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someone else has probably said this, but im realizing with each passing day that one can either be a safe jew or a proud jew. and right now there are no safe jews, so that leaves me with one choice.

am yisrael chai <3

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This comic from Lilo the Autistic Queer (@A_Silent_Queer on Twitter) made me smile today. There is no one way to look trans, and no one way to transition. However you choose to express your authentic self is good and doing what makes you happy regardless of what cis people think is good.

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One of the hard parts about being a writer with a vivid imagination is that there are So Many Ideas, and they fall into so many categories, such as

Fics I want to write

Fics I want to read

There is just One Scene and I could write it but it would be waaaay more cool if I had all the build up to the scene but unfortunately. I can only figure out the Scene

I keep changing my mind. Where am I going with this

This has been done a million times before. But. Hear me out

I will 100% Never Write This. This is just my Emotional Support Idea no one can ever know about bc it makes sense only to me

Would be better as a comic...

This will be my magnum opus if I can just get my 50 pages of ideas into a coherent narrative

All I have are vibes

And, of course

WIP I started and haven't updated in 2 years and oh god its beEN TWO YEARS???

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Shabbat Shalom!

Welcome to my table once more. There is always room in the tent.

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I love dandelions!

*puts a dandelion in your hair*

Reblog to put a dandelion in prev's hair

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if jews really did control the world, there wouldn't be ads on youtube

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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) dir. Matthew Vaughn

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i wish you guys could read the amazing fic i haven't written and probably will never write, it's fire

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Ready kids? Today we learn about genocide.

The seven stages of genocide:

1.) Give the people 3 weeks to evacuate and send them maps of escape routes.

2.) Drop thousands of leaflets, send thousands of SMS, and make calls to warn the population before an area is bombed.

3.) Focus on military targets that are intentionally placed near civilian areas to maximize casualties. But still achieving the lowest civilian to combatant ratio in any urban war in history. Lower than the Raqqa siege against ISIS.

4.) Allow humanitarian aid to enter the area you’re attacking. Provide humanitarian aid yourself. Provide electricity as well. Let the USA build a temporary port. Makes sure there is no famine.

5.) Kill barely 10’000 people within the first 60 days (at least half Hamas) in a state with a population of over 2 millions. In the most dense city. Despite having one of the most advanced militaries in the world.

6.) Allow the population to continue accessing the internet despite the fact that it is advantageous for your enemy.

7.) Make sure Palestinians can safely evacuate and guard their escape routes with tanks so the Palestinians don't get bombed by their own government:

Just to be clear, I think all civilian deaths on both sides are tragic, but the narrative of a genocide being committed by Israel is just wrong. This is a military conflict against a brutal terrorist regime which tragically led to many deaths. Hamas kidnaps babies, women and Holocaust survivors. Choose your words more carefully.

If you want to see how a genocide looks, check this:

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average antisemitezionist: theres no need for an exclusively jewish state!!! blahhh religion is bad! my sibling on this planet earth, there is no exclusively jewish state. You know what there are?

Eight (8) countries that name exclusively Buddhism as state religion/given special status by the national government.

Seventeen (17) countries that dictate some form of Protestant Christianity exclusively as the state religion or give it special status

Twenty one (21) countries that specify Catholicism or some form of Eastern Orthodoxy as the exlcusive state religion or faith given special status.

Thirty (30) countries that state some form of Islam as the exclusive state religion, or special status.

Five (5) countries list Judaism inclusively as state-recognized faiths. (France, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Singapore and Israel.)

Zero (0) countries list Judaism as the exclusive state religion.

I don't see y'all advocating for the abolishment of Bhutan, Denmark, or the UAE on the basis of exclusive religion bad.

sounds like you have yourself a case of judenhass there buddy.

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It's interesting how *every* white person is inherently racist and ACAB because you can't have a good cop in a bad system etc etc

but tell goyim that maybe, being inculcated in a society that was built on 2000+ years of Jew hatred, that they may have some unconscious bias, that maybe the organizations which have actively promoted and supported Jew hatred, to the extent that they assisted murders, and no apparently YOU are the racist when like. why is anyone aside from Jews being the conversation here?

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you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

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Reblog to let the goys know you are not and will never be their “good jew”

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The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticized

Being Gen X is weird. Mine will be the last generation to remember a world without the internet and was also the first to wholly embrace it.

Gen X knows what life was like before social media...but has still mastered the art of passive-aggressively liking posts as a form of communication.

We're a small generation, but I'd argue we have a unique perspective and I want to point out something which I think is more obvious, more visible to Gen X, than it is to Millennials and Gen Z.:

Enjoying pop culture used to be something you did. Now, it’s who you are.

I was obsessed, as a kid, with Marvel comics, Dr. Who, and Babylon 5. Friends had weekly get-togethers to watch the X-Files or The Simpsons. Liking pop culture wasn't unusual. You could like it passionately, obsessively even.

But it wasn’t your identity.

If you outgrew tlan interest, it didn’t seem like a personal transformation to you or to your friends. It was just...what you're really interested in right now. The stakes were low.

Today, it seems like your fandom is often your flag. It’s in your bio next to your gender identity, orientation and neurotype. (A couple of those are in mine, too).

I'm trying to say that there is a very real difference between being really into the music of Taylor Swift and being a Swiftie.

There's still plenty of discussionabout what we love, but now it helps defines who we are.

I might be a Little Monster and in the BTS Army, right? And a Whovian Cumberbitch! These are These are signifiers not of interest, but of identity.

That shift from consumption to identity may seem subtle, but it has profound consequences.

It turns preferences into moral positions.

If your fandom defines who you are, any critique of it feels like a critique of you. And if your fandom’s antagonist gets a redemption arc which displeases you? That’s not character growth, that’s betrayal. (You've seen people behave this way in fandoms. It's a parasocial relationship with fictional characters.)

Now take that operating system - tribal, emotional, morally binary - and plug it into political activism. What do you get?

You get the US "Pro-Palestinian" movement circa 2024-25.

To be clear: Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe. Palestinians deserve dignity, safety, and justice.

Critiquing how Americans engage with this issue is not a dismissal of its urgency. It’s just asking whether our engagement is real...or if it is performative roleplay and treated like a fandom.

(Below: This fanart would be just as absurd if Snape was holding an Israeli flag.)

Because much of what’s happening on social media and college campuses doesn’t look like activism. It looks like fandom.

And not in a metaphorical sense. I mean literally.

Moral binarism:

Palestinians are coded as pure underdog heroes. Israelis are assigned the role of irredeemable villains. There's no space for Israeli trauma, Palestinian complexity, or the millions caught in-between. Just like fandom, nuance gets in the way of the story.

Costumes and catchphrases:

Keffiyehs are worn like people used to wear Hogwarts House scarves.

Slogans like "from the river to the sea" function not as political demands as much as they are ritual, social affirmations.

You chant them because they’re what you say to stay in good standing.

Canon enforcement:

Say the wrong thing (acknowledge Hamas's atrocities, quote an Israeli peace activist...) and you’re cast as a villain. Activist spaces now police ideological purity the same way fandoms used to (still do?) flame you for liking the wrong ship.

Emotional scripting:

TikToks from Gaza with moody filters and sad piano music mimic fan edits and commenters post, "I’m crying, I’m shaking," because that’s the expected affect. It's parasocial politics. And it's all about showing their feelings.

Lore and side quests:

Protestors debate which historical analogies are "correct" based on what's most satisfying. The create infographics that function like lore wikis, and design protest aesthetics with merch-tier detail. Some organizers even "brand" their encampments like pop-up installations.

Want a kiffiyeh with which to display your ideological alignment? Guy Christensen sells them through a link in his bio.

This is fandom logic in political form: it's identity-driven, emotionally performative, virality-optimized, branded and monetized.

The problem is that Fandom has no endgame. Fandom is forever. There’s no "solving" Game of Thrones - you just keep angrily resenting that awful final season.

Politics needs resolution. If you apply the fandom model to real-world conflict, peace becomes anticlimactic. Moral ambiguity feels like betrayal. Ceasefires don’t trend on social media.

Look at how the "pro-Palestinian" movement won't condemn Hamas regardless of the people of Gaza marching en masse to demand Hamas leave Gaza.

When the identity matters more than the cause, the cause becomes a backdrop.

Such "activists" center their feelings of righteousness rather than centering the lives at stake.

Performative grief displaces material action.

Sharing content becomes the work.

Listening becomes optional.

Look at how Irish protestors embraced the term “Paddystinian" - blending diasporic solidarity with performative identity. Or consider how Peter Tatchell was arrested at a pro-Palestinian march for opposing both Israel and Hamas - and was immediately denounced online not for being wrong, but for deviating from the script.

This isn’t activism. It’s cosplay with real-world stakes.

Real political work is boring, frustrating, and morally dissonant. It demands strategic thinking, coalition-building, and compromise. It doesn’t fit neatly into a feed, and it rarely makes you feel emotionally whole, but it’s the only thing that changes anything.

If you’ve grown up in fandom, you’re not broken or unserious. You’re just swimming in the water you were raised in.

What they need to ask themselves, though, is: Are we trying to help, or are we trying to feel right?

Because the people on the ground don’t need you to wear your Guy Christensen kiffiyeh and recite the ideologically approved positions you don't understand. They don't need your fan art. They don't need you to harass Jews online.

They need peace, they need dialogue, and they need all of us to stop treating war like content.

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