The most insidious thing about treating the Holocaust as though it was an object lesson for the Jewish people is that doing so obfuscates how it was the culmination of centuries of Western prejudicial behavior and the only lesson the West learned from it was that they need to hide that shit better.

This is an important watch if you're Jewish (and likely if you're not), whether or not you're into videogames. youtu.be/8dkB-KTMB3o?...

Someday, maybe, anti-theists will understand that not everything Christians decided to call a “religion” makes and centers around a truth claim. But that’ll involve deconstructing their own religious influences, so it’s never fucking happening.

“Theists are easily fooled into believing…” Says the person who insists on believing his preconceived notions about the structure of Judaism in direct contradiction to all the concrete evidence laid out for him about how Judaism works, what it is, and that belief isn’t a core component of it.

Because it not mattering that you don’t care means we’re going to keep banging the drum about your ignorance and bigotry. We don’t stop just because you don’t care. We just let you continue to out your own shame.

It takes a particularly stark kind of bigotry and ego to look at a marginalized group explaining your marginalization of them to you and respond by expressing your disinterest. It’s not SURPRISING. It’s just silly that you’d think your interest, or lack thereof, matters.

Gee, maybe when you’re spouting generalized bigotry, born of ignorance, you “not caring” about corrections to that ignorance isn’t relevant. And your continued assertions that this was all just you being misunderstood, but also you don’t care, but you totally won anyway, just further outs you.

Weird to encounter Wimp Lo here in the wild.

Yes. Read.

People who focus on tone over content generally don’t have an argument. For example, you attempting to disguise that your supposed knowledge and experience is a single anecdote about two Muslim families. Assholes exist everywhere. You’re evidence enough of that.

I know this is silly, but I find it interesting that the Fatal Fury/Street Fighter collab is resulting in a Muay Thai character (Preecha) getting a costume inspired by a Taekwondo character (Juri). Dress one of the Kims up in a sexy spider outfit, you cowards!

I know this isn’t at all what the quoted post is getting at, but back when I taught TKD, a couple of the office staff were Filipina, and I’ll never forget the owner’s son (Korean), telling them he felt they were “basically the Mexicans of Asia.” A “perspective” inherited from his dad.

Okay. I’ve been angry and shady enough for a bit. Let’s throw up some positivity. Today I scheduled my final payment for my car loan, which means (as of tomorrow), the car is paid off, and my only remaining debt is my student loan. I’m on track to pay that off in, at most, two more years.

Despite what more than a few people on here seem to believe, no, being on the right side of a single issue is not enough to make you a fundamentally moral individual.

As someone who has visited his father’s grave multiple times, I sometimes feel an aching pang when I think about how, for my Chassidic uncles, who are kohanim, their mother’s burial was likely the last time they’d ever get to see her and their father’s resting place.

If the manner in which you’re “speaking out on a matter of public concern” is “the kids I’m teaching and their families deserve to be abused and deported,” I’m willing to say that crosses the line into threatening speech. Fuck him, and fuck this mealy-mouthed attempt to cover for him.

Like, the fact we even got the existing games in the Capcom Fighting Collection is wholly down to Capcom being one of the few AAA publishers still willing to sometimes back something a little weird or unorthodox (see Kunitsu-Gami and Dragon’s Dogma II). Fighting games are expensive, and perpetual.

I can confirm that Romeo Is a Dead Man is an extremely Suda51-ass Suda Goichi game.

This just convinced me to buy. As if it being a Goichi Suda game wasn’t enough by itself.

In case you were wondering how blatantly corrupt the AI game is, Sam Altman, when faced with the question of how OpenAI would fund over a trillion dollars of spending commitments on $13 billion of revenue, accused the asker of wanting to sell his shares. He then harped on how people want shares.

This, too, is Torah.

What’s wild is, from a “fighting” perspective, wrist control is a great instinct to have. But so is having a good fighting stance, and in a situation where you want to deescalate, that can be a provocation. One of the most interesting things I had to learn when it came to deescalation was a frame.

Gentiles, I wholeheartedly encourage you to memorialize trans, gay, Roma, disabled, and political victims of the Holocaust, today. They deserve to be remembered. But, maybe, don’t treat this like a zero-sum game where it must be “reclaimed” from Jewish people.

If only the senate majority leader from 2021–2023 had listened when people were calling for abolishing ICE back then. Whoever it was, that person must be kicking themselves.

Okay, Cap, you’re asserting that Jesus’s motive was them preventing it from being used as a house of worship. What’s your rationale for that interpretation? What, in the text, gives you that impression?

Figures, in deciding to take a stand against ableism, Shammai would find a reason to show his enemies even less mercy.

Sometimes I think the Democratic pushback to voting for “exciting” candidates over the status quo is still a reaction to Trump’s 2016 upset. No mainstream source, including on the right, expected him to get the nomination until it happened. And I think Dems are terrified of being similarly upset.

Look, regardless of any rhetoric around the general election, when it comes to voting in primaries, there is no reason not to advocate for and vote for the candidate you actually want, rather than who you think is likely to win. Voting based on who’s likely to win is AI-pilled methodology.

Folks, if you think engaging in logical fallacies is integral to taking a position on something, then you do not understand either how to take a position on something or what the scopes of logical fallacies are.

Aww, leaving out “actual,” knowing it fundamentally changes the framing. You really can’t help yourself. Disingenuous all the way down, unwilling to engage with even the most basic of correction.

Actual journalists don’t cherry-pick, Oliver. Maybe this is some of what’s in your mentions, but I know a lot more of it is focused on you mischaracterizing an interview technique and assuming universal familiarity with Christian scripture (which you did beyond the scope of this one reference).

I need you to try listening to both Jews and journalists on this, because as shit as Ezra Klein is, the degree to which you have unexamined, ingrained biases from a Christian supremacist national zeitgeist is doing you dirty.

I think this take on Walz’s statement, when we have the kind of rhetoric we do from the administration, is a bad misread. Walz even says he’s angry, he just calls for non-violence. Which is important, because when you already have the president trying to paint protesters as “agitators and…” 1/2

“Not-a-Christians” continue to do the most when it comes to carrying water for Christianity’s Western cultural dominion.

Oh, hey, the Dilbert guy died. … … So, anyway…

There are a couple genres of games, horror and grand strategy, that I love on a conceptual level and just CANNOT seem to get into. There are some small few in each category that I genuinely enjoy, but I find the majority either stressful or overwhelming, respectively.

This doesn’t just apply to the conversation I’m in, either, so it’s worth expounding on. This applies whether it’s using “Pharisee” as a pejorative or fatness as an indictment. Hell, it applies to using “Say Her Name” for Renee Good, against the wishes of the Black activists who created it.

@maimonidesnutz.bsky.social Just some shots of the test Get Loew beanie from Bonfire.

I had to train with the AI features my company worked into our products yesterday. I noticed that, when it came to writing code, it had a variety of tools and specific instructions on how to interact with them to minimize error. But when it came to documenting that code? Oh, just generate comments.

I want to highlight this because it’s absurd. This person has “recently found out” they’re “pretty Polish,” and because of that, thinks only of their personal feelings toward Polish jokes, never considering people with a deep, meaningful connection to Polish identity.

I need people to learn that just because we mutually oppose something does not mean we need to tolerate your shenanigans. Yes, this is about gentiles using “Pharisee” as an insulting accusation against Evangelicals. You don’t get to point to someone else being shit to excuse your own bad behavior.

It’s fucking wild watching a white person accuse the woman who started #BirthdayForBreonna of being anti-immigrant, and of denying the Blackness of Somali immigrants specifically, because said woman asserted a boundary around the phrase “Say Her Name.”

What you asked wasn’t relevant. Expecting people to engage earnestly with your framing when the question itself ignores the context in which you decided to ask it is main character bullshit of the highest order.

I have literally left Discord communities for creators I really enjoy because they had one or two shitheads who I saw myself hitting critical mass with, and the frustration wasn’t worth sticking around.

So, after this person feigned actual consideration of, and acknowledged, the antisemitic nature of this exact sort of use of “Pharisee,” the only possible takeaway of them using it in this way again, very intentionally, is that they’ve decided they’re cool with being antisemitic.

I believe this one is a @postingtreyf.bsky.social original. I apologize for stealing it.

For anyone who still has a personal Microsoft 365 subscription, please note that they’re automatically upgrading everyone to their AI-inclusive plan at a $30/year (almost a 50%) premium over the current price. They’ve renamed the non-AI plan to “Personal Classic” at the old price. Fucking scammers.

I have encountered multiple people today who lack any sort of political analysis beyond superficial identity politics, and need to engage with folks who actually conduct analysis with even a modicum of additional depth. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ypvCtT/

To be very transparent, I am at the point where I’ll dunk and block once it becomes sufficiently clear that someone has no interest in engaging in good faith. If that ruffles your feathers, I suggest you look inward.

So, she talked shit about me, shut off both QTs and replies so I couldn’t engage with her directly, but I’m the coward for denying her access to me after she’d already made it clear she didn’t want to interact. I fear for the women you know.