An Intrepid Arachnid with delusions of grandeur. Just another radical activist queer Jew trying to scrape by in a dystopian world. The superhero of my own life story. I don't make anything but trouble (and the occasional fanfic.) Cis she/her.
i fucking love ryan gosling for saying this. he gets that if a movie hits like crack and gives us something ‘more’, the certain something beyond market value, we will naturally go full barbenheimer on our local theaters.
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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
“you’re not immune to propaganda” applies to you too
Yes, it absolutely does!
Propaganda is baked into our daily reality so seamlessly and thoroughly that it mostly feels like common sense.
It's why we defend brands like they're old friends.
It's why we discuss celebrities we've never met and who don't know we exist as if we know their hearts, defending or condemning them based on how talented their publicists are.
It's why we confuse relatability for trustworthiness
It's why we mistake emotional resonance for moral principles.
It's why we think our opinions are purely self-generated despite being nudged by countless carefully curated narratives which have more (and more subtle) ways of reaching us than at any time in human history.
It's why we treat people's lives, public policy, and geopolitical matters like team sports.
It's why we need to constantly interrogate our own assumptions, habitually subjecting them to fact checking, methodical scrutiny, and cynicism.
It's why we need media literacy and media ecology to be taught to kids of all ages.
It's why everyone should read Orwell, Huxley, Neil Postman, and Marshal McLuhan.
It's why we should all study logic, rhetoric, and ethics - so we can understand and apply moral reasoning based on principles.
The point isn't whether or not we're affected by propaganda, because we all are.
The point is whether or not we know we're affected...which ironically is the exact blind spot that makes people think they're immune.
The moment you assume you're above that influence? That's when it's working best.
That's why, Anon, the post you're responding to didn't say "you are not immune to propoganda."
It said:
If you think you're immune to propaganda, that means the propaganda is working.
hating the US with a passion and then posting about how great canada is 😭😭😭😭 crazy how ppl act like indigenous people suddenly stop existing when you go slightly north
Canada is not the greatest country for so many reasons, but lets stick with how first nations people are treated. In canada you must stay on rez to keep status, that is a way to keep natives poor and away from society. Having a employment rate of an average of 3.5% for first nations people on rez Canada wide. Even infrastructures on native land majority employees hired are white.
Almost every tribe in Ontario is at least on water boil advisory.
Canada put our families and culture through 200 years of residential school in attempts to destroy cultures, languages, children's innocence, children's lives, the government has supported with a full heart, for over 300 years, has supported kidnapping native children in order to "kill the savage save the man" mentality. The government has specific funds for first nations, these funds are constantly being stolen by white people and the government does nothing. Shadow wolf society deals with it. A local tribe spent over 20 years in court trying to get their homeland back, propaganda is pushed so hard that "land back movement" has even been appropriated and is misused by white people all the time, making actual efforts for first nations peoples' to have the same opportunities that everyone else gets more difficult.
My grandmother was in a residential school, she was a husk of a human, angry and jaded.
Canada is USA with more anti-indigenous propaganda thrown at you every single day.
You dont hear about Indians in canada because they keep trying to kill us, it cycles. We are seen as parasites, yet kept poor.
We had residential schools for 200 years, we had a social service based attack on first nations through 1960-1990s.
Ive seen a woman not have access to her newborn baby until she agreed to be sterilized. Never even heard that for any other race in the hospital, even teen moms.
If you think canada is nice, youre only seeing what the government wants you to see. Canada is the most anti-indigenous country since the government does not care about us. They want us to be gone. There is a lot of blood in this soil.
If Canada is the worlds compass, no wonder the world is so fucked up.
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this was submitted as a one sentence horror story, but it feels like it could be an old jewish joke, like the one about the two rabbis proving g-d doesn't exist or the saying 'people plan, g-d laughs'
Even more, it sounds like the beginning -- the set-up -- of the joke. Can’t you hear Carl Reiner opening a bit with this line, or Shalom Aleichem using it to kick off a story?
Well I'm not quite an old Jewish man just yet, but let me give it a shot...
Losing confidence in Himself, G-d became an atheist. He decided to go down to Earth, to walk among humans and see how they found meaning.
He wandered the world until he came to a town, where he happened upon a pastor. "Come to our church this Sunday!" said the pastor. But G-d shook his head. "I don't believe in G-d anymore," he told the pastor sullenly. "And besides, I really shouldn't be working weekends." . . .
He continued wandering, and as night fell, he realized he had no money for a hotel. Walking down the darkening sidewalk, he passed many shivering folk, some young and thin, others old and worn and grizzle-bearded, looking not unlike himself. Just as the rain began to fall, he happened upon a priest. The priest looked him up and down, and said, "You look cold, my son. We're hosting a men's shelter at the church tonight; you can sleep there, and come to Mass tomorrow." This time G-d agreed. He slept well and was warm, and in the morning sat for Mass. They blessed him in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but he felt beside himself and decided to leave.
By this time G-d was quite hungry. He stopped by a deli, but still had no money, so all he could do was watch the fresh steaming bagels be made. On a bench outside the deli, a man was eating a bagel with lox. As he finished eating, G-d noticed there were still some scraps of food on the waxpaper. Unable to help himself, he asked if he could have the scraps, before the man threw it away. "Please sir, I'm so hungry. I'd just like that crumb of bagel there, and that little shred of lox. I think I could make a bisl of fish last quite a while." The man shook his head. "I cannot in good conscience give you my trash," he said, "But come inside, I'll get you your own bagel. I'd offer to get you coffee—but that's trash too."
So the man bought G-d some breakfast and sat with him on the bench. "Thank you so much," said G-d. "How can I ever repay you?" But the man just shrugged and said, "I'm a rabbi. Buying bagels I don't get to eat is part of the job description."
G-d thanked the rabbi again, and ate in silence. "Rabbi, can I ask you a question? I feel I haven't been on this Earth too long, but already I've seen much misery. How do you do it? How do you still believe in G-d?"
The rabbi pondered this. "I believe in joyful things. I believe in kindness, and people choosing to help each other. And isn't that a kind of godliness?" (G-d suspected there was a bit more to godliness than that, but he let it slide.) The rabbi continued: "I've prayed to G-d every day for the last 30 years, and I will every day til I die. And if He answers my prayers, all the better! But tell me, my new friend, what's your name?" G-d hesitated and said, "It's a little hard to pronounce..." The rabbi chuckled and said, "No matter. Say, it won't be anything like Shabbos dinner, but my wife is baking a delightful fig pie today, and I'd like to have you over for dinner to enjoy it." G-d nodded. "I do like figs..."
That evening, G-d sat for dinner with the rabbi, the rabbi's wife, and their four children. The meal was delicious, the rabbi's family was incredibly welcoming. Their conversation was friendly but never prying, and the children laughed and played with each other. Several times, the youngest child tugged on G-d's sleeve for his attention before her father motioned for her to go play with her siblings. G-d began to see what the rabbi had meant about the joyfulness of life.
At the end of the night, G-d stood up to leave, and felt renewed. The rabbi said, "My friend, don't leave us so soon!" And G-d replied, "I will always be with you, for I am the Lord Your G-d." And they understood it to be true.
He had done this sort of thing a few times before and generally knew how it went. As expected, the rabbi and his family fell to their knees, weeping with joy and awe. He did not expect the youngest child to walk right up and tug G-d's sleeve again. He smiled graciously down at her, and she looked up with the wonderful bright eyes of a child who understands nothing but the urge to play. In a high voice, she said, "Knock knock!" G-d couldn't help but laugh. "Who's there?" He replied cheerfully.
Suddenly from across the room, the rabbi swore loudly and rudely. Dismayed, G-d asked, "What troubles you?" He saw the rabbi was trembling, half in rage and half in embarrassment. "I'm sorry Lord! Thank you for this, thank you so much for gracing us with your light, Baruch Atah and so on, it's just..." The rabbi swore again. "Thirty years of daily prayer, Lord, and a KNOCK-KNOCK JOKE is what you'll answer?"
hey captain-acab, this is the highest compliment i can bestow: it would not have surprised me had i found that story in a book of traditional fables in the shul library
Look, someone has to be the first to make up any traditional Jewish story, why not @captain-acab? If we all keep telling it, then in a generation or two it'll be traditional.
"someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts" or maybe i'm in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.
as an ashkenazi jew, i have shrodinger's privilege. if im talking to a far-left palestine supporter, i have obvious and obnoxious white privilege. if im talking to a white supremacist, im subhuman scum and have nothing in common with the Great White Race.
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genuinely so funny that i made a post saying "people on tumblr think its more immoral to kill a spider than a jew" and then people with a history of harassing me decided to prove my point
Every day that quote about "Never assume the antisemite is unaware of the absurdity of his statements" or something like that gets more and more true.
Anyway yeah anyone who calls Israelis or Zionists "pests"... IDK if anyone else remembers that thing I said a WHILE ago about how a lot of antizionist ideology and rhetoric makes sense if you look at it all through the lens of antizionists seeing Jews as vermin that need to be eliminated? Because I sure remember that.
And I’m so fucking sick of people still trying to make this about political views or the government or whatever. It doesn’t fucking matter. They don’t even have this ire and rage for people born in countries that truly have done all the things people say Israel has done. Only Israel. Only the country where half the world’s Jews live. They don’t hate Israelis because the government is bad they hate them because they fucking hate Jews and hold us to a standard that is physically impossible to meet. I’m so sick of this rhetoric. I’m so sick of people who claim to care about Jews but still seem to think that the dehumanization of Israelis is okay if those Israelis are bad people or have bad political views. It’s fucking atrocious and this is how the Nazis were able to validate what they did to us.
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