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oh and I will stan Alan Alda until I die

since 2015, I haven’t recommended it to anyone, and I’ve actually actively discouraged people from watching it for the first time. Who could possibly say why

I haven’t watched it since 2006 and I won’t rewatch because I don’t want my millennial nostalgia harshed, but Sam was absolutely right that education is the silver bullet.

They are called writers

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my semi regular reminder to all of us who love to cite Mr Roger’s “look for the helpers” in times of stress

like when folks are being abducted by secret police

that that was advice for children to feel safe in times of crisis or need or fear

YOU are not the looker now

YOU are the helper

MAGA is the logical conclusion of mixing evangelical Christianity with politics:

the oppressing party insisting that they’re actually being oppressed

“because I said so” authoritarianism

the President is the head of the country like Christ is the head of the church

I’ve bailed on several synagogues that have espoused politically/ morally problematic ideas. I also live in an area that has a very limited number of congregations—of which Chabad is the least politically problematic. there isn’t a right answer; there’s only the answer that lets you sleep at night.

there is a time to daven and there is a time to argue and it’s not while you’re davening. let’s say Kaddish and hear the shofar, and when we get to the kiddush, THEN we can argue.

and who out there thinks Jews AREN’T having hard discussions and arguing with each other? a big difference between Judaism and Christianity is that when Jews disagree on doctrine, etc, we don’t just automatically take our toys and make a new congregation.

the worst possible punishment in the Torah is not death; it’s exile. it’s separation from the community. when you live somewhere with a small Jewish population and limited congregation options, things get complicated fast.

the whole undercurrent of Judaism and Jewishness is community. you can’t say Kaddish without a minyan. you have to learn how to chant/read Torah from someone who already knows. we cannot excise community from our religious lives without sacrificing observance.

STRETCH.

FOR THE LOVE OF BUNNIES, STRETCH EVERY DAY!

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Zeus and Jupiter are not the same god, either. Jupiter is based on Zeus, and the Romans adopted many Greek stories, but they are not the same god.

with all due respect: the Christian god is wrapped up with the deified Jesus Christ (and the holy spirit) and the Jewish god is very decidedly not, so…no. they are not the same god.

i just saw someone try to claim that genai garbage is a disability aid and please know if you say that to me, a disabled person, i will eat you.

the best part of the new Daredevil season was the scene where the Punisher cussed out the cops who’d been worshiping him because they were missing the entire fucking point

some of y’all really want to just give Trump the Sudetenland

fuck all these cowards.

“I’m a very aesthetic person”.

I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.

*chef’s kiss*

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

something nobody tells you about stay at home parenting is that you will probably forget that rush hour exists and definitely forget how bad it is

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

This needs Benny Hill music

me: ah yes now I understand why they were closed yesterday

finding a kosher establishment in the wild is so unusual for me that it wasn’t until I clocked all the pictures of the Rebbe (z’’l) that I even LOOKED for a mezuzah, which was of course huge and right at eye level

the accounts of what happened at Wounded Knee (and Mystic and countless others) read like Holocaust accounts, and that’s not a coincidence. it’s not a secret that Hitler took his cues from American policy and treatment of Indigenous and Black populations.