Andy

This is an amazing shower thought.

Can you put this in any context? Because it seems to confirm what I’ve said: orthodox Jews were historically misaligned with liberal zionism. But the modern form of zionism is much closer to religious zionism, and the hosting of one of the most outspoken and fascistic expansionist Israeli leaders at the worldwide headquarters for the Chabad-Lubavitch sect seems to really remove a lot of ambiguity here.

It looked like a crowd of Chabadniks gathered around the Chabad global headquarters to violently terrorize anti-zionist protesters (or anyone they confused for protesters). I think you might just be operating on incomplete or outdated information about orthodox Jews and zionism.

I think you’re confused.

First, I’m about 99% sure that was a crowd of young orthodox men. I saw a video, and it looked like your standard Crown Heights Haredi mob. It was also outside of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.

Also, why do you think Orthodox Jews are anti-zionist? Historically I think they were in tactical disagreement with modern liberal Zionism as a project, but I think they’ve come around and are now among the most violent supporters of land theft, settler violence, and exterminationism.

If I’m missing something, let me know.

Here’s the part that really sent me reeling:

An archetypal neoconservative, Coleman started off as an anti-war activist who once worked as a roadie for Jethro Tull, and was suspended from Hofstra University for leading a sit-in. “I went to Woodstock, and I inhaled!” he boasted at the JNS summit. After first taking office as a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Coleman wound up narrowly losing his Senate seat to Al Franken in 2008 as a Republican.

In addition to serving as the national chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and founder of the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC, Coleman now works as a top lobbyist for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I was just at a picket line and there were two folks from the Socialist Workers Party, and I was asking them about local actions and they mentioned that one of their members had recently run for mayor. And I asked if he was the one who was really strangely Zionist and they started explaining how Zionism was a socialist priority and just… it’s so weird.

We all must guard against whatever the fuck happened to Coleman. How you start off as an anti-war socialist and end up speaking in front of a crowd of fascists declaring that the oligarchs must do a better job of propagandizing against the proletariat is hard for me to follow, but we all need to make sure we never wind up catching whatever he caught.

Oof. This is so fucking tragic.

I’m honestly surprised that Adams would actually investigate crimes committed by an Orthodox mob. That’s his base.

We’ll see.

I think the response depends on what your goal is.

I assume that you find it annoying? Or disrespectful? Is the issue impacting work at all, or do you just hate having to talk to them through this impersonal intermediary? I think if that’s the case, the main remedy is to start by talking to them and telling them how you feel. If they want to use an LLM, fine, but they should at least try to disguise it better.

I think animal affection – particularly for cute, non useful animals – is an extension of our infant protection drive.

This is so painful to read. It’s obvious genocide. This is a blatant campaign of extermination.

I was going to say that I’m pretty sure these exist and they’re mostly run and attended by PhDs who love bluegrass music

It’s like half of NASA’s entire budget.

From a risk mitigation perspective, this is a case of fighting the last war. We know the war that is coming: it’s climate collapse. We don’t need faster rockets, we need high speed rail.

$41M per missile? And 300 of them?

Sheeet. That’s over ten billion dollars?

Am I mathing right? That’s a lotta dough.

The same ones listed in the article. Property ownership, speech, privacy, etc.

I feel like the rise of corporate personhood is the elephant in the room this article seems to avoid acknowledging.

Ah today’s batch of fresh horrors has arrived.

Fucking hell. The courage of this person. That poem at the end nearly broke me.