So here’s the question: was the shooting intended to murder the detained political prisoners, or did the Nazis use them as human shields? It’s definitely one of the two, and possibly both

An original dvar torah on the Binding of Isaac, written by me, if you want to quote it please cite me by name, thanks. A thread (1/20) I'll start with a disclaimer and an anecdote. First, the disclaimer: at no point in this dvar torah will I be mentioning Søren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling."

I know I keep going on about this but 1) yes 2) it has DEEPLY embarrassed the media people who kept trying to pretend that this regime can be treated as legitimate, and 3) we absolutely cannot let them forget it

original, replacement, bullshit disclaimer, me reporting the bullshit disclaimer for misleading claim

they don’t support Israel because they support the Jewish right to national self-determination in its homeland, they support Israel because they want it to be the ghetto to where they can round up all the Jews before they forced them to convert or die. (Also because they have a dead Muslim fetish)

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

President OK grandpa let’s get you to bed

The fun thing about being an autistic American-Israeli left-wing Jew is that if you ask any five people at random on the planet, they’ll all agree that I should be murdered, but they won’t agree about why

he wants the final solution to the autism question is what he wants.

i think america would be a better place if everyone just stopped paying attention to politico til they went out of business. there’s no “autism problem” just like there’s no “trans debate.” both of those things are eugenics. both questions are really “should these subhumans be allowed to exist?”

roko’s basilisk is pascal’s wager for people who (incorrectly) believe themselves to be too smart for pascal. it’s religion that doesn’t admit what it is to itself. nothing scientific about it. might as well be offering seven yearlong lambs and two oxen to the god-computer

l-rosh v-lo l-zanav. cocktail invented by me based on the “last word formula” of equal parts sweet, herbal, citrus, and base. this one is equal parts reposado tequila, lime juice, unsweetened blood orange infused spirit, and 1 to 1 honey syrup. i call it the margolit

since anti-Jewish polemic is in the news, and it's Tuesday and Rosh Hashana, here's a passage from Shir haYiḥud that is anti-*Christian* polemic instead. My original translation in alt-text

I think RFKJr should a) look in the mirror to see someone over 50 with autism, or b) examine his family tree because we didn’t so much diagnose the problem back then as lobotomize the patient, and a lot of them didn’t have long lives following that.

4/5 right - 80% is a passing grade

dear Gd, just as a reminder, when we say תכלה שנה וקיללותיהwe’re talking about the year that past, not the year to come. The verse about the year to come is תחל שנה וברכותיה. I think You mixed it up last year

four languages and one roly-poly fish head

re: tucker carlson note that i removed the phrase "IQ score" because IQ is unscientific bs. instead it's a patent-pending Semite Score, from "anti" to "is one"

"A bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus."

Tylenol is more likely to kill you than give your fetus autism which is a bummer because dying is bad and autism is good

this going around again? ok. I don’t like streaming music. I wanna be able to buy an album and then just have that album and then maybe burn it onto a CD with a few other songs I like. I don’t want to lose access to all of my music when the Internet connection is bad.

kedushtaot

fun fact: the reason we know that in the old Eretz Yisrael rite they only kept one day of Rosh haShanah in Israel is that Qallir only wrote piyyutim for one day of Rosh haShanah

I miss when LLMs were like a weird oddity that you could poke and prod to see what it does and be impressed at how surprisingly lifelike it can be, instead of the inescapable blight on creativity and invention they’ve ended up becoming

🧠 Rosh haShana is coming! Ḥag sameaḥ! 🧠🧠 Um, actually, it’s not a ḥag because there’s no ḥagiga! 🧠🧠🧠 In modern Hebrew חג refers to any holiday at all, not just to pilgrimages! 🧠🧠🧠🧠 Psalm 81 says בַּ֝כֵּ֗סֶה לְי֣וֹם חַגֵּֽנוּ, and the rabbis say that refers to Rosh haShana! 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 Rosh haShana is coming! Ḥag sameaḥ!

i read this as the riff at the end of “Defying Gravity”

on the question of “how do Jews experience divine forgiveness without the crucifixion”

Then fucking work on Christmas and Easter then, oh wait you won’t because you think those are fucking secular because Christian hegemony has rotted your damn brain like a jack-o-lantern in November

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

There are few things in life I am more certain of than the fact that Henry “Dennis’s dad” Mitchell from the comic ‘Dennis the Menace’ (the American one, not the British one) would turn me into the HUAC.

I wrote this in 2019, I think some people have found it useful. opensiddur.org/prayers/coll...

A roadmap that exclusively shows roads that don’t lead to Rome in order to break your preconceived notions of road leadership

kleptocracy distilled

A lesson that the left can learn from this Charlie Kirk shit is that when you assassinate people you hate it only makes them into martyrs. Rarely is someone assassinated and then everybody agrees that he deserved it. Not never, but rarely.

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

This explains quite a lot about how people think about Jews in the US, actually.

This is a factual question, not a normative one. Americans are simply wrong about this, as lots of empirical studies have documented.

what about making the bodleian open 24/7 instead?

i am very opposed to "positive ashamnu." more like toxic positive ashamnu am i right

Really astonishing to me that corporate America looked at Trump's re-election and decided that conservatism would be profitable for the foreseeable future

unfortunately I think more and more of them do, and really want to make sure to whom tomorrow belongs

I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist

Time for me to share my beef barbacoa recipe. A lot of this is to taste. Necessary specialty equipment is a large oven-and-stove-safe pot with a tight-fitting lid (a Dutch oven is great). Everything else is regular kitchen stuff. Make sure your oven can stay on overnight.

Charlie Kirk was able to blame "Jewish dollars" for funding "cultural Marxist ideas" and still be celebrated as a hero by the Israeli right because they largely agree with the critique of the rootless diaspora Jew.

As terrible as American politics are right now, we have a handful of decent elected officials nationwide who are worthy of support. Does the UK have a single one who isn't either a hateful bigot, a feckless clown, or both? A single politician worthy of support?

“There’s no such thing as leftist ideology and that’s why Stalin isn’t a true leftist because he doesn’t fit my ideological definition of leftism” -a lot of authlefts whose approach to left-wing dictatorships is to no-true-scotsman their way out of it like the cultural Christians they are

The core thesis of Putinism as a political ideology is essentially a kind of hard anti-revolutionaryism. Stalin and the Romanovs are both good in his mind because they both constitute Strength and Order, and Lenin and 1991 are both bad because they /overthrew/ established power.

filthy frank said it first youtu.be/xI3ROoUgaHY