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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

One morning when Trump awoke in his bed
There were frogs in the streets, costumed frogs in his head,
and frogs in the news, and frogs, blame the Jews!
Frogs here, frogs there, antifa frogs are everywhere

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

just gonna say if you support biblical governance then you should generally oppose a race-baiting leader who is being plagued by frogs

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

yehoyesh has װיסט און לײדיק though, which loses the rhyme

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

in dialects with a kubutz-khirik merger that works really well!

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

right but they are mostly not white so the republican party treats them as irrelevant

Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

personally call me a woke lib but i think that people in puerto rico and dc should have representation in the country that governs tem

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

stop i can only get so aroused

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

i like to translate "hwæt" from Beowulf as "nu"

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

oy was it dark, and is there a draft in here or is it just god over the waters

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

רָאִ֙יתִי֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהִנֵּה־תֹ֖הוּ וָבֹ֑הוּ וְאֶל־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ין אוֹרָֽם׃
"I saw the earth and it was wasty-shmasty; and to the heavens, and its light was not there"

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

the real question is how do they translate Jeremiah 4:23, and do they preserve the subversiveness of taking the narrative of Genesis 1:1-3 and reframing it as apocalyptic destruction?

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

the first line in the talmud is "how early can you say shema in the evening?" this is followed by a discussion where different sages bring different opinions, comparing and contrasting them and citing evidence.

if someone asked jesus that his response would be "rot in hell you legalist fucks"

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

"Hey, mister, in this scenario, what do you think the right thing to do should be, and why?"
"How DARE you ask my opinion, you conniving lustful scoundrels, all of you are going to rot in hell for eternity for daring to question my authoritah"

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

do you think that when someone asks for your opinion and your evidence to support it they're always scheming to destroy you or do you only think the jews are like that

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

chaos schmaos

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 6h

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

three and a half years hadrian encircled beit-tar

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

y taanit 4:5:13. the same place that r. akiva notoriously fell for it

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

in the yerushalmi it’s spelled Beit Tor with two tavs and i think that’s great. the yerushalmi also goes into a lot more detail about it than the bavli does

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

((to explain to non-Hebrew readers: the left-wing soccer team in JLem, and the traditional local-derby rivals of Beitar, is HaPoal. The graffiti reads “HaPoal is a whore.” But the name “HaPoal” could also be translated as “the laborer,” so I read it as “the proletariat is a whore”))

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

(fun fact: Beitar supporters often like to write הפועל זונה as graffiti. My first time I saw it I thought it was meant to be some sort of leftist statement about how laborers are whoring themselves out to capital in order to survive, and somebody had to explain to me that it was soccer bullshit)

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

Real connoisseur of the wine cellar he was

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

(Beitar supporters are big fans of Ben Gvir, love Kahane, and threatened to kill the coach when he tried to draft an Arab player. I’m directly taking all of that and setting it in the UK as a goof)

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

I’m making jokes about Beitar Jerusalem, a football team in Jerusalem with a notoriously rabidly right wing fan base

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely love chanting “Mosley Tsadak” at their games. That’s why I’m a proud supporter of London Labour. (The definitely real football team, not the political party)

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