I really really hate how most art of transfems is just a cis girl with a cock or the most cis passing/adjacent body type ever.

Yeah, girlies like that do exist, but you know what there is so much more of?

Fat transfems, "clocky" transfems, transfems early on in or without hrt, transfems who don't "pass", transfems that don't get rid of or ashamed of their "boyish"/"masculine" features.

Not all transfems look like cis women models or twinks with boobs, please understand

a list of don'ts for goyim in regard to jews and jewishness

i had to

wistfully remembering how people (pretended they) cared about antisemitism when it was primarily coming from the right. like there are pre-2023 posts with tens of thousands of notes about antisemitism. now any mention of the existence of antisemitism (when its worse than it ever was) doesn’t breach containment outside of jewish circles. its almost funny how quickly people stopped caring when it was inconvenient.

From Levantine_gay on insta

Fun fact, the colors of the Palestinian flag are rooted in Arab imperialism! (Nobody who knows any history is surprised.)

So as we can observe, the caliphates were various periods of rule in the Islamic empire (wow... Arab imperialism... Who would've thought). The main explanation for the pan-Arab flag colors (used in the Palestinian flag as well) is rooted in representing the caliphates (so, y'know, Arab imperialism and colonialism).

So if you support imperialism, by all means, go right ahead and wave your imperialist flag, but do not do so under the guise of decolonization.

We see you for who you are and what you support. The only people you're fooling are the useful idiots gathering under your false cause.

Copying these peer reviewed tags. Yes, study history and you'll find that for most of recorded history, most of the area that we now call "The Middle East" did not speak Arabic. In fact, it's thanks to the Christian Coptic Church that we have an idea of what the ancient Egyptian language sounded like. Not to mention all the other indigenous cultures and languages that were put under the boot of Arab colonialism.

The Jew-hating morons are so stupid that they've never heard of the Ottoman Empire, not to mention the various Caliphates that came before it.

It’s like they looked at the US and its systemic oppression of Black and Native peoples and what that looks like, and then looked at MENA and went “those insane parallels can’t stop me because I can’t read (a single real history book).”

"they're taking away our free speech and silencing our peaceful protests on campus!" you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye. you stabbed a jewish student in the eye.

⚠️ Outnumbered on the battlefield? 🧮

Remember Super Math!

Every Helldiver is an army of one.

So a squad of Helldivers is equivalent to FOUR armies.

Hoth is actually hollow and full of chiss

On Twitter there are currently a lot of Christians and Muslims getting really angry about ways that Jews work around restrictions on work during Shabbat, and, like, honestly I do not understand why they care? Just a lot of non-Jews telling nice Orthodox Jews that they’re doing their religion wrong for no reason.

I saw the same posts and will try to sum up:

Basically people who believe in God tend to get offended when they discover that another religion who believes in the same God has a bunch of ridiculous ways they think they can trick him.

Like, a lot of Christian denominations don’t follow every rule in the Bible, but they’ll either say “We should follow that rule, and we’re trying ” or “We don’t believe we should have to follow that rule and here’s why”.

The whole concept that mainstream sects of Judaism officially approve the practice of trying to try to TRICK God is really bizarre and offensive.

Like, you clearly don’t believe God is omniscient or at all impressive if you think he can be deceived by some mortals hanging a wire around their neighborhood.

It also shows bad character to not just be upfront and say “okay, we don’t believe we should have to follow this rule and here’s why” and instead to try and be sneaky and deceitful. Religions are supposed to promote good character, especially honesty, so this is another reason why it’s very disturbing to a lot of people.

And then back to my first point about how this shows they don’t believe God to be much of a God at all if he can be so easily tricked, (either that or they themselves and their magic wire is superior to God!) which…it should be obvious why that’s so offensive.

That's not what's happening though. Jews don't believe that we're tricking g!d at all. We're looking at this through entirely different frameworks. Judaism is pretty much built around law; our legal code is central to what we think of as Judaism. And we revere the learned people who devote their lives to studying this legal code and centuries (really millennia) of legal arguments. From a Jewish perspective, every word in the Torah is there for a reason, and everything is written the way it is for a reason. That means that if there are loopholes, they're intentional, and studying the law enough to be able to find them is not just honorable but a literal holy task. The loopholes aren't tricking g!d - they're taking advantage of carve-outs granted to us *by g!d*.

Ah, the classic antisemitic canard of "Jews are out to trick g-d".

Do these bigots have any new material at all?

Also like. "We decided it's more convenient not to follow this rule" seems much less faithful to me then "how do we work this rule into something applicaple in our very different world" but to each their own I guess

Also it's just not... really even a loophole. Communities that hold that you can't use electricity on Shabbat largely hold that it's because completing a circuit is considered building, and breaking a circuit is akin to demolishing. That's an issue because you're not allowed to build or demolish on Shabbat. If you didn't complete or break a circuit you didn't do those things. Putting a piece of wood or plastic in front of a light doesn't break the circuit.

Imagine you are throwing a birthday party for a friend, and you are making them a blue cake because you know their favorite color is blue. They remind you, "don't put any blue M&Ms on my cake." This could mean a lot of things:

An outsider might not know which meaning is true. But this is your friend, you know your friend. You know that they are allergic to the blue ones but wish they could eat the others. And so when you order a special-made batch of only red M&Ms, or when you spend hours removing all the blue ones from a huge bag, these are acts of love and attention.

You are not defying your friend's request, or tricking your friend, even though an outsider who doesn't understand what your friend meant might think you are.

When God says "do not work on the Shabbat", the Rabbis know this means, in part, "do not walk long distances in the public domain." And so when the Rabbis institute the concept of eruv to tie a neighborhood into a single private domain, and when community members spend countless hours making sure the implementation is in good repair, this is not defiance of God or tricking God. This is people saying that the things that God asked us to do matter, and that God is worth the extra time and attention and care to make sure that we do not violate God's laws.

If we wanted to defy God we'd skip the effort and just walk outside anyway.

Omg. My mind is blown by this entire discussion and I love it.

I will add the following further tweets:

I would definitely argue that inasmuch as The Goyim Hate Us, it's more because Christianity developed into a separate religion by Not Being Like Those Jews.

The branches of it that remained part of Judaism died out, while the supercessionist/"replacement theory" one (in which Christianity was supposed to replace Judaism) evolved into a fundamentally and brutally antisemitic growth strategy.

This one's easier reading, more of a description than a deep dive. And the PERKINESS of the HEADLINE oh my GOSH:

And apparently it spiralled.

"The fact is that, in the wake of the granting of equal rights to Western Europe’s Jews—a nineteenth-century development fiercely opposed by the Catholic Church—the church repeatedly tried to spread the alarm against a rapacious Jewish people bent on reducing all Christians to their slaves. Catholics were warned to beware of their Jewish neighbors, deemed members of a secret world conspiracy responsible not only for capitalism but also for communism."

Thanks, I hate it! I'm gonna read the rest of this while peeking through my fingers like it's a horror movie!

since moving here ive noticed europeans have no concept of how few americans ever leave USA. every american tourist youve met is of an economic crust that is vastly unobtainable to the other like. 85% generously. no matter what you have believed i can guarantee this. even getting to canada isnt really a possibility and the mexico-US border is highly controlled and militarized.

to put it into perspective. a ~2 hour flight from london to warsaw is like. 30 to 45 USD?

and a 2 hour flight from one US city to another would be about 130 USD

it was very cheap to fly here. i make over 100k USD now and i dont know if ill ever be able to afford leaving. if that gives you an idea of how prohibitive travel is here. i havent even touched on how the US has Zero guaranteed holidays by the govt. many people here go years without ever having an entire week off of work

this has had a like. massive impact on American Brain and they dont even know it because travel isnt even a consideration economically. they dont even know how much more vacation time european countries have guaranteed

london to warsaw - which is what they specified - literally is £20. flights from london to poland have always been cheap

£20 is actually $22 so really $45 is overestimating

Okay! So, I’d say about 75-80% of Americans who travel are the ones making 6+ figure salaries.

The rest of us just know how to do it on a budget.

Let me re-create my very first independent trip as an example with today’s prices (because inflation) 9 days overseas, 3 in Berlin, 3 in Prague, 3 in Dresden

$800 - r/t airfare (for a very convenient arrival time of 10am)

€112 (120 USD) - 3 nights in Berlin at a highly rated hostel

€92 (99 USD)- 2 nights in Prague at a highly rated hostel in the tourist center

€75 (80 USD)- 2 nights in Dresden at a highly rated hotel

$20- Flix bus from Berlin airport to Dresden

$20/ $50- train from Berlin to Prague (local vs fast train)

$28 - train Prague to Dresden

Totalled together, that’s $1200 for everything other than food and entertainment.

With regard to food, hostels have kitchens, so you could cook your own dinners and eat the leftovers the following day. For breakfast, you can get a bunch of yogurts and buy a bun or croissant pretty cheaply. For lunch, there are convenience shop or train station sandwichs.

So, figure something around $1600 in total once you factor in food and going to the museums and maybe a souvenir or two.

Our estimated total is $1600, I like to leave a cushion for emergency, so I would save $2000 to be safe.

So, let’s say we want to go on this trip in October (because that’s when I figured prices) of 2025. That means I should have flights and hotels booked no later than May 2025. That gives us 12 months to save from April 26, 2024.

In order to securely go on this vacation, we would need to save $167 per month for travel.

Now, there are people in circumstances that can’t save $167 per month, I’m not denying that. But, a fair amount of the country’s population is in a position where they could (if they wanted) put that money into travel. $167/month is only $42/week after all.

International travel is not only for the most upper of upper crust. Plenty of normal every day Americans travel internationally. And that’s without counting Mexico and Canada which are (contrary to your supposition) easier to travel to than Europe or Asia are.

I think someone at Dark Horse was playing the Legend of Zelda lately because that woman is literally dressed as Link lol.

The AI tech bubble finally bursting is going to be both catastrophic and very funny.

Like it’s going to be wild, it’s already starting to hit NVIDIA stock. The chain reaction will hit tech giants and everyone depending on them.

Line goes down.

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Headphones aren't enough, I need to beam the entire Linkin Park discography directly into the auditory processing centre of my brain