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She had an extremely sheltered upbringing, then when she snuck out to fight, she went to the Earth Kingdom version of WWE, which, if it’s like real world WWE, is family entertainment, and she never spent time backstage, she came she fought she left

I don’t know if the airbenders taught aang swears or not but I know he’s not really the type to swear anyway

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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damn near every time I mention im working on a fic or piece of fanart, he gasps in hopeful anticipation and asks "tamatoa and heihei?!" and he always acts bitterly disappointed

(I tried to screencap all of this thread from the source, but Threads mysteriously removed the 13th and 14th posts, so I had to rely on Dana’s stories).

danaaliyalevinson:

You all already know my stance:

Both Jews and Palestinians are not going anywhere and that any solution requires actually building bridges between these two groups not advocating for totalitarian eliminationist ideologies that seek the destruction of one of these two populations.

And that most of what I see these days passing for "peace activism" is the latter... calls for more war, more death, for cycles of violence to continue, only advocacy for a different side to be "winning".

Anyway, if you want to understand the realpolitik that's going on in the Jewish community both in diaspora and in Israel...

This thread is a good place to start...

yvngfrevd:

There is something deeply dishonest about the way the world discusses Jews, Israel, and this conflict. The conversation begins from premises that already assume Jewish power is uniquely suspect, Jewish fear is exaggerated, and Jewish self-defense must constantly justify itself in ways no other people on earth are expected to.

There are roughly 15 million Jews in the world. That is it. Fewer Jews exist today than existed before the Holocaust.

Meanwhile there are nearly 2 billion Muslims globally and dozens of Muslim-majority states. Jews are told endlessly that they are paranoid, tribal, dramatic, or "weaponizing antisemitism," while simultaneously watching mobs chant for intifada, celebrate October 7th, vandalize synagogues, attack visibly Jewish people in the street, and excuse it all as anti-colonial resistance. At a certain point, Jews are no longer obligated to pretend they are imagining what is directly in front of them.

People love speaking about this issue as though it began in 1948, as though Jews simply arrived one day from Europe and invented a state at the expense of peaceful natives. That framing erases almost the entire Jewish historical experience. Jews were expelled, massacred, subordinated, forcibly converted, ghettoized, humiliated, or exterminated across Europe, North Africa, the Levant, and the broader Middle East for centuries. Entire Jewish civilizations vanished. Salonica. Baghdad. Aleppo.

Cairo. Yemen. Izmir.

Communities that existed for hundreds or thousands of years either fled or were destroyed. Then Europeans annihilated six million Jews while much of the world either participated, looked away, or shut its doors.

And after all of that, Jews are lectured about the dangers of sovereignty.

The reality is that Israel did not emerge in a vacuum. Israel emerged because Jewish minority existence failed repeatedly across civilizations.

That does not mean every host nation was equally evil or every period equally violent. It means Jews learned through accumulated historical experience that dependence on the tolerance of others is not a survivable long- term strategy.

And this is where the conversation becomes especially dishonest: people constantly reduce the conflict to territory and economics while refusing to grapple with ideology, theology, and civilizational attitudes toward Jews.

Yes, not every Muslim is an extremist.

Not every Palestinian wants violence. That is obvious and does not need to be repeated every thirty seconds like a nervous ritual disclaimer. The point is not that every Muslim secretly wants to murder Jews. The point is that enough people do, enough institutions tolerate it, enough clerics preach it, enough states fund it, and enough crowds celebrate it that Jews are entirely rational to take it seriously.

People act as though Jews are irrational for noticing patterns that are stated openly.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with Hitler in 1941. Nazi propaganda was translated into Arabic and broadcast throughout the region. Islamist and Arab nationalist movements absorbed aspects of European antisemitic thought and fused them with older religious hostilities and modern revolutionary ideology. That does not mean Islam "is Nazism." It means there are ideological continuities that people are terrified to discuss honestly because they fear sounding prejudiced.

But reality does not disappear because people become uncomfortable naming it.

When organizations like Hamas explicitly invoke hadith about killing Jews behind rocks and trees, Jews are expected to sit there and be told it is merely “contextual,” “symbolic,” or “misunderstood.” Yet these same groups operationalize those texts politically and militarily. They are not obscure medieval manuscripts buried in a library somewhere.

They are quoted in charters, sermons, television broadcasts, classrooms, and militant rhetoric.

And then Western observers say: "Well, most Muslims don't interpret it that way."

But from a Jewish survival perspective, that is not the relevant question.

The relevant question is whether enough people interpret it that way to create an existential danger.

Jews are a tiny minority population.

Even a tiny fraction of 2 billion people radicalized around eliminationist ideology creates numbers that are difficult for any minority population to safely ignore. This is part of why Israelis think the way they do. They do not have the luxury of assuming every threat is rhetorical until proven otherwise. Jewish history is filled with examples where people said "they don't really mean it," right up until they did.

And there is another uncomfortable truth people refuse to acknowledge: many revolutionary Islamist movements are not merely fighting over borders or checkpoints. They are driven by theological and eschatological worldviews. Some of these leaders genuinely believe they are participating in sacred history. Martyrdom is not metaphorical to them. Jihad is not always metaphorical to them. The destruction or humiliation of Israel is not simply a policy preference. It is woven into a cosmic narrative.

Western secular people constantly underestimate this because they assume everyone is fundamentally motivated by material conditions. They think if living standards improve, the hatred disappears. Sometimes that is true. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes ideology itself is the engine.

This does not mean Palestinians are uniquely evil or incapable of peace. It means the conflict cannot be honestly understood if every religious or ideological dimension is dismissed as mere reaction to occupation.

And still, despite all this, Jews are expected to maintain perfect moral composure at all times while people who openly celebrate violence against them are framed as misunderstood revolutionaries.

A man throws a Molotov cocktail at an elderly Jewish woman while shouting "Free Palestine," and somehow Jews are still expected to wonder whether antisemitism is "really" involved. Synagogues are surrounded by mobs. Jewish students are harassed. Hostages are mocked online.

October 7th footage circulates with celebration. And the burden somehow remains on Jews to prove they are not overreacting.

No other tiny minority on earth is expected to normalize this level of hostility indefinitely while being told that serious self-defense measures are morally suspicious.

That does not mean every Israeli policy is correct. It does not mean Palestinian civilians deserve suffering. It does not mean Muslims as a whole are reducible to extremists.

But Jews are under no obligation to gaslight themselves about the existence of ideologies and movements that openly articulate anti-Jewish hatred and repeatedly act upon it.

The irony is that Jews are often accused of tribalism precisely when they refuse to return to the powerless condition history repeatedly punished them for inhabiting.

Israel exists because Jews decided they would no longer entrust their survival entirely to the conscience of others.

And after everything that happened to the Jewish people across centuries, it is very difficult to argue that this instinct emerged from nowhere.

danaaliyalevinson:

Once again, I know I'm a broken record but actually resolving this conflict means building bridges and understanding between all the inhabitants of the land, including Jews and Israelis.

The minimization of Jewish history, and concerns, which are informed by very material and real threats both past and present, sends a message that one is not seriously or thoughtfully engaging in efforts at conflict resolution.

No Jewish person with any kind of real institutional power who could work meaningfully to resolve the conflict (from all over the political spectrum) is going to buy "trust me bro, you'll be fine as a minority again without political sovereignty and your rights and safety will be secure in an Arab majority state." Too much actual history says otherwise. And refusing to engage with that lived reality and this dimension of realpolitik inherently means that one is not driving at real solutions.

And obviously there is realpolitik in the reverse and issues with Israeli policy and violence exacerbating conditions that perpetuate cycles of violence as well. But as I'm not Palestinian and immersed in Palestinian community, I'm not going to speak with authority on it.

Am Yisrael Chai!

Free Palestine from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Give them democracy.

Woman Life Freedom. Free Iran!

Free Ukraine! Russia is a terrorist state.

Free Kurdistan!

Free Sudan!

Free Tibet!

Romani people are still oppressed.

ICE are murderers, and the US immigration system needs to be dismantled entirely.

Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are non-binary.

Intersex people deserve to be respected and given proper medical care. And intersex issues need to be discussed in their own context without connecting them to trans people.

Sex work is real work. We need to protect the people who choose to go into sex work while protecting the victims of trafficking. The only way to protect people who want to leave sex work is to protect people who want to be in sex work.

Vaccines are good and should be mandatory with rare, medical exemptions.

People know themselves best and can define their identities best. Don't tell people how they should call themselves. If someone isn't causing active harm, they're fine. Just let people live and stop worrying about he/him lesbians or whatever. Let people choose their own pronouns.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

This week Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Marjorie Taylor Greene an antisemite on camera. Her colleagues on the progressive left have refused to do this for years.

Within hours, progressive accounts were posting in defense of Marjorie Taylor Greene, despite no change in her record on Jews. She had recently broken with her party over Gaza.

Far-left journalist Ryan Grim said MTG had sacrificed her career to stand against genocide. A self-described leftist wrote that MTG has more credibility and honor than AOC. Others framed AOC’s criticism as a defense of Israel, and accused her of using “Zionist talking points.”

These are the same people who told Democrats not to vote for Kamala Harris.

They watched a presidential election in which the other candidate was Donald Trump and told their followers Kamala was unacceptable on the question of Gaza. They were willing to absorb a Trump second term, mass deportations, the gutting of the climate transition, the collapse of the Voting Rights Act, and a Supreme Court that will govern for a generation, because Kamala was insufficiently anti-Israel.

One issue, weighted infinitely.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent her career on Jewish space laser theories, “globalist” rhetoric, Holocaust comparisons that desecrate the camps, and conspiracy material you would find on a 1930s pamphlet table. Her own colleagues kicked her off committees for it. She went anti-Israel, and the record was wiped.

Tucker Carlson spent years as the most loathed figure on the American left, until he started platforming anti-Israel voices, and segments of the progressive online world began linking him approvingly. Megyn Kelly was untouchable until she became useful. Ana Kasparian was dismissed by the Hasan Piker wing as a sellout, and is now celebrated for declaring on Piers Morgan that the Jewish lobby controls the United States. Piers Morgan himself is anti-trans, anti-woke, contemptuous of every progressive cultural priority of the last decade, and his clips are passed around by activists who would have boycotted him a year ago, because he platforms anti-Israel guests.

You can hold every other position the far left despises, and the far left will rehabilitate you, provided you arrive at the correct position on Israel.

The very people who tell us every day that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism have just shown they will accept antisemites, as long as they arrive anti-Zionist.

For years this same crowd mocked the GOP for tolerating MTG while treating Liz Cheney as the real threat to the party. The hypocrisy was their joke. They have built a mirror version of it, with anti-Israel as the redemptive position and pointing out antisemitism as the heresy.

The constellation of voices that has accused American Jews of putting “Israel first” for years, and has now turned the same accusation on AOC for using the word antisemite, has organized its own politics around a single foreign policy litmus test. Their test is one position, on one country, smaller than New Jersey and six thousand miles from Washington. Healthcare, climate, labor, Trumpism, voting rights, abortion, immigration, and democracy itself can all be traded away if the position on Israel is correct.

If the accusation of dual loyalty had any honest meaning, it would describe them.

I have spent enough years in this argument to know the merger of left and right antisemitism is not new. My grandmother saw a version of it in Baghdad in 1941, when a coup-installed pro-Nazi government collapsed and the mob came for the Jews and her father pushed her under the bed while neighbors broke into the house. The horseshoe is older than American politics.

The far left in 2026 has built an infrastructure for forgiving antisemites. The price of admission is anti-Israel content. Once you have paid it, your record is yours again. Jewish space lasers becomes a youthful indiscretion. Years of dog-whistles get filed under “she is evolving.” A self-described leftist quotes you approvingly. An influencer in a keffiyeh tells her followers you have honor.

Some will say they do not see what they are doing. I do not believe that.

AOC said one true sentence about a colleague who has spent years saying untrue things about Jews. The progressive pile-on came for her.

a dude with a literal Nazi tattoo is the front runner for Democratic Senator in Maine

a woman peddling LITERAL Nazi propaganda and parroting Protocols talking points is running for Congress in Texas

Democrats as a whole are getting VERY cozy with rape apologist and man who called Jewish men "inbred" and Hamas defender, Hasan Piker

Democrats are allying with Jewish Space Laser Lady, MTG