As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

sometimes, you’re staying at an airport hotel Christmas night in Heathrow terminal four, and you see the most liminal-ass thing you’ve ever seen in your entire life. This is the backrooms and you cannot convince me otherwise.

cw🦘 intensifies

when you take the eucharistic rite a bit too literally on the mass of christ

However, secularists who celebrate Christmas will *absolutely* insist that there are no religious reasons not to celebrate Christmas, that me declining to celebrate for religious reasons is offensive to them, and rant at me about the secularity of Christmas. At length. Frequently.

Weird question to post here but I have a disproportionate number of linguist followers. Does anybody either (1) know enough PIE to proofread an attempted "h₁óynom gídʰom", or (2) know a PIEist who would be willing to look at one if I emailed them unprompted?

weird question: anyone knows sanskrit and could look over an attempted translation of ḥad gadya?

Indeed one of the ways that Christmas remains a Christian holiday even as it is secularized and commercialized is that it retains this missionary DNA of ALL MUST OBEY

sometimes the bot just hits the nail on the head is the thing

an effective leader would leave germany stronger than he found it. hitler left germany divided and occupied and publicly loathed by the entire planet. nazis always forget that 1942-1945 happened

i uh… i think this guy does actually give two shits about the Jews and antisemitism

we don’t give enough credit to modern dentistry. 2500 years ago the sexiest possible thing was to have all your teeth

regardless of how pathetic this is, “thousands of heavily armed violent foreigners entering your land without permission, refusing to leave, and making things worse for everyone” isn’t an accurate description of immigration but it is 100% what the crusades were

Christmas is actually a minor holiday - no work prohibitions - it just gets a lot of undue emphasis because it falls during the Ḥanukkah season

Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Christmas tree is actually a folk memory of the two trees of Valinor, whose pure light was captured in the Silmarils (Silmaril -> ilmaril -> irmarel -> ermarel -> ornamel > ornament)

btw calling that essay "Bible-based" is spitting on the Torah. It makes Veggie Tales look like Rashi

counterpoint: pepper *should* be added to more things. a bit of pepper in any baked goods or fruit dishes adds a subtle complexity that really helps it shine

A silence falls upon the great hall, and it is more terrible than Bontshe's has ever been, and slowly the judge and the angels bend their heads in shame at this unending meekness they have created on earth. Then the silence is shattered. The prosecutor laughs aloud, a bitter laugh.

jewish christmas texts be like :"the blood-scream in terror of their knives"

January 6th and the subsequent failure to imprison Donald Trump and his accomplices will be looked back upon as having the same deadly naïveté of Chamberlain's appeasement a staggering failure of responsibility and civic duty

just as a reminder for those who share "Christmas greetings in Jesus' own language! Whoa!" videos every year: Saying "Jesus spoke Aramaic, which means he spoke Serta-phonology Western Syriac" is about as accurate as saying "Charlemagne spoke Frankish, which means he spoke Afrikaans"

gentiles trying to steal deli rolls from us too? have they no shame

In dulci jubilo קאָזאַקן זענען דאָ פּאָגראָמען זיי וועלן ברענגען in praesepio בײַ ניטל זיי אונדז קוילען matris in gremio איז דאָ סכּנה? יאָ!

He also called me a “religious whack job” which is ironic because his definition of religion is the same as a fundamentalist Christian who assumes that the only religion is his, and he has never unpacked what that means

When I point out that Christmas is a holiday whose name literally means “the Eucharist of Jesus” and an atheist responds with frothing rage, you’re talking to a Christo-Atheist

donald, i would absolutely LOVE you to leave the presidency and make hosting your full time job. because the supreme court has not yet declared tv hosts above the law

"satmar" "all zionists" the fact anyone listens to this person is proof that when they say "zionist" they mean JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW

you know at first i believed the letter was a hoax but the more desperately they deny it the more i'm inclined to think it is 100% real

Fictional Nazis: I love Hitler and hate the Jews. Want to join our secret society that controls the American government? Real life Nazis: I love Hitler and hate the Jews. Want to join the Republican party?

weird question: anyone knows sanskrit and could look over an attempted translation of ḥad gadya?

cannot wait until alleged leftists start saying “umm megyn kelly based actually?” for posting antisemitism

“Two bad things can be different degrees of bad” is a sentiment a lot of ostensible 38-year-olds vociferously reject for some reason

My "Not involved in the pedo cabal" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

fun fact: ray bradbury was such a luddite that he used a typewriter until the day he died and refused to even get a computer

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

when men write about their worst fears as an attempt to dissuade trans women from getting hrt i feel like they might be misunderstanding why people want to get hrt in the first place "oh no all the aspects of my body dysmorphia will get better"

there's a lot of people who want a party that is neither fascists nor trying to appeal to fascists

it’s not a point of pride to say that I am substantially funnier than Dry Bones, because most things are. But it is our burden to bear that we are all substantially funnier than Dry Bones.

Hanukkah just ended, but for some reason all the gentiles are already putting up their tu bishvat decorations. Except they’re not even doing that right because pine trees aren’t fruit bearing

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I would like to point out to the @nytimes.com that does not matter how much you try to platform fascists, you will never be fascist enough for them not to hate you. So maybe stop bothsidesing and start actually reporting the truth again. Suggestion: start with calling JD Vance a white supremacist

my favorite Hawthorne quote is from Main-Street, 1852, on the Puritans: “Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank him, not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages.”

i see stefanik dropping out as less indicative of a lack of support from trump and more indicative of the fact that she can't market herself as a fierce defender of the jewish community when all her friends and staffers keep getting exposed as nazis

“So when they say ‘it is not in the heavens,’ they are obviously talking about how they are in control of the weather instead of God. I am very smart.”