Notices by liferstate (liferstate@mas.to), page 2

@mcnado The left is not immune to thought-terminating cliches, and this is one of them.

Lot of people in the US seem to think that Israel has the same status as Guam. It is actually an entirely separate sovereign country!

@inthehands @Adam_Cadmon1 Something I rarely if ever see brought into the open is that Sanders is Jewish, and seeing a Jew running for the highest office in the land (regardless of how assimilated or secular he is) would've brought out an unbelievable amount of ugliness. I'd bet there're lifelong progressive Dems who'd hesitate at pulling the lever for a Jew.

Antisemitism in the US is like background noise. It's always there, but sometimes it gets loud enough for non-Jews to hear.

@ainmosni @tess @alienghic @mekkaokereke I am guessing that not only have you never been to Detroit, you have never looked at Detroit on a map.

@blogdiva AMAZING

@blogdiva I don't even know what offside means, for me it's the utter sincerity of the commentary combined with the wackiness of...whatever that is on the field.

Peter Schickele did something similar-- there's a bit where he & another guy do color commentary on a Beethoven symphony as if it's a sporting event. But their commentary is likewise based in real knowledge, so it's funny on multiple levels.

@inthehands I re-read Sontag's Illness As Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors in spring 2020, and still believe now what I said then: COVID will come to have its own metaphors, its own body of art and literature. But it's too close now, we're still in the thick of it.

It is a sick and bitter irony that the IDF has in Gaza recreated the conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43. And now they are recreating the Warsaw Ghetto of 1944.