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@bellyelectric.bsky.social
A rooted cosmopolitan.
An empty description is better than a bad one.
An empty description is better than a bad one.
I'm trying to follow your "reasoning":
Jews are morally deficient, and we can tell that by how Jewish texts such as the Talmud call non-Jews cattle. And if that isn't true (it isn't), we can STILL tell it by how there are incestuous relationships in Jewish founding myths.
Do I have this right?
Jews are morally deficient, and we can tell that by how Jewish texts such as the Talmud call non-Jews cattle. And if that isn't true (it isn't), we can STILL tell it by how there are incestuous relationships in Jewish founding myths.
Do I have this right?
August 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm trying to follow your "reasoning":
Jews are morally deficient, and we can tell that by how Jewish texts such as the Talmud call non-Jews cattle. And if that isn't true (it isn't), we can STILL tell it by how there are incestuous relationships in Jewish founding myths.
Do I have this right?
Jews are morally deficient, and we can tell that by how Jewish texts such as the Talmud call non-Jews cattle. And if that isn't true (it isn't), we can STILL tell it by how there are incestuous relationships in Jewish founding myths.
Do I have this right?
In before someone responds with "I want to be insufferable to [insert label for evil/foolish people] like you." Sweetie, bad people can piss off bad people too.
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In before someone responds with "I want to be insufferable to [insert label for evil/foolish people] like you." Sweetie, bad people can piss off bad people too.
Many are the amount of times I've seen people take the fact someone calls them out for their belligerence as just proof of the rightness of their cause.
It's the leftist/liberal/centrist version of "Triggered?? 😏"
Being insufferable is not a positive character trait.
It's the leftist/liberal/centrist version of "Triggered?? 😏"
Being insufferable is not a positive character trait.
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Many are the amount of times I've seen people take the fact someone calls them out for their belligerence as just proof of the rightness of their cause.
It's the leftist/liberal/centrist version of "Triggered?? 😏"
Being insufferable is not a positive character trait.
It's the leftist/liberal/centrist version of "Triggered?? 😏"
Being insufferable is not a positive character trait.
I said elsewhere: Pritzker/AOC 2028. Because a President should be the size of three Vice-Presidents.
(Also because it marries the pragmatic/idealistic camps and neither of them are anti-trans, and both are relatively normal people in act and character.)
(Also because it marries the pragmatic/idealistic camps and neither of them are anti-trans, and both are relatively normal people in act and character.)
August 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I said elsewhere: Pritzker/AOC 2028. Because a President should be the size of three Vice-Presidents.
(Also because it marries the pragmatic/idealistic camps and neither of them are anti-trans, and both are relatively normal people in act and character.)
(Also because it marries the pragmatic/idealistic camps and neither of them are anti-trans, and both are relatively normal people in act and character.)
Kind of like what I am doing.
July 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Kind of like what I am doing.
I'm taking it in good faith. Folks are going to her page to take some swipes, but it's the equivalent to overhearing someone oversimplifying in a conversation with someone else and crashing it.
"Excuse me, EXCUSE ME!"
"Excuse me, EXCUSE ME!"
July 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I'm taking it in good faith. Folks are going to her page to take some swipes, but it's the equivalent to overhearing someone oversimplifying in a conversation with someone else and crashing it.
"Excuse me, EXCUSE ME!"
"Excuse me, EXCUSE ME!"
There's certainly some . . . selectivity about which liabilities are deal-breakers and which can be suffered.
July 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
There's certainly some . . . selectivity about which liabilities are deal-breakers and which can be suffered.
You say convenience, but if people die without it, that isn't convenience.
I feel like there a lot of space between "run the AC with the windows open" and "heat pumps save lives."
I feel like there a lot of space between "run the AC with the windows open" and "heat pumps save lives."
July 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
You say convenience, but if people die without it, that isn't convenience.
I feel like there a lot of space between "run the AC with the windows open" and "heat pumps save lives."
I feel like there a lot of space between "run the AC with the windows open" and "heat pumps save lives."
I have a geothermal heatpump system and live near Canada. Due to the local climate, my heat pump uses twice as much energy to heat the place each year versus cooling the place. Is the energy spent on heating legitimate and on cooling illegitimate?
July 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I have a geothermal heatpump system and live near Canada. Due to the local climate, my heat pump uses twice as much energy to heat the place each year versus cooling the place. Is the energy spent on heating legitimate and on cooling illegitimate?
My first comment was in response to folks who thought their faction was innately more moral than the other. I'm well aware of how Zionists and antizionists categorize the other side. There's plenty of anti-Blackness in both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel movements.
July 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
My first comment was in response to folks who thought their faction was innately more moral than the other. I'm well aware of how Zionists and antizionists categorize the other side. There's plenty of anti-Blackness in both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel movements.
I never said differently. I'm saying the "I'm opposed to Netanyahu" crowd can still harbor racist, violent, and prejudicial beliefs. Hating Netanyahu doesn't say much about anyone's standards.
July 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I never said differently. I'm saying the "I'm opposed to Netanyahu" crowd can still harbor racist, violent, and prejudicial beliefs. Hating Netanyahu doesn't say much about anyone's standards.
I do not doubt your intentions nor your agenda.
July 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I do not doubt your intentions nor your agenda.
I've been thinking about Buber's "I-Thou" a lot lately.
July 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I've been thinking about Buber's "I-Thou" a lot lately.
Feels like if we're playing to the unseen audience rather than the person to which we're talking, we risk turning that person into a rhetorical prop, a thing to accomplish our purposes.
July 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Feels like if we're playing to the unseen audience rather than the person to which we're talking, we risk turning that person into a rhetorical prop, a thing to accomplish our purposes.
Sorry, I mixed you two up as both started with Ks and had grayscale icons. Very confusing.
Seems someone blocked someone which has made the conversation even harder to follow and review.
Seems someone blocked someone which has made the conversation even harder to follow and review.
July 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Sorry, I mixed you two up as both started with Ks and had grayscale icons. Very confusing.
Seems someone blocked someone which has made the conversation even harder to follow and review.
Seems someone blocked someone which has made the conversation even harder to follow and review.
Um, yeah? There are parts of the Tanakh that are corroborated by the historical record. Jews/Israelites/Canaanites left their mark.
July 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Um, yeah? There are parts of the Tanakh that are corroborated by the historical record. Jews/Israelites/Canaanites left their mark.
This entire conversation is deeply stupid and regrettable. What's the hope here? Establishing which name is more real and which is delegitimized?
July 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This entire conversation is deeply stupid and regrettable. What's the hope here? Establishing which name is more real and which is delegitimized?
This is the same guy that has treated trans people and their future as political liabilities, so he's fine with morally bankrupt grandstanding.
July 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is the same guy that has treated trans people and their future as political liabilities, so he's fine with morally bankrupt grandstanding.
I'm seeing a lot more, "I hate Netanyahu, but . . ." and then support ethnically cleansing Gaza or permanently occupying a different people. Many hate Netanyahu because he's embarrassing, not because he's murderous and chauvinistic.
July 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I'm seeing a lot more, "I hate Netanyahu, but . . ." and then support ethnically cleansing Gaza or permanently occupying a different people. Many hate Netanyahu because he's embarrassing, not because he's murderous and chauvinistic.
Eh, there's plenty of lack of compassion on both sides. Both sides sort entire populations/nations into victims and those who "deserve it." Violence towards the in-group is horrible and towards the out-group is necessary. I've even seen both fantasize about reeducation camps.
July 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Eh, there's plenty of lack of compassion on both sides. Both sides sort entire populations/nations into victims and those who "deserve it." Violence towards the in-group is horrible and towards the out-group is necessary. I've even seen both fantasize about reeducation camps.
It exhausts me of hope.
July 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It exhausts me of hope.