david goldrock

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

My mom’s new crockpot is on the fritz when it’s no more than four years old, but the one that likely belonged to a great grandmother I never met works fine.

The new coffeemaker set itself on fire while everyone was gone except for the lady my mom hires to come clean once every other week. I hate to imagine what would have happened if it was any other day.

The stupid light my roommate lent me for my closet broke after a singular week of use because the cheap weld broke off of the power source.

But the thing is that there are certain groups of people working extremely hard to blame jews for white supremecy. The same thing that got jews killed in living memory a little something called the shoah.

Imagine having immense generational trauma due to your family being killed and teaumatized due to white suprememcy and then being told 'you did this'

2. Jews as a people existed before the concept of race did.

Some Jews are white passing

Not all Ashkenazi Jews are white passing

Not all white passing Jews are Ashkenazi

I think there's a case to be made that white people who convert are white Jews, in the sense that they are both white and Jewish, but also, this framework could easily be used to deny their legitimacy as Jews and focuses on genetics in a way that I find very concerning.

Also, I think what amaditalks added to this post is important to keep in mind:

The only people who don't want peaceful world are jihadists.

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer