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Your post about Jewish child actors makes me wonder, do Jewish parents have an equivalent of "the conversation" with their children? You know the one, where you have to explain that some people hate you just for being Jewish, and many of them have access to deadly force. I ask because I grew up only two counties away from a neo-Nazi compound.

oh yeah we do.

I mean I'd say roughly there are... maybe 3? "the conversation" for Jews

first is, why is there are security guard, metal detector, crash barrier, big red panic button, etc at the synagogue/Jewish community center/Hebrew school. Pretty much every Jewish space in America is hardened against a terrorist attack at this point. We're spending a huge amount of money and energy on security. The Jewish community is really reliant on community safety grants from the federal government to pay for, bulletproof doors, anti-ramming barriers, metal detectors, and to pay for security guards and stuff.

So yeah Jewish parents have to explain that to their kids and also what they should do if a mad man with a gun comes into the synagogue. So thats the first conversation

the second is, when and where to not tell people you're Jewish, when to hide stars of David, and yarmulkes, and just not say, give a fake not Jewish sounding name. I mean some of us just look Jewish so there's no hope, but maybe you can pass yourself off as Italian or Lebanese. I know a lot of parents with teens who are having this talk with their kids around school trips over seas, but even parents of small kids are coaching them to maybe not let classmates and new friends know they're Jewish right away.

the 3rd is the oldest and the deepest. The when to leave conversation. literally every Jewish family has some elderly relative who tells you not to have any money you can't carry with you. Lots and lots of elderly and these days not even elderly Jews have shoe boxes with cash, gold, and their documents. These days jokes about "go bags" are less jokey than ever in my life. I know lots of Jews in their 20s and 30s who in fact have actual go bags. Our history is littered with dead Jews who misjudged the right time to leave a spiraling antisemitic situation and got stuck and died. And our history is littered with times when we've been expelled or faced "leave or die" offers where we're allowed to take almost nothing. It's a big part of why Jews so often stress education, they can take your bank account, your house, your car, your business, but they can't take whats inside your head. No one wants to be the Jew who judges when to leave wrongly or the Jew who doesn't have any easily movable wealth because they trusted the gentile's word that a bank account was safe. It's a conversation all Jews have among their family with differing levels of seriousness though again more serious now than any time in my life, whats the point, the sign the moment when its too much and we leave, and if we leave where do we go?

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this is from April, but I only just heard about it. bold is mine.

Nathan Fielder is not holding back regarding his frustration with Paramount+.

On the April 27 episode of his HBO series The Rehearsal, Fielder, 41, took some shots at the streamer after learning that an episode of Nathan for You, where he launched an apparel brand to promote Holocaust awareness, was removed from their site.

In a voiceover, Fielder said he discovered the season 3 episode was no longer streaming in late 2023 and contacted Paramount about it. "The network confirmed in their response that it was taken down intentionally and gave me a one-word explanation as to why: 'sensitivities,'" he said.

The email from the streamer informed Fielder that "a decision was made by Paramount+ Germany to remove the episode in their region after they became uncomfortable with what they called 'anything that touches on antisemitism in the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas attacks.'"

PEOPLE has learned that the episode is, indeed, no longer streaming on Paramount+ following a standards review.

Fielder then began to draw more specific WWII comparisons as he said that the move by Paramount+ Germany "triggered the attention of other European Paramount branches, and they pulled the episode too." A map of Europe was displayed and continued to draw on Nazi imagery as a dark shade of blue expanded from Germany into other neighboring countries and the streamer's logo appeared in each newly colored country.

Eventually, it spread globally, as Fielder noted, "Before long, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable."

"This is real by the way," he added.

The comedian then took things one step further as he showed real-time footage of the streamer's website and revealed that there are no results when you search "Judaism" but there are "50 results for 'Nazi'" and "10 for 'Hitler.'"

"We've been erased," he said.

To address the situation, as is the nature of the show — which explores the lengths one person will go to "reduce the uncertainties of everyday life" by "rehearsing" for them, thanks to construction crews and actors — Fielder created a simulation for the Paramount+ Germany offices, where he went to meet the people in charge.

Once there, he told the actor hired to play the office's leader how he felt. "I know you guys are, you know, probably feel a lot of shame about what you did in the past and now you're trying to overcompensate by being the world leaders of fighting antisemitism, but when it comes to art, I think you have to know your place," he said. "And you have to let us Jews express ourselves."

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If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.

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when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

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it’s necessary to fight back against adult content bans obviously because it leads to queer bans, but also, you cannot forget that we must fight back against these bans because adults have the right to make and enjoy adult content. no credit card company has the right to censor what we look at. yes, this includes the “problematic kinks” and stuff you think is gross and bad. just as we deserve to be openly queer online, we deserve to enjoy adult content without fear of total censorship, and it’s absurd how few places there are to do that online nowadays

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the epic highs and lows of queer coded baseball

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Very annoy when this happens

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putting on my japan hater hat here for a moment

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/world/asia/japan-veterans-world-war-ii.html

this is bullshit lmao this is fairly fawning coverage for people that served in one of the most hideous and depraved war machines in the history of the world

i FUCKING hate the double standard imperial japan gets, they killed just as many (if not more) innocent civilians than nazi germany did and nobody gives a shit like wtf

talking about the stories of bravery of imperial japanese soldiers

i wonder if they'd use the same phrasing if they were talking about veterans of the third reich

i can, at most, appreciate that the people they're interviewing joined as stupid 14-15 year olds, they had been brainwashed into joining. like i get that

but that's not the framing here, the framing is "soldiers of imperial japan have wisdom for the new generations" and while SOME of the supposed wisdom they have to share is good (if hopelessly vague) like "never die for your country"

they also have some dude in here that, best as i can tell, has some real weird ideas about japan's relationship to taiwan lol

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Sufficiantley advanced mutual aid is indistinguishable from government.

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i have this unrealistic fantasy in my head where if you calmly and logically explain something to someone perfectly they will understand your position and gain knowledge from the exchange. unfortunately in the real world this does not happen often

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I get that sex and drugs are fun but even im like. at least have a 3rd thing. at least one more hobby. you can have a 3rd hobby. this isnt a purity thing this is a some of u are fucking boring thing.

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what? wHaT? it's morning! i lost time. things got a little heated. with a boy. things got heated with a boy. i was at home picking lint off the sofa. i said to join us. the night's gone, the room's soiled, and once again i'm here with mop and mindlessness to clean it up. so the room got dirty so what i'll clean it up. no EYE clean it up! you make the mess and i clean it up. mark it on the calendar, align it with ursa major. louis' tri-annual FUCK OFF and find me with apologies to follow. i'm sOrRy. to seek comfort in the arms of lowlifes and unfortunates and broken children, fine. oh fine. the fine that doesn't sound like fine. but revealing our nature to a reporter you met in a bar ten hours ago? what if it was published? i was having some fun. we don't have enough to fear from paris? i was in the middle of ending things when you– no, you'd have been passed out on the floor next to him, louis. out on your feet from the drugs you stuffed him with. oh this is boring! you're boring. you! are so! boring! and here come the drugs. colorless. up the fangs. flavorless. down the throat. dull. into the heart. dull. and off with fingers, feet, and wallowing brain. dull nights. dull weeks. dull months. dull as FUCK! suffocation by the world's softest beigest pillow. the ten hours i spent with that boy were more exciting, more fascinating than DECADES with you! oh there it iiiiis. the half-blank half-apocalyptic look but what does it mean tonight? huh? does he wanna lick my boots 👅 ooorrr chop my hands off? is it the gremlin or the good nurse tonight? huh? okay. okay, perhaps. but am i as boring as the blather committed onto the ferric tapes of your fAsCiNaTiNg boy? oh it's so, so hard to be me. pIcKiNg LiNt OfF tHe sOfA? it's so hard to kill humans. i can feel their feelings as i drain them. louis the born-again– you sat on your hands and put your ear to the wind. everyone i know wrongs me. okay. okay. let's wake the boy up. and let's try you. i'm the vampire armand and my daddy vampire groomed me into a little bitch. mmmyyy broooother he tossed himself off a roof. the vampires who murdered my daddy made me pretend i didn't have a DICK. my sister she buried me alive. for two-hundred and forty years. my daughter was my sister was my throw pillow. well he wouldn't look at me kindly. lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat. I TALKED SHIT ABOUT HIM THE WHOLE TIME! SO WHAT? THE NAME! THE NAME! UNUTTERED IN OUR HOME FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL IT WAS POUNDING IN MY brain like a hammer. our problems aren't about him. and you threw her name around just for cover but it always circled back to him. i loved her. but she didn't love you! not like he did. not like i have. i know. I KNOW! yes. i know. thank you for saying it.

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https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1090402436995473408

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Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

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everyone in this scene deserves a fucking award for this

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“For my part, I would rather hang than serve a mistress that leads me into such peril…then, and now.”

NT chapter 39: champions