 'right' direction, you'll finally understand what you've been missing and be so much happier! I'm such a good person! ☺️ Accept my help you stupid, ungrateful, savage, ignorant, delusional, broken bastard!! 😤"
And don't come at me with that "but it's a serious actual handicap though! It's not the same thing!" either.
Every. Single. Form. Of bigotry. Can be justified if you just spin it through focusing on the negatives of a lifestyle, identity, religious belief, demographic etc. ANYTHING can be pointed to as having bad elements which then justify the desire of others to get rid of it. Someone's lifestyle or any other aspect of their existence having downsides does not make it inherently bad because YOU don't see the upsides and aren't part of that group. (Bad things don't have to not be addressed either. You just have to respect people with how you address those elements and don't stomp all over them with no cultural intelligence whatsoever).
Let's chill out on the moral bludgeoning and start focusing on working together as a society to respect everyone and put effort in on ALL sides to be a community, yeah? (That means you actually putting effort in to respecting Deaf people btw, not just them putting the effort in to interact with you where you're muttering English (or whatever spoken language you speak) with your mouth obscured in a dark room without a single attempt to write things down or learn a small handful of signs and letters to help them because you see them as delusional broken people to be forced into your way of life.)
I present to you: excerpts from the 2024 JVP Haggadah!
the full thing is available on the internet archive here so you dont have to go to their website to see it! i am writing this as a comedic critique of what i think is a revolting piece of cultural appropriation. i hope you enjoy.
we start off strong with the front cover, which is titled with:
JVP Haggadah 5784/2024
EXODUS FROM ZIONISM
on the first actual page, we are immediately met with this:
ok, my hebrew is not fantastic, but im like 80% sure this is grammatically incorrect. wouldnt you say chag pesach sameach? at least im willing to admit im unsure. unlike jvp's editors.
excuse me???????
this line is taken out of context on purpose. because the jokes write themselves.
listen, im specializing in zoology, not botany, but im pretty sure strawberries are not native to gaza. also spoon??? is that for me bc reading this takes most of mine????
i thought this was a passover seder????
we are NOT beating the rich jews with international money and dual loyalties allegations.
oh no. im going to intentionally cut the words off the moment it starts to sound like satire
"Q1: Why is this Passover different than other Passovers?
Genocide." cutoff
"Q2: Why do we eat bitter herbs / maror on this Passover-amidst genocide?
This is a time for mourning. Not celebration. White phosphorus;" cutoff
"Q3: Why do we dip twice this Passover?
Palestinians are starving and they are gunned down waiting for flour. They are thirsty and do not have access to potable water.
Adding salt to water is an insult in times of blockade," cutoff
"Q4: Why do we use pillows and recline on Pesach during mass displacement?
How can we recline while millions of" cutoff.
yeah because jews have never had a passover while experiencing a genocide before right. this is just... completely not what passover is about lmao
kid 1: michael scott (sounds like he wrote this)
kid 2: ben shapiro (owning the libs, the freethinker he is) (i do not like ben shapiro i am making fun of him)
kid 3: matt bernstein
kid 4: me at 15 when my friends gave me the good jew/bad jew litmus test
next we have a poem! by poet Basman Aldirawi. his instagram feed is mostly AI generated images of cartoon violence. and this:
this is who JVP decided to feature in a Haggadah. they featured a man who celebrates the slaughter and rape and kidnapping of jews (within the 24 hours of it happening.) for a holiday about jews escaping being murdered. the poem features lines about cooking with blood. which is literally medieval blood libel. awesome
ok next theres a template of a letter to write to jewish community establishments. i dont think i have to tell you what the letter is for. theres also one to send to the new york times. im sure they read them all
and now. i present to you: the 10 spiritual plagues of genocidal zionism. by nomy lamm who is actually a prominent figure in feminist punk circles which upsets me. but also shes annoying as hell
next up: a "multi religious" spiritual healer manages to make "dayenu" an even more annoying song than it already was:
(by the way. i know we are talking about a religious holiday, but i would advise you to stay away from any sort of faith healer who charges money. its scammy pseudoscience. please see an actual therapist for counseling or go talk to a rabbi if you need spiritual guidance.)
okay blah blah blah boring pages that are just mistranslations and unrelated topics and tacky rewritten versions of ancient traditional prayers
more attempts at squeezing money out of (((their))) pockets. i pinch pennies so hard the us government had to stop making them. be so serious jvp lots of jews are broke as hell
now the tzedak-i mean tikkun olam box. i know yall were interested in this one.
yes, dear reader, jewish voice for peace has just claimed that "tzedakah" is zionist propaganda.
moving on.
they literally ask you to invent new history. they ask you to revise history. this is ridiculous
third cup of wine is turned into a workers rights manifesto. im sure marx would have loved that
more terrible poetry
fourth cup of wine is worse:
"As part of our search forJewishness beyond Zionism and as we head towards the end of the seder, and further into the ongoing Nakba, into the khurbn ‘aza [destruction of Gaza], we ask: is this a holiday of liberation?
Can this be a holiday of liberation when it rests upon the fantasy of a divine land grant and colonial project whose death toll this winter we already cannot count? When the story it tells (both in its broad arc and specific gestures) is part of what feeds the genocide?
Can this be a holiday of liberation when the mass slaughter of children is (as many progressive Haggadotes depict it) “an escalation of tactics”? Can this be a holiday of liberation when the “mighty hand and outstretched arm” that supposedly bring freedom are the same force that ten times over prevents escape from the narrow place, through plague, environmental devastation, and massacre?
None of these are incidental details that can be reinterpreted away. Removing ten drops does not make a full glass of wine into less of a celebration; it just provides the thinnest of emotional alibis. These genocide warrants, these celebrations of genocide, these acts that enable more genocide, are the core of the story."
yeah we are supposed to be atoning for the death of the firstborn egyptians or something i dont even fucking know what theyre on about
holy fucking shit dude. holy shit. holy shit. jews oppressing greeks. holy shit. what the hell
ok they turn elijahs cup into some thing about how "the prophet of freedom is absent. seems suspicious"
oh my god another faith healer with zero degrees in fields relating to medicine or mental health care!
i consider myself a jewitch but i am so deeply confused by this. moving on
ok more prayers rewritten by people who are not jewish much less rabbis, more shitty poetry
this is what they have instead of "next year in jerusalem":
okay then the list of contributors! im just gonna list details from a few of their bios i found interesting:
Felipe Ventura "builds community networks while being an unschooling parent to twins"
Ollie Emmes Schwartz is a "lover of shtetlcore as embodied de-assimilation practice."
Rebecca S’manga Frank is a "story-doula committed to radical empathy and collective liberation."
Shula Etta Pesach's work is "dedicated to cultural renewal and ancestral healing for white anti-racists."
Simha 'Simi' Toledano is a "hypnotist, spiritual adviser, ritualist, performer, award winning writer and filmmaker, and heart centered activist for collective liberation."
my notes:
unschooling are you fucking serious???? this is how you end up with teenagers who can't do basic math because their parents didn't put them in school. people raised in this practice literally call it abuse and neglect.
shtetlcore is something i enjoy but can we not act like its some radical movement about de-assimilation? shtetls were impoverished communities ravaged by pogroms and anti-jewish laws. my ancestors were surviving, not thriving.
"story-doula" is a concept that has made me like 10x more sure that i want my tubes tied. radical empathy is a fascinating thing to put in a jvp issued pamphlet.
what culture is being renewed for white anti-racists???????? this is a jumble of words
a hypnotist is exactly who i want writing my Haggadah. awesome. if only i could just hear the word annihilation and shut down after reading this shit (niche reference to my favorite book sorry lolz)
and now, as a conclusion, i want to share the bio in this booklet that i think is the most important to understanding how this piece of garbage propaganda could have been made. this is an organization that was featured prominently in this document.
"Rooted in this World Network: We are an intergenerational group of rad/left, anti-zionist, (mostly) queer, secular jewish educators, activists, cultural workers, and artists, primarily based in North America, but also beyond. Some of us use “secular” and/or “cultural” to define ourselves (while others do not), but all of us are interested in building Jewish community that de-centers rabbinic, priestly, and prayer-focused Jewishness. We share resources and co-create meaningful ways of being practicing secular Jews (including internal education around secular histories and futures, workshops with/for the broader Jewish left, shared rituals and art-making)."
so, to be clear, this is a prayer book for a jewish religious holiday that was written by secular jews (and non jews) who intend to remove central parts of judaism from it. while not being religious. i think that really sums up what JVP is. it is not a jewish organization. it is an organization that puts politics over ancestral traditions, that parades as being jewish despite wanting to destroy and erase vital parts of jewish tradition, culture, language, spirituality, history, and identity. it props up tokenized jews who do not have connection to the things they speak on.
this is not a haggadah. it is some sort of goofy ass propaganda zine. it has nearly nothing to do with the actual story of passover. the "jewish leaders" involved are almost all people who got certifications from non-jewish orgs or in ways that jewish law does not recognize. this is ridiculous savior-complex bullshit that exists to steal elements of jewish culture and throw the rest out. fuck jvp
